Peter Puck

While it is true that the CBC loses money, Hockey Night in Canada is very profitable and a not insignificant amount of this profit can be traced directly to Don Cherry. Many people only watch the first intermission - they don't even bother to watch most games. This is the reason Cherry is still on the air and why he is paid a large salary. If you want the CBC to be run like a corporation, you can't really complain that they put Cherry on the air. Similarly, if you feel the CBC is a "money pit", you can't complain about Cherry; he is reducing the overall cost of the CBC.

I admit I scoffed when Fozzy/shortcat1 made this prediction in September. I apologize for not having enough faith. :bow:

I just heard Quinn on TSN say that the puck missed Sundin's eye and the injury is not serious. He says Sundin will only have to wait for swelling to go down so that he can see normally.

Wow my tv feed must be slow. There are 12 minutes left according to it.

Did you see any games at the Gardens? I lived in Boston for 5 years and saw the Canadiens eliminate the Bruins in the first round in 86. In the final game of the series the Canadiens entered the 3rd down 2-0. We scored 3 goals including the 3rd with about 5 minutes to go in the game. The fans went wild. The booed for the last 5 minutes of the game. I never saw anything like it. Needless to say the Bruins were unable to mount any attack during those 5 minutes.

Gord Kluzak claims it was an "attempted penalty" by Fitzgerald not a "penalty" Hahaha

Some Bruins announcers are whining about the refs caaling 2 penalties against the Bruins at the end of the game.

How sweet it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As predicted, the leafs have been hit with an injury to a key player. Sundin hit in the eye by a puck leaves game and probably won't return.

Toronto 1 - Ottawa 0

Was Zednik oyt there? I haven't seen him since the first period.

I don't see this happening. To bring Hainsey back up to Montreal this season he will have to clear waivers again on his way up. However, any team claiming him will only have to pay him $375,000 for the year. We will have to pay the other $375,000. If he has shown any promise in Hamilton I don't think he'll clear waivers under these conditions.

The Canadiens remain a smaller than average team, but have got bigger with the six-foot-two Kovalev and six-foot-three Bonk, not to mention the hulking enforcer Ivanans, who weighs in at 263 pounds and reportedly has the lowest body fat count on the team. I said this before but I would like to see the Habs try putting Ivanans in front of the opponent's net on powerplays. I don't see anybody being able to move him.

I had the same problem - my wife saw how much time I was investing at Habsworld and so she surprised me with 4 tickets to the March 23rd game . Then she decided we should go to the March 25th game too. She discovered that there were a bunch of single seats left and bought 4 in the same section. Actually she got 4 good but separate seats. But this was 2 weeks ago. Maybe all the single seats are gone too? Good luck.

TSN has released their power ranking (done by Scott Cullen). He has us ranked 12 overall and the Leafs ranked 16. His order seems okay to me except that he has the Bruins ranked 2nd. I believe they should be ranked somewhere around us - nothing above 8th.

This is suspicious. I really can't remember the last day during which shortcat1 posted less than 13 messages. I believe we can detect the hand of puck7x already. Congratulations, shortcat1 on achieving the Hall of Fame. I can tell you registered 3 weeks before me. I may never be able to make up the 3 week head start. :bow:

I thought I heard somewhere that we are responsible for half the salary of any player of ours who is claimed on waivers by another team. Okay I tracked this down. Here is how it works >According to Lamoriello, players who have one-way contracts have to >clear waivers on the way back up to the NHL. >Players on two-way contracts do not. >And if a player is claimed on the way back up, the team that claims >him will only be responsible for half of his contract; the team that put >him on waivers would be responsible for the other half of his contract. This is excerpted from the bottom of this article Is Hainsey on a one way contract? I think so. If so and if no team claims him now I think he will spend the entire year in Hamilton. We would be risking losing him on the waiver wire and still paying half his contract if we tried to bring him up later in the year as an injury replacement or if Streit doesn't pan out. This is a problem if we have 2 injured Dmen some time during the year.

Okay Hossa (and Ward) will make the Rangers. Here is an article giving the remaining 24 players in the Rangers camp. It includes Hossa and Ward but not Balej and since it has 8 defencemen the final cut will have to be a Dman.

The later site lists a 26 man roster so I don't think it settles the question of whether Hossa has been cut. [edited for spelling] [Edited on 2005/10/4 by Peter Puck]

I thought I heard somewhere that we are responsible for half the salary of any player of ours who is claimed on waivers by another team.

I remember during the first preseason game, against Atlanta, there were 45 members browsing. So 17 not really that high. I think there is less talk though because we are all waiting for the real thing.

Marcel Hossa Still 1 more to go. WHO IS HE ?? I still think it will be Latendresse. Everyone seems to see trading Hossa as making room for Latendresse. But I still think another year in junior will benefit him more. I see trading Hossa as making room for Perehogen.

I have to agree with this. Its unfortunate but you do need a goon. One thing that intrigues me about Ivanans is the idea of parking him in front of the opposition's net during power plays. I don't see how you can move this guy even under the old rules. Ottawa had quite a bit of success doing this with Zedano Chara.

According to TSN "Boynton, 26, is two years away from possible unrestricted free agency. "

Just noticed that the Leaf's took 40 minutes in penalties in 1st 2 periods including 10 minor penalties.