When Luc Robitaille was growing up in Montreal, hockey was the Montreal Canadiens.
Before cable and satellite brought the world to everyone’s living room and streaming offered infinite entertainment choices, Robitaille saw only the Canadiens and then only once a week on Hockey Night in Canada telecasts. Like so many French-speaking kids in Montreal and the province of Quebec he pretended to be his heroes when he played against his brother, Pierre.
“When we were like 4 or 5 years old, he’d be the red Canadiens. I was the white ones,” Robitaille, a Hockey Hall of Fame left wing and now president of the Kings, said of Montreal’s classic home and road uniforms.