MadLuke
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I did search for an interviews thread but could not find one.
Listened to a 1 hour long, Patrick Roy interview yesterday and there was a bunch of nice little trivias:
- Guy Lafleur was a really intimidating figure for him, he was taking maybe 5 minutes max between entering the locker room and skating on the ice, the no helmet look, by then they had a no smoking in the locker room rules so they made him an different room for it.
- After retirement he took a special effort to not start any superstitious habit as a coach, it completely overwhelmed is day to day life even outside the ring, everything about the schedule, meal, clothes, habits was a constant obsession (maybe a mechanism to stay focus while not thinking about the actual game and pressure). At one point he made someone bring back a puck that was thrown to fans in the crowd back, he had to remove all his left pad to change the right skate lace because he needed to put them in the right order....
- Sounded like he thought Claude Lemieux not accepting the McCarthy fighting invitation was a big mistake for the franchise, the big battle that followed removed the team focus, it was not about winning hockey game anymore, felt like it did cost them a cup if not 2.
- Detroit being the team that finished is Montreal career was part of the rivalry for him.
When Bourque arrived they were in 8th place in the west, they went 11-2-1 and he rapidly became for them the real team Captain despite the letter, that part was a surprise for Latendresse-Lapierre, considering how much colorado had legendary veteran already in place for along time, obviously Joe Sakic. Apparently Sakic was more of a silent, by example leader, while Bourque would go into giving big speech.
In 2001, we are lucky to get a mulligan and an other Bourque season, but now it really need to win it vibe.
Back in the days, he really did not took well after winning the cups with a Smythe run to be replaced next year by Hayward and played terribly when was put back in, but in hindsight it was just how much Montreal was all about winning the cup and nothing else was accepted, even building up your group of rookie that won it the year before was second to that. And he was probably specially bad against the Nordiques, being from Quebec, not handling it well, the first 2 games in 1993 against them in the Colisée were not good either.
Listened to a 1 hour long, Patrick Roy interview yesterday and there was a bunch of nice little trivias:
- Guy Lafleur was a really intimidating figure for him, he was taking maybe 5 minutes max between entering the locker room and skating on the ice, the no helmet look, by then they had a no smoking in the locker room rules so they made him an different room for it.
- After retirement he took a special effort to not start any superstitious habit as a coach, it completely overwhelmed is day to day life even outside the ring, everything about the schedule, meal, clothes, habits was a constant obsession (maybe a mechanism to stay focus while not thinking about the actual game and pressure). At one point he made someone bring back a puck that was thrown to fans in the crowd back, he had to remove all his left pad to change the right skate lace because he needed to put them in the right order....
- Sounded like he thought Claude Lemieux not accepting the McCarthy fighting invitation was a big mistake for the franchise, the big battle that followed removed the team focus, it was not about winning hockey game anymore, felt like it did cost them a cup if not 2.
- Detroit being the team that finished is Montreal career was part of the rivalry for him.
When Bourque arrived they were in 8th place in the west, they went 11-2-1 and he rapidly became for them the real team Captain despite the letter, that part was a surprise for Latendresse-Lapierre, considering how much colorado had legendary veteran already in place for along time, obviously Joe Sakic. Apparently Sakic was more of a silent, by example leader, while Bourque would go into giving big speech.
In 2001, we are lucky to get a mulligan and an other Bourque season, but now it really need to win it vibe.
Back in the days, he really did not took well after winning the cups with a Smythe run to be replaced next year by Hayward and played terribly when was put back in, but in hindsight it was just how much Montreal was all about winning the cup and nothing else was accepted, even building up your group of rookie that won it the year before was second to that. And he was probably specially bad against the Nordiques, being from Quebec, not handling it well, the first 2 games in 1993 against them in the Colisée were not good either.