Donald Murray remembers the stories while growing up in Montreal Article content

The ones about Canadiens legends like Jean Belliveau, Maurice “Rocket” Richard and Guy Lafleur – players who helped the franchise win a National Hockey League-record 24 Stanley Cups. Article content Article content

Some of them skated for the Habs while Murray was a kid in Quebec. Others, like Howie Morenz, existed only through second-hand accounts and old newspaper clippings.

So, the 69-year-old defence lawyer decided to dig a little deeper into Hockey’s First Superstar, who was born in Mitchell and became a phenomenon in Stratford while starring for the city’s junior and senior teams in the early 1920s.

After 20 years of research, Murray’s first book, Howie Morenz: The Greatest Season in the Life of

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