Hockey’s Best Team Ever: A chronicle of the 1976-77 Montreal

Hockey’s Best Team Ever: A chronicle of the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens record-breaking season

It's easy to see why the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens are often recognized as the best-ever team in National Hockey League history: a record of 132 points that has never been equaled; a spectacular winning percentage of 0.825, tops in the modern era NHL; a record goal differential of plus-216; only one loss on home ice during the regular season, and only one more in the playoffs; and the crowning glory: a Stanley Cup championship, the 20th in franchise history. Lending credence to the claim of the 1976-77 Habs being the best ever was the 2013 Hockey News Best Team Ever Ranking that placed them #1.

Today, the players of that team are moving gracefully into their golden years, their incredible achievements fading into the mists of hockey history. If you open up the archived newspapers of the day, however, their story comes alive with all the electricity of a Guy Lafleur rush down the Forum ice or the thunder of a Larry Robinson body check.

This book reviews each of those game reports, uncovering a treasure trove of quotes, observations and opinions that help tell the tale of hockey's greatest season. Together, they shed a long-dimmed light on this incredible hockey accomplishment.

So let's go back and take an exhilarating game-by-game ride through that year to understand what made the team so good, to see what the rest of the league tried to do to stop them, and to relive the excitement of the Montreal Canadiens magical 1976-77 season.
Country USA
Author Greg Enright
Binding Kindle Edition
Format Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages 51
PublicationDate 2014-11-15
ReleaseDate 2014-11-15

Country	USA
Author	Greg Enright
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
NumberOfPages	51
PublicationDate	2014-11-15
ReleaseDate	2014-11-15

Hockey’s Best Team Ever: A chronicle of the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens record-breaking season

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