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I'm sick of people bitching about Ryder filing for arbitration. Nobody seemed to have a problem wanting to go after Dumont or Briere, and they both filed for arbitration. Gomez too. He's a young player and isn't a star who knows he'll be around for years to come. He's a solid player with the potential to have a long career, but that isn't a sure thing. He was offered a one year deal, not a mult-year deal. Of course he is going to try to get as much money as possible right now. He's not in a position where he can take a low salary even if he loves being a habs. After another season of solid production, maybe he will have earned a mutl-year deal where he'd be able to accept a little less money than he would like, since he is assured of the money of the course of a few years. Maybe he really will bolt and is tough to negotiate with, but that isn't what we should assume. Maybe his agent is a hardballer. Maybe he wants as much money as possible now in case he doesn't last. There are a lot of possibilities.

lol

http://www.rds.ca/hockey/chroniques/210347.html No thanks, JP.

Same ownership and everything, they just changed their name since their biggest attraction is an indoor sport.

Three games on Versus and none on NBC, about what I expected.

Something he didn't become until he got to Toronto. With Montreal he was a Steve Begin type. He was one of the few guys they had those days who energized the fans with his hits and fighting.

He can easily finish classes during summer semesters in the offseason. If guys like Vince Carter and Shaq can do it, so can Ryan.

To this day I regret trading Tucker away.

Check the facts, you are wrong about most politicians coming from "Mizzer-ah." 7 of the states representatives in the House and Senate are from cities that you list in "Mizzer-ee." 2 others are from cities in the northern portion of the state. That leaves just 3 from the so-called Mizzer-ah. As for Blunt, I don't know anything about the situation, but getting a divorce and re-marrying doesn't exactly go against family values. Getting a divorce doesn't make you a bad person. Granted, if he was seeing the lobbiest before the divorce, that's obviously a whole other story. I looked around a little, and couldn't find anything about an affair before the divorce.

1. An obvious omition on Habsfan's part. 2. Because that is what Begin is, a 4th liner. He brings a lot of heart and hustle to the team, but he does it from the 4th line.

Fantastic! Our best D prospect gets to test himself in the AHL, and perhaps even the big squad, given the injury situation that is going on now.

Guys, J.P. Dumont's career year is worse than both of Ryder's first two seasons. This was the first year that Dumont put up the kind of offensive numbers that you guys seem to think is a sure thing for him. It took him 4 full seasons and parts of 2 others to become the player he was last season. And even then his PPG was lower than Ryder's in his rookie season. Giving up on Ryder because he has been "difficult" to sign is ridiculous. Players frequently slump in their 2nd season, and Ryder lead the team in goal scoring. I'll take it.

I agree with shortcat. Now nobody is clearly in need of a goalie, how does that help Aebi's value? There are still 4 available goalies out there: Nabakov, Biron, Giguere, and Aebi. Given that Bob repeatedly has said he wants two high calibre goalies, we can shed that list to three available goalies.

Good luck to Eric in retirement. He was one of my favorites back in the day. Was sad to see him go.

How about a link to an rds.ca article about this? You gotta post legit sources here.

http://forums.habsworld.net/index.php?showtopic=7801

This thread is about Andrei Kostitsyn, not his little brother Sergei. As for any U-20 guys making the roster, Latendresse is the only one with a legit chance. If he couldn't make it after the camp he put together last year, nobody else they have will make it this year.

Left side, right side, not a big deal. Streit is a lefty, so he should be inclined to the left side anyways. 12 weeks does mean 3 months, but that's just before he can start skating again. Give him another couple weeks to start skating and another couple weeks down in Hamilton on rehab and you're to 4 months.

Excellent post. You are 100% right that the media focuses only on the bad. On the whole, the mission in Afghanistan has been a resounding success, aside from the fact that Osama is still hiding in a hole somehwere. It's the same in the US about Iraq. You only ever hear about the bodies. You never hear about the successful missions that happen frequently. You never hear about the good that is being done. I watched a documentary about the unit a classmate of mine is in, they chose his unit because it took the most casualities in Iraq. While those brave men certainly deserve recognition, why are there no documentaries about units that had low casualties with high rate of mission successes? The media's job is to report the facts, and that simply doesn't happen anymore. Media outlets bend the truth, report what they want, and are able to spin things however they want. Take, for example, a recent first page headline in the Washington Post read "Troop Morale Low in Iraq." This is completely false. They simply found the malcontent soldiers and made it sound like they were the majority. Military analysts say morale is very good and is not close to being low. Of course, there are always people who don't want to be there, but those are not the majority, as the headline and article indicated.

I thought the Russians had agreed to the most recent transfer agreement? Am I crazy? I even seem to remember hearing that Malkin had signed with Pittsburgh earlier this summer. I must be cracking up.

Haha, IMO Souray's one redeeming quality is his PP minutes.

I think someone is up a little to late...

Screw Phil of the Future, Kim Possible is where it's at!

An infuriating ending for what was once such a feel good story, perhaps the best of the year.

There won't be any more expansion in the NHL and they've done away with the waiver draft. No more protected/unprotected lists.