Faits saillants du troisième match de la série de premier tour de 1981 entre les Canadiens de Montréal et les Oilers d’Edmonton. Les Canadiens sont dans les cordes : ils ont perdu les matchs un et deux et n’ont jamais mené tout au long de la série. Peuvent-ils garder les Oilers sous contrôle ou seront-ils balayés trois fois de suite par une équipe retirée de la WHA depuis deux ans?
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ah,.. is this was the game were wayne and the oilers were chanting "lets go oilers" from the bench 🙂
As far as I know they did do that during the quarterfinal round series vs. the Islanders. Bob Bourne of the Islanders found that remarkably immature, which it was, but the oilers in thieir early years were a loose, and somewhat arrogant group. Very much a reflection of their coach.
Great sports before players made more money than God.
wow i didnt know edmonton and montreal faced off in the playoffs..
Game three was @ Edmonton. Games 1 and 2 were in Montreal. 🙂
I wish someone would upload the full game(s) of Montreal and Edmonton from 1981. The only time these 2 have met in the playoffs.
– Nasty elbow by Fogolin
– About 7 min. in, Lafleur's skating looks off, not as fluid as he usually is
– Habs still had some good players, 2 of the Big 3 D are gone, but they still had Robinson and Langway
– The Habs had been there, done that and the Oilers were good, young and wanted it more
– Moog was a big difference maker
watch at about 8.20 that is why is is the great one, how he could get that quick pass off to Coffee in one spilt second while seemingly having peripheral vision that people were right on him is nothing short of incredible
I would very much liked to have seen game 1 in Montreal. I can picture it but that's not the same.
Even though the Habs were not the Habs of the the late 70's they were still a very good team…(only the Isles had more points during the reg season), this was a major upset. Houle never became the offensive threat the Habs had hoped for…their once mobile stellar D was now a step slower and made mistakes they would have never made before. Moog stood on his head in this series he was the difference IMO. I never liked the Oilers and much of what i didnt like about them came from Sather. I was at the 1982 "Miracle on Manchester" I wasnt a Kings fan at all but I was so pleased to see that smirk wiped off of Sathers face when Daryl Evans put the OT winner behind Fuhr after being down 5-0.
the Oilers in the playoffs..imagine that?
and isn't this game at Bell Centre? Road = white uniforms; Home = dark uniforms
Dick Irvin has said numerous times that he had never seen the Canadiens players so cocky going into a playoff series as they were when they faced the Oilers. Whenever there is a retrospective about this series, (especially when Ron McLean is hosting,) they make it sound like the Oilers were 5000-1 favorites going into this series. The truth is it was the other way around. Gretzky has even admitted that he didn't think the Oilers were even a playoff team that year let alone good enough to sweep the Canadiens.
While this series is symbolically a changing of the guard, (even though the real change came in 1984 when the Oilers ended the Islander dynasty,) it was considered the biggest upset in NHL history up to that time.
The late great Danny Gallivan. Oh, how I miss the excitement he added to the game just by how he called it.
oh the days when the oilers could actually play an eastern team like Montreal in the first round of the playoffs for some fucked reason lol
I really liked the playoff format back then. Any two teams could play each other at any time in the playoffs. This was the preliminary round. In today's playoffs, the only way Edmonton and Montreal could play each other would be in the Stanley Cup Finals. Back then, anything was possible. Imagine an Edmonton/Calgary Cup Final. How about an LA/Anaheim Final? Or maybe a Rangers/Islanders Cup Final. Would love to see a Leafs/Senators Stanley Cup Final.
love the early fogolin hit. amazing how the Oilers kept the puck out of the net with really sloppy play in their own end.
Great stuff!!!!!!
The Habs were missing a goalie.
This has to be the biggest first round playoff upset in at least the modern era of the NHL. The Oilers were a young but talented team that the Habs didn’t take seriously.
4:10 Wayner throwing a hit
Gallivan commented that Lafleur wasn't making the moves that he used to. Prophetic.
poor goal tending by Richard …..cost us the series. ..
at 4:00 why did the Canadiens use their checkers (Jarvis and Gainey) on the power play?