 On November 2 , 2005 , the team was honoured , en masse , as members of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame . In the induction ceremony , Phil Esposito spoke : " A lot of people will go back and say 1972 changed the face of the game and actually I believe it did . I 'm not so sure it changed for the better , by the way . But it did change the way we think and look at hockey in this country . " 
