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The Guy Lafleur Awards are an annual opportunity to honour outstanding student athletes and to catch up with the Hall of Fame winger who can always be counted on to say something interesting, if not outrageous.

After weighing in on the Canadiens’ season — “It’s too bad they didn’t go farther in the playoffs but you can’t win if you don’t score goals” — Lafleur suggested the Canadiens weren’t willing to pay the price necessary to win in the post-season.

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Lafleur knows a little something about paying the price because he was the target of a full-on assault by the Boston Bruins in the 1978 final, which the Canadiens won in six games.

And he knows a little something about scoring. He’s the Canadiens all-time leading scorer and said scoring wasn’t a problem for the Canadiens in the glory days of the 1970s.

“If one guy wasn’t scoring, there was someone else to pick up the slack,” said Lafleur, who was surrounded by Steve Shutt, Yvan Cournoyer, the Mahovlich brothers, Jacques Lemaire and Henri Richard.