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George Gross chat on the RocketClaude: Do you know what the Rocket's pre-game ritual was?George Gross: He had several rituals. He went and talked to the goalie, he glanced at every player with his piercing eyes and said "Let's go out and win it." I only saw him play one season and it was at the end of his career in 59-60. Forum for a true iconEleven minutes of thunderous applause in hockey's most famous shrine, an outpouring of love and reverence that reduced one of Canada's greatest hockey heroes to tears. Not to mention many in the crowd. 'He was everything to us'MONTREAL -- Here, yesterday, in the great vastness that is the Notre Dame Basilica, the French people of Quebec said au revoir to a god who gave them their heart, soul, and respect; and as his casket was carried up the front steps and down the centre aisle, all eyes were on the short man with the white hair whose shoulder held up the left front corner. Adieu, M. RichardToronto Sun While Maurice Richard's family and a sea of dignitaries -- among them Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard -- crowded the floor of the Notre-Dame Basilica, some 1,000 seats in the upper galleries were reserved for the common folk. Rocket retains hold on fansBut it was as a young boy that he witnessed some of the game's greatest moments. 'He would be proud'But the last one might have been the grandest of them all. The unifying forceYesterday's state funeral for Maurice (Rocket) Richard, dead five days of cancer, struck a perfect note. The marriage between Richard's compelling life and the symbol-laden Roman Catholic Church was necessary and fitting. Every saint started out a rookie in the secular league. Recent Richard Headlines More Richard Headlines |