Im surprised it took them this long to retire his jersey. Congrats to an all-time great.
Richard Labbé of La Presse newspaper says that Roy\'s jersey will be retired during a pre-game ceremony in November. Roy says that the annoucement hasn\'t been confirmed to him yet by the Canadien\'s brass. Montreal players will wear 4 different retro style jerseys during the Hab\'s centenial events. The first one shown (the 1915-1916 one) will be on November 15th against the Flyers, then they will put the 1912-1913 one on during their February 1st game against the Bruins. The Habs team will turn 100 in December 2009, therefore they will have plenty of time to wear the other two types of jerseys next year.
My keeper squad on this 10 team, no positional requirement league (except 1 goalie and 1 NHL team). Points only: Parise, Kopitar, Hemsky, Brunette, J Staal, Okposo, Doan, Roy, O.Jokinen, Giroux, Krejci, Oshie, Eberle, Little, Filpulla, Steen, Filatov, Hudler, H.Lundqvist, + NHL Team LA.
Im surprised it took them this long to retire his jersey. Congrats to an all-time great.
thx for the update
30 GM Commish Dynasty
G A +/- PIM PPP SOG W GAA SV
Start: 3C, 3LW, 3RW, 4D, 1Utl, 1G
C:Savard,Filpulla,Arnott,Ott,Boyd,Weight,Rupp
LW:Heatley,Morrow,Sullivan,Tambellini,Bissonnette, Pierro-Zabotel
RW: Hemsky,Backes,Orr,Tikhonov,Artyukhin,Ortmeyer
D:EJ,Ehrhoff,Hjalmarsson,Babchuk,Commodore
G: M.A.Fleury,Deslauriers,Koskinen,Monnino
second best goalie of all-time, good stuff.
Is he on good terms with MTL now? What if he stiffed the Habs and didn\'t show up. Just a thought.
Jumbo wrote:
Are you being serious? I doubt they\'re gonna plan a jersey retirement for a guy who wouldnt plan on showing up.Is he on good terms with MTL now? What if he stiffed the Habs and didn\'t show up. Just a thought.
Funny to think about them retiring his jersey since I remember VIVIDLY his last few moments in Montreal after he got SHELLED and was FURIOUS on the bench.
I guess that is all water under the bridge now since Patty got to raise the Cup TWO more times without the Habs.
6Team/Points Only H2H Keep: 37+3goalies Start: 13F/6D/2G
FWD = G(2), A(1), PP/SH(+1), GW(+2), SHOG(1)
DEF = G(3), A(2), PP/SH(+1), GW(+2), SHOG(1)
GOAL = W(3), OTL(1), SO(+2), SV(.10)
FOR: Malkin Ovechkin Kessel Stepan Gaborik Zetterberg Carter Vanek Pacioretty Duchene Skinner Lupul Hornqvist Perron Semin Okposo Byfuglien Granlund Bennett Strome Bjugstad Nichushkin Yakupov Galchenyuk Grigorenko Kuznetsov Kucherov Etem Burakovsky
D: Letang Goligoski Kronwall Voynov JustinSchultz Hedman RyanMurphy AdamLarsson Pulock Sproul
G: Lundqvist Lehtonen Schneider
Wow, when I first heard he was having his jersey retired I assumed it was going to be the Avs, I thought that the Habs wouldn\'t bother after the way he spewed venom at them at the end.
I think TIANTONIO is right though, it\'s AMAZING what a STANLEY cup will do.