[blueandwhite]

Tears welled. It was very touching. Dryden is a big time politician up here now, but it was nice to see him be lauded as the great goalie he was. his brother Dave, also an NHL goalie, told a story about how he was playing for the sabres and dryden was with the habs and the coaches put both in to make the moment historic - this is long before dryden was The Man.
tretiak was there too. Too cool.
tretiak wants another Summit. An 8 game match up he wants to suggest to Bettman, 4 in Canada and 4 in Russia. I'd watch it. but of course the relationship between the NHL and the Russian federation is cool, see Evgeni malkin for details.

[ThePundit]

Dryden's number hadn't been retired yet?

[blueandwhite]

yeah. his time finally came.
He's a busy man, too. he was running for the Liberal Party leadership last year, so he might have asked them to hold off on it if they proposed it back then.
he lost that, so he was ready for this.

[ThePundit]

Wow. The Canadiens really like to wait. Is Guy LaFleur's number retired yet? As far as being "ready," I don't quite get that. What do you have to get ready for, except show up the night they retire it?

[blueandwhite]

Lafleur was the sixth Montreal Canadiens' player to have his sweater number retired in 1985.
you know, you are right. what was up with that?

from TSN.com:
The Canadiens, who had not retired a number since Plante's in 1995, began last season with Geoffrion, Moore and Cournoyer in a round of annual jersey retirements leading up to the club's 100th anniversary in 2009.
Those still to come likely will include No. 19 for Robinson, No. 23 for GM Bob Gainey and No. 33 for goalie Patrick Roy.
Some question whether Dryden's eight seasons were enough to merit the honour, but there was always more to him than wins and saves. He is also one of the brightest and most multi-dimensional personalities in NHL history.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by blueandwhite

yeah. his time finally came.
He's a busy man, too. he was running for the Liberal Party leadership last year, so he might have asked them to hold off on it if they proposed it back then.
he lost that, so he was ready for this.

Heck...I would think if you are running for office you would welcome the big spotlight of a retired jeresy...Remind those voters that "THE PUCK STOPS HERE!"...