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First, let’s look at what did nothappen Saturday night.

Claude Julien did not leave Carey Price in nets for nine goals against the Detroit Red Wings.

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Price did not stalk off the ice, glare at Julien, then tell Geoff Molson he had played his last game for the Canadiens and wanted to be traded.

Réjean Houle was not around to take Pierre Lacroix’s call.

Price was nottraded to Colorado along with team captain Shea Weber for a couple of mid-level snipers and a young goaltender who was not up to the pressure of following a legend in Montreal.

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The team was not sent hurtling toward mediocrity with inept management, a hotheaded coach and a series of catastrophic decisions that would ripple through the organization for years.

It was not, in other words, Dec. 2, 1995, a date that will live in infamy as long as players wear the CH and fans with long memories go back to the night when Mario Tremblay found a new way to humiliate Patrick Roy — not long after the practice at the Forum when he had fired a hard shot at his prize goaltender’s throat.