Ils l’ont échangé il y a 28 ans et sont dans une sécheresse de 30 ans. Ils ont eu des maux de cœur et des quasi-accidents (d’accord, c’était pendant l’étrange saison des bulles COVID). Un grand nombre d’échanges, de choix au repêchage et de signatures d’agents libres semblent tout simplement mal tourner. Y a-t-il une vérité selon laquelle les dieux du hockey punissent la meilleure équipe historique de hockey pour ses méfaits envers l’un des plus grands gardiens de but de tous les temps ? Plante, Dryden et Roy sont une bonne chose pour le Tricolore de pouvoir débattre du choix d’un tandem pour une équipe de tous les temps.
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Hell yeah it’s a real thing.Before he was traded,the coach refused to pull Roy during a game against the Wings until they scored their 9th goal on him. He wanted to knock Roy down a peg or two, instead he ended up driving a HOF goalie into demanding a trade that took place 4 days later.
30 years is too soon to be a curse.
Not really. The league kept expanding after 93, most teams lose, and the teams that win tend to win more than 1.
Only 8 of the past 29 champs have “only” won it once in their window. These numbers may be generous too. For this iteration of Colorado and Vegas, it’s too soon to conclude they’ll be one-and-done champs, so that 8 number may be artificially high.
Leafs fan…. 30 years is nothing. Get back to us when you hit 50.
If the Canadiens are cursed, please explain all the other teams that have gone 30+ years without a Cup.
Damn right it is. I hate the Habs with every fiber of my being, but they traded the greatest goalie EVER and they got punished for it. Hopefully for the rest of time!
People who believe in curses are ridiculous
Not curse. We haven’t been « Cup winning good » since then. It’s been super solid mediocrity, either barely squeeking into the playoffs or even if we finished high enough we were never a realistic threat to win it all. Price has been our only superstar since then.
We whiffed on so many draft picks during that time I can’t believe we weren’t worse. Never a real rebuild, it was always stick a knockoff bandaid on it and pray that the adhesive doesn’t immediately fail. Bad decisions by management etc…
The curse was lifted when Mario Tremblay and Roy made peace.
Much more to do with the comparative strength of the US $ and how it weakens Canadian teams than any curse.
I hope so.
The real curse and irony is that he won right away with the team he got traded to. By trading their best player they gave up any chance to get another cup run for that era.
Cup « windows » are narrow nowadays and easily take a decade(s) to open up again. They had a chance in 2014 but Price got destroyed and again in 2020 but they were just outplayed in the finals.
I still think they could « have lifted the curse » by giving him a shot at coaching for Montreal. He was one of the best coach’s in the junior league.
But yeah about it being a real « curse », it’s like all those people that were talking about the ghosts in the old forum 😂.
The real curse is that of the Bell Centre. We never should have moved from the Forum where so many cups were won to the new arena. We had all these ghosts of former players helping the Habs win but they were never given the directions to the new place. Now they’re stuck under a crappy shopping mall which is what the Forum became.
Lifelong Habs fan, but I dislike Roy with a passion. I know he was pissed, I know Tremblay was playing stupid head games but to do what he did the way he did it goes against everything I’d be taught regarding loyalty. I know I’m in the minority but I am not a fan at all.
The only really good thing Tremblay did for the organ I zation is to set up Lambert in’79. Apart from that ☠️.
I’ll wait. ✌🏻
I honestly think the curse began with the call for McSorley’s stick blade measurement. Habs won the Cup but fucked themselves and Canada indefinitely after that.
The best goalie the Habs will ever have!
If Montreal is cursed, all of the Canadian teams are even more cursed. They’re both the most recent Canadian cup champions and most recent Canadian team to appear in a cup finals.
All Canadian markets are at a competitive disadvantage in free agency.
No. Curses are not a real thing.
Shit management not a curse (also might just be me but did the habs just recently start going after more non French players cause that seemed like a problem for ages
Wtf is this post??? They traded him as the best goalie in the world had terrible management clearly and are still recovering that is all.
What will it take to break the curse? Do we have to hire Roy in some management capacity?
Hope so.
It’s not just the Habs that are cursed, it’s all Canadian teams. ’93 was Canada’s last Cup, and clearly the curse won’t end for a few more years here – it has to last 33 years.