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Nope, about the same. Boston got away with a lot and better officiating would have made the game much more enjoyable, as it would have led to more hockey and less playground tactics. O'Byrne bumping Thornton and then turtling? Gorges hitting Bergeron into the net after the goal? Montreal lost their cool out there and were lucky that the Bruins lost theirs as well. For everyone that pisses and moans about what Sean Avery gets away with, you saw Montreal play right from his book. A little consistency in your views, please! I GM the Leafs in HWL. Bringing up my avatar is an irrelevant as, well, the Leafs. Obviously not. Why should you assume that because I didn't like the way Montreal played, I must like how Boston played? Same shit, different pile. I like high emotion games. I like high intensity games. I don't like goading and cheap shots. Is that team toughness? I guess I have a different definition.

I wanted toughness in the lineup, but not dirty, cheap shots a lot of you were clamoring for. Komisarek and O'Byrne looked like Sean Avery out there. I'm happy Montreal is in the playoffs, but that was a gutless point earned by men playing like bratty children.

An awful lot of violence being promoted in this thread. How about Laraque plays a clean, physical game and forces Lucic into a fight through big, punishing hits?

Tanguay - Koivu - Kovalev Higgins - Plekanec - Kostitsyn Latendresse - Lapierre - Kostopoulos Stewart - Metropolit - Laraque Gorges - Komisarek Hamrlik - Brisebois Weber - Dandenault Price Please. That's as strong a team as you'll get with Markov and Schneider out.

Scoreboard watching: NYR vs Boston Pittsburgh vs Carolina NJ vs Buffalo Philadelphia vs Ottawa Is it "Cheer for Habs Rivals Night" or something? Go Bruins, Go Canes, Go Devils, Go Sens!

so wait, who has amnesia?

Player Grades up: http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=1775

didn't Koz already guess #10 and get it right?

Probably helps save bandwidth.

Perhaps the demotion to the 4th line removed the pressure on him to score and with less pressure came more production. Much like Latendresse being given a lesser role on the 3rd line instead of the 1st or 2nd line resulted in greater performance. Or perhaps he took the demotion to the 4th as a wakeup call, and the mental shakeup made everything click. Or maybe Metropolit and Dandenault are his hockey soulmates and he's never had a more perfect skillset to his immediate and far right. Hopefully it's not option 1 or 3, because if his recent play carries over to when playing with Plekanec and A. Kostitsyn, then this team becomes a threat every game.

Not entirely correct. I think the penalty was for kicking Price's stick away from him that Price dropped while punching a player in the back. But yeah, not the best showcasing of referee talent.

And yet Laraque, no matter how badly he has played this season, still gets a long look from me (and from a lot of fans.)

2nd line trumps 4th line. If Higgins - Plekanec - A. Kostitsyn develop some chemistry, you go back to the revolving door on the 4th till you find something else that works like Higgins - Metropolit - Dandenault did. S. Kost, D'Agostini, Laraque, Stewart... Only Kostitsyn and Stewart are natural LWers I think.

well, all the ones I know have been answered already.

Everything but basic formating (bold, italics and underline) only work for the global mods. It was brought up a long time ago, but nothing was done about it.

Hmmm, 5 minutes loading time for the 1st page of the game thread? My Spidey sense is tingling. Me and my dialup say hi!

All rumour. Serenity's run at the box office wasn't good enough for the studio to pick up a sequel. The latest rumour is a potential sequel as a TV movie because of how well the special edition DVD's sold, but considering all the actors (and Joss himself) are working on other projects right now, I doubt we see anything. Ever. *sigh*

Watched Serenity for the first time in a year or so. Man I love it and Firefly. I still want more of either!

http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=1773

where is that from? I'd like to use it for my player grades article.

aaaaaand I'm looking for a job in radio.

Are all Americans oblivious to everything around them? No. Absolutes are so easy to debate.

That castrates the coach. You think he lost the room before? Having the GM come in to watch over his shoulder directly would completely neuter Carbo's ability to have his direction taken seriously.

Your history is rosy. He was sent down for floating as much as he was for his young mistakes.

This team is doomed without Schneider's daughter in the lineup!