Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After each series of games the cup is filled with champagne and each player on the winning team takes a drink out of it. It is a battered cup. It has been dropped in trains and automobiles; players have scratched their names on it with penknives. Last week in Montreal the Stanley Cup was once more filled and passed around and the team that drank out of it was the New York Rangers...
...Cook, who skates with the rhythm of a moose running, is the highest-paid team captain in the National Hockey League, because Bun Cook, his brother who looks like Lindbergh and is engaged to be married, is surpassed as a skater only by the famed Howie Morenz of the Montreal Canadiens. All season big crowds (from six to fifteen thousand) have cheered the Rangers in their home games but until two weeks ago the Rangers did not do much to justify the hopes placed in them...
When a hockey season ends the teams ranked second and third in each group play each other for the right to play the leading team for the group championship. There are two groups, American and International. The Montreal Maroons beat the Canadiens for the championship in the International group and in the American group the Rangers inspired suddenly to justify predictions, beat Pittsburgh and then Boston...
Tired after the long ride from Boston in one of the Canadian night-trains that stop at many junctions, on edge after the four hard games they had just played with only one day's rest between each game, the Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing...
...with a puck, taken to the hospital. Coach Lester Patrick, famed defense man in his day, put on the goalie's pads, kept goal for his team, stopped all rushes, was wildly cheered. In the overtime period Johnson passed to Boucher who whipped the puck into the Montreal goal, winning the game 2-1, with two games left to play...