The Canadiens’ wild finish to the 20th century

Pietro Triassi is a native of Montreal, Canada. He loves everything about his home city, from its cuisine and culture to its history, especially its sports. Pietro is one of the biggest Montreal Canadiens fans people will ever meet.

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Over the past few months, Pietro Triassi has written and released a number of blogs on the Canadiens to share his passion with everyone. For this blog, he looks back at the wild period from the ‘80s to the ‘90s, a time when the Canadiens experienced some pretty high highs and some incredibly low lows.

Before anything, Pietro Triassi reminds everyone that from the ‘40s all the way up to the end of the ‘70s, the Canadiens were constantly a force to be reckoned with, establishing two of the most breathtaking NHL dynasties in that span of time. However, the team struggled to stay consistent in the two decades that followed.

While the team still kept their streak of winning the Stanley Cup at least once a decade with titles in 1986 and 1993, many thanks to all-time great goaltender Patrick Roy, the Canadiens still paled in comparison to the success the team had in the past. The departure of Roy in 1995 and the team’s subsequent transfer to the Molson Centre (now the Bell Centre) was a poignant time in the team’s history.

To make matters worse for fans, there were the rumors that the team would be moved to the U.S. However, much to everyone’s relief, Pietro Triassi included, the team would stay in Montreal.