• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
I'm still pissed about how the 1989 final turned out. Shit, I'm still pissed about the 1975 Grey Cup, ffs.
Click to expand...
The Baun goal to win game 6 in OT against the Red Wings in 64 was my most painful memory in those days even though I had no affinity to Detroit-just a hatred of the Leafs. Maybe because if the Wings had scored, it meant the Cup would have been won by someone other than the Leafs. To that point, I had only ever seen Toronto win it. At least by 67, I had seen us win Cups in 65 and 66, and I never really felt good all year about 1967 edition of the Habs-something was off. When Baun scored in 64, I felt the series was over.
 
east coast said:
The Baun goal to win game 6 in OT against the Red Wings in 64 was my most painful memory in those days even though I had no affinity to Detroit. Maybe because if the Wings had scored, it meant the Cup would have been won by someone other than the Leafs. To that point, I had only ever seen Toronto win it. At least by 67, I had seen us win Cups in 65 and 66, and I never really felt good all year about 1967 edition of the Habs-something was off. When Baun scored in 67, I felt the series was over.
Click to expand...
which was the year Baun scored on a broken leg?
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
the Nordiques cost us the 1989 Cup because we lost to them 4 times, cost us home ice (well and our travel coordinator was ridiculous and had us flying overnight
Click to expand...
Patrick Roy cost us the 89 Cup. He shit his pants every time Al MacInnis wound up to take a slapper. He also couldn't solve Gilmour.

If you want to get into the weeds it was the Canucks who cost us the Cup in 89. If Stan Smyl hadn't choked on that breakaway against Mike Vernon in overtime of Game 7 in the first round, we would have tap-danced to the Cup. No other team had a chance against us.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Patrick Roy cost us the 89 Cup. He shit his pants every time Al MacInnis wound up to take a slapper. He also couldn't solve Gilmour.

If you want to get into the weeds it was the Canucks who cost us the Cup in 89. If Stan Smyl hadn't choked on that breakaway against Mike Vernon in overtime of Game 7 in the first round, we would have tap-danced to the Cup. No other team had a chance against us.
Click to expand...
Calgary was the better team that season. They finished ahead of us in the regular season too but it was close.
 
The rivalry with Nordiques burned the hottest...as it became wrapped up in identity politics. I know people who switched from Habs to Nords because they were sovereigntists.

It didn't last long though, and you'd have a hard time explaining it to anyone under 40.

Rivalries have expiration dates.

Even the Bruins rivalry is getting long in the tooth. We last faced then in the playoffs 10 years ago. Who knows when we'll face them next?

The rivalry is still in good shape....but 20 years from now, who knows?
 
CH1 said:
The rivalry with Nordiques burned the hottest...as it became wrapped up in identity politics. I know people who switched from Habs to Nords because they were sovereigntists.

It didn't last long though, and you'd have a hard time explaining it to anyone under 40.

Rivalries have expiration dates.

Even the Bruins rivalry is getting long in the tooth. We last faced then in the playoffs 10 years ago. Who knows when we'll face them next?

The rivalry is still in good shape....but 20 years from now, who knows?
Click to expand...
the issue with the Bruin rivalry is that for the last 10 yrs either we beat them all time or now they beat us all the time and there are no fights. The most annoying thing about them now is that their fans are still knuckle draggers who prefer fights and brawls to goals and wins.

Never having lived on Toronto, I never had the same deep seated hatred of them Wehave and others do. I hate their fans more (except Scottish Victoria who is nice). The thought of Zeke and his cabal having something over me makes me want an asteroid to hit.
 
I really wish we could have a real, organic rivalry with Toronto when both teams are good.

Throughout the entirety of my life, minus my toddler years, there wasn't ever a point when both teams were awesome at the same time. Either one team was terrible & the other decent/good, before seeing the roles reverse.

Also, I hate this playoff format. I don't care one bit that we had a rivalry with Tampa Bay due to playing them a few years in the playoffs.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
the issue with the Bruin rivalry is that for the last 10 yrs either we beat them all time or now they beat us all the time and there are no fights. The most annoying thing about them now is that their fans are still knuckle draggers who prefer fights and brawls to goals and wins.

Never having lived on Toronto, I never had the same deep seated hatred of them Wehave and others do. I hate their fans more (except Scottish Victoria who is nice). The thought of Zeke and his cabal having something over me makes me want an asteroid to hit.
Click to expand...
I lived among them and the delusion was a thing even then. I can't remember how many times I had to listen to some idiot classmate try to convince me that Sittler was better than Lafleur, that Turnbull (not even Salming, mind you, but Ian Fucking Turnbull) was better than Robinson or that Palmateer was better than Dryden. Ignorance like that is impenetrable. And then these dopes grew up and became subscribers of the Steve Dangle podcast.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top