Peter Puck

Woah! Unexpected! I thought you were joking or something. HUGE trade. I think Boston wins. They get a strong defenceman, a decent checker and a good forward. Is Sturm a center? If not their first line has deteriorated. If not then it's all good. It definitely hurts San Jose though. They traded their team for Joe Thornton. Yes Sturm is a center. He is okay, never really lived up to his promise. Stuart is a pretty good D-man abd Primeau is a career grinder (a pretty good banger). But ... there is no way this package is worth Thornton, one of the top centers in the league. I can't believe they couldn't get more. I don't believe Boston offered Thornton to many teams.

The Bruins have traded Thornton to San Jose for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau!!! To me this smacks of panic in Boston. I think SJ won this trade. Edit: spelling [Edited on 2005/12/1 by Peter Puck]

We thrashed this question out quite a while ago. I believe the answer was that if the Habs don't dress Streit for 30 games we have to pay the Swiss Elite League a (relatively small) financial penalty. I don't think this is a serious consideration for Julien and Gainey when they decide whether to play Streit. Perhaps Hainsey would have been better than Streit but the Habs brain trust definitely didn't think so. Even if Hainsey is/will be better, Streit is definitely the next on our defensive depth chart.

This doesn't make any sense. We have a (short term) severe shortage of defencemen and many of you suggest we solve this by trading away our defencemen. What we need to do is pick up more defencemen. I truely doubt we can improve on defence by exchanging the few we have for others. We could trade a forward, or a goalie or a prospect (not a defencemen since we haven't got any) but we still need to find an available D-man. I don't know of any particularly good choices available right now. Perhaps Gainey will find us someone but it won't be for Streit. Hainsey may pan out but I wouldn't count on it. I think he is a career AHLer.

You mean you have work to do outside of HW?

People, give your heads a shake. While things have not been going particularly well for the past couple of weeks there is no need to start throwing blame around. Gainey has done a fantastic job. Here is part of a post I made during the preseason in a thread about Gainey's performance. Gainey has been our GM for 17 months including 10 months during which he couldn't make any changes to the nhl roster. Looking back to the state of the team in the pre-Gainey era makes it crystal clear what a good job he has done and is doing. There are of course some problems and he has made some mistakes but we can't expect perfection.

All this discussion of the leafs and the refs reminds me of something I saw in the November 11th game with the leafs at Buffalo. In the third period the leafs took a delayed penalty and one of the sabres (I forget which) walked in alone on Belfour. He took a wrist shot and beat Belfour. On the play Belfour got a piece of the puck with his stick but the puck just deflected a little bit off its course and went into the leaf net. The sabres were celebrating when the ref waived off the goal. Why? Because there was a delayed penalty and when Belfour touched the puck with his stick the ref ruled the play was over. I loved the expression on Lindsay Ruff's face as the ref was explaining his decision. [Edited on 2005/11/29 by Peter Puck]

Definitely no. Not only do they have the most talent they have the easiest schedule in the division.

On the weekend, I saw an article in the Toronto Star (I know I apologize) about a Habs web site. I wonder if this article prompted the letter. Here is a linkto the article.

I think we all know who has to go after the Buffalo debacle. I say we dump Ganesh while he still has some trade value. I saw a rumour on Bob McKenzie's blog that the Hurricanes are going to put Nergal, a minor Babylonian diety who has a huge upside, on waivers this weekend. BG has to do something before its too late. We got Begin off waivers we can get Nergal too.

I don't think he can stay in Hamilton for more than 2 weeks. He didn't have to clear waivers when he went down because he is on a conditioning stint. I think we have to take him on the nhl roster or else expose him to waivers if we want to keep him in Hamilton.

Here's what I would like to see: Perezhogin--Koviu--Ryder Zednik--Plekanec--Higgins Bulis--Bonk--Begin Sundstrom--Ribeiro---Dagenais I would really like to try this first line.

Good night all. Let's hope we play better tomorrow.

Oh no. PK again 4 minutes to go

PK nullified by Buffola penalty after we killed 1 min 30 secs

PK

Just checked (took me a while) and the answer is no. Nov 4. We scored 1st and trailed 2-1 after 2 periods. Nov. 5 We led 2-1 after 2 periods and scored to make it 3-1. Well I was close. Thanks for checking...:/) You are welcome. Looks like we are starting to apply some pressure.:ghg:

Just checked (took me a while) and the answer is no. Nov 4. We scored 1st and trailed 2-1 after 2 periods. Nov. 5 We led 2-1 after 2 periods and scored to make it 3-1.

You are right. Everyone predicted 3 - 2 for some strange reason. Thats is beacuse the first two games were 3-2 I think he was being ironic when he said "for some strange reason"

11 KOIVU , 79 MARKOV , 75 DANIS , 52 RIVET , 22 BEGIN

Peter Puck, love the avatar!!!!!!! Actually, what you said is the truth. Low, Low scoring game by the looks of it. [Edited on 2005/11/26 by Howie_Morenz] Thanks, I liked my Gainey/H. Richard avitar but I thought I should go with something more in character. That Avatar was something??? puck in intermissions when I was a kid. cannot remember his name. Was it Peter Puck? It was great when I was a kid as I liked the intermissions. Yep - that's Peter Puck. Here is an article http://www.frymybacon.com/articles/article...hp?articleID=78 on me from my previous career that may bring back some memories. [Edited on 2005/11/26 by Peter Puck]

Peter Puck, love the avatar!!!!!!! Actually, what you said is the truth. Low, Low scoring game by the looks of it. [Edited on 2005/11/26 by Howie_Morenz] Thanks, I liked my Gainey/H. Richard avitar but I thought I should go with something more in character.

Its trite but the first goal is going to be very important tonight. [Edited on 2005/11/26 by Peter Puck]

I completely disagree with the highlighted statement. I do not know who we could replace Dags with. We don't want to bring up one of our prospects - they are much better off getting ice time in Hamilton than getting 2-6 minutes per night with the Habs. We could bring in a new player but we don't want to spend any more than we pay Dagenais. Although you may not feel that he was worthy of 3rd star against Florida his contribution to that game certainly put him in the top 6-7 Habs for that one night. I think it very unlikely we could find someone more useful for similar money. In many respects Dagenais is an excellent 20th guy on the roster in the new NHL with its shootouts.

Well Price has really picked up his game since shortcat1 posted the above on October 27. Here are his current stats: 18 games 1026 minutes played 559 shots against 53 goals allowed 0 shut outs 3.10 average 0.905 save percentage 5 wins 8 losses That means in the intervening month he has these stats: 11 games 637 minutes played 349 shots against 24 goals allowed 0 shut outs 2.26 average 0.931 save percentage 4 wins 3 losses I'd say he is back on track. :can: very nice work and calculations, pp. :/) Truly appreciated. :/) :/) :/) You are most welcome shortcat1 (is there a shortcat2?). We all have to help out watching the prospects - especially now that Beckham is trolling elsewhere.