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Originally Posted by Dion
Telling your team President you won't play another game for Montreal?  |
People always refer to that game as some kind of blemish on Roy's career. The context behind why he left Montreal went far beyond being left in for 9 goals. That particular game was just the last straw in a long string of incidents between Tremblay and Roy.
Tremblay was a dick, and I probably would have done the same thing at the time too. I mean, I would have rather told the GM instead of the owner, but the GM wasn't sitting in the front row behind the player's bench. Not only that, but Ronald Corey was the one that just just fired the entire management and coaching staff weeks before that game, and replaced them with Houle and Tremblay.
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Four games into the 1995–96 season, Mario Tremblay was hired as the new coach, replacing Jacques Demers. Roy and Tremblay, who had roomed together while playing together, had a notably strained relationship, with Tremblay regularly mocking Roy's English. Roy was a frequent target of Tremblay during the latter's sports radio career. The two had almost come to blows in two incidents in 1995, one at a Long Island coffee shop before Tremblay was announced as a coach and after Tremblay allegedly fired a shot at Roy's throat during practice.
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