{"id":581383,"date":"2026-04-02T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581383\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:24:07","slug":"caufield-chasing-50-goal-mark-richard-trophy-for-canadiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581383\/","title":{"rendered":"Caufield chasing 50-goal mark, Richard Trophy for Canadiens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dressing rooms were rarely visited postgame in that era thus there is no news story that quotes the Rocket on the significance of his goal scored in Boston, 50 in a season not considered a milestone until after he scored it. There was much more attention paid to Richard\u2019s 45th a few weeks earlier; that passed Canadiens\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joe-malone-8447594\" title=\"Joe Malone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Malone<\/a>\u00a0for the single-season scoring record that had been set in 1917-18, the NHL\u2019s 22-game first year.<\/p>\n<p>In later years, Richard said he was proud of the 50-goal achievement but placed more importance on the 500th goal of his career, also having been the first in NHL history to that plateau.<\/p>\n<p>It would be 16 years before another player would score 50,\u00a0Geoffrion beating Toronto rookie goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/cesare-maniago-8450020\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cesare Maniago<\/a> at the Forum on March 16, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>True to form, the Boomer was full vocal value for his goal in the 5-2 victory, relating news that the freshly retired Richard, though not at the Forum, was among the well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rocket told me he was glad,\u201d\u00a0Geoffrion said. \u201cHe said, \u2018I told you before that if somebody had to equal my record, I would want it to be one of my old teammates.\u2019 I remember now I didn\u2019t pay much attention to him at the time. Fifty goals looks like a lot and I never thought I\u2019d make it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dressing rooms were rarely visited postgame in that era thus there is no news story that quotes the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-581383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}