RIP (Habs legend) Ken Dryden

[T.D.]

Passed 5 Sep.

For the legion of hockey fans on the forum. 😶

Not to be mistaken for the well-known forum member.

[danasgoodstuff]

He was a great hockey player and a lawyer, member of parliament, an author, and no doubt much more.  6 Stanley Cups, the last 4 in a row.

[T.D.]

Wrote maybe the best book about pro hockey, The Game.

In the prime of his career, retired and held out for the entire '73-'74 season in a contract dispute. Instead he worked as a law clerk and finished his law studies.

[ghost of miles]

I remember that Ken Dryden and am glad the obit’s not for ours. 

[HutchFan]

38 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

I remember that Ken Dryden and am glad the obit’s not for ours. 

Amen to that!

When I first saw the thread title, it startled me.  😮  

 

[T.D.]

Sorry. I thought "(Habs Legend)" in the thread title sufficed to rule out forum Ken.

Going from the number of views, it obviously didn't. Apologies again.

[I'd expect a hockey thread here to get around a dozen views, and this got 700+ so far?]

[HutchFan]

I don't know what "Habs Legend" means!?!?   

 

[JSngry]

I Googled Habs, thinking that it might mean Habaneros.

But it didn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Canadiens

 

According to About.com, the first man to refer to the team as "the Habs" was American Tex Rickard, owner of the Madison Square Garden, in 1924. Rickard apparently told a reporter that the "H" on the Canadiens' sweaters was for "Habitants".^[59] In French, the "Habitants" nickname dates back to at least 1914, when it was printed in Le Devoir to report a 9–3 win over Toronto on the ninth of February.^[60][61]

hab·i·tant

noun

plural noun: habitants

1. 1.

   archaic

   an inhabitant.

    
2. 2.

   an early French settler in Canada (especially Quebec) or Louisiana.

   "the habitant farmhouses of old Quebec"

    

Origin

[T.D.]

Sorry, another hockey thing. "Habs" used to be a common way of referring to the Canadiens. I always thought it was based on 'Les Habitants, the informal name given in the 17th century to the original settlers of "New France"', but apparently the history is murky.

The 1970s Canadiens dynasty with Dryden as goaltender is "legendary", no exaggeration. Really great teams.

Edited 3 hours ago by T.D.

[Ken Dryden]

10 hours ago, ghost of miles said:

I remember that Ken Dryden and am glad the obit’s not for ours. 

Me too! I have gotten a few autograph requests via email over the years for the far better known Ken Dryden.

My standard reply is, "I'm not the goalie, I'm the hockey puck!"