Patrick Roy #33 Retired
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Tonight, Patrick Roy will have his #33 raised to the rafters forever.
Whatever your opinion of Patrick Roy is, and there are many, the fact remains he is one of the best goaltenders to have ever played the game.
He is the last goaltender to
leadcarry the Canadiens to a Stanley Cup.And since the night he left Montreal, the Canadiens began a descent into total and complete mediocrity as a hockey team. One of the darkest periods of Habs history followed and haunted the team up until (arguably) very recently.
Would it have been the same if Patrick Roy was a Hab until retirement?
We’ll never know. All we know is it’s been a long 15 years since a Canadiens goalie hoisted the Cup.
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- PACTUM SERVA : our boy PK is looking good though
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- PACTUM SERVA : Is it just me or has hickey been a total bumb this whole tournament at the WJC
- Senet1 : I am not so sure that any of our players should be at the allstar game, but if I were to have any it would be Price and Komy. The ALL Star selection last year did not help Markov one bit and he played some of his worst hockey after the break, especially in the playoffs. To me Price has played well and is one reason we are fourth ing the standings. Komy has improved out defence since returning and id obviously valuable to our team. The rest of the guys need to get the extra rest and get health
- habs#1fan : Everyone (non Habs fans) needs to quit bitching and whining and deal with it, or do away with the voting process altogether. Let the League itself decide. Oh yeah then we would have an all star team full of Laffs. GO HABS GO!!!!!!!
- habs#1fan : But the bottom line is it was a voting process and the Habs have a ton of fans obviously.
- habs#1fan : So friggin sick of the bitchin and whinin everyone is doing about the all star selections. Price and Markov are there and justifiably so. Komi is one of the leagues best hitter and shot blocker as we all know. Kovy is the only questionable one, Ovechkin should have probably got it.
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- PACTUM SERVA : Vote price and komisarek as they are the ones that need our votes
- PACTUM SERVA : Pittsburgh fans are making a push for that dipsh@t fleury ans gonchar so get your votes in
- PACTUM SERVA : Hey guys just of note but today is the last day you can vote for the allstar game intill 9pm tonight
- PACTUM SERVA : but i am sure the habs brass knows all this right?
- PACTUM SERVA : pickin's for the other team just like what philly did to us last year
- PACTUM SERVA : Even if we did we would be so banged uped and bruise that come the second round it would be easy pickin
- PACTUM SERVA : Ask yourself this....do you honestly think we can beat boston or philly in a seven game series with our current roster?
- PACTUM SERVA : I understand that any team can be beaten on any given night but unless the habs get a little more muscle up front this team is going knowhere fast
- PACTUM SERVA : Tampa came out with a game plan.....Hit and hit hard....hit anything that moves. When teams do that to the habs they run and hide under a rock.
- PACTUM SERVA : Well to me i kind of do get worried when these teams below 500 give us trouble. Are we not suppose to be a cup contender this year?
- Senet1 : Personally, guys would not be so upset about us having trouble beating TB. Every team has their one or two teams that they have problems with, and it does not matter if they are a high or low place team. That team just gives them fits. The more important test was been to date is the Philly game and the Detroit game as well as the Pittsburgh game. We came to play in those games and won them. Tampa will give us trouble until Laclavier and St. Louis no longer play for that team. Really I expe
- pricey's stance was that of Oussain Bolt in the olympics
- to all in here a happy new year !
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- PACTUM SERVA : I loved price's superman pose after he stopped vinny lol
- PACTUM SERVA : well tampa continues to give us a hard time.
- Dancan81 : Man the Habs are boring to watch sometimes.
- PACTUM SERVA : I dont want to get picky but the habs still need to work on alot of areas in their game, but 2 points is 2 points
- VanHab : well thankfully we weathered that storm
- VanHab : just like Carolina...it's a parade to the penalty box
- Hey PS... yep we need to put the cats and the lights out of their misery with two big convincing wins ... like the CDN juniors
- PACTUM SERVA : Time to break the silence. We need to beat the panthers tonight. Hope they come out with a point to prove
- Senet1 : Merry Christmas Habs fans, it has been great chatting with all of you over the year, here is hoping we turn the corner and improve our play in the second half, or maybe we should just peak at playoff time. Anyway, looks like we are going to have to beat the bruins again this year to move on.
- Dancan81 : Merry Christmas Habbers! Cheers to an awesome New Year, go Habs!
- PACTUM SERVA : Hey guys just wanna wish everyone here on HABSBLOG.COM Happy Holidays and a safe new year. Once again i would like to thank HB himself for all the hard work he puts in the site for all of us hab fans to enjoy. Cheers to the habs ripping it up in the new year.
- habs#1fan : A early xmas gift 8-2 Laffs embarrased. I said it before, me personally the next best thing to a Hab victory is a Laff loss. Thanks Santa. All things considered we are in OK shape. Not making excuses and all those other typical cliches but injuries have been a big factor. Along with average play by a great deal of the team. GO HABS GO
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November 22, 2008 pm30 8:27 pm
Maybe this will finally take the stanley cup drought off of us now. This needed to be done. Growing up patrick was one of my favorite players and you always knew the team had a chance to win when he was in nets. The team was never the same since he left and now maybe our fortunes will change now that number 33 in hanging in the bell. Lets hope the bad karma has been lifted and we once again will compete for number 25
November 22, 2008 pm30 9:29 pm
I was 12 in 93 and have never forgotten through all of the drama of 95 just how much Patrick meant to all Canadiens fans during his decade in Montreal. A great celebration for those of us who idolized the man when he wore the bleu, blanc et rouge. Good first period too!
November 23, 2008 pm30 1:15 pm
Tuned in last night to check the Habs’ pulse. A nice celebration for Roy no doubt, but unfortunately, this team is still broken.
I sure hope that they’re fixed by the time the real season begins in January/February.
Incidentally, I’ve never said a single negative word about Carbonneau to this point but I’m not so sure that he knows what the hell he’s doing let alone how to fix this team. An uninspired, disinterested and dismal Alexei Kovalev gets rewarded with not only ice time in overtime but with a shot in the shootout as well? What exactly were the expectations there?
Oh, and Laraque? You can’t just have a conversation with your target and give him a slap on the wrist, you have to put him through the ice as well. :-/
November 24, 2008 pm30 3:23 pm
I thought the team played “better” against the Bruins, but they have zero offensive confidence right now. I liked 33 shots, although I can’t understand why Montreal has strayed away from what made them successful last year on the PP. Getting a big blast from Markov is useless unless he hits the net or makes a pass to someone in front of the net. Secondly, where is the backdoor pass that was so effective last season? Montreal’s offensive passing has been reduced to blindly throwing the puck at a teammate regardless of whether or not he is covered. The Habs need to simplify their PP, and throw pucks at the net with guys going in for cheap rebounds.. Its the only way that they’ll be able to snap out of their offensive funk. Way too early to lose sleep over their play though.
November 24, 2008 pm30 4:08 pm
They had 33 shots on goal but they probably could have had 53. Far too many times did I witness a Montreal player in excellent shooting position looking for the pass. It’s well documented now - ‘100% of the time that you don’t shoot the puck it won’t go in’ - Gretzky et al.
Far more concerning though, did the cancer which plagued Ottawa’s locker room last season somehow become airborne and find its way to Montreal? It certainly seems that way right now.
Meanwhile, they’re 11-5-3 and I’m complaining. Things could be a lot worse. After all, if they were to win as few as three games in a row, they’d again be sitting amongst the league’s best, or rather amongst the league’s second best as the Sharks are in a league of their own this season.
January 4, 2009 pm30 11:15 pm
I was 16 when i got to see patrick and the canadiens play the pittsburgh penguins and to this day Patrick will without a doubt be the most interesting and active goaltenders to play the game. Watching the canadiens today they do not seem to have the passion they did from 1986 !