RogerHWerner

Maurice Richard

Hi. I've reverted your edit to Maurice Richard - a claim of that nature usually requires a citation showing that it either happened, or that it's become a prominent urban legend. After some quick searches, I've been unable to find evidence for either. If you could direct me to somewhere that the "noose" tale is referenced, I'd be delighted to help you add a properly cited comment into the article though. Any questions, feel free to drop a note onto my talk page. Lankiveil (talk) 06:20, 28 December 2007 (UTC).

This is about a close as I have ever seen of actual documentation. 'The Strange Forces Behind the Richard Hockey Riot, Sidney Katz, 17 September 1955.

The basis for my original comment is personal. I played ice hockey for 12 years (4 years were as an intercollegiate (NCAA Division IV) in New England, 1968-1972. In October, the team's equipment manager made a trip to Montreal to buy original Canadian equipment, which at the time was difficult to find in the US (particularly sticks and CMM ice skates). I love Montreal and always went on these trips. My first trip was October 1968 and the owners of the store offered us a tour of The Montreal Forum, which at the time was closed (this was the second year of expansion to 12 teams and the season had not yet begun). The store was Rousseau's in Laval and our seller was the store manager. While walking around the ORIGINAL Forum, which closed after 1996, was located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West. As we stood outside of the Hockey Commissioner's box seat our guide explained that he was present at the Richard Riot, and he pointed out where Campbell was first slapped and then punched, where the tear gas canister went off, and he pointed to the steel girder over which a rope had been thrown for Campbell's use. The subsequent speculation at the time was that the Montreal Police Department set off the tear gas to enable them to get hustle Campbell out of the arena in the confusion before the crowd became completely uncontrollable. Once Campbell had been removed, the Fire Department prematurely ended the game and cleared the Forum for the safety of the crowd.

A couple of years later, when my team was attending a Bruins game at the old Boston Garden (winter 1972), I got a chance to meet former Canadiens defenseman Tom Johnson who at that time was Boston's head coach). He privately signed autographs and answered questions one of which from me concerned the Richard Riot. Mr. Johnson confirmed that Campbell had been assaulted by the crowd and tear gas had been set off owing to a direct physical threat against Campbell's life. I asked him if that threat was lynching: Campbell offered a wry smile, nodded, and said that it wasn't Montreal's finest hour. It's hardly surprising that the nefarious lynching incident never made it into the written record (Katz's discussion is the closest I've ever seen). The proofs I offer are statements made to me by two independent eye witnesses, both of whom are deceased, and, whom if they had been asked by the media would probably deny the action took place. As Tom Johnson said, this was not Montreal's finest hour and for a City that is so magnificent, perhaps it's an incident that is best forgotten: It represents a Montreal, Quebec, and Canada that no longer exists. The Richard Riot was an ugly event and 1968 was in a way the conclusion of the most upsetting years of Quebec's 1960s Quiet Revolution: In October 1968, René Lévesque united the movement under the banner of the Parti Québécois. In the month of our visit the Montreal police were very nervous and the city on the verge of civil unrest. This was the fifth or sixth of my dozens of visits to Montreal, and it was the only visit during which I was made to feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. One nightclub refused to serve us and requested that we leave because we were 'Englsh'. We said we were American s and it didn't matter.

August 2012

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June 2013

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User:SQGibbon's comments above apply here. I'm sorry but this behavior really must stop. You've now been told several times about the problems with your edits. Doug Weller talk 20:11, 10 April 2016 (UTC)