Quote Originally Posted by Hyfi
What do you think they paid the refs to put all those bad penalties on the Flyers?
There's been some questionable officiating. But to be fair, when a team consistently ranks top 5 in penalties over 3 decades, and has more suspensions in a season than any other team has in 10 years, the refs are probably not giving them the benefit of the doubt.
That stuff comes back to haunt you. The Flyers will have to play through it.

Also, what year did the announcers start calling the Canadians the Habs? (short for les inhabitants)
(Les Habitants) has been their nickname since at least the mid 1920's and announcers have referred to them as such as long as radio and TV has carried the games. Originally the "H" inside the "C" on the logo represented "Hockey" not "les Habitant" but a lot of people were under the impression that a popular french nickname for settlers/farmers was the clubs nickname and it just stuck around.