The greatest season in NHL history was unquestionably the 1992-93 campaign, a season so wild, so jam-packed with major storylines, and, ultimately, so monumental that it still doesn’t compute to this day.
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Roy and Lemieux were also born on the exact same day. That fact blows my mind every time I think of it. Something in the air that day in Quebec I suppose
I was born two months and eleven days later in that city. I guess the air had changed by December.
Something in the air in Quebec? 98% chance it's cigarette smoke and that's coming from a Quebecers lol
I have the same bday as Wayne Gretzky lol
"En 65 tout était beau...c'était l'année de l'amour, c'était l'année de l'expo" la lal alallaala
Something in the air 9 months prior you mean
You didn't even mention Luc Robitaille setting the single season record for points by a left winger with 125. A record that still stands today.
You forgot to mention Nhl 93 the video game
It's more likely that NHL 94 was the game that absorbed the stats from this crazy season.
@jimjamz. Yep, and 94 just happens to be one of the greatest NHL video games ever made. Still played today.
@@CallsignJoNayright like I just played a game a few weeks ago with my dad
Marioaustin9312 mentioned NHLPA HOCKEY 93 that came out in 1992, because it was that game that hockey fans were playing in 1992-1993, and since the video is about 1992-1993, he felt it should have been mentioned. However, it's true that the IRL players stats during the 1992-1993 season influenced their ratings for the next game; NHL 94. NHL 94 came out in September of 1993 for the 1993-1994 season. 1993-1994 is the first season Hasek won a Vezina, and he has a 52 overall in the game (NHL 94). 🤣 Fuhr has a 84 overall and was the 2nd goalie for the EAST ALL-STAR, yet his stats were nearly the same as Hasek's in 92-93. (The Buffalo ones. Fuhr was a bit better with Toronto going to Buffalo. Fuhr's overall is close to accurate but not Hasek's. John Blue 62 overall, but Andy Moog 59 overall? 🤣 Moog had 37w-14L-3t in 55gp in 92-93. Moog deserved a 90. Mike Vernon 63. 🤣 He should have 85+. Vernon had nearly the same stats as Roy in 92-93 but Roy got a 94. Yeah okay. Belfour and Barrasso were on the same level that year, but Belfour was given a 98, and Barrasso a 74. GO FIGURE! Barrasso 74, 3rd goalie for the EAST ALL-STAR. Mogilny, 127pts, 96 overall. Yep, Mogilny was INSANE in 1992-1993. So he became the 2nd best forward player rating in the game, simply because of that 76g in 77gp and his speed. Lafontaine, 148pts, 91 overall. Lafontaine should have been 94 at minimum. I remember someone in the comments of another video that was saying that Mogilny got carried by Lafontaine. 🤣 I don't know what kind of kool aid they were drinking but I thought it would be funny to mention that here. Where was Lafontaine when Mogilny was carrying a garbage Canucks team while Bure was injured? **Crickets** Roenick, 107pts, 89 overall, though he was designed to be the toughest player to knockdown according to the game devs. Modano, 93pts, 82 overall. 🤣Inaccurate. I'd say he was a 88-89. Yzerman, 137pts, 95 overall. Arguable accurate because you can't go lower than that. Fedorov, 87pts, 84 overall. Inaccurate. Like Hasek, Fedorov had an elite season in 93-94 and he won the Hart. Coffey, 87pts, 83 overall. Inaccurate. Both Fedorov and Coffey deserved a 90 minimum. Turgeon, 132pts, 82 overall. LMAO Beezer 62 overall, Richter 60 overall. WHAT? LMAO Leetch 76. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Blasphemy. Oates, 142pts, 93 overall. He deserved the rating, though I don't see why Turgeon didn't get a 91 or 92. Robitaille, 125pts, 85 overall. I don't know man, Robi should also have at least a 91 minimum. Selanne, 132pts, 90 overall. Then you understand why Turgeon or Robitaille got a 90. However, Selanne was more like a 94. Gilmour, 127pts, 89 overall. Close but no cigar, 91 or 92. Recchi, 123pts, 83 overall. LMAO. Recchi was more like a 91 or 92 as well. Sundin, 114pts, 79 overall! HAHAHAHAHAHA. Sundin was a 90. K.Stevens, 111pts, 77 overall! HAHAHAHA. 89 is the minimum he should've received, but I'd say 90. Lemieux, 160pts, 100 overall. Can't give him lower than 97-98 imo. Jagr, 94pts, 80 overall... Jagr was more a 89. Two years later he became a 95+ though. Bure, 110pts, 90 overall. They gave him the same overall as Selanne, but Selanne deserved a 94 and Bure a 92 perhaps. Potvin, 79 overall. 2nd goalie of the WEST ALL-STAR Cheveldae, 69 overall. 3rd goalie of the WEST ALL-STAR. Both of them should have been above 85. Bourque, 82 pts, but gets a 99 overall. He played like a 90 at most. Housley, 97pts, but nope.. he's just a 84 like Chelios who had 73pts and also gets a 84. I am not going to go through all of them of course, but you get the point. Larry Murphy was a 74 overall with 85pts and +45. The dude was a Norris contender but got a 74. HAHAHAHA Those ratings were garbage except for a few. They knew they were garbage ratings, that's why in NHL 95, dudes like Craig Janney were 100. 🤣
This was also the season that was the basis for NHL 94, so there’s that too.
That's why I know all of the players better than any other year, lol.
Yes same here. That game changed how i view hockey games forever, and why I became a Vancouver Canucks fan
@@GR-bn3xjBure, Ronning and Courtnall was one of the best lines in that game. Speed speed speed
@Mr.Pp11 Yes! I live in the deep south and didn't know anything about hockey back then and didn't have a team. That game made me a hockey fan, and I became a Vancouver fan bc of that speed line. 30 years later, I'm still a Vancouver fan and watching them play tonight on TV, lol. I love hockey now, and it started with that game
If you believed NHL 94 (and Vince Vaughn) then Jeremy Roenick was the greatest player ever to lace up his skates.
Being a major Pens fan,it was a bittersweet season. On one hand,the Pens dominated the league. Mario returned from cancer to lead us to a 17 game winning streak. And along with Lemieux we had Stevens,Jagr and Francis. The most powerful offense in the league. However,we had that heartbreaking upset in the playoffs. Also,Kevin Stevens had that horrific injury. Even so,that team was AMAZING.
Yea it was the complete opposite feeling from the years prior, I still can't stomach watching that blue line bouncer that went through Barrasso. For all the magic we witnessed to that point, dark clouds began to form over the whole franchise soon after. Luckily the Pens would stay in Pittsburgh, thanks in large to Mario who saved the team several times in his life.
@@mryoung0412 Jagr has to be mentioned here, his performances in games 6 and 7 in that first playoff round in 1999 against New Jersey literally saved the Penguins from relocation
I hate the Islanders to this day.
@@MOTU_CTRlol
Another great thing about the 1992-93 season, all the original 6 teams were good, which created a lot of interest as well. The Rangers missed the playoffs, but still had superstars, and won the Cup the next season.
Good observation!
True
Eric Lindros' rookie year. IDC about the hindsight of the trade. Watching him pre concussions was unreal. Generational talent indeed
Just didn't last long enough
Technically, there's another rookie who reached 100 points after Selanne: Joé Juneau racked up over 100 points the same season, with his 100th point coming few weeks after Selanne
and he never got anywhere near that again.
@@doaftheloaf moot point
Can you imagine a rookie getting 100 points and 0 1st place votes for the Calder?
He fought pat verbeek that year and got a crimson mask for his choices
C'est bizarre, ça fait 2 fois que jte vois sur youtube cette semaine sur 2 sujets differents haha
Funny seeing this come up in my feed--I think about this season more than any other NHL season. It's like my Roman Empire.
This video was very well done! Yes 92-93 was an incredible NHL season! ❤
Best season for the playoffs for sure. You forgot about the Sabers beating the Bruins in the 1st round too. The “May Day” goal is one of the best all time.
As a kid I knew this season well... through the EA Sports' NHL 94 game, lol. I loved that game so much.. and '95 was even better (it was mostly the same from what I remember but goalies were slightly better). I haven't really cared about the series past that point, but back then I was obsessed with it.
NHL 93 (called NHLPA HOCKEY 93) on SNES was about the same gameplay as NHL 94 on SNES. The models of the players and goalies were almost the same. 94 was a bit more refined. The models of the players and goalies in NHL 95 were new, and the gameplay was different. NHL 93 was the one where, for example, let's say you are the team scoring down, and you've got the puck on the left wing skating down on the right side of the screen along the boards to go around the net. Once behind the net you could break at the far post, and that triggered the goalie to glitch and get stuck on a post. If that didn't work right away, you could just do some dangling left and right directly behind the net until the goalie got stuck. It always worked. Then all you needed to do is get that puck in front of the net to shoot it in the empty net. LMAO You could do it from the other side also, but I don't remember if it worked when shooting up. Maybe. You couldn't do that glitch move in NHL 94 anymore, at least not in the SNES version. The goalies were trained to not get stuck. LMAO They fixed it. The game was more polished. Another difference was that NHL 94 was the first game with Anaheim and Florida. Both NHL 93 and 94 had that super cool feature during your game's intermission. If you didn't start your period right away and just wait and watch the scores of other games at the bottom of the screen, there was a thing that was popping on the score like an alert, then you had to click a button to watch the highlight. It showed you the computers playing each other and the highlight goals. That feature was pretty fun. The glitch goal in NHL 94 was a bit different and there was a couple ways to do it. One of the ways is, you start behind the net red line corner and skate like a half-moon (or wide wrap around) in front of the net to put yourself in the position to skate horizontally mostly & slightly diagonally to beat the goalie far post with a clean shot. Another way, for example, shooting up with a lefty. You skate up from the boards on the right to the left side in the middle / in front of the goalie to have the far (left) side open up for a clean easy goal once again horizontally and diagonally. This had more success to cut in that angle rather than doing a wider wrap around like the first way I mentioned. The wider you take that angle the easier it is for the goalie to recuperate the pixel you had gained on it. The third way is vertical and can be done in many angles. You skate up or down vertically in a slight diagonal way to bait the goalie on your backhand, for example a lefty skating up will have his blade open with the puck on his left side if he skates up and left but if he skates up and right the puck will go in front of him closer to his right side. So if you straight up skate up and right vertically from the center of the ice and angle your path by either dribbling or holding it on the backhand until you're close enough to pull it quickly on your forehand and shoot in the net like the Pavel Bure move you'll score almost every time with enough speed. The same principle can be done in reverse to score on the back hand, but the goalies are a lot tougher and they have a better saving % against the backhand. Sometimes they stretch the leg and the backhand hits the pad and you see the puck hit the pad then go up above the goalie's head only to fall back on the pad because at that point the goalie already controls it and will be able to pass it once the puck gets back down there. LMAO A fourth way similar to the first one would be to go around the net in a semi-close wrap around but not too wide or too close, more like a full-circling around the goalie type of thing to use the same principles, speed angle far post! That also can work but sometimes the goalie knocks you off if you're too close and he touches you. In NHL 93, the goalies were faster when you tried to circle them like that. In that regard, the NHL 94 goalies are a bit weaker on that particular move. There were lots of other creative ways to score goals with passes but I wouldn't consider those glitch goals like the forehand far post speed angle shot! There are other similarities and differences between NHL 93 and 94 of course. If you look for NHLPA HOCKEY 93 SNES and NHL 94 SNES on youtube you'll see what I'm saying. The other thing I remember that was 100% different is that the NHL 93 fights were not in NHL 94. As a kid, I felt like NHL 95 was weird, but don't get me wrong I still loved it like crazy. I just remember that it felt weird at first because none of the old moves worked. I realized after getting good that those moves could still be pulled but in a different way or timing. That's because the puck handling feels and looks more wobbly when you dangle left and right. How did that happen? Well, they increased the game speed, but didn't improve puck handling, so therefore they decreased then handling compared to 94. I remember the slapshots weren't looking powerful but they were slightly more effective in 95. In NHL 94, the slapshots felt powerful, they didn't look weak, but they weren't as effective. The passes in 95 were weird too, they felt a bit slow and weak once again maybe because of the skating speed. I think they did it that way because in 94, the passes were slick, it looked refined when they received the puck, however most of time they were slow to move with it like their acceleration. It was its charm in a sense, because that's when you could catch them with big body checks. That's another thing. The body checks were extremely weak in 95, they felt like butter unless it was a perfect hit. Those felt nice but they were rare. It got a lot more fun in 95 when I mastered the backhand goal with the same principles I was using in 94 but on reverse, hence backhand. It's weird that 94 had the best moves because it was slower. So they never were really able to put the right doze of speed to make it slick 94 but slightly faster. Anyhow, In 94 the body checks were perfect. In 93 the body checks were okay, but the players were too tough, they were rocks. What saved NHL 95 was the brand new CRAZY-COOL features like: (1st NHL game that you can) - save your season - create players - make trades, sign players, release them Those simple basic features began in NHL 95. I can still remember that a shit load of players were rated 100. Craig Janney was a 100 believe it or not. LMAO I also remember that all trades were accepted if the players you were trading were within 4 of overall, unless a team was to have to many goalies or things like that. So you could climb your way up to get nearly a team of full 100s. Start with a 76 overall player and trade it for a 80, then the 80 for a 84, then for a 88, for a 92, for a 96, for a 100. You could repeat that and get yourself a team of super-All-Stars. That worked also in NHL 96. They kept the 4 overall difference trade thing for another year at least and maybe more. I preferred 96 to 95 like I preferred 94 to 93, because 96 was like the 2.0 of 95 and 94 was like the 2.0 of 93. In 96 the skating, passing, and pass receiving is a lot smoothened compared to 95 with the wobbly puck handling. The passing is what made it better and the rate of successful body checks. In 95 most body checks didn't land, they were way too buttery, but when you landed a perfect body check it felt heavy. In 94 it felt just as heavy, and the damage felt bigger like the players were getting crunched with the perfect ratio for the fall. In 96 the body checks were landing more than 95 but they sometimes felt a bit light or buttery like the 95 ones, which resulted in the players feeling like buttery rocks. The slapshots between 95 and 96 is debatable. There is both good and bad things about them. I personally feel like both felt weak a bit, but since 96 had smoother skating and puck handling, creative slapshot goals were cooler in 96 whereas too much creativity in 95 with your slapshot made the player unable to shoot straight. So 96 was better in the slapshot accuracy department than 95.
we went to so many games at maple leaf gardens that year it was amazing ... i was 9 years old best days of my life
The greatest player of all time against the greatest goalie of all time. And the greatest rookie season of all time.
no, that happened in the previous year's finals, when lemieux's penguins played hasek's blackhawks. no argument on teemu, though.
@@doaftheloafI totally understand the famdom of Hasek. He was so so great at his peak but the NHL was also in its 'dead puck era' in the late 90s and early 00s when Hasek was at his peak. Roy is the only goalie, and the only player overall, to win 3 Conn Smythe trophies, the best player of the playoffs. His game and stats went up in the playoffs when it was time to decide whose team was to be the ultimate winner. 4 Stanley Cups.
@@Zamppa86 i totally understand that argument. my argument is hasek’s peak was the greatest prolonged stretch of goaltending I’ve ever seen. he evoked fear in shooters like no other goalie I’ve ever seen. btw, I’m a habs fan. roy is about the only goalie in my lifetime whose aura was even close.
With the single greatest comeback in NHL history from Mario as a nice little cherry for the season.
@@doaftheloafit was Befour’s Hawks 😅
As a winnipeger, i compare every nhl season to 92-93.
Mario Lemieux is the goat.
Books says Gretzky. I hate that too. My wife always says he was never injured. And Lemieux was always. She doesn't know hockey.
@@dolphin082 exactly, that’s why he’s better , imagine if 66 was healthy 😱😱
Wow, great video. Being a habs fan, I only remember the playoffs that season. Great season, indeed. Thanks for making such great content!
Terrific video! It brought back memories that I had forgotten.
Amazing job!
Lemieux will always be the best player in history
I like the part where he scored 50 goals a year for 9 straight years, including his rookie year, and winning 4 Cups in a row, ending up with the highest goals per game average at .76. Oh wait, that would be Mike Bossy. So Fvk You
That’s the season I watched Gretzky go to the Cup and fell in love with the sport. I bought blades and a stick and puck and played hockey everyday then joined a team then made it to ncaa and world junior championships u21. Hockey got me as far as college but maybe changed the person I am.
In Gretz's absence Kurri had an incredible 46 points in his first 22 games @32 years old. That included a wild stretch of 27 points in just 8 games! (games 11-18). He slowed down considerably after that crazy start. As a Gretzky/Kurri fan i recall that insane start the most (w/o Wayne).
The season after will always be in my heart beacause i had the rock em sock em vhs so many great profiles and highlights, RIP Gino Odjick
Never seen a playoffs as great as this season probably never will again
1994 playoffs were even better.
Great video, although it would've been cool to mention the Bob Probert - Tie Domi rematch at MSG that season. The most hyped and anticipated fight in NHL history. Although we did get a Probert goal at 10:05 😆
Agreed 100% It was the Peak.
You will note there were exactly 24 teams and the last season with the old 2:1 ratio USA-Canada with no more than 16 teams in USA and 8 in Canada, including four in the east and four in the west. The NHL was perfectly balanced.
There's way too many teams now. League stinks. 80s and 90s nhl is where it's at.
y'all make good looking video! subscribed.
This was the first season and postseason that I meticulously followed. Read all the stats, standing, game summaries and Lemieux reclimbing the point board to overtake LaFontaine. My underdog Sabres swept the Bruins for the first series win in a decade with an amazing OT Series-clinching Goal "MAYDAY!". I was all in with the NHL. Each season after I hoped to enjoy the same magic, but it never came close. Bettman quickly changed the league and the Strike and the Dead-Puck Era just slowly killed my enjoyment. I kind of tapped out after the 1999 "No Goal" skate in the crease Cup Winner.
Bettman is the greatest commissioner in sports. No one caress about your enjoyment if you don't like hockey then don't support the NHL by watching and complaining about it.
@@v4v819 If im not a fan, then I can complain. NHL has been having problems for 2 decades attracting fans, so maybe Bettman isnt that good.
It's popularity is skyrocketing, it's only getting more popular, check the facts for yourself, big shot!
@@v4v819 Do you have a source for that? It seems to have peaked in the mid-90s and just plateaued since then.
Best video I've seen in a long time
Lemieux missing 23 games and STILL GETS 160 PTS. Let that sink in for a moment. Nightmare fuel.
Aboit same point avg than gretzky 2 best seasons
Even mcdavid can't do that
And wins the scoring title, the MVP vote of the media, the MVP vote of the NHLPA and the Masterton.
The greatest and roughest season ever. Had to wait 19 more years--- Kings fan since 73.
So happy I got to watch Selanne in Winnipeg😎
Who’s Man-nom Rome?
The only thing that would’ve made it a perfect season would’ve been a Toronto/Montreal Stanley Cup Final.
Or Penguins vs Kings 66 vs 99
@@insaneiaqHow the NHL gods couldn't make it happen is beyond me. The NBA had their dream match in the 1991 finals when both MJs went head to head.
1/2 of the made it.
Nah. Keep it like that.
It's the best ever for so many reasons. Don't go around changing it
92 -93 season the greatest of all time will never be match.
94 was better.
Id have to agree, luckily i was 3-4 and was just tuning into to the universe and started loving hockey
The North Stars’s last season in Minnesota before leaving for Dallas.
So true!! So many goals that year!! :)
For me 94 season was the best. New York Rangers finally win the Stanley cup after 54 years. So much iconic moments in history as well happening in 1994. Rapper Nas dropped his debut album illmatic. OJ Simpson is on the run in a white bronco. Knicks and Rangers are both making a playoff run. Kurt Cobain is found dead. Nacy Kerrigan is we attacked during Winter Olympics. World Series canceled. So much history in sports and entertainment world was crazy. Although a lot of these on the list are sad moments some were the greatest to happen and most iconic.
Don't forget Rangers vs Devils which was the greatest playoff series of all time. And Leetch's historic performance in the playoffs. Plus the Devils vs Sabres and Canucks vs Flames classic 7 game series along with the Bruins vs Devils classic. 1994 playoffs were unmatched.
Tarantino gave us Pulp Fiction. Kevin Smith gave us Clerks. Pearl Jam gave us Vitalogy. "Friends" premiered. I could go on.
wow it patrick roy, teemu selanne and mario lemieux . Mario had the most offensive talent I've ever seen, it's a shame injuries kept him from challenging for more cups and scoring records. but I'm thankful i got to see him play
Another couple of facts..resulting from this season were the ABSOLUTELY LEGENDARY NHL'94 for Sega Genesis AND the inaugural hockey season for Kenner Starting Lineups.
I gotta admit that I was shocked when I saw the Rangers record. Man, the league was stacked!
Miss being a kid and reading the NHL leaders daily in the newspaper sports section, seeing GILMOUR and ANDREYCHUK in bold. Best season by a mile and the season that started the best NHLPA Hockey video game dynasty.
Wonderful season. ❤
Lemeuix my favorite player ever
the mighty ducks movie got me into hockey.
Pens still hold 17 wins record alone while 5 teams ended at 16. Magic Mario.
Oilers tied to record this year I believe
@@ragugod8267I beg to differ. The Penguins’ record is still intact as Edmonton was denied that chance.
More NHL videos 💪🔥💪
Also notable is that it’s the year that The Weasel became commissioner and the last time a Canadian-based franchise won the cup. 🤨
Oh, poor you.
Best hockey video on YT
With the shouting and the jerky head movements? It was like it was designed for ADHD 11 year olds.
90's hockey was the best hockey, especially the first part of the decade
Great video but you forgot to mention that this was the last year of the Campbell and Wales conferences and Smythe, Norris, Patrick and Adams divisions.
The McSorley blade and the 6 against 3 power play changed….it was the greatest
Mogilny is easily my favourite player in NHL history. His Buffalo season that year was EPIC
As a Finn Mogilny slightly annoyed me by taking away from Selänne's epic rookie season just a bit by tying in goals that season. By the way without internet back then i always looked at the scores every morning from teletext in our tv (if you know what that is..) so you just saw the scores and scorers but no highlights. Luckily they did have that weekly nhl magazine program that showed highlighta for the week with some Selänne goals often too.
92-93 season definitely is one of the best NHL seasons and the last time a Canadian team won the Cup.
One fact about the finals. Eric Desjardins is the only defenseman in NHL history to score a hat trick in a finals game. Not Orr or Coffey nor any of the prolific scoring defenseman achieved that distinction. Crazy
What Leetch did the following season was way more impressive. 34 points while playing incredible defense and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy with the pressure of a 54 year curse on his shoulders is insane. A performance that will never be duplicated.
Htf the Pens didnt 3 peat is beyond me....
Shit happens in OT 😅
The 93 playoffs were what made me a hockey fan. If I remember correctly that year set a record for OT playoff games. A shame the playoffs were kind of an afterthought in this video. Maybe they deserve their own video
As an NHL fan, I agree with this premise. 92-93 was the greatest season ever.
This video is accurate. The Lindros story itself is the genesis of what became the Avs early dynasty. Without Forsberg, hockey in Colorado would be very different today. I cannot see them winning any cups with Lindros in their lineup instead of Forsberg.
What a year Adam Oates had!
Why is this guy explaining this season to me like I'm four years old? At least get Ms Rachel if y'all are going to insult me like this.
possibly it's because you look kinda simple minded.
@@stephenp.6395 I'm a Chemical Engineer and musician that travels all around North America to play in historic venues, but go off...
For leaf fans this is the worst season ever. Period!
omfg you mentioned gretzky back injury, no one ever does. big time why he slowed but he did follow it up by winning the scring title the next year on a team with 66 points.
I was 16 when I watched the Habs hoist the cup.
I agree, 92 was the beginning of the end for the NHL. Goals and stats started to go down near 95 with Devils trap and it became ugly hockey, goalies didn't look like normal players but became HUGE monsters, and goals went down and down over the years until 2018... Now in 2024 it's better, but it will be be amazing stat wise. Also nhl93, nhl94 were the best :) montreal Winning the Cup, Lemieux was the best, Gretzky was best :) Mogilny and Selanne 76 goals! Was sick. Mogilny became my favorite player the day of the All Star game in Montreal, watching him on that breakaway, I was like yup that's my guy now lol, So I mimicked that move vs my cousin in nets and it worked 75%+ of the time :) When Islanders beat Pittsburgh I never was so happy! I had a feeling Pitts would have beaten the Habs but we will never know, since they beat easily the team that beat them. #GoHabsGo
I agree. Mind you, LeClair could've won the Conn Smyth instead of Roy that year.
And to think that in 1994, with Jordan attempting baseball, Sports Illustrated said "The NHL's Hot, the NBA's Not." Why didn't hockey stay hot? Who was in charge? 🤔
1994 actually had a better playoffs than 1993, culminating with a classic 7 game final between the Rangers and Canucks. 1993 final between the Habs and Kings was pretty lame by comparison.
Interesting that Selanne was (deservedly) a first ballot HOFer but Mogilny has been eligible for several years and still isn’t in. The 76 goal season alone makes a good case for him, but the rest of his career was pretty good too. Plus he was the first Russian to defect to the NHL, which is typically the kind of thing the HOF uses to boost a case for induction
As a Flyers fan he was terrifying during his Devils days. Hated playing against that guy's and wish we had him
Another reason why the nineties were the best decade ever!
Last stanley in montreal😢😢😢😢
In CANADA.
This guy talks like he's talking to children. It's like an episode of Blues clues or something
Damn you David Volek for killing the possibility of a Lemieux vs Gretzky Stanley Cup Final.
That would absolutely been the icing on the cake for that season. The 2 greatest players ever going head to head for a championship. That would have been absolutely incredible.
God bless David Volek
You're assuming the Pens would've beaten the Canadiens that year. Mtl had Roy who was unstoppable.
@@rebeltvr6046 yes that is true. But that penguins team was an absolute juggernaut. They would have got Ron Francis back too. Plus the Canadiens didn't have Darius Kasparitis to antagonize Lemieux. I don't think it's that far fetched to think Pittsburgh would have beaten Montreal. I'm sure they would have been favored in that series.
@rebeltvr6046 I said "possibility," not certainty.
Video is good, but this guy presenting is annoying 😂
Legit, can he calm down?
I cant believe how bad this guy is.
To me if the NHL didn't lose its deal with ESPN in 2003 hockey would be wayyyy more popular today. Hockey was just starting to get attention from tons of people who wouldn't normally be into it. ESPN had build a great foundation for the sport and helping it be accepted as a major sport in America...until 2003..I alway wonder how much more popular the sport would be if they were able to renew that contract w ESPN.
Why are you as a hockey fan obsessed with how popular the sport is? I want the nhl to be under the radar. That was when it was at its best.
@johnalexander4690 because I'm a different person and wanted the sport to be more popular Lol
Mogilny’s 76 goals being overshadowed by Selanne’s 76 goals, just because he was a rookie, is incredibly f**ked up.
Just because he's a rookie? That's a pretty big "just because"
Selanne was 22 that season if I'm not mistaken? He had already played a few seasons professionally in Finland.
@jags6868 still never played in the NHL. That's not an easy jump. Lots of euro rookies play in Europe first.
I’m not sure what’s with the cartoon like mannerisms and the constant shouting… Just tell the story in a collected manner instead of trying to appeal to blues clues children…
That piercing helium voiece... But someone with bass in hes voice in pls
It’s weird that the two greatest hockey players (Gretzky and Lemieux) both looked so much alike
Uh?
Did y'all get an AI to generate that thumbnail? Because there's a _very_ obvious problem with the shoulder patch on Lemieux's jersey that looks like the kind of mistake an AI would make.
Manon Ray-Ohhmm
This guys voice is so whiny I could only make it halfway through…
True
Yeah, it’s brutal
It's cartoonish more than whiney. Maybe if he starts smoking cigs he can deepen his voice. I'm not gonna turn it off over the voice, but just volume down a couple notches helps
He sounds like a cartoon dog or something. Like he's talking to children
At least it's not AI.
Great season, although i viewed it and the 94 season as equals
Very good video. It's nice to have an enthusiastic host as opposed to the AI-generated videos.
Unless you’re a leafs fan It was a high stick Kerry!!!! Seriously though, if Toronto and Montreal played in the finals it would be another great argument in support of this video
Last good season cause bettman got in control
Yeah he ruibed everything. Ziegler and Stein did such a fabulous job. I have come to the conclusion that most fans are idiots.
A Canadian wins the cup every year though please bring it home once in my life
Red Wings help made it happen
1993 was the 100th year anniversary of Lord Stanley’s Cup. Who else did you think was gonna win it? And I was at the last game to witness it all.😊
I want to know what the hell is on Lemieux’s shoulder in the thumbnail to this video.. because that’s def not the bottom half of the Penguins logo.
i was into this but i felt like i was being yelled at the whole time.
I hate how I know he wasn’t around for this season by the way he pronounced Rheaumes name lol
I Canadian team might win this year in 2024, but I always said the next one will be the Habs winning it, maybe by 2026 - 27, We will see... But in the end, all these teams are full of Europeans, and U.S and Canada, back in the day the league was like 60% Canadian players, the Habs were like 95% Canadian, a few U.S and Petrov who didn't play in playoffs was the only European, this was the year where top players from Europe were really coming in the league.
I’ve also seen 1979-80 as another choice.
Why?
@@willyupshaw Gretzky’s first season, Gordie Howe’s last season, WHA teams merged with their new style, plus they dropped the age for drafting from 20 to 18 so all these players, including Ray Bourque, entered the league 2 years before they normally would.
@@willyupshaw Gretzky’s rookie season for starters… I believe that was the year that the WHL got swallowed up by the NHL, the reason Gretzky was even in the NHL at that time.
@@Trigger200284 WHA, not WHL
@@willyupshawI’ll also add that in 1979 they dropped the draft minimum age from 20 to 18 so a whole bunch of players became eligible at the same time including Ray Bourque and Gretzky.
Greatest season, b/c of ALL. The. Scoring, w/o a doubt. But TRBL ending, b/c the L.A. Kings didn't win the Cup. I named my only son Luc after Robitaille.
Go Nordiques! ❤
With Gary Bettman at the helm its been all uphill since!
Pat Williams, the GM of the Orlando Magic, joked "The first time I showed Gary a hockey puck, he spent three hours trying to open it."
Got her hockey card
I'm still as upset to this day as I was in 93 about the non call against Gretzky.
I came here knowing there would be a pathetic leaf fan still whining about that.