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To: Clappy who wrote (38287)	12/10/2004 8:07:38 AM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 104157

I saw some that had the real players' smiling faces on the pieces. Yes, Clapster! You're right about that. I recall that some of the players did have the smiling faces of real players. Also, no helmets or face masks! Amazing to remember hockey "way back then" when nobody wore helmets and the kind of play was such that you rarely ever saw someone get injured, and almost never saw a fistfight. I spent part of my growing up years living in Toronto and in Montreal, and many points in between and we knew all of the players on both sides in a way that is kind of different than today. Up here, you kind of felt like the players were your uncles -- the Mahovlichs, and Rocket Richard, etc... There's a novel, "The Hockey Sweater" by Roch Carrier (1985), that captures some of how it felt when I was living in a small town on the edge of Montreal for part of my own growing up time. Here's the publisher's blurb on it... makes me laugh just to read this: In the days of Roch’s childhood, winters in the village of Ste. Justine were long. Life centered around school, church, and the hockey rink, and every boy’s hero was Montreal Canadiens hockey legend Maurice Richard. Everyone wore Richard’s number 9. They laced their skates like Richard. They even wore their hair like Richard. When Roch outgrows his cherished Canadiens sweater, his mother writes away for a new one. Much to Roch’s horror, he is sent the blue and white sweater of the rival Toronto Maple Leafs, dreaded and hated foes to his beloved team. How can Roch face the other kids at the rink? ~croc