It's almost as if it's been rigged ever since then against Canadian teams!!

Dream on

At the time of this game, the longest stretch between Canadian Stanley Cup champions was six years (1936-1941). The current drought is five times as long. I'm nearly as old as the drought, and would love to finally see a Canadian team win it. It would be awesome if my Oilers could do it, but I'd honestly be happy if any Canadian club could bring Stanley north of the border again.

@@PatrikLoweyour Oilers been looking real good since you commented! I wanna see them set a new record! 16 in a row and counting!

@@sunrider7693 What they're doing is very impressive, especially compared to how the season started! They're on the threshold of making history!

Yeah ok Mr. Knowitall

Lifelong, diehard Habs fan here also but I have to disagree with you. Montreal's system under Demers was NOT the trap, as it was when it dominated the league a short time later. His system revolved around a very defensively responsible 5 man unit, but unlike the trap that came later, it did hinge on strong forechecking and a very balanced offense. That team was highly underrated because they won all the OT games, but make no mistake they would have defeated Toronto too. Patrick Roy was not going to be outplayed by Potvin, no way in hell. And Montreal's depth would have been the deciding factor as guys like Lebeau, DiPietro, Dionne and Leeman meant a lot more to that team than people tend to remember. They were the best 5 on 5 team in the league that year, so they weren't as big an underdog as people think. Pittsburgh would have been a challenge for sure but I believe they could have beaten anyone, especially when Roy was at the top of his game.

Back in the Highlife!

Nah, it happens all the time in sports. If you're down 3 goals with Patrick Roy in net, they knew they were already done anyway.

Be quiet already

Teams are used to that kind of thing --- it's the home fans that get a kick out of it. It has happened many times over the years, the teams and fans may change, but the tune remains the same. And just about every NHL team has been on the receiving end of that one. Montreal fans enjoyed 1993, their first Cup since 1979 and the fans sang their hearts out. The Canadiens however missed out on a trip to the finals in 1984 when the New York Islanders defeated them in 6 games in the Conference finals. This very same tune was echoing in the rafters on that night as well. You can't win them all.

@@Hernal03And now 30 years later, are still waiting for another cup :(

He's not going to get as much return on his investment and fees. He was McNall's attorney.

he was even more mad about the 1989 final, Habs vs Flames!

@@benoitlevesque9609 that's right an all Canadian final, just like 86

It's Vincent not Vinny learn your French

Monday Morning Quarterback

I heard that he was illiterate during this cup run but I don’t know if that’s true or not

@@jqme it's true

Put your head in the sand as you usually do

@@jqme True! Was illiterate all his life. Couldn't read his own travel arrangements made by the teams

Sorry to hear

Crazy; the largest gap between Hab Cups was 7 years (79-86, 86-93 ); now, at least 29.

In your original comment you wrote I love Glenn Waynski. Learn the game.

It's very very likely it was the last Stanley Cup Montreal will ever win again. With the Quebec taxes/language issues etc nobody wants to play there

and probably ever will see them win again. Nobody wants to play in Montreal because of the taxes/language issues. The state of hockey at the grassroots level in Quebec is so bad that the Provincial Government is setting aside money to increase youth interest in hockey as it is now at an all-time low. There was a tradition of the Canadiens having a French Canadian to lead the next generation (Rocket Richard to Jean Beliveau to Guy LaFleur). That hasn't happened again and there is no such player coming up.

ok?

30yrs today June 9th 2023 , no cup for Canada

Yup

I'm amazed with how much smaller Roy's gear is than goalies today. Especially his leg pads, yet he still had a great save percentage.

Damm right he still has it. They both started out in the WHA. It's classy but also ironic. Because Jacques won the series because of a hockey stick. Thats called Symbolism.

@@bbeaup uhhhh. Seriously

I wonder if he has McSorley's stick

@@grahamcameron4225 How did you read my mind?

Yes, he is a real sportsman.

They basically are 😂

It was a great time to be a kid I don't know how many of these guys I pretended to be lol

No that is the 2002 red wings.

@@michaelsroka, or the 1967 MAPLE LEAFS AND CANADIENS OR '76 CANADIENS.

@@whackadooncopwatcher8115 preach. I remember having a thin metal net, brown street hockey pads and a jason helmet. At that time that was luxury. I miss being a 90s kid man. Was amazing.

Patrick Roy was the only star player on that team. Had the Goalies been exchanged L.A wins in 4 Straight

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I'm glad the entire Canadiens team won that Cup! What a great run it was with all those OT wins.

2004 game 6: The game entered overtime with the Flames needing only a single goal to win the Stanley Cup. Had Calgary scored the city would have been thrilled.

We know it won't be Toronto this year ... again

This is Montreal’s year.

@@dasboot211221 ouais!!!

NHL won't allow it

wrong. THE greatest ever!

Habs should have kept Roy and fired Tremblay.

@@AltCTRLF8 Nah, Rask.

What is it about the number 33? So many great athletes wore it (P. Roy, American football star Tony Dorset, basketball stars Larry Bird and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, etc).

@@dogdish11 NO DOUBT!! Tremblay was a first class prick. Should've brought Pat Burns back.

As if you’d know

Just keep quiet

In your original comment you wrote I love Glenn Waynski. Learn the game.

Fuck the Hobs!

It should have been Montreal vs Toronto in the finals, as the Leafs were robbed in game 7. Anyway, McSorley returned the favor in game 2 and it was All Montreal after that. Just like the Celtics and the Yankees, the Habs will have their day!

why ??? .. lol ... In Montreal we don't collect used wood .. We collect CUPS. Tell Gretsky and his bouncers !

Out groomed, out played and out skated. Best move ever, going to the press box.

Learn to spell

The best 😊

Why would he? He was thrilled to the gills with the final result.

Bettman passionately hates Canada

@@jqme He won't have to worry about that kind of a run next season.

Maybe because he let the North Stars move to Dallas that spring and summer? I doubt it

Not really, its been said that this was the worst team to ever win a cup. In fact, Dick Irvin said that this record of the 10 overtime wins will never be broken because a Stanley Cup caliber team shouldn't have to go to overtime ten times . They peaked at the right time, thats all. I love the Habs but lets face facts here. Pierre Turgeon getting knocked out by Dale Hunter didnt hurt and neither did the elimination of the two time champion Penguins hurt either

@@daveyboy_ and yet. they set the standard that all teams today try to follow ... a bunch of young fast talent, a few vets for experience and a hot goalie.

@@stevers17 No accounting for luck ! You've always needed a hot goaltender . Didnt they get knocked out in the 1st round the next yr ? Just like most teams nowadays. Worst team to ever win a cup. Thats why their OT record will stand forever, no team is that bad that they need to go to OT that many times

@@daveyboy_ Tampa Bay won the cup in 2020 by going to overtime 9 times, winning 7 and losing 2. Carolina did the same thing in 2002. This year Montreal has already gone to overtime 6 times, with the finals still to come. So, there are lots of cup winners that rely on winning in overtime. It just means that they are in close games, not that they are necessarily bad.

@@my3dviews going to OT and winning games in OT are two different things. Apples and Oranges my friend .

Still the best of all time.

@@ShmuelWeintraub I think Gallivan was best of all times.

@@bradleyholt9805, DAN KELLY and its not even close.

I've been watching hockey for 60 years and Bob Cole was the absolute WORST play by play announcer in history.

He was the worst in all sports ever. We would have get togethers to watch the games and mute him and take turns doing the play by play. Sometimes 10 or 15 or 20 of us, young nephews and nieces and it was far more entertaining and probably accurate than he ever was

How so? The NHL has never made so much money and at the end of the day - thats what its all about. Not who wins who loses, who gets traded who relocates. Its all about the owners making money. The owners and Gary dont give a fuck about u, me or Sidney Crosby. As long as they are making money. And they do that with revenue. Thanks Gary !

@Wallace Durango I'm Brazilian,i watch hockey,watch the NHL since my 6 yrs old,i a Leafs fan,but since that thanks to 2004/5 lookout hate so much Gary Bettman

#FireBettman #getridofbettman . Anti Canadian . He’s kept the cup in the USA for 26 years now

Yes he let Karmanos move the Whalers.

@Matt Pizzano I agree. Sure guys are super talented and equipment, diet and training is better but nothing will beat those times. Hate sounding old but for me this was hockey at its best. Real rivalries, emotional games. Goalies weren't 6'8" with no room to score. It was a blast. I was only 7 when this was played. I sort of remember this final. As a sabres fan I remember mogilny and selanne killing it with their 76 goals. And all star games were amazing during these times. Definitely more gimmicky now. With the as game and other things. Glad I was able to see a still amazing gretzky and Mario. They were just insane. So many more legends during this era. Would take me all day to name them.

I'm watching in 2022 after two cups in a row. 😂

Who asked you

What's happened to Quebecois players? They are no longer heavily repped in MONTREAL, nor the NHL. THE QMJHL/LHJMQ is now the weaklink in CHL JR. HOCKEY. What's happened?

You live in mom’s basement

This Michigander couldn’t believe the West Coast flim flam the Leafs were handed. Oh, what a ‘93 finals it should have been. Anyway, I have to admit, the better team won in the end.

Yes, Carbonneau was assigned to neutralize the play of Gretzky.

@@richardkammerer2814 yeah yeah, Gretzky got away with a high stick. I have heard it a thousand times from Leaf fans. Funny that they never bring up what should have been an automatic suspension for Gilmour for head butting McSorely earlier in the series. I guess we only choose to remember what we want to.

@@craigkerr2764 And wasn't it Carbonneau in the finals that took a coffee break in the crease and got away with no penalty call? Stuff happens. It was all good hockey, but I was 16 the last time the Leafs won the cup. Cheers!

@@richardkammerer2814 agreed, stuff happens. Refs miss calls. You can take any series and find ones on either side that should have been called. 25 years later Leaf fans are still whining about that series. They need to move on.

Any way I can get the mp4 from you? :)

thanks Virgil

Up for 8 months now

@@tombstone1111 although I'm a Kings fan and have been since 1975 (born in California in 1966 and raised in the San Fernando Valley near LA but have lived in Washington state since 1987) I agree that both, the Habs definitely outplayed us in this series, and, as a musician over 25 years, with both pro audio and video recording and editing tools in hand that one day may become illegal, thanks mostly in part to Hollywood and the MPAA and the RIAA, that the copyright laws can kiss my ass. It used to be back in the day that anyone can simply tape a show on their VCR and it was considered OK to play it back for old time's sake for as long as you kept it. Now, with the anti-copy-protection encryption on every DVR from every goddamn TV provider (cable, satellite, or telco, yes, even the streaming providers are doing it) you are slowly being no longer allowed to archive anything on it onto a physical source, such as a blank recordable DVD-R, or in the old days, a VHS tape, they have even made it impossible now to even obtain the older equipment (like the "black box") we used to get in order to defeat the copyguard (MacroVision) that every VHS movie or music video used to have encrypted in the video signal by passing laws making them impossible to get even on eBay, and now I hear they're trying to make it impossible to obtain one of those multi-region DVD or BluRay players in order to "regionalize" (in which is another way to censor) what we can see in our countries.

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Quebec was missing one key player, Patrick Roy. Once they got him 2 cups followed!

Did Leclair star for Philly after his time as a Hab?

ever?

Go get that Foot in Mouth disease checked out.

They couldn’t skate quite as well, but acquitted themselves worthy competitors. This series should have gone the limit, but Marty’s lack of brains messed it up.

I was 3 when this happened

He recanted and apologised 2 days later. Rejean Houle still traded him.

I can understand your feelings ( it's still jarring to see photos of Bobby Orr in a Chicago uniform ), but Roy would have eventually left as a free agent.

@@lincolnmaceachern2410 I don't know where you're from, but in case you weren't aware, Patrick Roy was the star of a generation, playing in hockey's hometown and most obsessive fans. No, he wouldn't have left as a free agent. Any Canadiens management allowing this would be committing suicide, and should Roy ever do this be would become akin to a literal traitor. Hockey is very, very different in Quebec, it is not business as usual.

The Canadians don't even have a 30 goal scorer. Impossible to win the Cup

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 I think you spoke too soon. Just four games away from that happening. We will see if it is "impossible" as you say.

@@my3dviews don't care if they win the Cup. They are an average team with a Great Goalie just like the Habs that won in 86 and 93. Weakest Stanley Cup winners of all time.

@@jeffreykaufmann2867 Not true. The 1993 Montreal Canadiens had a better record than many Stanley Cup winning teams. That year they won 48 games, lost 30 and tied 6. For a total of 102 points in 84 games. The 1990 Oilers only had 90 points in 80 games. Four more games would at most give them 98 pts. The 97 Red Wings also had a worse record, (92 pts) 38 wins, 26 loses and 18 ties in 82 games. That's just to name a couple. There were several more teams that had a worse regular season than Montreal did in 93, that went on to win the cup. Even that last time the Leafs won in 67, they were barely above 500. The 86 Canadiens were worse than the 93 version, but still not the worst in NHL history.

@@my3dviews The 1990 Oilers and 97 Red Wings were more talented and more entertaining to watch then the 86 and 93 Habs who won mainly because of their Goalie.

At least LA won in 2012 and 2014

Not the same winning it without Gretzky. It would have been a fairytale, just like Messi winning the World Cup.

why ??? .. lol ... In Montreal we don't collect used wood .. We collect CUPS. Tell Gretsky and his bouncers !

The best crowd

Hrudey was a unique goal tender. I loved him

Here's to hoping they have 3 PP GWGs

In your original comment you wrote I love Glenn Waynski. Learn the game.

The '90's NHL was far superior to the 2020's NHL.

nope break that curse

so far so good ... go Jets go

damn it i think i really cursed them

There gone caps won

not this year my friend! CH for the win!!

You probably meant Canadien not Canada

@@garbageday587 30 yrs today no canadian cup June 9th 2023

No it's not fuck the hobs!

@@eddierodrgz77 Who are the hobs?

forget Montreal , the other CA teams as well , 30 yrs no Cup June 9th 2023