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Anyway, is there anyone who would miss him? Not many eh. Likely one of Sekac-Bournival-Hudon-Andrighetto am sure can fill his role.

not sure what this may mean for him? dlbalr should fill us in maybe?

Nice to see Bozon with 2g-4pts in 4 games 11g for Scherbak in 14 gms and only held pointless in 1 game, looking good eh. Lernout has been fairly quiet, has been staying out of penalty box but not adding offense lately (and he does play point on the PP), 1a in last 5 games.

But some haters, actually don't curse him every game anymore and if you measure success as Wins-Losses and making playoffs, not much of an argument how he has done. I know some will say that a chimpanzee could steer this team into playoffs and a competent coach would have won a cup with the last 2 years rosters.

Well he did get 30 in 46 game season, so bit better pace than 30pts (54point pace), maybe he peaked way too early in career?

Not so, they also went to other teams like NY-Boston-Chicago, whereas Habs get a walk-on like Guy Lapointe or if French player wouldn't come to Habs, they bought the whole league he played in to get him, etc etc They had first dibs on the cream of crop for Quebec kids forever didn't they? Which wasn't quite the same for ONT kids and Leafs, was it?

Some team stats; #1 faceoff% 8th PK 9th blocked shots 17th GAA 19th hits 22nd +/- 6th worst Giveaways 26th best Takeaways 27th Scoring 28th PP Thank Price that Habs were still in game after the 1st period (and most games). (some discount his impact he may have had in Semi-Finals, I dunno 'What if"?) (edit: CC I didn't read you post till after and actually came up with 'dunno' independent of your post, so no I am not mocking, that's all)

Good thing all Chicago Cub fans arnt I take it you are not a Chicago Cubs fan, nor can understand why anyone in right mind would bother cheering for them. All you have to do is look up definitions of 'Fanatic'.

Even a Gallagher just went log stretch with zero points, so will Sekac have fortitude to fight through a slump and do enough away from puck to stay in lineup? we just don't know yet.

By having choice of all the best Quebec players is big reason Habs won so many cups, isn't it?

NO not sold yet, and I did say he looked OK, but was not OK to sit him in pressbox so long and Hamilton top line was a much better option if not going to play him. And hope he can make an impact, but we have had D'Agostini & Hossa who also came in and looked super at start but... so maybe give it a month or 4 before really make any long term projection. Maybe he and Larry can be a good combo, both can skate and forecheck well.

Looks like will be another 'sketchy' season, I guess can just hope maybe squeak into playoffs this year.

crappy

WHooo dela Rose gets his 1st!

I like Prust more than most and I am fine by him over Bourque on 3rd line, but 4th line is also fine, or simply a bottom six player yes.

If a team isn't strong (or meets some fans irrational expectations), do not tease the players by applauding or encouraging them, come on, you should know that HR!

Thrower getting close to playing yet?

Well I guess the first 'largish' logo for Habs Jersey would be Molson (and before that would likely of been Gilette for a few years) And they would sell, not all will avoid buying simply for principle, at a minimum some kids will want em and parents would by em.

Thomas and Andrighetto had good amount of shots. And Macdonald was 3rd star, so must of played OK, even with 3rd period collapse.

#79 maybe, if he makes it to 1,000games as a Hab I would guess a good bet?

And fighting is what he does very well and when a youngster gets run over, who else but Prust (or Moan) steps up to discuss the hit with opposition, or can antagonize a goalie enough to attack him (other than Gallagher)? So he does play a bit different role and seems to be a bit of mentor for Galchenyuk. He is 100x better to have on roster than goons Big George I or II, don't you think.

He may not amount to much anyways, seems most of those 'high profile' older undrafted free agents bust or never live up to hype. But, he seems to look OK so far (but so did LL, at times White did and many others who simply faded away). So if he exited stage left, wouldn't get too worked up. I think he has a lot more skill than those two? wouldn't you say.

reality check! And still waitin for the huge list of realistic Therrien's replacement upgrade options (that Bergevin hasn't already interviewed & passed over), when you fire him ASAP.

Just really wouldn't think would be so much whining about a team off to a 9-4-1 start? But I guess with crappy-d, crappy coaching, crappy roster choices, crappy player development, but I suppose it should be expected when got a high powered underachieving team.

Has been jersey (maker) ad for long time, but a Nike swoosh or Reebok logo were kept small and not ungodly ugly.