"Habs are a pain in the ass to play against", Mark Recchi.

[puckeater]

Mark Recchi says the Canadiens are a pain in the butt to play against | @Home - Sportsnet.ca

Well...he IS a proctologist....

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[MrNasty]

I remember him pretending to be a doctor. I must have missed that it was a butt doctor.

 

[The Real Timo]

People always talk about Roy trade and it's impact... and they are obviously right. But Leclair/Desjardins trade for Recchi was just a big of a disaster as Roy. At least Roy played in a different conference. Leclair and Co terrorized Habs for years on a regular basis.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Travis Yost did an excellent article on the series.

Pittsburgh was a better 5 on 5 team than us, with the talent to match that. So they mitigate our strength while possessing a potent power play (and we have a weak penalty kill).

 

[Pickles]

People always talk about Roy trade and it's impact... and they are obviously right. But Leclair/Desjardins trade for Recchi was just a bit of a disaster as Roy. At least Roy played in a different conference. Leclair and Co terrorized Habs for years on a regular basis.

Seeing Leclair blossom in Philly sure was painful to watch,

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

People always talk about Roy trade and it's impact... and they are obviously right. But Leclair/Desjardins trade for Recchi was just a big of a disaster as Roy. At least Roy played in a different conference. Leclair and Co terrorized Habs for years on a regular basis.

Was watching all the available games of the 93 cup final last week. Leclair and Desjardins were instrumental in that series. No way the bad doctor was worth those two.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Was watching all the available games of the 93 cup final last week. Leclair and Desjardins were instrumental in that series. No way the bad doctor was worth those two.

He had just put up 107 and 123 the 2 seasons before.

 

[peate]

Was watching all the available games of the 93 cup final last week. Leclair and Desjardins were instrumental in that series. No way the bad doctor was worth those two.

Was hardly worth just one of them.

 

[montreal]

People always talk about Roy trade and it's impact... and they are obviously right. But Leclair/Desjardins trade for Recchi was just a big of a disaster as Roy. At least Roy played in a different conference. Leclair and Co terrorized Habs for years on a regular basis.

I wouldn't say as big of a disaster as Recchi did have 94 goals and 232 pts over 3 full seasons with us, but it really bad since LeClair especially just killed us and was exactly someone we could have badly used.

But one trade that is worse then the Recchi/LeClair/Desjardins trade is the Chelios/2nd round pick for Savard. I was a huge fan of Denis Savard when he was a Hawk but by the time we got him he wasn't close to being the same player.

 

[The Real Timo]

Was hardly worth just one of them.

If I remember correctly Dionne was part of the package as well. Don't remember him that well, which is likely that he wasn't a big loss.

What was the reason Leclrai and Desjardins got traded? Did they piss someone off?

 

[montreal]

If I remember correctly Dionne was part of the package as well. Don't remember him that well, which is likely that he wasn't a big loss.

What was the reason Leclrai and Desjardins got traded? Did they piss someone off?

the trade was,

philly - John Leclair
Eric Desjardins
Gilbert Dionne

Habs - Mark Recchi
3rd round pick

the trade was made to get the offense going and to try and make the playoffs, Savard clearly didn't evaluate the young LeClair and Desjardins correctly despite them helping us win a cup and they must have overvalued Recchi due to his big point totals with Pitt thanks to playing with very good players.

 

[Paddyjack]

I remember him pretending to be a doctor. I must have missed that it was a butt doctor.

Well he was an "expert" on concussion, but given that a lot of people have their heads down where their butt is, he would qualify I guess ;p

 

[hvac412]

If I remember correctly Dionne was part of the package as well. Don't remember him that well, which is likely that he wasn't a big loss.

What was the reason Leclrai and Desjardins got traded? Did they piss someone off?

Leclair asked for a million and Savard scoffed at the idea

 

[Seb]

f*** him

 

[Kriss E]

People always talk about Roy trade and it's impact... and they are obviously right. But Leclair/Desjardins trade for Recchi was just a big of a disaster as Roy. At least Roy played in a different conference. Leclair and Co terrorized Habs for years on a regular basis.

To be fair, Recchi was coming from four 40g+ seasons and his lowest point total over that stretch was 97pts...
If he had produced as much as he did in Philly, it wouldn't have been as bad. LeClair also blossomed in Philly.
In hindsight, that was a terrible move. The Roy trade though, we didn't have to wait to know it was a terrible trade.
Kinda like the Ribeiro for Niinima, albeit nowhere near the same impact but point is we knew from the moment it was announced it was a terrible move.

 

[mariolemieux66]

Was watching all the available games of the 93 cup final last week. Leclair and Desjardins were instrumental in that series. No way the bad doctor was worth those two.

Leclair was so big and strong physically and we never had a player like him since. I remember when Rob Ray went after him and Leclair just knocking him down and hold his own.

 

[OldCraig71]

Was watching all the available games of the 93 cup final last week. Leclair and Desjardins were instrumental in that series. No way the bad doctor was worth those two.

I watched spittin chicklets today and Leclair was on. He raved about Eric Desjardins and what he meant to the habs cup win and said that he was one of if not the best D-man that he played with in his entire career. A terrible trade, I still have my LeClair jersey.

 

[OldCraig71]

Leclair was so big and strong physically and we never had a player like him since. I remember when Rob Ray went after him and Leclair just knocking him down and hold his own.

Thanks for posting this, I love what we used to be. I want that again, talent and toughness and competitive fire!

 

[PhysicX]

Which teams aren't?

 

[Forum93]

The same piece of shit who said Pacioretty was faking his concussion. Just f*** off Dr. Recchi, don't really care what you have to say.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

He had just put up 107 and 123 the 2 seasons before.

Still not worth a #1D + young blue chip winger.

Savard couldn't see 3 important things with that trade. 1- The league transitioning to trap play, which made top pairing two-way dmen more important than in the past. 2- The Proctologist's inflated numbers. 3- John Leclair's potential.

Imagine he had kept Leclair until we got Turgeon.... drool

 

[montreal]

No wonder we have had some ugly years after that '93 cup win, terrible drafting, trading great players like Roy, Chelios, Desjardins (how do you trade a youngish D that scored a hattrick in the playoffs), LeClair, Damphousse, Richer, Turgeon, and a playoff warrior in Claude Lemieux. Trading them wouldn't be so bad if they got equal assets or close to it in return, but alas we didn't and we saw what happened. To think how things may have unfolded if we had different management back then and kept these guys to surround with Koivu and Markov. Oh well, at least we have MB and Molson to show us the way now.

 

[HabsDood]

No wonder we have had some ugly years after that '93 cup win, terrible drafting, trading great players like Roy, Chelios, Desjardins (how do you trade a youngish D that scored a hattrick in the playoffs), LeClair, Damphousse, Richer, Turgeon, and a playoff warrior in Claude Lemieux. Trading them wouldn't be so bad if they got equal assets or close to it in return, but alas we didn't and we saw what happened. To think how things may have unfolded if we had different management back then and kept these guys to surround with Koivu and Markov. Oh well, at least we have MB and Molson to show us the way now.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Still not worth a #1D + young blue chip winger.

Savard couldn't see 3 important things with that trade. 1- The league transitioning to trap play, which made top pairing two-way dmen more important than in the past. 2- The Proctologist's inflated numbers. 3- John Leclair's potential.

Imagine he had kept Leclair until we got Turgeon.... drool

Leclair was drafted in 87 and had done very little by the time he was traded.

Recchi had al lost 40 more points than anyone else on the flyers when he put up his 123 point season. In his last full season with the flyers he put up 19 more points than anyone else. Granted, Lindros missed almoat 20 games.

The trade looked good for Montreal, but then Leclair took off and Recchi was still good for the habs, but didn't have a talent to play with like Lindros,so Montreal got wrecked in a deal.

 

[JianYang]

Was hardly worth just one of them.

It was no surprise that Desjardins was a solid #1 dman for the Flyers for about a decade.

If you wanted a top end offensive player like recchi, it was going to take a guy like Desjardins and more.

The real surprise was Leclair going over there, being immediately put with lindros, and just lighting up the league as good as anyone.

There's no way Leclair was worth anywhere near recchi at the time of trade. Leclair was dintinctivly the 3rd best player in the deal at that point, who just exploded, and made the trade an outright steal for Philly.