Rynar wrote:
**** Carey Price, **** Monteal, and **** Canadiens fans who all seem to watch the game selectively.
I'm glad that ***** is done for the year.
Pretend franchise that's a disgrace to the O6.
Carey Price is out for the series (but if they can beat the rangers without him, he might be back for the final.)
Selectively? Montreal plays a clean game, they don't dive (like a certain king of embellishment Brian Marchand), they play skilled and fast (and have always prioritized speed and skill over size and strength), without the clutching and grabbing and holding and after-the-whistle fisticuff nonsense that has no place in hockey. They beat Boston by being the better team, and they did it without any of Boston's dirty play-nonsense. (Honestly, you know a team is out to be dirty just by looking at the priorities of their GM - if you load up on physical giants, you're hoping to win with thuggery, because you can't win by outskating the other guys. The only way size helps you in Hockey is if you are the goaltender, or if you cheat and take advantage of notoriously lax referreeing to get away with it. If refs actually called the rules as written, size would barely matter, since you cannot often use it to your advantage without committing an infraction of the rules.)
Montreal has won 24 Stanley cups, 10 since expansion from the O6. That's as many as the next two O6 (Toronto-13 and Detroit-11)
together. Boston's distant 6 cups comes in a respectable 4th, but yeah. Pretend franchise indeed.
Then there's the boston fan myth on their fan sites (I've been reading them lately) about the Habs having preferred treatment in the O6 era when it came to quebec players. That
never existed. Montreal never had exclusive rights to Quebec players or french players or anything else like that. In fact, prior to the entry draft starting in 1963, no team had exclusive rights to anybody. Players rights were assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis. if you could sign them, you had their rights. Montreal was just more proactive in creating professional farm teams to allow them to sign more players. That's just good management/business sense. The other teams could have done the same.
For a brief time after the draft but before expansion in 1968, all the O6 teams had exclusive rights to players within a 50 mile radius of their home city, but that's the same benefit for all 6 teams, and that went away after expansion.
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I'm glad that ***** is done for the year.
This is why so many people hate Boston - there's no respect. The other 29 teams in the league generally show respect to each other, as do the fans. They don't want the other guys to get hurt, they want to see good hockey played. Sure, they want to win, but they want to win by by seeing both teams play their best. Boston makes a joke out of the sport by making it vicious, personal, and failing to treat opponents with respect.
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