The [Organizational] Class Continues
Oct 15, 2009 11:22:06 GMT -5
Post by franko on Oct 15, 2009 11:22:06 GMT -5
Magic moment etched in history
Together, the 10 Canadiens alumni who gathered last Friday in Centennial Plaza had played 6,839 games in the CH jersey. It would have been 6,838 without defenceman Don Johns.
Yet that one game, played at the Forum on Jan. 5, 1966, against the Chicago Black Hawks, makes Johns an important piece of the Canadiens' past. Lower in profile, perhaps, than Friday's Hall of Famers named Lach, Béliveau, Moore, Cournoyer and Lafleur, but a valued family member nonetheless.
Among 760 others, the name of Don Johns is engraved on a hulking monument that anchors the Bell Centre square honouring a century of the Canadiens.
On the south face is the name of every man who played even a portion of one game for the franchise through its first 100 years, from the 1909-10 season through 2008-09.
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