Maurice Richard

Joseph Henri Maurice " Rocket" Richard PC CC OQ (* August 4, 1921 in Montreal, Quebec, † May 27, 2000 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who from 1942 to 1960 for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League played.

Career

Together with the center Elmer Lach and the left wing Hector " Toe" Blake at the time he made the famous " Punch Line".

Maurice Richard was the first player in the NHL, the (1944 /45) and scored 50 goals in his career scored in a season first more than 500 goals. Richard won eight Stanley Cups with Montreal, was eight times elected to the first all-star team and six times in the second All- Star team and played in every NHL All-Star Game by 1947 until 1959. The right winger won in 1947, the hard Memorial Trophy and is still the best points scorer in the history of the Montreal Canadiens.

In March 1955, he was beaten by Hal Laycoe (Boston Bruins ) on the head and hit back with a stick. As the linesman Cliff Thompson wanted to stop the fight, Richard suggested this also. Richard was then suspended for the remaining games of the regular season and the entire playoffs and this at a time when he was top scorer in the league. Hal Laycoe that triggered the whole incident only, was not punished.

Richard in 1961 was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

In the World Hockey Association, he coached the Quebec Nordiques for a game in their first 1972 season / 73rd

Since 1999, the Maurice Richard Trophy was named after him is awarded to the NHL player who scores the most goals in the regular season. Richard is in the cemetery of Notre- Dame-des- Neiges in Montreal buried.

Career Stats

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )

Awards and achievements

Other

Films

The documentary film from 1999 also contains excerpts from various retrospective interviews, and of Maurice Richard himself from his last years. Roy Dupuis is the role of the young Maurice Richard dar. It is both as well as in the newer, Canadian sports film will be shown dramatic life and the tensions between the different language groups in Canada about 50 years ago.