The proverbial ghosts of Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden and Jacques Plante won't formally be banished until the Montreal Canadiens win another Stanley Cup.
The last Canadiens team, not to mention any Canadian team, to win the Stanley Cup was 1993 when Roy led an underdog club to banner No. 24 against Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings. Twenty-two years between Stanley Cups would once have been as laughable in Montreal as a Youppi! performance act at a Habs or Expos game.
As Sports Illustrated's Michael Farber, a former Montreal Gazette reporter, noted: Canadiens championships were once so commonplace that former Mayor Jean Drapeau would simply state that the parades would be "along the usual route."
Price moved the Canadiens a step closer to that long-delayed next parade with one of the best playoff goaltending performances in recent memory, a 43-save shutout in a 2-0 Game 6 victory over the Ottawa Senators. It was the first time the Senators were shut out all season.
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