Da Bruns are hurting big time, take advantage. Kodi took a beating last night, my friend had to update his addons. Watched Ready Player One, it was much better than I expected, lots of the old Spielberg magic on display. What happened to Radar, what happened to our D in general, what happened to our AHL goalies, is LHN on milk cartons in QUE? GYFHG
Nobody told me Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson would be playing.
Meet our total AHL fourth line, but hey that could be a good thing. I remember both CHapstick and Angie were good in camp. Nicolas Deslauriers Michael Chaput Kenny Agostino Meet our AHL D Corps Brett Kulak David Schlemko Karl Alzner Victor Mete
steve: that post u put up a few threads ago cause ure a transit nerd...
u are spot on highliting how great a place singapore is to live, with their social housing programs, medicare for all, generous social welfare... all could be possible here in canada also, but at much greater difficulty. the reason why I'm bringing this up is b/c high public transit usage begets a good transit system which somehow translates into a prosperous and thriving society exactly like how a good defence somehow creates a good offence.
i couldnt agree more, but i dunno how our thinly spread population can justify mass transit for all, much like how our thinly spread muscle can justify fear in our opponents.
Singapore is a long way from perfect, it is a very authoritarian state. However it wants to be benevolent. They have solved public transit and housing. Not bad.
Some pretty good retro moments on hnit pre game. They are wearing the baby/powder blue jackets and even invited back a moeman fave old blue and white Dave Hodge. They even showed the pen toss that got him canned.
Steve, good analysis of the Habs lineup, it was just a matter of time before the cracks appeared. That is basically an AHL defence. Maybe one of those elite defencemen in the 2019 Draft will be in the Habs future.
I am back on the tank. We need D, we need wingers who can score. We might have two NHL D man in the prospect pool. So with Jewel we have two old men. This is not going to change for at least two years. Domini, Druid, Sauce, KidA are our only legitimate scoring threats. Of those only KidA has a track record. At center were good to great. In goal TFS is as good as anyone when he is on his game. I would trade Anti right now for a second or even a third. I would trade Lingren for a second, SSR for a second. Dish for a first. Whats the sense of making the first round of the playoffs? Been there done that for 20 years, time for a CHange.
No sense hitting the panic button. My expectations were very low anyway. A hot October skewed the picture big time. The forwards are somewhat OK but the defence is horrid. Wait until the trade deadline to start selling. On the bright side their are a ton of super high end players who will be RFAs next year. Dog Face bergevin has a ton of cap space available. It would be the coup of the century to sign Matthews or Marner away from the snotty leaf. Fuck me it would be so enjoyable to see all the tears flooding the SFU pages.
If not those guys, Tkachuk or Rantanen would be just as good. Then draft a high end D.
no one does offer sheets, and the trade price tag would be just paying peter to buy paul. ITS TIME TO PANIC and doubly so. New science has revealed that the moon landings were fake and an athletic is finished at age 31. Sometimes I wonder about modern science.
AlZZZner now on waivers with BBQ certified back. LB reportedly on the practice ice with sCHerbak in funny looking donCHa-Hit-me jerseys. And the Ukrainian Martial Law is now a fact. Freeland was unequivocal yesterday inre: Russian aggression against her heritage country. (Ixnay on the Aggressionay, Putinay!!) And then there is GM, citing the Trump tarriff raising the price of importing steel as the primary reasoning behind cutting 14K good manufacturing jobs in MI, MD, OH and ON. The shareholders are very pleased. Christ, did Jello Biafra write this in a 1987 lyric or what?
SiM...buddy you are starting to morph onto Steve at times - watch out...as for Alzzzzzner...good riddance - no one is gonna claim him. He can enjoy the easy life in Laval. Maybe we should start a fan vote to get him the ASG vote then bbb will have to pull a reverse John Scott deal with someone for some drug addled wannabe rookie Defenceman...or maybe Alzzzzzner, schlomo, Benn and McCarron for Nylander
Had an awesome party. Incredible food, wine and fun. Folks also enjoyed the rum+Amaretto combo.
Braised porc in onions, beet salad with blue cheese, fennel and pumpkin seeds, roasted cauliflower in a cauliflower bechamel, homemade semolina gnocchi (unlike Alzner I kneaded the dough!) in a spicy tomato sauce, spanakopita, aged havarti and portuguese bread, panettone bread pudding and sour cherry sauce OR very rum-d sauce!
Great to see BBQ back. Hope he's stronger than ever. My best wish is that he, whenever the Habs meet the SFU's team, crushes the living shit out of a few leaf, starting with their soft-shouldered wonder and ending with kadri.
Have to feel a bit sorry for Alzner but dgmb offered him the coin. Who wouldn't take it?
Once BBQ is on the ice/bench/dressing room, I hope he lets Domini and Druid know that proper backchecking and not taking stupid penalties will be the thing to do.
Sounds like quite a birthday feast was had. BBQ will do all of these things. I have heard he also farts lightning bolts out his ass that can take out three Bruins and a Sabre with one blow.
At least it'll help. In all seriousness, this is a playoff bubble team that just played four games in six nights, with travel. Long season. But some exciting hockey, so that suits me fine.
We'll see once LB and GI Finn return if they can stay healthy. That'll be the real key as always.
Reading that Oshawa could do itself some good and become the world's biggest grow-op. Back in the late 1980s I gave many a database management course to a lot of good white-collar GM folks in Oshawa.
"A thought in closing on the notion that the Franco-Ontarian community will move on sooner rather than later: Nothing is less certain. This is not a community that gives up on its dreams easily. As a rookie journalist working for Radio-Canada in Toronto I was assigned the Franco-Ontarian beat at a time when local communities routinely had to fight English-language school boards tooth and nail to obtain stand-alone francophone high schools. On the weekend, someone dug one of my TV reports out of the archives. It dealt with the Franco-Ontarian community’s determination to add a francophone university to its expanding education network. The year that report was broadcast was 1980."
I lived this 100fucking%.
Still do as I work at a bilingual university in Ontario/Canada.
Man we fought Bill Davis in the mid-70s, whilst getting ready to fight Lévesque soon thereafter. The high school we 'won', Georges P. Vanier, got one floor of a 5 floor English High School in Hamilton. We bused an hour to and fro for 4 years. That school, my high school alma mater now has a nice big building of its own. FWIW, I was student body prez in 1978 and was on the Franco-Ontario committee of said student prezs. My parents taught us that our maternal tongue combined with our societal upbringing would benefit us. I taught my kids the same. For me it is a personal choice but never does having a second language hurt anyone.
Wow, thanks for sharing moeman. FWIW this Sherbrooke-born anglo had a 45 minute bus ride to the Eastern Townships country-side to get to Alexander Galt Regional High School back in the day, with a french one just a five minute walk from my house, and the era of 70s-80s Trudeau bilingualism, matched with some less than kindly anti-english sentiment, meant English schooling for us, partly as a bulwark against watching the english community entirely dissipate.
Looking back, it was a Godsend, cuz it liberated us of the great majority of anti-Québecois bigots that riddled our numbers. The tolerant among us stayed and tried to blend in a bit better than our forebears. Still not ready to wave the fleur-de-lys, but Canada and many of its best societal and political innovations were invented chez nous, so now I don't know where I was going with this. Ah well. I always have lived happily here in la Belle Province. And I am raising my kids to feel a real belonging to both the province and country of our recent ancestors as well (with better french skills, one hopes!)
I grew up as the only English kid in a very French Canadian villages. Went to an English school but lived the rest of my life en francais. Ici on parle francais was how they taught kids in elementary school but I didn't pay too much attention - wish I did as my grammar is the worst part of my bilingualism. My kids are growing up in the UK and taking French in school but will never speak it properly. You have to immerse to become. I did...je suis, tu est, il est nous sommes, vous etes, ils sont...or something like that!
I grew up in Halliburton about half way between Toronto and Ottawa as the crow flys. I started French in grade 6 and quit after grade 10. My grade 10 French teacher was smoking hot. I have always seen the logic of a second language. We need to do a much better job of teaching French. You can go anywhere in the world and find grade 2 students conversational in English. Listen the the Swedes and Finns, they speak english better than Donald Trump.
Canada has a lot to thank Quebec for. The difference, has made many a Quebec industry world leader. Also Quebec was a backstop to prevent a dictator like Harper from taking over. Via la Quebec.
May not be commenting much as there's a Bday dinner tonight at my place.
ReplyDeleteLamb is on the menu.
I'm making a panettone bread pudding with a sour cherry sauce.
Enjoy!
DeleteI probably won't comment much either, maybe to trash the biased leaf loving SFU.
Now that I'm feeling normal again a few drinks are in order as well.
R.I.P. Mick McGeough
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your birthday dinner Moe! Habs better win tonight!
ReplyDeleteJust fucking don’t go into overtime!
ReplyDeleteBaked beans and sausage. Kahlua and milk for dessert.
ReplyDeleteDa Bruns are hurting big time, take advantage.
ReplyDeleteKodi took a beating last night, my friend had to update his addons. Watched Ready Player One, it was much better than I expected, lots of the old Spielberg magic on display.
What happened to Radar, what happened to our D in general, what happened to our AHL goalies, is LHN on milk cartons in QUE?
GYFHG
Nobody told me Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson would be playing.
ReplyDeleteMeet our total AHL fourth line, but hey that could be a good thing. I remember both CHapstick and Angie were good in camp.
Nicolas Deslauriers Michael Chaput Kenny Agostino
Meet our AHL D Corps
Brett Kulak David Schlemko
Karl Alzner Victor Mete
If your a District 9 fan how about CHappy
Deletesteve:
ReplyDeletethat post u put up a few threads ago cause ure a transit nerd...
u are spot on highliting how great a place singapore is to live, with their social housing programs, medicare for all, generous social welfare... all could be possible here in canada also, but at much greater difficulty. the reason why I'm bringing this up is b/c high public transit usage begets a good transit system which somehow translates into a prosperous and thriving society exactly like how a good defence somehow creates a good offence.
i couldnt agree more, but i dunno how our thinly spread population can justify mass transit for all, much like how our thinly spread muscle can justify fear in our opponents.
Singapore is a long way from perfect, it is a very authoritarian state. However it wants to be benevolent. They have solved public transit and housing. Not bad.
DeleteSavory homemade turkey crepes with a bottle of California cab (Wente), one of my faves.
ReplyDeleteKidKo moves up the lineup, Sacue, KidA and Kidko a sacuy kid line,
ReplyDeleteSome pretty good retro moments on hnit pre game. They are wearing the baby/powder blue jackets and even invited back a moeman fave old blue and white Dave Hodge. They even showed the pen toss that got him canned.
ReplyDeleteSteve, good analysis of the Habs lineup, it was just a matter of time before the cracks appeared. That is basically an AHL defence. Maybe one of those elite defencemen in the 2019 Draft will be in the Habs future.
meat and leko should stay after practice and see if they can score of the empty net
ReplyDeletePorous D. The latest Montreal hip-hop artist.
ReplyDeleteThat's funny. 16 shots against. Yeesh. GYFHG --SiM
DeleteHabs are not destined to score tonight.
ReplyDeleteAfter that ugly turnover by Kid KoHo I haven't noticed him on the ice. He could be on the next tramp steamer back to Finland by Monday.
ReplyDeleteEven without Bergeron and the Shaved Ape the beaners are too much for a rebuilding Habs squad.
5-0 leaf over the phuckers...
I thought Peca was one of the bright spots against the Sabres yesterday. Is he sitting tonight?? --SiM
ReplyDeletethe bright spot, thats blood on the ice and we are bleeding out
DeleteMy friend has his Kodi full on new working addons and he is going to watch Kin
ReplyDeletenormally something with James Franco is worse than the Habs right now, but Kin was okay.
DeleteDruid strikes again. How many points has the other TFS cost us? That's The Francophone Saviour.
ReplyDeleteSelfish, one-way, showboat.
DeleteCary Price tries hard but even he can't save that trainwreck defence.
I am back on the tank. We need D, we need wingers who can score. We might have two NHL D man in the prospect pool. So with Jewel we have two old men. This is not going to change for at least two years. Domini, Druid, Sauce, KidA are our only legitimate scoring threats. Of those only KidA has a track record. At center were good to great. In goal TFS is as good as anyone when he is on his game. I would trade Anti right now for a second or even a third. I would trade Lingren for a second, SSR for a second. Dish for a first. Whats the sense of making the first round of the playoffs? Been there done that for 20 years, time for a CHange.
ReplyDeleteNo sense hitting the panic button. My expectations were very low anyway. A hot October skewed the picture big time. The forwards are somewhat OK but the defence is horrid. Wait until the trade deadline to start selling. On the bright side their are a ton of super high end players who will be RFAs next year. Dog Face bergevin has a ton of cap space available. It would be the coup of the century to sign Matthews or Marner away from the snotty leaf. Fuck me it would be so enjoyable to see all the tears flooding the SFU pages.
DeleteIf not those guys, Tkachuk or Rantanen would be just as good. Then draft a high end D.
no one does offer sheets, and the trade price tag would be just paying peter to buy paul. ITS TIME TO PANIC and doubly so. New science has revealed that the moon landings were fake and an athletic is finished at age 31. Sometimes I wonder about modern science.
DeleteAlZZZner now on waivers with BBQ certified back. LB reportedly on the practice ice with sCHerbak in funny looking donCHa-Hit-me jerseys. And the Ukrainian Martial Law is now a fact.
ReplyDeleteFreeland was unequivocal yesterday inre: Russian aggression against her heritage country. (Ixnay on the Aggressionay, Putinay!!) And then there is GM, citing the Trump tarriff raising the price of importing steel as the primary reasoning behind cutting 14K good manufacturing jobs in MI, MD, OH and ON. The shareholders are very pleased. Christ, did Jello Biafra write this in a 1987 lyric or what?
SiM...buddy you are starting to morph onto Steve at times - watch out...as for Alzzzzzner...good riddance - no one is gonna claim him. He can enjoy the easy life in Laval. Maybe we should start a fan vote to get him the ASG vote then bbb will have to pull a reverse John Scott deal with someone for some drug addled wannabe rookie Defenceman...or maybe Alzzzzzner, schlomo, Benn and McCarron for Nylander
DeleteI love this SiM CHannel!
DeleteMeanwhile, Pleks not good enough for the Habs but good enough for 2 Czech teams. Twice the turtlenecks!
ReplyDeleteHey kids,
ReplyDeleteHad an awesome party. Incredible food, wine and fun. Folks also enjoyed the rum+Amaretto combo.
Braised porc in onions, beet salad with blue cheese, fennel and pumpkin seeds, roasted cauliflower in a cauliflower bechamel, homemade semolina gnocchi (unlike Alzner I kneaded the dough!) in a spicy tomato sauce, spanakopita, aged havarti and portuguese bread, panettone bread pudding and sour cherry sauce OR very rum-d sauce!
Great to see BBQ back. Hope he's stronger than ever. My best wish is that he, whenever the Habs meet the SFU's team, crushes the living shit out of a few leaf, starting with their soft-shouldered wonder and ending with kadri.
Have to feel a bit sorry for Alzner but dgmb offered him the coin. Who wouldn't take it?
A BBQ slapshot off of the leaf ORRielly's ankle wouldn't hurt my FHFeelings one bit.
DeleteOnce BBQ is on the ice/bench/dressing room, I hope he lets Domini and Druid know that proper backchecking and not taking stupid penalties will be the thing to do.
DeleteSounds like quite a birthday feast was had. BBQ will do all of these things. I have heard he also farts lightning bolts out his ass that can take out three Bruins and a Sabre with one blow.
DeleteAt least it'll help. In all seriousness, this is a playoff bubble team that just played four games in six nights, with travel. Long season. But some exciting hockey, so that suits me fine.
We'll see once LB and GI Finn return if they can stay healthy. That'll be the real key as always.
Yep, two solid backchecking forwards can't hurt.
DeleteChantal Hébert, at her columny best.
ReplyDeleteHeh, read that earlier. Good stuff.
Deletescheer is as transparent as a hooker's nightgown.
Reading that Oshawa could do itself some good and become the world's biggest grow-op. Back in the late 1980s I gave many a database management course to a lot of good white-collar GM folks in Oshawa.
"A thought in closing on the notion that the Franco-Ontarian community will move on sooner rather than later: Nothing is less certain. This is not a community that gives up on its dreams easily. As a rookie journalist working for Radio-Canada in Toronto I was assigned the Franco-Ontarian beat at a time when local communities routinely had to fight English-language school boards tooth and nail to obtain stand-alone francophone high schools. On the weekend, someone dug one of my TV reports out of the archives. It dealt with the Franco-Ontarian community’s determination to add a francophone university to its expanding education network. The year that report was broadcast was 1980."
DeleteI lived this 100fucking%.
Still do as I work at a bilingual university in Ontario/Canada.
Man we fought Bill Davis in the mid-70s, whilst getting ready to fight Lévesque soon thereafter. The high school we 'won', Georges P. Vanier, got one floor of a 5 floor English High School in Hamilton. We bused an hour to and fro for 4 years. That school, my high school alma mater now has a nice big building of its own. FWIW, I was student body prez in 1978 and was on the Franco-Ontario committee of said student prezs. My parents taught us that our maternal tongue combined with our societal upbringing would benefit us. I taught my kids the same. For me it is a personal choice but never does having a second language hurt anyone.
Bonus, the first ever Tim Horton's was one block from my high school. Those donuts were much larger and cheaper then.
DeleteWow, thanks for sharing moeman. FWIW this Sherbrooke-born anglo had a 45 minute bus ride to the Eastern Townships country-side to get to Alexander Galt Regional High School back in the day, with a french one just a five minute walk from my house, and the era of 70s-80s Trudeau bilingualism, matched with some less than kindly anti-english sentiment, meant English schooling for us, partly as a bulwark against watching the english community entirely dissipate.
DeleteLooking back, it was a Godsend, cuz it liberated us of the great majority of anti-Québecois bigots that riddled our numbers. The tolerant among us stayed and tried to blend in a bit better than our forebears. Still not ready to wave the fleur-de-lys, but Canada and many of its best societal and political innovations were invented chez nous, so now I don't know where I was going with this. Ah well. I always have lived happily here in la Belle Province. And I am raising my kids to feel a real belonging to both the province and country of our recent ancestors as well (with better french skills, one hopes!)
I grew up as the only English kid in a very French Canadian villages. Went to an English school but lived the rest of my life en francais. Ici on parle francais was how they taught kids in elementary school but I didn't pay too much attention - wish I did as my grammar is the worst part of my bilingualism. My kids are growing up in the UK and taking French in school but will never speak it properly. You have to immerse to become. I did...je suis, tu est, il est nous sommes, vous etes, ils sont...or something like that!
DeleteLove to see the FHFer background stories. Thanks for sharing.
DeleteAlso, too;
ReplyDeletehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-death-of-the-montreal-bagel/
Still awaiting the advent of the St-Viateur Canna-bagel - you'll never get the munchies with this edible!
DeleteUn autre mot;
ReplyDeleteI was born in Québec but I don't consider myself a Québecois.
I was raised in Ontario and am a proud Franco-Ontarian.
I moved back to Québec but Canada is my true home.
Would've been the same had I moved to Manitoba, Vancouver or Cupertino.
I have always described myself as a French-Canadian. Always will.
I grew up in Halliburton about half way between Toronto and Ottawa as the crow flys. I started French in grade 6 and quit after grade 10. My grade 10 French teacher was smoking hot. I have always seen the logic of a second language. We need to do a much better job of teaching French. You can go anywhere in the world and find grade 2 students conversational in English. Listen the the Swedes and Finns, they speak english better than Donald Trump.
ReplyDeleteCanada has a lot to thank Quebec for. The difference, has made many a Quebec industry world leader. Also Quebec was a backstop to prevent a dictator like Harper from taking over. Via la Quebec.
Holy FUCK Batmann the ALzznier era is over.
ReplyDeletehttp://fourhockeyfans.blogspot.com/2018/11/shea-it-aint-so-captain-is-backagainst.html#comment-form
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