Neech

I'd really like to see Jaro get even a few games this year, he's gotten shafted and it's not like anyone has run away with his job. This is pretty reactionary, but it's becoming clear that Huet isn't number 1 goalie material. So why don't we trade him and see if Halak can take his place?

You might want ask about a Prozac prescription, you seem a little OCD with your Koivu-rage. What? So because I dismantled your little arguments you feel the need to make childish remarks about me indirectly? It must have really stung deep, I guess.

We outplayed the Blow Jobs (aharharhar) in pretty much every aspect of the game except in goal. Price made a few big stops, but the goals were weak as hell, especially the second one. The skaters were OK, I think Lapierre was the best forward for most of the game who was not on the Kovalev line, besides his turnover on the third goal. He was skating, checking and shooting well. Kovy and co. created a bunch of chances, and I don't know how Plex missed the open net on that perfect set-up by Markov. Damn, that Marky of ours gets me excited sometimes, he can be a magician. I liked how our boys were hitting, and we apparently were about 50/50 with them on face-offs as well, and they're a very good face-off team. Koivu sucked ass tonight. There were the penalties, of course. And it wasn't quite like earlier in the season when he seemed washed up and useless. He was trying things tonight, but they all invariably failed. I'm convinced that if A Kost and Plex were out with Kovy on that 5 on 3 instead of Ryder and Koivu that we would have had a goal there. All in all it was two points that we should have had, but I didn't and still don't believe that we're going to overtake Ottawa for the division or conference. The best we can hope is that we don't draw the Devils or the Rangers in the first round.

Man, it's nice to see a different team for a change. I'm looking forward to our road trip out west the week after next. The Board of Governors was really out to lunch when they decided on 10 non-conference games, what a stupid decision. 18 is better, but every team should play in every arena each season.

Yup, he failed the test. Throw him out the door.

I doubt they'd stick him right up on the top line. Maybe he'd get powerplay time with Ribeiro.

Go :hlogo: My prediction: 4-2 win. Goals by Latendresse, Kovalev, S. Kostitsyn, A. Kostitsyn

That will be a funny sight. Bob hasn't aged a bit in the last thirty years, he looked like forty-year-old man in his twenties and he looks like a forty-year-old man in his fifties.

You can't renegociate contracts according to the CBA, I think. And you can only talk about extensions before or during the final year of the deal.

The thing is that we wouldn't necessarily be playing a boring style, in fact I highly doubt we would. We just have a really competent group of defenders, and it would probably make us more exciting to watch because of the great passing. I look forward to seeing what our blueline looks like in four years. I hope we don't give away future all-stars.

We don't really need a blockbuster deal this year, damn rumours getting us all worked up.

Hell yeah. And not Miko.

Oh, I'm sure they get along, and are even friends of a sort. I also get the impression that they're both level-headed guys, humble and not assholes, and wouldn't be causing problems with each other. But your comment was that they were like long lost friends - you were probably being hyperbolic here - but I bet Price is better friends with several of the guys on the team than Huet (keep in mind there's a 12 year age difference). He probably misses his roomie Kyle.

No, you're the one saying words that 'sound nice and everything' - 'Canadians are the best hockey players in the world.' Well shucks, tell that to the Russians, Finns and Swedes who might not agree based on our Olympic showing. I'm not trying to be too argumentative here, I do agree that Canada is the number one hockey nation in the world, but what you said is nothing more than patriotic chest-thumping. Yeah, they're numbers and facts, but you're being narrow-minded in your judgment of them. It's like saying 15 years ago "Europeans just can't lead the league in scoring, yeah they can be good, but the best scorers are all Canadian. End of story, facts are facts." You know what the FACT is? 71% of NHL players are North American, so the majority of players on almost every team is North American. And as I said, it makes sense that North Americans become captains more often by default because A. there are more of them and B. you generally want your captain to identify with and represent the majority of your players. Also, only 1 captain won a Cup each year in the last 20 years. Europeans only started to become captains recently, and they are still in the minority in that regard. The reason why a Euro captain hasn't won the Cup yet is more due to timing and circumstance than any intrinsic lack of leadership that they suffer or something. Like Wamsley said, it was the good ole Canadian boys who were laying the egg in last year's final for Ottawa, not their Euro captain. It isn't Nik Lidstrom's fault that he hasn't had a decent goaltender since he's been the captain, or that stat might be history already. I'm sure you'll see a European captain win a Cup within the next decade at most.

That's the way they've shown themselves to the media.

The Habs are a little too a lot of things to win the Cup, and Euro is pretty far down the list. Europeans have only been in the NHL in any prominence for a bit over two decades, and it makes sense that since they are in the minority compared with North Americans they are the captains less often. So I don't buy the whole 'only Canadian/American captains win the Cup' blurb, because the circumstances just haven't come about yet for it to occur. And teams with high percentages of Canadians have won it recently, with Tampa, Carolina and Anaheim, but that isn't always the case and most Cup-winners before the lockout had several key Euros who they couldn't have done without. !!!!! I might wake up early for that! Or not. *raps fingers on desk in anticipation*

Yeah, he was bad, I agree. But we wouldn't have been in the game if it weren't for Pittsburgh's bad goal-tending, so it kind of evens out. They managed to get more shots on net which was the difference. We had plenty of open nets that we couldn't bury. I agree that Price should and probably will start on Saturday, but Huet has rebounded from bad games pretty well before. He doesn't deserve the next start, but Price doesn't deserve it that much either.

Yup, neither's playing well enough to deserve the job. It's a time like this where I'd like to see Halak, but I don't want Price sent down, so the only way of seeing him would be Huet getting traded. I'm not saying that I want to see him go, but it's looking like he's not really seizing the number one job, in which case he is expendable.

To people saying Huet lost this one, yeah he was bad. But Sabourin stunk as well. Neither made a big save, but the Penguins managed to get a few more shots on goal to get an extra one in. We also missed a few open nets. What is this new Habs team we have, a potent offense held back by crappy goal-tending? Is this bizarro world? It was really the Komisarek pass that did us in, right when Malkin scored that I had a sinking feeling that they would take the lead. I also had a bad feeling when the fans were taunting Malkin, I knew that would come back to bite us in the ass. Taunt the goalie, people, not the leading scorer in the league, too bad Sabourin's name has three syllables I guess. It was nice to see Lapierre fight, his crouch position was kind of funny but he held his own, despite getting his shirt all torn up by Talbot who is obviously a whore. Our top lines weren't really clicking, A. Kosty had a down game, and Higgins as well (despite his goal). Koivu was looking good again. Lats is getting there. Ryder is playing his best hockey of the season, but he's always been streaky. All in all, it was a loss, but not a big deal at all. We got behind, but fought back. Our goal-tending was crappy but so was theirs, it would have been a 3-2 game with guys playing well in nets. Price should probably get the start on Saturday, but it's no big rush to go back to the guy who was pulled in the first two days ago. We just need to play a bit smarter at times as a team.

That's what we need the most.

Yeah, that was my point: they're just as fickle as the people they're calling the game for. They're not the biggest homers out there, but if we get a perennial Cup contender than they might start acting that way.

That picture is too funny. They're bum chums! Anyways, I'm half expecting our guys to come out sloppy, the crowd will be rockin before the first puck drop and it might be hard to focus. We just have to keep our feet under us, and work hard. We better not let another no-name career-backup home-town boy come in and shut us out again. My prediction: 4-3 win. Goals by Kovalev, Latendresse, Higgins, A. Kostitsyn

Eh, three more years at 7.8 million doesn't look so good for Richards... On the other hand, we seem to have pretty good scoring as it is, and he's a good two-way forward who has proven to be clutch. And that's the sort of price tag that someone like Hossa would require, except for 6 more years or something. Anyways, it's probably a moot point because this deal seems very one-sided.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080220...88/CPACTUALITES Sheeessh, now they're saying that they've ordered Habs equipment for Hossa...

This is the best Habs team I've ever cheered for, and I love it. These are guys that I've been following more or less since they were drafted, and it's awesome to see them come together and progress like this. I want to see them lift a Cup or two or three in the next decade.