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A Quarter Century Overview of the Montreal Canadiens



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27 Comments

  1. One i would have put is Philip Danault.

    On day one, he step up with his game with a group who was lost (2015-16) without their star-players.

    It did not take a lot of time for fans to buy a jersey of his name on it an getting the love Montréal fans gave to him.

    If Philip was still in the habs with today's group. They would probably be in the top 10 in teams for spot to the playoffs.

    He knew what plays to do an were to place himself on the ice during a play an a master of the face-offs.

  2. How many Habs fans does it take to change a lightbulb?

    1 to change the bulb and 1 million to remind everyone about how great the bulb was 50 years ago.

  3. I have a video request, and forgive me if it's already been done: Stanley Cup Final series we've been robbed of. For example, in 2021: Vegas vs. Tampa would have been very competitive. I would have hated that matchup, but it would have gone 6 or 7 games, I'm sure.

  4. THis video coincides with me coming back to Habs fandom after several years of bitterness over the Patrick Roy fiasco (I was a teenager at the time)

  5. Contrary to what some people might think, Montreal had quite a few decent players through the years, we just don’t keep them or lowball them like Berge did to Markov, or like with Kovalev, or Radulov, or Danault ….

    Monahan (52 pts in 74 gp as a Habs)
    Toffoli (70 pts in 89 gp) +strong playoff run
    Tatar (149 pts in 198 gp)
    Domi (116 pts in 153 gp)
    Radulov (54 pts in 76 gp) +strong playoff
    Thomas Vanek (15 pts in 18 gp) + decent playoff
    Erik Cole (67 pts in 101 gp)
    James Wizniewski (30 pts in 43 gp)
    Alex Tanguay (41 pts in 50 gp)
    Robert Lang (39 pts in 50 gp)

    Also plenty that we had and/or developed and flourished elsewhere like Lehkonen, Danault, Ribeiro, Sergachev, McDonagh, Halak, Romanov, (etc.).

  6. If the Habs miss the playoffs this year, it will be the longest playoff drought in franchise history: 4 seasons. Crazy when you think about it.

  7. It's true that they have won bizarrely too often than what they have been projected to win in past playoffs… They're a fun dark horse when it comes to the playoffs with the teams they've had.

  8. It;s a Quarter Century of Failure, by any metric. Die hard Habs fan here
    Shannon shoulda done the totals for players for say 1965 – 1980, and look at THOSE 25 years, and then everyone would understand

  9. A frustrated Canadiens fan alerted me to their remarkably poor history of first-round picks in the 20+ years since drafting Saku Koivu in 1993. I've never seen such a long stretch of misses. It seems that goaltending is why their current rebuild didn't happen years earlier.

  10. If you're old enough to have grown up in the 70s when the Habs NOT winning a up was considered a strange year, to look at a 25 year span when their 5 top scorers were: 1 Czech, 1 Russian, 1 American, 1 Finn… and one Canadian named Gallagher, any of whom it would be a stretch to call a "star", it boggles the mind. I was never a Habs fan, but we hockey fans always held them in awe, like "Let's see what Montreal does before we can start thinking about our own team." Now they're just another middle-of-the-road team and have been for a long time. I think that's been a loss for the NHL.

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