If there was a player who could be called "The Babe Ruth Of Hockey" in the post-World War years it was Maurice (The Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first player to score 50 ...

Not Maurice “Rocket” Richard. Having entered the 1957-58 NHL season with 493 career goals, needing only seven to become the first player to get to the unprecedented 500 plateau, the Montreal ...

A sportswriter overheard the remark and "The Rocket" was born. Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was born on Aug. 4, 1921, in Montreal. Even though he was studying to be a machinist at Montreal ...

Would you believe that the Rangers once could have had Maurice "Rocket" Richard, one of the greatest scorers in hockey history? It happened during the 1943-44 season when Richard had been an oft ...

After moving his family from one end of Montréal to the other the hockey legend scores 5 goals toward a 91 victory against the Detroit Red Wings ...

Shea Weber became the 58th player to skate with the Montreal Canadiens to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished ... greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians ...