Last Saturday evening, a few minutes before the start of the game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Montreal Canadiens, j'anticipais a good show on television. But the Montreal team is capable of the best as the worst. At the end of the second period, while Saku Koivu will inflict punishment saw two minutes for high sticks, I thought that a little reading would make me the greatest good.


Digging in my library, I see the book entitled Captains Michael Ulmer. Nine of the great legends of Canadian. Wishes, I thought, this is a small book that is likely to be very promising, especially since the spectacle on the ice at the Bell Centre was not there any more exciting.

Having bought this book in a bouquinerie, I had not yet had time to read it. Shame on me! From the first pages, the author recounts the passage of the torch at the closing ceremony of the Forum in Montreal. On the wall of the locker room, he read the words from the poem by John McCrae: