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Canadiens 1216573 How underappreciated Oilers defenceman Jeff Petry became a Canadiens mainstay Websites 1216602 The Athletic / Stanley Cup Final picks, odds: Expert selections for game 1 between the Montreal Canadiens and 1216603 The Athletic / Stanley Cup Final predictions, plus playoff officiating, Olympics and next season’s champion 1216604 The Athletic / NHL power rankings: Tampa Bay, Montreal and the NHL Cinematic UniVerse 1216605 Sportsnet.ca / Canadiens’ opportunity to win Stanley Cup means eVerything to Price, Weber 1216606 Sportsnet.ca / Lightning’s connection to Canadiens runs deep ahead of Stanley Cup Final 1216607 Sportsnet.ca / How the Stanley Cup Final-bound Montreal Canadiens were built SPORT-SCAN, INC. 941-284-4129 1216549 Anaheim Ducks Kings left wing Luc Robitaille celebrates after scoring a goal against the Toronto Maple Leafs in second period action of Game 2 of the NHL Conference finals on May 27, 1993, in Inglewood. For Luc Robitaille, Canadiens in Stanley Cup Final feels like old times Robitaille sees some parallels between these Canadiens and the 1993 team that also was a surprise finalist and defeated the Kings in five games with the help of a power play gained Via Marty McSorley’s illegally By HELENE ELLIOTTSPORTS COLUMNIST curved stick in Game 2 (sorry if it’s too soon to bring that up again, Kings fans, but you’ve since had two Cup titles to console you). The 1993 JUNE 27, 2021 10:41 AM PT Canadiens won 10 of 11 playoff oVertime games that year, which Robitaille belieVes inVolVed a dose of luck; the current team benefitted from injuries and a suspension to key players in each round. When Luc Robitaille was growing up in Montreal, hockey was the Montreal Canadiens. But the Canadiens will need more than luck to beat the Lightning, who finished third in the Central division while high-scoring winger Nikita Before cable and satellite brought the world to eVeryone’s liVing room Kucherov recovered from hip surgery. Placing him on long-term injured and streaming offered infinite entertainment choices, Robitaille saw only reserve — where they’d stashed the contracts of Marian Gaborik and the Canadiens and then only once a week on Hockey Night in Canada Anders Nilsson — gave Tampa Bay more than $17 million in salary cap telecasts. Like so many French-speaking kids in Montreal and the relief to make depth moVes before the trade deadline. Kucherov healed province of Quebec, he pretended to be his heroes when he played in time to return in the playoffs, when the salary cap isn’t in effect. The against his brother, Pierre. slumbering Lightning woke up, taking out Florida in six games, Carolina in five, and the New York Islanders in seVen games. KucheroV is the “When we were like 4 or 5 years old, he’d be the red Canadiens. I was playoff scoring leader with 27 points in 18 games. the white ones,” Robitaille, a Hockey Hall of Fame left wing and now president of the Kings, said of Montreal’s classic home and road Center Blake Lizotte has re-signed with the L.A. Kings on a one-year, uniforms. $800,000 contract extension. The Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in 1966, the year Robitaille was “Sometimes the stars align for you,” Lightning general manager Julien born, and won regularly throughout his childhood and into his BriseBois said before the semifinals began. adolescence. Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau would say each spring the team’s Cup parade would “follow the usual route,” and eVeryone knew The stars seem to have favored the Canadiens so far. Robitaille believes what he meant. The Canadiens monopolized the Cup from the 1975-76 that can continue. “Look at what they’ve done so far,” he said. “I was season through 1978-79, assembling some of the most powerful and laughing this week, looking at how eVerybody had those guys counted complete teams that ever graced a hockey rink. out in every series. Literally, no one picked them in any series. “ObViously, we took it for granted. It was just like eVery year,” Robitaille “They certainly are playing Very well. They found a way to just come said. “By the time I started realizing it and I was playing hockey and so together at the right time. To watch them, there’s no room on the ice. forth, they won four Stanley Cups in a row. Crazy when you think about They’re playing like they believe in what they’re doing. They’re not giVing it.” up anything up the middle. The goalie is making all the big saVes.” Crazier still to think that the Canadiens, whose existence and first Cup Seems like old times — maybe eVen time to dig out those parade plans. title predate the formation of the NHL, haVen’t won the Cup or reached LA Times: LOADED: 06.28.2021 the Final since 1993. Craziest of all to think this season’s team, which fired its coach in February and was the last to clinch a playoff berth, has ended Montreal’s Cup Final famine. Andrei VasileVskiy had 18 saVes Friday night as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Islanders 1-0 in Game 7 of their NHL playoff semifinal series. The Canadiens, who erased a 3-1 deficit to upset Toronto in seven games, swept Winnipeg and stifled Vegas’ offense in the semifinals, will face the defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning for the Cup starting on Monday in Tampa.