An excerpt from TSN:
The Montreal Canadiens plan to retire jersey No. 33 of goaltender Patrick Roy in November, Montreal La Presse reported Friday.
A Canadiens spokesman would not confirm the report, saying the team does not comment on jersey retirements.
Roy, meanwhile, told the newspaper that he was unaware of any plans to retire his number.
“I don’t know what’s going on with that,” said the Hall of Famer. “For sure it would be a great honour.”
Later in the TSN article:
It appeared that there was bad blood between the Canadiens and Roy, who has not attended other jersey retirement ceremonies in recent years. Roy said it was only because he was too busy with the Remparts.
“I don’t know why people think there’s a problem,” said Roy. “I made a choice to run a junior team in Quebec City and because of that, I didn’t have time to go to the Bell Centre.
“I would have like to have gone to some events, like the jersey retirements of Bob Gainey and Serge Savard. I would have liked to go see (ex-Rempart) Alexander Radulov play against the Canadiens, but each time, it was impossible.”
The Canadiens are to announce events for their centennial season on Sept. 24, but it isn’t certain that they’ll make known any new jersey retirements at that time.