amor team has lost its lustre had a hell of a season. didn’t they?” Even Rodney Dangerfield got Canada's gi Frant page 42 an old farmer and the conversation went like this: “Hi. Bert. where've you been all winter?” “That's nice, Bert. How'd you do?” “Well, we finished first and won Sceptre, Sask.. after yet another Canadiens championship in a year Pions — the much-experienced bot- the Leafs finished dead last. tom feeders. Il was a time when Vancouver fans bought tickets, not sO much to see their own team, as to cheer the stars of visiting clubs — particularly those on the Canadiens. People like Ken Dryden, Guy Lafleur, Henri Richard, Yvan Cournoyer, Serge Savard. Guy Lapointe and Larry Robinson. Since Bowman's string ended in the spring of 1979, the Canadiens have won the Cup just twice. That's twice more than all but five other ~ league members (New York Islanders, Edinonton, Calgary. Pittsburgh and New York Rangers) have won it. .. But hockey’s undisputed glamor _ Kings of the *70s have lost rauch of -their lustre despite their latest Cup . Win just two years ago. In its place they have offered little more than a . consistently high work ethic and fine goaltending. . Lafleur was their last truly big “ Star; a ticket seller around the league ‘inthe mold of a Bobby Orr or a Gretzky. They've had the same problem as the Canucks, Most of their draft choices have amounted to : little. During the past decade their ~.-/first round picks nave included the “. hardly immortal David Wikie, — - -- Brent Bilodeau, Lindsay Vallis, Eric Charron, Mark Pederson and ’ Tom Chorske. ‘Where they once built from the draft and, in pre-draft days, the best sponsored farm system in the league, they are now in the same _ leaky boat as so many other teams; making last minute trades for quick fixes that don’t always work. This : shortened season is a notable exam- * ‘ple. One thing for sure, they no longer-reign as Canada’s glamor team. Indeed, at the moment (and __ “even though Quebec Nordiques are ’, the closest thing to i, Canada “doesn’t have a glamor team, Blame it on the watering down process of expansion. . -,Oldtimers ~— those who remem- ber the days when Toronto's Foster Hewitt was the king of hockey : broadcasters — also will remember . “that, win or lose, the Maple Leafs - were the glamor guys for more than 30 years. Indeed, Canada’s Team. = ‘On Saturday nights just about - “everyone in the country stopped whatever they were doing to huddie around the radio as the Leafs played “two games: the cne the fans at the “Gardens saw ard tite one Foster - described. a ; "» Despite their consistently win- : fing.ways, the Canadiens were the “other team. In the late ‘50s the team “of Jacques Plante, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Rocket Richard, ' Dickie Moore, Bert Olmstead and ‘other distinguished warriors put together five consecutive Cup wins, “a record that still stands. 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