spin said:
OK BDC I understand that you're a Leafs fan BUT c'mon how could you possibly say "Montreal: following in the footsteps of the Leafs"???
Montreal has 24 Stanley Cups - 24 my friend, 2 in the last 20 years
Toronto has 11 Stanley Cups - NONE in the last 40 years...
Montreal "follows" no one when it comes to hockey my friend.
Interesting fact for any non-hardcore hockey fans out there: The Montreal Canadiens have won more professional sports championships (24) than any other team in any sport anywhere in the world with exception to the NY Yankees (the hardest working team in baseball
) who have won the World Series 26 times.
The Habs have reached the finals 3 times since 1986(86-89-93)
To those who've said that they were lucky and didn't deserved winning those championships here are some facts;
The 86 line -up:Roy,Carbonneau,Gainey,Robinson,Lemieux,Chelios,B.Smith,Naslund,Walter,
Green,Richer,Svoboda...
At least 6 of them either already in or future Hall of Famers.(Roy,Carbo,Gainey,Robinson,Chelios,Smith)
Naslund was one of the best left winger of his era,being elected on either first or second all star teams on numerous occasions.
Richer had 2 50 goals seasons.
Claude Lemieux was on of the best play off players of all time along with John Tonelli,Joe Sakic,ect...
Walter,Svoboda,Green,Ludwig,McPhee,....not a bad team at all.
1989 was practically the same line-up,with Corson and Courtnall added.
1993;
Bellows,Damphousse,Muller,Leclair,Carbonneau,Roy,Savard,DesJardins,
Shneider...btw,this ''ordinary'' team finished with 103 points,not bad.
During the Serge Savard years(1983-95) the Habs had one of the best playoffs records second to the Oilers.
They only missed the playoffs once, in 95 and Savard was fired-one of the worst move Corey ever made.
Stanley Cups won since 1984:
Oilers,5
Detroit,3
Devils,3
Pittsburgh,2
Denver,2
Habs,2
Dallas,1
Calgary,1
Tampa,1
Rangers,1
Rest of the leauge,0
So only 3 teams have won more Cups than the Habs since 1984.
Not THAT bad!