Question: The nickname of this National Hockey Leagues front line that featured three French Canadians from Quebec is also the name of a popular early 70's film scored by Don Ellis?

 The line consisted of Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault at centre and All-Stars Rick Martin and Rene Robert at left wing and right wing, respectively. The French Connection was the nickname of a forward line that played for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League from 1972 until 1979.  All three players were French-Canadians from Quebec: Perreault from Victoriaville; Robert from Trois-Rivières; and Martin from Verdun, Quebec.  The name referred both to the origins of the players and to the 1971 movie "The French Connection", based upon the book of the same name. <SEP> The voyageurs (] , "travelers") were French Canadians who engaged in the transporting of furs by canoe during the fur trade years.  The emblematic meaning of the term applies to places (New France, including the "Pays d'en Haut" and the "Pays des Illinois") and times (primarily in the 18th and early 19th centuries) where transportation of materials was mainly over long distances.  This major and challenging task of the fur trading business was done by canoe and largely by French Canadians.  The term in its fur trade context also applied, at a lesser extent, to other fur trading activities.  Being a voyageur also included being a part of a licensed, organized effort, one of the distinctions that set them apart from the "coureurs des bois".  Additionally, they were set apart from "engagés ", who were much smaller merchants and general laborers.  Mostly immigrants, "engagés " were men who were obliged to go anywhere and do anything their masters told them as long as their indentureship was still in place.  Until their contract expired, "engagés " were at the full servitude of their master, which was most often a voyageur.  Less than fifty percent of "engagés " whose contracts ended chose to remain in New France (either because the others returned to France or because they died while working and never had a chance to leave). <SEP> Jean-Yves Bigras (May 19, 1919 in Ottawa, Ontario – August 17, 1966 in Montreal, Quebec) was a Canadian film director and film editor, considered a pioneer in Quebec cinema.  Bigras studied first at the University of Ottawa and then at Queen's University.  From 1939 to 1942 he served in World War II as part of the RCAF.  When he returned to Canada he became one of the first French Canadians to be hired by the NFB and worked there as an editor until 1948.  He was then hired to work in Renaissance Éducationnel, the children's education film section of Renaissance Films Distribution.  It was here that he got to work on his first feature film "Le gros Bill" (1949) co-directing with René Delacroix.  Bigras moved on to direct three feature films himself, including "La petite Aurore l’enfant martyre" (1951), a big hit with audiences and a staple of Quebec Cinema.  In 1953 he began working for Radio-Canada where he became one of its principal directors until his death in 1966. <SEP> The French Connection is a 1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Philip D'Antoni.  It stars Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, and Roy Scheider.  The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the 1969 non-fiction book by Robin Moore.  Don Ellis scored the film.  It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso.