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les_glorieux

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  1. it's a sports bar in Mtl I believe they have one in ottawa too. not sure whether its on the ontario or quebec side though. pretty sure they have them elsewhere in quebec too.
  2. wow 8-6 for philly over atlanta the other night? damn. nice [Edited on 9/19/2005 by les_glorieux]
  3. perezhogin got injured slidding into the boards:o [Edited on 9/18/2005 by les_glorieux]
  4. good one, aitken. by the way, you're cut just for that! jk
  5. MONTREAL (CP) - Ever since Radek Bonk joined the Ottawa Senators for the 1994-95 season as a highly touted 18-year-old drafted third overall, he's struggled to live up to huge expectations. But Bonk's career is being given a new life with the Montreal Canadiens after the Habs acquired him in a three-way pre-lockout deal with the Sens and the Los Angeles Kings. Head coach Claude Julien insists that Bonk is not expected to fill the scoresheet every night for the Habs, but simply to play a solid two-way game much like he has for the last 10 years. ''We don't have those same high expectations that some people seemed to put on him in Ottawa,'' Julien said Thursday after watching the second day of Habs training camp in front of another packed house in suburban Pierrefonds. ''Maybe the expectations were for something that is not his strength. When you draft players in the first round, all of a sudden people have a tendency to think he should be your leading scorer. You can't have 20 leading scorers, everybody's got to be really good at their jobs.'' Though Julien doesn't need Bonk to outscore the team's top two centres - Saku Koivu and Mike Ribeiro - it doesn't mean the 29-year-old native of Krnov, Czech Republic is not expected to contribute. ''He's a first-round pick that is, to me, an excellent two-way player, and that's what he was drafted as,'' Julien said. ''We want him to be one of the best two-way players in the league, and I think he'll be comfortable doing that." Bonk admits that his years of continuously failing to meet those lofty goals in Ottawa began to wear on him and eventually affected the way he played the game. ''You were trying to do things that normally you don't try,'' he said. ''When you try to do something different, you don't play your role and that's when your game collapses. So I really want to concentrate on my role (in Montreal) and leave the goals to the goal-scorers.'' The Canadiens plan on using Bonk as their third-line centre, most likely between Niklas Sundstrom and fellow Czech Jan Bulis. The main attribute that Bonk brings to the Habs is a good combination of size - he's six foot three and 213 pounds - and skill. That's something the Canadiens haven't had in a centre since Trevor Linden was traded to the Washington Capitals in 2001. ''We've always talked about getting a little bigger. Maybe it's a little less of an issue today because of the new rules, but you still need size and he gives us that,'' Julien said. ''We feel that with him, we're going to have at least three lines that can score on a more or less regular basis. So he gives us some depth.'' Bonk spent the lockout year playing in the Czech Elite League, notching nine goals and 12 assists in 33 games with Trinec and ZPS Zlin, and then took a week off to get married in July. ''My family got together and my wife's family got together, so it was a nice time to relax and get a week off,'' he said. ''But right after that it was back to training.'' Bonk said he first got excited about the prospect of playing in Montreal after receiving a call from GM Bob Gainey following the June 26, 2004, trade that brought him to the Canadiens. ''He called me right after the trade and talked to me about my role on the team, he made me feel good and feel wanted,'' he said. The role Gainey described to Bonk suits him just fine. ''That's a role I like to play, help out both ways a little bit and be strong defensively, because defence wins the games,'' he said. ''So I'll try to do that. It's my strongest suit, so there's no reason to change.'' The Habs certainly don't have any expectations for Bonk to do that.
  6. i won't believe anything until he proves himself in the preseason [Edited on 9/15/2005 by les_glorieux]
  7. 18 from ottawa living in montreal
  8. what happened to mickey ribs adding a few pounds?!
  9. Montreal (93) and the New York Islanders (91) rounded out the top eight. The seven teams that missed out were Buffalo, Atlanta, Carolina, Florida, the Rangers, Washington and Pittsburgh. Of the seven teams on the outside looking in last time around, some of them still have no chance of cracking the top-eight this season. Buffalo finished ninth, but they were a full six points back of eighth place Montreal. what an idiot. montreal finished 7th not 8th. dumbest thing is that he just said so three sentences before.
  10. At the weigh in yesterdy GOALIES : Yann Dani 6'0/181lbs Jaroslav Halak 5'11/174lbs Olivier Michaud 5'11/178lbs Carey Price 6'3/210lbs José Théodore 5'11/182lbs DEFENSMAN : Jonathan Aitken 6'4/217lbs Andrew Archer 6'4/220lbs Andre Benoit 5'11/194lbs Francis Bouillon 5'8/196lbs J-Philippe Coté 6'2/216lbs M. Dandenault 6'1/205lbs Ron Hainsey 6'3/207lbs M. Komisarek 6'4/241lbs Kevin Lavallée 6'3/210lbs Andrei Markov 6'0/200lbs Jeff Paul 6'4/210lbs Craig Rivet 6'2/205lbs James Sandford 5'10/196lbs Sheldon Sourray 6'4/226lbs Mark Streit 6'0/196lbs FORWARDS : Steve Begin 6'0/188lbs Radek Bonk 6'3/213lbs Jimmy Bonneau 6'3/217lbs Jan Bulis 6'0/208lbs Kyle Chipchura 6'2/208lbs Pierre Dagenais 6'5/218lbs Jonathan Ferland 6'2/208lbs Chris Higgins 6'0/192lbs Marcel Hossa 6'2/218lbs Raitis Ivanans 6'4/263lbs Saku Koivu 5'10/184lbs Andrei Kostitsyn 6'0/200lbs Alex Kovalev 6'2/229lbs Michael Lambert 6'2/223lbs Mixim Lapierre 6'2/197lbs G. Latendresse 6'2/225lbs Francis Lemieux 5'11/181lbs Corey Locke 5'9/173lbs Duncan Milroy 6'1/203lbs A. Perezhogin 6'0/205lbs Tomas Plekanec 5'11/198lbs Mike Ribeiro 6'0/175lbs Michael Ryder 6'0/198lbs Niklas Sundstrom 6'0/190lbs Cory Urquhart 6'3/201lbs Pete Vandermeer 6'1/205lbs Richard Zednik 6'0/200lbs
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