1993 Habs-Nordiques Game 1

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

4:41 WHAT-A-GOAL by Young! The Colisee's roof was almost blown when the crowd yells

[@noahnorman6877]

If you listen closely after the goal is scored you can hear “Rock and Roll Part 2” playing

[@alexandrebertrand-lafleur3114]

@@noahnorman6877 i know, i saw few games in the Colisée

[@mvanderstank95]

Early-mid 90's was a good time for hockey, living in Ottawa you could watch 6 teams on cable, Nords on channel 5, Sens channel 6, Habs channel 11, Leafs on global (3), Sabres on Fox (36) Bruins on NESN (48)! And the games on CBC (8) and TSN (30)!

[@LeoWhalen1933]

That's cool that you got NESN

[@princeofpop8]

Up here we get Leafs on Global (5), CBC (8), SRC (13), Canadiens/Senators on TQS (20), TSN (33), and Bruins on WSBK (52).

[@Xatalion]

Bring back Quebec

[@TL2354]

The city? It’s still there

[@danpopowych5081]

No

[@gsafinancialservices9645]

Sakic, Sundin, Nolan, Young, Ricci, Kamensky, Rucinsky ... damn !

[@ziggymorris8760]

Hervey Gauthier rucinsky was ok, I wouldn’t put him in that list with the others.

[@gsafinancialservices9645]

@@ziggymorris8760 Rucinsky was a better skater than Ricci but i get your point.

[@Chrisman77]

You know they still lost right?

[@gsafinancialservices9645]

@@Chrisman77 I think i do. Just like the Matthews, Marner and Tavares bunch.

[@hymansahak181]

And Duschene who was a great offensive defenseman. Nordiques should have won this series up 2-0.

[@ziggymorris8760]

Love the old film and uniforms. Classic

[@Unclemoparman]

St Patrick redeemed himself: 10 straight OT wins a record and the Stanley Cup of course!

[@martinpatrick1746]

A young Chris Cuthbert part of the CBC broadcast team.

[@wilnerolivier7971]

Now he's the # 1 play by play guy for HNIC on Sportsnet!!

[@leafyutube]

Montreal newspapers next day said the Habs should trade Patrick Roy. A few weeks later, Conn Smyth trophy!

[@Chrisman77]

Sounds just like most of my fellow Bruin fans this year.

[@David-vp3eq]

Well, eventually they got their wish :)

[@jordangoulet6536]

@@David-vp3eq and he won the cup with Colorado.😆

[@intellivisionmaster7999]

That’s the Montreal media! You’re only as good as your last performance! (Unless your last name ends in Lafleur or Richard)! Even Ken Dryden said that in 1979 before the playoff run he felt that his days were numbered…. And he won 6 cups in 8 seasons!!! The day that Dryden joined the Habs, Vachon and Worsley were tossed away like yesterday’s newspaper; and both Vachon and the Gumper won multiple cups for the Habs :) :)

[@rulinghabs]

The way the goalies set up. I wonder how they saved anything.

[@dftmmwgitd]

They were good, unlike the goalies of today who just go into the butterfly with their huge pads.

[@brianlb78]

@@dftmmwgitd I kind of agree with this. Now the thing is to find the biggest goalie you can find, have him drop to his knees constantly and even push side to side while on his knees and put as big of chest protector as you can legally get a away with. It seems like the skill in goaltending has gone away some compared to previous years. I don't think there is a single goalie under 6' tall in the NHL right now. Before that is what most where. Very agile and acrobatic back in the day, not so much anymore.

[@leroy5376]

Awesome game, I'm a die hard fan of the Habs and ever since I've seen this two goals against Patrick Roy, I know it sounds silly but it always pops in my mind since that game, it seems like he let both goals in on purpose, I know it's not true.

[@ericfett9218]

Imagine the possibilities if Quebec had traded for Grant Fuhr from Toronto and had him in goal for this series....

[@misakiyoshida]

Then he would have went to the Avalanche and gotten smoked by the Wings. Be careful what you wish for

[@riccardoiorio4329]

Quebec would have still lost the series.

[@martinpatrick1746]

Miss the Habs Nords games.

[@wilnerolivier7971]

I'm with you on that!!

[@timburr4453]

that Sakic tying goal was horrific. He didn't have many hiccups after that and was a wall throughout the 1993 playoffs

[@welterskelter]

5:05 Tony Twist wearing a bolo tie.

[@toptenguy1]

And the Nordiques would use that momentum and cruise on to the 1993 Stanley Cup. (SHUT UP! LET ME BE DELUSIONAL AND LEAVE ME ALONE! LOL) :)

[@crooilerfan]

We can only imagine

[@David-vp3eq]

Why did Hextall do that thing so often of rushing way out to cut down the angle? Did it ever work for him? It's one thing to play at the top of the crease like Richter used to, but there's no good reason to come way out into the middle of the faceoff circle unless the other team paid you off or something :/ Fiset was a better goalie IMO.

[@329woody]

Yea I remember this series I had no confidence in hextall whatsoever. That old school cut the angle thing was over fiset was better.

[@pomerlain8924]

@@329woody The Nords should have gone to Fiset after Game 4. As a young team, the one thing they needed to count on was having sufficient goaltending. And Hextall just didn't give him that. He did have good stats through the first four games, but it wasn't going to be sustainable.

[@JoeMastronardo]

@@pomerlain8924 Hextall was incredible in game 4. He made like 50 saves. 1st bad game was game 5.

[@charlesdansereau-menard3347]

the Colisée de Québec and its fans jinxed the whole series by playing/singing "Na na na na, Hey Hey Heeeey, Gooodbyyyye" after only 1 game played, looollll

[@malmn]

Bande de caves.

[@ziggymorris8760]

You are an idiot

[@dingdong7610]

Hex with that great tradition of playoff goaltending

[@kelsimorrison5386]

This was the only game that the Canadiens had lost in overtime

[@kialljacobs8331]

Nope not really they lost gm 7 in 1984 I believe in overtime to Nordiques de Quèbec n they won Adams Finale

[@joeydrummer7929]

@@kialljacobs8331 he probably means in that playoff run

[@MikoDarkblade]

With any decent goaly we would have won the series and the cup that year... Considering what happens next it was the beginning of a tragedy.

[@mcj88]

bad goaltending didn't cost Quebec that series; losing 2 of the 3 OT games in that series did

[@MikoDarkblade]

@@mcj88 Everyone is entitled to their opinion... But if you interchange Roy for Hextall in that series I think Quebec wins in 5... Also look how they lost those OT games with Hextall getting beat after going way out of his net.

[@mcj88]

@@MikoDarkblade - You mean if they do what they did 3 years later and luck into getting one of the greatest goalies in NHL history, they'd win a Cup? :P

[@MikoDarkblade]

@@mcj88 Well I guess that proves I was right lol! We had an even better team that year then what they had in 1996 except at the goalie position and all the other good team lost to underdogs which is why such a weak team was able to win the cup, talk about luck!!!

[@pomerlain8924]

@@mcj88 The goaltending cost them in Game 5 and 6.

[@Unclemoparman]

NHL RECORD 10 OT WINS FOR CANADIENS

[@Huuudge25]

First time ive seen a Fair Play scoreboard using tenths of a second

[@prun8893]

I still don't know how Chris Cuthbert got a play by play gig; his voice is as shrill as the air horns in the crowd.

[@daboys1215]

It's ok. Habs won the cup.

[@toptenguy1]

This feels SO MUCH like the Bruins' comeback on the Leafs in 2011. The only slight difference is that this wasn't game 7, this was game 1, and the Habs bounced back and won the Cup (SMALL difference) :)

[@Chrisman77]

First of all it was 2013. Secondly... No. No it doesn't seem like that at all. But keep trying

[@toptenguy1]

@@Chrisman77 Ok you were right about 2013 but other than that you seen quite bitter. Leaf fan? LOL

[@trentmiller8139]

If hextall had stayed in the Net wandering cost Us!

[@tonyk501]

Terrible goaltending from Ron Hextall during this series and it cost the Quebec Nordiques a heavy price. The 1993 Nordiques may have been young and green, but they still had more talent than the Montreal Canadiens with the exception of their goaltender. In playoff hockey, the most important player on any team are the goaltenders.

[@pomerlain8924]

Yep, it was thought that maybe after Game 3, and definitely after Game 4, that they should have made the change to Fiset. Hextall had the credentials with his Conn Smythe and great years in Philly, but he was not at that same level in this series.

[@craigugulini3920]

I’m a Habs fan and if they would of started fiset they win the series

[@JoeMastronardo]

@@craigugulini3920 you're nuts. Hextall was awesome the 1st 4 games.

[@reggiepathak9684]

awful goals let in by roy especially the 3rd one

[@lonkylaine]

Wow Roy looks so weak in this game.

[@Cyrus747]

Hextall was so terrible in that series....

[@mcj88]

nah, he gave up a couple bad goals early in game 1 but was solid from there on out; by the numbers he was actually better in that series than he was through the whole regular season, lol

[@pomerlain8924]

@@mcj88 He was terrible in Game 5 and 6. The Muller OT goal in Game 5 should never go in. And two of DiPietros's goals in Game 6 were with Hextall being way out of position.