Capt.Crunch
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Lololol.
Sorry, but I don't see Dags as the enforcer type!
Julien: Dags, we just found a new role for you
Dags: Cool! Where will I play!
Julien: You will play on our 4th line. If any goon bothers your friend Ribeiro, your job will be to knock his lights out.
Dags: Will "shooting a puck in the goon's face" count as a suitable enforcer response?
Julien: It would if we believed you could actually get the puck out of the corner. For now, hard checking and bareknuckle fightning will have to suffice.
Dags:...
Julien: We used to have "The Lavian Locomotive", but since he's hurt, I name you "The Montreal Bicycle"
Dags: *sulks*
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I don't think we should worry overmuch with theo.
There are a number of reasons for him to "look" weak:
1) There is a lot more screening and interference. Its just a fact. I ask myself if we should install a small table in the goalie's circle and serve refreshments... just to be polite
2) I don't know why but a lot of goalies seems beaten on their stick side (between the body and the arm). Maybe the equipement changed something there.
3) Another observation that baffles me: A lot of goalies seems to allow easy goals from balloon shots taken in the upward circle (from 30-40 feet or so) in the opposite top corner (remember boston. There were similar goals all over the league). These goalies seems to be in full position when beaten and look weak as a result. Would the confirguration of the offensive zone change the angles that much? (I really can't figure out why it should be so)...
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Is it just me or every habs rookie should have a clause stating that they should, on their 1st year with the pro:
"Aim to match the intensity of Steve Begin".
With Dags playing on the 2nd tonight (not confirmed but highly plausible IMO), we might find our amazing 4th trio back: Begin-Plekanec-Higgins.
Actually, I find them more to be "Line 2b" than "line 4".
I just love what the two youngsters bring to the game. I have rarely seen a habs line put more pressure on the puck! I just love the short passes, the work along the boards, the puck possession...
I dont know if they were as intense in Hamilton (by all account they seemed to be), but I cannot find a more appropriate model than Begin to start their carreer.
Such work ethics, with better hands and better passing skills, is bound to have good results in the long run!
:/)
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But that's the beauty of hockey!
Where you actually have to know a team a lot before knowing the true value of the players involved!
Where gems can be found and players overrated!
Where a combination of different styles can produce an unexpected suprise!
Thats one of the aspects I find so interesting!
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Ribs was +15, same as Dags, for 2003-2004. Ryder was +10 (in the regular season)
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I would not be in favor of trading Dags right now. Remember, you have to sell high and buy low!
His +15 +/- was based on the line's puck possesion skills. Ryder and Ribs better bring their game up before the trends start to appear again.
Goals are the same things with Dags. He is a finisher, not a playmaker. The things than worries me most is that its actually Dags replacement (i.e. Higgins) that did the best in terms of puck possesion on the second line.
Yes we trade Dags, but not untill his two linemates bring back 2003-2004's chemistry. I believe it should happen after about 10 games into the season.
With Ryder and Ribeiro bringing back the puck possesion aspect (Ryder in the corner and Ribs decking and passing), Dags is going to start scoring.
Now you wait 10 more games for him to "do his thing" and start having a bit more credit.
After 20 games or so you trade Dags. Not for another player but for a Draft pick. I believe our young guns can take the slack and that we have to think about replenishing our pipeline.
Of course, one might wonder why we should trade Dags once he starts scoring...
We just have to remember his many weaknesses long enough for his stock to rise a bit.
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I listened to the nhl network's 2001 draft overview this afternoon.
At the end of the report, you see Don Wadell (atlanta's GM) speaking with other teams about making a trade for his 1st round pick (Kovalchuk or Spezza at the time).
He finally decides, after a meeting, to keep his pick. The report ends on him telling to another GM on draft day that he had the best package but that he wasn't going to trade the pick after all.
That other GM was none other than Canadien's own André Savard! With George Gillett riding shotgun!
I guess we'll just have to speculate what was that package! Would we have drafted Kovalchuk or Spezza (#1 and 2)Perhaps Mikko Koivu to keep the brother's tradition (left #6)?
:guru:
FYI: we had two 1st round draft picks that year (#7 and #25 from montreal), they were Komisarek and Perezhogin. We then went on to draft Duncan Milroy 37th, Thomas Plekanec 71st, Martti Jarventie 109th, Eric Himelfarb on 171th, Andrew Archer on 203rd and Viktor Ujcik on 266th.
On a more personal note, Jordon Tootoo was available in the 4th round! I always loved that guy!
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At least it could be the start of a great "not as good as their brother" line...
Hossa L/RW
Fedorov Center
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His play reminds me of the time he played hurt at his wrists. If you remember, before his lenghty operation, he was a at times quite ugly.
I just hope he gets a bit better...
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Do not forget:
"Right winger Jeff O'Neill missed practice Thursday with a right shoulder injury"
Omg, not even the 2nd game played and they are already falling apart.
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They traded Hossa to keep Sunny.
They just did that to keep...
My god.
Can we pass that as the "extra consideration" for getting Kovalev in the Balej trade?
Sunny better show me the damn money this season, Hossa looked great out there.
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Holy shite.
I guess Latendresse just got his spot from montreal.
That hurts though.
Ouch.
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Sorry about that, its actually a sportsnetwork description run by thn.
Same with the habs article.
[Edited on 2005/9/30 by Capt.Crunch]
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Lol.
Don't worry, its just a cut and paste article by The Hockey News on the Leafs.
If you want a pretty discussion on the Habs preview:
http://www.habsworld.net/forum/viewthread....tid=3584&page=1
Wanna see the original THN article?
Look here. Hehe.
I wont take time to comment on the leafs description... Its just too biased.
:eyes:
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Credible looking report from a HFBoard member:
i was at the game and as i am not really a fan of either team, i'll try to give a quick non biased report:boston won 5-2 and scored 4 goals in the 3rd (1 empty netter). toivonen was incredible. he won the game. period. and was first star. montreal outplayed them for about 45 minutes of the game exception maybe the last half of the first period and a few mins in the 3rd. even when boston was scoring goals in the 3rd, montreal was still carrying the play. they were just quick little flurries that ended up in the net.
the best habs were kovalev, koivu and ryder. kovalev was some slick, as always, while koivu was mucking it up, created alot of chances and ryder had alot of good quality shots and was also a force in front of the net. even banged in the first habs goal amongst 3 bruin defenders from the top of the crease. ribeiro scored the other on a nice pass from koivu (i believe) on the PP.
on the flip side the bulis-bonk-hossa line got burned quite a bit. bonk could hold his own, but bulis and hossa got pushed around the whole night. i thought souray played fairly poorly, he was having real trouble handling passes, making passes, and he was getting beat by the speedier bruins both in the corners and in the open ice. was struggling with the new rules. theodore was average, had some trouble with rebounds which lead to a couple of goals, but i don't think he can really be blamed for the loss.
on the bruins side toivonen was the star, but bergeron was their best skater. he scored a beauty on a passing play, and also burned souray and hit the post on another chance. setup alot of plays too. murray was not equally as good as bergeron but was equally involved in the bruins offensive chances. i was also surprised with healy, he was a real sparkplug. the weaker bruins were jurcina, he coughed up alot of pucks tonight, and brad boyes just plainly didn't know what the hell he was doing. he scored a goal, but he made alot of bad plays and took some stupid penalties, he also seemed to struggle with the new rules, as did brian leetch.
for you habs fans it wasn't all bad, they had a shootout too at the end and the habs won that 2-1. shooters were:
MON - kovalev - goal
BOS - murray - goal
MON - ryder - goal
BOS - zhamnov - save
MON - koivu - save
BOS - bergeron - save
hope that gives everyone at least a little help, if you have questions about a certain player i'll try to give you some input
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Bruins win 5-2. Official everywhere.
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Lol... This is just too precious.
I think I had more fun trying to understand what the hell happened than watching some of the games in the last regular season...
lololol
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Just in from the HF boards:
Brabs win.
A hat trick for Latensonov and 2 assists for Kovamurray.
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Great period,
Habs looking flying out there.
2nd and 3rd defensive pairings (bouillon + hainsey, rivet and streit I think) seems a bit weak in the defensive zone. Bruins are always setting up plays in hainsey or streit's side. A bit difficulty with the 1st pass too.
Ribeiro's line is flying. Dagenais looks like the go-to guy. Perez unselfish and really looks great.
Begins line does the job, nice moments.
Plekanecs line really looks good. Plek is having a great period. Zednick is setting himself up as the go-to guy. There is a bit selfishness in his play and it can hurt at times. Tender is always well positioned.
Got to go back at the game
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The Habs didn't make a ton of noise during this summer's free agent frenzy, and they lost some key components in the process.
I wonder what was the key components? These players played at least 1 game in 2003-2004 and will not be back.
*Patrice Brisebois (COL)
*Jason Ward (NYR)
*Karl Dykuis (still no contract... tum de dum...)
*Yanic Perreault (last heard he was fighting for a job with the preds)
*Jim Dowd (dont know where he landed)
*Joe Juneau (retired)
*Andreas Dackell (hmmm... dunno)
*Stephane Quintal (retired)
*Darren Langdon (still dunno)
*Benoit Gratton (fell of the edge of the earth)
*Sylvain Blouin (was on the same boat as Gratton)
The only key player there would be, in my humble opinion, Brisebois. Not very earth shattering or frightening.
Gone are defensemen Patrice Brisebois, Karl Dykhuis and Stephane Quintal, while the only significant addition was blueliner Mathieu Dandenault.
Hmmmm... 2 out of the 3 aforementioned names would not be able to be significant nhlers in IMO.
The club also made somewhat of a surprising move by re-signing sniper Alexei Kovalev
I was suprised we could get him, not that we wanted to.
GM Bob Gainey let go several dependable veterans with the expectation that his guys in their early 20s can come through.
I have a problem with the adjective "dependable". It makes it look as though they were to be more productive than the "early 20s guys". If in doubt look at the first list *ahem*.
With the departures on defense, look for returning vets Sheldon Souray and Craig Rivet to pick up the slack.
Oh shit, now we are in deep trouble...
Rivet, meanwhile, has been a mainstay for some time. He doesn't provide much from an offensive standpoint, but he is aggressive and doesn't shy away from the physical stuff.
Rivet is neither aggressive nor physical. We *wish* Rivet would be aggressive and physical. It is not good to mistake the two, young padawan.
On another train of though, when Rivet fancies himself with a small dose of aggressivity, he finds himself more often than not out of position. So I guess it is the lesser of two evils than Sir.rivet does not get too aggressive.
Theodore is among the league's elite... Perhaps his best asset is the ability to be a workhorse
I disgress, Theodore's best assets are sound positioning, a good technical approach and quick lateral movement. It is also to be noted that the smaller equipment will not affect him as much as other, bulkier goalkeepers.
this could be a developmental season in Montreal, one that has the team in contention until the very end
A developmental season is not knowing which player will be able to fill the two top lines and not having a strong enough farm to help you with the effort. 2000-2004 were developmental seasons.
This season is marked with a lot of great young guns coming up from the farm and knocking on the door.
You are not having a developmental season when the only question on the two top lines is whether you should put a hot rookie who got 33 pts in 43 games with Avangard (and finished with 16 pts his 15 last games) instead of a guy who scored 17 goals in 50 games.
And, as a sideline, your third center is Radek Bonk (who, like it or not, played in the top ottawa lines), your third left wing apparently played a key role in his last year in the Czech Republic (alongside Hedjuk, apparently on the same line as Hemsky), finished with a 45-24-25-49 record, was tied in the playoff lead in goals (16-7-4-11) and was runner-up for the "top rookie" award.
I will not expand on the other prospect as it would only bore you maniacs (you probably know as much, or much more than me hehe).
I agree that we could be in trouble if we depended on Rivet and Souray to "pick up the slack".
However, I believe that Markov, Dandeneault and Bouillon will fare very well in an era where the opposing lines enters your zone at mach1 and where speed, positioning and defensive awareness becomes actually a premium at that position.
Where beef is needed, Komisarek will do very well to help and is believed to be (per MCKeen's evaluation) "... a real task to beat one-on-one due to his mobility and his monster wingspand..."
All in all, good for the playoffs, not quite enough for the cup.
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There was an official picture session for all the canadiens players.
Normally, journalists are not invited to film these sessions, but since its a special day and that everyone is extatic that the season is starting up, they are allowed to assist.
Of course Theo's picture taking is filmed.
The official story is that the photograph (who seems to be with the habs for a long time) asked for Theo to do "something crazy" (in order to relax). Everyone laughed and joked about it but TQS's camera guy called his sport editor and told him that he had caught a sequence with Theo insulting his fans.
The sequence got diffused in a loop on a 5 o'clock popular tribune on daily events. The lead on that tribune made a speech about it (he doesn't know a thing about sports mind you), the professional sport community got involved (saying that it was all blown up out of proportion and that it was just a joke).
Last thing I know it was the main subject of 110% and Ron Fournier talked about it on CKAC with Theodore and the sport editor (Fournier made a side note that montreal proved yet again to be a mouse trap for francophone players).
Yada yada yada.
One precision: On the tape, you actually hear someone "off camera" asking theo to make poses based on situations. There were many background noises but some words are clearly heard:
-"Serious face"
(Theo makes a serious face)
-"For the magasine"
(Theo makes the fingers)
-"For the fans"
(Theo makes the no 1 sign)
I believe theo made the sign to kid with the photographer on the subject of "the magasine" (it might be the habs's official magasine and everything might be an inside joke as far as we know).
However, the clip came out with the presenter asking the viewers to listen closely the the words "for the fans" in relation to the gesture.
Of course, it was made only bigger by the implicit reference to the destruction of the early 90's core by which Carbo and Roy were traded for a bucket of pucks following the mediatised events.
Personnally, ìt depresses me to see such idiotic behavior on the part of the media on a day where we should be making official prospect reviews, talk about the alignments, the prospects and put a little hype on Latendresse (its always fun to dream a bit!)
Stupid assholes.
:nono:
[Edited on 2005/9/14 by Capt.Crunch]
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Thx everyone... lol.
When there were games on radio-canada at least we had other options.
I picked up the ckac trick during the strike. I always enjoy my game more with an oldschool uptempo description that ends with:
ET C'EST LE BUUUUUUT!
You are right with Dany Dubé. He frequently brings new things upfront as far as game comprehension goes.
For PB:
When I listen to CKAC AM radio (on my walkman) with the match playing on an analogic signal with my the offending TV sound off, there is no sound sincro problem.
I am not an expert on these things but it seems that the "digital" diffusion incurs a 1 to 2 seconds delay from the image to the live radio broadcast. When I listen to RDS with Illico all plugged in, I can actually hear the goal announcement on CKAC before the shot leaves the player's stick.
When I "bypass" the illico box, there are no more surprises.
:idea:
[Edited on 2005/9/14 by Capt.Crunch]
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Yes. There is a "bypass" function on your digital terminal.
The gap is created by the digital conversion. If your use the "bypass" function, you will still be able to see RDS, although in analogic (which eliminates the lag). You basically have to shut down the terminal but find a way to get the signal.
I know how you feel. I've been doing this for a while now and I won't revert to hearing rds's stupid staff ever again! (CKAC's game descriptions are much better!).
-Houde: Do you know Crosby used to be a crossworld puzzle champion at 15?
(the image shows crosby entering the canadien's zone on a 1 on 1 with rivet)
Pednault: Yes, this man is very talented. I think he gets it from his mother, Mary, whom I encountered in a golf tournement three months ago in moncton.
(Crosby dekes Rivet like a maniac and is alone with theo)
Pednault: I had the unique chance to taste her apple pie, and trust me, it was quite the "hat trick"... hahaha
Houde: hehehe
Pednault: haha
Houde: he
(Crosby scores a top corner goal)
Pednault: ha
Houde: Oh! And Crosby scores a goal!
Pednault then goes on to state evidence, on how we can see that crosby is "very talented" has "increadible hands" and is a "very speedy yougn guy"...
Just writing about it makes my ears bleed.
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The number look like they hold up on the first list.
Always look at theodore's salary to see if its added right:
If its 5.333, its taken the right way.
If its 4.5, then they still don't understand the whole point.
TSN lists 4.5. They have it wrong. They only put what theo got this season instead of averaging it out. Its 16 mil for 3 years, not 13.5.
Ivanans on the Injured List - who gets the call?
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We put Dagenais in the Youppi uniform and demote him to our checking line...
Perhaps he will be less afraid to hurt himself with the additional padding?