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    5 most indispensable Habs

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    1. Subban // You can't afford to lose the best defenseman in the league

    2. Price // You really can't afford to lose your starting goaltender

    3. Emelin // just look at the Habs record with or without him in the lineup

    Those are really the only indispensable Habs. If they get injured for 3 months, we can't replace them.

    My favorite player is Plekanec, he is very valuable to the Habs. But if he gets injured, I can see Eller taking increased icetime, Briere pinching in on the offense and Bournival and Leblanc on PK.

    If I have to add other players that can't get injured, I'd add Galchenyuk. He's our allstar on offense for years to come and we don't want to see him sustain another serious injury this early in his career.

    There's no need to add Pacioretty to the list as he is a wolverine and injuries can't keep him out of the lineup for long.

    So my 5th would be Markov. Another serious injury would really compromise his career, and he still has good hockey in him.

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    2013-14 NHL Season Thread

    in Habs & Hockey Talk

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    Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov has been arrested for 2nd degree kidnapping and 3rd degree assault. Wow.

    Wow..

    (Trying to write a comment that doesn't involve the fate of my fantasy hockey team)

    Surprising news, while he was playing that good. You wouldn't have guessed something like that was going on.

    HabsWorld's website celebrates 10 years

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    This was our first decade. For the next decade, I wish all of us a Stanley Cup! It was the first decade the Habs didn't win a single Cup !! What a shame ! When I look back at the past decade for the Habs, we had some great drafts, but some very bad timing for free agency. The Summer we traded McDonaugh in order to get Gomez in order to attract Gionta and then to convince Cammalleri was a huge disaster. When you think about it, we'd have been better off with McDonaugh instead of ALL the free agents put together.

    As for HW, it was a great "international project" at first, and evolved better than expected with the contribution of great writers and great fans. It has become a great platform to talk about the Habs and share our passion. I invite all of you to use it as such and contribute to it. We constantly need more writers to contribute to game coverage, editorials and special features, or fans to help us complete various pages on the website. If you want more info on how you can contribute, contact Brian aka dlbalr our chief editor at b.larose@habsworld.net

    cheers to all :1gohabs:

    Reflections on Parros-should fighting be banned?

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    The NHL has taken measures to protect players during fights with the new minor for removing your helmet, but the guys are still whipping them off.

    I don't know that we'll see fighting actually removed from the game before an "important" (i.e. star) player's career or even life is jeopardy as of the result of the fight.

    The NHL is more reactionary than it is preventative. Headshots became a problem, so they worked to reduce them. Players becoming injured on icing plays was a problem, and it took them awhile to finally introduce the hybrid model.

    Fighting has been in the game for a long time. What happens if it's removed completely? Do cheap shots reign? Do stick-swinging incidents become more frequent (we're looking at you, Kessel)? Will everyone just play nice? Can Patrick Roy keep his job in a fightless NHL?

    I think the league could be afraid of the consequences of removing fighting. They might see it as a pandora's box situation that will lead to a scenerio where even more rules and regulations will have to be defined.

    It's sad to say, but I think it will take that career or life ending injury at the NHL level to trigger action on the part of both the league and the players to remove fighting from the game.

    I think soon we will see fighters bowing and let their opponent's remove their helmet before going on with the fight to circomvent the 2-min penality.

    I wonder though if the refs will instead call a unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to both for that.

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