The Goalie Who Retired Because The NHL Was Too Easy... 

I read the book too, and you're right.

Agreed. The title of this video is just wrong. This guy needs to do better research.

The title was maybe clickbait. In the actual video, though, the topic of the NHL being too easy doesn't come up until the closing sentence...and he says "it's almost as if" it was too easy for Dryden, only after running through all of the other challenges he took on and successes he had in other walks of life.

An awful lot of b.s. in this story. Dryden was an NHL calibre goalie who played behind the best team in the league for 6 years. The Habs would have won those 5 Stanley Cups with just about any goalie. Then he gets to play behind a powerhouse Team Canada in the 72 Summit Series against the Soviets. It's interesting to note that when the team was caught off guard in game 1, he let in 7 goals. Never had to play for a weak team his whole career like Don Edward's who usually faced 40 shots a game with Buffalo. For Dryden to imply that it was too easy is laughable.

@@billboggs6641 Well, I distinctly recall a stretch in the 1979 finals against the Rangers where Dryden was struggling. I was just a kid, but I remember always thinking the Habs should have played Bunny Larocque more all the way through that dynasty era. So because Dryden was struggling, they put Larocque in. Don't remember if he won the start, buy they went back to Dryden afterwards and the rest is history.

IKR??

@@projektkobra2247 Thanks for making the correction. I get frustrated when people making videos like this don't take the time to do proper research!

I agree

overrated and wha thappened when he played the russians

That 60-8-12 ( I believe it was 387 goals for and 173 goals against, the greatest goals differential in NHL history) = 132 pt. Season. The Habs only lost one game on home ice. I couldn't recall who they lost too that season. Once the Forum closed I got the book from the Canadiens on the Forum. It has in it all the game results ever played in the Forum. That said I began looking through the results that 76-77 season. I was thinking as I scrolled through the scores that I hope they didn't lose to the Boston Bruins.... I get to December 76 and bang I see the loss.. DAMMIT! it was the Bruins 😂. That did not surprise me because Don Cherry's Boston Bruins were the second best team during the mid to late 70's. Btw the Toronto Make Believes are not Montreal Canadiens best rival is... It's the Boston Bruins. They have had so many great playoff series vs. my beloved Habs.🤗

Played Horribly in the summit Series, Esposito was far better

@@jvl9717 Ya, that's why they kept going with Dryden, they wanted the USSR to win. Too bad you weren't there to show him how it should be done.

Except that when Dryden took time-off in the middle of his career, that vaunted Montreal team didn’t win and had significantly more regular season losses. Two things can be correct: Montreal had a very good team; with Dryden they were even better.

That’s awesome

What a memory!

I'm trying to imagine Dryden in that super-serious, academic, professional voice swearing like a drunk teenager, ha! That would be fun to witness!!

You may be thinking of Roy, Dryden had 1 conn smythe

Martin Brodeur should of won a conn smythe

That is true

Oh really? Is that what you think? OK.Dryden had a .750 Stanley Cup winning percentage over his illustrious career. Let that sink in. Marinate on that for a while.

Could be...I know he ate my Bruins for lunch many times.

​@@billsouza4457😂

Must be tough being such an idiot I’m guessing when you walk into a room the conversation stops and when you leave you hear snickers

Pompous as hell. Pretentious also. When he came back Bowman said , " Kenny, you think your better than others?"

Dryden actually wrote about this in "The Game", and I remember this era vividly as an old Flyers fan. In 1972-73, the Canadiens often started games slowly, and relied on Dryden to keep them in the game until they got going, which they usually did (only lost 10 regular season games, and won the Cup). Dryden admitted he had a bit of an attitude about the team's slow starts and would act out during games, slamming his stick on the ice after letting in a goal. Bowman confronted him in practice about whether he through he was too good for the team, and Dryden (to his credit) came to understand that Bowman was right, although by his own admission he sulked through the rest of the season.@@daveyboy_

Same😂

Hey Boston drafted him and gave Dryden up. Toronto wiffed on getting Orr. During the Original Six Era there was sponsorship lists where teams would line-up amateur players from teams dotting the map. Montreal, through Frank Selke established a huge network. At one point, there was an army of players on numerous teams across the continent making them part of the Canadiens’ farm system. That talent pool Mr. Selke had assembled was larger than the other five NHL teams combined could muster. Montreal had the most to lose with the creation of the Amateur draft in 1963. The NHL recognized that fact and granted the Canadiens the choice of either drafting in turn with other teams or selecting two French Canadian players of their choice before any other team had made a selection as a form of compensation. There was no dissention on Montreal being allowed this option by the other teams and it was granted. This option was rarely used. Over the first five years of the entry draft Montreal never took advantage of their French Canadian option. The first time it was put into play was in 1968 when they picked goalie Michel Plasse and forward Roger Belisle. The Canadiens next used option in 1969 to select Rejean Houle and Marc Tardif before the other teams drafted in regular order and that was the final year for the French Canadian rule as it was voted out that season. Sam Pollock was the 1st GM who really understood the draft and would often trade fringe or aging players for picks.

Dryden himself was one of the key Hall of Fame level players on the team; he was a major part of the "stack"...

The Habs had the first two picks of French Canadian players, not exclusive rights to all. And the Leafs would have f’d up their 2 Ontario picks just like they did everything else in the 70’s. 😀

You are probably right. Harold Ballard was the biggest A HOLE EVER! I swore off the Leafs at age 18. I didn't watch hockey again until he was 6 ft under. Then the owner of Knob Hill Farms used the profits of the Leafs to prop up that Failed Business. Was a good idea but before it's time. Go Loafs Go!

Duh!

Can’t deny that he dominated in the NHL though

@@HecticHockey Perry tried to do exactly that by saying "he played on a montreal dynasty team" meaning that it was the other players and not Dryden who were the cause of the dynasty. I'll try to set him straight.

The above states "In his third season he won the Stanley Cup and the Vesina trophy as the leagues best goaltender." The next year they allowed 56 more goals than the previous year and were out of the playoffs in the first round." Perry you can't ignor those things. I know he had one of the best teams ever in front of him but had he stayed instead of taking that year off who knows? They may have won 2, 3 more cups than they did those years. Another book-the author escapes me-had a player state, paraphrasing "There were long stretches where play was for the most part in the other teams' end yet when it did come down in front of Dryden he was there when it counted. He was better than most." I've watched lots of games and many times that's the case. The fellow admitted, grudgingly, how good Dryden was. A goalie who's faced 40 shots wins the game yet the goalie who lost only faced 25. Dryden was ready when he had to be and if he hadn't taken that year off Montreal would have won more cups than they did.

​@@jimmiller6704 Please explain how they could have won 2-3 more cups in one year. 😅

I never posted 2-3 more cups in one year, no team can do that. I posted "2, 3 more cups than they did those years." Dryden took a year off because he wasn't happy with his offer, they may have won a cup that year. The next they didn't win a cup either, had they won the year he took off they may have won another. Philadelphia won two years in a row, had Dryden not taken that year off they may have won those cups instead of Philly.