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He's 5'11... That hit had nothing to do with his SIZE Eric Lindros was huge and the same shit happened to him.

I saw us beat Detroit 6-0, I'm not convinced we are going to go on a tear either based on this one game against a good team.

Even if we win, we will remain in 28th place

25 goasl for Erik

Markov's passing hasn't missed a beat.

ouch luongo.

The year of the injury continues as Yakupov is destroyed by Halmo. Possible concussion here.

Danny Geoffrion never scored a goal as a Hab. Son > Dad

BAM BAM GEOFFRION'S FIRST HABS GOAL!

Completely. Another symptom of his rink rust. I think he'll be like this all this season, I hope people aren't expecting too much from him

<p> Exactly, his head is ahead of his legs right now. The old Markov could have made the pinch he made and recovered, but right now his skating isn't good enough for that. It'll come, maybe not til next season, but there is a ton of rust on those legs.

Markov's passing looks great... but he is slow with no lateral mobility right now. I think it will come though, there is just a ton of rust there.

Easing a guy back into the lineup in his first game back is dumb? Keeping a PP unit that has a goal in 6 straight games is dumb??

It wasn't pretty. Wasn't pretty at all.

The green men apparently think Gomez is the captain of the Habs. Idiots

I was drunk last night on cheap beer night at the Bulldogs game. I could probably go for some harder stuff tonight though.

North Dakota wins their first round series 2-0 Mark MacMillan with 1 goal in game 1, and 3 assists in Game 2 Dany Kristo unfortunately scoreless for the weekend Michigan wins their first round series 2-0 Mac Bennett one assist in game 1. Pateryn scoreless in the series. However the duo was used as Michigan's shutdown defence pair.

Then the guy who screws up will get extra ice time. #tanking

Quebec is playing @ Gatineau tomorrow.

Yeah, I think we're all gonna feel that way for several months until we are confident in his knee.

Kaberle is much better than Campoli and Weber. I don't get how he ends up #7. We'll see how the minutes get split.

As for a sign and trade with Halak, the problem is that the UFA goalies became available July 1st and arbitration for Halak would have been the last week of July/early August. Teams weren't going to wait that long before trading for him. They were gonna at least sign somebody because no one wants to be the GM who gets left without a goalie in September.

Tough to acquire a prospect goalie who has already had some seasoning in the minors and looks promising. Teams typically aren't selling those. The one thing you can do though, is go out and sign a college or euro UFA who looks good if you want an older prospect. The contracts with Mayer and Delmas kinda gum up that from happening though. You'd pretty much need to guarantee that the college or euro UFA is far enough along in his development that he could immediately step in to the Nathan Lawson role (Hamilton starter and 3rd goalie in the organization). This is why I think you draft an 18 year old, he'll spend two years in the CHL and then when he's ready for the AHL, Mayer and Delmas are long gone.

They started renting the ice to "Steel City Hockey" a beer league on nights the Dogs aren't playing this year as well. Not sure what effect this is having on the ice surface, I'm not complaining about cheap beer night. That seems like a good thing to bring fans into the building IMO. The jerseys didn't seem cheap to me. I was at the game and while they were certainly the third jerseys, I can't say that they were cheaper material than the regular jerseys. They also where these 3rds for one game and then raffle them for charity, while they sell the home/away jerseys also for charity. I really don't have big complaints about that. I think they want the scratches to actually watch the game. It can be a great learning tool for young players watching from the press box or crowd with a veteran player or assistant coach, or another member of the organization.

Carolina gets a win, keeps them moving farther away from us.