lots of shakiness between Dryden and Roy. And this is the result (nordique deserved it, taking nothing away)

Penney had back spasms during that playoffs! He was awful ever since. His 1985-86 was as bad statistically a season as can be imagined! It is possible that he was in no physical state to do this but could not properly try to do something about it lest he never return.

@@profusely7767 A lot of shakiness between Roy & Price!!

@ ricardus prob in those days "trainer" was like, "put some ice on it and stop complaining".

I am reading this 4 years after you posted, but I agree Penney was shaky. I remember they were pushing him as the goalie to replace Dryden...that didn't work out so well. He had a decent run though. I 100% agree the NHL must be in Quebec. I loved that city and team and the uniforms and that weird white mascot for the winter carnival and the Stastny's, especially Peter. I hate Dale Hunter of course. But NHL hockey is meant to be played there.

I miss the purity of the game, Mike !! I grew up in Boston and was 10 yrs old in the '69-'70 Cup Season. Bobby Orr was the King of Boston and Hockey was BLOWING UP in New England !! Back then I didn't give a 💩 about who was making what 🤑, there wasn't a salary cap in any sport, I didn't even look at it as a "Business" ‼️ I guess it was looking at it through those young and innocent "lenses" that gave it that "Specialness" that I can never grasp with today's game... I often get a bit aggravated with the over saturation of things like, although technology is great, all of the stats & new formulas with new terminologies used today to "evaluate" a player's "potential" 😂, I preferred the simplicity of, can he skate, shoot, stick handle.. etc... 🤯 Anyway, I guess I'm showing my age 😂. I just miss when it used to be FUN ‼️ Unfortunately, the reality all along was and is, that it's ALSO a Business and there's a number of people who have a whole lot of $$$$ invested in it ‼️

And now they have piped in crowd noise and digital ads for the fans at home to enjoy......SOOO much better than it was, huh?

Benches on different sides, tiny doors, tiny locker room lol! Petr KILLED us so often. It was war when these teams met.

You saw 4 straight Cups from 76-79!! At some point the good times were going to end & by the way you got to witness another Cup the following season.

@@wilnerolivier7971 He was 15 years old, which means he would've been 6-9 years old between 1976-1979 so he might not even have watched those cup wins.

Was at the extreme opposite...😄 was 10 years-old , i almost passed through the roof by jumping of joy ! Finally those motherf***s paid the price for there stupid war against the NHL/AMH merging since 71' ...... I still can't forgive them for this.... Was the only (with my dad supporting me or my team as a non-hockey follower) Nordiques die-hard fan of my large family....😁💪

​@@robins5798 At least he was alive then. I was born six and a half months before Carolina lost in 2002.

Remember the Detroit game?.. Roy let in 11 goals and that spells the end of his time in Montreal and on to the Avs and a Stanley cup.

@@martinpatrick1746 Roy was pulled after giving up 9 goals, the Wings scored a couple on the back up who i think was Jablonski.

No, Penney played 1985-86 in Montreal and put up historically bad stats (.837 save percentage if I remember correctly). He got the home opener and split with Roy to begin the season. He was so bad that they stopped using him and thankfully they had Soetaert who put up excellent numbers splitting with Roy. Then Soetaert was ruined by having someone fall on him in a Monday night game against the Kings in mid-February. That was pretty much the end of Soetaert. Penney was traded for Brian Hayward in the off-season 1986 who also had a historically awful 1985-86. It so happened that Hayward played well for Montreal after that.

Roy played a Detroit game on 30 November 1985... Canadiens 10, Wings 1... 5 goals surrendered by Stefan, five by Eddio Mio in the last two periods.

@ ricardus lordhighexecutioner apparently this was the "steroid era" of hockey, doesn't necessarily mean that the players were better but the needle was for sure slanted towards offense. If you were a liability in goal you didn't have anywhere to hide really.

moi cest le pire.

@@brianhutton2581 : Pour un fan du Canadiens... je peux comprendre.

Moi aussi!! J'avais 11 ans, je m'en rappelle comme si c'était hier

billy smith beat his ass after a game in 84 play offs

@ b40 b40 from what ive read if jesus christ had a therapist that's what billy smith needed

je me rapelle de ca parce que mon professeur nous avais donnés conjé le lendemain en cause de la victoire. il fesait rejouer le call de Crête en plaine classe toute le journée lol

What makes the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals better is that it was the origins to Roy's feud with the Calgary Flames netminder Mike Vernon.

Yes ,second round

He was injured also (from memory, a bad back).

Yeah but Lemaire did as much to sabotage the Canadien's as anyone in this series. Ludwig was injured in game 2 or 3 and for the remainder of the series they only dressed 5 defensemen! How the hell did he expect to win a series where both teams were scoring 5-6 goals a game, by not having 3 solid pairs??? It's not like they didn't have the manpower, Natress and Karlson were both available and yet he just threw the remaining guys (Robinson, Chelios, Kurvers, Green...) out there to die.

Soetaert's 1984-85 numbers were terrible. He was far better the next year. Penney had back spasms during that playoff round... I guess THAT would have been a good reason to take a risk with Soetaert... or even with Patrick Roy! He was available.

@@canuck_gamer3359 Didn't Chelios have an issue with a sprained knee or something...

Tellement ! 😝😂😂😂👌👌 J'avais 10 ans, mon meilleur moment hockey à vie ! (Suivi de près par le but en 2e ou 3e? prolongation de Uwe Krupp en final en 96') j'ai quasiment fessé au plafond tellement j'ai sauté de joie ! 😄👌, David éliminait le prétentieux narcissique ennemi ! 💪👌

Ce sont les annonceurs à domicile des Canadiens

Thats true. Lol They had Naslund on a line with Tremblay and Mondou !

C'est ni plus ni moins un crime d'avoir poussé Lafleur à la retraite.

Brutal eh?

Guy Carbonneau was once asked to name the toughest player he played against. Guess who it was?

this guy was named Renée Lecavalier was a classy sort of PBP and never showed emotion ever. He was a legend but I never was a fan of him. He was more focused on speaking well with great vergiage rather than emotion.

he's been in the glasses buiseness since retirement , not joking lol

leafyutube , *after

funny bebcause he was named one of the smartest player to ever play by his peers....

Jean Perron

Mais non, Jean Perron était entraîneur-adjoint du Canadien à ce moment-là, l'année avant qu'il devienne entraîneur-chef. Je ne pense pas qu'il soit allé célébrer dans la chambre des Nordiques! Hahaha! Mais belle observation; c'est vrai qu'il y a une ressemblance entre Jean Perron et Jean Lapointe. 😉