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This is the Palushaj I've seen in Hamilton. This is the Palushaj I want to see more of in Montreal

For her. yeah

No but it happened to my girlfriend a few weeks ago cause she is so short. Bruised her thighs good. I laughed. Then I thought it could happen to DD one day

Got stuck and hurt himself jumping over the boards

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Worst Case Scenario He'll get hot enough our new GM will want him back next year.

Best no goal ever!

Gomez having his best game all year. ###### I hate him

the shot hit Emelin on the way in, not budajs fault Kaberle's pass was awful though I'll take it

Bob McKenzie tweeted on the day of the trade that we got offers from 4 teams on Halak including SJ and Philly. I still think Mcguire's comments that he was never shopped are just part of his long held grudge against PG for firing him in Ottawa. And yes Halak may have been the best goalie available but he was still someone you had to trade for where the other guys were UFAs coming for free. There was a point where what PG held out for would drive teams to sign UFAs. The market had as much potential to shrink as it did to get into a bidding war. PG also never said that St. Louis was the only team he called. He merely said that Eller was a guy he targetted from the Blues. Tampering rules prevent him from saying who he asked for from other teams.

Biggest difference is that players without the puck are moving

someone give PK the memo, he's not supposed to do that

We are getting closer to pre-lockout levels of obstruction too. Refs just aint calling shit. as for the start of this game the story is this Corey Potter and the 3rd Overall Draft Pick coming this June by J. K. Renneyling

They have a bunch of young super skilled players who havent learned to defend yet at fwd plus the zero d and bad goaltending. The league wide reduction in PPs called by the Refs helps too

Don't worry Cunneyworth has a strategy. Cole was told to do everything Gomez does and Patches is copying Bourque's style.

How do you have the best PK and be 28th?

4 pt game

He played in both the 09 and 2010 tourneys so yes 2 years ago (and 3)

Boo Nieves joins USHL Indiana team http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=7268

I couldn't find individual player stats but 1) Montreal is 3rd in the entire NHL with 10 ENG against. Last season over 82 games we only gave up 8. 2) 8 vs 6 over last season prorate those over a full 82 games and its about 8 more goals against total on the team. 3) The winger who has spent the most time with Pleks this season is Gionta and he's spent 33 games on IR Lines have been broken up very quickly except for the 2.5 men line. 4) Pleks has had a rough year, he's been more than good enough in this role for the last 3-4 years. He's also still playing the most fwd minutes on the leagues best PP. Pleks defensive ability isn't really something that should be questionned IMO. If the offence was there the +/- wouldnt suck.

Okay, no snarky remark... just straight facts. Guys with over 100 NHL games (or projected to get there) drafted by Trevor Timmins (fwds and defence) Fwds Andrei Kostitsyn 6'0 Max Lapierre 6'02 Kyle Chipchura 6'02 Mikhail Grabovski 5'11 Guillaime Latendresse 6'02 Matt D'agostini 6'0 Sergei Kostitsyn 6'0 Ryan White 6'0 Max Pacioretty 6'1 Defence Ryan O'Byrne 6'05 Alexei Emelin 6'0 Mark Streit 6'0 Ryan McDonagh 6'1 PK Subban 6'0 Yannick Weber 5'11 Total players under 6'0 = 2 (and one of those guys just signed a 5.5 million dollar per year contract). Total players 5'10 or under = 0 Three most recent first round picks... Louis Leblanc 6'0; Jarred Tinordi 6'7", Nathan Beaulieu 6'3"

1) Worse record, more close losses, would lead to more empty net goals against. 2) Yeah, lets blame the stupid coaching from Cunneyworth running the PP, that kept putting Pleks on the point when Ray Charles could see it wasn't the best use of his ability. 3) How is he supposed to produce playing with Darche, Moen, Geoffrion, and White? Again, he's a good player, hes not the type of guy who makes his teammates better and guys who make their teammates better are the rarest players in the NHL, the Crosbys, and Malkins. Who else is doing things without linemates? 4) The players who play against the other teams best, usually have the worst +/-, its only natural.

Is that a problem with Pleks or with Coaching? The coach will be gone, the GM too, should we really trade Pleks and the 1st round pick throwing the baby out with the bath water so to speak?

I don't know about Halak being traded too early Consider this 2010 Free Agent Signings. http://www.nhl.com/ice/page.htm?id=63235 In the summer of 2010 the teams looking for a number 1 goalie or at least a tandem guy were... Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Jose, Chicago UFA Goalies were Marty Turco, Evgeni Nabokov, Anterro Nittymakki, Chris Mason, Brian Boucher, Antti Niemi (Boucher and Niemi were cup finalists), Martin Biron, Jose Theodore, Dan Ellis, Johan Hedberg, Nittymakki, Mason, Turco, Theodore, Ellis, and Biron went from starters to backups and took serious pay cuts. Boucher and Hedberg remained backups. Nabokov couldn't get the deal he wanted and went to Russia The market for goalies was really weak in Free Agency and plenty of options, stop gaps, and former starters were available. The longer you held onto Halak you were taking a risk that teams like San Jose, Philly, St. Louis, Chicago filled their vacancies in free agency. You very well could have ended up with a situation where you needed to trade one of your goalies (due to Halak and Price both needing to be paid) and have only 1 or even no teams wanting one. This would have mean your offers would have come in ridiculously low balled.

I found the Odds for the scenarios. Predicted position Winning the lottery Stayingput Losing 1 spot 30th place - 1st overall 48.2%; 2nd overall 51,8% 29th place - 1st overall 18,8%; 2nd overall 42% 3rd overall 39,2% 28th place - 1st overall 14,2% 3rd overall 56,1% 4th overall 29,7% 27th place - 1st overall 10,7% 4th overall 80,6% 5th overall 8,7% 26th place - 1st overall 8,1% 5th overall 85,9% 6th overall 6,0%