mcphee
Registered User
Zine, I wear my CH sunglasses at all times. There are those that bow to their greatness and those that are wrong.Considering his Flyers were spanked by the extremely clean, sportmanlike, skilled, choir boy Canadiens in '76...he was likely drunk when he made that comment.
We may as well get it right though. History tells a lot of stories. The core players of the 70's Habs, did feel that they had to make a point in beating Philly. Dryden,Robinson, Savard and propabaly others have made comments about how important it was to beat them.
Montreal made it very clear that season that they would beat Philly any way they wanted to play it, right from the exhibition series. When players like Savard tell the dressing room, 'Don't worry about Schultz,I'll take care of him', you know they were willing to win with the gloves off too. Bowman kept 'role' players around, always. He had the luxury of the Bouchard's and Lupien's because his top 3 d men could play ridiculous minutes.
Montreal's line of Lambert/Risebrough/Tremblay understood that stirring things up, was their role. They could have been an offensive line on some teams, but they knew that getting under the opponents skin was their role.
All that, and if Parent was healthy, the Flyers would've been a tougher opponent that year. So, yeah, the Habs wanted to blow up the Flyers team, but they were willing to do it any way you want.