Would appreciate others to list the player or players they remember being the whipping boy from the fans and the press from years gone by. Here are the last 3 years including this season, lets see how far back we can go!
2006-2007 - Michael Ryder (WINNER), Samsonov, Murray, Rivet, Bouillon
2005-2006 - Mike Ribeiro (WINNER), Craig Rivet, Richard Zednik, Radek Bonk, Jose Theodore and Pierre Dagenais (CO-WINNERS)
2003-2004 - Yanic Perreault, Patrice Brisebois (WINNER), Niklas Sundstrom, Joe Juneau, Andres Dackell, Donald Audette, Stephane Quintal, Chad Kilger
Would appreciate others to list the player or players they remember being the whipping boy from the fans and the press from years gone by. Here are the last 3 years including this season, lets see how far back we can go!
2006-2007 - Michael Ryder (WINNER), Samsonov, Murray, Rivet, Bouillon
2005-2006 - Mike Ribeiro (WINNER), Craig Rivet, Richard Zednik, Radek Bonk, Jose Theodore and Pierre Dagenais (CO-WINNERS)
2003-2004 - Yanic Perreault, Patrice Brisebois (WINNER), Niklas Sundstrom, Joe Juneau, Andres Dackell, Donald Audette, Stephane Quintal, Chad Kilger
Chad Kilger ? Hardly... Stephane Quintal???
Everybody seem to forget about Peter Popovich, THE definition of a whipping boy... (after Breezer of course)
Murray Baron comes to mind, Breezeby, and um.. gee my memory is awful.
No, it's called selective memory. Just like when you forget the wife asks you to take out the trash, you forget the really bad players who were on the Habs.
As far as I'm concerned, the entire team was Koivu from 1996-2000
The early nineties saw the fab three of whipping boys - Keane, Skrudland, Gilchrist. All three broke in about the same time, were on successful Habs teams (Skrudland played on the 86 cup winner and all three played on the team that lost to Calgary in 89), grew up in the Habs system, character guys - tough as nails.
For me this is where the Habs jumped the shark. Yes, ultimately the Roy trade sealed the fate of the franchise, but getting rid of these three players in the span on three years turned the Habs into a rudderless franchise made up of soft players. . We are still struggling to regain the toughness we had from the mid eighties to the early nineties.
