What about the best hockey TEAM ever?

Question

In my own opinion the 1970's MOntreal Canadiens! Total domination.

Answer 1

Hall of Famers from the 70's from the Montreal Canadiens:

Bob Gainey, LW, 1973-89, inducted 1992
Guy Lafleur, RW, 1971-85, inducted 1988
Jacques Laperrière, D, 1962-74, inducted 1987
Guy Lapointe, D, 1968-82, inducted 1993
Jacques Lemaire, C, 1967-79, inducted 1984
Frank Mahovlich, LW, 1970-74, inducted 1981
Larry Robinson, D, 1972-89, inducted 1995
Serge Savard, D, 1966-81, inducted 1986
Steve Shutt, LW, 1972-85, inducted 1993
Yvan Cournoyer, RW, 1963-79, inducted 1982
Ken Dryden, G, 1970-79, inducted 1983
Jean Béliveau, C, 1950-51 & 1952-71, inducted 1972
Dick Duff, LW, 1964-70, inducted 2006
Henri Richard, C, 1955-75, inducted 1979
all these players played through the 70's with Les Glorieux, Les Bleu, Blanc et Rouge.

and it was the Montreal Canadiens that won the Stanley cup in 1986 not the Oilers thank you.

enough said.

GO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

1976 Montreal Canadiens-8 losses,can you believe that?

Norris Division GP W L T Pts GF GA PIM
Montreal Canadiens 80 60 8 12 132 387 171 764
Los Angeles Kings 80 34 31 15 83 271 241 1186
Pittsburgh Penguins 80 34 33 13 81 240 252 669
Washington Capitals 80 24 42 14 62 221 307 1231
Detroit Red Wings 80 16 55 9 41 183 309 1332

Answer 3

The Montreal Canadiens dynasty team of the 1950's was the best hockey team ever to come together. There power play was so strong that the rules were changed to allow a penalized player to leave the penalty box after a goal was scored on a minor penalty. Prior to that, penalized players had to serve the full 2 minutes of a minor penalty. There was and will never be another team like them. This is hard for me to say because I am definitely not a Canadien fan BUT I am a fan of good hockey. The canadiens of the 1950's were a good hockey team.

Answer 4

1. The 1950-1960 Montreal Canadiens, 10 straight Stanley Cup Finals, 6 Stanley Cups in 8 years, 5 Stanley Cups in 5 years. The 1953-54 season ended with Detroit beating Montreal in Game 7 in OT, the 1954-55 season with Detroit beating Montreal in Game 7. This team could have won 8 straight Stanley Cups.

2. The 1970s Montreal Canadiens, 5 Stanley Cups in 7 years. 13 Hall of Famers. The most dominating regular season run in NHL history under Scotty Bowman (interestingly, taking things on a 5 years moving scale, the 2nd most dominating regular season run was by Detroit while coached by Scotty Bowman!)

3. The 1980-1984 New York Islanders. 4 Stanley Cups in 5 years, but most amazingly, they won 19 straight playoff series (an NHL record). 7 Hall of Famers

4. The 1983-1990 Edmonton Oilers, 5 Stanley Cups in 7 years, 6 Stanley Cup Finals in 8 years). 5 Hall of Famers, a 6th on the way, and if luck should turn his way, Glenn Anderson may make 7. Statistically speaking, Grant Fuhr is the worst goaltender in the Hall of Fame from a winning percentage perspective, and over half a goal a game worse in the GAA perspective. YOu have to give them credit though, if you give up 3.6 goals a game, and can score 5 at will....you deserve to call yourself a great team!



..............and to jackalope_39 who mentions the 1986 Oilers......The 1986 Stanley Cup Final was won by Montreal............over Calgary....not an Oiler in sight!)

Answer 5

i Think you are absolutely correct . Les Canadiens with Lfleur ,Shutt,Lemaire up front a checker like dougie Risebrough,and that brick wall of a defense...Lapointe,Savard,Robinson,Engblom,Langway,Lupien...with Kenny D in net,allowing only 8 losses in 72 games...5 cups...total domination...everyone was scared to play the Habs...as a Canadian ,i hated them they would always win on Saturday night...but now i RESPECT what i witnessed...truly amazing ...canit be done today,no...too much free agency...back then anyone of the Habsss' players would have been great today...with today,s newer equipment,rules,training and such....Nobody could score on the fly from the right side like Lafleur!!..God,i hated that



I do however give Gretzky's Oilers a point or two,simply because of 99....he was the best


Another team that used intimidation and smarts was the Flyers of the 70"s..greatest leader in the game ever,in my opinion,Bobby Clarke...That Flyer team also featured 6 20 goal scorers,they werent just goons... simple goonery wont win a stanley cup

Answer 6

I would have to have a toss-up between the 70's Canadiens, the 50's Canadiens, or the 80's Oilers.

Answer 7

I agree....'70 Canadiens....However, I think that was the last year the Habs were automatically given the two best picks out of Quebec, maybe '69...that was the beginning of the end for the dynasty. Granted, they won an awful lot of cups after '70 but once their quebecois players were retiring off, they were on an equal footing with the rest of the league!

Answer 8

I'm a Habs fan, but I don't think any team compares to the Oiler dynasty of the 1980s.

Not only did they have HOFers at every position (Fuhr, Coffey, Gretzky, Kurri, and soon Messier), but they were so good offensively that the league had to adopt rule changes. Before Gretzky and his boys came along, coincidental minors meant a 4-on-4 situation. The Oilers, though, were so good in that situation that the NHL eliminated the 4-on-4.

The Oilers also changed the way the game was played. Glen Sather had been a big fan of Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg's play with Winnipeg in the WHA, so he adopted that European wide-open, lots-of-passing style for his Oilers teams, and looked for players that would fit into that system.

I love the Montreal teams of the late '70s, but the Oilers took the game to another level that I've yet to see matched.

Answer 9

No love for the Senators who won 10 Cups from 1909-1927?

Stanley Cups won: 9; 1909, 1910 (2), 1911 (2), 1920, 1921, 1923, 1927.

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Answer 10

I agree with you. The Canadiens in the 70's were awesome!