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  1. I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks it is unacceptable when players and media make derogatory comments about french-Canadian or european players, or as in this case refs, and get away with it. Hockey is a multi-cultural sport and we live in a multi-cultural country. Racist comments like Doan's or Avery's or DonCherry's must be punished.
  2. Finally some good news for the Habs... RDS is reporting that Kovalev has been skating with the team and that his knee appears to be ready for some game action at some point this week. Let's just hope this helps the team snap out of its current slump. http://rds.ca/canadien/chroniques/193884.html
  3. it's inexcusable to give the Leafs(2nd best PP in the league) this many opportunities on the power-play, and absolutely unforgivable to take a "too many men on the ice" penalty in OVERTIME! Their power-play and Bryan McCabe are all the Leafs have going for them this season, and the Habs just gave them chance after chance tonight. Oh well we still get a point, and in April when it's all said and done that's all that really matters I guess.
  4. Bulis left in the first period, and never returned, does anyone know what happened to him?
  5. You're right, we are paranoid and overly-sensitive, but it's not just us. I am a dyed in the wool Habs fan(originally from MTL), but I live in Vancouver Canucks territory, and I listen to the sports-talk radio shows around here, and I hear the exact same type of concerns from Vancouver fans. They are also just as bad about wanting to trade players if they have a couple of off nights(like Bertuzzi currently), or planning a Stanley-cup parade if they string a couple of decisive wins together. It's the fun of being a true fan.:hlogo:
  6. I would like to think that teams and coaches around the league are starting to respect the Habs again, but I have to say that I felt kind of insulted when the Senators played their back-up goalie against us this week. Hasek hadn't played for 3-4 days and we were ahead of them in the standings and in the same division and they still dont think they needed to put Hasek in to beat us? What does that say about the respect we get in the league? ...course they did beat us anyway, but you know what I'm getting at.
  7. dont mean to be a smart-alek but aren't rankings based on past performance, simply called "standings" and found in every newspaper?sorry, just couldn't resist. I tell you one thing though... you could probably use the TSN power rankings as an example of how NOT to do the Habsworld system. With them it's Leafs first, then "who cares" about the 29 other non-Leafs teams in the league. I think my hatred of the Leafs is becoming rather obvious isn't it?
  8. More shots is always good, but someone has to be in front of the net to pick up the rebound also. Now I know nobody likes him, but thats a role Dagenais is capable of playing very well. He played 2:28 minutes the other night and scored a goal because he put himself in front of the goal and picked up a sloppy rebound. Shots and deflections are good, but rebound shots are even better because then you can catch the other team, especially the goalie, out of position.
  9. You must be joking! Sundstrom for Laraque?! that's preposterous. Fighting is down in the league by almost 50% and many NHL teams are benching or sending their goons down to their farm teams, and you think it would be a good idea to trade a reliable role-player like Sunny for a guy who has very limited skills outside of fighting? doesn't sound too wise to me, and I don't think Gainey would ever make the trade.
  10. While it is under Bettman's rule that the major changes to the NHL were made, i really don't think we should be grateful to him as much as to Bob gainey and the entire management team for having built the team that is now giving us so much hope for the future of our beloved franchise. Because really, even if Bettman had made the changes, but Gainey hadn't had the foresight to build a team the way he has, one that is focused on speed, skill and positioning, we wouldn't be benefiting from the changes, as we are now.
  11. and what is up with that kid doing a 5 minute segment between the 2nd and 3rd periods. Meanwhile the CBC has the satelite hotstove...what gives? Can't they geta respectable french-canadian hockey analyst to speak intelligently about the game/the Habs on RDS between periods? I guess they are trying to get young fans, but surely getting Youppi! as a mascot has to be enough.
  12. The BIG difference between Claude Julien and Pat Quinn is that Julien isn't on TSN after every other game complaining about a hit, or a play or a call that didn't suit him, while Quinn and his trained monkey Tie Domi do just that. Their reasoning for this or the effects of all the complaining they do is none of my concern, i'm just sick and tired of their infantile whining.... and we're only three weeks into the season!
  13. Do you think Zednik will go back to his first line spot or are we in for a major line shuffle? Could he be reinserted on the second line with Ribeiro and Ryder? Could that work?
  14. Just a little balance here... Julien, in what is supposed to have been a rare emotional outburst in front of the camera complained about the officiating last night too. He had some legitimate concerns but not overwhelmingly so. I didn't see Quinn's comments so I can't make a judgement. Yes sure Julien complained about the officiating of last night's game(with reason), but for Quinn and the Leafs they have already this season complained in the media about the shoot-outs in the Senators game, the legal hit on Lindros, the hard hit on Tucker(the exact type of hit he lays out on a regular basis), the disallowed goal last night, Bob Hartley being a bush-league coach(Iguess winning a Stanley Cup doesnt count for Tie Domi) and god knows what else they've cried about on TSN so far. So Julien commenting on the Islanders- friendly reffing last night is certainly more justified than the Leafs constant bitching about every little thing that doesn't go their way
  15. I couldn't agree more... the entire country knows TSN's bias, i live on the west coast and the Canucks fans out here are always complaining about the network's Leafs-centric perspective of hockey. And I'm sure it's the same in every other canadian market. I'd be thrilled to see our Habs quietly continue to play good hockey, keep a low-profile and go into the play-offs strong, confident, and somewhat under-estimated. Then proceed to kick some Leafs butt on the way to the cup final against any of the western canadian teams(Vancouver would be nice). While Quinn and his bunch of whining goonies are crying over how its just so darn unfair and the whole world is against them on TSN every night.
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