re: MSB Season Long Hockey Thread

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Fatty this letter was sent to me by a family friend thought you a SMU might like to read it,

Prior to my dad's passing (1977), I asked him who, in his opinion, was the best hockey player to play the game--he knew from Newsy Lalonde-to Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Bobby Hull and many, many other greats (not Gretsky or Lemieux or Sid the Kid) but the greats from the early 1900's to the mid 1970's---His answer "Aurele Emile Joliat or the "Little Giant"--Aurele hit the scales at 136 pounds--five feet seven inches tall--He even played in one of the Abitibi Mill towns--that being Iroquois Falls---his NHL career was played mostly in Montreal and is the ninth highest scorer on that team to this day when most seasons averaged just 45 games---I saw him in Montreal one night in the early 1980's and he could still skate and the Forum crowd appreciated his efforts.
Anyway, here is a little poem somebody once wrote about the greatest hockey player--

Maroons, they have a good hockey team
Those Maple Leafs is nice
But Les Canadiens they are the best
That ever skate de ice

Morenz, he go like one big storm
Sil Mantha's Big and Fat
They all are good but none is quite
So good as Joliat

Joliat, he is my friend
I don't know him myself
But I knows a man who knows a man
Who knows him very well

So when I tire of traival trop
I put on coat of coon
And go to see Les Canadians
Make Mincemeat of Maroons

That was a very exciting game
The score she was a tie
And then my little Joliat
He get hanger in his eye

He take him puck at other end
And skate him down so fast
The rest of players seem dormir
As he is going past

That was the winning goal hurah
The game she come to end
I yell bravo for Joliat
You see he is my friend

Author Unknown but is humorous

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