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for his first game back in the NHL in a long long time - i thought he did very well too. let's hope he can build on his performance tonight!

wow. that's dumber than i ever realized then. still - this is the first i've ever heard about it's origins (or cared enough to ever wonder about this). still, as a Christian, i don't associate it with my tradition at all. Go Cammalleri Go!!! :hlogo:

really??? i've been a Christian all my life (parents, grandparents ... u get the jist) and never known any Christian to be superstitious of '13'. perhaps it was just my circles, perhaps it is more about Catholicism than Christianity - but - i guess i had always thought of superstitions to be pagan (lucky & unlucky numbers, black cats, unmanned ladders & all that crap). oh well - to get this back on topic ... really don't like Gill at 75. odd or special numbers deserve odd or special players - and unless you call a pylon odd, 75 isn't a good fit on Gill, IMHO. all the other new Habs have great numbers and i'm thinking will do really well in jersey merchandise.

i didn't watch nearly as many games as many of you did, but from what i could tell - i really liked Tanguay. but, why would BG take a chance on Tangs shoulder and take a chance on Tangs clicking with Gomez when he could get a veritable sure thing in health & meshing with Gomez in a guy like Gionta for very similar money? Lang i really liked too - but again, BG can't afford to risk having even 2.5 mil sitting in the pressbox nursing a nagging injury. in all the risk that BG took by essentially putting his job on the line in a total team make-over, i see a lot of conservatism here too. Farewell Tangs & Lang! I don't think you were parts of the problem, but I think your injuries have hurt you again.

i think if he has a big year NO ONE will be complaining about needing to give him a big contract, not even Bob.

knock, knock. hello? i'm looking for the 'Gainey is an idiot' thread.

at first, i'm wondering why a writer from phoenix would write this article, then i noticed it was written for the Ottawa Citizen ... i can't wait until the 'once glorious' Habs take care of the 'never glorious' Sens. :ghg:

seems to me, those who consider Gainey to be an idiot of a GM, are really most upset about his policy of not negotiating during the season. if that's his only flaw, then there are almost 29 other teams out there who would consider Gainey an upgrade on their GM situations. philosophies & principles are not without flaw - but - i'm thankful for a GM that has them and sticks to them. i believe most of the time, a principled GM is going to be a winner. had all those UFA-eligible players man-upped and met Gainey's challenge to have career years and brought a Stanley Cup to Montreal in our 100th year, they all would have been hot commodities on the open market and either got their money from other teams or would have gotten their share of the millions we just spent on Gomez, Gionta, Cammalleri, et al. but, even in their contract years they couldn't get it together - so now they (& their cancer) are disbursed throughout the league and a new core & a new era of Habs has begun. it's a roll of the dice, bob - but it all makes sense to me.

watch for Higgins to join him in TO after this season i'm sure of it.

i agree, absolutely! given 2 players of relatively equal pros & cons ... go with the Quebecois. it just makes sense on SO many levels.

i was going to make him my new favourite habs ... but didn't cuz i didn't want to misspell his name!

THANK YOU!!!

yep - send jetsniper a message

i'm still expecting the Habs to trade either Price or Halak

i'm glad the Habs didn't lose Higgins for nothing after next season(as they will Komi this season). not only do they gain a respectable 1st line C - but they have him for 5 years. the prospect cupboard is still in good shape (only losing McDo) and that means before Gomez contract is up, there will be some cheap young talent in the fold and therefore still cap room to either resign players or make more trades (assuming UFA-world is just simply never going to be habs-friendly again )

i have a friend who is Greek.

oh - to add ... a good rule of thumb for firing is to do the firing in the same method you did the hiring. if you said over the phone 'you've got the job, when can you start', then saying over the phone 'you're fired, you have 2 weeks severance' is actually good etiquette. i would think (& i haven't done this) this would/could/should apply to facebook or whatever too!

classless is finding out through a 3rd party (whether news or secretary or whatever). by phone is fine. as someone said, it's way better than 'hey, get back here quick from your vacation cuz there is an urgent meeting i need you to attend' the fastest & most secure way once a decision is made to transmit the news is still in a good ole phone chat, & especially between 2 individuals that seemed to have healthy friendships (Gainey & Jarvis, Gainey & Lever).

i know i didn't realize i couldn't do it later - i'm very sad about this.

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to me, the athletes' apathy to the local community isn't only a Montreal thing - it's the same everywhere. the difference is that because of language, their lack of interest/support to the local community is glaringly obvious. players today don't play for their team's city. they either play for the paycheck or play for the thrill of competition or play for their place in history. they don't care one bit about their new 'home' town. and, unlike the 70s - they don't need to! as has been mentioned already, they have HUGE salaries and therefore can own a mansion & driver so they don't need to mingle with the locals PLUS, in this era of globalization, you can travel long distances easily and quickly, you can communicate with family via internet over long distances easily and quickly, you don't have to leave your home to get all you can possibly want or need. Montreal fans will likely need to be the first in North America to embrace this trend because they will be the first to understand what is happening everywhere.

BG wants the better draft pick!

Bob McCown - he's the afternoon sports talk host in Toronto. he's considered their 'star' host

sorry, BTH - but don't blame the Americans for this one ... it's insanely prevalent in Toronto.

finally, a topic for me! (Linguistics major at McGill back in the day) basically, if you first learned of the Montreal Canadiens by reading about them (or from someone else who read the words first, ie TSN) - then you have a high likelyhood of falling to mispronouncing the city and team name. those who grew up in Montreal (English Montreal, it's different for Francophones) know that you pronounce Montreal as Mun-tree-all, and Canadiens as if it were spelled Canadians ('e' instead of 'a' doesn't change the pronunciation - it's simply the French spelling of Canadians).