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30 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

A long summer without news so far and I still think another move is coming. 
 

Until then I’m getting by reading random crap on twitter. Someone posted this picture and it makes me mad every time I see it. 
 

Worst period in Habs history and I hated both of these men. 
 

 

 

 

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Really? Hated them both??  They both played with great passion. Sure they weren't perfect but I would take either one on my team in a heartbeat.

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59 minutes ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

 

Really? Hated them both??  They both played with great passion. Sure they weren't perfect but I would take either one on my team in a heartbeat.


I meant at that moment I hated them both. Hated them for what happened that day and the subsequent trade that goes down as one of the worst trades in NHL history. 
 

Love Patrick Roy now but it took some time 

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41 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:


I meant at that moment I hated them both. Hated them for what happened that day and the subsequent trade that goes down as one of the worst trades in NHL history. 
 

Love Patrick Roy now but it took some time 

 

Ok, fair enough. That was a dark day and period in Habs history for sure. 

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2 hours ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

 

Really? Hated them both??  They both played with great passion. Sure they weren't perfect but I would take either one on my team in a heartbeat.

I still hate and always will hate Tremblay. The guy is, was a d d always will be a dick. 

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2 hours ago, hab29RETIRED said:

I still hate and always will hate Tremblay. The guy is, was a d d always will be a dick. 

I always liked Mario Tremblay the player,  he may have been a dick on the ice but he was our dick. 

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2 hours ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

I always liked Mario Tremblay the player,  he may have been a dick on the ice but he was our dick. 

For me, whatever he did as a player was erased during his tenure as a coach. Roy wasn't the only one moved becuase of Tremblay. Turgeon was moved becuase of Tremblay as well. We went from having Turgeon, Damphouse and Koivu to not having any centre depth until now.

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On 7/17/2024 at 12:28 PM, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Okay I don’t know what hockey magazine this picture is from or what year it’s from but I’m guessing 2019. 
 

Top prospects rankings and future line combinations/positional depth chart. 
 

Remarkable stuff 

 

 

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For fun, here are my top 25 from that year:

 

1) Caufield

2) Suzuki

3) Poehling

4) Romanov

5) Primeau

6) Brook

7) Fleury

8- Ylonen

9) Juulsen

10) Evans

11) Harris

12) Struble

13) Norlinder

14) Olofsson

15) Ikonen

16) Teasdale

17) Leskinen

18) Fairbrother

19) Hillis

20) McShane

21) Fonstad

22) LeGuerrier

23) Stapley

24) McNiven

25) Vejdemo

 

(Harvey-Pinard was at 31 having just been drafted in his third year of eligibility.)

 

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/04/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-1-5/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/04/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-6-10/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/03/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-11-15/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/01/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-16-20/

https://www.habsworld.net/2019/12/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-21-25/

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1 hour ago, dlbalr said:

 

For fun, here are my top 25 from that year:

 

1) Caufield

2) Suzuki

3) Poehling

4) Romanov

5) Primeau

6) Brook

7) Fleury

8- Ylonen

9) Juulsen

10) Evans

11) Harris

12) Struble

13) Norlinder

14) Olofsson

15) Ikonen

16) Teasdale

17) Leskinen

18) Fairbrother

19) Hillis

20) McShane

21) Fonstad

22) LeGuerrier

23) Stapley

24) McNiven

25) Vejdemo

 

(Harvey-Pinard was at 31 having just been drafted in his third year of eligibility.)

 

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/04/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-1-5/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/04/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-6-10/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/03/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-11-15/

https://www.habsworld.net/2020/01/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-16-20/

https://www.habsworld.net/2019/12/2019-20-habsworld-prospect-rankings-21-25/


I remember a time (pre Suzuki, Caufield) when Romanov was our top prospect. I can’t believe how pumped I was for the guy!

 

Today I get to be pumped by Slafkovsky and Demidov and both those guys have star potential, Romanov not so much 

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12 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:


I remember a time (pre Suzuki, Caufield) when Romanov was our top prospect. I can’t believe how pumped I was for the guy!

 

Today I get to be pumped by Slafkovsky and Demidov and both those guys have star potential, Romanov not so much 


wasn't Romanov playing in the top pair for NYI? I remember seeing him there on some pretty big games.

that qualifies him as a top-4 NHL-D, not bad at all.

I liked him a lot and I still hope Xhekaj develops at least as well as Romanov 

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8 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:


wasn't Romanov playing in the top pair for NYI? I remember seeing him there on some pretty big games.

that qualifies him as a top-4 NHL-D, not bad at all.

I liked him a lot and I still hope Xhekaj develops at least as well as Romanov 

 

"Top 4" is not "star potential, which was @Prime Minister Koivu's point.

 

Romanov was the NYIs #3 defenceman ... average of 0:03 in PP-TOI, 4th in PK-TOI and averaged 0:12 O/T-TOI.

 

But I too would be thrilled if undrafted Xhekaj can match selected 38th overall Romanov ... but not expecting it.

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2 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said:


wasn't Romanov playing in the top pair for NYI? I remember seeing him there on some pretty big games.

that qualifies him as a top-4 NHL-D, not bad at all.

I liked him a lot and I still hope Xhekaj develops at least as well as Romanov 

 

1 hour ago, GHT120 said:

 

"Top 4" is not "star potential, which was @Prime Minister Koivu's point.

 

Romanov was the NYIs #3 defenceman ... average of 0:03 in PP-TOI, 4th in PK-TOI and averaged 0:12 O/T-TOI.

 

But I too would be thrilled if undrafted Xhekaj can match selected 38th overall Romanov ... but not expecting it.


Yes Romanov is a good Dman but he is miles from Hedman level. 
 

Slafkofsky and Demidov have elite level potential but Romanov never did. 

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Weber was awesome.

What if, Preds just took all the picks and used the $$ elsewhere instead?

Would they have been better off perhaps?

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51 minutes ago, DON said:

Weber was awesome.

What if, Preds just took all the picks and used the $$ elsewhere instead?

Would they have been better off perhaps?


Four first rounders certainly has the potential to have a huge positive impact. 
 

Not only that, Bergevin would have been stuck with a player that he hated in Subban or he would have traded him for who knows what. 

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10 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

On this day in 2012, the Flyers signed Shea Weber to a 14-year, $110 million offer sheet. The Predators matched it five days later. 
 

Crazy deal

 

 

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God love Weber, but that was one of the worst contracts in all of hockey. What happened to him in terms of permanent injury is terrible on a human level, but was a stroke of good fortune from a purely cap management perspective. We got lucky.

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1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

He offered a Norris winner $3 million per? Surely even MB wasn't that idiotic


I don’t remember the offer but it was that ridiculously low. It made Subban demand the 9 million a season. Subban was initially asking for 7 million per season and Bergevin responded with a low ball offer. 
 

Anyone remember the details?

 

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MB bridged Subban, even though reports were that PK wanted a long-term deal for around $6. 

 

So, fine. The team challenges the player to prove he's worth it. And all PK does, being a frigging stud - as anyone could recognize except our dinosaur management - is go out and win the Norris Trophy. 

 

Obviously very dumb cap management by MB. But what I found really annoying were the reports that MB then had the unmitigated gall to be angry at Subban for ruthlessly squeezing his nuts during the post-Norris negotiations. 🙄 As if PK owed him and his foxhole pal Therrien a single damned thing for their abuse and disrespect.

 

 

 

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42 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

 

what happened? what did I miss?

Posted an article critical of your fave GM and coach.

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