Thursday, 22 January 2015

The best season of the Montreal Canadiens from 1967 to 2014.

                                                           


       The Best Season for the  Montreal Canadiens From 1967 to 2014

The 1976-77 season. That's  the 68th season for the team. Yvan Cournoyer was the captain of team. He was  6th in points for the forwards. he got 53 points.. Guy Lafleur got the season Most Valuble Player award and the top scorer. because he scored 56 goals, 80 assists and 136 points. They got 60 wins, 8 loses 12 ties.
387 goals. They were the  Norris Division champions and the Wales conference champions.
They walked right into playoffs with a great seasons. In  the post season the Power housed themselves to the Stanley Cup finals. They went straight to the quarter Finals, they beat the St. louis Blues with 4 wins. At the Semifinals they had their toughest challenge of the playoffs. The series was 4 wins for Montreal and 2 wins for New York Islanders
New York Islanders vs Montreal Canadiens .
Game 1 Montreal 4-3 New York
Game 2 Montreal 3-0 New York
Game 3 New York 5-3  Montreal
Game 4 Montreal 4-0 New York
Game 5 It  was the best game of  the whole series. The Islanders beat Montreal, Billy Harris for the islanders scored  the game winning goal in overtime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z89YZHwc7No
Game 6 Montreal beat New York 2-1.

In the NHL 1976-1977 Finals

The Boston Bruins beat the Broad Street Bullies the Philldelphia Flyers with series of 4-0, to get into the Stanley Cup  finals. Boston came into the playoffs with a season of 49 wins,  23 loses and 8 ties
Game 1: The Canadiens best the Boston Bruins with a score of 7-3.
Game 2: Boston got beat by the Habs 3-0 the hall of farmer Ken Dryden got a shutout for the Canadiens
Game 3 Les Habitants won 4-2 
Game 4 : The Canadiens won the stanley cup. They won their 20th Stanley cup. 
 The habs received 7 awards from the NHL. The Stanley Cup, The Hall of Famer Guy Lafleur got  4 out of the 7 that Montreal got. He got the play off MVP, the season MVP, the league top scorer and the most outstanding player of the season. Another reason why it was their best season. It's because was the last time that one of the greatest right wingers of Montreal won the playoff MVP. 

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