I hated seeing Pavelski hit the ice so brutally last night. Happy the Sharks could capitalize though. Either St. Louis or San Jose to come out of the West and take the Cup I reckon (they're both way overdue).
Other takeaways:
Vlaskic is still more important to his team than either Karllssooonn or Burns...
PatCHes will feel good now that he's shaken his previous question mark of precious little post-season scoring...
Thornton and Chara both Cheliossing like the slick, graying muthafughuhs they are...
Ratface is still Ratface, no matter what anyone says, just because...
I hope Ovie and Eller and DSP prevail tonight. They should. But if they don't it's all cuz of Buttman League Rules.
COTU will offer three hundred million words of angst about their LEAF before mentioning a peep about any other hockey in existence. GO FUCK YOURSELVES, MEDIOTS!!!
I hope Ché and his Stars make some noise, but see above about St. Louis and San Jose being overdue...
I hope the Isles go deep (even to the final), just so it tears Tavares the Maple Leaf Pillow Boy to pieces...
KidKo had successful antro-surgery on his knee yesterday but CH mindtrust says he's all right and won't skip a beat in his training regimen. Where have we heard that before?
San Jose and Vegas fought tooth and nail ... wretched, putrid, over-rated leaf went out with a whimper. I'll keep saying it -- those fuckers and their sycophantic cheerleading media got what they deserved. Looks good on 'em.
The funniest thing is there are so many CotU mediots giving their advice to/about a perennially losing team. Which is why I have labelled them mediots.
Although I enjoy the schadenfreude immensely, I don't need to know any of that shit. I would laugh my ass off if Dumbass decided the fire the SFU saviour before his bloated contract ended. I doubt SHAMahan would allow it...
listening earlier to TSN690... was the 5-minute major a missed call? Give me a fucking break. A guy is cross checked outside of the bounds of the concept of checking, mercilessly dammit, AND he is the team captain,... in the face-off circle and ends up bleeding profusely after his helmetted noggin smacks the ice outside of any control he may have (being blind-sided and all). Fuck. You. I was so impressed at how the Sharks made hay from that. So deserved! I guess some Golden Showers fans can't see passed their own bias. Maybe your team should learn how to play down a man, fuckwads!
a year ago all the pundits where saying rather be a leaf than a Canadien. Well today they have only question marks and we have only potential answers. Plus they are capped out and we have 20 mill in the bank. Winning
first round is complete and maritimer, please say that again: Doesn't bother me at all if oleg thinks the Habs are a Cup contender.
SiM: sorry brother, but i absolutely disagree with you. all of that stuff you described yes, did happen, but none of those circumstances constitute a 5-minute penalty. 1. i totally agree that cross check to the face should have been called, but the nhl is run by cowards. this is playoff hockey. guys have to take it for the team. this is when you man up and take it. blah blah blah blah... no ref will ever call that a penalty. they will all cowardly allow the players to settle it on the ice. 2. the cross check put him off balance and into the path of the second guy. the second knight responded appropriately by dumping his opponent to the ground. he didnt do it in a malicious kind of way. it was more or less a typical shove my opponent out of the way move. the u/f thing there is the sharks guy was already off balance and (likely) already stunned by that crosscheck. who knows, maybe he had blacked out for a second or two... 3. the combination of those two events led him to fall helplessly to crash on his head. 4. the referees had no intention of calling a penalty. neither had their hand up. the knights touched the puck more than once before the whistle went. you can watch the replays and only when play was stopped did the referees realise how seriously injured the sharks guy was. from that interruption in play, the referees manufactured a 5-minute penalty. credit to the knights, they did not contest it. criticsm to the farce of the referees... they tossed somebody from the game. my question is why the cross checked? why not the second guy adjudged to have been responsible?
FU nhl... grow a spine and call a penalty regardless of the time on the clock, the score on the board, but dont you ever try to call things and attempt to give off legitimacy when we all know your only goal is to sell the game to the non-traditional markets....
The first round of the playoffs is over and my interest is waning fast. Although I am currently leading my hockey pool and have a legitimate shot at winning, I doubt I will be watching any more complete games. With Winnipeg and Calgary eliminated there are no Canadian teams left (SWIDT?) Maybe I'll tune in to the World championships and there is the Memorial Cup with Halifax hosting this year. Mostly, like les Canadiens, I am looking forward to golf season ... #soon.
Going to the first showing of Avengers Endgame tonight with my youngest son. Heh, these young people and their smart phones can do amazing things, like get tickets!
Another interesting move ...a depth center who will make the kids work hard for their spot. He's great on the dot, which you need and I hear he is great in the room. Plus he wants to be a Hab so I say it's a good move...for now
I expect he would cost a first (probably 2 firsts), a high level prospect (Poehling or Suzuki) and a good roster player (anybody but kidA), but if willing to waive his NMC, one must wonder if Pittsburgh are at a crossroad where they would consider moving Malkin. Crosby would be preferred, but he will die a Penguin. Malkin 3 more years at $9.5 million. Habs have lots of room.
I agree with K3X. Get a top-four d-man. I do think Kadillak and Meat, Dish and BBQ (possibly Juuls and/or Folin) are top-four worthy, but pushing everyone down a level really helped JB last year.
I think we will be better off looking forward to the Habs home grown players flourishing instead of wishing for this guy or that guy... I like to speculate as much as anybody but lets watch Kid KoHo, EA Poe and Nature Boy Suzuki become our own stars.
I would love it if we could build a solid contender from within. Fact is though, we don't have a real good track record of growing players within the system and keeping them as important parts. From the 2006 draft to present, we have kidA, Leko, Jewel, Meat & kidKo on the roster. Poe and Suzuki we hope pan out, but have been fooled before.
Problem is we never get those series of high end picks in a row to help the team grow into a contender. Hawks got Kane and Toews with high picks. Pens got Sid and Geno. Caps got Ovi and Backstrom. Bruins and Kings would be the outliers regarding recent successful teams in that regard. And we might hate 'em, but the wretched leaf evenhave a solid young core with 4 top 8 picks in 5 years. Unless Bergy offersheets Marner of course. 😎
So perhaps I lack the faith of an interior rebuild, I think somehow a #1 C and 2/3 D via trade or FA is needed for the team to compete before the Price/Weber window slams shut.
But I realize it's easy to armchair GM and that is an unlikely scenario. But ya never know what ol BBB is up to.
I feel kind of bad for Alzner, he signed in good faith but the game has left him behind. I hope some other team would take a chance on him, Montreal would probably have to retain some salary but they can easily afford it.
Eric Engels: Jordan Weal goes from 2-year, $3.5M deal to 2-year, $2.8M to stay with Canadiens 4 goals and 10 points in 16 games with the Habs. Great in the dot, and we learned he’s a good pp player. Lot of heart.
scary stuff. I suspect the worst is yet to come. Reminds me a little of the slow boil of the 98 ice storm. Climate change is barely starting to kick in. We're so fucking doomed.
I hope he's successful but man oh man do the SFU overhype the hell out of star athletes in their city. I'm of course talking about Vladdy Jr's debut in tronna. What sucks most of all is that it's not the Expos that he's playing with .That said I might even make a rare tune in of a Jays game tonight.
What a day. Mrs. Maritimer spent almost 6 hours at the ER getting tests for stomach distress. They finally got it figured out and she will be OK. I took her home and then had to pick up the 3 grandchildren from the sitter/school and take them home to await the arrival of Mom and Dad from work.
Okay smackdown the leaf. They have to sign Billy, he is a little shrimp, and will get 11 mill. They already have Shaggy who is unproven but trending up at that, and Johnny Toronto who in the playoffs did not earn that big paycheck. So we can offer sheet Kapitan and have a full finnish team.
No waiting in Gods waiting room, the time to act is now, the time to step up and go full ZOmbie on the NHL is today. Fast Zombies who turn fast. we can be the extiction of the status quo, goo gog go
So I am hoping that the signing of Folin, Nate and AWD is about bbb getting the easy stuff out of the way - with Poehling and other rookies coming in (I have no idea which ones are coming next season - Suzuki? Others? ) Now he can focus on a No. 1 D and a proven power forward/sniper/goal scorer. I sense there is much more to come...
yeah, and Leko missing 20 goal-mark made his life easier too. That's his next signing. Although he might become a sacrificial lamb in a trade, or exposure to Seattle. I think a major pick-up will happen. I think Druid might even be done with if the right deal materializes.
PFK odd man out in Nashville, if true we won the trade hands down. Another Gashville trade that is going south is the Ryan for Seth Jones. Jones is looking like a constant Norris contender.
I wanna see offer sheets, we should have the printer working overtime on them.
DuCH comes from my little Hamlet in Central Ontario, and if I know one thing about centrel Ontario, they dont care about money otherwise they would live in Toronto.
So, I watched the season finale of Star Trek Discovery. That's it for me, I'm done. The only character I liked was Captain Lorca and he turned out to be a bad guy. Michael Burnham ... no. The rest of them are unlikeable. I thought Captain Pike and Spock could rescue this show but no, this past season was a jumbled mess. The "spore drive" was one of the dumbest ideas yet, it did not fit in with that era's tech.
They should do a series with Pike, Spock and Rebecca Romijn as No. 1 and go back to exploring the galaxy, which is what Rodenberry wanted and stop fighting all these wars and big battles. I didn't mind the odd skirmish with the Klingons and Romulans but these writers have lost Gene's vision. Star Trek was supposed to be just that, a journey ... Wagon Train in Space.
I like this series. Like you however, I agree there aren't any characters to really latch onto to 'cheer for'. I was wondering how they would explain the spore drive's existence and the only answer was time travel. That tech is now in the future. Anyway, decent action. I'll keep watching.
I hear they are working on a 'Section 31' spinoff with Michelle Yeoh, who was one of my favourite characters. I hear there is also a Jean Luc Picard prequel series in the works. Lots of online Trekkies calling for a Pike series, with Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn reprising their roles (I didn't recognize her until somebody pointed it out to me...but she looked familiar :) ).
For something a little different (and surprisingly OK), you could check out Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville". A touch of 'Family Guy' humour mixed in with space travel and a surprising amount of real life social issues. A little more about life on a starship, with some action/bad guys mixed in.
Not that there is anything wrong with being Gay, but I do not relate to love stories. If I want emotions I would watch Oprah or Ellen. I really liked the first 3 eps but did not watch more. My subconscious changed the channel and never let me know.
Okay now line up for the Zombie Apocolypse, Black Summer blasts through all the gunk that is TWD and gives you fast turning zombies who are fast on the ground, and hard to kill, and makes you think aboot a confrontation that might not be good for thinking units.
I have a theory and your not going to like it. What happened to music with Rap is happing to TV.
Hey the M. Did you stick out Gotham to the end? I won't say anything else about it in case you are and haven't got there yet. Interested in your thoughts if so.
Also, without spoilers, is End Game something I need to see in theatre?
@ Saint Paddy, re: Gotham, no, I'm afraid I bailed on that a couple years ago, I think when Jim Gordon went corrupt. That didn't suit his character and was wrong IMO.
I've quit all the super hero TV shows. Too repetitive, especially the CW ones, Smallville redux. I liked the Netflix ones but they are all headed to Disney+. I forgot, I am watching Titans, that ain't your Grandpa's Robin... and will check out Swamp Thing when it launches. I'll probably return to Agents of SHIELD, I'm curious how it evolves after the fallout of Endgame.
And absolutely go see Endgame at the theater if you have seen all the other MCU movies. It ties everything up quite nicely and prepares for Phase 4. The 1st hour is a tad slow but the payoff is worth it. This movie will move into my Top 5 which are: Iron Man, Cap the First Avenger, Avengers I and The Winter Soldier bumping Dr. Strange and Guardians I.
CHaracter driven series only work when the CHaracter is in a good place. Everything is CHaracter driven these days, especially radio. TSN 690 Habs radio is the least offender, if you listen to TOronto sports radio its all about what the host had for lunch breafeast and dinner, with a spinkle of sports inbetween , momstly baseball cause that is what the public cares the least about.
Speaking of conspiracy, try watCHing The Predator. You cant without great effort, thats whats weird. Its worse than the Warren Commish or the 911 investigation. We are all prey for the Predators who give us away to keep a hot seat..
As much as they try, they will never, ever repeat the magic of the original 'Predator' with Arnie. I've watched that movie many times and never get tired of it.
Thought kidA might hit the Worlds. But he takes such a beating all year he probably just wants to heal up and get back to training. Thought Max might go too. Maybe he has American citizenship? Born in the Peg I'm prety sure. Then again maybe Habs are blacklisted. Who fucking knows.
There were a few Habs asked but they all declined. I remember Shaw said he would interested but they must have passed him over. I will tune in once in a while but it's not a priority.
You know how to make an expensive bike even lighter, lose weight:). I have a bike worth more than some cars I own. But the 40 extra lbs on the saddle make the hills higher.
I bought my bike a Scott Sonoma made of 7001 alloy back in 2001. Like most things I have enjoyed the luxury ride, and it still is as good as anything on the road. I spend about $100 a year on tires, and brakes.
Mine is Canadian made, Norco I think. 27 speeds, paddle shifters, big balloon tires, shocks, adjustable seat this thing is sweet. You can 'quick-remove' the front wheel to prevent theft. I took my parcel carrier off my old bike and put it on the new one, now I need to swap the seat.
bergevin needs to pull a Burkie move like he did with phat Phil. Call up Julien BriseBois in Tampa and tell him "I'm going to offer sheet Braydon Point unless you want to make a deal". Let toronto and dumbass wallow in their own shit.
I want to see Nature Boy on a line with MiniMax next year.
Has anyone else noticed how the teams that Larry Robinson ends up working for tend to do reasonably well in the playoffs? All of teh sudden St, Louis is in with a pretty good shot at making it through to the next round. I caught the highlights of their game last night and they look pretty good. Same thing happend when he worked for the Devils. He did win a few cups with them too. And he made a difference in San Jose - even though they didn't win anything much while he was there.
It's a travesty that he was never given a coaching job with the Habs. There were stories of him not wanting the stress of being behind the bench in Montreal, but I'm not sure how legit those were. Anyway, good for him - I hope he wins a cup. Be the last of the '67-68 teams with a ring. Except for one.
Wow thanks for sharing SiM. Never heard of these guys and I'm now about a third of the way through this full concert https://youtu.be/ZfkQQWgMFhA
Trying to think of a comparison but there are bits of so many artists depending on the song. A couple remind me of a great east coast band called The Stanfields if you're into that kind of music.
I have been championing Jay Farrar and his various incantations of Son Volt for a quarter century. Look for the Austin City Limits performance (circa 1995), and the album Wide Swing Tremolo from 1998.
And then there's the earlier stuff with Uncle Tupelo (especially the album "March 16-20 1992" - produced by R.E.M.'s Pete Buck, which has the best version you'll ever hear of Moonshiner)
We'd need a second 70's version: Dryden has the spectacles for Roosevelt. Lafleur with his flowing locks would fit well in Washington's spot. Big Bird in Lincoln's spot. Serge Savard or In Bob We Trust to fill it out
Heh. Any fans of the TPB need to watch their new animated series. They can be so much raunchier in cartoon land. I thought of this because there is an episode where they sell Cyrus' nuts because they need cash and replace them with clackers. Now whenever awesome is skating down the wing, in my mind I'll be hearing click clack click clack!
Did anyone else think the game of thrones was too Dark? Well it turns out you need to watch it from a 1080P source, this is not yet available.
What is available is the beautiful raphael lavoie. Lets call him D"VinCHe, bring in his Renaissance of truculent goal scoring to Montreal. We may even get Samuel Poulin in the second round. With two second round draft picks we might get a fucking trifecta of talent that will see the team in 3 years be an unstoppable force, invunderbaule to even buttman calls.
Funny how we (Habs fans) are always looking down the road for the next influx of talent. Seems like it's been going on forever. We never talk about the present and the Habs chances of winning now. Thanks for nothing Geoff.
Regarding the Mount Rushmore post above, if I only use players in my memory (which would start mid 70s or so), I'd have to go with Dryden, Lafleur, Robinson, Roy. Why not 2 of the best goalies to ever play the game?
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Despite this @MapleLeafs loss, rest assured we at TSN will continue to lead our shows with them throughout the playoffs.
Mike Babcock: 7 game-sevens... 7 game-seven losses. Sorry Leafools.
ReplyDeletePS: where's your first round pick now? Where's your cap space now?
I hated seeing Pavelski hit the ice so brutally last night. Happy the Sharks could capitalize though. Either St. Louis or San Jose to come out of the West and take the Cup I reckon (they're both way overdue).
ReplyDeleteOther takeaways:
Vlaskic is still more important to his team than either Karllssooonn or Burns...
PatCHes will feel good now that he's shaken his previous question mark of precious little post-season scoring...
Thornton and Chara both Cheliossing like the slick, graying muthafughuhs they are...
Ratface is still Ratface, no matter what anyone says, just because...
I hope Ovie and Eller and DSP prevail tonight. They should. But if they don't it's all cuz of Buttman League Rules.
COTU will offer three hundred million words of angst about their LEAF before mentioning a peep about any other hockey in existence. GO FUCK YOURSELVES, MEDIOTS!!!
I hope Ché and his Stars make some noise, but see above about St. Louis and San Jose being overdue...
I hope the Isles go deep (even to the final), just so it tears Tavares the Maple Leaf Pillow Boy to pieces...
KidKo had successful antro-surgery on his knee yesterday but CH mindtrust says he's all right and won't skip a beat in his training regimen. Where have we heard that before?
Nice list SiM!
DeleteAs sad as I it sounds, as soon as kaudri went, the leaf season was done...tells you all you need to know about the genius of Babcock
Deleteyeah, that says something all right!
DeleteSan Jose and Vegas fought tooth and nail ... wretched, putrid, over-rated leaf went out with a whimper. I'll keep saying it -- those fuckers and their sycophantic cheerleading media got what they deserved. Looks good on 'em.
ReplyDeleteI watched the 3rd and the OT. Crazy!
DeleteThe funniest thing is there are so many CotU mediots giving their advice to/about a perennially losing team. Which is why I have labelled them mediots.
ReplyDeleteThere's 30, soon 31, other fucking teams.
DeleteThe SFU is a desperate clan.
I've stopped reading their crap.
DeleteAlthough I enjoy the schadenfreude immensely, I don't need to know any of that shit. I would laugh my ass off if Dumbass decided the fire the SFU saviour before his bloated contract ended. I doubt SHAMahan would allow it...
listening earlier to TSN690... was the 5-minute major a missed call? Give me a fucking break. A guy is cross checked outside of the bounds of the concept of checking, mercilessly dammit, AND he is the team captain,... in the face-off circle and ends up bleeding profusely after his helmetted noggin smacks the ice outside of any control he may have (being blind-sided and all). Fuck. You. I was so impressed at how the Sharks made hay from that. So deserved! I guess some Golden Showers fans can't see passed their own bias. Maybe your team should learn how to play down a man, fuckwads!
ReplyDeleteokay, I'm good.
a year ago all the pundits where saying rather be a leaf than a Canadien. Well today they have only question marks and we have only potential answers. Plus they are capped out and we have 20 mill in the bank. Winning
ReplyDeletefirst round is complete and maritimer, please say that again: Doesn't bother me at all if oleg thinks the Habs are a Cup contender.
ReplyDeleteSiM: sorry brother, but i absolutely disagree with you. all of that stuff you described yes, did happen, but none of those circumstances constitute a 5-minute penalty.
1. i totally agree that cross check to the face should have been called, but the nhl is run by cowards. this is playoff hockey. guys have to take it for the team. this is when you man up and take it. blah blah blah blah... no ref will ever call that a penalty. they will all cowardly allow the players to settle it on the ice.
2. the cross check put him off balance and into the path of the second guy. the second knight responded appropriately by dumping his opponent to the ground. he didnt do it in a malicious kind of way. it was more or less a typical shove my opponent out of the way move. the u/f thing there is the sharks guy was already off balance and (likely) already stunned by that crosscheck. who knows, maybe he had blacked out for a second or two...
3. the combination of those two events led him to fall helplessly to crash on his head.
4. the referees had no intention of calling a penalty. neither had their hand up. the knights touched the puck more than once before the whistle went. you can watch the replays and only when play was stopped did the referees realise how seriously injured the sharks guy was. from that interruption in play, the referees manufactured a 5-minute penalty. credit to the knights, they did not contest it. criticsm to the farce of the referees... they tossed somebody from the game. my question is why the cross checked? why not the second guy adjudged to have been responsible?
FU nhl... grow a spine and call a penalty regardless of the time on the clock, the score on the board, but dont you ever try to call things and attempt to give off legitimacy when we all know your only goal is to sell the game to the non-traditional markets....
The Habs are not a Cup contender. They weren't good enough to make the playoffs, therefore, they can't win it.
DeleteThe first round of the playoffs is over and my interest is waning fast. Although I am currently leading my hockey pool and have a legitimate shot at winning, I doubt I will be watching any more complete games. With Winnipeg and Calgary eliminated there are no Canadian teams left (SWIDT?) Maybe I'll tune in to the World championships and there is the Memorial Cup with Halifax hosting this year. Mostly, like les Canadiens, I am looking forward to golf season ... #soon.
ReplyDeleteGoing to the first showing of Avengers Endgame tonight with my youngest son. Heh, these young people and their smart phones can do amazing things, like get tickets!
1 Yr / $1M deal for NaTo.
ReplyDeleteAnother interesting move ...a depth center who will make the kids work hard for their spot. He's great on the dot, which you need and I hear he is great in the room. Plus he wants to be a Hab so I say it's a good move...for now
DeleteExcellent move, a la PleXXX last year. Insurance and a veteran to help show the newbies the ropes.
DeleteBergy setting up for next year, signed NaTo to a 1 year contract.
ReplyDeleteThe continuing angst and despair at the SFU is delicious.
I expect he would cost a first (probably 2 firsts), a high level prospect (Poehling or Suzuki) and a good roster player (anybody but kidA), but if willing to waive his NMC, one must wonder if Pittsburgh are at a crossroad where they would consider moving Malkin. Crosby would be preferred, but he will die a Penguin. Malkin 3 more years at $9.5 million. Habs have lots of room.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Malkin is the fit the Habs are looking for...big spend should be on a defenceman...
DeleteI agree with K3X. Get a top-four d-man. I do think Kadillak and Meat, Dish and BBQ (possibly Juuls and/or Folin) are top-four worthy, but pushing everyone down a level really helped JB last year.
DeleteI agree about not getting Malkin --- it's Crosby or bust.
DeletePretty sure Crosby wont leave until he is well past his sell by date - if ever...
DeleteLets go for Drew Doughty instead.
ReplyDeleteI think we will be better off looking forward to the Habs home grown players flourishing instead of wishing for this guy or that guy... I like to speculate as much as anybody but lets watch Kid KoHo, EA Poe and Nature Boy Suzuki become our own stars.
ReplyDeleteI would love it if we could build a solid contender from within. Fact is though, we don't have a real good track record of growing players within the system and keeping them as important parts. From the 2006 draft to present, we have kidA, Leko, Jewel, Meat & kidKo on the roster. Poe and Suzuki we hope pan out, but have been fooled before.
ReplyDeleteProblem is we never get those series of high end picks in a row to help the team grow into a contender. Hawks got Kane and Toews with high picks. Pens got Sid and Geno. Caps got Ovi and Backstrom. Bruins and Kings would be the outliers regarding recent successful teams in that regard. And we might hate 'em, but the wretched leaf evenhave a solid young core with 4 top 8 picks in 5 years. Unless Bergy offersheets Marner of course. 😎
So perhaps I lack the faith of an interior rebuild, I think somehow a #1 C and 2/3 D via trade or FA is needed for the team to compete before the Price/Weber window slams shut.
But I realize it's easy to armchair GM and that is an unlikely scenario. But ya never know what ol BBB is up to.
So NHL playoff 'ratings' will be taking a dip. Eat shit SFU!
ReplyDeleteI'd take Duschene over Malkin as he costs next to nothing, is younger and can solidify the lines.
ReplyDeleteIt's a much more likely scenario, but I'm guessing he will be looking for $7.5/annum for 7 years. I would be good with that signing.
DeleteDoes Alzner get bought out this year?
ReplyDeleteHe'd be on the books for 6 years for basically $1M, $4M, $2M, $1M, $1M, $1M.
I think it happens.
Probably. NHL days are behind him, looks like.
DeleteI feel kind of bad for Alzner, he signed in good faith but the game has left him behind. I hope some other team would take a chance on him, Montreal would probably have to retain some salary but they can easily afford it.
DeleteSeattle maybe?
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ReplyDeleteJordan Weal goes from 2-year, $3.5M deal to 2-year, $2.8M to stay with Canadiens
4 goals and 10 points in 16 games with the Habs. Great in the dot, and we learned he’s a good pp player. Lot of heart.
Bergy can now present it to the media as The Weal Deal
DeleteThese deals are what bargainbin bergy does best. The Radulovs and Markovs not so much...
DeleteGreat signing.
Deletemoeman and anyone else in the floodplains, hope you're out of harm's way
ReplyDeleteGood where I live but water rising fast.
DeleteN.B., MTL, OTT all under water.
DeleteWater under the inter-Provincial is scary high. My Lac Leamy bike path is, in places, 3-4 feet underwater but some nice deer along the roadway.
Deletehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-springtime-flooding-in-canada-what-you-need-to-know/
DeleteSee the #5 in the Gatineau pic, I live pretty much 5Km N-W from there.
Lac leamy flooding is extensive.
scary stuff. I suspect the worst is yet to come. Reminds me a little of the slow boil of the 98 ice storm. Climate change is barely starting to kick in. We're so fucking doomed.
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ReplyDeleteI hope he's successful but man oh man do the SFU overhype the hell out of star athletes in their city. I'm of course talking about Vladdy Jr's debut in tronna. What sucks most of all is that it's not the Expos that he's playing with .That said I might even make a rare tune in of a Jays game tonight.
ReplyDeleteGo Vladdy. Jays, meh don't care.
Best of all, a Vladdy Sr sighting watching his boy. And Jr arriving in an Expos jersey.
DeleteWell said. Despite being on a tranna team, I hope the kid does extremely well.
DeleteI remember being excited for every Vlad Sr. at bat.
Senior would almost come out of his shoes on some at bats. Kinda like me when I'm teeing off on a par 5...
DeleteIts a par 5, start with a nice iron ...
DeleteVladdy Jr. is already a star. Another parent at the Y swim lessons this morning was talking about this. A little chubby but so was the Babe, eh?
DeleteA lot of Mtl sports fans' heads turned at the sight of him sporting his pop's old #27 Expos pinstripe yesterday. PK could almost take PR lessons!
What a day. Mrs. Maritimer spent almost 6 hours at the ER getting tests for stomach distress. They finally got it figured out and she will be OK. I took her home and then had to pick up the 3 grandchildren from the sitter/school and take them home to await the arrival of Mom and Dad from work.
ReplyDeleteI'm bushed...
Good news theM.
DeleteWhat's for dinner?!
Subway.
DeleteWhat no A&W in the East. I love them but they are way to much sodium
DeleteGood to hear, hospitals are never fun places expect for babies
ReplyDeleteOkay smackdown the leaf. They have to sign Billy, he is a little shrimp, and will get 11 mill. They already have Shaggy who is unproven but trending up at that, and Johnny Toronto who in the playoffs did not earn that big paycheck. So we can offer sheet Kapitan and have a full finnish team.
ReplyDeleteNo waiting in Gods waiting room, the time to act is now, the time to step up and go full ZOmbie on the NHL is today. Fast Zombies who turn fast. we can be the extiction of the status quo, goo gog go
Hat tip to Bergy for AWD, signed him 400K under his last contract and he is a LB type potential.
ReplyDeleteSo I am hoping that the signing of Folin, Nate and AWD is about bbb getting the easy stuff out of the way - with Poehling and other rookies coming in (I have no idea which ones are coming next season - Suzuki? Others? ) Now he can focus on a No. 1 D and a proven power forward/sniper/goal scorer. I sense there is much more to come...
ReplyDeleteyeah, and Leko missing 20 goal-mark made his life easier too. That's his next signing. Although he might become a sacrificial lamb in a trade, or exposure to Seattle. I think a major pick-up will happen. I think Druid might even be done with if the right deal materializes.
DeletePFK odd man out in Nashville, if true we won the trade hands down. Another Gashville trade that is going south is the Ryan for Seth Jones. Jones is looking like a constant Norris contender.
ReplyDeleteI wanna see offer sheets, we should have the printer working overtime on them.
DuCH scores in DOT. Give him 14 million Bergy. Sometimes in life you just have to overpay.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he'll be like Pajama Boy and not even take bergy's phone call.
DeleteBreadman and Bob are Florida bound. Duchene re-signs in Columbus. bergy is left holding the bag.
MiniMax and Turnover Machine are our stars. Kid Koho is up and coming. That's the reality.
DuCH comes from my little Hamlet in Central Ontario, and if I know one thing about centrel Ontario, they dont care about money otherwise they would live in Toronto.
DeleteSo, I watched the season finale of Star Trek Discovery. That's it for me, I'm done. The only character I liked was Captain Lorca and he turned out to be a bad guy. Michael Burnham ... no. The rest of them are unlikeable. I thought Captain Pike and Spock could rescue this show but no, this past season was a jumbled mess. The "spore drive" was one of the dumbest ideas yet, it did not fit in with that era's tech.
ReplyDeleteThey should do a series with Pike, Spock and Rebecca Romijn as No. 1 and go back to exploring the galaxy, which is what Rodenberry wanted and stop fighting all these wars and big battles. I didn't mind the odd skirmish with the Klingons and Romulans but these writers have lost Gene's vision. Star Trek was supposed to be just that, a journey ... Wagon Train in Space.
Plus, I want to see the venerable old NCC-1701 U.S.S. Enterprise every week. The flagship of the fleet.
DeleteI like this series. Like you however, I agree there aren't any characters to really latch onto to 'cheer for'. I was wondering how they would explain the spore drive's existence and the only answer was time travel. That tech is now in the future. Anyway, decent action. I'll keep watching.
DeleteI hear they are working on a 'Section 31' spinoff with Michelle Yeoh, who was one of my favourite characters. I hear there is also a Jean Luc Picard prequel series in the works. Lots of online Trekkies calling for a Pike series, with Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn reprising their roles (I didn't recognize her until somebody pointed it out to me...but she looked familiar :) ).
For something a little different (and surprisingly OK), you could check out Seth MacFarlane's "The Orville". A touch of 'Family Guy' humour mixed in with space travel and a surprising amount of real life social issues. A little more about life on a starship, with some action/bad guys mixed in.
Not that there is anything wrong with being Gay, but I do not relate to love stories. If I want emotions I would watch Oprah or Ellen. I really liked the first 3 eps but did not watch more. My subconscious changed the channel and never let me know.
DeleteOkay now line up for the Zombie Apocolypse, Black Summer blasts through all the gunk that is TWD and gives you fast turning zombies who are fast on the ground, and hard to kill, and makes you think aboot a confrontation that might not be good for thinking units.
I have a theory and your not going to like it. What happened to music with Rap is happing to TV.
Hey the M. Did you stick out Gotham to the end? I won't say anything else about it in case you are and haven't got there yet. Interested in your thoughts if so.
ReplyDeleteAlso, without spoilers, is End Game something I need to see in theatre?
@ Saint Paddy, re: Gotham, no, I'm afraid I bailed on that a couple years ago, I think when Jim Gordon went corrupt. That didn't suit his character and was wrong IMO.
DeleteI've quit all the super hero TV shows. Too repetitive, especially the CW ones, Smallville redux. I liked the Netflix ones but they are all headed to Disney+. I forgot, I am watching Titans, that ain't your Grandpa's Robin... and will check out Swamp Thing when it launches. I'll probably return to Agents of SHIELD, I'm curious how it evolves after the fallout of Endgame.
And absolutely go see Endgame at the theater if you have seen all the other MCU movies. It ties everything up quite nicely and prepares for Phase 4. The 1st hour is a tad slow but the payoff is worth it. This movie will move into my Top 5 which are: Iron Man, Cap the First Avenger, Avengers I and The Winter Soldier bumping Dr. Strange and Guardians I.
I wouldn't bother with the 3D, that wore out for me a long time ago.
DeleteCHaracter driven series only work when the CHaracter is in a good place. Everything is CHaracter driven these days, especially radio. TSN 690 Habs radio is the least offender, if you listen to TOronto sports radio its all about what the host had for lunch breafeast and dinner, with a spinkle of sports inbetween , momstly baseball cause that is what the public cares the least about.
DeleteSpeaking of conspiracy, try watCHing The Predator. You cant without great effort, thats whats weird. Its worse than the Warren Commish or the 911 investigation. We are all prey for the Predators who give us away to keep a hot seat..
ReplyDeleteAs much as they try, they will never, ever repeat the magic of the original 'Predator' with Arnie. I've watched that movie many times and never get tired of it.
Delete"You're one ugly motherfucker...."
DeleteCheck out this move by Nick Suzuki, soon to be known as Nature Boy, coming to a rink near you...
ReplyDeletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/ext_tw_video_thumb/1122609648677392386/pu/img/q_Sy0TQJk0UXBwkz.jpg
Kid's got skills.
DeleteSaw that. Real beauty. Sadly, the broon rink announcer has ruined the WOOO! that Nature Boy should get when he scores goals.
DeletePretty nice day here, time to get the Mustang and my new $800 dollar bike my son got me on the road.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to stretch.
DeleteWoodstock 50 has been cancelled.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I was gonna crash the theM's, by way of St. Pad's, after picking up the marvelous Moey in Montreal.
Stop by anytime...
Deleterap music at woodstock is the end of the world
DeleteThought kidA might hit the Worlds. But he takes such a beating all year he probably just wants to heal up and get back to training. Thought Max might go too. Maybe he has American citizenship? Born in the Peg I'm prety sure. Then again maybe Habs are blacklisted. Who fucking knows.
ReplyDeleteI rarely if ever watch that tourney anyway, so nbd.
DeleteCaptain K is coaching. Otherwise, crickets. Let 'em enjoy the break and such anyway.
DeleteThere were a few Habs asked but they all declined. I remember Shaw said he would interested but they must have passed him over. I will tune in once in a while but it's not a priority.
DeleteYou know how to make an expensive bike even lighter, lose weight:). I have a bike worth more than some cars I own. But the 40 extra lbs on the saddle make the hills higher.
ReplyDeleteI bought my bike a Scott Sonoma made of 7001 alloy back in 2001. Like most things I have enjoyed the luxury ride, and it still is as good as anything on the road. I spend about $100 a year on tires, and brakes.
Mine is Canadian made, Norco I think. 27 speeds, paddle shifters, big balloon tires, shocks, adjustable seat this thing is sweet. You can 'quick-remove' the front wheel to prevent theft. I took my parcel carrier off my old bike and put it on the new one, now I need to swap the seat.
DeleteListening to the O Drive on TSN 1050, they are saying Kapanon and the other Swedish guy should just suck up and sign. Offer sheet them both.
ReplyDeletebergevin needs to pull a Burkie move like he did with phat Phil. Call up Julien BriseBois in Tampa and tell him "I'm going to offer sheet Braydon Point unless you want to make a deal". Let toronto and dumbass wallow in their own shit.
DeleteI want to see Nature Boy on a line with MiniMax next year.
Has anyone else noticed how the teams that Larry Robinson ends up working for tend to do reasonably well in the playoffs? All of teh sudden St, Louis is in with a pretty good shot at making it through to the next round. I caught the highlights of their game last night and they look pretty good. Same thing happend when he worked for the Devils. He did win a few cups with them too. And he made a difference in San Jose - even though they didn't win anything much while he was there.
ReplyDeleteIt's a travesty that he was never given a coaching job with the Habs. There were stories of him not wanting the stress of being behind the bench in Montreal, but I'm not sure how legit those were. Anyway, good for him - I hope he wins a cup. Be the last of the '67-68 teams with a ring. Except for one.
Deleteblack balled down deep, almost anal. Its like project high jump, JFK, Bobby K and 911. We will never know the truth. I for one can handle it.
ReplyDeleteI am a couple years late to find this excellent recording by Son Volt, but damn, it's too good not to share (third track especially)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkVE5bVH5XI
Wow thanks for sharing SiM. Never heard of these guys and I'm now about a third of the way through this full concert https://youtu.be/ZfkQQWgMFhA
DeleteTrying to think of a comparison but there are bits of so many artists depending on the song. A couple remind me of a great east coast band called The Stanfields if you're into that kind of music.
Hearing hints of Blue Rodeo, REM, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings...
DeleteAwesome stuff SiM. New the name, love the sound.
DeleteI have been championing Jay Farrar and his various incantations of Son Volt for a quarter century. Look for the Austin City Limits performance (circa 1995), and the album Wide Swing Tremolo from 1998.
DeleteAnd then there's the earlier stuff with Uncle Tupelo (especially the album "March 16-20 1992" - produced by R.E.M.'s Pete Buck, which has the best version you'll ever hear of Moonshiner)
I see Drouin had his fractured nose operated on today. My hopes are that it was replaced with a nose for the net.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure there is an invisible fence that he won't step across in the vicinity of the net.
DeleteHope the surgery takes then!
DeleteHeh heh...
DeleteRatface escapes justice again. Rumour we will get Kappanen for taking on Hortons contract.
ReplyDeleteNo, no helping the fucking wretched leaf.
DeleteSaw this on the Twitter machine.
ReplyDeleteGive me the Mount Rushmore of your favourite sports team. That’s one team, any sport, four people. Name the team & the 4 people.
~ ~ ~
Rocket ~ Le Gros Bill ~ The Roadrunner ~ Ken Dryden
Rocket, Beliveau, Dryden Lafleur
Delete@moe, nice picks, I concur whole heartedly.
DeleteWe'd need a second 70's version: Dryden has the spectacles for Roosevelt. Lafleur with his flowing locks would fit well in Washington's spot. Big Bird in Lincoln's spot. Serge Savard or In Bob We Trust to fill it out
DeleteOMG look at this embarrassment of riches from days gone by and then imagine the leafy fans trying to do a version for their team.
DeleteI am with K3X , although I might lean a little to St Pat instead of Ken.
DeleteIn more SFU 'news', awesome is having a 'surgery' ... I heard he is having some balls installed in his nutsack...
ReplyDeleteHeh. Any fans of the TPB need to watch their new animated series. They can be so much raunchier in cartoon land. I thought of this because there is an episode where they sell Cyrus' nuts because they need cash and replace them with clackers. Now whenever awesome is skating down the wing, in my mind I'll be hearing click clack click clack!
DeleteYesterday I was trying to explain to two Russian Sienfield fans about TPB. I did a plot summery of the time Bubbles got crabs.
DeleteR.I.P. Red Kelly.
ReplyDelete8 Stanley Cups, nothing to sneeze at.
yes indeed.
DeleteAlmost as old as QEII - a life well lived, methinks.
ha ha I cant breathe, I have run my package of the Druid and conclude, this year he will find that solcicte
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else think the game of thrones was too Dark? Well it turns out you need to watch it from a 1080P source, this is not yet available.
ReplyDeleteWhat is available is the beautiful raphael lavoie. Lets call him D"VinCHe, bring in his Renaissance of truculent goal scoring to Montreal. We may even get Samuel Poulin in the second round. With two second round draft picks we might get a fucking trifecta of talent that will see the team in 3 years be an unstoppable force, invunderbaule to even buttman calls.
Funny how we (Habs fans) are always looking down the road for the next influx of talent. Seems like it's been going on forever. We never talk about the present and the Habs chances of winning now. Thanks for nothing Geoff.
DeleteListening to;
ReplyDeletehttps://filthyfriends.bandcamp.com/album/emerald-valley
Not bad, not great. Was hoping it would rock a bit harder.
DeleteGood first track. Very Concrete Blondish.
DeleteThis be me (rough edges and all): https://soundcloud.com/randboro
DeleteMore shameless self-promotion (hey, moeman wants something that rocks harder)
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggRGizsiQLs
Ratface scores to give the Broons a 2-0 lead. Shouldn't even be on the ice. Shoulda been suspended.
ReplyDeleteBut this is in a country where the biggest and dumbest con man gets to be Preznit so...
Loved Torts post game interview. He doesn't suffer fools gladly.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if moe has seen the newest Rogers nepotism commercial with Marner and Matthews where they promote the NHL, NHLPA, Rogers and ....... Apple?
Regarding the Mount Rushmore post above, if I only use players in my memory (which would start mid 70s or so), I'd have to go with Dryden, Lafleur, Robinson, Roy. Why not 2 of the best goalies to ever play the game?
ReplyDeleteBeauty of a day. Just a quick yard work break...hope everybody else's spring has finally arrived too.
ReplyDeletehttps://fourhockeyfans.blogspot.com/2019/05/mount-habsmore.html
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