There may have never been a player happier than CHip both first time and this time he was traded to the Habs. So happy for him and his Dad, both Habs fans from way back. Speed and grit for the fourth line can't hurt.
Be good to have those 'games in hand' evened out tomorrow night so leaffools can shut their effin yaps about that. Go Avs! We'll even have one in hand on the broons for a short stint.
Only cost a round and our 4th line has been struggling. A line of Wiese/Nate/DSlow or Chaput should be better. Could even put LB in that 3rd slot when he's back and have some speed on the line with CHip and LB (not sure about Nate's wheels).
Hey even if he scores 1 goal with what is likely to be a short time with the Habs, he'd be better than the last Alaskan to wear the CH.
whoa whoa whoa! hold it right there buddy!! u better not be referring to who i know u are NOT referring to, cause i know the mexican was priceless (just kinda ignore the actual dollar amount, and the cost to acquire him)
oh... and while both of u are here. thnx for the candid and honest reply to my rant from the last post vs the leaves. maybe u guys are right, a season cannot be defined by a single match in february, but im greedy. vs the broons and vs the leaves, i just havta win em all. as for the reply about the torch being extinguished yrs ago? thats baloney. nobody can take those cups away from us. it has to be a reminder that everything but, is a failure. thats ironic cause one of your other points is that unless u win it all, there is no 2nd place in ice hockey. absolutely agree and thats why im principled against ever going for the tank. i see no reason why any season cannot be ours. luck + skill + (hard work x2) usually gets u farther than any other equation.
I like Fiver, he brings a five pack every game. But do we need this? We have Domini, BBQ and SSR who will defend the honour if called. We have CHud and CHip and someone else to make our fourth line a factor.
Hey cool to see the Google Doodle is honouring Jacques Plante today, 65 years since his first game with Les Habitants. We probably all know the story (and there are better writings out there because this feels like it was probably lifted from wikipedia) but I never pass an opportunity to read about these legends.
I have a book from a few years ago -- Jacques Plante, the Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey -- a good read, he used to knit during the intermissions to relax. Red Fisher said he was the best goalie he ever saw. I'll take his word for it. The Heritage Minute about him was great.
So CHip is back in the show and we now have BNT on board...I saw that he has more playoff experince than about half the kids combined and is pretty good on the dot, so that helps. At 34 he'll probably be pretty good in the room as well. Just catching up after a blow out (work) weekend in Berlin - missed the laffs game but watched the highlights this morning - another one of those games we might end up regretting in April. I don't buy into all the comments about how great it willm be to seethem face us in the playoffs - I never want the leaf anywhere near the playoffs - they should all just fucking DIE and leave hockey to proper fans! Let's hope the Avs kick their fucking useless over-hyped go one spend all your cap on one fucking player you fucking halfwits ass tonight! Then watching them sink out of the playoffs will be even sweeter!
Congrats to our goalie prospect Primeau (Primo in Spanish is 'cousin',so nick of Cuz?) on winning the Beanpot. Cayden was drafted at #199. The Dominator was also drafted at #199. Just sayin', when TFS is gone to Seattle, Cuz might be our future.
You know, Dale Wiese is actually blue CHip. We traded Diazzling to get him from Vancouver. No loss. He was traded, along with Yeast to the Hawks for Philip Danault and a 2nd (Romanov). And we gave Schlemko and Freeze away to get him back. So it's like Bergy traded Diaz, Yeast, Schlem and Freeze for Wiese, Danault and Romanov. Not a bad return. Not saying CHip will tip the scales, but at least we have NHL roster players and a potential stud dman for it.
Doubtful. I think they're good enough to be a wildcard team and bargainbinbergy got jabba some depth but bbb still has his eye on the future. The Habs have very little veteran leadership, Price, Weber and Petry but no game breakers. Domi, Drouin, Danault and KoHo all way too young. One round and done is the most likely scenario. AS long as the wretched, putrid leaf lose early I'm good.
M & m: NO! theres no reason why this cant be our turn! i dont wanna sell the farm either cause ive seen what we have from sneeking a few peeks from up in the tree, but go to the prom! dance with the girl! and when biff comes, u smoke him in the schnoz! anything can happen. it was proven again in II, and III and IV!
Never been a huge Michael Douglas fan, always enjoyed Alan Arkin's work but will say that 'The Kominsky Method' is worth the watch, 8 Eps. Also, lots of good old man jokes for us aging (unlike the ever youthful Kate) FHFriends.
the absolute funnies movie ever made, and I include Planes trains and Automobiles in this, is Alan Arkin and Columbo in the In Laws. Mich Doug remade it, I never watched it. I like him alot he has a great collections, top of mind is Romancing the Stone. I dont know if he ever made a great A movie but he has a great B resume.
China Syndrome, Wall Street, Traffic, Fatal Attraction, Falling Down, Basic Instinct. But always smarmy in his own way. Alan Arkin was phenomenal in Edward Scissorhands and So I Married an Ax Murderer (under-rated movie, very funny) and so many others.
That play Billy to Traveller in OT is what our future in the playoffs looks like. Can we execute those plays? If so plan the parade. Plan two or three.
That was my take too, and I don't blame him. KidA took two BBQ flamers already. Seems almost hell-bent. Some like S&M, some like pucks hitting them at 100+ mph. To each sadist his own.
Chaput has just cleared waivers. In other news, I read something pretty good on RDS's site yesterday about the similarities between Fiver, Chip, and Thompson as a CJv2 4th line to the Broons' 4th line he won his Cup with. I just hope this works better than the first go-around with this formula, when DGMB brought in Steve Ott, Dwight King, and Martensen (think back about 700 or so days).
Work cancelled today. Only about 10cm of snow, but it's the potential change over to freezing rain that was the bigger concern I suppose. Anyway shoveled out for now. My daughter in Ottawa wasn't able to get out of her driveway today.
You may not like Andrew Scheer, but there is no way he would compare to the likes of that thing south of the border. No Canadian politician could ever descend to those depths.
Been following this. Stephen Maher (macleans.ca) has an excellent, balanced piece just out and he thinks the PMO shat the bed, and either Butts or Telford might need to fall on their sword. I think JT should, but he won't. Freeland or Philpott are better. Scheer and Bernier are both bigots and autocrats that would make JT look like an angel in comparison. I voted JT last time, not happy with a lot of what they've done in power, but they led us from Harper, so I will always be grateful for that. In the upcoming Outremont by-election, I will vote for Daniel Green (yep, GPC, and their Quebec lieutenant). Climate change is either gonna get taken seriously or we risk having no hockey rinks to play on by the end of TFS's contract.
And as Chantal Hébert writes in the Torstar: "Wilson-Raybould would hardly have resigned if her interpretation of the interaction she had with the Prime Minister’s Office over the handling of the criminal prosecution on corruption charges of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin matched Trudeau’s."
Trudeau himself is playing it cool, like he ain't in charge of his own PMO (which is not unthinkable. Butts Geppetto-like feeds him anything brilliant that comes out of his mouth, from what I can tell). I suspect Butts is already aware, and will soon step down to repose in Cape Breton. One of the worst things JT did was concentrate power in the PMO right in step with the past three PM's, while trying to make it look like his ministers had a mind of their own. That didn't fly for Dion, didn't work for McCallum, and now, it seems, Puglass.
Are you guys talking about Trudeau stepping down? Highly unlikely.
I actually like Justin Trudeau, seems like a down to earth guy, good Habs fan, but I'll never vote for his party again. Too much entitlement by the Liberals in my books.
Getting back to hockey, CHaput sent to Laval and their are rumours of bergevin sniffing around other teams dumpsters again. :-))
Let's keep the politics elsewhere please...sorry if that's wrong to say...this is Habs heaven and in my day job I do a lot of social media so I have to deal with Trump, Trudeau and brexit bashing on a daily basis...slamming bbb for another shit trade is about all I can handle by the time the day is done. ...so tonight is really going to be a test. Preds are big and strong...and good! New guys need to step up. Game starts too late for me tonight but I will watch highlights and comment later. JFW svp!
Sorry, K3X, got carried away and nary much Habs talk stirring it up here on a day the fed government is uncharacteristically full shitstorm.
As for the Preds game tomorrow, Habs are rested, PFK and his Preds just treading water in the upper echelons of the standings, and I expect a good effort by our boys will give them a shock (not unlike the Jets got last week). CHip and his enthusiasm and experience is such a plus on the tangential side, I would think. Thompson not a bad addition either. Less pressure on Dano now. Gotta like that.
BTW K3X, I noticed you mentioned having gone to JAC - the Country Club - in a recent thread. Me too! I was actually the Bandersnatch Entertainment Editor in the late 80s, smoking in the Oval and keeping my distance from the Police Tech in Penfield wing. Inexplicably changed from Pure & Applied Science to Creative Arts, thinking I could write well enough, I'd always find work with that. Oy vey
I remember Bandersnatch...i was a dj on Qsky radio - did a rock show at the end of the school day 3 days a week. I remember doing an outdoor end of year festival at the college too...lots of fun!
idk who else noticed, but if memory serves, KidKo was really upping his faceoff % and once that got up to snuff, he started scoring again. Like a work in progress that usually takes a guy a year or two, but in KidKo's case, no problem, a few weeks and he'll get it. The learning curve is so high. Remember, it was only around this time last year that some keen-eyed scouts started pegging him as a potential first-rounder. Here he is, holding his own as a third-line Centre on a team with a winning record in the toughest league in the world, at like, 18 and a half. Incredible.
CHIP is back, the fourth is once again a place the Dutch see Gretzky.
ReplyDeleteWowzas! NOAR moe!
ReplyDeleteThere may have never been a player happier than CHip both first time and this time he was traded to the Habs. So happy for him and his Dad, both Habs fans from way back. Speed and grit for the fourth line can't hurt.
Be good to have those 'games in hand' evened out tomorrow night so leaffools can shut their effin yaps about that. Go Avs! We'll even have one in hand on the broons for a short stint.
Ago claimed by Devils. How you doin'?
ReplyDeleteThe dumpster diver is goin' hard at it. Again. I hope Nate Thompson can skate faster than Dwight King.
ReplyDeleteOnly cost a round and our 4th line has been struggling. A line of Wiese/Nate/DSlow or Chaput should be better. Could even put LB in that 3rd slot when he's back and have some speed on the line with CHip and LB (not sure about Nate's wheels).
DeleteHey even if he scores 1 goal with what is likely to be a short time with the Habs, he'd be better than the last Alaskan to wear the CH.
whoa whoa whoa! hold it right there buddy!! u better not be referring to who i know u are NOT referring to, cause i know the mexican was priceless (just kinda ignore the actual dollar amount, and the cost to acquire him)
Deleteoh... and while both of u are here. thnx for the candid and honest reply to my rant from the last post vs the leaves. maybe u guys are right, a season cannot be defined by a single match in february, but im greedy. vs the broons and vs the leaves, i just havta win em all. as for the reply about the torch being extinguished yrs ago? thats baloney. nobody can take those cups away from us. it has to be a reminder that everything but, is a failure. thats ironic cause one of your other points is that unless u win it all, there is no 2nd place in ice hockey. absolutely agree and thats why im principled against ever going for the tank. i see no reason why any season cannot be ours. luck + skill + (hard work x2) usually gets u farther than any other equation.
DeleteThompson is 56 % on face offs, I believe that's why they acquired him.
ReplyDeleteCHip called up to the big team!
DeleteR.I.P. Joe Schlesinger, a great journalist/reporter.
ReplyDeleteI like Fiver, he brings a five pack every game. But do we need this? We have Domini, BBQ and SSR who will defend the honour if called. We have CHud and CHip and someone else to make our fourth line a factor.
ReplyDeleteCHaput is probably Kaput. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
ReplyDeleteFrom a guy known as 'the king of dad jokes' at work, I approve this message!
DeleteHey cool to see the Google Doodle is honouring Jacques Plante today, 65 years since his first game with Les Habitants. We probably all know the story (and there are better writings out there because this feels like it was probably lifted from wikipedia) but I never pass an opportunity to read about these legends.
ReplyDeletehttps://artsandculture.google.com/theme/RwIiLVSanBc4Lw
I have a book from a few years ago -- Jacques Plante, the Man Who Changed the Face of Hockey -- a good read, he used to knit during the intermissions to relax. Red Fisher said he was the best goalie he ever saw. I'll take his word for it. The Heritage Minute about him was great.
DeleteThats a great book.
DeleteBTW, I love how creepy 29 the stalker looks. *pats self on back.
ReplyDeleteSo CHip is back in the show and we now have BNT on board...I saw that he has more playoff experince than about half the kids combined and is pretty good on the dot, so that helps. At 34 he'll probably be pretty good in the room as well. Just catching up after a blow out (work) weekend in Berlin - missed the laffs game but watched the highlights this morning - another one of those games we might end up regretting in April. I don't buy into all the comments about how great it willm be to seethem face us in the playoffs - I never want the leaf anywhere near the playoffs - they should all just fucking DIE and leave hockey to proper fans! Let's hope the Avs kick their fucking useless over-hyped go one spend all your cap on one fucking player you fucking halfwits ass tonight! Then watching them sink out of the playoffs will be even sweeter!
ReplyDeleteAs for the Habs - JFW tabernac! GYFHG!!
Congrats to our goalie prospect Primeau (Primo in Spanish is 'cousin',so nick of Cuz?) on winning the Beanpot. Cayden was drafted at #199. The Dominator was also drafted at #199. Just sayin', when TFS is gone to Seattle, Cuz might be our future.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Dale Wiese is actually blue CHip. We traded Diazzling to get him from Vancouver. No loss.
ReplyDeleteHe was traded, along with Yeast to the Hawks for Philip Danault and a 2nd (Romanov). And we gave Schlemko and Freeze away to get him back. So it's like Bergy traded Diaz, Yeast, Schlem and Freeze for Wiese, Danault and Romanov. Not a bad return. Not saying CHip will tip the scales, but at least we have NHL roster players and a potential stud dman for it.
Curious if they'll spend the cap coin.
DeleteDoubtful. I think they're good enough to be a wildcard team and bargainbinbergy got jabba some depth but bbb still has his eye on the future. The Habs have very little veteran leadership, Price, Weber and Petry but no game breakers. Domi, Drouin, Danault and KoHo all way too young. One round and done is the most likely scenario. AS long as the wretched, putrid leaf lose early I'm good.
DeleteI'm with theM. I think Molson can use the extra cash to pay off MT2.
Deletethats a full cookbook of CHips.
DeleteM & m: NO! theres no reason why this cant be our turn! i dont wanna sell the farm either cause ive seen what we have from sneeking a few peeks from up in the tree, but go to the prom! dance with the girl! and when biff comes, u smoke him in the schnoz! anything can happen. it was proven again in II, and III and IV!
Delete3:28, no snow, YET!
ReplyDeleteNever been a huge Michael Douglas fan, always enjoyed Alan Arkin's work but will say that 'The Kominsky Method' is worth the watch, 8 Eps. Also, lots of good old man jokes for us aging (unlike the ever youthful Kate) FHFriends.
ReplyDeletethe absolute funnies movie ever made, and I include Planes trains and Automobiles in this, is Alan Arkin and Columbo in the In Laws. Mich Doug remade it, I never watched it. I like him alot he has a great collections, top of mind is Romancing the Stone. I dont know if he ever made a great A movie but he has a great B resume.
DeleteChina Syndrome, Wall Street, Traffic, Fatal Attraction, Falling Down, Basic Instinct. But always smarmy in his own way. Alan Arkin was phenomenal in Edward Scissorhands and So I Married an Ax Murderer (under-rated movie, very funny) and so many others.
DeleteSome good flics there for sure and yes to the smarminess.
DeleteI like Michael Douglas movies, Wall Street was great. He is playing a small part as Hank Pym in the MCU. Loved Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine.
DeleteYes! Little Miss Sunshine was his crowning achievement. No one else could've pulled that off.
Deletewhat Happens in Berlin stays in the Zeigeist forever. Never been there but for centuries Berlin has been the place Lou Reed Rock and Roll Animail.
ReplyDeleteThat play Billy to Traveller in OT is what our future in the playoffs looks like. Can we execute those plays? If so plan the parade. Plan two or three.
ReplyDeleteEngels with a piece about Weber finally feeling at home. But what stood out to me is this bit which talks about practicing with Weber:
ReplyDelete“I try to stay away from him as much as possible,” says Canadiens winger Jonathan Drouin.
Gallagher, meanwhile, welcomes the ability to compete against Weber in practice.
“He’s a guy that doesn’t go easy on you, so it’s something that gets you ready for the next game,” says Gallagher.
Sums up those 2 players pretty well.
I think Druid is referencing staying away from his shot during practice.
DeleteThat was my take too, and I don't blame him. KidA took two BBQ flamers already. Seems almost hell-bent. Some like S&M, some like pucks hitting them at 100+ mph. To each sadist his own.
DeleteI dare ya to change your name to 'Scott and Montreal'. We could nick you S&M.
DeleteHah! But I've been "Scott in Montreal" from the time I grabbed onto it, commenting on Howard Dean's Democracy for America blog (2003).
DeleteNice. Although I don't comment much there, I'm one of the original DKossaks, circa 2002.
Delete60 cms cleared away but running out of room where to put it.
ReplyDeleteless than 40 here, but it's enough. I don't envy you Gatineauwans, (Gatinewts? Gatiknowers? Gatineaux?)
DeleteOfficially Gatinois. Its better than Gatinoolagans. SWIDT?
DeleteChaput has just cleared waivers. In other news, I read something pretty good on RDS's site yesterday about the similarities between Fiver, Chip, and Thompson as a CJv2 4th line to the Broons' 4th line he won his Cup with. I just hope this works better than the first go-around with this formula, when DGMB brought in Steve Ott, Dwight King, and Martensen (think back about 700 or so days).
ReplyDeletedgmb likes dealing with the Kings.
DeleteFirst call he makes when the Hawks' line is busy.
DeleteWork cancelled today. Only about 10cm of snow, but it's the potential change over to freezing rain that was the bigger concern I suppose. Anyway shoveled out for now.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter in Ottawa wasn't able to get out of her driveway today.
Uni closed yesterday at 12 and today.
DeleteJody Wilson-Raybould is taking a little of the shine off PM J.T.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a fan of Scheer so I may go off the board this October.
Yep, its messy. scheer is trump lite.
DeleteYou may not like Andrew Scheer, but there is no way he would compare to the likes of that thing south of the border. No Canadian politician could ever descend to those depths.
DeleteI agree to a degree but he is the lite version. The upcoming election is going to be down and dirty.
DeleteFriends with RebelMedia ain't no friends of mine. Missing the Progressive Conservatives; Scott Brison was their last hope.
DeleteBeen following this. Stephen Maher (macleans.ca) has an excellent, balanced piece just out and he thinks the PMO shat the bed, and either Butts or Telford might need to fall on their sword. I think JT should, but he won't. Freeland or Philpott are better. Scheer and Bernier are both bigots and autocrats that would make JT look like an angel in comparison. I voted JT last time, not happy with a lot of what they've done in power, but they led us from Harper, so I will always be grateful for that. In the upcoming Outremont by-election, I will vote for Daniel Green (yep, GPC, and their Quebec lieutenant). Climate change is either gonna get taken seriously or we risk having no hockey rinks to play on by the end of TFS's contract.
ReplyDeleteBang on. JT needs to soul search. Freeland would be the choice.
DeleteAnd as Chantal Hébert writes in the Torstar: "Wilson-Raybould would hardly have resigned if her interpretation of the interaction she had with the Prime Minister’s Office over the handling of the criminal prosecution on corruption charges of engineering giant SNC-Lavalin matched Trudeau’s."
DeleteTrudeau himself is playing it cool, like he ain't in charge of his own PMO (which is not unthinkable. Butts Geppetto-like feeds him anything brilliant that comes out of his mouth, from what I can tell). I suspect Butts is already aware, and will soon step down to repose in Cape Breton. One of the worst things JT did was concentrate power in the PMO right in step with the past three PM's, while trying to make it look like his ministers had a mind of their own. That didn't fly for Dion, didn't work for McCallum, and now, it seems, Puglass.
Are you guys talking about Trudeau stepping down? Highly unlikely.
DeleteI actually like Justin Trudeau, seems like a down to earth guy, good Habs fan, but I'll never vote for his party again. Too much entitlement by the Liberals in my books.
Getting back to hockey, CHaput sent to Laval and their are rumours of bergevin sniffing around other teams dumpsters again. :-))
Yeah, we try to not make it too political around these parts.
Deletedgmb may yet find another dive dukat and still snag some picks, prospects and pay some puds with whatever cap space he has.
Let's keep the politics elsewhere please...sorry if that's wrong to say...this is Habs heaven and in my day job I do a lot of social media so I have to deal with Trump, Trudeau and brexit bashing on a daily basis...slamming bbb for another shit trade is about all I can handle by the time the day is done. ...so tonight is really going to be a test. Preds are big and strong...and good! New guys need to step up. Game starts too late for me tonight but I will watch highlights and comment later. JFW svp!
ReplyDeleteSorry K3X, the game is tomorrow night.
DeleteYeah...i knew that...Thursday...and right now it's... wednesday...man that German jet lag is kicking my ass...lol...hehehehe...
DeleteSorry, K3X, got carried away and nary much Habs talk stirring it up here on a day the fed government is uncharacteristically full shitstorm.
DeleteAs for the Preds game tomorrow, Habs are rested, PFK and his Preds just treading water in the upper echelons of the standings, and I expect a good effort by our boys will give them a shock (not unlike the Jets got last week). CHip and his enthusiasm and experience is such a plus on the tangential side, I would think. Thompson not a bad addition either. Less pressure on Dano now. Gotta like that.
Preds on a bit of a slide recently too. JFW!
DeleteBTW K3X, I noticed you mentioned having gone to JAC - the Country Club - in a recent thread. Me too! I was actually the Bandersnatch Entertainment Editor in the late 80s, smoking in the Oval and keeping my distance from the Police Tech in Penfield wing. Inexplicably changed from Pure & Applied Science to Creative Arts, thinking I could write well enough, I'd always find work with that. Oy vey
DeleteI remember Bandersnatch...i was a dj on Qsky radio - did a rock show at the end of the school day 3 days a week. I remember doing an outdoor end of year festival at the college too...lots of fun!
DeleteQSKY is where I found out about Husker Du and Bad Brains and Midnight Oil and Fishbone. Great vibe there!
DeleteI think I was earlier than you SiM - I was there for a year before I was forced to migrate to tranna - so 1982 was my JAC year. Good Times!
Deleteidk who else noticed, but if memory serves, KidKo was really upping his faceoff % and once that got up to snuff, he started scoring again. Like a work in progress that usually takes a guy a year or two, but in KidKo's case, no problem, a few weeks and he'll get it. The learning curve is so high. Remember, it was only around this time last year that some keen-eyed scouts started pegging him as a potential first-rounder. Here he is, holding his own as a third-line Centre on a team with a winning record in the toughest league in the world, at like, 18 and a half. Incredible.
ReplyDeleteHe's a gem.
DeleteGive it a year or two and the NHL marketing folks, along with the fucks in the SFU will take note. unless jacob$ has a say
https://fourhockeyfans.blogspot.com/2019/02/jfwrangle-up-win-preds.html
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