This season's Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy race as the NHL's top goal-scorer is wide open – something that hasn't been said in the last few years. There's no chase for 70 goals like Toronto ...

A sportswriter overheard the remark and "The Rocket" was born. Joseph Henri Maurice Richard was born on Aug. 4, 1921, in Montreal. Even though he was studying to be a machinist at Montreal ...

Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard, Bobby Hull and a host of other Hall of Fame players. Imagine that. Rocket Richard, who has his name on the trophy nine times, including five times in a row with the ...

equaling a postseason record that had been set in 1944 by Montreal Canadiens legend Maurice "Rocket" Richard. Then in overtime on Sept. 15, with the Rocket in the Montreal Forum that he'd made as ...

In the late 1930s, a young machinist named Maurice Richard distinguished ... greatest players of all time as "The Rocket." However for all his success, Richard and his fellow French Canadians ...

Toronto Maple Leafs captain Auston Matthews has taken the reins from Alex Ovechkin as the perennial favorite for the Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard Trophy, winning it three times. Signs point toward ...