Hockey HOF Creates Exhibit To Celebrate Habs
09/11/2008 02:26
TORONTO - Yvan Cournoyer's trip down memory lane started a couple days before he turned up for a busy weekend at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
The legendary Montreal Canadiens winger was originally scheduled to fly to Toronto but decided to take a different kind of journey instead. Cournoyer and his wife travelled by train and checked in to the Royal York hotel, just as the Habs used to do during his playing days.
It was a fitting way for Cournoyer to start a weekend that will be full of reminders about how things once were.
"It's good memories," he said. "I was a less nervous coming here this week than when I was 20 years old and coming to play Toronto."
Cournoyer joined fellow ex-Habs Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Frank Mahovlich at the Hall on Friday to unveil a beautiful exhibit that commemorates the team's 100th anniversary.
They are four of the record 54 people with Montreal Canadiens connections that have gained induction into the Hall of Fame, and were all part of the 1972-73 Canadiens team together.
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SWIVEL HIPS SAYS:
Those names – Cournoyer, Robinson, Savard and Mahovlich are synonymous with all that is hockey in this country.