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How can you not like Frankie B!!!

Just saw half of first and now the second, Florida playing a solid game. Markov playing his usual awesome game.

Is Begin playing? Why is he Carbo's whipping boy? Pleks not getting chances these days, Kovalev seems off.

I thought Boullion worth a mention. Solid physical effort!

Chipchura has never showed me anything. Maybe I missed it.

Maybe it's a positive hangover from the achievment of last year but the rookies in this camp seem to be making an impact. In previous years training camp I seem to have my eye one or two players, this year it seems like there are 6-7 players to watch. And they all seem to be able to SKATE!!! No wonder Chipchura looks like a an also ran.

Is the game on RDS tonight? How about Saturday's?

Mortensen delves into America's cowboy mentality Co-star of Appaloosa sees classic archetype disappearing amidst shift in politics, values Katherine Monk, Canwest News Service Published: Sunday, September 07, 2008 TORONTO - Just how fearless is Viggo Mortensen? Forget his naked fight scene in the movie Eastern Promises. The man is wearing a Habs T-shirt in the middle of Leaf Nation. "Yeah. I've been booed on the street," says the man with the now-famous chiseled face as he speaks, barefooted, from a plush stage in Toronto's Royal York hotel. "The press has been on me ... but I don't care. I love the team as a team -- not for any single player." Email to a friend Printer friendly Font:****Mortensen says the concept of teamwork is important in any effort involving more than one person, which is why he sees professional sport and acting endeavours in the same light. It's also why he wanted to work on Appaloosa, Ed Harris's revisionist western based on Robert B. Parker's novel about two gunslingers who clean up a frontier town riddled with bad guys and bullet holes. "There isn't much difference between sport and drama -- except in sport, you don't know what's going to happen. But otherwise, it's about conflict and rising to the challenge before you. Both have props. Both have a stage, whether it's ice or a field. In a lot of ways, they're the same." Right now, however, Mortensen is a little more articulate than your average jock in front of a microphone as he talks about his time with Harris on the Santa Fe set of Appaloosa, as well as the most recent turns in American politics. In the film, Harris and Mortensen play Marshall and loyal sidekick, respectively. Both men carry guns, squint into the open plain and communicate with long, almost loving silences. They're the archetypal cowboys and the base layer of the American psyche that believes in riding into the sunset and heroic endings. Mortensen says he loves the cowboy ideal as well as the cowboy esthetic, but the classic old codes are fast becoming obsolete as the western world faces a looming geopolitical shift as well as a climate crisis. "We're going to hell in a handbasket. And just watching the recent (political) conventions, I'm amazed at how the very lack of discussion about certain issues is actually defining each candidate," he says, tucking his bare feet under one of the sofa cushions and nibbling on a chocolate bar. "I made a disparaging remark recently about Sarah Palin -- and I won't repeat it -- but the thing that really bothered me about watching the Republicans was how they're trying to sell this idea of country first. It's the same thing Bush did. F--- the rest of the world, and I find that so weak. There's no real policy. They're philosophically bankrupt." Mortensen acknowledges that most people don't like hearing bad news about the future, or the idea that change often demands personal sacrifice. He also acknowledges an affinity for dreaming big, and emphasizing the idea of possibility instead of pragmatics are particularly American obsessions -- beliefs forged in the red-hot crucible of the formula western. Appaloosa revises that western code by offering up a few simple, but important, changes such as a complex female character played by Renee Zellweger, as well as a somewhat warped notion of justice that allows the lawmen to overlook certain parts of the law when it gets inconvenient. 1 2 next page

Once again! So glad Higgins is still here!!!!

Why why In God's name is Smolinski always out on 5 on 3's????

Two things!!! So glad we did not trade Chris Higgins! For Sundin??? All all you Koivu haters can kiss my.....

When are we going to get some effort/production from the French players??

I always laugh when they say they are playing in a fishbowl in Toronto. They are fawned over by the media who are mostly fans. With the exception of Bob McCowan. Why do you think all those guys refused to waive their no trade clauses? Its a cushy enviroment. Try dealing with a Rejean Tremblay!!

Does anyone know what's up with ex-Habs Kilger? I thought someone might know on this well-informed forum.

I rarely miss a game and I missed this one. Arrrgh!!! What was this about the Rangers trash talking they were going after Kovalev?

Is there anything better than seeing that big Kovalev grin!!!!

Anybody know anything about this guy?

That little rat Tucker though! They are being outworked! Need more from Lapierre. He has regressed.

I really really am not liking this. They should be all over that slow defence.

Streit looking ######ed. Higgins looks like a fourth liner. Too many shots!!!

There is your big Huet save!!!!

Enough with the Koivu stuff. What happened to Chris Higgins? Like he does not even get chances anymore.

I agree. This Koivu bashing is out of control. More like Leaf Nation stuff. Markov was the best player on the ice!

Tried to play to Rangers physical play to their detriment. Still need a tough guy!!!!! Trade a low pick for someone that can fight and take the odd shift!

He does it far too much. I don't think it helps.