Sculpture created in memory of The Rocket CMC 2003.2.1 Sculpture
created in memory of The Rocket Artist: Michel Dusablon, 2000
Celebrity, National Figure, Icon  By the time of his passing in
2000, The Rocket has become a subject for painters and sculptors
across Canada, his image carrying symbolic weight beyond his
having been - as he used to insist - "just a hockey player".
"Maurice and Gordie" Artist: Michael Davey, 2000  Sandblasted
into each side of a black granite puck are the parts of the body
- eye and elbow - associated with two rival hockey heroes:
Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe. On one level, the artwork
portrays their different playing styles as "two sides of the
same puck"; on another, it represents the dialectic between
French and English Canada.  Gold puck CMC 2002.81.22 Photo:
Stéphane Juteau  In 1999, a gold puck is presented to The Rocket
at a gala celebrating the launch of a TV movie of his life.