The Montreal Canadiens' roller coaster final two decades of the 20th century

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It’s no secret that Pietro Triassi is a huge Montreal Canadiens fan. He has cheered for the team since he was a kid, and today, Pietro shares his passion with people online through the series of blogs he releases.

On this blog, Pietro looks back at the roller coaster final two decades of the previous century wherein the Canadiens experienced some of the best and some of their worst years.

While many sportswriters and Canadiens fans regarded the 1940s up to the end of the 1970s as the greatest decades in franchise history, the team struggled to stay consistent in the 20 years that followed.

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Although the team still kept their streak of winning the Stanley Cup at least once a decade with titles in 1986 in 1993, many thanks to their legendary goaltender Patrick Roy, they still paled in comparison to the success the team had in the '70s, which had rocketed expectations.

To compound matters, Patrick Roy left the team in 1995, and the following year, the Habs vacated the Montreal Forum, which was their home for 70 seasons and 22 Stanley Cups, in favor of the new Molson Centre, which is now called the Bell Centre.

The second half of the '90s was awful for both the teams and his fans as the team suffered mediocre seasons and plummeting values. However, fans such as Pietro Triassi breathed a sigh of relief in 2001 when the franchise announced it would stay in Canada, and not as many people feared, move to the U.S.

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