Classic: Nordiques @ Canadiens 04/26/93 | Game 5 Quarter Finals 1993

[@ref69]

Great game! Thanks for the upload. Shouts from Mainz, Germany.

[@toptenguy1]

Roy and Hextall sure had lots of playoff battles. 3rd time in 7 years there (1987, 1989, 1993).

[@pipikakachu]

But Roy was the goat to me when i was a kid.

[@chrisod22]

@@pipikakachu Still is

[@jp783]

Hextall threw this series as far as I'm concerned, and the next year when he was with the Isles, as well.

[@jeffnorman6489]

Best night of my life was this year with the Habs Winning the Cup!! And the cops lets us do pretty much all the driving around town partying as some of them would flash their lights and sirens who were Habs fans.! What a night!

[@nickknez8294]

Wow! that's pathetic that the best night of your life was when a hockey team you didn't play with won a game.

[@davidwolman3460]

Amazing crowd

[@AAAAAA79473]

8:25: Keane scores the first goal. 4:24 2:10:33: Muller scores in OT.

[@michaelohalloran2800]

Hockey is the greatest game.Combines. Skill and toughness .God knows we need this in the World.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

back in the day esp. it was great

[@Steiv44]

Can someone put up game 4 even though it didn't go to overtime?? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks.

[@timburr4453]

That Gilbert Dionne goal is so underrated to tie it. If that doesn't happen Montreal could be down 3-2 in the series...things could've turned out different then btw that was a wicked slash by Sundin on Damphousse as he rushed in.

[@toptenguy1]

I remember, as a Quebec fan how high the stakes were here. Not only for the obvious reason (game 5, 2-2 series), but the #4 seed Sabres had already swept the #1 seed Bruins on the other side of the bracket! So the winner of this tight series would get to avoid the powerhouse Bruins and have home ice advantage.

[@jkent6526]

I was thinking the same way.

[@marcosjuarez7809]

That same Quebec Nordiques franchise became the current Colorado Avalanche franchise since the 1995-96 NHL season which they won the Stanley Cup in a four-game sweep over my hometown Florida Panthers.

[@MaverickMustaine]

White shirt at home! The way it should be!

[@amazinmets8439]

Fuck Gary Bettman.

[@pellelindbergh4455]

also Nordiques too!!!! hockey the way is should be ! only one team in quebec now but two in florida !!?????

[@MaverickMustaine]

pelle lindbergh Bettman the moron. Panthers are struggling financially on top of it

[@pellelindbergh4455]

@@MaverickMustaine you are sooooooo right now they going back to the good old south for hub cities ,right in the heart of covid 19 yeah!

[@drezzrodriguez]

I never understood that change - the good guys always wear white...

[@scorpius6667]

It was very enjoyable to watch this game again! Knowing the Habs won the cup in 93 I could not remember who won this game and I didn't look it up to see before watching this game.The Nords probably should have won the game, they were the better team that night! I think there was two reasons the Habs won. First ...Patrick Roy! He made some fabulous saves, especially four or five game savers in OT! Second Ron Hextal! Hextal let in at least two goals in regulation time and the winning goal in OT I thought he should have had! But that's all history now! What really got me was how poorly Terry Gregson called this game! I am all for "letting them play" in the playoffs but this was pathetic! During the game there were at least six for sure penalties on both sides that should have been called even with the let em play attitude! Players get hurt when referees call games this way and I am surprised there was not more injuries than there was and it was this type of officiating that often started brawls! Back then I thought Gregson was a poor referee and watching this replay only confirmed it! Terry Gregson was a bad ref! How he became referee-in chief I'll never understand!

[@secondguess3128]

Check out any playoff video from the '80s and '90s -- "let 'em play" was the norm, much more so than during the regular seasons (and, thankfully, much more so than today). To be sure, it would generally become ridiculous what the referees let go.

[@profusely7767]

that toe save on sakic was huge. in OT

[@BudSchnelker]

These Habs had only one superstar, but he played the most important position. However, they were a really solid team from top to bottom, no weaknesses at all. Imagine if they'd never foolishly traded Chelios for Savard.

[@secondguess3128]

You're right -- it was a solid, if unspectacular group. But get this -- the Canadiens lost only 4 games during this playoff run. Since the NHL postseason went to 4 7-game series in 1987, only 1 other Stanley Cup-winning team has had fewer defeats: the 1988 Oilers, with 2.

[@sergedechantigny3756]

They traded Chelios because his off the ice behaviour , wich gave a chance for a veteran player (Savard) to win the cup before hagning his skates after almost two decades of winless hockey in Chicago

[@michaelohalloran2800]

What a Derby . As we say in football. To h in s has to come back.

[@EdMcStinko]

23:50 That hit was painful to watch, the side of Lebeau's face absorbed most of the damage. I think they'd call that boarding in the modern game

[@Fleury4]

This Nordiques team is totally stacked, except at goalie with ol' playoff disaster Hextall

[@timburr4453]

they were kind of young and not quite ready for prime time yet. 95 they definitely were ready and needed the goalie. 96 they finally got him though unfortunately in a new city

[@pomerlain8924]

@@timburr4453 A young team needs to be able to count on decent goaltending behind them to help with the jitters. And Hextall just wasn't it. I do think this series outcome might have been different had Pierre Pagé put in Stephané Fiset.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

I mean Hextall was a great goalie but his issue was his nerves.

[@jayharen788]

27 Ron Hextall Psycho Goalie

[@malakaspawt3190]

5:20 Kirk Muller was right!

[@malakaspawt3190]

48:40 Andrei Kovalenko's wrap around on Roy.

[@malakaspawt3190]

47:30 Owen Nolan's big slapshot on Roy.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

it's crazy how the Nords got beat by the Habs that year, nothing short of a miracle. Nords almost had an all-star team. Other than Roy, I think experience was the key.

[@brycemcneil4404]

Hextall wasn't at his best this series. I've always said that if you swapped goalies, Quebec would have probably won it in five. I didn't 100% know but I just "knew" Montreal was going on a Cup run the moment this game ended. It felt like a pendulum moment.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@brycemcneil4404 yea the Nords was the mountain they had to club basically

[@brycemcneil4404]

@Johnny Skinwalker Everyone else kept falling to the wayside. Some times it's just your year.

[@nols8244]

Imagine if the current NHL "stars" suddenly appeared on this game, none of them had survived, not a chance It was an entirely different sport in the 90's compared with today. A current NHL referee had no doubt cancelled +99% of the games in the 90's after the first period, when every players got a game misconduct then.

[@williamlacombe8958]

Muller barely touched hextall hextall actually threw himself to the ice and his feet were outside of the crease.goal should have been called good.fact

[@BBQFanNo1]

Similar to the Kings series which the Habs lost Game 1 in both series and won the remaining games.

[@pomerlain8924]

The Habs lost the first 2 games of this series against the Nords before winning 4 straight.

[@billybrah4904]

that first disallowed Montreal goal was BS

[@secondguess3128]

If anyone, Bellows should have been the one penalized. Hextall was on his way down when Muller made contact -- no wonder Captain Kirk was so worked up.

[@jayharen788]

OSW VVirgil owes me a tenner, hahaha

[@canconservative8976]

Habs were down the first 2 games of the series... it didn't look good... then they went 10 straight wins all the way to the cup final vs L.A. where they lost the first game, then won 4 straight to win the CUP! THE HAB GOOD OLE DAYS....

[@secondguess3128]

Actually, this game was the 3rd of 11 consecutive wins -- tying a playoff record for a single season that still stands. The Canadiens would not lose again until Game 4 of the conference final against the Islanders, then taking 5 of their last 6. The "10 straight" everyone remembers applied to overtime victories during a playoff year (this was the 2nd in that streak) -- the Habs continue to hold that record, by themselves.

[@jayharen788]

Kirk Müller war bei Florida Panthers auch stimmt oda net 😁😎🤭Mike Ricci9 bei San Jose wa... Intressont Baguette Fushsuppe Eintopf honhonhon... Baguette Croissonk Honhonhonhon

[@markoakes8620]

Too many commercials

[@jayharen788]

Calgary Flames habn Stanley Cup mit Mike Vernon 91 gwon oder, lol Zarley Zalapsky Gary Roberts, Robert Reichel, Al McInnis

[@michaelohalloran2800]

Nothing wrong with that check..

[@Kaynos]

Sti de jambon Hextall.

[@jayharen788]

Dave Reid y Claude Lemieux yiiiihaaa 🤭Lyle Odelein u Akexei Zhitnik sehen sich auch nixh im geringsten ähnlich 🤭😁🇳🇴🇸🇾🇱🇧🇹🇭🇷🇺... Baguette Croissonk

[@jayharen788]

Roberge, lmao

[@jayharen788]

THX ihr wisst ; ) NHL 97 mit Maus und Y Kabel Deki ; )

[@jayharen788]

Dallas Stars ex Minnesota North Stars Reto'o von Arx bei Blackhawks war Schweizer lol

[@leafyutube]

Montreal was lucky the Leafs got eliminated.

[@humankirk9196]

Narcissistic Leafs fans still moaning 30 years later even when the game posted has absolutely nothing to do with their loser of a team. Might want to start cheering for a team that actually can win a single playoff series.

[@stephenp.6395]

Yes we were SOOO lucky that we beat a team that the Leafs couldn't beat. This may have been our last cup but it was the last year that you losers won 2 series.