The LEAFS

June 6, 2021March 18, 2023

The Virus Spreads

Love, hockey and a Stanley Cup every 60 years

Not sure when this was, but Andrew is wearing #13 for Mats Sundin, which should give some idea.

Classic. Someone must have lost a bet. The Habs jersey was signed by Rocket Richard, which was given as a thank you gift to the then owner of the Montreal Canadiens, George Gillette.

Turn Back – You are too young – Nathan at age 1 or so

speaking of too young – Christian as a young boy !

Mama, don’t let your children be cowboys, I mean, leafs fans

San Diego against Bruins, 2019

Surely good luck must be attracted to three’s

The virus sees three generations

Christian wisely hides his face for fear of social shaming ?

June 6, 2021February 25, 2023

Roch Carrier, 10 years old, in the dreaded Toronto Maple Leafs sweater that spawned his classic children’s story ‘The Hockey Sweater’. This photograph was taken by his mother in the streets of his hometown of Sainte-Justine-de-Dorchester, Que., in 1947. ‘I’m not happy about wearing the Leafs sweater,’ says Carrier, a lifelong Canadiens and Maurice Richard fan , ‘but she must have told me to smile.’

The theme of the short story was that his mother ordered the Leafs jersey in error from a catalogue. When it arrived, he was devastated to be required to wear it in his small French Canadian town.

This story became part of Canadian folk lore. It was many years later memorialized in the five dollar bill.