Neech
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Ya the interference call may have changed that game, but I thought that the roughing call on Komi was BS too. There was a huge scrum, and he gave the guy a couple whacks for charging Jaro after the whistle.
Yeah but a disallowed goal is way bigger blown call than a bad penalty.
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Onward young Bulldog!
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Any team in the east can win the east as their is a lot of parity. A hot goaltender, luck, and no injuries on any team can be the difference.
Yeah, this is the situation. We can look at the other teams and say 'who's going to beat us? None of these guys are real contenders.' But every other team is saying the same thing. If we have success, it will be on the back of great goal-tending.
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Yes, Grabovski acted like a prima dona, which he hasn't earned the right to do. At the same time, Carbo was wrong, just as he was wrong at certain points last season; and - contrary to the tone of some posters in this thread - it would certainly be an error to take this one event as *final and absolute proof* of Grabs' character. He is a kid, for pete's sake. I say, close the book on the incident and move forward. If he truly wants to be an NHLer, then he will ultimately pay his dues, and I hope Guy and Bob have explained to him that if he keeps delivering he will be rewarded. (Let's remember, at this point, Carbo's notorious 'communication' problem).
I agree. I hope this incident hasn't caused deep wounds (it doesn't look like it), and that Grabovski stays with us and plays well in his next opportunities. He gave us a dangerous fourth line with Ryder and Streit a few games ago.
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As long as he wins games as JMMR said, I don't care. But personally, I don't really like it. I know he's a westerner, and he likes rodeo and country music, but he's playing in Montreal... not Calgary. I just figure he should show a little more respect for the Canadiens tradition. No rodeos in Montreal.
What if Price was from Newfoundland? Would it be okay for him to picture of a codfish, or a fisherman, or a bottle of screech on his mask? It just doesn't fit.
But hey, just keep winning Carey.
I don't mind him injecting his own personality or culture into his mask.
I'm not a fan of the country singers, but they're honestly not as bad as some people here think. I agree with the poster who said some native west coast artwork could look pretty cool if done tastefully, much better than a dude in a cowboy hat.
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Just like the rest of this roadtrip we didn't bring our A game. Luckily, Halak played great. He had no chance on either goal, and he made several big saves. The only minus was that I noticed him making a few bad decisions with the puck, like chipping it along the boards when a defender was wide open behind him, but that probably happened because this is his first start with us.
None of our lines were really great or glaringly bad, but we managed to capitalize on our chances. I was happy to see Lats score, and that was a great feed from lil Kosty. Ryder had a few good chances in the first half of the game. I'd say the best player on the ice for us was Hamrlik, he was getting it done.
Tomorrow will be an interesting test.
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I dont blame him for being pissed, i blame him for his wrong reaction to it. What a dumb ass, thinks he's a star already?? We can miss this like hell...you must be a complete ###### to react in a way like this. What the hell has he accomplished so far, how can people take him serious....what a laugh!
Yeah, it's one thing to be benched when you've produced. But he's had a grand total of maybe three games in the NHL in which he was a force, the other times he was just weak and easily knocked off the puck.
I wonder what was Gainey's mindset is coming out the meeting they had.
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Komisarek (who hasn't been playing great lately) needs to bring his 'A' game. A few crushing hits ought to settle the Ducks down
Or rile them up.
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Unlike Wamsley, I have no interest in a 'measuring stick.' I just want wins.
And above all to avoid slumps (imagine if we'd lost in Phoenix as we deserved! This game would have some serious importance and we'd all be nervously looking over our shoulder and realizing that three or four consecutive losses could put us back in 7th or 8th place).Yeah, and 'measuring sticks' are overrated. This a single game, we could play well and win it or play poorly and get blown out, same goes for the Ducks. We were not up to the task at the time we played Detroit, but if we played them in February we might have beat them. Playing a team a few times in a season provides some sort of measuring stick, like we've beaten New Jersey twice, a feat impossible for past Habs teams. But a single game doesn't prove much.
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He was frustrated for not playing (one whole game, although I agree that it was a bad decision after his best game in the NHL a few nights before).
He's met Gainey and Carbonneau, who has decided not to discipline him as of yet, but he won't be in the line-up Saturday. The team seems to trying to downplay it, although they all acknowledge that it was an error on his part.
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Prediction: Chips will be on the Habs' roster come the playoffs; and form a demon checking line with Lats and Laps.
I remember him and Latendresse being alright together. Neither is very fast, which is a drawback, but Chips plays smart enough to make up for that.
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I completely agree. If the Habs can make it to the second round, I'll be happy! I don't really think they can make it to the 3rd round.
Yeah, the goal this year was to make the playoffs. Even if we bow out in the first round, I'll be a bit disappointed, but not too much (unless it happens in a really crappy way, or against Boston).
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I guess we never know and just have to agree to disagree.
your wrong
Yeah, that's pretty much it, there's no proof on either side.
And what do you want with my wrong?
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We definitely have a team that could turn it up in the playoffs; Kovalev, Koivu, and Hammer have been known to be clutch, and most importantly, Price. I expect good things from Komi, Higgins, Plex, at least one of the Kosty's (I have this feeling that Sergei's the one who might be able to come through, he's got that fire in his belly). But most of our team is young, and haven't gotten past the second round at the latest. So I have hopes for the postseason, but not high expectations.
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Well, that's good bad news I suppose. At least they weren't ditching him for not putting up a ton of points - gotta give him time to get adjusted to his line mates. Here's hoping he'll be back and ready to go when Montreal returns from their road trip. I liked him on a line with Ryder, and the potential of seeing the three Belarussians is pretty kool too.
Yeah, it's good to hear he wasn't getting benched after his best game in the NHL. Him on our fourth line with Ryder and Streit, as surprised as I was at this strange combination, gave us scary scoring depth.
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Yeah he was because he signed before the 1st and it was well known he wanted to stay.
I think he was anyway.
I sure as hell doubt he could have netted one million more per season on the open market, maybe after this season but not last summer. We gave him the upper end of what he could have earned (or what we could have signed him for) just like we do for all our players. Gainey never gets a steal, except with RFAs, who are ridiculously underpaid.4
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Ouch. Kovalev over Ovechkin? Not even a little homerism there.
I agree. Kovy has been great, and is probably among the top ten league candidates for the award. But he's not the winner, and not in the top three.
Right now, with Washington on the outside of the playoffs, I say it goes to Malkin. He's been getting two PPG since Crosby went down, and took them to near the conference lead after the reigning MVP left the line-up.
Ovechkin is the next closest choice. He's ridiculously important to his team, but if they don't make the playoffs then he'll be less likely to get it.
I guess Iginla would be the third choice.
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Apparently he was badly sunburnt too, the man is bullet proof!
And his sunburn proves that how?
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From other teams fans maybe but don't believe for a seond that NHL teams do not have pro scouting.
He was certainly lower on the radar than Rafalski and Timmonen.
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Okay so you think NHL teams think Rafalski > Markov? Timmonen > Markov and a 38 year old Schneider = Markov pretty much come on.
Markov would have got at least 1mill more per season on the open market.
People overpay for veterans, Markov was entering his first year as a UFA. Maybe there would have been a bidding war for him, but I honestly think he was flying more or less under the radar.
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Good move by Carbo and good game by Price.
We'll get a chance to see Jaro on the weekend.
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Well our boys showed up for a grand total of about 12 minutes in this game and managed to get the two points. We were lucky!
Yeah, that wasn't our greatest effort, but we came through when it counted. That was one hell of a third period.
And Holy Sheet, the lil Teets - Higgins goal was one of the highlights of the year! Similar to that one CH hooked up with Ryder for in Florida, except done at full speed without an inch to spare in the dying minutes of the third. Wow, we have a talented team.
Our top two lines were our best this game, as it should be. Smolinski once again proved himself incapable of contributing. Our D was decent, and despite getting outshot badly I think the scoring chances were pretty even. The Kosty's were skilled and quick, Lapierre was stirring it up (those penalties were more bad luck than bad play), Koivu was crafty. And Kovy, what a man. Who was the last PPG player we had in Montreal?
Phoenix became a bunch of frustrated, slashing betches in the third.
On a totally unrelated note, Yvon Pedneault sucks as a play-by-play commentator.Having been the colour commentator for so long, when he does play-by-play he tends to get into such huge detail that he's always a step (and sometimes 3) behind the play. In a quick exchange Pierre will say "Kovalev à Markov - à Kovalev - à Streit - le tir et le BUT!!!" whereas Yvon is still fumbling over Kovalev to Markov and the goal is already scored.
Lol.
I appreciate the man's efforts but poor guy. He needs to stick to colour commentating.
Yeah, I was missing Pierre tonight. He's my preferred of the two.
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Grabs does not deserve to be sidelined, he played his best game in the NHL on Monday.
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Yes, keeping the puck in the offensive zone on the powerplay. Also, he has to stop panicking under pressure and he needs to make better decisions with the puck, he sometimes loses his head and makes a dumb play. He's starting to get better under pressure but if he could just fix up his offensive game a bit more, he can become one of the premiere PP specialists/pointmen in the league (in the same class as Markov, even). His defensive game needs some work - this is the facet of the game that really separates Markov from your average puckmoving defenceman - but he is being used as a forward now and should be considered as such. He no longer has to wrestle big power forwards in the corners with Bouillon as his D partner.
There's definitely room for improvement offensively, he's been making better decisions lately but there was a long stretch where you'd often see him just teeing off whenever he could instead of working it to the main threats of our powerplay. But he's still an above average powerplay pointman, most teams would like to have him at that spot.
And while he's a below average defenseman in his own zone due to his lack of physicality, he's an above average defensive forward, with the aforementioned offensive upside. A good guy to have on your fourth line.
Game Thread | Habs vs. Ducks | 09/03/08
in Habs & Hockey Talk
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Still not very lazy of you.
Too bad O'Byrne isn't in the lineup, we could use his size against the Ducks.