Didier Pitre, nicknamed ‘Cannonball’, was a huge and gentlemanly player who played defence, rover, and forward for the Canadiens, and was the first Hab signed in the 1909 National Hockey Association.
Pitre’s career ended in 1923 while with the newer NHL, which had formed in 1917. He skated for a while on a line with his old friend Jack Laviolette, who had assembled the team in the first place, and another original, the great Newsy Lalonde.
It seems there was a slight problem back then with the uniform budget.
Regardless, in my mind the big fellow looked like a million bucks.