A sportswriter overheard the remark and "The Rocket" was born. Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was born on Aug. 4, 1921, in Montreal. Even though he was studying to be a machinist at Montreal ...

Eighty years ago today, Maurice 'Rocket' Richard set the gold standard for goals in an NHL season. He became the first player in history to record a 50-goal season. Since then, 98 other players ...

Maurice Richard said many times that ... and less than a minute later a homemade tear gas bomb went off. "I have often seen Rocket Richard fill the Forum," said Dick Irvin, Jr., ...

That’s also the main event in the hit 2005 bio-pic The Rocket. Most of this is mentioned in Giguère’s film, but the focus is ...

In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished ... greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians ...

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews may have won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the NHL's leading goal scorer in three of the last four seasons, but his first campaign wearing the ...

There hasn’t been much mention of Auston Matthews defending his Maurice (Rocket) Richard goal trophy this year.