Looking Back At The Dramatic Patrick Roy Trade 25 years Later 

For once, I'd like to thank the Detriot Red Wings

I don’t think you know what irony means.

@@07foxmulder nice, u made a funny on the internet... have a great day! :)

@@07foxmulder and BTW, it’s ironic because that game probably cost us a couple Stanley Cups at least... do I need to spell the entire thing out for you!

@@drewjoaquin4761 Yeah. You definitely don’t know what irony means.

Considering how bad of a coach Tremblay was, and how good of a goalie Roy was, it was insane back then. Course the GM was almost as bad as the coach. So that does explain it a bit...

@barrie22 it was more between him and Trembley,. Trembley made it is goal from day 1 coaching the team to humble and "break" Roy. I don';t think it had to do with anything other than an arrogant first time coach on a power trip. The fact Roy went on to win 2 more cups and Trembley never got another head coaching job speaks volumes

The ironic is they fired Trembley a year later due to his gross incompetence and attitude. Imagine this happening today with Crosby, Ovie or McDavid. They could literally tell the GM ""I want the coach fired" and he'd be gone the next day.

@@Cassandra_Solidor Absolutely, especially for a first year coach. If you have a guy with zero nhl coaching experience taking over a historic team and he immediately insults the best player, that guy doesn't stay long. The fact they traded Roy and the team captain tells you how much Trembley was on a power trip

@@superkid12345 so accurate!! 👏👏👏

In fairness that wasn't a game. Only one team showed up.

It was the last time detroit played there, the last game there was a victory over dallas

Not the Curse of Patrick Roy, it's the Curse of Mario Tremblay

Price the next patrick roy

The 80's early 90's dynasty died that night.

U WOT M8 AVS SUCK JOE NO-SACK IS A JOKE (Adam Foote is cool, though: Tried to save Lemieux when Shanahan intercepted the man whose last name is my first name)

@@roygoodhand1301 lol you mad bruh?

i don't even know if the trade was mentioned in it.

Yes. Way too much back and forth. No narrative, just edited for ADHD kids. Bad, bad effort.

I think they tried to edit it in the same way "The Last Dance" was

Because Roy and Tarantino are two goats lol 🐐

@@Reedinho Someone needs to tell Sportsnet they are not ESPN or Netflix.

Fun fact for those who aren’t aware, Elway went out in a blaze of glory as he beat the Dan Reaves’ coached Falcons in Super Bowl 33.

Ya his last game in Montreal was a disaster team was playing like crap he had no defense helping him and instead of pulling him and putting backup goalie in they kept him out there to bare the brunt of the embarrassment getting scored on as he had no help from his team that night and once they finally did he skated over to the bench walked right over to the president of the team and told him That was the last game he will ever play for Montreal

Sniffin now

@@TheOJJackson Dont get too excited. The Habs are finding out what its like to play outside Canada and they might not like it. But absolutely playing with house money right now and should enjoy every second of it.

@@giants8585 they’ve played outside of Canada every year except this messed up one tho??

​@@Akeirbuah Yes of course, but Vegas is the first team outside of Canada they've played all year. What bearing do the previous 102 seasons have on that? Its an unfamiliar team. Edge goes to Vegas for being a more well rounded better squad in a match up of unknows.

@@giants8585 your comment didn’t age well. Guess the house doesn’t always win!!!

im sure every Canadian in the Province feels that way look from the outside as an american

Add Corey to the hated list, he completely mishandled the situation as did Houle

On NHL 2K if I play as a Montreal team Tremblay played for, I scratch Tremblay

Me too!!!

You should

It still seems ridiculous. Just left a HOF goaltender out to dry like laundry. Watching it again I still find it hilarious how he walks past the coach *twice* without looking at him to talk to the GM.

@@BuriedFlame I still remember it like it was yesterday the 12 year old me watching my favourite player getting lit up and disrespected like that just so the coach could show he's boss rediculous.

Me too!! Never should have kept him in net biggest Canadiens mistake ever

Then he ended up fighting Vernon I’m the playoffs lol I’m from Calgary and we love mike Vernon.

I mean, that fight was pretty huge but the fact that it was Vernon who put the idea / gave Roy “mental permission” do to speak to ask for the trade… definitely insane

That's what I would have done, I would have said during intermission, "it's been rough tonight, you want to keep going or need Jeblonsky to take over?" But I definitely would have pulled Roy after goal #5 wether he said I'll keep going or not

Greatest playoff performer in my opinion, 3 conn smythes, and most playoff wins by a goalie says it all

@@Quellebreo373 Hasek's better and everything supports him, but Roy is like 2nd best.

@@neelmehta9069 everything but the playoff stats.

@@neelmehta9069 3 Conn Smythes > 2 Harts Hasek is lucky to have his cups. One as a backup and the other on arguably the most stacked team of all-time. Hasek needed Detroit. The Canadiens and Avs (to a lesser degree) needed Roy. That's the difference.

@@neelmehta9069 of course you think that

He was a better motivator as a coach than he was a tactician. However, he did innovate the game a bit by starting the trend of pulling the goalie with plenty of time to spare. Used to be that the goalie would come off in the last minute or less. Roy came along and was pulling his goalie with 10 minutes to go in extreme cases - it was insane. Now you see a lot of coaches willing to go for the extra man with more time available.

@@El_Travo - So je came up with pulling the goalie with 10 minutes left for the extra man. Roy was a good coach the first year, I think alot of his problems was with Duchene in the locker room. Sakic did remove his title VP of Hockey Operations and he didn't really have any input in the draft expect for MacKinnon- 2013.

Yzerman, Federov, Larionov, Fetisov, Draper, Vernon, Shanahan and of course, DARREN MCCARTY! EAT MY SHORTS!

Owen Nolan, and Stephen Fiset, for Patrick Roy if I heard correctly

By extension, Mario Tremblay was the one who cursed them.

Hasek is better

Your arrogance as an organization and fanbase destroyed your team. The only curse you have is yourselves. You will never allow a team to be built from the ground up. You want immediate results and refuse to allow players to properly develop. As a life long Lightning fan I've got to watch your demise for the past 25 years.

@@FloridaHockeyFan im a fellow american here sir

@To Release is To Resolve you guys dominate in getting Gold Medals i wouldnt complain too much

it did more than that no Canadian team has won since 93

Vernon, Osgood, Hasek* FTFY

Not really, after the Nordiques moved to Colorado, lots of Nordiiques fans didn't really cared for the Avalanche

Roy ne fait rien dans la demie mesure, encore ce soir la, il a prouver une fois de plus pourquoi il est le ROY des gardiens

Why don't you just say the NHL SUCKS then? I guess we know you WON'T be watching NHL hockey anymore whenever the league comes back so just go ahead and QUIT & don't bother caring about the NHL anymore then OK?

@@ckendall67 Relax. It used to be great. I thnk it still can be under the right leadership. But for the same reason they're now talking about cancelling the season again (labour strife again- is that even possible?!), corporate interests have been strangling the NHL for generations. They need to turn their attention back to game. Otherwise, you're right, it won't come back on its own.

@@lebarangsteakhouseguesthou1716 Ok. I have nothing against Roy. But now he's an old man and still holding the same grudge. At some point it goes from being heroic to embarrassing. But I like the story. Just like I like the story of Dave Keon and his animosity toward the Leafs. There are no leagues like that anymore. Even if there were, the league (and its lapdog media) would silence them. All the air has been sucked out of the game. If Roy came around today, he would have no platform to do what he did on that night. It's too bad.

Us Avs fans are too

Roy is too.

Patrick Roy would never have been traded to Quebec

@@ryankatz7707 oh?? Why do you say that??

@Waleed K, Roy was in his final year of contract. The Canadiens’ president of the club didn’t have plans to resign him at the end of the season (They hadn’t made the playoff in the previous season for the first time in 25 years). There was a lot of back and forth talking between the GM Serge Savard and other clubs at the beginning of the 95-96’ season. That was a mental distraction for Roy. Serge Savard was already talking to the Avalanche’s GM Pierre Lacroix (which was Roy’s former agent) for a potential trade ; Owen Nolan and Stephane Fiset for Roy. Lacroix wanted Mike Keane to be added in the trade and Savard said no.Yes , there was a friction between Tremblay and Roy but talks were already in the process of trading Roy before the end of that season. The Tremblay situation was secondary. They’re sour relationship was just a reason to end the debate on the future of his career in Montreal. If he wasn’t gonna be traded in December, he was going to be traded on the trading deadline of that season. The only difference is that they would have a better deal with Serge Savard as GM than Rejean Houle.

@@leonassayag5221 are you a canadians fan? Cuz man you know your stuff, thanks for the info

@@waleedk3672 it was a traumatic episode of my youth so I had to research it :-)

@@leonassayag5221 cool, who's your favorite tendy

@@leonassayag5221 It was a traumatic episode for many of us. As a hockey fan, at least we got those glorious Avs v. Wings series out of it.

Nahh

@@elasmith4218 why would he still be considered a hab if he himself went on to have closer ties with the avalanche

I think it had something to do with Tremblay not getting along with Roy or something like thay

​@@alexcleroux3054 My understanding is that Tremblay and Roy didn't even get along when they played together as teammates, and the animosity carried over and festered when Tremblay became head coach. Roy had more influence in the dressing room, and was respected as a talented goaltender more than Tremblay was as an underqualified coach - supposedly he only got the position because Montreal was trying to make the team as French/French-Canadian as possible from the office down but that's another story. Anyway, Tremblay was pissed about it and tried to make a statement by humiliating Roy, flat out refusing to pull him after intermission out of spite, and killing his save percentage for the season among other things. And then Roy did...well he did That. It wasn't a bad coaching decision, it was an attempt at a power move that backfired because Tremblay overestimated his own worth to the team and SEVERELY underestimated Roy's. Roy knew that he wouldn't have trouble finding a spot on another team with his record (suffering SV% aside) so he answered with a power move of his own by demanding the trade, and humiliated Tremblay and the Habs organization as he went on to win the cup with the Avs immediately after, and then winning the Conn Smyth the second time around. And to rub some salt in the wound, in his biography he basically said that if he'd just been pulled that game he would have stayed with the Habs, but after that intermission enough was enough. I'm not one to blame individuals for an entire organization's issues, but Tremblay literally drove a two time stanley cup champion, conn smyth winning goaltender out of Montreal for the sake of being the alpha male in the locker room. Hard to justify that