Hi David

             Yes I grew up in the Bronx just a few blocks from the zoo.And it was a great city to be a kid in those days. We could just go to 2 or 3 houses on my block and get enough kids to play baseball or hockey or whatever was our sport of choice at the time.There was an old gentleman that lived next door to me who grew up in Montreal and he would watch us play street hockey.I was about 6 years old and he would tell us storys of the great Canadien players, he told me so much about THe Rocket infact that years later I was at the Rocket Richard Arena looking at all his great acomplishments that it sunk in that I had never seen him play he retired the year after I was born needless to say the old man storys made quite an impression on me. It must have seemed weird to some when they saw the local kids playing hockey that amongst the sea of Ranger blue was two Montreal Canadiens jerseys my buddy Robert wearing number 4 and myself in net doing the best Gumper impression in my home red sweater I could muster.

                                                                              Habjo