Few athletes could fire up fans like Maurice Richard. Name another athlete who had a city riot after he was suspended. In the days when the NHL was a proud six-team league, Maurice Richard led the ...

Richard played 978 NHL games, all with the Canadiens, from 1942 through his retirement in 1960, scoring 544 goals -- still ...

Maurice Richard said many times that ... The NHL was a provincial, parochial six-team affair in 1955, featuring barely over 100 players. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion ...

During their five-year run, the team was led by Maurice Richard, after whom the Rocket Richard trophy was named, who scored 25 goals and tallied 44 points across 41 playoff games throughout that span.

1945 — Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first NHL ... 1993 — Santa Clara beats Arizona 64-61 to become the second 15th-seeded team to win a first-round game in the NCAA tournament ...