JoeLassister

How do we get great trade without great players to offer, how do we sign great free agent when the team always makes the playoffs by 1 point or 2, how do we scout great players by choosing 10th or 11th ???? Do you think the 9 first teams will ignore the great player to become that we will draft 10th? Do you think the best UFA will sign a long term contract with a 8th spot team who has 38 reporters surrounded him in the shower? Do you think our best players (who were 8th or 10th overall pick back in the days) worth much than their own value? Cammalleri is a player Bob could get right now. But don't name him just under Marleau and Lecavalier please. We just said that Damphousse and Turgeon were nice but not Super Stars, as Cammalleri. Cammalleri would just help the Habs to make the playoffs by finishing 8th or 7th... I trully believe in our chance to make playoffs, and then, who know what can happen? But there is MUCH chances to see the Devils or the Sabres (and this is only in the East) win the Cup this season.

Exactly where i wanna go. I can't wait for a 3rd rounder to become a super star for the Canadien. But from what i see right now, our recents top draft picks with the big team will never be all-stars players and only Grabovski and Price have a chance to do so. Drafting has been the real lack of the Habs so far. People are talking about rebuilding. Fine but we need much than Higgins and Komi to rebuild this team. We have 3 goalers in the system who can potentially play in NHL. Price, Halak and Danis. With Huet and Aebisher on the team it makes 5. Trade one of them to go get 1rst or 2nd overall pick who WANTS to play hockey (not like Daigle or Stefan) and THEN, we will can call this rebuilding the team. I'm tired to see the others teams draft the World Junior all-stars players and let us the members of the 3rd line of team Canada. And if one of them happens to become a 1rst line center or the next Lidstrom FINE. The Canucks were not affraid to move for the Sedin Brothers. Why couldn't we do the same. Because fans will be furious about trading good players like Kots or Perez to improve the team in 4 years... Gotta set the priorities and mine isn't to make the playoffs ; it's to win th Cup soon. But that won't happen til we stop finishing 8th or 7th and get those Higgins and Komi to "rebuild" the team. AMEN

I think this would be a bad move because Markov is too young and would have the possibility to sign wherever he wants, even TORONTO AAAAHHHHRRRHHH. Bob should sign him RIGHT NOW for 3 more years or even 4 or 5. I'd give him a contract like : 3 millions in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 and then 4 millions in 2009-2010, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 with a team option for the last season. Also, my target list would be : Holmstrom, Stoll and maybe Anson Carter.

Je penserais pas. Si Souray peut dropper contre Chris Neil, Kovalev peut pas... Peut-être que Kovalev s'en sortirait bien avec la rage (comme Zednik ou Malakhov). N'empêche que si ce genre de conflit là arrive dans une équipe, on va inévitablement en entendre parler et ça va déplacer beaucoup d'air et puer la merde à plein nez.

Sabres are the team i'd want the Habs to be. But i dont see how we will become dominant as the Sabres, even in 2k9... Almost every others good teams, maybe not Nashville, have all-stars players in their lineup. Who is the last all-stars player we had? Yes Patrick Roy. and ooops we won 2 cups with him... Don't come and say Koivu is that star or even Kovy or Markov. Markov is not Lidstrom or Coffey. As i see it, when will we get a player such as Sakic, Lecavalier or Crosby ? And HOW ? A trade? Would you trade as a GM Lecavalier for somebody in our team? We have nothing to give. UFA? Do we have the money? Do the UFAs want to play here in Montreal? You'll say last year, Carolina and Edmonton didn't have so much big players. I'll say yes, but Carolina are a bunch of lucky and gross players who crash the net (even the goaltenders) and score crap shit goals. And Edmonton were on fire with, specially, Pronger (who's better than anyone in our team INCLUDING Markov. Talking about leadership and skills, these 2 teams were full of both. Here we got not much leadership and not much skills.

Then we got to trade for Thomas Holmstrom...

This is how big teams get their big players. Why do you think Pittsburgh are so good right now? Because they finished last almost every season since 2002. How do you want to get big time players by finishing 15th every seasons? You'll always get the 15th best player available... The problem in Montréal is : Nobody wants to see us finishing in the bottom ranking. If that happens, everyone will scream for a change of GM, Coach, goaler, top forwards, even Youpie will have to go. So the team never upgraded, never won any cup since a decade, never finished at the very end of the ranking and everybody is happy because it's hot to watch hockey game at spring. Results : no big draft pick (maybe except Carey Price... we'll see...) in 2000, no Heatley, no Gaborik but a Marcel Hossa, in 2001 no Kovalchuck, no Spezza but a Komisarek (not so bad there), in 2002 no Nash, no Bouwmeester but a Chris Higgins (not so bad there too but...) in 2003 no Staal, no Fleury but a Kots, in 2004 no Ovechkin, no Malkin but a Chipchura, in 2005 thanks there was a lottery but no 3 tickets no chance for Crosby or J. Johnson, same for 2k6 no E. Johnson, no J. Staal, no Teows but Fisher... We NEED to finish in the last spots to upgrade. NOBODY will help us to upgrade by trading big players in Montréal for our 15th draft picks On the other hand, no cup won since a decade = less chances to see a UFA of quality sign here in Montreal because he feels this is our year... How do you feel about that?

J'y crois pas une seule seconde

kind of but i'd prefer Chelsea to win any game than Man U Joe Cole rocks!

The last 10 seconds are CRAZY

Guess we could qualify it as another anti-Habs call... When you guys on HW first started to talk about all the calls against us, I was like "calm down, it might be the same for some other teams". But now, after Souray's 17 mins VS Gauthier 4 mins, Emery's 2 mins and Koivu's goaltending interference VS same thing the very next day result into a goal for another team (don't remember but Yvon Pedneault showed it on RDS) I start to believe the referees are not doing the same job everywhere around the league, and most of times, WE are penalised. Why? Because Carbo always seems to disagree with all the calls? Because NHL wants USA markets like Boston and Buffalo finish on top? Because we're just unlucky? Because of Don Cherry? Because we were on fire early in the season?

I know, Liverpool won Champion League recently, and without signing big names with big money. Man U = NY Yankees of Barclays.

Transfer records The first few seasons of the Premier League saw the record transfer fee paid by English clubs broken almost every season, a practice that resumed in the first few years of the twenty-first century. £3.75million in June 1993 (Roy Keane, Nottingham Forest to Manchester United) £5million in July 1994 (Chris Sutton, Norwich City to Blackburn Rovers) £7million in January 1995 (Andy Cole, Newcastle United to Manchester United) £7.5million in June 1995 (Dennis Bergkamp, Inter Milan to Arsenal) £8.5million in July 1995 (Stan Collymore, Nottingham Forest to Liverpool) £15million - world record - in July 1996 (Alan Shearer, Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle United) £18million in November 2000 Rio Ferdinand, West Ham to Leeds Utd £19million in May 2001 (Ruud van Nistelrooy, PSV Eindhoven to Manchester United) £28.1million in July 2001 (Juan Sebastián Verón, Lazio to Manchester United) £29million in July 2002 (Rio Ferdinand, Leeds Utd to Manchester United) £30million in June 2006 (Andriy Shevchenko, A.C. Milan to Chelsea) That's why your team is so good buddy !!!! They look like Real Madrid. If you don't know what to do with your money, gimme some!!!

From what I know, every games in Montréal are sold out and everybody make noise, stand up after a goal and support their team. Elsewhere, it's not always like that.

the bird one is so ugly LOL

I see Nagy with a Detroit jersey for next season... an intuition. What the Hell?!? Flyers are asking for 2 first rounders and a young NHL player?!?! Are they crazy? I would say : Go to sleep with your UFA which has rubber ankles.

I don't feel the same as you because the Sens have always been a team that I hate because of one major thing : CHHHOOOOOKEEERS. I used to have fun betting with one of my friend that Toronto would take them out of the playoffs. And I won several times HA HA. But i still hate them and i'm sure they will choke again and again.

nice one and nice hit

Don't know where you been at this moment but just type "Coderre Doan" in google and enjoy... It is question of charges of racism, questioning on the relevance to include Doan in team Canada, of legal proceedings and demand of public excuses. Denis Coderre is a former minister of amateur sports and this incident was everywhere on Quebec's tv news. I don't say i care about Doan and what he said (in fact i'd like him to play with us) but there was a big deal in the media and some people might still be concerned.

I saw some t-shirts on St-Catherine street today with a leaf's logo and where we could read : MAPLE LEAFS SUCKS. Around 20$ for a t-shirt... Hummm...

It's no surprise. 99's draft is one of the worst draft ever. http://www.nhl.com/futures/firstround90_99.html

Agree. He's part of my personal black list. Here it goes : 1. Dame Nature for everyday weather 2. Don Cherry for his whole career on tv 3. Gary Suter for his cross check on Paul Kariya (my fav player at this date) 4. Rejean Houle and Mario Tremblay for destroying the team 5. Those who believe too much in any religion

It's already tough to win agains Florida when we're hot... so imagine when we're cold as ice...

Get your stick out of my jockstrap!