Where are they now? News on past Habs prospects and players

[Prime Minister Koivu]

24 minutes ago, hab29RETIRED said:

For the times I played goal (couldn’t decide if I wanted to be Dryden or Lafleur), I had the same setup, minus an actual goalie stick. I did have a piece of foam attached to a cardboard piece for a blocker. 

I was always jealous of the kids with a blocker. 
 

Street hockey was so much fun but you don’t see it much anymore 

[hab29RETIRED]

7 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

I was always jealous of the kids with a blocker. 
 

Street hockey was so much fun but you don’t see it much anymore 

It’s illegal to play on the streets with. Calgary bylaws. Even if you live on a coul-de-sac

[BCHabnut]

3 hours ago, hab29RETIRED said:

It’s illegal to play on the streets with. Calgary bylaws. Even if you live on a coul-de-sac

That sucks.

[Commandant]

Take over the pickleball courts 

[tomh009]

14 hours ago, hab29RETIRED said:

It’s illegal to play on the streets with. Calgary bylaws. Even if you live on a coul-de-sac

Is it actually enforced?

[hab29RETIRED]

1 hour ago, tomh009 said:

Is it actually enforced?

Yes. If any of the neighbors call it in. Or if you are in an area where bylaw enforcement makes its rounds.

Twenty years ago, i got a $50 ticket for not having a girlie bell on my bike, back when I use to bike into work during the summer months. I got an obnoxious blow  horn after that.

[GHT120]

51 minutes ago, hab29RETIRED said:

Yes. If any of the neighbors call it in. Or if you are in an area where bylaw enforcement makes its rounds.

Twenty years ago, i got a $50 ticket for not having a girlie bell on my bike, back when I use to bike into work during the summer months. I got an obnoxious blow  horn after that.

Sans bell/horn, If you biked on pathways did you at least verbally warn pedestrians as you approached. 

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

Laws against street hockey are a national crime.

[hab29RETIRED]

15 hours ago, GHT120 said:

Sans bell/horn, If you biked on pathways did you at least verbally warn pedestrians as you approached. 

Usually clicked the gear shifters a few times. which generally was loud enough for walkers/runners to look back.

[Prime Minister Koivu]

 

HAHAHAHAHA 🎉

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

On 5/31/2025 at 8:54 AM, Prime Minister Koivu said:

 

HAHAHAHAHA 🎉

 

A magical game and the start of a magical run. I remember waiting all night on pins and needles for the Leafs to wake up. They never did. They were defeated from the first drop of the puck. 

[Commandant]

 

[Prime Minister Koivu]

 

I jumped around like a monkey

 

 

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

13 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

 

I jumped around like a monkey

 

 

 

I was in the building, having waited for hours to get in for standing room.

 

It was really during the second intermission that it began to sink in what was happening. The roar of the crowd started swelling until it was the biggest noise I'd ever heard. I still remember the wag behind me shouting "hey, how 'bout those Expos?" 😄

 

It shows how wildly different the NHL has become that it was even possible for a guy in minimum-wage job to afford tickets to the Stanley Cup winning game. I can't remember what the standing room ticket cost, somewhere between $60-100, maybe? I want to say closer to $60.

 

Never will I forget Roy hoisting the Cup in our direction and roaring out his triumph.

 

Another memory: streaming out of the Forum with 18 000 other ecstatic fans all sharing the same natural high, singing "les Canadiens sont laaaaa." It was only as we marched down Ste Catherine's that we began to collect another, less savoury element looking to make trouble...and then the bottles started flying.

 

I do recall a woman who had, crazily, parked her BMW a block from the Forum and was yelling at people to get off her car. No doubt that was one of the charred, overturned vehicles on the news later that night.

 

 

[Prime Minister Koivu]

42 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

I was in the building, having waited for hours to get in for standing room.

 

It was really during the second intermission that it began to sink in what was happening. The roar of the crowd started swelling until it was the biggest noise I'd ever heard. I still remember the wag behind me shouting "hey, how 'bout those Expos?" 😄

 

It shows how wildly different the NHL has become that it was even possible for a guy in minimum-wage job to afford tickets to the Stanley Cup winning game. I can't remember what the standing room ticket cost, somewhere between $60-100, maybe? I want to say closer to $60.

 

Never will I forget Roy hoisting the Cup in our direction and roaring out his triumph.

 

Another memory: streaming out of the Forum with 18 000 other ecstatic fans all sharing the same natural high, singing "les Canadiens sont laaaaa." It was only as we marched down Ste Catherine's that we began to collect another, less savoury element looking to make trouble...and then the bottles started flying.

 

I do recall a woman who had, crazily, parked her BMW a block from the Forum and was yelling at people to get off her car. No doubt that was one of the charred, overturned vehicles on the news later that night.

 

 

What an experience that must have been. 
 

Incredible stuff

[alfredoh2009]

5 hours ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

I was in the building, having waited for hours to get in for standing room.

 

It was really during the second intermission that it began to sink in what was happening. The roar of the crowd started swelling until it was the biggest noise I'd ever heard. I still remember the wag behind me shouting "hey, how 'bout those Expos?" 😄

 

It shows how wildly different the NHL has become that it was even possible for a guy in minimum-wage job to afford tickets to the Stanley Cup winning game. I can't remember what the standing room ticket cost, somewhere between $60-100, maybe? I want to say closer to $60.

 

Never will I forget Roy hoisting the Cup in our direction and roaring out his triumph.

 

Another memory: streaming out of the Forum with 18 000 other ecstatic fans all sharing the same natural high, singing "les Canadiens sont laaaaa." It was only as we marched down Ste Catherine's that we began to collect another, less savoury element looking to make trouble...and then the bottles started flying.

 

I do recall a woman who had, crazily, parked her BMW a block from the Forum and was yelling at people to get off her car. No doubt that was one of the charred, overturned vehicles on the news later that night.

 

 

as a teenager, I loved saving my money to get this standing tickets. Loved watching Perry Turnbull’s debut, hated watching the Whalers every time… oh, the memories 

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

48 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

as a teenager, I loved saving my money to get this standing tickets. Loved watching Perry Turnbull’s debut, hated watching the Whalers every time… oh, the memories 

 

Hahaha, yeah, I also hated the Whalers. They always seemed to play their best against us. (A bit like Ottawa tends to do). These days, I kind of miss that franchise - a quintessential 1970s/80s NHL team (smallish city, not really 'big league'). And of course that great jersey.

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

5 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

What an experience that must have been. 
 

Incredible stuff

 

A lot of people around me were still operating on the assumption that it was semi-normal for the Habs to win. For my part, I knew this was potentially a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and would have chewed through rope to be there. Although I never imagined that it would take almost 30 years to get back to the Finals, and more than that to win another Cup; nor that tickets to a Cup-winning game would only be accessible to the super-rich or the highly connected.

[alfredoh2009]

1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

A lot of people around me were still operating on the assumption that it was semi-normal for the Habs to win. For my part, I knew this was potentially a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and would have chewed through rope to be there. Although I never imagined that it would take almost 30 years to get back to the Finals, and more than that to win another Cup; nor that tickets to a Cup-winning game would only be accessible to the super-rich or the highly connected.

 

that was my mistake, I came to Canada in '81: 

• on the '86 cup: my girlfriend, who was not a hockey fan, wanted us to do something the day of the parade. I thought "I'll go next time", thinking that it would happen in the next 4 years or so
• on the '93 cup: I used to work the night shift, and though for a minute to call in sick, but said to myself "I need this job and cannot lie, I'll catch the next one"
• Dumb, Dumb on my part. The Habs have been lukewarm at best since then.

 

[tomh009]

NYI has signed Romanov to an eight-year extension, $6.25M AAV.

[Prime Minister Koivu]

Wasn't even qualified!

 

Was Harris overrated here?

[dlbalr]

16 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Wasn't even qualified!

 

Was Harris overrated here?

 

I don't think he was overrated.  He did a decent job on the third pairing and played both sides so with the Habs, Harris was serviceable.  He landed in the doghouse in Columbus early and never got out of it, making him an easy non-tender with 164 career NHL games that would have pushed the award pretty high for a 6/7 D.

[alfredoh2009]

35 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Wasn't even qualified!

 

Was Harris overrated here?

he was given more ice time that I though he deserved. I used to call him “third pair Harris” when Habs fans would project him to be a second-pair D.

He was also overly present on the Habs social media, maybe that made some think he was a valued part of the future.

He will have a decent NHL career, no doubt but not to the level of hype he got in MTL

[hab29RETIRED]

12 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

he was given more ice time that I though he deserved. I used to call him “third pair Harris” when Habs fans would project him to be a second-pair D.

He was also overly present on the Habs social media, maybe that made some think he was a valued part of the future.

He will have a decent NHL career, no doubt but not to the level of hype he got in MTL

He got the ice time he did, because we had no dmen. That’s the only reason Xhejac played as much as he did as a rookie.

[GHT120]

Just now, hab29RETIRED said:

He got the ice time he did, because we had no dmen. That’s the only reason Xhejac played as much as he did as a rookie.

Was also the same with Mete