during his remarks at the pre-game retirement ceremony, geoffrion's son bob recounted how his parents had once gone to a boxing match at the montreal forum and that geoffrion had told his wife marlene that his own number would someday hang from the rafters beside that of her father, howie morenz. fulfilling that prophecy, and in further recognition of the special link between the morenz and geoffrion families, the two numbers were raised side by side (morenz's banner was lowered halfway and was raised back up to the rafters with geoffrion's banner). traded to the montreal canadiens by the nashville predators on february 17, 2012, blake geoffrion decided to honor both his grandfather geoffrion, as well as his great-grandfather morenz, by wearing #57.