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Hamilton paper has hit it.

The Coyotes case is going to a bankruptcy court auction on Sept 10, some think the rich Balsillie offer could prevail. Bettman and his cronies say they would fight that legally "for years." If the club stays in Phoenix, it seems it will continue taking handouts and losing money. Is it just me that hates seeing profitable teams like the Habs subsidizing personal vendettas? Or am I reading this all wrong? How does the typical Canadian hockey fan feel about the whole mess?

Effin' Japanese police state!

Thanks for reposting Boogie. Agree, French is hard to speak correctly -- but the thing is, francophone Habs fans don't expect that, especially of someone like Gomez. He makes the effort to throw out a few words and it's all good. And I maintain that he could do post-game comments with very little vocab or grammar and everyone will be delighted, it's not like the RDS guy is going to ask him to deconstruct Marcel Proust . . .

Sir Bogalot! I thought I was replying to your post but I hit my magic "Mod" button and ended up blanking it . . . . Anyway for those who didn't see it, the post was good. Hoping you could re-create it? A thousand apologies Sir! My reply was to say that I think French and Spanish are close. I was in Central America for six months and my French plus some creative adaptations basically got me by. The two languages are Latin-based and generally-speaking their vocabularies have similar etymologies. What would be not remotely close would be Hungarian, or Japanese. Anyway the thing is I don't think Gomez actually speaks Spanish . . . I propose a structural approach to Scott's lessons, where he can learn a few templates then simply fill in blanks as required, eg: "Own a joo-eh (mal/bien) a costa nut (day fence / offence) . . . Le boo de (Mike / Andre / Guy / __ ) a tut shawn jay le game . . ."

Meh not practical . . . I'll bet if we gave it a little thought we could compile the COMPLETE BEGINNER'S FRENCH POST-GAME HOCKEY INTERVIEW VOCABULARY. And the five sentence structures Gomez'll need.

This should make some people happy: Gomez says he's started studying French. I've said this before but seriously hockey interview french requires what, a 50-100 word vocabulary? Good move Gomez

Yeah FanP like CC points out it's not so Keynesian. The CBC is a Canadian crown corporation, their president appointed the Canadian government, and operating under a mandate to "reflect Canada and its regions to national and regional audiences, while serving the special needs of those regions..." Go Habs Go!

send him Shattenkirk . . .

What works for me is a digital voice recorder, very small and can carry it round during the day and toss it on the bedside table at night -- when elusive Lade Inspiration appears, just push 'record' and let it flow.

Habs need to go to the net this season, the perimeter is not so big on NHL rinks .. .

you guys seen the 'literal videos' genre? Lots of failure but these are classics: Total Eclipse of the Heart Take on Me

Any Monster Truck shows? Would it be accurate to say the new franchise likelihood list for Canadian cites would be 1) Hamilton, 2) Winnipeg, 3) Québec ?

Rink of Dreams?

Seems Youppi! can play goal! With Sanford added that gives us real depth, expect Halak to be traded. . .. .

shheeesh what is the world coming to when you can't be a maverick nhl owner. that's why i like hwl

what does the nhl have against Balsillie?

Price can play 74 games next season and lead the league in shutouts, then he'll be our savior again

Gomez is way heavy for his height. Packed solid with a low center of gravity. We'll see, he may be a lot tougher round the net than some of us expect.

All is said and done, I would still like to see Lapierre get a shot at 2nd line centre, or center, whichever.

Laps can do it!

So is the Habs-Caps Big O on or not? Seems not yet decided from the search I did . . .

Judas at the last supper, thirteenth at the table. In Japan, "4" is the unlucky number (some buildings have no 4th floor, or rooms with "4")

Maybe not, but maybe yes . . . why not give Lapierre a shot on the 2nd line, he's young and has some size and he's getting better every year, has guts and decent hands and, well, I like the look in his eyes hehehe.

Lapierre for 2nd line C!