Stars in the Star

Only a few short years after dinosaurs roamed the earth, the Toronto Star Weekly (and other sister newspapers around the country) would once a week feature terrific full size photos of NHL stars which I would cut out and put into a second scrapbook if they weren’t Habs. The Habs pics would go into my treasured Montreal Canadiens scrapbook.

I think we all looked forward to see who would be next in the long line of photos, and it was always interesting to check out the big-league equipment these guys wore.

Here’s five of them, glue spots and all;

Gump Worsley, a few years before being traded to the Habs in a seven-player deal that included Jacques Plante heading to N.Y.

Terry Sawchuk, who many…