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Full Name
Dave Stubbs
Web site
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/dave_stubbs.html
About
Dave Stubbs has been a sportswriter since 1976, which was roughly a decade after he wore the first of many holes through the knees of his jeans playing nets in road hockey (using a modified butterfly popularized by Hall of Famer Glenn Hall). He still has the welts to show on his shins from that rotten, frozen orange ball.
Stubbs kept thick hockey scrapbooks filled with game summaries and Red Fisher's Montreal Star stories, collected dozens of Bee Hive Corn Syrup photos and put a fortune of hockey cards through the spokes of his bikes.
His fantasy is to travel back in time to the 1950s and watch the great Canadiens dynasty that won five consecutive Stanley Cups. Or a decade earlier, to watch Elmer Lach centre Rocket Richard and Toe Blake on the fearsome Punch Line. Or at least to get Rogie Vachon into the Hockey Hall of Fame – where he belongs.
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Because you asked: Courtesy of the Canadiens' 2006-07 media guide, here is the team's official list of sweater numbers through the years. These seven pages from the guide provide a list as near to 100 per cent accurate as you'll find. Records are sketchy in the earliest years of the club.
