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  1. I've no interested in Briere , even at an affordable rate. Only way i'd be interested in him would be on a VERY short-term bargain basement rate. Otherwise, he didn't want to be here when he had something to offer and when we outbid everyone else, so as far as I'm concerned, the hell with him now

    I think you have this backwards. When Briere came into the league he wanted to play for Montreal but we weren't interested in another small forward. When he became a star we came knocking and he turned us down just like Montreal did to him when he started out.

  2. John Tortorella has been fired by the Rangers. I'm not sure whether or not to be surprised - on the one hand, I thought he was going to be fired after they played so listlessly against the Habs but on the other, they did get to the 2nd round and were missing some important players due to injury (Staal and Clowe in particular).

    the fan base was demanding it pretty hard.

  3. Sure it's a commitment. Veteran coaches often don't get that long of a term let alone rookies. Heck, veteran coaches also don't get a title of VP of Player Personnel and tell the de facto GM to seriously study the possibility of trading the #1 overall pick (and that happened here with Roy). I'm thinking along the same lines as CC, this, to me, looks like a disaster waiting to happen.

    I think Roy will be running the show in Colorado but given what they've been up past few years... (Shattenkirk-Johnson trade, Elliot/Anderson trades, J.S.G's comments about the team) can they do worst? Sure they could trade Landeskog or their 1st for pennies... but at least with Roy they will have direction. He doesn't seem like the type to be stagnant.

    I'd only worry if they went down the Calgary road of trying to make the playoffs year after year.

  4. 4 years and an option for Roy, that's quite a commitment to a first time NHL coach.

    Its not a commitment.

    Coaches are fired 1st year of a 4 year contract all the time.

    They aren't paid THAT much so the GM's no firing them isn't an issue.

    Roy probably demanded it and they were like... sure why not.

  5. Joined a couple years back and had been reading the articles for a year or so before actually joining the forum.

    I like to consider myself an informed hockey fan and thank this site for that.

    Though i do not really post anymore since HWL went down.. funny enough EHM has not worked on my computer since HWL went inactive.

  6. 1A)Boston - Almost every playoffs in memory has been against them.. None of our other rivalries come close.

    1B) More Boston

    1C) Again Boston

    2)Toronto - Classic (More of a rivalry between fans then on the ice)

    3)Ottawa - Division rival + intense first round series this year.

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    IMO no other team really is a true rivalry.

    Pittsburgh we beat once in the playoffs and Crosby does well against us but no hate.

    Carolina lots of hate around the Koivu injury time... died off.

    Philly classic rivalry of styles but lacking the strong playoff series (The conference final wasn't too intense, we just were tired and lost)

    NYR original six but no recent playoff history.

    Buffalo... There is a rivalry here? No playoffs, No history, They have sucked lately.

  7. this whole thread seems like one big overreaction.

    honestly a lot of these comments seem to be made looking at the stat line and not from watching the games.

    someone said Bouillion can't push people from the crease... which is comical because he was the only guy other then Tinordi on the blueline doing it in the playoffs.

    the hate on Moen is another "i didn't actually watch the game" comment because he never does anything wrong plus he is one of our more physical players... perfect fourth line guy.

    about DD. He was invisible, but somehow ended up being +1 while Gallagher (who i love) was -7, i know this stat is screwy but when there is that much discrepency between people on the same line, there has to be a reason. Yes DD is supposed to produce offensively. But his shooter had a bum arm which obviously won't help his stat line. At the same time he doesn't hit like Gally does so you don't see him. I thought he did a good coming back lifting sticks, stealing the puck, sneaking in and taking it from the boards. Same as Patches, who did nothing offensively, but back checked hard to try and compensate and did try to make chances.

  8. Clowe had 3 goals in 41 games after he was taken off Thornton's line.

    Some question has to be asked, were his goal scoring numbers the product of Joe Thornton... much like Cheechoo, and Glen Murray before him (who each got boosts of 20+ goals a year with Joe over what they did without him).

    Don't forget Setoguchi

  9. Regret contracts for this year:

    -DD

    -Moen

    -Budaj

    -Bouillon

    Bouillion made some great plays early in the game, solid checks, pushing people out of the crease, cutting of that Pague guy.

    Moen was solid this series.

    Budaj shouldn't have been resigned once we traded for Tokarski.

    DD was invisible.

  10. Amazing effort by Pleks on the first one, great goal by galchenyuk.

    I'm going to give props to Paches who while still not scoring is very visible on the ice.. I don't think there is an Ottawa player he hasn't attempted to walk through at least once haha

  11. I think Gorges should be playing with Markov for that reason. He is our most responsible defensive player, and will have no problem covering the ice behind Markov.

    Also, Tinordi should be playing for Weber.

    Problem is Gorges hasn't been playing well either...

    Right now our best defensive guy is PK.

    We really need Emelin back to steady out the rotation.

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