Posted on 04/19/2012 4:38:45 PM PDT by Reality_News
1. They finished the 80-game schedule with only 8 losses, along with 12 ties. They broke NHL records for both wins and points ... records which they had set themselves just a year earlier.
2. They outscored their opponents by a 387-171 margin. To put that into perspective ... their total goal differential (216 goals) exceeded the total goals for 13 of the 30 teams in the NHL this past season.
3. 14 players on their roster scored 10 or more goals.
4. Defenseman Larry Robinson finished the season with a plus/minus rating of +120.
5. In addition to the Stanley Cup, other trophy winners for Montreal that year included Ken Dryden and Michel Larocque (Vezina Trophy), Guy Lafleur (Art Ross, Hart and Conn Smythe Trophies), Larry Robinson (Norris Trophy), and coach Scotty Bowman (Jack Adams Award). Steve Shutt led the NHL with 60 goals, though that was before the league awarded the Maurice Richard Trophy for that feat.
6. The two Montreal goalies finished #1 and #2 in the NHL for lowest goals-against average that year. I don't think that's ever happened before or since.
7. Four of the six first-team NHL All-Stars that year were Canadiens (Dryden, Lafleur, Shutt and Robinson).
8. The team lost only two games in the playoffs that year, sweeping both their first-round series against St. Louis and the finals against Boston.
I'd say that was about a dominant a team as you'll ever see in the NHL.
Bring on the Hanson brothers.....!
starting line-up of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.
Aw yes the old “Broad Street Bullies”
As their coach said “if cant beat’ em in the alley, wont
beat ‘em on the ice...”
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