Wamsley01
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I hate to say it but maybe the Leaf fans that have been saying it for years finally have something right.
Ottawa have always been gutless whiners who could never win the big game. And to be honest I still prefer those whiners to the arrogant Leaf Nation who believe that they are the center of the universe and the rightful home to the cup resides in Toronto even though most of them have never seen a Championship.
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He got rid of the Tyson mask. I think that he's got Muhammed Ali on his mask now.
I said "he thought that it would be a good idea to place an image of Mike Tyson on his mask."
Which he did. Muckler told him to take it off. Otherwise he would still be wearing it.
Poor judgement then, poor judgement Saturday.
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Anyone see Emery's quote after the game?
Basically that he likes that stuff, but he felt bad for putting his team at a disadvantage for 2 minutes.
Sounds like absolutely not remorse unless i was misunderstanding what he was saying. :nono:
Then his quote after the suspension is that he thinks it was too harsh.
Is anybody shocked that this guy who essentially is glorifying a convicted rapist, is showing no remorse?
I would call him an idiot, but you have to remember he thought that it would be a good idea to place an image of Mike Tyson on his mask.
He is either a total buffoon, or he is trying to make a name for himself in the wrong way. His actions with the mask and the slash show him for what he is. There will be a Hextall type incident in this guys future, book it.
Actually, that was Hextallish. Let me modify.
There will be another Hextall type incident in this guys future, book it.
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Any goalie that shuts the door until the first goal would be acceptable.
But i don't think Jack Todd has seen much of Halak except stats.
And the shots and players comes a lot faster in the NHL than the AHL why burn the kid right now?
Panic
Desperation
Hope
Prayer
Welcome to Habs Nation 2007
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The next 2 weeks will determine this season.
We have winnable games in:
Florida
Columbus
Washington
We have toss up games in:
Carolina
Toronto
Islanders
Rangers
We have tough games in:
New Jersey
Nashville
We come out of that stretch anything less than 5-4 and we are in deep trouble.
That would only require us to beat the dregs and split the toss up games.
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any one remember patrick roy. He came in unheralded and stole the job.
No doubt. But Roy was up all season and had won the Calder Cup the season before.
Roy's rookie year was more similar to Cam Ward's than Dryden.
The closest thing we have to a Ken Dryden and what we would ask Halak to do would be Steve Penney.
He only played 4 games in 83-84 and they gave him the start and he stood on his head and eerily knocked out the Bruins in the first round. Unfortunately he ran out of steam vs the Islanders after going up 2-0 in the Conference Finals.
Hey anything is possible, but the fact that we have sunken to talking about a kid in the minors that nobody even knew about 8 months ago shows how desperate and helpless our fanbase feels right now.
Our season probably rides on Huet's shoulders right now. If he rediscovers his form from the first half we make the playoffs comforably. If he does not, we will be worrying about ping pong balls in April, not hockey games.
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I'm actually really concerned that Huet can't handle the long grind of the NHL season. His amazing season started in January last year, so he didn't have to do the whole 82 game season, and this year, by mid-point, he seems exhausted... is Huet gonna be the goalie who always starts hot and then loses his energy by 40 games?
Never thought about that. Interesting. I do remember him standing on his head vs Colorado for 2 periods then losing steam in the 3rd period and falling apart last season. I had never seen a goalie do that before. He might have been out of game shape coming off injury..but I had never seen a goalie run out of gas like that before.
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It really is so easy for us to say get this player get that player, just because Gainey might want to make a trade doesn't mean the numbers work, or the other team was asking too much.
Making a trade just for the sake of making a trade to apease some fans is foolhardy.
I agree, the goal is the Stanley Cup. Gainey will pull the trigger on a guy like Kostitsyn if we are on the verge.
As he did with Iginla for Nieuwendyk, but Nieuwendyk was one of the final piece's that put a ring on his finger in 99. To trade a top level prospect to just make the playoffs is a different thing.
Gainey has a long term goal. Maybe we are struggling right now, but we have a young core with potential in Ryder/Higgins/Plekanec/Perezhogin/Komisarek/Latendresse and we have kids like Price/Kosty1/Kosty2/Chipchura/Halak/Emelin/Grabovski on the farm. He will deal from that depth, but only if it fits into his long term plan. And that is winning the Stanley Cup.
If you want to watch a team taht will do anything to make the playoffs, drive up the 401 and take a look at what John Ferguson is doing...then take a look at their long term plan. Their long term plan is this...make the playoffs this year and you never know, and worry about next year..next year.
This is the reason they have not won a Cup in 40 years. But of course us fans know more than Bo Gainey. A man who won 5 Cups as a player, coached in a Stanley Cup Final and won a Stanley Cup as a GM.
If you start listening to the Fans, pretty soon you will be sitting with them.
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I have to agree with Haboholic Carbonneau needs to choose a #1 guy and let him play 3 or 4 times in a row to get some confidence.
Didn't Abby just get that shot? He played 5 of our last 7 games and won only 2.
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This is ridiculous... Huet is the #1 goalie and it should stay like that. The players leaving him out to dry is what started his mediocre play... i said it in the beginning of the season and ill say it again, in order for Huet to play well and get his confidence back, he has to play more than 1 game a week. Stop playing Abby, Huet is the #1 goalie.
The problem with this theory of the players leaving him out to dry is that we were doing that when he was playing great. Since we lost 4-2 to Boston on the 23rd Huet has gone 5-8 with an .888 SV% playing 12 out of 16 games before Carbo had enough and began to go to Abby.
Look at his 4 game win streak in Nov. 40/38/30/36 shots on goal.
Look at his 3 game win streak in Dec. 43/34/44 shots on goal.
14 of his 19 wins he has faced over 30 shots. Not exactly stellar defensive efforts.
We won early in the season because our best player was our goalie, and we were carried by our special teams. Our goaltending has been average to mediocre in the last 25 games and that is the reason we are struggling to make the playoffs now. To suggest that a goalie who is tearing up the AHL could possibly help is far from ridiculous. Is it desperate? maybe, because we have alot of $$ invested in Huet and Abby but it is far from ridiculous.
The same type of attitude would have removed at least 1 stanley cup from the Habs case because Ken Dryden replaced Rogie Vachon in 71, a goalie who had a 23-12-9 record when he was replaced.
Huet had more than an ample opportunity to work his way out of his slump. Unfortunately for us, if he does not come out of this slump we are probably in deep trouble.
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We could do worse things than calling up Halak and Kosty.
Even though there is history of the Habs pulling miracle goalies out their arse, it would be an act of desperation. But that time is getting close. We need a spark, hell Aubin led the Leafs on a 9-1-1 run at
the end of last season. So anything is possible.
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Must win if I have ever seen one!
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Easy, independently hired doctors.
You are giving way to much credit to the NHL. The league that was supposed to restrict goalie equipment and the league that took 7 years to enforce their zero tolerance on hooking penalties.
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You've got to penalize both in my opinion to get the dirty play out of the game. Setup a strict and specific suspensions based on the acts themselves. In addition, if the guy you injure is out longer than your suspension, then you're out as long as he is. If you do something bad enough to end a career, then yours ought to be over as well.
The only problem with that is if the Leafs and Habs are battling for a playoff spot with 20 games to go and Kovalev loses his temper and hurts Chad Kilger and gets 10 games, what is stopping the Leafs from reporting Kilger as injured for the final 20 games so that the Habs have no access to Kovalev in a tight race?
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I watched the game in Momesso's restaurant on Upper Lachine Rd. with my buddies. We drank numerous pitchers of beer while eating all those delicious sandwiches.When the game ended we were jumping around and screaming with excitement. We were going to walk over to the forum to see if we could see some of the players but of course the riot broke out. I remember it like it was yesterday. Soon after I was transferred to Toronto with work and had to listen to all the moaning about how they were screwed out of a "guaranteed" cup win by Gretzky's high stick. :-)
Leaf fans to this day tell me they would have destroyed us in the Final and the only reason that the Leafs lost was because Bettman had a hidden agenda to put the Kings in the Finals. I guess that is what you need when you wait 40 years between Finals appearances.
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I am not holding my breath. I know he is getting nothing. That is Bettman's NHL.
I just read some Sens post on the matter. Some of the most ignorant posts I have read in a long time.
i guess perezhogin was alright when he chopped stafford...as he was just protecting himself right? stafford did take a swing at perezhogin initially.
i wonder what happens when emery tries the same on perezhogin except this time, he ducks and baseball swings him back in the head. i guess it would be alright because he was 'just sticking up for himself'
Looked like the montreal dude slashed Emerys arm first then he got mad and slashed back
Lapierre jumps at him intentionally, and Emery slaps him in the visor. People are blowing this way out of proportion; it was all visor.
I like it.
The game needs more players like Emery who stick up for themselves. I don't think Emery deserves a suspension at all.
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This topic is beingly debated over at HFboards.com
Almost every Sens fan on there is trying to stick up for Emery, but I just don't see how you can find a reason to stick up for him when you see the replay of that.
Check the replays, Lapierre stumbled over a Sens D-man and softly collided into Emery. Sure, Lapierre could expect a punch, maybe a nice slash to the leg or something, but he should never expect a heavy goalie stick decking him in the visor. If he wasn't wearing a visor, this topic would've been huge as Wamsley01 said because there wouldve probably been blood shed. I hope Emery gets at LEAST 2 games, but knowing the NHL it will probably be a one game suspension.
The thing that should get him a large suspension is his intent. Look at his face, he is looking at Lapierre and is doing exactly what he wants to. He tried to take his head off! If Emery's name was Ron Hextall do you think that he gets away with that? You think the 2 hander Hextall took at Nilsson on the back of his legs....THE BACK OF HIS LEGS was anywhere as dangerous as that??? Hextall got 8 games. If that was Sydney Crosby and not Maxim Lapierre is that a 2 minute penalty?? Souray got 7 MINUTES for a fight in which both players removed their gloves. It is a joke if he does not get 5-10 games.
The NHL is so inconsistent with their suspensions that their is not a precedent for anything because every suspension contradicts the next.
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I am tired of referees penalizing the result and not the action. If Lapierre is not wearing a shield and he takes that in his face for 25 stitches do you really think the referee gives Emery 2 minutes?
It is disgraceful. I have seen 2-3 players do what Bertuzzi did and the player they hit does not fall and they get 2 minutes. Would McSorley have been banned for a season if Brashear did not get knocked out? Or would he have gotten 5 and a game? I am not condoning what either player did, but with a little luck, we are not discussing McSorley or Bertuzzi everytime we see a vicious attack.
I mean Perezhogin gets a year for smoking that guy with a high stick, but the only reason he swung at the guys head was because the guy took a baseball swing at Zhog's head first and missed. That guy got what? 5 games?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyGj9g2Y9nE
Emery tried to take off his head and the visor saved him from being the first story on every Sports broadcast in this country. The guy should get a minimum 10 games, I bet he gets 1 or 2 at most.
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Celebrating my 20th birthday (June 9, 1993) with my Dad (who is responsible for me being a habs fan in Toronto..Thanks DAD!!) and my sister at his place. Sitting in my good luck chair for every one of the 10 OT games.
Unbelievable Playoff run that will probably never be topped again.
Because of the 93 Playoff Run I named my son Patrick Roy and I am in the midst of warping him into a habs fan living in Toronto as well.
That Desjardins tying goal might be the greatest moment I have ever had as a Habs fan. To go from total depression to on top of the world in seconds. A close second would be Claude Lemieux roofing it on Liut in game 7 in 86.
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Yeah, the core is done. Koivu is in a weird way untrade-able, but must be moved to the second line. Probably should have been there most of his career.
The kids have to have a run-out, give them a very good shot, not a two-game call-up and a quick trip back on the Hambletonian Charter Express. Let them play and develop something together.
Kovalev would, I think, fetch a pretty high price. Rivet is a nice sweetner to a playoff-bound team (vet, defensive, depth, leader, blah blah blah). Ryder can be traded or at least busted down to a lower line. He scores in spurts, and maybe tonight will trigger another one, but he's in desperate need of some consistency. Samsonov untrade-able except in some kind of package. Bonk would fetch very high interest, but I wouldn't think of moving him until I was convinced we have someone else (Lapierre?) to fill his role. Someone might take a shot at Cube. And of course there is the ongoing Souray dilemma: say what you will, he would attract a lot of interest.
Be interesting to see what Bob does in the next couple of weeks - especially if we suddenly find ourselves in 9th spot.
Wait, is this a 'Habs-panic' post????
3 weeks to determine where this season is going. A hot streak will change everybodys attitude. A 5 game winning streak has Leaf fans whistiling out their asses.
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like-minded thinking...
i've always had a hard time with the idea of trading away a prospect (unless, of course, the prospect has truly had his run with us...) in order to get a hired gun...
the only example of one that worked (sort of...) for me was the jays trading some youth in order to get david cone for the '93 world series...
on the other hand, i've seen too many randy johnsons traded away in order to see a team get knocked off in the playoffs (see the old expos)
GO :hlogo: GO!
The only difference being that the Jays were that one guy away from winning it.
We are 1 player away if that player is Sydney Crosby.
There is 3 weeks until the trade deadline and barring a hot streak, if we are 4-5 points out
then why trade a Kostitsyn or a Perezhogin to sneak into the playoffs?
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i'm certainly not averse to the idea of trading away many of the older players (kovalev, rivet, samsonov, etc... but NOT koivu)
GO :hlogo: GO!
Me neither, the goal is the cup and not selling the future for a first round playoff whipping.
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Well if anything this team is consistent:
AFTER 56 GAMES:
2003-04 - 63 POINTS (Finish with 93)
2005-06 - 62 POINTS (Finish with 93)
2006-07 - 64 POINTS
We will have to go 14-11-1 to finish with 93 points this season.
Typical Habs season, but we need the hot stretch run we have used in the last 3 seasons just to get into the playoffs.
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Carbonneau is all over the place!
The time to bench Kovalev was a long time ago. If you were afraid of his reaction
a month ago why do it now with the season crumblling all around you?
I really do not comprehend the moves he is making. He has lost this team.
Game Thread | Panthers vs. Habs | 02/13/07
in Habs & Hockey Talk
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With every passing day I start to believe that this is a system problem.
How many times have we played Florida and both teams set up in the neutral zone with little forecheck and wait for each other to make the first mistake?
Go look, how many goals have we scored against Florida in the last 3-4 years?
We have zero forecheck and our forwards generally do not go past the hash marks when they do go in to forecheck.
How many defensive zone turnovers do we create in a game?
The Maple Leafs are winning hockey games with an aggressive forecheck with the following players in the lineup: Bates Battaglia/John Pohl/Travis Green/Boyd Devereux/Wade Belak/C. Kilger/J. O Neil/Ben Ondrus/Matt Stajan/Alex Ponikoravsky and Nik Antropov!!
Are you telling me that we cannot compete with that lineup? It comes from the system.
I am really dissappointed with Carbo, he has shown no ability to motivate and has juggled the lines to the point where nobody knows who they will be playing with the next day.
I keep looking for a spark...but I can't fathom where it is going to come from.