The perfect Jean Beliveau tribute montage (Video)

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There have been so many tributes to the great Jean Beliveau in the last week. So many of them have been moving, like the video and the salute to his family at Tuesday night's Montreal Canadiens home game.

But leave it to hockey's master of the montage, Tim Thompson, to completely nail it. The voices, the images, the moments, the tones of Leonard Cohen turning into Mr. Beliveau's favorite opera ... it's amazing.

(Thompson was, of course, the man behind all of those great Hockey Night In Canada montages.)

Few hockey videos, if any, are scored to Pavarotti. Yet it's just perfect here.