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Legendary goaltender Tony Esposito stood atop a double-decker bus Thursday and rolled slowly through Chicago, waving to an estimated two million fans clogging city streets to salute their Stanley Cup-champion Blackhawks.

This was the fourth championship parade for Esposito, his third in the past six springs as an honoured guest of the club on which he played his way into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

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His first, and his only as a player, is mostly lost in the mists of his memories. That one was a slow drive through downtown Montreal in May 1969 as a member of the Canadiens.

“Yeah, I was part of all that (stuff) in Montreal,” Esposito said with a laugh Friday from his summer home in Wisconsin, where he and his wife, Marilyn, finally stopped to catch their breath following the Blackhawks’ dramatic run to their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history.

His name appears on the Stanley Cup only once – A. Esposito, for his more formal Anthony, the engraving preceding those of fellow goalies R. Vachon and L. Worsley.