Peter Puck

What is Therrien thinking???? We had a faceoff in the Preds zone with 72 seconds left but he won't pull Price until we gain control??? Of course, the faceoff was scrummed and the puck fought for along the board for 10 seconds before Nashville got it and cleared the zone. We never got control of the puck in their zone for the rest of the game. Even if we lose the faceoff with 72 seconds left we still are better off with 6 skaters.

Sure you might win 80% of the time. But when you win you save maybe 2 million per year for 8 years but when you lose you could be losing 8 million a year for 8 years. So its a lot closer than is sounds when you say you win 80% of the time. I prefer always using a bridge contract. In the end you have your player locked up longer if you want them, You have to pay for this but I'd rather have players getting what they are worth than have 4 guys 25% under paid and 1 guy vastly over paid.

44-28-3-7 for 98 points Atlantic Div 2nd League 5th 241 goals

8th Annual HabsWorld season prediction contest. Hall of Fame: 2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game. 2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts. 2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow! 2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points. Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10. 2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate. Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points. 2011-2012 sakiqc Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points. Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals. 2012-2013 illWill won by predicting the Habs would finish with a record of 27-16-5 for 59 points. The Habs finished 29-14-5 for 63 points. Honourable mention to PMAC and to former champion Chips who both predicted the Habs to finish with 58 points. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013-2014 edition Predict a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish d) the total number of goals the Habs will score this season (including 1 goal per shootout win). The winner will be based upon the most accurate prediction of the Habs final points, then most accurate record prediction. The latter three predictions will be used successively to break ties. Don't forget to separate overtime losses and shoutout losses. Good Luck!

I think Heatley is injured and won't be eligible for a buyout. The buyout window will close on July 5 so its doubtful he will recover in time.

Man this is an important period coming up. Lose this and we will be in trouble. Win it and I think we take the series.

7th Annual HabsWorld season prediction contest. Hall of Fame: 2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game. 2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts. 2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow! 2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points. Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10. 2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate. Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points. 2011-2012 sakiqc Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points. Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals. ============================================================================================ Our winner is illWill. He predicted the Habs would finish with a record of 27-16-5 for 59 points. With one game left their record is 28-14-5 for 61 points. Honourable mention to PMAC and to former champion Chips who both predicted the Habs to finish with 58 points.

Congratulations, although they barely got those 13 points in the last 18 games.

Well the have scored 145 so far. Where's our division championship?

25-17-6 = 56 pts 6th in the east 127 GF

Yes but buying Gomez out a year early doesn't change this. He won't be on the 2013-2014 cap in either case.

Don't we have plenty of room under next years cap right now? I don't see how using an accelerated compliance buyout affects Subban's contract at all (provided we send Gomez home for the year).

Can you imagine the fuss if this happens and we finish 9th 2 points behind NJ? I really wonder if it is worth the risk to buy him out now rather than just send him home as planned. Maybe he'll sign in the West?

One of the rules with a compliance buyout is that the player cannot play for the team buying him out for at least 1 year. We can't sign him and we can't trade for him until that year waiting period is over. Maybe the accelerated buyout means we can get him back a year earlier than if we compliance buy him out in the summer?

There seems to be a lot of confusion here. The new accelerated buy out doesn't really help the Habs at only - only Gomez (and Redden). It has no effect on our cap hit either this year or next. We get the same cap hit as we were going to get by sending him home for the year. We pay him exactly the same salary as we would have by sending hi home. I see only 3 differences: 1) Gomez gets to play for some other (NHL?) team. 2) and so might well end up improving one of our opponents (and playing well against us) 3) We get access to one of our 50 roster spots 6 months early. I'm not sure this is such a great deal for the Habs. But we have to do it. If we don't we will really hurt our chances with future UFAs.

7th Annual HabsWorld season prediction contest. Hall of Fame: 2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game. 2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts. 2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow! 2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points. Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10. 2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate. Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points. 2011-2012 sakiqc Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points. Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2013-2013 edition There will be a 48 game season. Predict a) what the Habs regular season record will be b) in what place in the East the Habs will finish c) the total number of goals the Habs will score this season (including 1 goal per shootout win). 1 point will be awarded for getting the correct number of wins. 1 point will be awarded for getting the correct number of loses. 1 point will be awarded for getting the correct number of OT loses. 2 bonus points for getting the entire record correct. 6 points will be awarded for getting the Habs final point total correct (3 pts for being exactly 1 off of the correct answer) (1 point for being exactly 2 off the correct answer) 1 point for correctly predicting the Habs finish in the East. The total number of goals the Habs will score will be used as a tiebreaker, if necessary. Make you predictions before the beginning of Saturday's season opener against the leafs. Good Luck.

I predict they will introduce 3 on 3 hockey in the overtime. Possibly by adding 5 minutes of 3 on 3 after 5 minutes of 4 on 4. Just like last time, the league will want to add some new and exciting aspect to bring the fans back. For the same reason we might see the introduction of some kind of coaches challenge. I don't think this will happen, but I would like to see scrapped the rule imposing an automatic delay of game for shooting pucks over the glass.

So nobody did better than 50% so far.

These guys are giving profs a bad name. There are lots of intelligent and interesting ways you can analyze a team and/or a coach. This is not one of them. Thinking that anything intelligent can be uncovered by examining what a coach said in his first press conference is just ridiculous. There is no real reason to belive that what a coach says is what he thinks. The coach is trying to make a good first impression with the media, with the fans and with all the players. He is trying to motivate the stars and the journeymen. Maybe he believes Price is overrated, Kaberle is washed up or that Desharnais is too small. Is he likely to express these views in his opening press conference? Apparently these profs would increase their evaluation of MT if he had opened his PC by saying that Kaberle is over-the-hill and that Gomez is an albatross because the numbers seem to reflect these evaluations. Would your own evaluation of MT as our new coach improve if he said these things?

Great. I'm glad to lock him up for a couple of years. Bergevin seems to be progressing through the contracts well.

I don't dispute that tampering occurs. But the statements I bolded are both wrong. Gainey was allowed to tell Gorges that we are interested in Cammalleri. Both Gainey and Gorges were Habs employees and they are within their rights to discuss what players to target to improve the team. But if Gorges passes this info on to Cammalleri before Cammi is a free agent then Gorges and the Habs are guilty of tampering. The rules are explicit that players are not allowed to tell other players under contract about potential interest. It probably happens but it is explicitly against the tampering rules.

Doesn't the Price arbitration guarantee us a 2nd window to buy out Gomez? I don't want to buy him out but if the Habs do, I'd rather do it later when we have as much info as possible about UFAs and possibly the new CBA.

Wow, dlbair that really is very impressive. Good work! I (like everyone else) am very pleased and surprised at how well the Habs made out. I heard Timmons really liked Nystrom whom he saw when he went to scout Samuelsson.

Too late. What will happen to me? I've had all my shots.

This is great. I'm sure Murray was not our guy. Timmons gets to pick his guy. I'm hoping for Galchenyuk but I'm happy with whoever Timmons chooses.