MONTREAL — The first time Ken Dryden walked into the Montreal Canadiens' locker room in 1971, his teammates immediately knew he was different.

"We looked at him and we thought he was coming from another planet," recalled his defenceman Serge Savard in an interview on Saturday.

"We didn't see hockey players coming into the dressing room with books under their arms. After practice, he was going to McGill University."

In fact, Savard remembers that at first, members of the team doubted Dryden, with all his other interests, would have a great future in hockey. But they were happy — and perhaps a bit astounded — to be proved so wrong.

Dryden won six Stanley Cups in eight seasons, five Vezina trophies as the league’s top goaltender and backstopped Canada past the Soviet Union in the monument

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