beckham

6 players from the first 2 rounds starting in the NHL. They are all going to be great players. More to come soon. Habs totally missed the boat on that crop. I KNEW it would happen too. So frustrating to have to sit and watch them * up.:mad:

Bouillon was born in N.Y., and he is half Haitian. But he still runs around on the ice. So does Dandenault.

I thought that Komisarek was the steadiest of the defensemen. Bouillon and Dandenault are all over the place, but they don't play smart hockey. The team will be better when they can be replaced, especially on the powerplay.

Can someone translate that into English for me?:?-

I'm sure he'd do a better job than the misshapen runts wearing #51 and #25 out there. You'd have to shove Dandenault's thumb in a light socket to get any glimmer of life in his eyes.

But you have to remember that the player has already cleared waivers on the way down. If a team grabs him on the way back up, they have to cut (and probably pay) a player currently on their team. I don't think that it would happen very often that a team would be willing to pay a player who wasn't playing for them plus half of another player's salary as well.

No, a team will always call up it's best available player first. Plus what is the point of keeping a player if you can't use him on your team? All you would end up doing is paying a frustrated player to perform in the minors indifinitely.

May have something to do with their contract...ie...if a player has an NHL contract for $500 k, but earns only 50 k in the AHL, he could end up playing for AHL money for years with only occassional NHL cheques due to short term callups. With the callup waiver, another team who may also be thin at the position at the time could take the player and keep him up full time for half the cost. Increases a player's chances of securing full time NHL employment.

The players association wants to make sure that no player with NHL ability gets stuck in an organization where they have to play for extra years in the minors due to the depth ahead of them. Players just want to play in the NHL and earn NHL wages, most don't care which team they play for. I think the only factors would probably be the local taxes and weather/golf courses. Other than that they just want to play in the NHL asap and earn the big bucks.

Whether it is in Montreal or elsewhere, Hainsey is going to be a good NHL defenceman for the next dozen years. Regardless of all the crap the "chinless ones" fling his way.

Yeah, based on his record, I would be seriously worried. It is like having Kyle Woodleif talk up your draft pick. Uh oh!

Bull*. Even Julien said that Hainsey was better in camp than Streit, an international All Star who is 4 years older. But it makes more sense for Ron to play 25 minutes a game in Hamilton as opposed to Streit's 10 minutes a game in Montreal, rather than the other way round. There will be injuries, and Hainsey will be back up before the end of October. Things worked out well for the Habs in terms of the numbers game, they got a potentially useful player in Murray for a guy who was never going to play for them in Hossa, and they managed to hang onto one of the best depth defencemen in hockey in Hainsey.

You should thank Him, otherwise you'd be getting your ass kicked every day in front of your friends and neighbours.....

Yeah, too bad I don't live in Port Colborne like you so I could get out to all the games and practices in person...:idea:

Nope, think that was some guy named Romeo D'Allaire....

Actually I translated the French military manual into English. It was easy - "1. Retreat 2. Surrender 3. Collaborate" :king:

Actually, I live in Point Grey, but in case you haven't been there lately, Surrey isn't exactly "white". But you got the "trash" part correct.:guru:

Does Mark Streit speak French or German (or both), I wonder? If he speaks German he would be the only one. If he speaks French, he would be one of two, along with Huet....

The atmosphere in the Habs dressing room has always been *ed up with the English/Quebecois thing. Now they have a Quebecois clique around Ribeiro/Dagenais/Theodore, a Russian clique around Kovalev/Markov/Perezhoghin/Ivanans, a Czech clique with Bonk/Bulis/Plekanec, a few others from various corners of the world, all following a fat balding little doober with no chin who is barely literate in any language. :?- It has every possibilty of ending up as a sitcom.

...but none of them are likely to play barring injury. Danis (24) will open and close the bench door, Streit (27) will be the seventh defenseman, Ivanans (27) will get 3 minutes a game, and the other three will likely be in the stands. Plekanec, Perezhogin and Higgins are still just 22, but Pleks and Perezhogin have been playing pro hockey for 6 seasons I think. Higgins is the only one who really seems like a "rookie", with just 2 pro seasons behind him. [Edited on 2005/10/3 by beckham]

Do teams still have 24 hours to claim a player? Anyone know the details?

Columbus has no depth up front at all, and I think they hope to capitalize on the Crosby vs. Brule publicity. They are the only two 2005 draft picks to stick, I think. But Brule is really overrated. He is similar to Scotty Upshall, Jamie Lundmark, Darcy Tucker. Scrappy third line role players.

Hard to imagine how they will acheive team cohesion with all the different cultures, languages, and cliques. Julien isn't exactly Nelson Mandela in the leadership category.