Word: canadiens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those willing to leave Cambridge to watch their sports, Boston offers some of the finest professional teams in the nation. Boston fans are renowned for their intense loyalty and emotional fervor, as any visiting Yankee, Dolphin, Knick or Canadien fan will attest. If they manage to get out alive...
...this in professional sports. With his team about to be eliminated from the Stanley Cup semifinals last week, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ron Hextall buried his stick in Montreal Canadien Chris Chelios' back...
...have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and modern contrast, Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadien once of the highest rank, lingered several aimless shifts before exiting last month as sheepishly as former Pittsburgh Running Back Franco Harris, who was bluffing along a few extra downs in Seattle. Babe Ruth limped away in midstream too, so departures of this sort are hardly new. Still, there...
...David A. Jensen, 18, and Ed Olczyk, 17. LaFontaine, sweet-natured and teen-idol cute, left his home in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy and Montreal Canadien Guy Lafleur. The U.S. Olympic chief assistant coach, Tim Taylor of Yale, praises LaFontaine's See-ing-Eye hands: "He has a quick stick and a fast release with no waste motion...