Tales from the Montreal Canadiens Locker Room
A Collection of the Greatest Canadiens Stories Ever Told
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Tales from the Montreal Canadiens Locker Room
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Relive the greatest moments of Canadiens hockey with this one-of-a-kind collection!
When most sports fans hear the stat 3,000, they immediately turn to baseball. But for those fans whose breath comes out in frosty puffs, and who bleed ice and snow, 3,000 can only mean one thing - the glory of Montreal Canadiens hockey. The "Original One" of the "Original Six", the Montreal Canadiens hockey team is practically synonymous with superlative: The most Stanley Cup championship victories, with 24? The Montreal Canadiens. The highest number of regular-season wins? The Montreal Canadiens. The oldest active franchise in the NHL? The Montreal Canadiens.
Now the 100-plus years of Canadiens triumphs, tragedies, and times like no other are captured in Robert Lefebvre’s Tales from the Montreal Canadiens Locker Room. In this unique compendium, Lefebvre brings to life both the history and the anecdotes of this incredible franchise. Stories of Maurice "Rocket" Richard’s incredible skills on the ice are paired side by side with locker room yarns and off-the-ice tales of Jean Beliveau, Dickie Moore, Serge Savard, Guy Lapointe, Patrick Roy, and more. With humor, wit, and a lot of adrenaline, Robert Lefebvre has compiled a collection of Montreal Canadiens stories sure to please any hockey fan.
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Editorial reviews
The book Tales from the Montreal Canadiens Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Canadiens Stories Ever Told details the lengthy history of the august team. The oldest franchise in the National Hockey League, the Montreal Canadiens have won more Stanley Cups than any other team. Sports equipment has evolved over the century-plus years that the team has been playing. But the essentials of ice, blades, elegance, and masculine swagger have never changed. The stories collected here follow the players on and off the ice, capturing the talent, discipline, glamor and rebellion of these skilled athletes. Robert S. Lefebvre has gathered a defining collection of stories here. Narrator J. P. Linton’s flexible voice shares historic details and fun folklore.
there is nothing about the locker room here. this is just a narrative of Habs history.
the author's bias is very evident and very heavily belabours the whole English va French garbage in Montreal.
quite boring in parts, too.
bad title. just a narrative of Habs history.
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One aspect that did not fall short of expectations was the narration of the book by J.P. Linton. Even more than the good stories, I felt that Linton did a fantastic job on the narration, especially in the earlier chapter when the connection between the Canadiens and the Francophone population in the province of Quebec. His pronunciation of the French names was very good, and he provided excellent narration of the hockey stories as well.
Here is where the book was not what I expected – the actual stories. When I see one of these books in the “Tales from the Locker Room” series, I expect a lot of stories about the players’ camaraderie, their antics away from the games and of course game action as well. This book lacked much of these. There were more historical stories of how great Canadiens teams were either built or had their dynasties come to an end. This was especially true for the Montreal teams that won four consecutive Cups from 1976 to 1979. The stories were more about the players after they left the Canadiens that led to the end of their dynasty in the spring of 1980. Or, if not that topic, there were plenty on how some of those players were acquired, such as how the trade for Guy Lafleur was conducted.
Those types of stories, which were many of them no matter what era was being discussed, were good and well-researched. They did hold my interest long enough for me to finish the book, although Linton’s narration helped with that as well. This just was not the collection of stories I expected. Readers or listeners who are more interested in the workings of the Montreal front office through the decades would be the target audience for this book.
More stories about the front office than the games
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