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Once again this year, we're pleased to have Hamilton's play-by-play voice Derek Wills join us for a live Q & A/chat session that will be held on Monday (October 3rd) at 8 PM EST on the main HW site. If you have any questions you'd like to have answered about the Bulldogs (we should all be more familiar with many of the Habs' prospects now having seen them for much of the last couple weeks), please post them here (or PM/e-mail me if you'd prefer). I look forward to seeing everyone online next Monday.

All of this nonsense will go away the second the Habs win a regular season game. This is the lineup that finished Game 7 against the Stanley Cup Champion Bruins. Cammalleri/Plekanec/Kostitsyn Gionta/Gomez/Darche Halpern/Eller/Moen Pyatt/White/Weber Subban/Gill Hamrlik/Spacek Wisniewski/Sopel Here is the lineup that will likely start this season Cammalleri/Plekanec/COLE Gionta/Gomez/PACIORETTY Kostitsyn/Desharnais/Darche Moen/Enqvist/Weber Subban/Gill GORGES/Spacek CAMPOLI/YEMELIN Add Eller, Markov, White, Diaz at some point during the season and you are telling me that is not a better team? When did a 37 year old Roman Hamrlik become a make or break player? How does a team that banged with the "rough and tough" Boston Bruins for 7 games all of sudden become less tough with the addition of two power forwards in Pacioretty and Cole? A physical defenseman in Yemelin and the return of the under appreciated Gorges. Kostitsyn/Desharnais/Eller/Darche now get matched up against 3rd line opponents nightly, not the top units. This team is better than the 2011 edition even with injuries.

I hope he delivers hits better than Subban. One of these days someone's gonna catch Subban at the last minute and PK is gonna screw up his back.