Peter Puck
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Originally posted by Howie_Morenz
CBC on the other hand comes out of our pockets and generates no wealth. If they had to go on their own, they would be bankrupt within a week without Canada bailout. Since my money goes into this corporation it should be publicly traded so we can have a proxy vote on how the company is run. I would expect each Canadian that pays/paid taxes gets shares in the corporation. Once publically traded we could end the misuse of the company and insist it be profitable.
Not even Leaf Fans and Leaf media gets me as mad as I do about the CBC money pit.
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.
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Originally posted by shortcat1
I'll go out on a limb (just a bit...) and say about 164.
I admit I scoffed when Fozzy/shortcat1 made this prediction in September.
I apologize for not having enough faith.
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Originally posted by Leafs Suck
- The Score is reporting Sundin is out till atleast January, maybe even the year with an eye injury. Yikes! That team is in even more trouble.
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.
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Originally posted by shortcat1
wow, less than two minutes and leafs still winning...
Wow my tv feed must be slow. There are 12 minutes left according to it.
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Originally posted by simonus
i lived in massachusetts for 6 years...
"the refs are all montreal-biased" (even the ones from ontario....)
man, we only got 7 PP's.... sad.
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.
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Originally posted by Peter Puck
Some Bruins announcers are whining about the refs caaling 2 penalties against the Bruins at the end of the game.
Gord Kluzak claims it was an "attempted penalty" by Fitzgerald not a "penalty" Hahaha
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Some Bruins announcers are whining about the refs caaling 2 penalties against the Bruins at the end of the game.
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How sweet it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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Toronto 1 - Ottawa 0
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Was Zednik oyt there? I haven't seen him since the first period.
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Originally posted by stjrandy
Cynically I will suggest that Hainsey is far from finished in Montreal. They were contractually obligated to give Streit 30 games which should give Hainsey enough time to start taking things seriously. Once the 30 games are up then they decide if it's time to call up Hollywood and see if he's developed a work ethic. If Streit plays really well then out goes the Cube instead.
Or maybe I'm just been watching too many spy movies during the lockout.
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.
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Originally posted by les_glorieuxOriginally posted by zumpano21
Objective article from sportsnet with tomorrow's lineup and 1st PP unit.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/article.jsp...004_195658_3336
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.
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Originally posted by ck5523
New to this site, this is my first post. I was wondering if anyone could help me out in finding 6 tickets to March 25 against the leafs. We are driving up from NB and have tickets to the 23 game but wanted to watch both. If anyone can help me out even with a couple tickects that would be great. thanks. willing to pay top dollar, just not 50% more. LOL
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.
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Originally posted by les_glorieux
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Username: shortcat1
Registered 7/15/05 (12.92 messages per day)
Posts 1046 (2.97% of total posts.)
WOW
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:
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Originally posted by Peter PuckOriginally posted by ap79
There's good chances that Hainsey clears waivers, given his big contract.
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.
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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.
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Originally posted by shortcat1
If you go to the following site, http://www.hockeysfuture.com/team.php?team=22 , you'll see Hossa as part of the Ranger's list of prospects.
He's below the top 20 and the 3rd in depth on the left wing. (Balej is rated 10th on their prospects depth list, 2nd on the right wing.)
He's official on their prospects site.
If you go to the following site, http://www.newyorkrangers.com/team/roster.asp , you'll see his name (along with Jason Ward's).
He's on their official roster.
Need we say more?
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]
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Originally posted by ap79
There's good chances that Hainsey clears waivers, given his big contract.
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.
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Originally posted by shortcat1
I checked the on-line stats for this site and 17 Members are browsing HabsWorld Forum. Pretty quiet for that number of people.
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.
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Originally posted by sakiqcOriginally posted by ap79
27 players still in camp, 4 to cut to get to 23.
- At least one of Vandermeer-Ivanans will be cut. That makes 26.
- Streit or Hainsey will be cut, that makes it 25.
Still 2 more to go. Who are they?
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.
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Originally posted by Fanpuck33
New NHL, old NHL, I don't care. You need a guy who can drop the gloves. With as little depth as the Habs have on D, they can't afford to have guys like Souray being the tough guy. It's not a good thing when your 3 most likely tough guys are D-man (Rivet, Souray, and Komi). It's simply not smart to have those guys in the box or getting the crap kicked out of them.
You need a guy who can go up against the Oliwas and the Shelleys of the league. He doesn't have to play every night, but you have to have an enforcer at times. You don't want your teams important players to be the ones standing up for teammates.
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.
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Originally posted by The-Habby2919
Hes 26, is he UFA or RFA? And what happens if the Bruins dont resign him before the season starts?
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According to TSN
"Boynton, 26, is two years away from possible unrestricted free agency. "
The CBC and Don Cherry
in Habs & Hockey Talk
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Hi Howie,
I love your new avitar.
Regarding the CBC, everyone has his own opinion. Note that you cannot expect to get your tax money worth on everything the government spends money on. I agree that you are forced to pay taxes some of which go to the CBC. Remember though that some people have no cars and they pay taxes for highway construction, some people don't want a military and they pay taxes which support our armed forces, the government subsidizes many businesses whose products I don't buy, the govenment is giving children immunization shots and I have no kids, etc.
I really wanted to just comment on your HNIC and Don Cherry remarks. The fact remains that HNIC is very profitable - HNIC like all live sports is much cheaper to produce then most other programs. HNIC takes in a great deal of money in advertising revenue, especially during the playoff season. Without hockey last year the CBC took in considerably less money last year. I also think it is indisputable that Coach's Corner is a big draw and one of the reasons HNIC attracts so many advertisers. Perhaps this buffoon should not be on the air, but if this is so, it is not for financial reasons.
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[Edited on 2005/10/10 by Peter Puck]