4/7/2024 0 Comments Nhl 17 forumThe Montreal Forum – Construction in the Early 1920sĬonstruction of the Montreal Forum (THW Archives) All of these men later played in the NHL were eventually inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, either as a player or a builder. – Mike Wyman of Inside Hockeyīefore that it had been an outdoor ice hockey rink used by legends Frank and Lester Patrick, Art Ross and Russell Bowie. Opening night, November 9, 1908, was a sensation and all 3,000 pairs of roller skates available for rental saw extensive use as thousands of Montrealers came to wander through, gawk at or try out the facilities at what was hyped in the press as “the largest, finest and most hygienic roller rink,” a decent establishment, “catering only to the highest classes of patronage.” The claim to antiseptic purity was prompted by the fact that a generation before, Montreal had been a world leader in all manner of communicable diseases, largely due to sanitary facilities that were primitive at best outside of the wealthy enclaves that The Forum hoped to draw upon for their clientele. Original Forum in Montreal – 1908 (THW Archives)
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