Hall of Fame pays tribute to Habs’ 100th

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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. 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’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.

No team in NHL history has won as much or as often as Montreal. The Hall’s exhibit touches on each of the different eras the team has gone through. It features everything from Joe Hall’s contract for the 1918-19 season (which paid him $700) to the puck Rocket Richard scored his 500th career goal with to the tuque Jose Theodore wore during the 2003 Heritage Classic outdoor game in Edmonton.

The centennial exhibit will be on display for the next couple of months.

— The Canadian Press