Commandant

I admit he's surprised me this year. I still take offense to the idea that I judged him based on one bad OHL year, and that his draft + 1 season is the aberation though. I didn't base that on one year. His year with the U17 US Team team didn't show offense. His year on the U18 US Team didn't show offence. His first year in London didn't show offence. That was not 1 year, but 3 straight years without offence.

Without Gallagher, without Price, we dominated that game, and lost on a couple of fluke goals and hot goaltending. Meh, Just proves the Habs are the true best team in the East.

Nate has plenty of fights under his belt in the qmjhl, ahl and nhl. He doesnt qualify as someone who doesnt know how.

Burns is the guy who is a better fwd than d but the sharks insist on his playng defence. Id take him in a second.And i would takr buff on our team to play rw. My issue is the cost. The jets will value him (and expect the return equivalrnt to) the value of a top line d. Meanwhile in our lineup hes a depth forward not a top d. It's not that i dont like him. Its that im not sure we are a fit as trade partners. He has more value to others (who would play hin on d) than he has to us.

The crazy line changes work... Patch gets the winner. Wouldn't have been the lines i put together, but somehow Therrien does crazy shit, and it works again.

Lines since the middle of second (At least) Patch - DD - Weise Flash - Plek - Byron Eller - Chuck - Ghetto DSP - Flynn - Thomas

Lower Body is all they said.

Buff is a #2 defenceman (top pairing) or a third line forward. Why would we want to pay the price (expensive) to acquire him, and then use him at the position where he has way less value. We aren't a fit for Buff, we don't need a RHD, and he costs top pairing d value and we'd use him in a position he just isn't as good at. If you are gonna pay for a forward with size out of Winnipeg, why not just go after Ladd?

I am 99.9% sure he is who I think. PM me if you want to know more.

I highly doubt it. He's not ready. He's here in case Condon gets hurt or needs to be pulled, and we need someone to finish a game. Tokarski will be back up within a week IMO.

If you say so!

Little place called forumice. Play coy if you want... I'm not asking for you to be banned here, just want you to know that I know who you are. Your posts have very unique syntax and grammar. They can be spotted a mile away. I just wanted to welcome you and all. How's San Jose?

oh please... one day after you got banned at the other board, and you show up here. I recognize the overused ! anywhere.

Damn, he went way over.

Even if he did, the math is off. Training camp is 10 1/2 months from now.

Hey buddy... its Ben, Ben Kerr, I think I know you, how's it going? Should I call you Habs25?

He won't play. He's only there if Condon gets hurt. Tokarski will be recalled in a week, this is just to get him some work .

Have I set the new League record for LOW END? This week sucked.

Needed to be done. He hasn't started in a month and has only played 1 period in that time.

Only hudon is a better defensive player than carr, thomas and holloway so i domt think that is the reason. And if you watched the juniors closely you would have seen that as Hudon was on Canadas matchup lines.

I agree. The fact that penalties change based on time of year, or time left in the game, never made sense to me.

They'll never get rid of it 100%, but they don't want the stuff like the Good Friday Game.... thats the kind of stuff we'll never see again and thats what had to be removed before US networks were willing to touch the game. Thats how we got 10 games for jumping off the bench. Now I agree we need serious penalties for head shots, and for them to be out of the game. I suggest 10 games for shit like Dubinsky did (and more if he does it a second time).

And one of the reasons networks didn't want to pick up hockey was because they didn't want to be known for broadcasting the sport with the benchclearing brawls and the backlash they would get from that. Also advertisers didn't want the backlash from supporting it even when the ratings were there. Based on the fact there is more money involved in removing fighting than there is in putting it back in... things aren't going back to that way.

Of course its fair to say you personally watch less hockey than before.... thats fine, you like fighting, others don't. You're entitled to your own opinion. I object to the comment that " I would say less people watch hockey now a days then the 80's for sure." because when we talk about the general population, its clearly not true. Fact is fighting is leaving the game, and the majority of fans either haven't even noticed, or haven't allowed it to effect viewing patterns.

1) Ratings show more people watch hockey today. 2) The idea that there were less rats when the players policed themselves is also simply not true. Even without an instigator rule and a laissez-faire attitude toward violence, the NHL of Kyte's era still had to deal with despicable, dishonourable jerks like Bobby Schmautz, Ken (the rat) Linseman, Bryan Marchment, Louis Sleigher, Ulf Samuelsson and even Kyte himself. Gallagher was quick to include a youtube link to Kyte's sucker punch of Mario Lemieux in his twitter salvo, which Kyte tried to defend as "sticking up for his teammates".