Editing Patrick Roy (section)

====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"/>