what are maurice richards achievements?

Question

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and i mean a deeper meaning and now how many stanley cups he won and ****

Answer 1

First player to record 50 goals in a season.

First player to score 500 goals in his career.

8 cups, 5 as captain.

6 Overtime game winning goals in playoffs

Played in every all-star game from 1947 to 59

Answer 2

Boom Boom's been given credit with starting the slap shot when he was angry in a practice and hauled off and wailed on a puck, watched how it flew and stepped back to say, wow.....

However, Richard has plenty of legends, too many to name them all in one response. Watch the movie 'Rocket' (complete with Vinny Lecavalier getting to briefly play his idol Jean Beliveau) for a bit of a bio on him. Other great sources would be the stories from his peers, rivals, and refs of the day. Ted Lindsay and Red Storey have some of the best stories of the Rocket you'll ever want to hear. A lot of them made it into the "Legends of Hockey" series that was broadcast about a decade or so ago on TSN.

Among things not listed above though
-Richard Riots (the suspension for the playoffs in that year was followed by his captaining those 5 straight cup titles, who knows what could have been in a league less prejudiced against the french?)
-battled the racism of the league and it's commish for years
-was once named 1st, 2nd and 3rd star of the game when he scored 5 goals in a 5-0 win, on a night he wasn't going to play because he had moved that day and was exhausted

-Red Storey states he believes Richard was put on this earth to show hockey players how to score through sheer determination and had he played in the 80s when everyone was scoring 50-70 goals, he would have scored 100 every year.

-first to score 50 goals in 50 games (took 4 decades for the second to do it in a much different era)

-has always been described as his eyes going off like bells and whistles on a pinball machine that had goalies absolutely terrified because they never really knew what he was going to do (including just running them over to kill them if they ever did stop him)

etc etc
(watch the movie, it's the only way to do this any justice)

Answer 3

There was a time when averaging a point a game would win you a scoring title
There was a time when the average score of a game during the the 2007-2008 season (5.7goals/game) was considered high

That was the Rocket Richard era

The first man to score 50 goals in a season
The first man to score 350 goals in a career
The first man to score 400 goals in a career
The first man to score 500 goals in a career
The first man to wear 5 Stanley Cup rings
The ONLY man in NHL history to win 5 Stanley Cups as Captain (and he was only a captain for 5 years)
The ONLY man in NHL history to have both a major motion picture and an award-winning animated short about him.
Was once clocked going around a rink at 13.2 seconds (Mike Gartner has since done 12.96s)

A man who completed a Gordie Howe Hat trick on February 16, 1944........while Gordie was still only 15 and playing Tier Two.


In the province of Quebec, he is far more revered as the greatest player to ever play the game than Mario Lemieux could ever hope to be.

And..............long before we had Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull..............Maurice Richard wore #9

And yes, I saw the very first game Maurice Richard ever played.........but I was 16 months at the time and don't recall anything about it...............but I was there!


Yes, he invented the slap shot, but Bernie Geoffrion and Bobby Hull took it one step further

Answer 4

Some people called him the space cowboy, yeah
Some called him the gangster of love
Some people called him Maurice
Cause he spoke of the pompitous of love

People talked about him, baby
Said he was doin’ you wrong, doin’ you wrong
Well, don’t you worry baby
Don’t worry
Cause he was right here, right here, right here, right here at home

Cause he was a picker
He was a grinner
He was a lover
And he was a sinner
He played his music in the sun

He was a joker
He was a smoker
He was a midnight toker
He sure didn’t want to hurt no one

Answer 5

ok aside from all those great statistical achevements he did, he invented the slap shot. ok, the slap shot. important. at least i'm pretty sure he did, i don't know ask LITY