MONTREAL — Ken Dryden stood six-foot-four but cast a much larger shadow. He was a titan of sport and a goliath in life — the only six-time Stanley Cup winner to backstop Canada to some of its greatest wins on the ice before serving Parliament off it.

Dryden, the great goaltender of the dynastic Montreal Canadiens of the 1970s, died Friday of cancer at age 78.

But the iconic image of him standing in his crease, leaning on his stick, will live on forever.

It is the image that personified him. The image of a man so confident and composed that he could relax as chaos whirled all around him. In this image, he is Ken Dryden: the thinker. In this image, he is also Ken Dryden: the admirer of what he considered the greatest show on ice, which he reviewed thoroughly in what might be the most capt

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