Arguably one of the greatest “money goalies” ever, he deserves to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

He is a love-him-or-hate-him kind of guy (loved when he was a Hab, hated him as an Av.), a fierce competitor with a giant chip on his shoulder, but he has done more than enough to earn that right.

I’ll always remember that play-off series that he played against the Bruins with appendicitis…what a competitor.

Congrats, Patrick!

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A fierless competitor! It’s because of him that kids today dream of becoming a goalie in the nhl. We should have never traded him…

Patrick Roy will go down in history as one of the best goalies of all time.He certainly was a great clutch goalie. When he was with the habs and they were having an off night offensively, you could always count on Patrick, to either either bail them out, or to keep them in the game. we wouldn’t have won the cup in either 1986, or 1993, if it weren’t for #33. It was unfortunate how he left Montreal in such a tragic manner. I will never forget his last game for the habs. I can recall watching the game, a game in which the habs were being punished by the wings. Roy had let in 6 goals, and coach Mario Tremblay refused to give Roy the hook. he left roy in to be embarrassed! I think there must have been some feuding between the two, because you just don’t do that to an all star goalie. In a huff, Roy stormed off the ice, gave a dirty look to Tremblay, and went over to Cory and told him:”this is the last game I play for the habs”! sad for him to go like that. It somewhat tainted such a brilliant career he had for the habs. he deserved a better fate, and certainly better treatment.Canadiens organization should have tried harder to work things out, so as to come to a more amicable resolve.He should have ended his career in Montreal, not Colorado!

Can anyone tell St-Patrick that Latendresse touched the puck tonight? (twice)

JT, all players do that when they play their former team. Brisebois and Theodore did it this year and Lupul’s done it when the Oilers have played the Ducks.

1st star:Cristobal Huet
2nd star:Guillaume Latendresse (All hail the great Guillaume)
3rd star:The entire third line.

Perezhogin looks a lot more comfortable on the third line with Bonk and Johnson then he ever did with Kovalev and Samsonov. Keep Kotstitsyn up with them.And Huet ran with his chance after Aebischers play on Saturday. He’ll play aginst Tampa, then Aebischer against Florida cause it’s back to back nights.

Good win and a nice rebound for the Habs going down to florida were they’ve never played well. Although they were outshot again and their penalty problems flared up in the third and almost cost them the game. Will someone tell Ninnamaa to shut his mouth and not yap at the refs.

AND IS GERBER BAD OR WHAT. ANOTHER MUCKLER SRCREW UP. LIKE KEEPING ALFREDSSON OVER HAVLAT AND HOSSA.

Man you gotta love that Bonk and his third line.
I never thought I would say that. He has really be excellent in all situations.
Kotstitsyn played with a lot passion and desire. Well done kid.
Now that’s the Guillaume I remember watching in the Q.
Expect big changes from Philly and Ottawa in the next 24 hours.
I hope we can get in the Gagne / Forsberg / Lecavalier sweepstakes.
Forsberg / Lecavalier + Montreal = Stanley Cup
We really need that #1 centre

I’ll say it again Chris Higgins will centre Samsonov and Kovalev upon his return.

It’s simply not arrogance, If you can back it up!

Well, without getting into a schoolyard *****-slap here, my opinion was based based solely on my “immediate” memory of Roy. The post made no mention of my disgust of Houle and Tremblay’s tenure. By tacking this onto a reply to my opinion, automatically assumes that one equates “arrogant Roy” = “approval of Houle & Tremblay”. This is a pure example of many of the posts i see here based purely on impulse and childish impetiousness.

“It’s simply not arrogance, If you can back it up!”
I’ve heard that before… and the statement still makes no sense to any logical person. Sure, he was a winner and of that there’s no dispute. But alas, he’s still arrogant, no? Look, Lafleur was just as revered, but when he and Bowman where at odds, i don’t remember Guy getting in the bosses face to demand a trade on national television. In the end, Roy did regret doing this as he has recently stated that, at the time, he was hoping the incident would cool down after a day or so and he and management would iron things out. So, like any company would’ve done, they fired his *** like any other employee who thinks he’s bigger than the company he works for.

As for Roy winning in Colorado. It was just a matter of another year or two that they’d win a cup… even without him. The ave’s line-up was a dream team at the time anyway. This notion that he was the saviour is bunk. He just brought it on a little earlier because, YES, he WAS a winner. He just wasn’t humble.