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Canadiens’ new captain, Mike

Keane, a unilingual prairie

product from Winnipeg, cer-
“tainly put the French-lan-

guage media into a lather last

week when he said he had no
. plans to learn French as part
_Of his new job.

‘The storm was violent enough
that‘a day later he recanted and said
he wouid start taking French lessons.
« Ata time when Quebec separation is
. on the bubble, he certainly gave the

_Separatiste cause more ammunition.

_. Keane's first reaction probably

wasn’t too smart. But it was honest.
‘And he’s paid to play hockey, not

. politics, And it made him no differ-

“ent from thousands of Montreal-horn
Anglos who take pride in the fact
they have never leamed to speak .

~ Canada’s other official language.

, . A couple of points to he made
here. English has always been the
dressing room language of the team.

Right from its start in 1916, when the -

Flying Frenchmen’s | 2-man roster
| featured five Anglos and seven

*.: French-Canadians.

“. The Flying Frenchmen appella-
tion always has been‘a bit of a mis-

. nomer. In recent years the Flying
United Nations has been more appro-
priate. But in any year the team
makeup has been roughly 50-50

- Quebecois and others.

indeed; should you get the oppor-

tunity, read the 27-player names of
the 1985-86 Canadiens on the’.
‘Stanley Cup: Only eight are French-
: Canadians: Among the other 19 are .
... six Americans,'a couple of Swedes
Vand a Czech. ©

Point number two is‘that language =

» was never an issue until the rise of

~ the Parti Quebecois under Rene .

“Mevesque | in 1 the 1970s. AS it hap-

‘ground, Our care-
fully structured”
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pens, many of the French-speaking

“media were — and still are — fer-

vent Quebec nationalists. Tf) hey" re the
ones who keep the pot boiling.
‘That little tempest did, however,

‘provide a break from the same old

quotes and cliches that always come
out of training camps. As did Mike“

. Keenan’s outburst at St. Louis: when

he accused Grant Fuhr of being
overweight, suspended him and told
him to go home to Edmonton and g uel
the suet off his haunch and paunch, °
That sort of disproves the old saying
that al} the world loves a fat man.

except, of course, when he sits down”
beside you on the bus. Keenan seems :

to have a thing about goulies.

‘The you're-tco-fat-for-me goalie
ploy i is an old one, first dreamed up -
in the late 1940s by the then Toronto

-Maple Leafs boss, Conn Smythe: A

litle miffed because the footbal
Argonauts had pushed the Lea

“training camp off the Toronto dailie

front sports pages, he decided that
Turk Broda was overweight. put
him on a diet and staged a daily pub-

‘lic weigh-in.

He got the publicity he wanted.

“The Leafs were back at the'top of the

first sports pages and? once the sea-

~ Son started, the Turk auickly got.

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~ back to his old weight.

‘Terry Sawehuk was a happy.
roly-poly kid from Winnipeg when
he joined the Red Wings in 1950 and
led them to three Stanley Cup wins .
in the first half of the decade. Then
he reported to training camp the year
after the third cup win with 230
pounds on his five-foot-two frame. -

General manager Jack Adams
pat him on a diet and starved him
down to a gaunt 160. The happy dis-
position disappeared with the lost 70

“pounds and Sawehuk turned into one

of the most sullen and morose
human beings on the planet. His
goaltending? It didn’t change 4 bit.
Lorne (Gump) Worsley, at five-
foot-seven and 200 pounds, was a
wonderful advertisement for the
restaurant he owned in Montreal.
And he played a lot of fine goal fora
bad New York Rangers team in the
1950s. One of the team’s revolving
door couches of that era, Phil
Watson, accused his well-rounded -

netminder of being a “beer belly.’

Worsley indignantly rose to his
“| never
drink the stuff and Watson knows it I
drink nothing but whisk
He was 34 when the Canadiens
rescued him from New York and
brought him to the city where he
grew up as a replacement for
Jacques Plante. the man whose jer-
sey was retired last week, ;
Gump backstopped the Canadiens
to two Stanley Cups and won the ©

Vezina Trophy, proving that there is a

place in hockey for g goalies with pot

. bellies.

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