Ron MacLean
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He played 234 playoff games in his career.
He did get that Conn Smythe Trophy.
Yeah, just incredibly good score.
Like, even I go back to the 89 Cup for Calgary, which they won.
They won it in game six at the Forum.
And at that point, nobody had ever carried the cup around on the Forum ice.
No visiting team.
And Calgary won.
You know, Lanny was great.
Doug Gilmore had the winner.
But I remember from Montreal, Claude Lemieux scoring from center ice.
He scored a goal very similar to the Salo miscue in the Olympics in 2002.
It was from just inside center ice red line.
He launched a slap shot and he kind of tripped up Mike Vernon.
And that could have been, you know, doom for Calgary.
But Verney was great after that.
But there was typical Lemieux, right?
He found a way in overtime all the time.
But he was just...
goalies were just spooked by Claude.