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Richard, Maurice
1921-2000
Canadian hockey player
When Maurice Richard—universally known by his nickname, "The Rocket"—died in Montreal on May 27, 2000, the entire nation of Canada went into mourning.
One of the greatest players in the history of hockey, Richard's legendary exploits on the ice helped the Montreal Canadiens win eight Stanley Cup championships during his eighteen years with the team. The leading goal scorer in the National Hockey League (NHL) five times, Richard was also the first player to score fifty goals in one season.
Maurice richard legends of hockey biography
Yet Richard's true importance to his fans lay not in his impressive statistics and career longevity, but rather in what he symbolized. To many people in the province of Quebec, Richard was the epitome of French-Canadian pride.
Indeed, Richard's professional career from 1942 to 1960 paralleled the growth in Quebecois consciousness that culminated in
the so-called Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, when the province's social, po