Jeff Marek

Tough one for their fans, certainly, at the Bell Centre yesterday.

Claude Lemieux comes out with the torch.

Claude Lemieux, who was selected one before our next guest in the 1983 draft.

He is a contributor with La Poche Bleue.

He is a former NHLer who I believe had every team he was on go to the playoffs yesterday.

He is Sergio Mameso, and he joins me now on the sheet.

Sergio, first of all, thanks so much for stopping by today.

What did you think when you saw, there he is, once again, Claude Lemieux, you were drafted right beside each other in 83, holding the torch.

There we go.

But here's the thing about it.

It's become such a cool little... Again, everything in Montreal, the way that they do things is so perfect.

Michael Farber always talks about they do things right in two places, the Bell Centre and Buckingham Palace.

Everything is perfect.

The history...

The history is is is incredible with the Montreal Canadiens, but it sits in a place that it doesn't get in the way like no one gets overwhelmed by it.

It's all really tasteful and dignified where a lot of places it's like this is kind of getting in the way and it's ham fisted and it's it's sloppy.

You know, everything is everything just sits really well with Montreal.

And I think before every game, it's like, OK, who's it going to be?

Oh, they haven't had Bob Ganey out.

When's Ganey going to get like it's become a big thing, like amongst, you know, your former teammates.