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  1. 1 hour ago, dlbalr said:

    The Senators are going to be sold to Michael Andlauer who is a minority owner in the Habs.  He'll need to sell his stake in the team but I believe that's more or less agreed on in principle.


    Perhaps a forum members consortium should create an initiative to acquire said stake…? I’d invest. 
    is there 2000 members willing to invest $10K each?

    20 mil for day 2-3% of team but not the bell center…? (Apparently Andlauer owns 10%~ of team and building…?)

    the consortium elects one person to represent their interests, dividends galore, AGM on Super Bowl wknd, we get block of seats both games that weekend as perk haha, this is my daydream today. 

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  2. On 5/30/2023 at 7:47 PM, Sir_Boagalott said:

    It's surprising how badly Dallas got spanked in game 6.  I kinda figured they would push it to game 7 or at the very least not get completely blown out in game 6.

     

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    Haha beauty.

    def didn’t expect Dallas to get walked over, was fitting Benn was on the ice for the early first Vegas goal and showed no emotions.

    Where was the vitriol and energy he should have been pumping with?

    Dallas goalie was an issue as well, so much for him being the second coming of Jebus.

  3. 41 minutes ago, GHT120 said:

    Agree ... I expect (hope) that he will earn most of that money in Laval as a veteran leader ... but nice to see a "good guy" get paid.


    While I def see your point and think Laval needs some toughness to protect the young talent the rocket will have this season I also like Pezz with the big club because:

     

    a) he really isn’t that threatening to other tough guys and don’t know if he really intimidates enough to keep opponents from taking liberties.  He’s a gamer and willing to go with anyone, but don’t know if he intimidates the way a larger, more typical fighter would.  Obv not so black and white tho and I am sure he garners a certain level of awareness.

    b) Mtl needs that same protection of their young guys and I don’t want Suzuki,Andy, Slaf, CC, Guhle, Harris to have to fight, and Eddy & Savard don’t seem to fill that role either. That leaves Wifi (assuming he isn’t in Laval which is very possible) which isn’t great for him or team.  The team needs a fw who can stand up for teammates/hold opponents accountable as well as punish the opposing d.

    Not a goon but a willing combattent who won’t be overly missed when injured/suspended from an offense perspective.

    c) He is perfect for the press box when not required, but will still bring it every game he is in and also not complain or be a distraction when not playing.  His salary is not a burden obv.

    He could dress half the games and still lead team in hits, get his ten points and be valuable vs certain teams/in back-to-back situations.

     

    Regardless, happy to see him stick around at that rate and whether in Mtl or Laval he will fill an important role both places, perhaps he bounces back and forth but I predict he spends all year in Mtl.  
    Hard not like the guy as he leaves it all on the ice, seems genuinely proud to be a Hab and living his dream with a smile on his face just about every time I see him.

    Go Habs Go! 

  4. 2 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

    Doubt that we will see them again this season but this is a good step

    Forgot Evans was still on team.

    Agreed we will prolly not see them play this year tho.

     

  5. On 3/16/2023 at 1:23 AM, Sir_Boagalott said:

    Well, when I heard about this incident my 1st thought was the Habs dodged a PR bullet by not hiring Briere.  I doubt it will have any impact on his future as a GM.

    True, and agreed.

  6. On 3/18/2023 at 6:24 PM, Habsfan89 said:

    I understand that, what I'm trying to say is the only reason it's making the news is because of who his father is. Otherwise no one would of ever cared about it. It's a Dick move on his part but do you think they would of posted the video on their social media feed if his father wasn't a former NHL star? No they would of not. 

    No, I think we are talking about it is b/c his dad is a hockey name.

    but videos like this are regularly in circulation and commented on a plenty.

    Social media, Reddit are full of douchebag videos, sub Reddits are named after them, twitter is full of shaming videos.

    It is a way to hold people accountable as the only reason Carson Briere apologized was b/c thé vidéo came out.

     

  7. On 3/16/2023 at 2:49 AM, Commandant said:

    #### Carson but not his dad's fault. 

     

    He is an adult and needs responsibility for his own actions. 

    I tend to agree, but unfortunately things are not always separated as such.

     

     

  8. 31 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

    I agree that you shouldn't have to fight after a clean hit, with one exception: if you clobber a non-physical star player. E.g., someone lays out Suzuki, I expect that guy to get his ass handed to him.

    Clean hit on a star player trying to dangle, honestly I can live

    with.

    Taking liberties in corners, taking the extra step to have contact warrant a reply from

    our side.  That’s why you can’t have a team of smurfs, regardless of era.

     

  9. 1 hour ago, alfredoh2009 said:

    Seems Juulsen is healthy but for some stupid reason forced to fight for this:

     

     


    Yeah, the instigator rule was supposed to help with that but is not used effectively by officials.

    It should be called on plays like this where regardless of whether hitter is willing combatant they are

    Being challenged because of clean hit.

    That should be an extra 2 minutes to Dallas, w it h refs discretion to add misconducts. 

     

  10. Had a moment to read up on this turd while having late lunch, seems like a disgrace of a human being and relative to hockey, wonder if it affects his dad’s long term future as GM?

     

    https://www.tsn.ca/philadelphia-flyers-general-manager-daniel-briere-son-carson-briere-release-statement-on-incident-1.1932033?tsn-amp

     

    This article fails to mention that the kid also was kicked out of an Arizona university for poor behaviour in the past, is not even a productive player based on stats.

     

    What a toilet, how’s does his dad stay on as GM while hockey is trying to clean its image while his son is this?

     

    An article from non hockey source showing example of how the sport is perceived.

     

    https://deadspin.com/mercyhurst-hockey-carson-briere-wheelchair-down-stairs-1850229014

     


    From another article:

     

    Danny Briere, 45, was named the Flyers’ interim general manager Friday, replacing the fired Chuck Fletcher. The players support him as the full-time GM.

    Briere and his first wife, Sylvie, had three sons: Caelan, 24, an Alabama graduate; Carson; and Cameron, 21 a Southern Maine student who is the video coach for the Maine Mariners.

    He and his second wife, Misha, have a son, Caiden, who turned one today.

    “It’ been pretty cool diving back into it,” Briere said the other day about being a father again. He spoke before he knew about Carson’s incident. “It’s been a blessing. I experienced the first ones as a player, coming home completely exhausted, physically. So it’s pretty cool to have another chance and see him grow.

    “It’s not that I’m there more often, but when I come home, I probably have a little bit more to give,” he said. “My work (now) is more intense mentally, but physically I feel better than when I played, and I’m not beat up when I get home.”

     

    Link: https://phillyhockeynow.com/2023/03/15/philadelphia-flyers-danny-briere-wheelchair-carson-briere-son-of-flyers-interim-whhelchair-mercyhurst/

  11. 15 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said:


    he has looked better when paired with Drouin than with Suzuki; probably due in part to the imposing trio being less difficult to play against 

     

    Good point about opposition.

    Drouin is also continuing to play well and be quite creative, perhaps gels with the speed/straight line approach of Gurianov?  
    Not sure I see him as long term but an affordable one year deal and flip at next deadline sounds perfect. 

  12. On 2/15/2023 at 12:41 PM, alfredoh2009 said:

    he used to have a good wrist shot, and could hit the net with a slap shot. But not since the wrist injury:

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    Those stats don’t support your point, at the peak 20 goal scorer doesn’t scream shooter.

     

    Every high level amateur/pro can take a good shot, so to say he has a good wrist shot is futile (and having watched him in TB many times he never showed a strong shot in comparison to pro level).

    But “hit the net with a slap shot”? Is that a joke.  Think I’ve seen him take total of ten slappers (including warmups) in his time with Mtl.

    Guy has never been a shooter, always pass-first but he used to be able to dangle and use speed bursts to buy time to find a passing lane or eventually get a shooting opportunity himself.  
    The speed bursts are almost extinct, the vision is still there though.

    He wasn’t even considered a shooter in junior, always pegged as a secondary play driver and complimentary piece even when he was putting up sick points.

     

  13. 7 hours ago, sbhatt said:

    Damn...the Leafs improved by acquiring O'Reilly and Acciari.  If they can add a solid D-man, they just might make it out of the first round:

     



    https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/toronto-maple-leafs-st-louis-blues-minnesota-wild-three-team-trade-1.1920875


    Agressive trade, but I really don’t know that they got much better.

    Maybe if ROR becomes third centre and is sheltered, but he is slow, slower than ever and think time has caught up to him.

    He can’t keep up with any of their top 6, and they’ve parted ways with all of their grinding, slow the game down players (Ritchie, Simmonds, etc) which is also how Acciari plays so this seems like a bad fit with team style.

     

     

  14. 13 minutes ago, Habsfan84 said:

     

    Quite the trade. Center depth is pretty wild with Mathews, Tavares and O'Reilly. Maybe he moves to the wing and stay on the top two lines. Definitely banking on his playoff experience where he won the Conn Smythe. Is a forward what Toronto needed? Think they still need to add to their defence.

     

    Price is set at a 4th round pick for Minnesota to retain 25% of his salary. Keep that in mind for Montreal in the upcoming weeks.

     

    They are expected to arrive in Montreal for tonights game. 


    Big move, they paid a big price as well.  I believe they overpaid for a washed up ROR.

    Good point about centre depth. Add in Kerfoot as potential centre depth as well, but who knows what the plan is since he’s been playing wing.

     

    Happy to see the Leafs give away a pile of assets for rentals and still not address their lack of defense or consistently injured/sick goalies.  Bolts are gonna mangle them in first round.

     

  15. 18 hours ago, tomh009 said:

    50-point pace for the Habs last year. But, no, he's no star, my point was mostly that he's at least as good as Kotkaniemi, so we did not lose in this debacle. Coyotes came out the winner, I think, although that took them another trade yet.


    I tend to agree with you here.

    I had been thinking Dvo slotted in well on third line, behind Monohan and was ideally a third line guy. With Monohan out we’ve got Dvorak back on number two slot and he has harder time meeting those expectations.

    The Monohan loss greatly affected Dvorak’s deployment and spotlight.

    Acquiring the oft-injured Monohan and then mismanaging his (and other players) injuries was the lowlight of the year and the blame falls fully on management, coaches, medical staff.

  16. 13 hours ago, Helmethead said:

    Anyone watching this junk???

     

    It might be the worst thing I’ve ever witnessed. 


    You must mean the “skills” competition?

     

    OMG watching that is torture, I tried a few times and couldn’t keep it on for more than a couple minutes.

    I was not surprised by the female “players” (I use quotes b/c they are not part of NHL, are they part of the same Players Association or something?) but I can think of dozens of NHL’ers who deserved to be there more.

    The Sara Nurse “goal” was pathetic, Shesterkin (I think) looked like I do when letting my kid when 5 years old score on me while attempting to make it look like I tried.   That was sickening, imo took female hokey back a step.  So sick of the networks, league shoving female hockey down our throats.   
    If there were a bigger market for them, they’d know it. This push marketing style has been out of fashion since the 80’s and has shown to have the opposite effect of what is desired, as in it turns people off.   Such short sighted, simplistic mindset that they think shoving women onto every broadcast is going to make women's hockey profitable.

     

    Most of the events were garbage, they messed up a decent thing. The old fixing a problem that didn’t exist b/c I recall skills compétions being quite exciting and entertaining when it was the basic core skills, a stars wanted to shine with skill more than gimmicks.

    Just a money grab now.

  17. 58 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

     

    Ahahahahaa, these two quotations capture the dilemma of fighting in a nutshell.

     

    We’re in a different era now - the post-goon era, where guys like WiFi and Deslauriers can actually play hockey. So that removes the phenomenon of fighting as a side-show, along with caricatures of the NHL as a bunch of thugs on skates.

     

    And there does *seem* to be something in the idea that having guys who can throw ‘em helps to establish some limited degree of accountability in a league where refs and the NHL cannot be trusted to protect players against vicious cheap shots and reckless plays. 

     

    At the same time, we know enough about concussions, and enough about the sad realities of painkiller addiction and mental health issues that tough guys face as their career grinds on, to be concerned when we see guys bashing each others’ brains in.

     

    And yet, and yet…when WiFi clocks a guy, I’m hollering with enthusiasm like the rest of the punters. 😕

     

    A question here: I have the idea that the number of fights is up this season after years of decline, but can’t find a source confirming or denying this. Anyone know the answer? (If there is an increase, I’m wondering about the correlation between the speed and skill of the game - currently at the highest level of my lifetime - and the rise in fights).


    I’m intrigued by your question as well.

    I see your points too.

     

    regarding number of fights per season (mind you is a few years old now):

     

    https://www.hockeyfights.com/stats

     

    This article was decent after first read:

     

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.890429/full

     

    Most up to date numbers (just this season), but you’ll have to tally them yourself:

     

    https://www.hockeyfights.com/leaders/teams

     

  18. WTF are people thinking suggesting the Habs trade Wifi?

    Dude has skills that have been sorely missing for years.

    is cheap, can skate, shoot and hit.

    his passing and play reading can improve, he’s shown nothing but growth and ability to overcome his whole life and I’d bet he will improve his shortcomings and end up being a solid NHL’er for a decade. And he will play for Mtl relatively cheaply, guaranteed he will stick around for way less than any reasonable replacent would cost.

    Edmundson, Matheson and Savard are the problems between being either/and slow, sloppy and too often out of lineup they all need to get gone asap.  Team was better with 4-5 rookies on the blue line than with all of these bums (have liked Savard the most this year of these three)

  19. 20 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

    If Caufield is going to be a 40-50 goal scorer for his prime years then 8 years at 8 million per is a bargain. 
     

    Yes, indeed.  He loves Suzuki tho so perhaps he will take a relative bargain to ensure that they continue to tear it up do r years to come.

    but prolly end up being closer to 9 (saw 8.75 somewhere and made sense).

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