Guy Lafleur, a Montreal Canadiens legend, is being honoured for his life and illustrious career at a national funeral, where hockey greats and family members paid homage to the generosity, ambition and passion he embodied until the day he died.
Serge Savard, Lafleur’s friend and former teammate, said that even though the hockey icon was the league’s top scorer and best player, Lafleur always put the team first. “He was a team guy.
He never felt bigger than the team,” Savard said outside the church. “He was a great, humble superstar.” A crowd, with no shortage of Lafleur’s emblematic #10 jerseys, gathered outside the Mary Queen of the World Cathedral.
They lined up along René-Lévesque Boulevard in the city’s downtown core, where the ceremony began at 11 a.m. Read more: As Guy Lafleur lay in state for 2nd day, preparations underway for hockey legend’s funeral Fans chanted “Guy, Guy, Guy” as the procession made its way from the Bell Centre, with a line of cars flanked by police officers.
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