habmanonthepacific
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Finally some good news for the Habs... RDS is reporting that Kovalev has been skating with the team and that his knee appears to be ready for some game action at some point this week.
Let's just hope this helps the team snap out of its current slump.
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it's inexcusable to give the Leafs(2nd best PP in the league) this many opportunities on the power-play, and absolutely unforgivable to take a "too many men on the ice" penalty in OVERTIME!
Their power-play and Bryan McCabe are all the Leafs have going for them this season, and the Habs just gave them chance after chance tonight.
Oh well we still get a point, and in April when it's all said and done that's all that really matters I guess.
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Bulis left in the first period, and never returned, does anyone know what happened to him?
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Originally posted by GoHabs2002
Habs fans must be the most paranoid sports fans in the world??
This person is showing disrespect, that person is showing disrespect...
Whether its predictions for the season, the playoffs, or power rankings or starting goalies, we are so sensitive
You're right, we are paranoid and overly-sensitive, but it's not just us.
I am a dyed in the wool Habs fan(originally from MTL), but I live in Vancouver Canucks territory, and I listen to the sports-talk radio shows around here, and I hear the exact same type of concerns from Vancouver fans.
They are also just as bad about wanting to trade players if they have a couple of off nights(like Bertuzzi currently), or planning a Stanley-cup parade if they string a couple of decisive wins together.
It's the fun of being a true fan.:hlogo:
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I would like to think that teams and coaches around the league are starting to respect the Habs again, but I have to say that I felt kind of insulted when the Senators played their back-up goalie against us this week.
Hasek hadn't played for 3-4 days and we were ahead of them in the standings and in the same division and they still dont think they needed to put Hasek in to beat us? What does that say about the respect we get in the league?
...course they did beat us anyway, but you know what I'm getting at.
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dont mean to be a smart-alek but aren't rankings based on past performance, simply called "standings" and found in every newspaper?sorry, just couldn't resist.
I tell you one thing though... you could probably use the TSN power rankings as an example of how NOT to do the Habsworld system.
With them it's Leafs first, then "who cares" about the 29 other non-Leafs teams in the league.
I think my hatred of the Leafs is becoming rather obvious isn't it?
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More shots is always good, but someone has to be in front of the net to pick up the rebound also.
Now I know nobody likes him, but thats a role Dagenais is capable of playing very well. He played 2:28 minutes the other night and scored a goal because he put himself in front of the goal and picked up a sloppy rebound.
Shots and deflections are good, but rebound shots are even better because then you can catch the other team, especially the goalie, out of position.
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Originally posted by kw11habs
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Let Markov have the reigns on the PP, this guys an all-star. Also, I'm tired of seeing guys like MacGratton run all over our guys. If Ivanans is out for awhile bring up J. Paul or J. Aitken to play on the 4'th line someone who will at least take some of these idiots to the sin-bin for 5 minutes and not have (Souray or Begin) have to do it, the other teams would love to send there goon off for five with anyone of our guys in the line up good trade off for them. I say if G. Laraque is available lets get him. (Sundstrom for Laraque) Let's protect our skilled players as we have lots to protect and who's going to miss Sundstrom sure he's a good two way player but we got 4 or 5 good two way players and all younger then Sundstrom. Give Streit a one way ticket back to Switzerland.
You must be joking! Sundstrom for Laraque?! that's preposterous.
Fighting is down in the league by almost 50% and many NHL teams are benching or sending their goons down to their farm teams, and you think it would be a good idea to trade a reliable role-player like Sunny for a guy who has very limited skills outside of fighting? doesn't sound too wise to me, and I don't think Gainey would ever make the trade.
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While it is under Bettman's rule that the major changes to the NHL were made, i really don't think we should be grateful to him as much as to Bob gainey and the entire management team for having built the team that is now giving us so much hope for the future of our beloved franchise.
Because really, even if Bettman had made the changes, but Gainey hadn't had the foresight to build a team the way he has, one that is focused on speed, skill and positioning, we wouldn't be benefiting from the changes, as we are now.
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and what is up with that kid doing a 5 minute segment between the 2nd and 3rd periods.
Meanwhile the CBC has the satelite hotstove...what gives? Can't they geta respectable french-canadian hockey analyst to speak intelligently about the game/the Habs on RDS between periods?
I guess they are trying to get young fans, but surely getting Youppi! as a mascot has to be enough.
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Originally posted by Peter Puck
I heard both Quinn and Julien complaining about the refs after last night's games.
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Quinn had a rant about the goal that was disallowed. He said that the game turned on that decision which he claimed was clearly wrong. He said that Eshe had put the puck into his own net by moving his whole body into the net when he was getting up and the refs had completely blown the call. [The replay clearly showed Eshe lying not moving a muscle and yet he slowly started sliding into the net with Tucker's stick pushing him along. He was in the net before he got up. I think the refs got this call correct although I was surprised since the puck did go into the net after the whistle and they went to video replay which doesn't take the whistle into account.]
The big difference in my opionion is that Quinn seemed to be saying that the Leaf's 5-2 loss could be attributed to the disallowed goal. Or at least, that that call decided the game. Julien just seemed to be lamenting a bad call and complaining. To me this is an example of Quinn's bad coaching. He is telling the media, the fans and the players that the reason the Leafs lost was the refereeing. I think this hurts the Leafs. It gives the fans the feeling that things are not as bad with the team as they really are. More importantly, it gives the players an excuse for the loss and this decreases their motivation to improve. It also probably pisses off the refs. The only good thing (from the Leafs viewpoint) is that it may make the refs reluctant to make calls against the leafs but I am not sure how much this really affects refs.
The BIG difference between Claude Julien and Pat Quinn is that Julien isn't on TSN after every other game complaining about a hit, or a play or a call that didn't suit him, while Quinn and his trained monkey Tie Domi do just that. Their reasoning for this or the effects of all the complaining they do is none of my concern, i'm just sick and tired of their infantile whining.... and we're only three weeks into the season!
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Do you think Zednik will go back to his first line spot or are we in for a major line shuffle? Could he be reinserted on the second line with Ribeiro and Ryder? Could that work?
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Just a little balance here... Julien, in what is supposed to have been a rare emotional outburst in front of the camera complained about the officiating last night too. He had some legitimate concerns but not overwhelmingly so.
I didn't see Quinn's comments so I can't make a judgement.
Yes sure Julien complained about the officiating of last night's game(with reason), but for Quinn and the Leafs they have already this season complained in the media about the shoot-outs in the Senators game, the legal hit on Lindros, the hard hit on Tucker(the exact type of hit he lays out on a regular basis), the disallowed goal last night, Bob Hartley being a bush-league coach(Iguess winning a Stanley Cup doesnt count for Tie Domi) and god knows what else they've cried about on TSN so far.
So Julien commenting on the Islanders- friendly reffing last night is certainly more justified than the Leafs constant bitching about every little thing that doesn't go their way
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Originally posted by redondo
Maybe if we were to win the Cup this year we could crack TSN's top five. Maaaaybe.........
Seriously though, I'd much rather have our boys fly under the radar for as long as possible. If we're still playing in June and ranked #30, I think I can live with that...Screw TSN!
I couldn't agree more... the entire country knows TSN's bias, i live on the west coast and the Canucks fans out here are always complaining about the network's Leafs-centric perspective of hockey. And I'm sure it's the same in every other canadian market.
I'd be thrilled to see our Habs quietly continue to play good hockey, keep a low-profile and go into the play-offs strong, confident, and somewhat under-estimated. Then proceed to kick some Leafs butt on the way to the cup final against any of the western canadian teams(Vancouver would be nice). While Quinn and his bunch of whining goonies are crying over how its just so darn unfair and the whole world is against them on TSN every night.
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speaking of Komisarek...what a game he had on saturday! He was all over Tucker, it was great to see, and hopefully his grit and enthusiasm will rub off on rivet and others on D.
But i wonder how Komi would do in a tilt against Dough-head Domi?
...course you know if it ever happened Domi and his sugar-daddy Quinn would be on the news that night bitching about it.
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Originally posted by The-Habby2919
Well on a related subject.... Theodore was sporting a shiny new mask tonight. Anybody know why he updated? My guess would be that he is celebrating his tenth year with the habs because of the Xs on the sides of it.
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i think the Roman numerals on the sides of Theo's new mask(LX) represent the number 60...his jersey number. They pointed it out in the RDS broadcast of the Habs/Leafs game yesterday, looks pretty cool too.
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Barely two weeks into the season and the Leafs are whining already, it usually doesnt start until december or so but I just had to laugh when i saw Pat Quinn and Tie Domi on TV a couple of nights ago crying and whining about the Atlanta thrashers disrespecting them and being too rough with their porcelain skulled super-star Eric Lindros. This is exactly the type of game the Leafs themselves have been playing for years, but now because they have the league's most fragile line-up, everybody is supposed to be all gentle and delicate... get real!
Just one more reason to hate the Leafs.:mad:
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I live in BC and get RDS on channel 256 through my digital cable and it costs me 2.49$ per month.
An incredible bargain of you ask me, for all the Canadiens games and all kinds of other shows about the Habs and the NHL in general, its pretty good.
Plus I'm getting a free preview of NHL network for the month of October...still not convinced on that one yet though.
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Originally posted by shortcat1Originally posted by Mark Napier
Come on this is Don Cherry you're talkin' about here. Did you really expect him to be impartial? Everybody knows that he's pretty much a joke and what to expect from him. He's just there for shock value and entertainment, not to be taken seriously.
I fully agree with you, Mark. He's there as eye, ear and brain candy. A big rush but not a whole lot good value to it.
I just sit there and laugh (not in a deprecating way) but just enjoying what he's saying.
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would you guysbe as willing to laugh it off if he made derogatory comments about visible-minority players or jewish players? If you are then you also are racists just like Cherry... bigotry is no laughing matter, even if it is about french-Canadians.
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Don Cherry being an unabashed Leafs fan(he was wearing a tie with the Leafs logos all over it saturday night for chrissake) is the least of his offences as a tax-payer funded CBC "professional" broadcaster. And actually as a loud-mouthed moron I think he represents the average Leafs fan pretty well.
But what really offends me about him are his views on European players and French-Canadian players and visor-wearing players... the list goes on and on.
Give me Kelly Rhudey's well-thought -out hockey analysis over Cherry's ######ed rants any day, even if I don't always agree with Rhudey at least he keeps it about hockey, and not small-minded opinions.
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Will the Kings and Avery visit the Bell centre this season? If so wouldn't it be a wonderful opportunity to show him some good old french-Canadian hospitality...not that i condone vindictive retribution or anything but...
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Why is it acceptable in the hockey world to criticize or mock a certain group of players because of their nationality...we absolutely wouldn't accept it in any other aspect of society! Don Cherry does it routinely on HNIC and now Avery has done it again. Would we tolerate it as easily had he bitched about black or jewish players?Originally posted by Leafs SuckOriginally posted by RoosterHe doesn't seem to have a problem with Quebec born players. His issue seems to be limited to Quebec born players who wear visors. That is fair I guess as we all know that Ontario born visor wearers (as well as non visor wearing Quebec born players) don't make clean, legal big hits on players during preseason. I see his point. A well thought out statement by Avery.
Was his "I think they can eliminate a lot of Europeans who are mediocre and are taking a lot of jobs," statement well thought out too?
He couldn't just say "players with visors", he had to say French born players. Obviously he has a huge issue with them. I figured that was obvious.
What if he said he has a problem with "black players who wear visors"... He'd be deemed a bigot. I see no difference in this.
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excuse my ignorance, but would he then become a UFA at the end of this season then?
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... and Belfour permanently wrecking his back while trying to help Lindros pick himself up from the ice after the 100th concussion.
Shane Doan Suspension?
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I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks it is unacceptable when players and media make derogatory comments about french-Canadian or european players, or as in this case refs, and get away with it.
Hockey is a multi-cultural sport and we live in a multi-cultural country.
Racist comments like Doan's or Avery's or DonCherry's must be punished.