There are options......but not tons of them. And for me, you are pushing the tradition by choosing everything higher than 30 outside of a goalie. I believe that the 30's and up for a non-goalie were created because of the retired jerseys. Not saying it was never wore before or that teams that didn't retire jerseys don't have players that wears high numbers but once the trend was there, they were all into it. But I understand his reasoning. And I understand he had enough numbers...but he could have had some more. Understand your point though. Just don't agree to retire so many numbers.
I know it's just a number. For once, there's a light discussion...we'll do it...
I think the organization got a bit more lax in recent years, re: which numbers they retire because they got caught up in the whole 100 years thing. There are a couple numbers that are borderline for me even if I really like those players, and another particularly great player that I don't think should have his number hanging in the rafters for my own reasons all together. That being said, we won't be seeing any retirement ceremonies in the foreseeable future nor will we ever see teams good enough to have jerseys retired at the rate that our past dynasties have. So even though our standards have lowered a bit over the past ten years I don't really dwell on it.
It was a travesty that it took them so long to honour a lot of the great guys from the 70s teams, and I think the biggest black eye on this organization is how long they waited to retire Boom Boom's jersey and then what ended up happening. But in rectifying those things they may have gone a bit far the other way.
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Originally Posted by SolkaTruesilver
72 is a square times a cube. It's a bit more convolutaded, but still elegant
All numbers are awesome if you play around with them a bit.
But there's something almost cosmic about 3 cubed to me. Kinda like 2 square.
I cant wait to see NASCAR lineup next season . Goal scored by #72 assisted by #76 and #79.
I think we were the first team ever to have players wearing numbers in the 90s in on a goal. I think it was a scored by Sergei Berezin #94 assisted by Dough Gilmour #93 and Joe Juneau #90. I guess this happens when most of the lower numbers are retired!
lol That ranks up there with Chris Osgoof as the best player name typos!
Why choose a number so early ? He just had to wait until Gorges signed and asked him then?
I like that we have differents numbers than other teams though. It's more interesting than having always the same numbers on the team but with different names. 72 is still weird mind you but in an interesting way.
Even if that wouldn't be enough to make us win at least it would make it fun to go to games againLove the habs but our north south players are so boring.
There was 4 forwards and 1 D ? Some kind of PP I guess... those years were bad, and Berezin was worse than bad (the guy could score, but that's all he could do and in the best conditions, and I thought he could be something great for us )
On topic, well, I would of liked a better looking number, but as long as he scores
At that time, Joe Juneau was not considered a forward anymore
1) It's a cool number!
2) To honor the great club team in the history in hockey 76-77 MTL Canadiens who had 60 W 8 L 12 Ties = 132 points, had 1 loss at home all year and went 16-1 to win the cup!! Total Domination!
3) Turgeon was the last one to wear it and he was a pretty good player!
73 is the 21st prime number it's mirror 37 is the 12th prime number and it's mirror 21 is the product of multiplying (hang on to your hats) 7 and 3. In binary 73 is a palindrome 1001001 which backwards 1001001 exactly the same. - Sheldon Cooper FTW
73 is the 21st prime number it's mirror 37 is the 12th prime number and it's mirror 21 is the product of multiplying (hang on to your hats) 7 and 3. In binary 73 is a palindrome 1001001 which backwards 1001001 exactly the same. - Sheldon Cooper FTW
. Goal scored by #72 assisted by #76 and #79. 
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