Damn good Habs team. They had a great combination of grit and skill, fantastic depth (7 players with 20+ goals), experience, a world-class D-man in Chelios, and the best goalie in the league.
In 89 I watched the playoffs from dat one. How the Habs did not win the cup is beyond me. I was heartbroken, but I was happy for Lanny Mcdonald though.
You're right..the '89 team was much better than the '86 team and was every bit as good as the '93 team. But with Lanny, the Flames were a team of destiny. Montreal was up 2-1 with game 4 in Montreal, it should have been lights out. That's one I wish we could have back.
@@canuck_gamer3359 : That was a great SCF between Montreal and Calgary. Both teams were evenly matched. Had the Habs played a team other than the Flames, they would have won. In my humble opinion, their '89 team was better than the two squads that won the Cup ('86 and '93).
Oh, the Habs were loaded that year. And they would have beat ANY other team in the playoffs that season...except for Calgary. That Flames team was a wagon. They don't get enough credit to this day. MTL were just up against a monster
The line of Scrudland Macphee Lemieux. This team had it all. To lose to Calgary in 89 gut wrenching, Carbo Chelly Luds Robinson Courtnall Corson Patrick and Richer. How this team was not a dynasty I don't quite understand.
They were talented, but, you could shut them down by being rough and physical. The bruins finally figured out how to beat them in the late 80s and 90s.
Best Canadiens team assembled since the dynasty of the '70s -- 4 quality lines, stellar defence corps and Patrick Roy between the pipes. Except for Roy, this group was superior in every respect to Stanley Cup champions of 1986 and 1993, but without the hardware to show for it. Give Calgary credit for being better. It was a rowdy group off the ice, however. The story goes that Serge Savard eventually got fed up with late-night phone calls from Montreal's finest -- not to mention being subsequently eliminated from the playoffs in 3 straight years by Boston -- and traded away stars he deemed to be more trouble than their worth. Gainey retiring and Robinson departing via free agency at the same time didn't do wonders for clubhouse discipline, either.
@Brian Noonan: Well, not really. Believe it or not, the only team collectively bigger than the Canadiens of the late '80s was Calgary. The Bruins could do their worst, but it wasn't until monsters like Robinson, Green, Smith, Nilan and Kordic had departed (as well as the high-scoring Naslund) that they could best Montreal by "being rough and physical." Surely the emergence of stars like Neely and Janney, and better goaltending from Moog had more to do with Boston's success against Montreal during the '90s.
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Stéphane Smith Je suis un peu trop jeune pour me souvenir du passage de Jean Perron derrière le banc des Canadiens et des Nordiques. J’ai 35 ans. Mais je suis certainement assez vieux pour me souvenir de le voir débattre à 110%. Lol 😁
I had heard Jean Perron had been a tough coach and it sure seemed like a few of the Habs were motivated to hang one around the neck of their old coach lol. I know Roy sets a new team record this game but I've never seen any team celebrate an 8--0 trouncing quite the way they do here. I think they hated the guy (Perron). lol
To say it was a difficult season for the Nordiques was an understatement -- they were last in the division for the 2nd straight year; and Perron was a mid-season replacement for Ron Lapointe, who had been diagnosed with cancer that would ultimately claim his life.
Dire que ce club minable se croyait un club de hockey de la nhl! Ils étaient juste assez bons pour jouer dans la Echl.! Québec se contentait de pas grand chose, un peu comme Montréal depuis 5 ans. Vive les Bruins de Boston 🐻.!
*As a long-time Habs fan, man I miss the Nordiques...*
Damn good Habs team. They had a great combination of grit and skill, fantastic depth (7 players with 20+ goals), experience, a world-class D-man in Chelios, and the best goalie in the league.
What an amazing team! I forgot how many great players we had in 1989 season! We should have won the cup!! 😊💪
I remember seeing that usher at 6:21 behind the penalty box every game when I used to watch as a kid :)
Usher ?
In 89 I watched the playoffs from dat one. How the Habs did not win the cup is beyond me. I was heartbroken, but I was happy for Lanny Mcdonald though.
You're right..the '89 team was much better than the '86 team and was every bit as good as the '93 team. But with Lanny, the Flames were a team of destiny. Montreal was up 2-1 with game 4 in Montreal, it should have been lights out. That's one I wish we could have back.
@@canuck_gamer3359 : That was a great SCF between Montreal and Calgary. Both teams were evenly matched. Had the Habs played a team other than the Flames, they would have won. In my humble opinion, their '89 team was better than the two squads that won the Cup ('86 and '93).
I though Calgary had a better team, though just barely.
Oh, the Habs were loaded that year. And they would have beat ANY other team in the playoffs that season...except for Calgary. That Flames team was a wagon. They don't get enough credit to this day. MTL were just up against a monster
I didn't know Mario Gosselin was a hockey goalie. Thought he was just a race car driver.....
30 ans plus tard , une finale de coupe de 1989 que j'ai toujours pas digéré haha
Moi aussi mais ils ne peuvent pas toutes les gagner
Ça avait été toute une saison, 53 victoires en saison régulière, mais une défaite en finale contre Calgary
I remember watching this game.
Jean perron questioning his life choices on the bench
Fun Fact. This was the March 22nd 1989 Game. The same evening as the Clint Malarchuck incident
Interesting. A week later, March 30, I went to the Sabres v. Habs game at The Aud. Hayward and Cloutier were the goalies that night.
Poor old Ron Tugnutt was on the wrong end of a lot of pastings as Nordiques goalie
Ah yes, good ole Ron "Give yer nuts a tug" Tugnut.
Montreal had very good team that year, But the flames were a bit better!!
Both teams were neck and neck all season. The difference in the final was that Roy was a little off his game.
The line of Scrudland Macphee Lemieux. This team had it all. To lose to Calgary in 89 gut wrenching, Carbo Chelly Luds Robinson Courtnall Corson Patrick and Richer. How this team was not a dynasty I don't quite understand.
They were talented, but, you could shut them down by being rough and physical. The bruins finally figured out how to beat them in the late 80s and 90s.
Best Canadiens team assembled since the dynasty of the '70s -- 4 quality lines, stellar defence corps and Patrick Roy between the pipes. Except for Roy, this group was superior in every respect to Stanley Cup champions of 1986 and 1993, but without the hardware to show for it. Give Calgary credit for being better.
It was a rowdy group off the ice, however. The story goes that Serge Savard eventually got fed up with late-night phone calls from Montreal's finest -- not to mention being subsequently eliminated from the playoffs in 3 straight years by Boston -- and traded away stars he deemed to be more trouble than their worth. Gainey retiring and Robinson departing via free agency at the same time didn't do wonders for clubhouse discipline, either.
@Brian Noonan: Well, not really. Believe it or not, the only team collectively bigger than the Canadiens of the late '80s was Calgary. The Bruins could do their worst, but it wasn't until monsters like Robinson, Green, Smith, Nilan and Kordic had departed (as well as the high-scoring Naslund) that they could best Montreal by "being rough and physical."
Surely the emergence of stars like Neely and Janney, and better goaltending from Moog had more to do with Boston's success against Montreal during the '90s.
I sometimes wonder the same thing, Geoff. I never could have thought the Montreal Canadiens reaching a Stanley cup final and losing the series.
it's called Mario and Jaromir
А почему бы не выставлять полные матчи без обрези ?
Jean Perron avec des lunettes. Je ne me souviens pas de l’avoir vu avec des lunettes. lol
Luc Turcotte coach des nordiques en plus, je ne me souvenais plus de sa 😂!
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Stéphane Smith Je suis un peu trop jeune pour me souvenir du passage de Jean Perron derrière le banc des Canadiens et des Nordiques. J’ai 35 ans. Mais je suis certainement assez vieux pour me souvenir de le voir débattre à 110%. Lol 😁
Luc Turcotte C’est un bon Monsieur. Une caricature en chair et en os😂!
I had heard Jean Perron had been a tough coach and it sure seemed like a few of the Habs were motivated to hang one around the neck of their old coach lol. I know Roy sets a new team record this game but I've never seen any team celebrate an 8--0 trouncing quite the way they do here. I think they hated the guy (Perron). lol
To say it was a difficult season for the Nordiques was an understatement -- they were last in the division for the 2nd straight year; and Perron was a mid-season replacement for Ron Lapointe, who had been diagnosed with cancer that would ultimately claim his life.
Les Nordiques mise à part une ou deux équipes furent mauvais et très mauvais.
Dire que ce club minable se croyait un club de hockey de la nhl! Ils étaient juste assez bons pour jouer dans la Echl.! Québec se contentait de pas grand chose, un peu comme Montréal depuis 5 ans. Vive les Bruins de Boston 🐻.!
Depuis 25 ans que le Canadien sont médiocres.