Peter Puck
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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]
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Originally posted by Rooster
I'm not sure, but I don't think it was a 30 game guaranteed clause......more of a payment the Habs had to make if he didn't play 30 games (cause the CBA didn't allow the Habs to offer him a one way contract which is what he wanted to come to NA). Anyways, this is kinda semantics.....even if he was guaranteed 30 games played, what would happen if the Habs disregarded that? No court would grant an injunction forcing the Habs to play Streit, he would be awarded damages in the form of money. Same difference.
Nothing really stops the Habs from not playing him. I think they want to play him, they haven't given up on him.
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.
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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.
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Originally posted by Fanpuck33
I've noticed the last two days that my activity level on the forum has been higher than the last few weeks. Why, you might ask?
It's because I have so much work to do. I've found the busier I am, the more time I fool around on HW.
Interesting.
You mean you have work to do outside of HW?
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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.
Originally posted by Peter PuckBob Gainey became GM on June 3, 2003. Here is the Habs roster in their final game before Gainey became GM (a 5-4 win over the Rangers).
Habs Roster Saturday April 5, 2003
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Audette
Bouillon *
Brisebois
Bulis *
Dackell
Dwyer
Garon
Hossa *
Koivu *
Komisarek *
McKay
Perreault
Quintal
Ribeiro *
Rivet *
Sundstrom *
Theodore *
Traverse
Ward
Zednik *
* = still with the team at the beginning of this season.
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.
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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]
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Definitely no.
Not only do they have the most talent they have the easiest schedule in the division.
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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.
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Originally posted by matsnaslundsuperfan
Whose on the trading block tonight.:hlogo:
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.
Originally posted by ch for lifeAll jokes aside the Gazette is reporting this morning that Danis will get the start with Theo playing the leafs and sens...
I won't be watching the game till the third cause of work.. but I have sent out several prayers to all the religious denominations I could think of for a strong first period and a dumb penalty-free game...
I can't promise any thing but the smart money says that Ganesh has our back on this one..(like all deities..hes a habs fan).
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.
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Originally posted by mathieug
4GP, 0W-4L, 3.79 GAA, 109 shots against - 94 saves, 0.862 Sv%
Other bulldogs goalies:
1 Yann Danis 3 180 4 0 1.34 3 0 0 95 91 0.958
2 Jeff Deslauriers 4 238 10 0 2.52 1 3 0 122 112 0.918
3 Ty Conklin 3 152 8 0 3.17 1 2 0 86 78 0.907
4 Olivier Michaud 8 448 26 0 3.48 2 4 1 237 211 0.890
Let's hope he can refind his form. If he keeps on playing like he's now, he could be down in hamilton for one very long conditioning stint.
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.
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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.
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Good night all. Let's hope we play better tomorrow.
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Oh no. PK again 4 minutes to go
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PK nullified by Buffola penalty after we killed 1 min 30 secs
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Originally posted by TheBigRedCOriginally posted by Peter PuckOriginally posted by TheBigRedC
Well was it not against Buffalo, the Habs were down 2-0 and came back in the 3rd to win?
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:
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Originally posted by TheBigRedC
Well was it not against Buffalo, the Habs were down 2-0 and came back in the 3rd to win?
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.
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Originally posted by TheBigRedCOriginally posted by Howie_MorenzOriginally posted by Macaskill
I have faith... Montreal will still win this one... 3-2
.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"
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Originally posted by zumpano21
Who was on the ice for the Habs with that goal?
11 KOIVU , 79 MARKOV , 75 DANIS , 52 RIVET , 22 BEGIN
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Originally posted by Howie_MorenzOriginally posted by Peter PuckOriginally posted by Howie_MorenzOriginally posted by Peter Puck
Its trite but the first goal is going to be very important tonight.
[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.
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]
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Originally posted by Howie_MorenzOriginally posted by Peter Puck
Its trite but the first goal is going to be very important tonight.
[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.
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Its trite but the first goal is going to be very important tonight.
[Edited on 2005/11/26 by Peter Puck]
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Originally posted by ch for life
I feel like maybe this thread is going a little of topic.
The fact is that Dagenais is a marginal NHL player who had the misfortune of starting his career right before the new rules came in.
If it werent for the premium now placed on speed then his sniping abilities and large frame would make him a decent player..as it is hes too much of a liability defensively for what meager offerings he does bring to the table.
All of that aside..with the large number of injuries we are seeing develop over the course of this season I just feel that his presence here takes up a roster spot that could be filled by a player with much better all around skills that would be useful to the team in many more ways.
If he were not french canadian from montreal then RDS TQS LA PRESSE and the journal would have been hollering for his head for months now.
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.
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Originally posted by shortcat1Originally posted by Peter PuckOriginally posted by shortcat1
Again, here's a post that I made on another string about this subject. I'm adding it here for your consideration.
"Carey Price is experiencing a cruddy beginning to this season. Here's his stats so far:
7 games
389 minutes played
210 shots against
29 goals allowed
0 shut outs
4.48 average
0.862 save percentage
1 win
5 losses
Don't know what the factors are. The Tri-City Americans lost 6 - 2 last night but it wasn't Price in nets.
The Tri-City Americans have the worst record in the whole WHL with 3 wins, 7 losses, 38 goals for & 48 goals against."
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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.
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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.
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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.