Remembering Marcel Paille
By George Grimm
Like many netminders of the pre-expansion era, Marcel Paille had the great misfortune of trying to break into the NHL during what many consider to be the Golden Age of Goaltending. Those were the days of the Original Six, when each team carried only one goalkeeper and five of the incumbents, Johnny Bower, Glenn Hall, Jacques Plante, Terry Sawchuk and Gump Worsley were eventually inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Joseph Marcel Rejean Paille was born on Dec. 8, 1932 in Shawinigan Falls, Quebec, the same small Canadian town that produced the legendary Jacques Plante.