Patrick Roy vs Mario Tremblay
RDS:n sivuilta löytyi mielenkiintoinen kolumni koskien 10v sitten tapahtunutta Roy vs Tremblay kahnausta, joka johti treidiin Habsien ja Coloradon välillä. Tästä treidistä alkoi organisaation pitkä ja masentava alamäki, Roy oli franchisepelaaja, kahden Stanley Cup voiton avainpelaaja.
Friday December 02, 2005 - By Diane Hayfield (RDS) - 10 years ago, Patrick Roy defied Mario Tremblay and all the organization of the Canadiens after having felt humiliated in a match against Red Wings de Detroit.December 6, Patrick Roy was exchanged in Colorado, with Mike Keane in return of Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Rucinsky and Andrei Kovalenko.
Ten years later, Patrick Roy did not lose his frank speech. For him, the decision of Ronald Corey to have named two men without experiment in the event Mario Tremblay and Rejean Houle to direct the Canadiens was very harmful for the organization."They are good people but they did not have the fabric for Montreal, mentioned Roy. Elsewhere that would have functioned but not in Montreal, I think that Ronald Corey made a decision which made move back the Canadiens of several years behind."
Today with a sight of retreat, several actors of the time confirm that there was a conflict of personality between the two men."There was a fight to be able between the two, affirms Bernard Brisset, who was a vice-president communications of the Canadiens in 1995. At the time of Jacques Demers, Patrick was the king of the cloakroom, When Mario arrived, it is as if he had said, the king of the cloakroom, now, it is me, it is me which carries out."
"I remember, somebody had said to me that the day of the appointment of Rejean Houle and Mario Tremblay, somebody would have said to Patrick in the cloakroom that they were naming Mario, adds Jacques Primeau, who was realizer of the Evening of hockey on December 2, 1995. Patrick would have said that may not be. Not because he did not love Mario and Rejean, but because he said himself, there they do not have the capacities to be."
"I think that Mario had decided to leave Patrick to go up to him there who was the boss, and Patrick A badly taken", believes for its part Benoit Brunet, which formed part of the edition of Tricolour the this year.
At the Canadian, two players of the current edition were present on December 2, 1995. Saku Koivu and Mathieu Dandenault. Both were recruits."That was expensive this match to us, because Patrick Roy was exchanged in Colorado and after it beat us in semi-final and it gained the Stanley Cut for the Avalanche", Dandenault mentions."I did not think that it was so serious and that that would involve the exchange of Patrick Roy, it was surprising", underlines for its part Koivu.
On the sporting level, Patrick Roy left gaining this controversy by adding two Stanley cups. On the emotive level, this separation was painful. Today, one smells very well that the ex-guard would like to approach the Canadian.
"It is sure that I would like to more often go in the Bell Center but I am always afraid of the reactions, specifies Roy. I am always afraid to see how certain people will react because of this famous match there. Unfortunately, I must live with that. That created barriers which should not exist."