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Peter Puck

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  1. I would much rather trade a goalie Huet or a prospect (not Price!, not Theodore) than Chipchura.

    We could trade Danis but I think it might be better to wait a few weeks and hope Huet plays well. I believe he has value, we can get by with Danis as a backup and there are teams looking for a goaltender. I wonder how much we could get for Huet if he does play well after his injury.

  2. Originally posted by smon

    He was taken by Anahiem because they were supposed to take him in the Fedorov trade. Columbus was handicapped financially when he refused to go to Anahiem and invoked a no-trade clause.  

    Yeah, Bonk had more offensive upside. But with "new" rules, he's got no goals in 20 games..Marchant's stats arent' too bad, +3 on a bad team, 3 goals and 12 pts.

    He was taken by Anaheim because they wanted him. They tried to get him in the trade but he vetoed that as you say. Columbus put him on waivers and Anaheim got what they wanted.

  3. Originally posted by gohabsgo252006

    wanna real a send a message to Ribeiro or Dagenais or both.....Bench them now...I think that'll send it to them loud and clear

    If we bench one or both of these guys, who do we play against LA? We already have Koivu, Kovalev and Bonk out with injuries.

    Plus Ribero and Dagenais both played their best game on the season yesterday. What message would benching them tomorrow send? :?-

  4. I am expecting her to post a message after we beat LA tomorrow night saying how sorry she is that the Habs lost to the leafs in overtime. ;)

    When I first saw her thread I thought it was someone suggesting that we "really" won last Saturday against the Leafs because of the bogus disallowed goal.

  5. Originally posted by Howie_Morenz
    Originally posted by bebehabs

    ok... i just wanna know WHY this BOSTON thread is in the HABS section???

    it should be in the NHL section~~~~

    A good question. My answer would be OOOPPPSSS....

    Yep. My bad. :?- But this does (temporarily) keep "Habs talk" as the forum I most often post in.

  6. The more I think about this the more I see Boston sinking. This trade doesn't even help Boston's cap situation all that much. Here are the cap numbers:

    Sturm: 2 million/yr

    Stuart: 1.9 million/yr

    Primeau: 1.1 million/yr

    ------------------------

    Total: 5 million/yr

    Thorton: 6.66 million/yr

    [Edited on 2005/12/1 by Peter Puck]

  7. Originally posted by Bulis_the_Habbie
    Originally posted by Peter Puck

    The Bruins have traded Thorton to San Jose for Marco Sturm, Brad Stuart and Wayne Primeau!!!

    To me this smacks of panic in Boston. I think SJ won this trade.

    Woah! Unexpected! I thought you were joking or something. HUGE trade.

    I think Boston wins. They get a strong defenceman, a decent checker and a good forward. Is Sturm a center? If not their first line has deteriorated. If not then it's all good. It definitely hurts San Jose though. They traded their team for Joe Thornton.

    Yes Sturm is a center. He is okay, never really lived up to his promise. Stuart is a pretty good D-man abd Primeau is a career grinder (a pretty good banger). But ... there is no way this package is worth Thornton, one of the top centers in the league. I can't believe they couldn't get more. I don't believe Boston offered Thornton to many teams.

  8. Originally posted by Rooster

    I'm not sure, but I don't think it was a 30 game guaranteed clause......more of a payment the Habs had to make if he didn't play 30 games (cause the CBA didn't allow the Habs to offer him a one way contract which is what he wanted to come to NA). Anyways, this is kinda semantics.....even if he was guaranteed 30 games played, what would happen if the Habs disregarded that? No court would grant an injunction forcing the Habs to play Streit, he would be awarded damages in the form of money. Same difference.

    Nothing really stops the Habs from not playing him. I think they want to play him, they haven't given up on him.

    We thrashed this question out quite a while ago. I believe the answer was that if the Habs don't dress Streit for 30 games we have to pay the Swiss Elite League a (relatively small) financial penalty. I don't think this is a serious consideration for Julien and Gainey when they decide whether to play Streit.

    Perhaps Hainsey would have been better than Streit but the Habs brain trust definitely didn't think so. Even if Hainsey is/will be better, Streit is definitely the next on our defensive depth chart.

  9. This doesn't make any sense. We have a (short term) severe shortage of defencemen and many of you suggest we solve this by trading away our defencemen. What we need to do is pick up more defencemen. I truely doubt we can improve on defence by exchanging the few we have for others.

    We could trade a forward, or a goalie or a prospect (not a defencemen since we haven't got any) but we still need to find an available D-man. I don't know of any particularly good choices available right now. Perhaps Gainey will find us someone but it won't be for Streit.

    Hainsey may pan out but I wouldn't count on it. I think he is a career AHLer.

  10. Originally posted by Fanpuck33

    I've noticed the last two days that my activity level on the forum has been higher than the last few weeks. Why, you might ask?

    It's because I have so much work to do. I've found the busier I am, the more time I fool around on HW.

    Interesting.

    You mean you have work to do outside of HW?

    ;)

  11. People, give your heads a shake. While things have not been going particularly well for the past couple of weeks there is no need to start throwing blame around. Gainey has done a fantastic job.

    Here is part of a post I made during the preseason in a thread about Gainey's performance.

    Originally posted by Peter Puck

    Bob Gainey became GM on June 3, 2003. Here is the Habs roster in their final game before Gainey became GM (a 5-4 win over the Rangers).

    Habs Roster Saturday April 5, 2003

    =====================

    Audette

    Bouillon *

    Brisebois

    Bulis *

    Dackell

    Dwyer

    Garon

    Hossa *

    Koivu *

    Komisarek *

    McKay

    Perreault

    Quintal

    Ribeiro *

    Rivet *

    Sundstrom *

    Theodore *

    Traverse

    Ward

    Zednik *

    * = still with the team at the beginning of this season.

    Gainey has been our GM for 17 months including 10 months during which he couldn't make any changes to the nhl roster. Looking back to the state of the team in the pre-Gainey era makes it crystal clear what a good job he has done and is doing.

    There are of course some problems and he has made some mistakes but we can't expect perfection.

  12. All this discussion of the leafs and the refs reminds me of something I saw in the November 11th game with the leafs at Buffalo.

    In the third period the leafs took a delayed penalty and one of the sabres (I forget which) walked in alone on Belfour. He took a wrist shot and beat Belfour. On the play Belfour got a piece of the puck with his stick but the puck just deflected a little bit off its course and went into the leaf net. The sabres were celebrating when the ref waived off the goal.

    Why? Because there was a delayed penalty and when Belfour touched the puck with his stick the ref ruled the play was over.

    I loved the expression on Lindsay Ruff's face as the ref was explaining his decision.

    [Edited on 2005/11/29 by Peter Puck]

  13. Originally posted by matsnaslundsuperfan

    Whose on the trading block tonight.:hlogo:

    I think we all know who has to go after the Buffalo debacle. I say we dump Ganesh while he still has some trade value.

    Originally posted by ch for life

    All jokes aside the Gazette is reporting this morning that Danis will get the start with Theo playing the leafs and sens...

    I won't be watching the game till the third cause of work.. but I have sent out several prayers to all the religious denominations I could think of for a strong first period and a dumb penalty-free game...

    I can't promise any thing but the smart money says that Ganesh has our back on this one..(like all deities..hes a habs fan).

    I saw a rumour on Bob McKenzie's blog that the Hurricanes are going to put Nergal, a minor Babylonian diety who has a huge upside, on waivers this weekend. BG has to do something before its too late. We got Begin off waivers we can get Nergal too.

  14. Originally posted by mathieug

    4GP, 0W-4L, 3.79 GAA, 109 shots against - 94 saves, 0.862 Sv%

    Other bulldogs goalies:

    1 Yann Danis 3 180 4 0 1.34 3 0 0 95 91 0.958

    2 Jeff Deslauriers 4 238 10 0 2.52 1 3 0 122 112 0.918

    3 Ty Conklin 3 152 8 0 3.17 1 2 0 86 78 0.907

    4 Olivier Michaud 8 448 26 0 3.48 2 4 1 237 211 0.890

    Let's hope he can refind his form. If he keeps on playing like he's now, he could be down in hamilton for one very long conditioning stint.

    I don't think he can stay in Hamilton for more than 2 weeks. He didn't have to clear waivers when he went down because he is on a conditioning stint. I think we have to take him on the nhl roster or else expose him to waivers if we want to keep him in Hamilton.

  15. Originally posted by TheBigRedC
    Originally posted by Peter Puck
    Originally posted by TheBigRedC

    Well was it not against Buffalo, the Habs were down 2-0 and came back in the 3rd to win?

    Just checked (took me a while) and the answer is no.

    Nov 4. We scored 1st and trailed 2-1 after 2 periods.

    Nov. 5 We led 2-1 after 2 periods and scored to make it 3-1.

    Well I was close. Thanks for checking...:/)

    You are welcome.

    Looks like we are starting to apply some pressure.:ghg:

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