Peter Puck

A great memory. I have seen about 10 Habs games live and this was one of them!

I'm so tired of Gallagher.

To me that was goalie interference and the goal should not have counted. The Oiler just skates through the crease and kicks Montembeau's stick across Sam's body from his left to his right. Why is that not interference?

What a brutal period by us.

I'm going from memory but I believe the rule evolved as follows. In 1999 they instituted that a team losing in overtime would get 1 point but if there was no scoring in overtime the game ended tied and each team got 1 point. In 2004 they eliminated ties (by introducing the shoot out). Thus between 1999 and 2004 there was an incentive for overtime games to not end tied. This meant both teams might pull the goalie in the final minute of overtime to help ensure someone got the extra point. To prevent this from happening the rule denying the loser point to a team losing with the net empty was introduced in 1999. Thus there were no games with 2 pulled goalies. The rule no longer serves any purpose and might lead to some unfair situation in some weird circumstances at the end of the season. The rule should probably be rescinded.

Actually he was cut before the fight started (took a high stick halfway through the 3rd).

Jake Allen ($3,850,000)and Nicolas Beaudin($775,000) for Ilya Samsonov ($3,550,000) and Matthew Knies(925,000). Not sure if the leafs can fit Beaudin under their cap. Samsonov is on a one year deal. Knies is on the first year of his entry level contract. Maybe Toronto is on Jake's 7 team no trade list?

Well that's true about all positions. It's very easy to acquire players who are neither consistent nor dependable.

If goalies are not that hard to find, why are there about 5 teams desperately looking for one?

Well read dlbair.

and today's date is December 13.

About 3 give-aways in our own end leads to a goal.

I think its clear that pulling the puck back and forth a short distance while deking is allowed. But on this play Power skated in and then drifted back before coming in on Primeau.

Should Power's shootout goal have counted. He skates back toward his own goal slightly just before shooting. The rule book says: The puck must be kept in motion towards the opponent’s goal line Maybe a move like his is typically allowed?

That same team has actually won several cups in years where you would claim they were not legitimate contenders. You may be correct but for me I don't mind if we win the cup without being a legitimate contender.

How many times can we give the puck away in our own end?

Jumping offside is starting to be a habit for Caufield.

Clearly the Oilers are looking for a new goalie. I think they would want Jake Allen since he is reasonably proven. There aren't many other choices around the league that are cheap enough and established enough for them to go after. They have no cap space and so a trade will have to equalize salaries. What would you be willing to take in exchange for Allen? I think I would want a first round pick in the deal. Something like Foegele, Janmark (expiring contracts) and their first in either this year or next (they can choose at the draft) for Allen, Pezzetta and Heineman. This is not great for Edmonton but they need a goalie badly and they will need to shed some cap to get one. Or maybe Foegele and one of Edmonton's first round picks for Allen and Pezzetta and they wave Skinner to make cap space. I think Hughes would be reluctant to trade Allen so soon after his new contract began but I suspect Allen would be okay going to become the starter in Edmonton.

Why is Gallagher on the PP?

We can't even touch the puck.

how was there no tripping penalty for taking Galagher down?

Looks like there was a rush to judgement here. The OHL suspended 4 players for actions during that game (only 3 suspensions for the brawl after the OT goal) but Florian Xhekaj was not punished (other than his game misconduct).

1) 36-39-3-4 = 79 pts 2) 8th in the Atlantic 3) 26th in the league 4) 4 players score 20 goals 5) 82 points for Suzuki (was going to put 80 points but lets see him as a point/game player)

To me, it was clear that last year there was little reason to work on our power play. It was bad because the system was bad but it helped the tank a lot. St. Louis wanted to work on fundamentals which take time to learn and are more important than the PP. He wanted to maximize improving 5 on 5 play which the players will need to master before we can be competitive. When we are competitive we can spend time working on running the PP. Until then a weak PP will continue to help the tank while at the same time allowing the young players to develop. I'm not convinced that working on the PP will be a priority this year either.

The 18th Annual HabsWorld Regular Season prediction contest. Hall of Fame: 2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game. 2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts. 2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow! 2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points. Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10. 2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate. Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points. 2011-2012 sakiqc Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points. Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals. 2012-2013 illWill won by predicting the Habs would finish with a record of 27-16-5 for 59 points. The Habs finished 29-14-5 for 63 points. Honourable mention to PMAC and to former champion Chips who both predicted the Habs to finish with 58 points. 2013-2014 Meller93 exactly predicted the Habs final record 46-28-5-3. Honourable mention to thehabbit who correctly predicted the Habs final point total and just missed getting their record exactly right. 2013-2014 nihliz predicted 50-23-5-4 for 109 points. In fact the Habs finished the season 50-22-5-5 for 110 points. Honourable mentions went to nhfarberwho predicted 49-23-4-6 for 108 points and to sakiqc who predicted 51-26-1-4 for 107 points 2015-2016 Chris predicted 40-30-8-4 for 92 points. The injury ridden Habs finished the season 38-38-3-3 for 82 points. 2016-2017 The Habs finished the regular season 47-26-7-2 for 103 points. Using tie breakers: thehabbit had the winning prediction when he predicted 47-25-5-5 = 104 pts and Honourable mentions to kaos and Bluecross. kaos predicted 46-26-6-4 = 102 pts BlueKross predicted 46-24-6-4 =102 pts. 2017-2018 The Habs finished the regular season 29-40-7-6 for 71 points. All the predictions were bad but the least bad was by Dalhabs who won by predicting 42-30-6-4 = 94 pts. 2018-2019 The Habs finished the regular season 44-30-8 for 96 points and 246 goals. The prediction contest came down to the last game of the season, indeed down to the number of goals scored in that game. The winner was BCHabnut predicted 42-27-6-7 (97 points) and crucially 248 goals. Honourable mentions go to: Dalhabs 42-30-6-4 (94 points) and illWill 42-29-7-4 (95 points) 243 goals. 2019-2020 The Habs finished the pandemic season 31-31-9 for 71 points in 71 games. The winner was illWill predicted 39-36-2-5 (85 points). Honourable mention to: tomh009 who predicted 0-0-0-82. Unfortunately for posterity tomh009 also predicted 40-32-10 2021 Season The Habs finished the season 24-21-8-3 for 59 points in the North Division in 56 games. Habsfan84 won by predicting 27-22-3-4 for 61 points. Like every entry his prediction overestimated the Habs final points. Habsfan84 also correctly predicted the Habs would get to the 2nd round but thought they would lose there instead of making the Stanley Cup final. 2022 Season The Montreal Canadiens compiled a regular season record 22-49-7-4 for 55 points. Almost duplicating the points from their cup final year of 2021 but finishing 32nd in the league. DalHabs predicted 31-39-7-5 for a total of 74 points. For the second year in a row all contestants over estimated the Habs performance. --------------------------------------------- 2023 Season Montreal finish the 2022-2023 Regular Season with 68 points leading to a 4 way tie in Habsworld predictions: DalHabs 27-42-6-7 = 67 points 8th, 29th, 31 goals by Caufield DutchHabsFan 25-40-10-7 = 67 points 6th, 27th, 25 goals hab29RETIRED 28-43-8-3 = 67 points 8th, 2th, 39 goals alfredoh2009 29-44-5-4 = 67 points 7th, 29th, 29 goals The tiebreaker was predicting the number of goals scored by Cole Caufield. Caufield scored 26 regular season goals plus 2 shoot out goals for a total of 28 goals. alfredoh2009 won the tiebreaker with his prediction of 29 goals. DalHabs and illWill are the two repeat winners!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2023-2024 edition Predict the Habs regular season performance during the upcoming 2023-2024 NHL season. Rules for this season. Predict a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish d) First tiebreaker: How many 20 goal scorers will the Habs have this season. e) Second tiebreaker: How many points will Suzuki finish the season with. The winner will be based upon the most accurate prediction of the Habs final points. In the event of a tie bonus points will be awarded for getting the number of wins, number of losses, number of OTL's or number of SOL's correct or nearly correct. The tie breakers will be combined in some crazy way to break ties if required. The decision of Peter Puck is final. Contest is void where prohibited. Don't forget to separate overtime losses and shootout losses. Entries due before puck drop on Wednesday October 11 at 7:07pm EST. Good luck.