lucky tie

for his birthday last year, montreal canadiens headcoach's wife decided to offer a nice gife to her husband. a tie. it was orange with some burgundy designs and other really ugly colored things. she paid 150$ for one of the ugliest tie ever. even don cherry wouldnt wear it.

The first time Guy Carbonneau wore it was in a game against the NY rangers. the habs were losing 4-1 in the 3rd period. Mike komisarek was going rampage on everyone tackling everything in could and trying to get in fight, to try and give some momemtum to his team. eventually it paid off and montreal started working on their come back, they scored 4 unanswered goals to win 5-4 in OT. one of the most memorable season game i saw.

The first game of the playoffs the habs won fairly easely against the bruins as Carbonneau was still wearing his really ugly tie. Boston battled and managed to tie the series and force a Game 7. For this occasion Guy had to wear his lucky tie and test its power and see if he could win a game 7. He did. there was riots in montreal and nobody doubted the power of the tie

game 6 against philadelphia, the habs are trailing 3-2 in the series and need to win to force a game 7. Flyers winger RJ umberger already scored 7 goals in the past 5 games against montreal and needs to be stopped. This is when Carbonneau decided to pull out his tie. but for the first time, it failed, umberger scored his 8th goal of the series and helped the flyers win.

Anyway while the ugly tie wasnt perfect it still became legendary and carbonneau promised to auction it and offer the money to charity.

and today at the annual montreal canadiens golf tournament, the tie sold for 100 000$