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I'm in a good mood so lets go with a nice positive song Le vent dans tes cheveux blonds Le soleil à l'horizon Quelques mots d'une chanson Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie Un oiseau qui fait la roue Sur un arbre déjà roux Et son cri par dessus tout Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie. Tout ce qui tremble et palpite Tout ce qui lutte et se bat Tout ce que j'ai cru trop vite A jamais perdu pour moi Pouvoir encore regarder Pouvoir encore écouter Et surtout pouvoir chanter Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie. Le jazz ouvert dans la nuit Sa trompette qui nous suit Dans une rue de Paris Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie. La rouge fleur éclatée D'un néon qui fait trembler Nos deux ombres étonnées Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie. Tout ce que j'ai failli perdre Tout ce qui m'est redonné Aujourd'hui me monte aux lèvres En cette fin de journée Pouvoir encore partager Ma jeunesse, mes idées Avec l'amour retrouvé Que c'est beau, c'est beau la vie. Pouvoir encore te parler Pouvoir encore t'embrasser Te le dire et le chanter Oui c'est beau, c'est beau la vie.

okkkkk that's a puzzling move to say the least Do they want to compete with Chicago for being the worst managed team in the league or somethin?

Here's the contract situation for the NE teams so far.. I took the data on the respective team boards over at HFboards http://hfboards.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10 --- Montréal $4,750,000 Saku Koivu $4,500,000 Alexei Kovalev $3,525,000 Sergei Samsonov $2,875,000 Cristobal Huet $2,565,000 Craig Rivet $2,394,000 Radek Bonk $2,280,000 Sheldon Souray $1,900,000 Mike Ribeiro $1,900,000 David Aebischer $1,786,000 Mike Johnson $1,750,000 Andrei Markov $1,725,000 Mathieu Dandenault $1,000,000 Steve Bégin $0,946,827 Mike Komisarek $0,673,000 Chris Higgins $0,600,000 Mark Streit $0,575,000 Garth Murray $0,475,000 Aaron Downey $0,450,000 Tomas Plekanec Total : $36,669,827 Unsigned RFAs Micheal Ryder( going into arbitration) Alexander Perezhogin --- Toronto F Mats Sundin $6.33 million D Bryan McCabe $5.75 million D Pavel Kubina $5.0 million D Tomas Kaberle $4.25 million D Hall Gill $2.1 million G Andrew Raycroft $2.0 million F Darcy Tucker $1.596 million F Jeff O'Neill $1.5 million F Tie Domi BUY-OUT.$1.25 million F Nikolai Antropov $1.007 million F Alexander Steen $900,600 F Chad Kilger $900,000 G Ed Belfour BUY-OUT $770,000 F Alex Ponikarovsky $712,000 D Wade Belak $670,000 D Staffan Kronwall $612,500 G Jean-Sébastien Aubin $525,000 G Mikael Tellqvist $519,500 D Ian White $488,000 F Ben Ondrus $469,000 F John Pohl $462,000 Total $37.769 million Unsigned RFAs D Carlo Colaiacovo F Matt Stajan D Brendan Bell F Kyle Wellwood D Jay Harrison --- Boston Forwards Marc Savard - $5,000,000 Marco Sturm - $2,100,000 PJ Axelsson - $1,850,000 Wayne Primeau - $1,150,000 Glen Murray - $4,150,000 Yan Stastny - $665,000 (2005-06) Petr Tenkrat - $525,000 Shean Donovan - $925,000 Mark Mowers - $462,500 Defenseman Zdeno Chara - $7,500,000 Paul Mara - $3,000,000 Brad Stuart - $2,400,000 Mark Stuart - $942,400 (2005-06) Goalies Hannu Toivonen - $532,000 Tim Thomas - $1,200,000 TEAM CURRENT TOTAL = $32,401,900* over 15 contracts (2 not confirmed). Does not include 2006-7 buyout for Green & McEachern of $1,087,500. REMAINING CAP ROOM AFTER BUYOUTS: $10,510,600. Unsigned RFAs Patrice Bergeron Brad Boyes Andrew Alberts Milan Jurcina David Tanabe (arbitration) Phil Kessel Sergei Zinovjev -- Buffalo ( all those players in arbitration.. some are gonna be pissed for sure!) Jaroslav Spacek 3,300,000 Chris Drury 3,154,000 Teppo Numminen 2,600,000 Jochen Hecht 2,200,000 Martin Biron 2,128,000 Brian Campbell 1,250,000 Thomas Vanek 942,200 Clarke MacArthur 600,000 Andrew Peters 460,000 Mark Mancari 450,000 Total $17,084,200 Players going into arbitration Toni Lydman Henrik Tallinder Maxim Afinogenov Daniel Brière Tim Connolly J.P. Dumont Paul Gaustad Ales Kotalik Adam Mair Jason Pominville -- Ottawa Wade Redden 6,500,000 Daniel Alfredsoon 4,670,000 Dany Heatley 4,500,000 Jason Spezza 4,500,000 Martin Gerber 3,700,000 Joe Corvo 2,600,000 Chris Phillips 2,200,000 Mike Fisher 1,500,000 Anton Volchenkov 1,250,000 Andrej Mesazros 1,000,000 Patrick Eaves 1,000,000 Ray Emery 925,000 Brian McGrattan 800,000 Josh Hennesy 600,000 Tom Preissing 600,000 Total 36,345,000 Unsigned RFAs Chris Neil (arbitration) Antoine Vermette (arbitration) Peter Schaeffer (arbitration) Chris Kelly (arbitration) Christoph Schubert -- So who's in better shape so far in our division? Buffalo's fate will depends a lot on how arbitration turns out for sure....

If the season started tomorrow, I'm fairly certain the lines would be Higgins-Koivu-Ryder Samsonov-Ribiero-Kovalev Perezhogin-Plekanec-Johnson Bégin-Bonk-Murray Extra : Downey Markov-Komisarek Souray-Rivet Bouillon-Dandenault Extra; Streit Huet Aebischer Altough I wonder if we could do an all soviet line.. can Samsonov, Kovalev,Perezhogin or Kostytin play center with any effectiveness?

Happy to have him on the team, he's one of the 2 Bruins I actually like (the other one being Bergeron, but we all know he's in Boston for a long long time)

It's ironic when you think about it The cap was created to help small market teams like Ottawa to compete. What it accomplished for them so far is make them loose both Chara and Havlat for nothing and next to nothing

So Higgins get paid barely more than Streit.. this is no fair for him, he's so much better than him! But eh, I won't complain. Best bang for the buck on the team!

This may sound like a dumb question, but why does Italy play in blue? They're is no blue in their flag...

If you hate the US because of their TV shows then you will want to nuke Québec Specially TQS.. o God this station is so horribly bad. Their only saving grace is the Simpsons. Their news are especially bad, it's very biased and superficial. Plus they seem unaware than they're is something existing outside of Montréal. And dont get me started on 110% and their so called hockey experts that see anti french conspiracy everywhere. Funny tough, they shout racism everytime a french player get benched, but they bitch all the time against europeans. They dont seem to get the irony. All shouting and arrogance, no content. Thank God Habs World aint like this one bit. Fart jokes are the most complicated form of humor they can work with. So sad. Ugh. I hate that channel.

http://www.nhlpa.com/MediaReleases/R...-47FD155CD49F} Ouch poor Sabres,. almost all their best players are going to arbitration

My own list of Canadians I don't like 1 - Pierre Trudeau 2- Pierre Trudeau 3 - did I said Pierre Trudeau? Nah, seriously.. Paul Martin 4 - Don Cherry 5 - André Boisclair 6 - Jacques Parizeau 7 - Tom Green That's all

mm do you think anyone will sign Lindros or Allison? Not than I want Montréal to sign them, but I'm wondering if their career is over.

oo music thread I have to admit than.. I like Céline Dion *gets kicked out of thread*

Frnce Germany would be the best With a France victory of course, but being French Canadian I'm obviously biased toward my distant motherland.

He is? My bad, I tought he was becoming an UFA like Souray and Rivet. Thank God. I hopê BG give him a long term contract to delay free agency as much as possible, assuming he have a decent season. Bonk will be re-signed for cheaper than his current contract and Zednik.. well the consensus among Habs fan is than he's, like Ribis, on his way out already so that's no biggie. I was worried than Markov might pull a Chara on us tough and quit the team for $1M more...

IMO he's a bit overpaid now but it's not like a few hundred thousand dollars more is gonna screw up our cap situation. Altough I'm worried about Markov next year.. how much will weh ave to give him to keep him on the team??

WTF Chara goes to Boston for 1 mere more million than he would had with Ottawa That show he's really not a team player at all.

Happy Canada Day everybody

Arnason? Hell no! He was unable to produce as a SENS despites all the offensive power they have tp support him. He would be even more worthless as a habs.

Guérin no longer a Star

That's a lot of money, but per dollar you get so much more value with Redden than McCabe. Hopefully this will put downward pressures on defensemen prices. And Chare will go for nothing less than the max $$$.. I don't think the Sens have enough cap room left to afford that.

Beer or no beer tonight? That is the question Maybe I should keep my beer money for Canada's day

I don't like this First Richards then McCabe get insane contracts.. salaries are going up way too fast Markov is better then McCabe.. will he ask for $6 - 6.5 millions next year when he become an UFA? I sure hope not.. *cross fingers*

Hey, could you make a Bégin sig for me? Thanks , and welcome here BTW

this is a tempest in a glass of water as far as I am concerned. This issue have no impact on the daily lives of ordinary people. The only ones really concerned by that issue are hardcore separatist that will go search any reason to blast Canada.