Montreal Canadiens Alumni game in person

 We had the Montreal Canadiens alumni tour come through Napanee, on Sunday.  They played a friendly charity game against some local penitentiary guards.  These games are always a treat and the players are all super friendly with the fans.  I wasn't able to get autographs from all of the players, but I did add a few that I did not previously have, so that is a huge plus.

Oleg Petrov was a rookie with the Habs back in the 1992-93 season.  He played 9 regular season games with 3 points and only playing 1 playoff game.  That was also the year they won the cup.  He went back and forth for a few season between Fredericton (AHL) and the Habs, before signing to play in Switzerland for 3 seasons. He pretty much lit that league on fire and came back over for 3 more with the Habs and finished his NHL days with the Nashville Predators.  He saw that I had extra cards and offered to sign them all.

Stephane Richer scored 51 goals for the Habs in the 89-90 season and he played over 1000 games in the NHL.  He looked like he could still be playing. He won the Cup in 1986 with the Habs.

Richard Sevigny won the Vezina trophy for the 80-81 Habs.  Although he is now 66 years old, he absolutely amazes me how he is able to make some incredible saves on guys less than half his age.  My knees are shot from playing rec goalie for like 20 years.  Anyways, I have always missed getting his autograph at these events for whatever reason.  This time I got him, on one of the first hockey cards I ever got in my collection.

 

Chris "Knuckles" Nilan was the coach for the alumni squad.  He was super friendly with everyone, signing lots of autographs and joking with kids. He was part of the 1986 Stanley Cup Champions.

 

Andrew Shaw was a local favourite to say the least.  Andrew hails from Belleville, ON, a short 20 minute drive from Napanee.  He was pretty well mobbed every where he went, but he was super friendly with everyone.  He stayed around a while extra to make sure everyone got autographs or pictures with him.  He even played a rock, paper, scissors tournament with some kids.  The winner got his stick.  A friend's son won it.  I got him to sign a puck.