Editing Patrick Roy (section)

==Playing career==
===Montreal Canadiens (1984–95)===
Roy was drafted in the third round, 51st overall, in the [[1984 NHL Entry Draft]] by the [[Montreal Canadiens]], a team he disliked, being a fan of the rival [[Quebec Nordiques]].<ref name="legendsofhockey">{{cite news |title =Patrick Roy biography|url =http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/LegendsMember.jsp?mem=P200602&type=Player&page=bio&list=ByName#photo|author =Legends of Hockey|publisher =Legends of Hockey|access-date =2007-12-29}}</ref> His grandmother Anna Peacock was a big Canadiens fan, but died before seeing her grandson being drafted.<ref name="si1993">{{cite magazine |title =Saving Grace|url =https://www.si.com/vault/1993/06/21/128799/saving-grace-in-a-final-series-to-remember-montreal-canadien-goalie-patrick-roy-helped-deliver-both-the-cup-and-his-first-daughter|author =Swift, E.M.|magazine =[[Sports Illustrated]]|date =1993-06-21|access-date =2018-05-26}}</ref> Roy kept playing for the [[Granby Bisons]] of the [[Quebec Major Junior Hockey League]] (QMJHL) before being called up by the Canadiens. Despite the thoughts that he was not going to play for the team, on February 23, 1985, he made his NHL debut when he replaced the Canadiens' starting goaltender, [[Doug Soetaert]], in the game's third period.<ref name="legendsofhockey"/> Roy played for 20 minutes and earned his first NHL win without allowing a goal.<ref name="legendsofhockey"/> After the game, he was reassigned to the Sherbrooke Canadiens of the AHL. Despite starting as a backup, Roy replaced Greg Moffett after he had equipment troubles during a game.<ref name="legendsofhockey"/> He earned a win, became the starting goaltender for the playoffs and led the team to a [[Calder Cup]] championship with ten wins in 13 games.<ref name="legendsofhockey"/>

In the following season, Roy started playing regularly for the Canadiens and took over the starting goaltender's job when incumbent [[Steve Penney (ice hockey)|Steve Penney]] was injured in January. He played 47 games during the regular season and won the starting job for the [[Stanley Cup playoffs]], where he emerged as a star,<ref name="encarta">{{cite news|title=Patrick Roy |url=http://encarta.msn.com/text_761595702___0/Patrick_Roy.html |author=Encarta |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=2007-12-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090428164945/http://encarta.msn.com/text_761595702___0/Patrick_Roy.html |archive-date=2009-04-28 |author-link=Encarta }}</ref> leading his team to an unexpected [[Stanley Cup]] title and winning the [[Conn Smythe Trophy]] for the Most Valuable Player in the playoffs.<ref name="legendsofhockey"/> As a 20-year-old, he became the youngest Conn Smythe winner ever and was chosen for the [[NHL All-Rookie Team]].<ref name="si1986" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Patrick Roy profile|url=https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=4688 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]]|access-date=2007-12-29 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Nicknamed St. Patrick after the victory, Roy continued playing for the Canadiens, who won the [[Adams Division]] in [[1987–88 NHL season|1987–88]] and in [[1988–89 NHL season|1988–89]], when they lost to the [[Calgary Flames]] in the [[1989 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]]. Roy, together with [[Brian Hayward]], won the [[William M. Jennings Trophy]] in 1987, 1988, and 1989, as the Canadiens regularly allowed the fewest goals against. In 1989 and 1990, he won the [[Vezina Trophy]] for best goaltender in the NHL and was voted for the [[NHL All-Star team|NHL first All-Star team]]. In [[1991–92 NHL season|1991–92]], the Canadiens won the Adams Division again, with Roy having a very successful individual year, winning the William M. Jennings Trophy, and Vezina Trophy and being selected for the NHL's first All-Star team. Despite the successful regular season, the Canadiens were swept in the second round by the [[Boston Bruins]], who stopped their playoff run for the fourth time in five years.

In the [[1992–93 NHL season|1992–93 season]], the Canadiens fell from first overall in March to finish the regular season third in their division behind title winner Boston Bruins and a resurgent second-place Quebec Nordiques.<ref name="The '93 Habs and the last time the">{{cite web | url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/montreal-canadiens-stanley-cup-1993-oral-history/ | title=The '93 Habs and the last time the Cup came home to Canada }}</ref><ref name="sportsnet.ca">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/montreal-canadiens-stanley-cup-1993-oral-history/|title=Celebrating the '93 Montreal Canadiens and Canada's last Cup}}</ref> During the first round of the [[1993 Stanley Cup playoffs|1993 playoffs]] against the archrival Nordiques, Roy was in a goaltending duel against [[Ron Hextall]]; Hextall was also a Vezina and Conn Smythe winner with his previous team, the [[Philadelphia Flyers]], when they had several ill-tempered postseason encounters with Roy's Canadiens in the 1980s. The Canadiens lost the first two games of the series with Roy letting in soft goals, and a newspaper in Roy's hometown district suggested that he be traded with the headline "NORDIQUES WIN GAME, BATTLE OF GOALIES," while the subhead added (Quebec goaltender Ron) "HEXTALL GETS BETTER OF ROY."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/features/si_stanley_cup/1993/ |title=SI.com – 2003 NHL Playoffs – SI Flashback: Stanley Cup Finals – Tuesday April 08, 2003 01:48 PM |access-date=September 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207213633/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/features/si_stanley_cup/1993/ |archive-date=February 7, 2009 }}</ref> Nordiques Goaltending Coach [[Dan Bouchard]] also proclaimed that his team had "solved Roy." These comments seemed to fire up Roy, who responded by winning the next four games against the Nordiques (Roy was replaced for part of Game Five by backup [[André Racicot]] after being struck by a puck in the collarbone<ref name="sportsnet.ca"/>), sweeping the [[Buffalo Sabres]] in the next round and winning the first three against the [[New York Islanders]] to tie the record of an 11-game playoff winning streak. Roy also set a record with ten straight playoff overtime wins – two against Quebec, three against Buffalo, two against the New York Islanders (where he denied [[Benoît Hogue]] and [[Pierre Turgeon]] on breakaways during overtime), and three against the [[Los Angeles Kings]] in the [[1993 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]]. Roy had led his team, which did not have a player that finished in the top twenty regular season scoring, to the Stanley Cup championship and was named the Conn Smythe Trophy winner.<ref name="The '93 Habs and the last time the"/>

In 1994, the Canadiens were the defending champions but they were knocked out in the first round by the Boston Bruins. Nonetheless, that seven-game series was notable in the eyes of Montreal fans as Roy came down with [[appendicitis]] and missed Game 3. He convinced doctors to let him return for Game 4 and led the Canadiens to a 5–2 victory, stopping 39 shots. Roy was a finalist for the Vezina Trophy, finishing third in voting behind winner [[Dominik Hašek]] and runner-up [[John Vanbiesbrouck]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hockeygoalies.org/bio/roy.html |title=Patrick Roy (1985-2003) |publisher=Hockeygoalies.org |access-date=2011-03-15}}</ref>

====Trade to Colorado====
Four games into the [[1995–96 NHL season|1995–96 season]], [[Mario Tremblay]] was hired as Montreal's new head coach, replacing [[Jacques Demers]] who had been fired. Roy and Tremblay, who had roomed together while teammates, had a notably strained relationship, with Tremblay regularly mocking Roy for speaking [[broken English]]. Roy was a frequent target of Tremblay during the latter's sports radio career.<ref name = "remembering"/> The two had almost come to blows in two incidents in 1995, one at a [[Long Island]] coffee shop before Tremblay was announced as head coach, and Roy snickered when Tremblay arrived in the dressing room for the first time. They almost fought again after Tremblay allegedly fired a shot at Roy's throat during practice.

On December 2, 1995, in his 22nd game (and the team's 24th) of the 1995–96 season, Roy was in net against the [[Detroit Red Wings]] during Montreal's worst home game in franchise history, an 11–1 loss.<ref name=autogenerated1>{{cite web |url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind06Roy.htm |title=Patrick Roy |publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame |access-date=2008-04-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080221214729/http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind06Roy.htm |archive-date=2008-02-21 }}</ref> Roy allowed nine goals on 26 shots, which was highly unusual, as star goaltenders are generally taken out of the game quickly when it is clear they are struggling.<ref>{{cite web |author=Revisiting St. Patrick Roy and "Le Trade" |url=http://blogcritics.org/revisiting-st-patrick-roy-and-le/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201220905/http://blogcritics.org/revisiting-st-patrick-roy-and-le/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-02-01 |title=Revisiting St. Patrick Roy and "Le Trade" |publisher=Blogcritics.org |access-date=2016-06-30 }}</ref> During the second period, when Montreal was trailing 7–1 in the game, the crowd provided mock applause after Roy made an easy save on [[Sergei Fedorov]] from centre ice, prompting him to sarcastically raise his arms in mock celebration. Tremblay finally pulled Roy in the middle of the second period in favour of [[Pat Jablonski]].

[[File:Goaltender Patrick Roy playing for the Colorado Avalanche in 1999.jpg|thumb|right|Roy in net for the Avalanche during the [[1999–2000 NHL season|1999–2000 season]]]]
During [[Molson Breweries]]' tenure as owner of the team, the rows of seats immediately behind the Canadiens' bench were under the exclusive control of Molson and as such were typically reserved for the use of executives of the Canadiens, Molson, or invited dignitaries. Since these seats were not available to the public, the standard glass partitions that separate hockey spectators from the team benches were not installed behind the home bench of the Forum. Because of this unusual arrangement, an enraged Roy had no time to regain his composure before approaching the team's top brass who were in attendance and their usual seats. Upon reaching the bench, Roy immediately stormed past his coach and told Canadiens President [[Ronald Corey]] "It's my last game in Montreal", before storming past Tremblay again and sitting down.<ref name = "remembering">{{cite news | url = https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=145407 | title = Remembering Roy's Career-Changing Game | publisher = TSN | date = 2005-12-02 | access-date = 2008-04-29| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080916231444/https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=145407|archive-date=2008-09-16}}</ref> The next day, Roy was suspended by the Canadiens.

At the time, Tremblay told the media that he regretted not pulling Roy earlier in the game, but Roy later said that despite allowing five goals on 17 shots in the first, Tremblay kept him in the net to humiliate him. In later interviews, Roy cited a general distaste with what he thought was a loosening of standards with the team.<ref name="Meagher">{{cite news |title='I've never been back there' |url=http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/hockey/canadiensstory.html?id=21e7b9f5-b334-46ac-9f76-4a6b78ab809b |last=Meagher |first=John |work=The Gazette |date=2005-12-06 |access-date=2008-04-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080530224507/http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/hockey/canadiensstory.html?id=21e7b9f5-b334-46ac-9f76-4a6b78ab809b |archive-date=2008-05-30 }}</ref>

Four days after the incident, the Canadiens traded Roy and captain [[Mike Keane]] to the [[Colorado Avalanche]] in exchange for [[Jocelyn Thibault]], [[Martin Ručinský]] and [[Andrei Kovalenko]]. The return for Roy was seen as uneven at the time it was made and eventually became known as one of the most one-sided deals in NHL history. Canadiens General Manager [[Réjean Houle]] at the time had been GM for only 40 days and faced criticism for making the trade instead of trying to resolve the tension between Roy and Tremblay.<ref name="Meagher"/>

===Colorado Avalanche (1996–2003)===
In the 1995–96 season, after his mid-season trade from the Canadiens, Roy helped the Avalanche win their first Stanley Cup in their first season after moving from [[Quebec Nordiques|Quebec]]. He was a runner-up for the [[Vezina Trophy]] to [[Jim Carey (ice hockey)|Jim Carey]].

In the [[1996 Stanley Cup playoffs|1996 Western Conference Semifinals]] against the [[Chicago Blackhawks]], [[Jeremy Roenick]] was stopped by Roy on a breakaway during overtime in game four, while being hauled down by Avalanche defenceman [[Sandis Ozoliņš|Sandis Ozolinsh]]. The referee did not call for a [[Penalty shot (ice hockey)|penalty shot]] on the play and the Avalanche won in triple overtime on [[Joe Sakic]]'s game-winning goal. Two days prior, Roenick had scored on an unchallenged breakaway to tie the game and send it to overtime, and the Blackhawks ended up winning game three. After game four, Roenick told the media, "It should have been a penalty shot, there's no doubt about it. I like Patrick's quote that he would've stopped me. I'd just want to know where he was in game three, probably getting his jock out of the rafters in the United Center maybe." Roy retorted with: "I can't really hear what Jeremy says, because I've got my two Stanley Cup rings plugging my ears."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roenick |first1=Jeremy |last2=Allen |first2=Kevin |title=J.R.: My Life as the Most Outspoken, Fearless, and Hard-Hitting Man in Hockey |date=2012 |publisher=Triumph Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/jrmylifeasmostou0000roen/page/n265 236] |url=https://archive.org/details/jrmylifeasmostou0000roen |url-access=registration |access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref> Roy and the Avalanche beat the Blackhawks in six games and went on to win the [[1996 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup]].

Roy was a large part of the Avalanche–Red Wings rivalry, which also involved players [[Adam Foote]] and [[Brendan Shanahan]], among others. The Avalanche and Red Wings met in the playoffs five times from 1996 to 2002, with the Avs winning in 1996, 1999, and 2000. The heated competition between teams is linked to the 11–1 Montreal loss to Detroit that precipitated Roy's midseason trade to Colorado in December 1995, and in that season's 1996 conference finals Roy helped his new team eliminate first-place Detroit. During the [[Colorado Avalanche–Detroit Red Wings brawl|Avalanche–Red Wings brawl in 1997]], he fought the Wings' goaltender [[Mike Vernon (ice hockey)|Mike Vernon]]. The next season, he fought another Red Wings goaltender, [[Chris Osgood]]. In what would be Roy's final playoff meeting with Detroit, he was pulled after allowing six goals in game seven of the [[2002 Stanley Cup Playoffs#Conference finals|2002 Western Conference finals]], a game Detroit won 7–0 to advance to the [[2002 Stanley Cup Finals|Stanley Cup Finals]].

In [[2000–01 NHL season|2000–01]], Roy's Avalanche won the [[Presidents' Trophy]] for the best regular season record. In the playoffs, his team advanced to the [[2001 Stanley Cup Finals|Finals]], where they faced the defending champion [[New Jersey Devils]], who were backstopped by [[Martin Brodeur]], a star netminder who had idolized Roy as a child. In game four, while playing the puck behind his net, Roy could not make a clearing pass, allowing the Devils to score into an [[Empty net goal|empty net]] to tie the game.<ref>[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2001/playoffs/news/2001/06/09/roy_connsmyth.ap]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref> Roy had his worst game of the Finals in a 4–1 loss during game five, which gave the Devils a 3–2 series lead but rebounded in game six by stopping 24 shots for his then-record 19th career playoff shutout in a 4–0 victory. The Avalanche jumped to a three-goal lead in game seven before conceding one consolation goal to win their second Stanley Cup. Roy was named playoff MVP for the third time in his career, an NHL record. Roy has said that he and his teammates had wanted to win it for [[Ray Bourque]], who finally won his first Cup after 22 seasons in the NHL; Bourque who had previously played 21 seasons with the [[Boston Bruins]] had numerous playoff encounters against Roy when he was with the Canadiens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2001/playoffs/ |title=CNNSI.com – 2001 NHL Playoffs |access-date=April 20, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729082951/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2001/playoffs/ |archive-date=July 29, 2013 }}</ref>

Roy's final game was played against the [[Minnesota Wild]] on April 22, 2003, in a game seven overtime loss in the first round of the [[2003 Stanley Cup playoffs|2003 playoffs]].

Patrick Roy announced his retirement on May 28, 2003.