A sportswriter overheard the remark and "The Rocket" was born. Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was born on Aug. 4, 1921, in Montreal. Even though he was studying to be a machinist at Montreal ...
Richard played 978 NHL games, all with the Canadiens, from 1942 through his retirement in 1960, scoring 544 goals -- still ...
It’s quite the irony that it took someone who isn’t even a hockey fan to make an incredibly revealing movie about Maurice Richard. In an interview at the Forum on Monday, the film’s director ...