This summer, Bob Gainey changed more than the half of the Montreal Canadiens. He did not sign the captain Saku Koivu, the star Alex Kovalev, our futur captain Mike Komirarek, some quebecers like Francis Bouillon, Patrice Brisebois, Alex Tanguay and he traded Chris Higgins. My first reaction was what is going on?! With a very small payroll salary, he attacked the market of unrestricted free agent. He signed a lot of small offensive player, Mike Cammalerri, Brian Gionta, Scott Gomez, some toughness player as Travis Moen and Paul Mara and he signed some players to have a very good defense as Jaroslav Spacek , Marc-André Bergeron and Hal Gill. This is a big deal because the salary of Scott Gomez was of 8 millions by season, Mike Cammalerri 5 millions and Brian Gionta 5 millions too for many years and the fans will be very critical if the team cannot win. We did the playoff with a miserable point in overtime against one of the worst team in the NHL the Toronto Maple Leafs. It was hard to te moral but in the first round we won against the best team in the NHL, Washington Capitals. In second round, yesterday we won against the Stanley Cup Championship, the Pittsburgh Penguins in 7 games.
Now the dream could be realised with the first cup since 1993 with Patrick Roy in the net but this years it's with Saint-Jaroslav.
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