Number 29

Ken Dryden's number was raised to the rafters last night (in the Bell Centre, which is unfortunate, but what are you gonna do now that the Forum is a second-rate food court).

For the last week, this has been my desktop background. You can download it from this page, along with a bunch of other vintage NHL player wallpapers.

I used to ride my bike to Dryden's big house in Senneville, when I was a kid, stand there and stare at it. Never saw him there though. Not like Guy Lafleur, who lived not too far away, and who you could catch by the house -- maybe standing out front watering the lawn -- but who I was always too shy to talk to. (Even when my family wound up moving next door to him.)