Maurice Richard

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 1961
Maurice Richard
Date of birth 4th August 1921
place of birth Montréal , Québec , Canada
date of death May 27, 2000
Place of death Montréal , Québec , Canada
Nickname Rocket
size 178 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Right wing
number # 9
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1939-1940 Verdun Maple Leafs
1940-1942 Montréal Senior Canadiens
1942-1960 Montréal Canadiens

Joseph-Henri Maurice "Rocket" Richard PC CC OQ , (born August 4, 1921 in Montréal , Québec ; † May 27, 2000 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach who worked for the Montréal Canadiens in the National from 1942 to 1960 Hockey League played.

Career

Together with center Elmer Lach and left winger Hector “Toe” Blake , he formed the then famous “Punch Line”.

Maurice Richard was the first player in the NHL to score 50 goals in one season ( 1944/45 ) and the first to score more than 500 goals in his career. Richard won the Stanley Cup eight times with Montréal, was elected eight times in the first All-Star team and six times in the second All-Star team and played in every NHL All-Star Game from 1947 to 1959. The right winger won the 1947 Hart Memorial Trophy and is still the top scorer in the history of the Montreal Canadiens.

In March 1955, he was hit on the head by Hal Laycoe in the game against the Boston Bruins and hit back with the stick. When the linesman Cliff Thompson tried to stop the brawl, Richard hit him too. Richard was then suspended for the rest of the regular season games and the entire playoffs, and that at a time when he was the league's top scorer. Hal Laycoe, who started the entire incident, was not punished.

In 1961 Richard was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame . In the World Hockey Association he coached the Québec Nordiques for a game in their first season 1972/73 .

The Aréna Maurice-Richard sports and concert hall in Quebec, which opened in 1962, bears his name. Since 1999, the Maurice Richard Trophy named after him has been awarded to the NHL player who scores the most goals in the regular season. Richard is buried in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in Montreal.

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1937/38 Saint-François-de-Laval High school
1938/39 Montréal Paquette Midgets QAHA 46 133 7th 140 -
1939/40 Maple Leafs junior de Verdun QJHL 10 4th 1 5 2 7th 7th 9 16 16
1939/40 Maple Leafs de Verdun QSHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1940/41 Canadiens de Montréal senior QSHL 1 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1941/42 Canadiens de Montréal senior QSHL 31 8th 9 17th 27 6th 2 1 3 6th
1942/43 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 16 5 6th 11 4th - - - - -
1943/44 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 46 32 22nd 54 45 9 12 5 17th 10
1944/45 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 50 50 23 73 46 6th 6th 2 8th 10
1945/46 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 50 27 22nd 49 50 9 7th 4th 11 15th
1946/47 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 45 26th 71 69 10 6th 5 11 44
1947/48 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 53 28 25th 53 89 - - - - -
1948/49 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 59 20th 18th 38 110 7th 2 1 3 14th
1949/50 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 43 22nd 65 114 5 1 1 2 6th
1950/51 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 42 24 66 97 11 9 4th 13 13
1951/52 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 48 27 17th 44 44 11 4th 2 6th 6th
1952/53 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 28 33 61 112 12 7th 1 8th 2
1953/54 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 37 30th 67 112 11 3 0 3 22nd
1954/55 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 67 38 36 74 125 - - - - -
1955/56 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 38 33 71 89 10 5 9 14th 24
1956/57 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 63 33 29 62 74 10 8th 3 11 8th
1957/58 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 28 15th 19th 34 28 10 11 4th 15th 10
1958/59 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 42 17th 21st 38 27 4th 0 0 0 2
1959/60 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 51 19th 16 35 50 8th 1 3 4th 2
QAHA total 46 90 46 136 -
QJHL total 10 4th 1 5 2 7th 7th 9 16 16
QSHL total 33 8th 10 18th 27 6th 2 1 3 6th
NHL overall 978 544 422 966 1285 133 82 44 126 188

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Achievements and Awards

  • 1953 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1953 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens
  • 1953 NHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1954 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1954 NHL top scorer
  • 1954 NHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1955 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1955 NHL top scorer
  • 1955 NHL First All-Star Team
  • 1956 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1956 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens
  • 1956 NHL First All-Star Team
  • 1957 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1957 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens
  • 1957 NHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1958 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1958 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens
  • 1959 NHL All-Star Game
  • 1959 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens
  • 1960 Stanley Cup win with the Montréal Canadiens

Others

Film adaptations

  • 1999: Maurice Richard: Histoire d'un Canadien ( The Maurice Rocket Richard Story ) television mini-series
  • 2005: Maurice Richard ( The Rocket )

The documentary film adaptation from 1999 also contains excerpts from various, retrospective interviews, also by Maurice Richard himself from the last years of his life. Roy Dupuis plays the role of the young Maurice Richard both in it and in the more recent Canadian sports film. His dramatic life and the tensions between the multilingual population groups of Canada about 50 years ago are shown.

Web links

Commons : Maurice Richard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aréna Maurice-Richard. In: sports.mtl.org. July 8, 2011, accessed January 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Richard, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richard, Joseph-Henri Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec, Canada
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2000
Place of death Montréal , Québec, Canada