MONTREAL -- The loss of goaltending legend Ken Dryden will be felt a great distance beyond hockey.

Not only was Dryden arguably the game’s sharpest, most scholarly observer, a keen student of the sport and a champion of players past and present, he was a worldly man who viewed and experienced life far beyond the arenas that set the stage for his remarkable life.

The Toronto native, whose death to cancer at age 78 was announced by the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday, will certainly be celebrated for his six Stanley Cup championships won with the powerhouse Canadiens of the 1970s, for the five times he won the Vezina Trophy voted for his goaltending excellence, and for his 1970-71 Conn Smythe Trophy voted as the most valuable player of the postseason.

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