That was a nice period for the Canadiens. They still had their greats from the 70s and a bunch of excellent newer guys too.
It seems like hockey was always on TV back then and now I manage to catch just a few games per year. It used to be 50/50 mix of Bruins and Canadiens fans here which was great!
After John LeClair (from my former hometown) got traded to the Flyers all the kids there became Flyers fans. For awhile he could have run for governor and gotten about 99% of the vote.
Channel 38 in Boston ran all 82 Bruins games free every season from 1969 until sometime in the late ‘80s when NESN and other sports networks arrived on cable.