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Post by CentreHice on Aug 29, 2019 10:15:07 GMT -5
More clips on YouTube all the time. I suppose the Flames were due.... The first loss in a Finals since 1967. Up to that point--9 appearances, 9 Cups. Here's the clincher in Round 1 vs. Hartford. Game 4 OT. Habs up 3-0 in the series. After making two fine saves, Kay Whitmore clears the puck right to Russ Courtnall. Empty net and over. Heads up play by Roy to attempt the long pass that ended up on Whitmore's stick. (3 seasons later, Courtnall scored a Game 7 OT winner over the Whalers...and Claude Lemieux would do the same the next season.) Ref. hockeydb Whitmore, a rookie, had played only 3 regular season games. He and Peter Sidorkiewicz, another rookie, shared the playoff duties with 2 games each. (Sidorkiewicz had played only 1 game the season prior.) Mike Liut must've been injured. He played 35 games that season. Sidorkiewicz played 44. I might've given Roy an assist... 
Must be some great clips from other rounds. Round 2. Habs take out the Bruins in 5. OT goal in Game 2. Won by Habs. Round 3. A "spirited" 6-game victory over the Flyers. Chelios on Propp. Hextall on Chelios. Beating the Bruins and Flyers in one year....always good! |
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Post by CentreHice on Aug 29, 2019 10:17:13 GMT -5
Round 2. Final bit of elimination Game 5 vs. Bruins. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 29, 2019 11:54:42 GMT -5
I was living in Germany when the Flames took out the Habs at home ... I think the Flames are the only team to win the Cup on Montreal ice, but I'll have to verify that ... woke up really early to listen to the game only to hear Bob Cole's call on Lanny McDonald's series winner at the end ... three weeks later I'm getting in the car to go to work and I notice a Flames Stanley Cup sticker on my back window ... turns out the neighbours on the next street were huge Calgary fans and that's where it came from ... later that week the squadron took some time to recognize some accomplishments by their soldiers and they called my name ... pretty surprised because I didn't expect anything ... turns out my boss presented me with a Calgary Flames t-shirt ... and he made me put it on in front of the entire squadron ... got a standing O for that one ... only friends would do something like they did ... good memories ... Cheers. |
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Post by franko on Aug 29, 2019 14:56:37 GMT -5
I think the Flames are the only team to win the Cup on Montreal ice one other team has |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Aug 29, 2019 18:01:10 GMT -5
I think the Flames are the only team to win the Cup on Montreal ice one other team has Good point ... the only team other than Montreal to win the Cup on Forum ice ... thanks, mate ... |
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Post by Boston_Habs on Aug 30, 2019 8:00:23 GMT -5
Quite possibly the best team of the post dynasty years, but Calgary was just a touch better.
Loved that team, though. Great depth and balance up and down the lineup. We had Roy in goal, a stacked blue line with Robinson, Chelios, Green, Ludwig, and Svoboda. Up front we had a versatile group that included Naslund, Bobby Smith, Stephane Richer, Carbo, McPhee, Corson, Lemiiuex. It was a total team effort as Naslund was our leading scorer with 33 goals and 84 points, but had 7 players with at least 20 goals that year.
Disappointing final. I was at the double OT win in Game 3 that put us up 2-1 in the series (Ryan Walter scored the winner), but sadly that was last game we won in the series. Calgary had the better goalie in the series (Vernon was better than Roy), the best forward (Doug Gilmour was everywhere), and Al MacInnis had Roy spooked from the point.
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Post by CentreHice on Aug 30, 2019 11:04:42 GMT -5
Agree, BH. Solid throughout the lineup...with Pat Burns behind the bench, to boot!
Since losing the two Cup Finals to Detroit in '54 and '55 (the Rocket's suspension likely prevented 6 consecutive Cups), the franchise appeared in 19 Finals over the next 38 years.
17 parades! A championship damn near every other year! No wonder we're despised! Ha!
BUT....the exact opposite has occurred since, as we're into our second generation of Finals/Cup futility.
30-year-olds were only 5 in 1993. I'd be surprised if they recall much at all.
Now their children are coming up empty.
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Post by folatre on Mar 24, 2020 21:17:34 GMT -5
I absolutely loved this team, full of character and home grown talent. I was 13 years old and because of my father's work we were based in Toronto at the time. I did not have a lot of school mates who were Habs fans but I enjoyed that season almost (obvious exceptions 1986 and 1993) like no other. My God, could the current edition of the Habs use a couple or five of the plethora of skilled big bodied forwards in their prime that Pat Burns' team boasted that season.
Funny, during this self-isolation period, I have watched some 1989 playoff games and after Bobby Smith's OT winner in game two against the Bruins I was listening to the post-game interview with him and the reality is that Smith is quite decent in French. Obviously he is not native and likely does not have an easy recall 5000 word vocabulary but his speaking pace and pronunciation are plenty respectable.
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Post by CentreHice on Mar 25, 2020 7:51:00 GMT -5
I was at the double OT win in Game 3 that put us up 2-1 in the series (Ryan Walter scored the winner), but sadly that was last game we won in the series. Looked up the box score. Scored in the final second of Mark Hunter's boarding penalty. Looked as if Crispy was waiting for an "in the crease" call from Fraser. Naslund tied it in the final minute of the third. Must've been quite the game! |
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Post by CentreHice on Mar 25, 2020 8:13:57 GMT -5
Here's a league-wide look at the 88-89 playoffs. Every game of the Finals recounted. |
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