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With every boy in a small Quebec town wearing the sweater of the Montreal Canadiens to play hockey, one child is horrified when, because of a mail order mix-up, he is forced to wear a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater.
It is New Year's Eve, and eleven-year-old Baptiste is living and working in a remote logging camp in Canada. As midnight approaches, the homesick lumberjacks come up with a plan to get them home before the New Year.
"This 30th anniversary edition explores the history of The Hockey Sweater: the places it's been, the people who created it, the people who love it and the wonderful stories that have come from it. It also includes a DVD with the original short film.
When Roch is off at boarding school for the first time, he is expected to play basketball to learn how to face life's challenges, but his fear of failure sends him running into the night and terrors far worse than the basketball court. Away from home and off to a seminary boardin...
When Roch grew out of his hockey sweater, his mother wrote away for a larger one. To his chagrin instead of the coveted red, white and blue jersey of the Canadiens, the parcel contained the blue and white sweater of the Toronto Maple Leafs!
Describes the preparations that began in summer to get ready for New Year's Day. The time is 1941 in Quebec as a young boy explores an important New Year tradition.
Meet Maurice Richard on and off the ice, and follow his spectacular career with the Montreal Canadiens--from the early 1940s, when only a few thousand people turned out for pro hockey games, to the 1950s, when the Montreal Forum was bursting with delirious fans.