As the clock reached zero, Blackhawks teammates rushed over to Fleury in celebration as the Bell Centre public announcer mentioned the milestone. The depleted Canadiens have only recorded one point, an overtime loss to the Nashville Predators, in their last five games. Drouin thinks that the team still showed positive effort which they can build upon.
The effort and attitude are there. Patrick Kane and Seth Jones picked up assists. Toews finally broke the ice for the Hawks at of the second period on the power play. Sell one like this. Related sponsored items. Showing Slide 1 of 2. Seller Similar sponsored items. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
Item specifics. Certification Number:. Patrick Roy. Sports Trading Card. Base Set. Ice Hockey. Professional Grader:. With NHL season on pause we are going to take an occasional look back at some of the alternate timelines that could have existed throughout the history of the league. Here, we contemplate what would have happened had Patrick Roy not been embarrassed in a game against the Detroit Red Wings and demanded a trade out of Montreal.
At the start of the season Patrick Roy was already one of the most accomplished goalies in the history of the Montreal Canadiens , and on a path that was going to lead him to the Hockey Hall of Fame. But on Dec. It was on that night that Roy was humiliated in his own building, embarrassed on national TV, and ultimately played his final game as a member of the team before being traded to the Colorado Avalanche along with team captain Mike Keane for Jocelyn Thibault, Andrei Kovalenko, and Martin Rucinsky.
Just four games into the season the Canadiens fired coach Jacques Demers, replacing him with Mario Tremblay, a former Canadiens player with no prior coaching experience. Things quickly devolved into chaos between Roy and Tremblay, and the stories of tension between the two are legendary at this point. Things ultimately reached their boiling point against the Red Wings on that now infamous night at The Forum.
The Red Wings opened the first period by scoring five goals on 17 shots against Roy, each one a more beautiful masterpiece than the one that preceded it. Instead of making a goaltending switch, Tremblay instead made the fateful decision to leave Roy in the game. The Red Wings goals never stopped coming. At one point in the second period Roy made a routine save and received a mock cheer from Montreal crowd, resulting in Roy raising his arms in celebration.
Finally, after allowing nine goals, Tremblay made the decision to remove Roy from the game in favor of backup Pat Jablonski. Upon returning to the bench, Roy stormed by his coach before leaning over to team president Ronald Corey and informing him that he had just played his final game with the team.
There comes a point in every blowout game where the losing coach makes a goaltending switch even if they know it will not make a difference in the game.
Sometimes your goalie has a bad night. Sometimes the team in front of them plays like garbage and you just want to spare them the embarrassment. But it usually happens.
It usually happens before nine goals enter the back of the net in less than two periods. The Canadiens would have still had a franchise goalie, and that could have been a game-change in the short-term. Thibault had a solid start to his Montreal career before self-destructing in the first-round of the playoffs that year against the New York Rangers.
He never really solidified the position after that, was eventually traded two years later, and the Canadiens went through a revolving door of goalies over the next decade.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, Roy was the final piece of the puzzle for the Avalanche and helped bring two Stanley Cups to Denver, including his very first year with the team. He finished that postseason with a. Had Roy not demanded a trade out of Montreal, how does the Colorado mini-dynasty shake out? They clearly had a team that was ready to win.
But was Stephane Fiset or Thibault the goalie to get them there? It is difficult to imagine either one performing at the level that Roy did, especially in the Western Conference Final that season against the very Red Wings team that helped push Roy out of Montreal.
That Red Wings team set an NHL record with 62 regular season wins and was by far the highest scoring team in hockey. Roy held them to two goals or less in four of the six games, including a Game 2 shutout.
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