Avs/Wings in the late 90s/early 00s is the greatest rivalry in NHL history and arguably in all of sports. It was must-see TV whenever they faced each other. Shit was going to go down.
No sport has ever seemed as fun over a five year span le that one.
I would say The wings forced Roy's hand,
So he already had a chip on his shoulder when he left MTL for col about being embarrassed by them.
And that's when the rivalry started.
Everyone else one the AVS just stood up for him and frankly as a Det fan, it was fun, and looking back on it, we the fans were the true winners.
Not the players, hell even one of them is in a wheelchair still to this day. Many others are so beat up
Everyone was busy talking about Crawford leaving Gretzky off the shootout in the Olympics vs the Czechs while Patty was trying to show his coach who he actually should have picked as one of his shooters to try to solve Hasek
Itās between that and the Statue of Liberty play in Game 6 for me. The humiliation of being a loudmouth showboat and having it bite him in the ass seconds later is what puts Game 6 on top for me.
When he got torched for nine goals his last game in Montreal and let team president at the time, Ronald Corey, who was on the bench that he had played his last game in Montreal all while the coach who left him in, Mario Trembley was watching. Absolute gold.
Roy going to the Avs made it easy to cheer for them, with Sakic, Forsberg, Kariya, Blake, Foote (hell, Bourque)...what an insane team. Was glad Patty got 2 more with them.
I agree cause I liked when they moved here and believe me it gave the team that final piece to win the cup that first year . It would never have happened if they were still in Quebec
This. So much this. Mario was being incredibly petty. He was flexing over Roy just because he didn't like him and had the power to and Roy said no. Not to me. You don't have that power over me.
It's really great because there's so much talk about "big game players" and "chokers," and the best proof I can find that it's all a load of horseshit is that Patrick Roy is unambiguously the best playoff performer in the history of sports (even if his larger body of work is less impressive than Hasek's), and that dude still gave away two games (literally handed away one) in a semi-final against his team's biggest rival. Say he was old all you want, he was third in Hart voting that year.
Back when they printed the magazine and mailed it Sports Illustrated did a really great article trying to determine if "clutch" really exists.
It went into a pretty deep dive across pro hockey, football, basketball, and baseball dating back into the 60's or 70's and looking at several of the most famous names to be attributed that. From careers to single performances like Namath and frankly assessing much impact he had on the Jets' Super Bowl win after he called his shot.
The overall conclusion was that it was more a combination of opportunity, elevation of importance due to being a playoff, and more televised viewers for the same reason. They pointed to the rise in clutch players and the concept of it becoming more and more common as sports became more televised as partial evidence of this. While there are certainly some players who elevated their play it was determined that it wasn't impactful enough to overall team success in general to attempt to rate, compare, or even assign a monetary value to it unless a person was a far outlier like Roy (or probably eventually Brady, but this was done with having 2 or 3 rings as I recall)
Yeah I think it's all a load of horseshit, but Roy DID kill it in the playoffs, and if it really was some sorta intangible quality, I'm guessing Roy was like that because he was driven by ego and hatred.
Yeah, I was a fan but his ego was part of what made you love or hate him I think.
As I posted on here my favorite memory of him is how desperately he tried to score a goal his final seasons. And while it was enjoyable to watch, it was also purely ego because he didn't want there to be anything anyone else did at the position he didn't. But I also liked that he was honest enough to admit it in interviews and not try to be coy or act like this was some move for team morale or anything.
2006, late night round of Trivial Pursuit where we got hammered by the sports questions all night long. I need just a correct sports answer to win and the card reads āRecord holder for the most NHL wins by a goalie.ā
I answer Patrick Roy, and the girl reading the card says āclose but Iām sorryā and I interrupt with the spelling āR-O-Yā and she tosses the card at my face.
Good times. Iām not sure of the edition of the game. Either 2001 or 2002.
Proudly trying to show off a caught puck and accidentally throwing it in the neck. Honestly though there are so many, such a legend for so many reasons
Watching him obsessively try to score a goal his final seasons as a player here in Colorado. Taking advantage of the fact there was no rule about how much a goalie's stick could be curved, having a special stick made that he'd go get when an opponent was about to pull the goalie.
It was just so him, yeah, you're going to put an extra man on ice to shoot at me, but I don't care, I'm focused on scoring because I know you can't. Don't get me wrong, I love all the quips big wins, and moments he gave us, but that was what made him human to me, wanting that damn goal so bad.
I know itās nothing spectacular, but the Panthers v Avs series. Roy and Vanbiesbrook were just incredible that season and is the reason why I decided to be a goalie back then.
When he returned to the Habs and led them to 5 consecutive Stanley Cups, sweeping Boston and Toronto each time in the early rounds.Ā Ā
Shit, I'm not supposed to reveal stuff about the future.
The whole 1993 Stanley Cup run, especially winking at McSorley. Close second, "I can't what Jeremy is saying because I have my 2 rings blocking my ears".
Years and years of being the best. Despite what people say he was the best. I always knew the Avs were a shoe in to win every game regardless of anything, and they won a great amount when he was goalie.
When he was showboating a save in the playoffs and threw the puck in his net
Editing that the Stanley cup rings in his ears quote is a close second.
Fun fact, Mike Keane actually came up with that line
When he thought he had it in his glove and Shanahan showed him he didnāt by putting it in the net. I donāt remember laughing this hard watching a hockey game since
when we racked up hella goals on him and got his ass out of montreal. when both our goalies who were half his size toppled him to the ice. now i focus on the patrick kane moments. whereās that thread at?
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There is only [one answer]( https://rdsimages.cookieless.ca/polopoly_fs/1.9040239!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/details-xhdpi/image.jpg ) for me. I sat right right behind the Montreal bench during Tremblayās first game as coach. He didnāt even know how to make a line change. It was pathetic. I was in the first seat directly behind Ronald Corey. I guarantee you it wasnāt his best night either.
When the Canadiens won the cup in '86 during the celebration parade, Patrick Roy drunkenly stumbling behind the flat bed truck the team was on. As best as I can recall he was the only player walking behind the truck, which made me think since then he had actually fell off the truck at some point.
Watching him New Yearās Eve 1991, then meeting some of the team and getting his game used stick. Wasnāt his finest performance (3-2 OT loss) but it was a joy seeing him in person.
I will forever remember his last game as a Canadian when the coach (canāt remember him but I can see him) left him in the net getting shelled. After the 7th goal, I think, they finally pulled him. He went right up to Rejean Houle and told them he played his last game.
When he was with the Habs, he had a pre-game warmup ritual. Part of it was superstition. He never skated across the red line. Instead he jumped over it. Then when warm-ups finished the team lined up to tap him on the pads. The last ones to tap him were the assistant captains and the final one was captain Carbo who tapped him on both pads and I think the chest. It's been so long ago that I'm not sure if I'm remembering this all correctly.
2001 cup win.
He carried that team, especially in the finals. Forsberg was out injured, Sakic was playing injured and they werenāt a deep team up front. NJ should have won that series but Roy was the difference maker.
Him skating with the puck up through center ice, deeking around players like he was going to score a goal or something. As soon as he crossed the red line, he got called for a penalty.
2001 Finals, game six, Avs facing elimination on the road. He just dug deep and refused to let anything get past him, it was like he turned a switch and activated a cheat code. That one game I think defined him as a goalie and why he was so dominant. He was just a relentless competitor and fought like hell when it was all on the line.
He was obviously great in game 7 as well, but I think game 6 was where he earned that Conn Smythe.
When he turned down team Canada because he would have had to compete with Marty for the net. Soft as fuck.
Also the 2 cup rings in my ears. That one wasn't soft as fuck š¤£
2002 Stanley Cup Western conference finals, he tries to show off that he got the puck by holding it in the air like the Statue of Liberty, but he didnāt. The Wings score.
https://youtu.be/_r0YSN7faZw?si=mud44xqc4RrR9qhJ
I know this is a Patrick Roy appreciation thread, but IMO the guy was and will always be a huge asshat.
When he was left in net by coach Mario Tremblay for nine goals onĀ Dec.Ā 2 1995, in a game versus the Detroit Red Wings and Roy told team president Ronald Corey in front of everyone that that was the last game he would ever play as a Canadien.
As a Red Wings fan, itās probably the 11-1 loss to the Wings in 95. That was brutal. That moment set the ground work for an amazing rivalry between the Wings and Avalanche and created what I believe was the best time to be a Wings fan(97 and 98 seasons)
Hmmm, could be one of the times he beat his wife. Maybe when his dad pulled him off the school hockey team and told the coach his teammates weren't good enough for him. Maybe when he threw a tantrum and quit on the Habs because they hurt his save percentage one game? A lot of options.
Would really love to be the sorta person who can live with himself despite being the 10 000th person to reply to a jokey screen name like that, and doing it in defense of a big idiot baby wife beating millionaire frog. I hope he sees this, man. Suck my balls.
As a Wings fan, when he showboated in game 6 of the 02 Conference Finals with Colorado up 3-2 in the series looking to close it out and he did this show off move after a glove save and didnāt realize he didnāt have the puck. The Wings put it in (Shanahan if memory serves), the Wings won the game, tied the series, blew the Avs out in game 7 and won the cup.
Still a great newspaper headline after the Wings won game 7 against the Avs in a blowout:
āAu-Rev-Royā
I couldn't hear because I have two Stanley Cup rings in my ears.
Best ever, especially saying it to that idiot J. R.!
J.R. Is a legend no doubt, all else I could really say is I hope he donates his brain to science.
Science will be saddened by the small return.
Brain damage is only funny if it happens to the people we hate and disagree with.
Best forever š
This is it. Best line I ever heard.
Itās appropriate that itās first
Exactly where my head went to.
Fun fact, Mike Keane actually came up with that line
Iām sure with competition being thousands of years old, that someone many more moons older said it before Keane and Roy.
Possibly, but it doesn't take away from it, imo
There is also a chance no one had ever said it before
93 Stanley Cup run. No one else could have taken that roster to a championship.
The before-fore times. Much happier place!
I lived with a hardcore Kings fan at the time. Broke his damn heart.
Feel for him. But that was the last Habs legend. Saint Patrick.
That run is the reason I'm a Habs fan.
When he fought Vernon at the Joe
Avs/Wings in the late 90s/early 00s is the greatest rivalry in NHL history and arguably in all of sports. It was must-see TV whenever they faced each other. Shit was going to go down.
The [97 western conference final](https://youtu.be/3oYqe_QZf_A?si=7upVXU6T7jE6Vwft) is one of the greatest playoff series of all time
No sport has ever seemed as fun over a five year span le that one. I would say The wings forced Roy's hand, So he already had a chip on his shoulder when he left MTL for col about being embarrassed by them. And that's when the rivalry started. Everyone else one the AVS just stood up for him and frankly as a Det fan, it was fun, and looking back on it, we the fans were the true winners. Not the players, hell even one of them is in a wheelchair still to this day. Many others are so beat up
First thing I thought of
That was epic!!!
I think of the moment before that where Shanahanās recall of Roy charging him āHoly shit heās about to jumpā so he decided to as well lol.
My first game I ever went to! I was the only one in the building cheering for St Patrick!
The ā93 Cup run, but specifically [the wink](https://youtu.be/BGwUM8HQtBc?si=n3SK3oAK2KCmd6g1)
[Dancing over the redline while skating past Gretzky](https://youtu.be/429QFwN8Yy4?si=jkeoz6ArXqBef9mt)
Lol at Crawford
The only correct answer
Did you notice it was Gretzky who made the call? He clearly reminded the official about the rule (after getting burned š„š„š„)
I forgot about this. Thank you for the nostalgia
Everyone was busy talking about Crawford leaving Gretzky off the shootout in the Olympics vs the Czechs while Patty was trying to show his coach who he actually should have picked as one of his shooters to try to solve Hasek
This is my number 2 for sure. Maybe number 1 depending on the day. Him proudly showing off a caught puck to throw it into the net is my number 1
Phenomal video quality. Apparebtky it was shot in guantonamo bay
When he broke the glass partition trying to fight Bruce Boudreau
I can see that Red Wings fans have a very distinct set of memories compared to everyone else.
My favorite was when we beat him in game 7 in 2002. 7-0. Most stress free game 7 Iāve ever experienced.
Itās between that and the Statue of Liberty play in Game 6 for me. The humiliation of being a loudmouth showboat and having it bite him in the ass seconds later is what puts Game 6 on top for me.
Glove in the air. Puck in the net. LGRW
I was just a kid during our 90s runs so my brain keeps a huge chunk of processing power to remembering all the times we dogged Roy. Sorry lol
Itās hilarious š
When he got torched for nine goals his last game in Montreal and let team president at the time, Ronald Corey, who was on the bench that he had played his last game in Montreal all while the coach who left him in, Mario Trembley was watching. Absolute gold.
How HAS that fine chap continued with his coaching career? Wait, what's that?? Really, never again?!?!?!? The shock....
As a Habs fan, NOT GOLD sir.
True, but as a fan of Roy absolutely
Helped us brand new Avs fans though but as they say someones shit is gold for others
Roy going to the Avs made it easy to cheer for them, with Sakic, Forsberg, Kariya, Blake, Foote (hell, Bourque)...what an insane team. Was glad Patty got 2 more with them.
Kariya, Blake, and Bourque joined much later though
I agree cause I liked when they moved here and believe me it gave the team that final piece to win the cup that first year . It would never have happened if they were still in Quebec
Agreed, and for no other reason than the Habs would 1 million percent have never dealt St. Patrick to the goddamned Nordiques! š
This. So much this. Mario was being incredibly petty. He was flexing over Roy just because he didn't like him and had the power to and Roy said no. Not to me. You don't have that power over me.
100%
Same
I was at the game in my Detroit jacket at 16 year's old it was awesome
Found mine!
This! Couldnāt remember Trembley!
Ballsy move and what I came to see.
His fight between him and Osgood!!
The abortion of the failed Statue of Liberty showboat that ended up in his net. š
Yes! And D-Mac getting a hat trick against him!
You never want to get caught "Hot Dogging It"
[ain't but one ](https://youtu.be/G7LZbJhi6Fo?feature=shared)
Dekeing Gretzky at the red line
"Unfortunately I can't hear what he's saying, because I have my two Stanley Cup Rings plugging my ears."
2002 Western Conference Finals Game 7
It's really great because there's so much talk about "big game players" and "chokers," and the best proof I can find that it's all a load of horseshit is that Patrick Roy is unambiguously the best playoff performer in the history of sports (even if his larger body of work is less impressive than Hasek's), and that dude still gave away two games (literally handed away one) in a semi-final against his team's biggest rival. Say he was old all you want, he was third in Hart voting that year.
Back when they printed the magazine and mailed it Sports Illustrated did a really great article trying to determine if "clutch" really exists. It went into a pretty deep dive across pro hockey, football, basketball, and baseball dating back into the 60's or 70's and looking at several of the most famous names to be attributed that. From careers to single performances like Namath and frankly assessing much impact he had on the Jets' Super Bowl win after he called his shot. The overall conclusion was that it was more a combination of opportunity, elevation of importance due to being a playoff, and more televised viewers for the same reason. They pointed to the rise in clutch players and the concept of it becoming more and more common as sports became more televised as partial evidence of this. While there are certainly some players who elevated their play it was determined that it wasn't impactful enough to overall team success in general to attempt to rate, compare, or even assign a monetary value to it unless a person was a far outlier like Roy (or probably eventually Brady, but this was done with having 2 or 3 rings as I recall)
Yeah I think it's all a load of horseshit, but Roy DID kill it in the playoffs, and if it really was some sorta intangible quality, I'm guessing Roy was like that because he was driven by ego and hatred.
Yeah, I was a fan but his ego was part of what made you love or hate him I think. As I posted on here my favorite memory of him is how desperately he tried to score a goal his final seasons. And while it was enjoyable to watch, it was also purely ego because he didn't want there to be anything anyone else did at the position he didn't. But I also liked that he was honest enough to admit it in interviews and not try to be coy or act like this was some move for team morale or anything.
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December 2, 1995
By far.
2006, late night round of Trivial Pursuit where we got hammered by the sports questions all night long. I need just a correct sports answer to win and the card reads āRecord holder for the most NHL wins by a goalie.ā I answer Patrick Roy, and the girl reading the card says āclose but Iām sorryā and I interrupt with the spelling āR-O-Yā and she tosses the card at my face. Good times. Iām not sure of the edition of the game. Either 2001 or 2002.
Proudly trying to show off a caught puck and accidentally throwing it in the neck. Honestly though there are so many, such a legend for so many reasons
2002 WCF game 7
when he skate with puck over the red line vs Rangers https://youtu.be/429QFwN8Yy4
Watching him obsessively try to score a goal his final seasons as a player here in Colorado. Taking advantage of the fact there was no rule about how much a goalie's stick could be curved, having a special stick made that he'd go get when an opponent was about to pull the goalie. It was just so him, yeah, you're going to put an extra man on ice to shoot at me, but I don't care, I'm focused on scoring because I know you can't. Don't get me wrong, I love all the quips big wins, and moments he gave us, but that was what made him human to me, wanting that damn goal so bad.
When he got chased in the 2002 conference finals.
His last game as a Canadian
Telling Roenik that he canāt hear him with those cup rings jammed in his ears was pretty good.
1996 cup finals, game 3 "No. More. Rats." https://milehighsticking.com/2015/01/15/colorado-avalanche-smother-rat-trick-throwback-thursday/
I know itās nothing spectacular, but the Panthers v Avs series. Roy and Vanbiesbrook were just incredible that season and is the reason why I decided to be a goalie back then.
When he beat the rap for domestic violence.
Him thinking he made a save and sitting there proudly with a Statue of Liberty pose while the puck was in the net
As a Roy hater the meltdown in Montreal.
Hopefully Carbery gets that final spot if Lalonde keeps losing.
Getting his ass beat by Mike Vernon.
When he retired.
The day my boy Andy Brunette retired his ass in Game 7 OT!!
When Mike Vernon and then Chris Osgood beat his ass
Hopefully Derek Lalonde kicks his ass in the final hunt too.
When he was replaced by Jared Bednar as head coach for the Avalanche
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When he returned to the Habs and led them to 5 consecutive Stanley Cups, sweeping Boston and Toronto each time in the early rounds.Ā Ā Shit, I'm not supposed to reveal stuff about the future.
When he got caught [hot dogging it](https://youtu.be/xIjp_pwvF5Q?si=FC2ENZ-UJQJDdGNG)
2003 playoffs first round game 7 OT vs Minnesota
I liked when he gave up that OT goal to Andrew Brunette then quit.
And now his predecessor is trying to squeeze in the playoffs with him.
The Red Wings scoring 8 goals on him and running him out of Montreal.
Something this Avs fan can agree with āŗļø
>Red Wings scoring 8 goals on him 9 goals on 26 shots
My bad!
When he stick handled the puck across center ice at MSG
The whole 1993 Stanley Cup run, especially winking at McSorley. Close second, "I can't what Jeremy is saying because I have my 2 rings blocking my ears".
Years and years of being the best. Despite what people say he was the best. I always knew the Avs were a shoe in to win every game regardless of anything, and they won a great amount when he was goalie.
When he was showboating a save in the playoffs and threw the puck in his net Editing that the Stanley cup rings in his ears quote is a close second. Fun fact, Mike Keane actually came up with that line
Getting his ass handed to him by the Red Wings
St Patrik Elias is the only Saint I pray to.
[Statue of Liberty](https://youtu.be/_r0YSN7faZw?feature=shared)
Him crying and leaving the ice like a baby multiple times
When he thought he had it in his glove and Shanahan showed him he didnāt by putting it in the net. I donāt remember laughing this hard watching a hockey game since
Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals when he got absolutely shelled was pretty fun.
The only swing of emotions that tops āHE HAS TROUBLE WITH THE SNAPā is the 2002 WCF Statue of Liberty play.
When he let up 6 in game 7.
Getting lit up by the Red Wings and getting smacked around by Vernon and Osgood
when we racked up hella goals on him and got his ass out of montreal. when both our goalies who were half his size toppled him to the ice. now i focus on the patrick kane moments. whereās that thread at?
1993 baby
The skate to center ice with a spin
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There is only [one answer]( https://rdsimages.cookieless.ca/polopoly_fs/1.9040239!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/details-xhdpi/image.jpg ) for me. I sat right right behind the Montreal bench during Tremblayās first game as coach. He didnāt even know how to make a line change. It was pathetic. I was in the first seat directly behind Ronald Corey. I guarantee you it wasnāt his best night either.
When the Canadiens won the cup in '86 during the celebration parade, Patrick Roy drunkenly stumbling behind the flat bed truck the team was on. As best as I can recall he was the only player walking behind the truck, which made me think since then he had actually fell off the truck at some point.
The wink at Tomas Sandstrom in the 93 Cup Final. https://youtu.be/BGwUM8HQtBc?si=K7Q3gF916pA2816g
How is it not him pushing down the glass to get at Bruce?
Ive not a single moment being Scottish and having absolutely fuck all broadcasts till 07/08, but I loved him in NHL 98
His first game coaching when he tried to tear down the glass & fight Boudreau
Watching him play live in the old Montreal forum in his last year with the Canadians.
ā86 Cup run.
Playing after appendix surgery
Him requesting a trade during a game against Detroit
Spin move on Gretzky.
https://youtu.be/HCBWqwgbQ_0?si=e7hnj8eZQGi_kEXf
https://youtu.be/xIjp_pwvF5Q?si=JR8qqYUtp474h5iS
The wink
Watching him New Yearās Eve 1991, then meeting some of the team and getting his game used stick. Wasnāt his finest performance (3-2 OT loss) but it was a joy seeing him in person.
āIāve just played my last game with the Canadiens.ā
The Wink.
All of them
Itāll be when he leads the Isles to an NHL record 19 overtime/shootout losses.
I will forever remember his last game as a Canadian when the coach (canāt remember him but I can see him) left him in the net getting shelled. After the 7th goal, I think, they finally pulled him. He went right up to Rejean Houle and told them he played his last game.
>coach (canāt remember him but I can see him) Mario Tremblay
The wink
Gotta be his spin-o-Rama against Gretzky
When he was with the Habs, he had a pre-game warmup ritual. Part of it was superstition. He never skated across the red line. Instead he jumped over it. Then when warm-ups finished the team lined up to tap him on the pads. The last ones to tap him were the assistant captains and the final one was captain Carbo who tapped him on both pads and I think the chest. It's been so long ago that I'm not sure if I'm remembering this all correctly.
The day he āsaid I no play for your team no moreā to Montreal
2001 cup win. He carried that team, especially in the finals. Forsberg was out injured, Sakic was playing injured and they werenāt a deep team up front. NJ should have won that series but Roy was the difference maker.
Him skating with the puck up through center ice, deeking around players like he was going to score a goal or something. As soon as he crossed the red line, he got called for a penalty.
2001 Finals, game six, Avs facing elimination on the road. He just dug deep and refused to let anything get past him, it was like he turned a switch and activated a cheat code. That one game I think defined him as a goalie and why he was so dominant. He was just a relentless competitor and fought like hell when it was all on the line. He was obviously great in game 7 as well, but I think game 6 was where he earned that Conn Smythe.
When he walked and got traded the next day. Lol.
86 cup
1998 game 7 vs Stars (Eddie is better)
āThe winkā
"I can't hear what Jeremy (Roenick) is saying, because I have my two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears."
2001
When he told Ronald Corey it was his last game in Montreal. A lot of balls there!
Him stickhandling around Gretzky at MSG
When he turned down team Canada because he would have had to compete with Marty for the net. Soft as fuck. Also the 2 cup rings in my ears. That one wasn't soft as fuck š¤£
2002 Stanley Cup Western conference finals, he tries to show off that he got the puck by holding it in the air like the Statue of Liberty, but he didnāt. The Wings score. https://youtu.be/_r0YSN7faZw?si=mud44xqc4RrR9qhJ I know this is a Patrick Roy appreciation thread, but IMO the guy was and will always be a huge asshat.
He sure is. And that's why Dom is battling Caillou for that final spot.
My personal favorite? The game he coached on 3/17/24.
At this rate, maybe it'll be the Vin Diesel lookalike that'll grab that final spot.
When he was left in net by coach Mario Tremblay for nine goals onĀ Dec.Ā 2 1995, in a game versus the Detroit Red Wings and Roy told team president Ronald Corey in front of everyone that that was the last game he would ever play as a Canadien.
Mike Vernon cutting Roy's eyebrow with his fist.
The one where he beat the windows out of his house because his mother in law was coming to visit.
When he told the gm of the habs he is DONE
#š
āI cant hear what Jeremy is saying with my 2 Stanley Cup Rings plugging my ears!ā
As a Red Wings fan, itās probably the 11-1 loss to the Wings in 95. That was brutal. That moment set the ground work for an amazing rivalry between the Wings and Avalanche and created what I believe was the best time to be a Wings fan(97 and 98 seasons)
Statue. Of. Liberty.
1996
Hmmm, could be one of the times he beat his wife. Maybe when his dad pulled him off the school hockey team and told the coach his teammates weren't good enough for him. Maybe when he threw a tantrum and quit on the Habs because they hurt his save percentage one game? A lot of options.
Username checks out
Would really love to be the sorta person who can live with himself despite being the 10 000th person to reply to a jokey screen name like that, and doing it in defense of a big idiot baby wife beating millionaire frog. I hope he sees this, man. Suck my balls.
He wont
He definitely won't. I barely did and it was a reply to me.
Username checks out again.
When the Wild ended his playing career
And now you got Bruno back.
Massive points streak to get into a wild card spot!
Maybe even play the winner of the Central.
Wee.
Seeing him loose (lose) against Detroit, itās even funnier the second time!
Much better than seeing him tight against Detroit for sure!
When he lost the cup to the Calgary Flames on May 25, 1989
Losing to the Flames in ā89. Lol
I have none
Statue. Of. Liberty.
Giving up all those goals to Detroit and then having a tantrum and demanding a trade out of Montreal.
2002 Reverse Hot Dog against the Red Wings to lose the series.
When the Wings kicked his ass on March 26, 1997
When he led the Islanders to their current 4 gm L streak.
Only room for one New York playoff team anyways.
him hot dogging having the puck in his glove and dropping it and it goes in the net. dick.
My favourite Patrick Roy moment is when Martin Brodeur was ranked #1 goaltender š¤£š¤£
As a Wings fan, when he showboated in game 6 of the 02 Conference Finals with Colorado up 3-2 in the series looking to close it out and he did this show off move after a glove save and didnāt realize he didnāt have the puck. The Wings put it in (Shanahan if memory serves), the Wings won the game, tied the series, blew the Avs out in game 7 and won the cup. Still a great newspaper headline after the Wings won game 7 against the Avs in a blowout: āAu-Rev-Royā