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dags got an assist?!?!:o:o:o:o:o:o:clap::clap: Yup! Dags got an assits!!!!! (well, sounds like Ribs picked up the rebound...) it's the "wow"!

Equalizer!!! Ryder to Dags to Ribs!!!

Higgens smart player sez CJAD

yeah slow here for this game...

Sens PP

Plec scores!!

Habs PP

Agreed but I would keep Dags and let him prove himself and send Perez down to work more on the smaller ice and get ready for a callup if Dags does not click. Also we don't have to play Streit for 30 games, just pay him full price if we fail to.

like kids on christmas eve, why not just relax and go to sleep, because anyway the presents will be there in the morning...

Agreed, the Hossa trade opens up this possibility, we still need a go-to guy with size and that's Lats not Hossa and not Perez. Anyway we will know in 72 hours -- hehehe exciting. :ghg:

Exactly, Saku also missed his shootout opportunity (ies?), it's going to be finishers who do the shootouts not playmakers. About ten ties a year means a lot of points up for grab in those shootouts, of course mostly against EC teams. So working on this is good, nice to see Habs led by Kovalav are winning more shootouts then we are losing so far.

Are these sour grapes or what -- disgraced former play-by-play man Dino Sisto says the Habs will finish 13th in the East! Sisto column :eyes:

Kovalev Ryder Dagenais

If so throw him to the Dogs to adjust to less ice and more hitting, call him up in awhile if Hainsey isn't performing.

"Nobody likes to play against the Maple Leafs, who are big, tough, nasty, and love every minute of it. Just as an opposing forward regains his breath after a butt-end to the throat from Darcy Tucker, an elbow to the face from Tie Domi is waiting for him in the neutral zone." Wow -- an open endorsement, celebration even, of cheap shot tactics -- welcome to Leaf Nation! "If the lockout had never happened and that roster was still intact, it would be hard not to pick Toronto as a top contender in the Eastern Conference." Ah, the "if" factor, and excuses, yes, this is Leaf Nation! "health...has been a constant issue that the ultra- talented but enigmatic Lindros has not been able to shake. The key here is quite obviously a strong helmet" Now why didn't the Flyers and Rangers think of that? "Ferguson did a better job than most in the league-wide paradigm shift to younger, faster and cheaper." umm, Hello? Well, let it be said that thanks to this article everyone can see the Leafs and Tor-centric hockey media for what they are! [Edited on 30-9-05 by JeanLucPilon]

relax, we'll know in a few days... ...stagecoach comes out of Moncton Friday.

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

Dewey Defeats Truman? http://www.bostonbruins.com/

This just in...5-2 Bruins: At Moncton Nb Nhl Final 1st 2nd 3rd Total --- --- --- ----- Montreal 0 2 0 2 Boston 1 0 4 5 Final Goal Scoring: 1st Prd: Bos - Pat Leahy 1 (unassisted) 3:08 2nd Prd: Mon - (pp) Michael Ryder 1 (saku Koivu, Alexei Kovalev) 14:46 Mon - (pp) Mike Ribeiro 2 (radek Bonk, Alexander Perezhogin) 18:52 3rd Prd: Bos - (pp) Patrice Bergeron 4 (alexei Zhamnov, Brian Leetch) 6:36 Bos - Tom Fitzgerald 1 (unassisted) 9:28 Bos - Ben Walter 2 (jiri Slegr, Kevin Dallman) 14:11 Bos - (en) Brad Boyes 3 (unassisted) 18:52 Power-play Conversions: Mon - 1 Of 4, Bos - 2 Of 5. Shots On Goal: 1st 2nd 3rd Total --- --- --- ----- Mon 11 11 19 41 Bos 8 10 11 29 Goalies: Mon - Jose Theodore Bos - Hannu Toivonen Officials: Ref - Kevin Pollock, Tom Kowal Lin - Anthony Sericolo, Brad Kovachik Att: 7,060 don't shoot the messenger:

we don't know that -- espn says 7 goals now: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/scoreboard Habs 5-2

says 4-2 Habs now http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/scoreboard

Boston @ Montreal September 28, 2005 AT MONCTON NB ------------------------------ Montreal 0 2 --2 Boston 1 0 --1 ------------------------------ FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Boston, Pat Leahy 1 (Unassisted), 3:08. Penalties: S Souray, Mon (hooking), 4:39; B Leetch, Bos (hooking), 8:58; G Latendresse, Mon (delay of game), 19:28. SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 2, Montreal, Michael Ryder 1 (power play) (Saku Koivu, Alexei Kovalev), 14:46. 3, Montreal, Mike Ribeiro 2 (power play) (Radek Bonk, Alexander Perezhogin), 18:52. Shots on goal: ---------------------------------- Montreal 11 11 --22 Boston 8 10 --18 ---------------------------------- Goalies : Montreal, Jose Theodore (18 shots, 17 saves). Boston, Hannu Toivonen (22 shots, 20 saves). Referees: Kevin Pollock, Tom Kowal. Linesmen: Anthony Sericolo, Brad Kovachik. Wild Website [Edited on 28-9-05 by JeanLucPilon]

As a semi-old-timer, I can say that I think (from the games I've been able to watch the last few years) that the hockey fight has become so ritualized lately with the refs standing back and the spotlight turned on and so forth, that it is just a sorry-assed spectacle now and adds little to the game. I hope this has no more place in the NHL this season, I wonder if it isn't on its way out -- I mean physical play is one thing but the goon-on-goon thing, really, do fans want to watch that? Maybe they do, I wonder.

Maybe we let the other team take the penalty? Thug fights only for the sake of fighting are boring and against hockey, I hope their part in the game declines this year.

watched it too, man oh man I still recall the glee it spread from our tv sets out the windows and filled the streets and the neighborhoods and the city, province and country in like a matter of minutes. This was way before the internet and instant information transmission but it was way more real somehow. It was a great moment of national pride!