Montreal Canadiens

Jake the Snake: Jaques Plante “ How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo and yell at you that you suck!” The eldest of 11 children, Joseph Jacques Omer Plante, was born on January 17, 1929 on a farm near Notre-Dame-du-Mont Carmel, in Maurice Quebec. Plante began playing hockey at three ....he had no skates, he used a tennis ball instead of a puck and his stick was carved from a tree root by his father. His father also made his first…

While Patrick Roy did not invent the move, he was known as the goalie who made this style popular. His talent and style of goaltending got him into the NHL. Patrick Roy was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the 3rd with the 51st overall pick in the 1984-1985 draft. Patrick Roy would not go straight to the NHL but would go back to his career with the Granby Bisons. Patrick Roy’s team was not very good and he had a puck in the back of the net…

acquaintance with were departing. We were all saddened by this revelation, but we knew that the next year, we would have new friends to look forward to. See new teachers, like Mr. Ball - with neverending feuds over movies and if his team, the Montreal Canadiens are any good (nope) - and Mr. Yack - with conversations about basketball - although I don’t know anything about basketball - oh, and the occasional math…

regular-season professional baseball game. In 1998, Mark Mcgwire became the second player in MLB history to hit more than 60 homeruns in a season. In 1992, Mario Lemieux returned after his cancer treatment and later beat cancer. In 1993, The Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup, which was the last time a canadian team won the Stanley Cup and still to this…

Scott is a professional hockey player and graduated from Michigan Tech with a degree in mechanical engineering. Scott has played for the Minnesota Wild, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, San Jose Sharks, Buffalo Sabres, Arizona Coyotes, and Montreal Canadiens during his time in the NHL. Brian Cazenueve is a former staff writer for Sports Illustrated, covering the Olympics for nineteen years. His work has appeared in national publications such as Time, People, the New York Times, the…

In the summer of 2016, they acquired defenseman PK Subban from the Montreal Canadiens (PK has a reputation for his generosity and charitable acts). This particular move by the franchise was an attempt to improve their squad on the ice as well as help their public image with the addition of one of the most liked players in the…

George Washington George Washington was 67 years old when he died. He was the commander in chief of the continental army. He began his career in the Virginia Militia. George Washington played an vital role in the American revolution. During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to a win over the British and became an American hero. Over the course of the gruesome eight-year war, the colonial forces won very few battles but consistently held their own against the British. In October…

Many boys growing up playing hockey dreamed of becoming pro hockey players, playing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled…

other parts of the country. The government began to promote the West by offering low-cost land to the people, and as more immigrants arrived, the population gradually increased (Préfontaine). Eve Préfontaine, an employee for the McCord Museum in Montreal, writes in her museum article “The Settlement of Canada” that, Although not a mechanism for controlled demographic growth, immigration has served, and still does, as a catalyst for the Canadian economy. Throughout its early years Canada…

In 1960, the artists in cities of Vancouver, Halifax and Regina began their contributions to the national conversation that had been predominated by Montreal and Toronto. Though, the Regionalism in London did not have a unifying aesthetic form like those in the other cities of likely Regional movements. The London’s artists were experimental and pursued a wide variety of styles. The Regionalism in London…