1993 Stanley Cup Champions reunite for 30th anniversary!

[Treb]

I thought that was Brian Savage who had the hf account?

You are right.

Late night brain damage.

 

[dinodebino]

I thought that was Brian Savage who had the hf account?

Brian it was. Poor guy. Just like Carl Pavano on the Expos board.

 

[Shabs]

Mike Keane minus hair is having trouble computing.

And denis with no 'stache

 

[Steve Shutt]

Here's the list of players who were on the team for the 1993 cups run:

#	Player Name	Pos.	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	Birthplace	Age
25	Vincent Damphousse	C	84	39	58	97	98	5	20	11	12	23	16	PQ: Montreal	24
11	Kirk Muller	C	80	37	57	94	77	8	20	10	7	17	18	ONT: Kingston	26
23	Brian Bellows	R	82	40	48	88	44	4	18	6	9	15	18	ONT: St. Catharines	28
47	Stephan Lebeau	C	71	31	49	80	20	23	13	3	3	6	6	PQ: Saint-Jerome	24
12	Mike Keane	R	77	15	45	60	95	29	19	2	13	15	6	MAN: Winnipeg	25
18	Denis Savard	F	63	16	34	50	90	1	14	0	5	5	4	PQ: Pointe Gatineau	31
45	Gilbert Dionne	L	75	20	28	48	63	5	20	6	6	12	20	PQ: Drummondville	21
28	Eric Desjardins	D	82	13	32	45	98	20	20	4	10	14	23	PQ: Rouyn-Noranda	23
17	John LeClair	L	72	19	25	44	33	11	20	4	6	10	14	VT: St. Albans	23
8	Mathieu Schneider	D	60	13	31	44	91	8	11	1	2	3	16	NY: New York	23
43	Patrice Brisebois	D	70	10	21	31	79	6	20	0	4	4	18	PQ: Montreal	21
14	Kevin Haller	D	73	11	14	25	117	7	17	1	6	7	16	ALTA: Trochu	21
22	Benoit Brunet	L	47	10	15	25	19	13	20	2	8	10	8	PQ: Pointe-Claire	24
48	J.J. Daigneault	D	66	8	10	18	57	25	20	1	3	4	22	PQ: Montreal	26
26	Gary Leeman 1	D	20	6	12	18	14	9	11	1	2	3	2	ONT: Toronto	28
15	Paul DiPietro	C	29	4	13	17	14	11	17	8	5	13	8	ONT: Sault Ste. Marie	21
21	Guy Carbonneau	C	61	4	13	17	20	-9	20	3	3	6	10	PQ: Sept-Iles	32
24	Lyle Odelein	D	83	2	14	16	205	35	20	1	5	6	30	SASK: Quill Lake	24
36	Todd Ewen	R	75	5	9	14	193	6	1	0	0	0	0	SASK: Saskatoon	26
31	Ed Ronan	R	53	5	7	12	20	6	14	2	3	5	10	MA: Quincy	24
															29
32	Mario Roberge	L	50	4	4	8	142	2	3	0	0	0	0	PQ: Quebec	28
38	Sean Hill	D	31	2	6	8	54	-5	3	0	0	0	4	MN: Duluth	22
29	Jesse Belanger	C	19	4	2	6	4	1	9	0	1	1	0	PQ: St. Georges Beauce	23
6	Oleg Petrov	R	9	2	1	3	10	2	1	0	0	0	0	Russia: Moscow	21
34	Donald Dufresne	D	32	1	2	3	32	0	2	0	0	0	0	PQ: Quebec	25
33	Patrick Roy	G	62	0	2	2	16	0	20	0	1	1	4	PQ: Quebec	26
5	Rob Ramage 3	D	8	0	1	1	8	-3	7	0	0	0	4	ONT: Byron	33
37	Andre Racicot	G	26	0	1	1	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	PQ: Rouyn-Noranda	23

 

[the valiant effort]

Take me back to a 24 team league, ma

 

[Zorro]

That's a lot of QC born players...did the Habs still have the exclusive rights to QC? lol

I was only 9/10 years old so i don't recall some of the most obscure players but do i ever remember being so happy when the habs won the cup. I know i cried a bit from emotion and that's when my parents were like damn he really likes this team/hockey.

I have boys that are 6 and 8, the 6 year old is a Leaf fan thanks to my wife lol, but the 8 year is a Habs fan through and through. I just want them to experience what i went through 30 years ago, because that Habs SC win is what cemented my love for hockey/Habs.

 

[OldCraig71]

Wow, where has the time gone? That was a team that was so easy to cheer for and one blessed by the hockey Gods in every way possible. Who would have thought it would be the last Canadian team to win the cup? Good times, thank you for posting this!

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

I miss the 90's

 

[Lshap]

I was at the Cup parade that summer. I stood next to this nice older couple, who'd driven up from (I think) Vermont. Wow - you guys must be real Habs fans! "Well...", said the mom, "Our boy plays for them". They were John LeClair's parents.

I have pics of the parade somewhere - the old-fashioned kind taken with a camera and developed in a lab. Main memory is Patrick Roy looking like a pasty-faced kid, drunk out of his mind. Have to find them and post them....

 

[FrankMTL]

Although I somwhat disliked Don Cherry (more as time went on), I loved his "Rock'Em Sock'em" videos. I had volume 5 (on VHS obviously) of the Canadiens overtime run to the Stanley Cup. It was glorious.

I found it on YouTube....it starts at 11 minutes. Enjoy!

 

[Gustave]

I was in grade 3 when these guys won the Cup, distinctly remember pacing around nervous in game 1 OT against Quebec. The series against the Sabres and Islanders after are a blur, but have vivid memories of Desjardins in game 2 of the finals and LeClair's OT winners. I had to tape game 5 on VHS because I had a little league game.

Would be nice for them to win a Cup when I'm older than age 9 though.

Good story.

Kudos to my mom for giving me permission to watch the whole games thoughout the playoffs, way passed my bed time on week days. I was 11 years old

I even got to watch Mick Vukota score that infamous goal that pretty much sent us to the ultimate glory!

EDIT; as pointed down further. it’s David Volek, not the goon Vukota

 

[Tabarouette]

cool to read stories from the 12 people on here who were alive/conscious when this happened

What's it like to watch a team succeed

 

[Lshap]

cool to read stories from the 12 people on here who were alive/conscious when this happened

What's it like to watch a team succeed

Another story: I watched the first game of the 1993 SCF at a Cage Aux Sport downtown on Guy (it's not there anymore). We lost that game. Next day I got calls from friends who saw me on the late-night news. Apparently, CTV had been at that restaurant filming fan reactions to the game, and zoomed in on my pathetic, sad face.

 

[Tyson]

cool to read stories from the 12 people on here who were alive/conscious when this happened

What's it like to watch a team succeed

I was so bummed when Quebec had won the 1ST two games. Living in Virginia the 3rd game wasn't televised and the sports feed I was watching reported that Quebec had won game 3 in OT...I was devastated until my brother called me all happy telling me the Habs had won in OT. Talk about a high and a low minutes apart!

 

[Habsfan18]

Good story.

Kudos to my mom for giving me permission to watch the whole games thoughout the playoffs, way passed my bed time on week days. I was 11 years old

I even got to watch Mick Vukota score that infamous goal that pretty much sent us to the ultimate glory!

Are you talking about the David Volek goal?

I assume that’s what you’re referring to. And yes, that goal pretty much sealed it for us. Not sure we’re getting past the Pens as much as that pains me to admit.

 

[OldCraig71]

cool to read stories from the 12 people on here who were alive/conscious when this happened

What's it like to watch a team succeed

My blood pressure was as high as it's ever been, my TV died in game 4 and I replaced it with a 9-inch b&w courtesy of my Filipino landlord who used to introduce me as his son whenever we were together in public lol. I sat about 2 feet away from the screen which sat on my kitchen table lol, aw f*** lol, those were the days. I had watched the Habs win 3 cups before that one but it was always with my dad. I felt like this was my cup, my very own lol. Desjardins! Desjardins!

 

[JianYang]

Are you talking about the David Volek goal?

I assume that’s what you’re referring to. And yes, that goal pretty much sealed it for us. Not sure we’re getting past the Pens as much as that pains me to admit.

Pens had an offensive juggernaut, but no team has won the gup 3 times in a row since the Islanders in the early 80s..... Because its alot of miles on the body and really hard to do.

I found barasso to be a bit flaky at times, and they weren't the greatest defensive team so it's not like the were impenetrable..... Whose to say that the penguins simply weren't ripe for the picking after back to back cups?

 

[Le Tricolore]

I was in grade 3 when these guys won the Cup, distinctly remember pacing around nervous in game 1 OT against Quebec. The series against the Sabres and Islanders after are a blur, but have vivid memories of Desjardins in game 2 of the finals and LeClair's OT winners. I had to tape game 5 on VHS because I had a little league game.

Would be nice for them to win a Cup when I'm older than age 9 though.

I'm around the same age as you. I have some memories of the 93 run, like falling asleep on the couch and then being woken up when my dad carried me to bed a while later to tell me that the Habs won in OT. I also remember thinking how cool it was that the Habs won both the game and series 4-1 vs LA. For some reason I thought that made the win even sweeter.

The run a few years ago was so much fun, but I'd love to be old enough to appreciate the Cup win enough that I have no choice but to call in sick to work the next day.

 

[JianYang]

I was in grade 4 at the time. It was a bit different for me because I live on the west coast, so I couldn't feel the vibe of being in the city.

Anyways, it was just a really exciting time. The games would start an hour after I'd come back from school, and it all I could really think about the whole day.

The thrill of that OT streak will probably never be duplicated. The 2021 final also showed to me that its just not the same feeling when you get older, covid or no covid, so I pity the fans who never got to experience a cup in their childhood.... It hits differently.

I also remember that once the Habs were hoisting that cup, I immediately went to my room, because I neglected a class project during that playoff run, and I finally had the frame of mind to work on it and to present infront of the class the following day. Good times.

 

[Gustave]

Are you talking about the David Volek goal?

I assume that’s what you’re referring to. And yes, that goal pretty much sealed it for us. Not sure we’re getting past the Pens as much as that pains me to admit.

Nice catch! Yes, Volek. I’m mixing my my weird names from the Islanders.

And we weren’t getting past the Pens, that was a GIFT.

I felt the same about the Covid playoffs. If the Isles pull away with game 7 against TBay, we win the cup. Alas, miracles are pretty rare. It did feel like a Deja vu, it was some kind of coincidence.

 

[Habs10Habs]

That's a lot of QC born players...did the Habs still have the exclusive rights to QC? lol

I was only 9/10 years old so i don't recall some of the most obscure players but do i ever remember being so happy when the habs won the cup. I know i cried a bit from emotion and that's when my parents were like damn he really likes this team/hockey.

I have boys that are 6 and 8, the 6 year old is a Leaf fan thanks to my wife lol, but the 8 year is a Habs fan through and through. I just want them to experience what i went through 30 years ago, because that Habs SC win is what cemented my love for hockey/Habs.

That's a shame. Though atleast you still have the one kid. Plus I've heard single life isn't so bad.

I was 23 the last time the Habs won the cup. I was excited and partied for a day or two. But I didn't really take the time to appreciate it. Since during my early life time, winning Cups was pretty much what we did. I think that's why a lot of our older posters were so excited about our last cup run. Knowing we may not see another one, in our life time.

 

[Gustave]

I was in grade 4 at the time. It was a bit different for me because I live on the west coast, so I couldn't feel the vibe of being in the city.

Anyways, it was just a really exciting time. The games would start an hour after I'd come back from school, and it all I could really think about the whole day.

The thrill of that OT streak will probably never be duplicated. The 2021 final also showed to me that its just not the same feeling when you get older, covid or no covid, so I pity the fans who never got to experience a cup in their childhood.... It hits differently.

I also remember that once the Habs were hoisting that cup, I immediately went to my room, because I neglected a class project during that playoff run, and I finally had the frame of mind to work on it and to present infront of the class the following day. Good times.

It is different but I got to experience it in a different way; my girl was into it so damn much that I vibed just as much.

So I had my heroes wining it as a kid where I could replicate it on Genesis NHL 93 and 94, and I saw some form of it where she was losing it to every win going further and further. It was fun. And watching back on YouTube so she could relive it the next day. Different generations, but much fun attached to the same team… but almost in victory in the second example

 

[the valiant effort]

On the other hand, if the Pens win that game 7 then they'd just lose their dynasty steam to the Habs.

Lemieux in the ECF in Montréal would have been amazing. Naturally the Habs never faced the Pens in the playoffs until the season after Mario hung them up the first time.

 

[Shabs]

I remember watching every game at my buds drinking and smoking stogies and playing nhl on the super nes between periods. Imagine basically watching all OT games and we win every one and get the cup. I can't tell you how effin awesome it was and then the parade. I pray for one more while I still have my faculties...