Wrong,
Lafleur,Robinson,Shutt,Dryden,Gainey,Napier,Houle,Tremblay,Risebrough,Lambert,Pete and Frank Mahovelich,Langway,Engblom,Jarvis,Larouche and a few others were aquired via normal draft or trade.
Oh and btw,HOW MANY CUPS have the Maple losers have won since ''access to talent became fair''?
Correct!
The question re the Habs and their so called French Canadian 'advantage' is so routinely botched up it should be addressed on Hockey Night In Canada.
I believe this fallacy was born primarily by frustrated anti-Montreal fans who for decades suffered through parade after Stanley Cup parade.
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