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nah. still got a bad taste from the old days. get Muller or Robinson. thanks.

i like what i'm reading. http://beanballinc.blogspot.com/2006/05/mo...-grabovsky.html

uh... i don't think this will be an exclusive RIS press conference, though, shortcat1 so, as with all press conferences, there will be both french and english translations.

that was nice of the interviewer to ask that kind of question right after the team gets eliminated. btw, Gainey said that after game 4 or 5. there was nothing new to it. and i want him to stay for the remainder of his contract. and i agree that he was STUCK with Ribeiro and Bulis. that was our 2nd line? i'm guessing Gainey was hoping he'd jumpstart their productivity. now give him some players to play with. for real, this time.

good riddance, then. not being perfect is one thing, but giving the puck away as he does is just dumb, careless playing. a leader shouldn't be as much of a bonehead on the ice as he is. don't get me wrong, i'm not asking for his head, but i do hope Gainey gets rid of him in the off season. he's the one D i have problems (and a lot of them) with. how can you feel safe with Souray on the blue line giving as many turnovers or just looking at the puck as a opponent is making his play? we've got a strong D and i hope Gainey keeps all of them, but i could do without Souray's boneheadedness. let him be a waterboy or something if he's a leader in the locker room, but on the ice, he's a ######ing moron. is Selanne here yet? HA! laughed so hard on this one. thanks. btw, he actually came out of his shell during the last couple of games. if he could play like that during the regular season, i'd be all for keeping him. he was great with Perez and Pleks. was i alone in loving Garth Murray last night? i really hope Gainey keeps him on. i can't wait to see what Bob does in the off season. next season is gonna be an exciting one for Habs fans!

i like CerebusClone's idea. the Habs have been blown out in the last 3 games. i'm not expecting them to win tonight. although Bob won't do this tonight, i do hope they make it a point to crash the net. that's a very good observation. the Canes control their D zone, nothing gets to Ward, and the offense is getting pressured on the boards. that's why we couldn't set anything up in the last game or two. crash the net and messes with the D and Ward, plus, it creates space for Kovalev to do his wonderful thing. Go Habs Go!!

the Habs have been lazy for years. this is not Bob's fault. he actually got our team back up to speed in the second half of the season. you can't judge a coaching staff from what you see on tv. the players know him better than any of us and i'm willing to bet he's doing everything he can to fire them up. you don't need a Bergeron yelling and screaming behind the bench to get players fired up.

totally agree with simonus on Bégin. he brings out the best in everyone on the team. very happy to hear he's back

amen to that. and thank you, CBC, for putting the Habs' Playoff games up for us

i totally agree with you on Zednik! the man stepped up in a major way. dunno what happened but the guy is playing like a ######ing bulldozer right now. but i say keep Bulis with Kovy. he's been generating some chances out there and does seem to play well with Kovalev. take Ribeiro out (does Kovy still wanna play with him? i actually liked him a lot in the season but Kostitsyn would be so much more valuable for the series). he's been nothing but deadwood. and please bring in Kostitsyn...! come on, Gainey. (was Streit even used last night?) we need offense, speed, and excitement. and i gotta disagree about Bonk. he impressed me a lot last night.

Ribeiro was playing? hopefully Kovalev's injury is nothing too serious and he'll get back in the game quickly. i'm not that concerned about him. he's been one of the hardest working habs this series. and i totally agree with you about Kostitsyn. Gainey needs to seriously dress him for tomorrow night.

great, great news on him potentially coming back sooner than expected, but mostly for Saku. i was terrified when i saw him rushing to the bench with blood coming from his eye. get well soon

i agree about Bulis, Sundstrum, and Ribeiro, but Zednik, whom i couldn't stand anymore during the season (how many times will it take you getting stopped on the boards before you realize it's a ######ing dead end??), has been unbelievable in these last two games. seriously. he's upped his game up more than a few notches lately! he's been fighting for the puck, opened up his vision of the play, and he's even started cutting in the middle again! it's been quite a nice surprise. ps. Bonk, who's been nothing but consistent on the PK all season long, has been outstanding in this series. and did you see him last night?? he was hitting every Canes player that came along the way. and hard! i'm impressed and more than happy Gainey got him in the lineup.

i don't have the specifics of it but i do know for a FACT that Theo's ankle problem was only used to hide something bigger. coke? no idea. at the time i thought they meant something physical but that might also be it. maybe Gainey found out and couldn't tolerate it.

RDS usually does show Canadiens Express on weekdays; not weekends, though. and i will tape it with the roommate's dusty vcr it's all set-up. the reason i'm doing it this way instead of using the Bell ExpressVu dish is because he and his gf are likely to wanna watch tv in the evening and we can only watch/tape one channel at a time with that thing. no dual tuning. but i might also program it on that one in case they're not watching tv tonight (i'll be at work) i'm not missing anymore games thanks for the replies, guys.

actually, i saw live footage of that on tv -probably on the CBC- in the last couple of days. it was the day after game 1 i think. Kovy talked about taking in the sun since they've been on the ice for ever now.

having no luck finding the CBC feed today, i was gonna watch the Canadiens Express edit this afternoon --but no luck!!! it wasn't there. i checked the RDS schedule and they didn't have it this morning either! what gives? anyone heard of the program vanishing into thin air as the playoffs were rolling around? thankfully i found an alternative to my nightmare and am gonna try taping them with the roommate's dusty vcr, but still, Canadiens Express was a very viable alternative.

i wouldn't pull Gerber out for the next game. and i don't expect Laviolette to either. i've been reading a lot of Canes blogs and apparently that wasn't Gerber last night. just an off night. and Ward is just young and inexperienced. we should see Gerber monday night. but a different one. i was just happy to see the Habs take this one. amazingly unexpected, for sure, but that was a huge game to take. awesome

and the man certainly knows how to play his cards. just trust him

why are people so quick to jump on Gainey for taking his time to announce who the starting goalie will be? it wasn't any disrespect towards Huet. i think he was just giving the Canes as little time as possible to study Huet full-time and i think it was a good move. he's been doing this since Aebi got his game back on, making people wonder who the goalie was gonna be each night. we've got two good goalies. playing Aebischer brought his confidence (and the team's confidence) back up, and made it a viable two-goalie system. if we have a number one goalie, we know it's Huet, but this way it makes it look like we're split 2/1 over our goalies. more time spent reviewing two goalies instead of spending all their time on Huet is good by me. and Huet's in goal. stop bitching

i saw a trend in the media here (french, quebec) for the past week or so. the Canadiens, if you listened these talking heads, we not in the playoffs yet. most of my friends who don't follow hockey thought the Canadiens needed to win to *get into* the playoffs. they've been in 7th place for the couple of weeks!! thanks once again to the Montreal media for blowing things out of proportion by hating on your own damn team. be happy for once.

the Leafs-Sens game was still on the CBC. Quebec got the Montreal game.

we do. we do

Zednik said he didn't do anything special during saturday's game against NJ but i notice an incredible jump in his game. and he did look like he was trying shit out tonight also. looks like he might finally be trying to exorcise the McLaren hit. and i'll speak up about Huet. he had another solid game tonight. his style might be hard to notice because he's just always at the right place and the pucks usually hits him in the chest. he's just there before the puck. another great game for Huet. too bad it wasn't his to steal tonight.

true. i've heard worst but as i was reading your post i immediately thought of the CBC coverage and the crowd *is* louder on their broadcasts.