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Quebecois

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  1. I've said it before, I'll say it again:

    Habs fans are the WORST on the planet. Now, that's a blanket statement, because for sure there are thousands of really, really good and knowledgeable fans, but when you count the morons as well? We make hooliganism look good.

    Holy hyperbole Batman! Is O'Byrne receiving death threats right now? Is his life in danger? Please...keep the exaggerations to a minimum.

    Go to any psychologist and that's what they'll tell you: you go with your dominant thought. If your dominant thought is that you hear boos when you touch the puck, you will have a natural propensity to making errors. They've done test after test on this stuff, it's not made up. You boo-birds are negatively affecting a player, a career, and the Canadiens club. If you boo O'Byrne more, he may make another critical error which could potentially cost the Habs a playoff spot, or a Cup, and perhaps even his career.

    Komi never scored on his own net, but there were times when he was just awful back in the day. Why was he never booed like this? You don't think he went through stretches of horrible play? Do you think he'd be half the player he is today had his confidence been utterly wrecked by boo-birds voicing their opinions? The difference is that he was given slack because he was a first round pick and was slated to be some kind of savoiur. O'Byrne? Later round pick so the tether is short. He's making mistakes, ride him out of the city. Doesn't matter that he could very well become the next Komisarek with continued work, he's making mistakes now so boo him mercilessly.

    The bolded part makes a lot of sense, and provides a good argument for booing players on the opposition. Anything to get an edge right?

    As far as Komi goes, he was indeed terrible when he first came up. Maybe worse than O'Byrne. He just never had a spark that would have ignited the boo birds as O'Byrne did last night.

    Somehow I think management has an infinitely better take on whether or not O'Byrne's play is a disgrace. Seem to me management managed to take a useless team circa 2000 and build them into a competitive team today. Surely, they must know something.

    But you're right, boo consistently at O'Byrne and management. I'm sure that will help the situation. Boo until Ryan's confidence completely implodes, until he does more mistakes. Boo until you run him out of town, then boo until you run Carbo and Gainey out of town. When Houle and Tremblay take over...

    And people wonder why we can't attract UFA's. "What a great place to play, this Montreal. Fans are soooo knowledgeable."

    :rolleyes:

    Please, we haven't attracted UFAs because Bob has been unwilling to fork over the dough. If professional athletes are that worried about being thrown under the bus by fans, then you wouldn't have anyone wanting to sign with the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox of the world.

    Look, I was disappointed with the O'Byrne chants last night as well. It's impossible to know how many fans were chanting and I genuinely felt terrible for the guy. The bottom line is, if I'm paying 100 bucks of my hard earned money, add in another 20 bucks for a couple of beers, there's a good chance I'm extremely upset when the Habs don't pull it out. Would I have chanted? I doubt it. Do i understand where these fans are coming from? Sure do.

    It goes both ways.

    Right now? "Habs fans suck, no class, omg they booed the poor kid, riots last year, booed the anthem move the team"

    After the Rangers comeback game last year? "Wow best fans in the world!, stuck with their team even when down 5-0, willed the team back into the game, everyone must love to play in Montreal!"

  2. These guys are suppose to be our big guns, they aren't producing, if you honestly think kovalev is playing well you are crazy, he's about as lost as o'byrne is, he dipsy doodles around then loses the puck, looks good for the 10 seconds he's doing it, plecknec buzzes around on the outside doing nothing, again looks good, and kostityn isn't looking much like the sniper he's suppose to be

    Kovalev has been terrible this season, but this was one of his best games and the team certainly was working hard tonight. They don't have much confidence right now and missed numerous opportunities, but the confidence will come back eventually and then it won't matter if we score a late one on our own net.

  3. feel bad for o'byrne, he's going to take some major heat on this one, hopefully he doesn't ride the pine too long over that..... should have put him in the shootout

    kovalev, plecknec and andrei still aren't showing up.... kovalev looks like he is playing shinny hockey out there with his effort... just about everyone except for the fourth line is playing with no effort and getting way to fancy, get the puck on net!

    I think you just managed to eclipse O'Byrne for failure of the night.

  4. Ugh, another Calvillo choke. I love em but man, 1-5 in grey cups now...

    Congrats to the Stamps, well deserved. I was really glad for Burris, his post-game interview almost brought me to tears myself.

    I like to think that I inspired him to get things when I met him at last year's Grey Cup. I drunkenly told him to "keep on truckin"...must have been bulletin board material for sure.

  5. Theory of a deadman is a waste of a show. Neil Young should do it till he dies IMO...

    Pretty evenly played half...Noise level seems to be making more of a difference than I thought. Anyone else think Richardson has NFL written all over him? That guy seems out of place in this league to be honest.

    GO ALS!

  6. Ugh. This team badly needs another D man, that is becoming quite clear.

    Other than that? I don't know what to say but it seems like half the team will show up one night, then the other half will show up the next night. Very few players seem to be giving a good effort night in night out and the talent will only take them so far.

  7. You can do that in any state, as far as I know. Absentee voting. It's how I voted while I was in college. People can't always report to their local polling station on election, and that obviously shouldn't prevent them from voting.

    Should have clarified, they vote by mail ONLY. No polling stations...

    Puts a lot of trust in the postal service...

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