ДетРуа

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Оказывается тогда, в 1995-ом после того как Детройт разгромил Монреаль 12-1 и Патрик Руа сказал что отыграл свой последний матч за Монреаль, Детройт был в чилсе команд (Торонто, Чикаго, Колорадо) )которым предложили обмен с Монреалем.
Но Скотти только что купил Майка Вернона и не хотел менять его на Руа, хотя безусловно поучаствовал в гонке с целью заполучить Руа, чтобы поднять его стоимость. С какой целью? Конечно , чтобы он не попал в Колорадо. Не помогло.
Как сказал Джимми Девеллано "Лучше бы не было того матча"

Remember that December 1995 night in Montreal, when the Wings beat Roy nine times in a 12-1 win? Roy -- enraged that he wasn't taken out sooner -- stormed his own bench and told the team president he had played his last game for the Canadiens.
"I wish we had never lit him up that night and that he'd remained in Montreal," Jimmy Devellano told the Canadian Press.
Roy, in Toronto to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, revealed Monday that the Wings, Maple Leafs and Blackhawks also were in the mix when then-Canadiens GM Rejean Houle started shopping him.
"Yes, he called us..." Scotty Bowman told the CP. "But we had just got Mike Vernon a year or two before. I didn't think I could make a trade with them. But I figured maybe I could get the price up. We didn't do it. They moved him pretty quick.