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Ask any patriotic Canadian what this country’s greatness is based on, and you’re liable to receive two responses: hockey and health care. New instalments of Penguin Canada’s Extraordinary Canadians titles (which comprise two of the final three books in the series) focus on men who were instrumental in establishing these as prominent aspects of the Canadian body politic.
UPI/Bettmann/Detroit Times (1921–2000). Canadian professional ice hockey player Maurice Richard was known as The Rocket and played as a hard-hitting forward (right wing).
Staty över Maurice Richard utanför Centre Bell i Montréal. Matchtröja som Richard bar under sin sista NHL-säsong 1959–60. Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard, född 4 augusti 1921 i Montréal, Québec, död 27 maj 2000 i Montréal, var en kanadensisk professionell ishockeyspelare och tränare.
Mar 26, 2007 · The Rocket: Directed by Charles Binamé. With Roy Dupuis, Stephen McHattie, Julie LeBreton, Philip Craig. A story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones.
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Joseph Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard PC CC OQ was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season, accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45, and the first to reach 500 career goals. Richard retired in 1960 as the league's all-time leader in ...
Oct 13, 2023 · Nicknamed “The Rocket”, the fiery Richard was the greatest hockey player of his generation and one of the best in NHL history. During 18 NHL seasons – all with the Canadiens de Montréal, known affectionately by locals as the Habs (an abbreviation of “les habitants” which refers to the 17th-century settlers of New France) – the Hockey Hall of Famer won eight Stanley Cups, was the ...
Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, one of the greatest scorers in NHL history, died Saturday of respiratory failure after a long battle with abdominal cancer.
