Je me souviens de lui à ses débuts et son français laissait à désirer. Il a ensuite fait des progrès immenses, sûrement sous l'influence du grand maître descripteur René Lecavalier.

Hey bien oui Claude, l'expérience d'un Keith Acton, effectue du bon travail le long des clôtures

Très satisfaisant

C'est toute ma jeunesse !

Goalie Coach General Manager hurt them

Grundman was his name. He should've drafted Savard... He went for Doug W.. Biggest mistake ever..

@@jimmycmeekis6557 I can't argue with you there, that was a terrible mistake. But even had they done that correctly, I still don't think they could have won without a world class goalie, perhaps even a guy like Gilles Meloche would have been good enough.

That's true. After Dryden, the only world class goalkeeper was Roy. You can't go anywhere without a very good goalie, and that's where you should start building a team from.

@@bx70 Don't forget too that Montreal actually drafted Tretiak in 1984 but unfortunately for everyone, that was a few years before Russian players began to come over. Montreal also made several trade attempts, Gilles Meloche was one of their targets but by the time he was available, Roy was in the organization and they decided to wait. It's too bad they couldn't have found someone, it would have been VERY interesting.

He was such a good skater that he didn't really "lose a step" like a lot of guys do. He was only what? 30 in this vid? Keith Acton was no Jacques Lemaire but he was a pretty good player.

And he smoke like a chimney if he didn’t smoke how much greater he would have been

Loved Acton but he had to go . We needed Bobby Smith instead

Jacques Lemaire was the head coach during his final year in Montreal and he was putting him in a defensive role with 5-6 mins of ice time per game. 2. They've refused to trade him, beside that. That's why he had to retired 1st at the of 32.

Scotty in every team he won Staley Cups, he had world class players. Montreal in the 70's and Detroit (almost half of the Soviet team). Those players were able to win the Stanley cup (in those days) without coaching.

@@bx70 That comment is a bit disingenuous. He certainly didn’t start with a world-class squad in Detroit, and he sent some alleged world-class players packing in order to build the cup-winning teams he coached there. He had the stones to put five Russian players on the ice with a bench full of Canadian and American talent and everyone dealt with it. His motivational abilities were remarkable...ask anyone who starred on those teams. In the beginning of his career, he won with the recent expansion team from St. freaking Louis. Not that the ability to recognize a winning squad in need of a leader isn’t a coach’s talent, but he had far more to do with their success.

@@timomomomo969 Thank you for your comment. I don't deny the facts you answered with, I just have the impression that these world class players made the difference.

If they had solid goaltending, who knows how things would've been. They still had a good team out front. Especially in 80-82

There's no doubt the position is played a lot differently now, no butterfly style goalies back then

Each goalie has it's distinctive style, or most. Early goaltending was based on some positioning and reflexes.

Tony 0 was the only Butterfly style back then .

Goaltending wasn’t as optimized. Today’s goaltenders are much better because with time technique has been improved alot. We could say the same about the players.