Habsfan

Do we know if the NHL will ever return to the previous way the draft was held? (Ie: with every team on site for the draft) I hate this new way of doing things...Bettman takes way too much space.

Damn I love how the boys are playing tonight. Not being intimidated by the Tampa goons! Sticking up for each other! Only issue I have is we've had 4 or 5 excellent chances and we didn't bury it! I just hope it doesn't come back to bite us in the derrière!!

Slafzilla was the man!

He's gonna get there!! Picked up 2 more points tonight!

Huge win by the boys tonight!! Loving the fact that we beat Tampa twice in the last 10 days.

Really happy for our Little Bundle of Joy! Now let's get back to the game and win it in the third!

Huge Win tonight! Glad to see Monty do better! Nice way to end the year!

Not sure Malkin is what we need right now! I'm willing to give Dach 20 games to see how he does.

I normaly don't care if a player speaks french or not. (and I'm a frog) But to see our young captain speaking french in an interview, is just special for me. My level of respect for Nick has gone through the roof! He doesn't have to be fluent in french, it's the effort that matters! Bravo Nick! Tu es un des nôtres maintenant!

Gentlemen, i'm 49 ####ing years old. Almost a senior citizen! I have some memories of the 86' cup. (Claude Lemieux's winning goal in game 7 of the the Adams division final. Unfortunately, I have no memories of King Patrick's magical performance in game 3 of the conference finals, cause I was in bed for most of that game.) I do remember 1993 and damn am I thankful for that! What I'm seeing from this bunch of players this year is making me giddy! I don't think i've been this excited for a new hockey season since 1994! I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that Kirby Dach will play 75 games and get at least 50 points playing on the second line with Demidov and Laine! I'm gonna hope that Demidov is actually a real superstar. (60+ points in his rookie season) I am also gonna pray to the hockey gods that Monty doesn't get injured and that Dobson has a bounce back year (50+points and a positive +/- rating) In the end, I just wanted to say that i'm really excited for this year and I can't wait to see how our boys will perform!

Like many have already mentioned, I'm not expecting much from Laine this season. Just like Dach, he's missed a shitload of games and will need a good 30-40 games just to get back in the rythm and find his scoring touch! I will be patient! But it is good news. I was afraid we wouldn't see him until after the holidays.

Agreed! If Caufield ends up scoring 45+ goals, I won't care that he only gets 12 assists. But yeah, it's weird to go from 28 goals + 35 assists, to almost no assists after 16 games. But hey, no stressing here. There are other things to worry about on this team!

I get that we won't make the playoffs this year, but there's a nasty trend here. WE get blown out of the water way too often and too many times we're not ready when the game starts!

Great game by the Habs so far. This game could be 6-1, but I'm not complaining! Keep up the hard work and don't let down in the 3rd!

I'm trying not to get too excited..to manage my emotions, but I gotta be honest here. I wet my panties when I heard this on TSN 690 this afternoon!! I just hope that Laine and Dach can both play at least 75 games each this year. I would go with... Caufield - Suzuki - Slafkovsky Anderson - Dach - Laine Armia - Newhook - Gallagher Roy - Evans - Dvorak (pezzetta) I would trade Dvorak before Christmas! I know that Anderson did NOT have a good season last year, but I do believe that he can bounce back with a solid 20-25 goals if he could play with Dach and Laine. Now that would be a BIG line! Nobody below 6'3"!