Passing: Dave Balon: Won Cups with Canadiens - Multiple sclerosis ended his career (CanWest News Service)

From CanWest News Service (via Montreal Gazette):

By Joe O'connor, CanWest News Service
Published: Thursday, May 31, 2007

On Tuesday, Dave Balon died in a Prince Albert, Sask., nursing home after a 30-year battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 68. The two-time Stanley Cup champion with the Canadiens (1965 and '66) leaves behind his wife of 47 years, Gwen, a daughter, Jodi, and a son, Jeff.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=f48c2a6d-5d49-4e7a-b3b6-f3926762763d

At Habs Insideout, Dave Stubbs has assembled various sources (articles and picture gallery) covering the career and later struggles of Dave Balon: http://www.habsinsideout.com


Stubbs especially recommends as "an early candidate for the 2007 National Newspaper Awards", a feature by Joe O'Connor of the National Post from this March.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/sports/story.html?id=33ca2cc6-9218-49e2-a547-bd24a5ab1b34