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Originally Posted by Tsawwassen
Well, the Habs had this rookie named Patrick Roy who basically carried his team to the Stanley Cup. He probably would've stonewalled the Oilers. My father and others were saying that Roy was the 2nd coming of Ken Dryden who carried his team to the Cup in 1971 as a rookie.
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Roy was incroyable but still usually those elite squads (just in my gut feeling nothing else- obviously impossible to prove) typically have one upset in them- if the Oilers had made it on , I think they take the outmatched Habs
what bothered me more was living in Montreal in the later 80s reading the Habs writers (I'm looking at you Red Fisher- RIP) would look back at that series and say that the Flames were flukes to even be in the finals, totally over matched by the Habs who were the rightful Wales conference powerhouse- given that the Flames finished admittedly right ahead of them in the regular season, and were decimated by injuries in the finals I always found that to be a bit of a stretch