That story, and many others, flowed freely as they posed for photos and signed autographs for dozens of young fans who knew them only because of the CH crest they wore at breakfast, playfully pulling on modern jerseys to recreate 1950s black-and-white portrait poses.<\/p>\n
Together, Lach, St. Laurent and Goyette happily worked the banquet circuit, attending fundraisers, barbeques and golf tournaments, spreading goodwill among fans and strengthening a bond of friendship that went back more than a half-century.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve stuck together for this long because the Canadiens were always like family,\u201d Goyette said that day. \u201cThat\u2019s why you won so much. We helped each other out every which way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lach and St. Laurent died two days apart in April 2015. There\u2019s a good chance they\u2019re booking tee times now for a threesome that\u2019s reunited once more.<\/p>\n
Goyette was predeceased by his wife, Ginette, and a son, Stephen. His daughters, Lianne and Suzanne, have planned a memorial service for Feb. 27 in Montreal-suburban Dorval.<\/p>\n
Top photo: Phil Goyette with an eight-stitch cut on his chin following his three-goal performance at the Montreal Forum on Jan. 22, 1960, and as captain of coach Scotty Bowman\u2019s Montreal Junior Canadiens during the 1953-54 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That story, and many others, flowed freely as they posed for photos and signed autographs for dozens of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-425125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}