He is hockey's most heralded little brother, an outsized talent in an undersized body, a man whose stick might as well have been a wand for all the tricks he could do with it, who didn't skate on ice so much as glide over it.
Henri Richard wasn't a magician. He just played like one, a two-way marvel in bleu, blanc and rouge.
For more of Henri Richard's 100 Greatest Players bio, please click here.
He is hockey's most heralded little brother, an outsized talent in an undersized body, a man whose stick might as well have been a wand for all the tricks he could do with it, who didn't skate on ice so much as glide over it.
Henri Richard wasn't a magician. He just played like one, a two-way marvel in bleu, blanc and rouge.
For more of Henri Richard's 100 Greatest Players bio, please click here.
NOTES & TRANSACTIONS
- NHL First All-Star Team (1958)
- NHL Second All-Star Team (1959, 1961, 1963)
- Played in NHL All-Star Game (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1974)
- Signed as a free agent by Montreal, October 13, 1955.
