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There are mind games in professional sports and a lot of them, comes playoffs time, the strongest team mentally often takes the win. During the 1996 playoffs, the Avalanche was facing the Blackhawks and Jeremy Roenick dared to taunt Patrick Roy by saying the Colorado netminder probably had to get his jock out of the United Center rafters after game 3. When the media asked Roy about it, what came out of his mouth was pure gold: “I can’t hear what Jeremy is saying because I’ve got my two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears…. The Hawks were leading 2-1 at the time, but they ended up losing the series 4-2, they didn’t win a single match after the trash talking.
Perhaps it’s recency bias, but when I think of quotes coming strictly from the Montreal Canadiens, all that comes to mind are Marc Bergevin quotes. The first one came in the middle of a disaster of a season when the Canadiens kept on losing and the GM kept refusing to face facts standing by then coach Michel Therrien saying: “If you’re ever in a foxhole and you want [someone] next to you, that’s what Michel Therrien is…. Those simple words infuriated a huge part of the fan base as in their mind, Therrien had long overstayed his welcome.
Do you have quotes you’ll never forget from anyone in the organization?