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I was going to choose this as my Xmas card ...
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NHL is lucky the Habs are the most popular/favourite team in Canada
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Never heard a NHL team be called 'World Champions', ever
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May all your wishes come true
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No good wishes to the SFU, ever
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Here comes 2021 leafools
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Got me a nice early Xmas gift from my daughter
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Make the best of the season FHFriends
Be safe, Be well, Be sexy
... and a special CHeer to all that we have lost,
may they never be forgotten,
and forever hold a special place in our hearts.
Peace
Love
How great is that Elvis & Martina (WOW!) version of, IMO, the best Xmas song?
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas moe, all the best in 2021. Looking forward to some good hockey from the rebuilt Habs. Please, just no more 8 game losing streaks. Ever.
ReplyDeleteBack at ya bro.
DeleteMerry Xmas moeman, Saint Pad, the M, K3X a d all FHFers --SiM
ReplyDeleteMerci SiM. Hug, safely, our favourite nurse.
DeleteMerry Xmas and Happy New you to all you FHFers! Stay safe and have fun!
DeleteHappy Christmas my FHFriends! As with everybody (I hope), it's a quiet one here with just the 3 of us. Video'd in daughter 2 as she spent her first xmas away. But she and her beau just moved into their new house in Gloucester (just east of Ottawa central) last week and have lots to keep themselves busy do that's good.
ReplyDeleteIt seems petty but all I want for Christmas is for the wretched leaf to finish 5th or lower. I'm assuming Habs will be top 3 so don't need to ask for that.
Christmas dinner might interfere with the USA game today but will look forward to the CC hilites.
I wish nothing but good cheer, safe and healthy living, the end to the 2020 nightmare and a bright future to all of you and Habs fans far and wide.
Seems I was wrong about the time for the USA game...but it's on pretty late here on the east coast.
DeleteHabs pick Kaiden Guhle scores Canada's first goal. Guhle rhymes with Gouhlie as in Zombie?
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm.... that doesn't look right. *Ghoulie* is correct.
DeleteMan, tsn sucks. WTF is the good of blowing that fucking goal horn 16 fucking times? Show some class ffs. There should be a mercy rule anyway, if you're up by ten after two periods shut it down. Why embarrass a bunch of teenage kids like that? Fuck off you toronto shit heads. I know it's being played in Edmonton but you know those brain dead fucks in tranna are responsible for that bullshit.
ReplyDeleteIt’ll never end and actually get worse.
DeleteWell, that was fun. Steelers fun.
ReplyDeleteHow you can tell if a team is any good is when they play a superior team. The Giants have a long way to go obviously. Baltimore toyed with them all day. Giants need talented players on offence. Big time.
ReplyDeleteThe extent of some people's greed knows no bounds. So the Pittsburgh Penguins got a $4.82 million COVID loan to pay their rent at the arena yet their billionaire owner had $22 million laying around to buy Neverland? WTF is wrong with this picture? In the meantime people who can't pay their rent are getting kicked out on the street. America is one fucked up country.
ReplyDeleteNot every day you get to sign a Hart winner to a one-year 750K contract as s low-risk depth forward. Also a former Olympic Gold winning teammate of TFS and BBQ's, and another Cup ring in the room. Bienvenue Corey Perry! --SiM
ReplyDeleteHah! SFU are completely flummoxed!
DeleteThat ol' grit, determination and heart thing.
DeleteBe fun to see him smash the penalty box glass like Gilmour did.
If I'm not mistaken, Perry wialso become the first Rocket Richard trophy winner to wear the Saint-Flanelle. --SiM
ReplyDeleteAs I mentioned on the Twitter machine, replying to a great East Coaster,
ReplyDelete'rat in French is rat', Perry nickname could be 'rat'.
Le rat!
DeleteMessier lite. Sneaky dirty. Gonna be sheer joy to see him take out one of the vaunted SFU four... maybe even Jumbo!
ReplyDeleteOK, so at 35, Corey Perry's best scoring days are behind him. But, he still plays with a mean streak and I like him as a depth player in case of injury which I'm sure there will be plenty in a compressed schedule. This deal is a win. Bonus:
ReplyDeletePerry was born on May 16, 1985, in Haileybury, Ontario,[3] the first of two boys born to Geoff and Nancy Perry. He and his brother Adam learned to skate when Corey was two. At age ten, he and his family moved to Peterborough, Ontario. Growing up, his favourite NHL team was the Montreal Canadiens.[4]
Suck it SFU and leafools.
LB has probably played his last game for the Habs. Character player but Perry and Frolik make him expendable. I can see bergy trading him to Ottawa for a later pick to give a rebuilding Senators team some experience and he is a local boy as well.
Dare I suggest JD might be worth moving... Dare I?
ReplyDeleteCan't see bergy moving his pet player that he sacrificed his No. 1 chip for. But, expect the unexpected and if you want loyalty buy a dog.
DeleteLook at the names on the list... "One of these names just doesn't belong here.. One of these names just doesn't belong..." Tough, strong, gritty antagonistic, are what you think about when you look at all the forwards the Habs have signed lately. 56 games to glory doesn't leave any room for pussy floaters. That game gets found out in a heartbeat. You play the same team 3 nights in a row in the same barn, floaters spend the games doing just that. Or they take BS hooking penalties. The grinders will get lots of ice time and will be the difference. If the job is to WIN NOW, BBB has built a pretty good team to do that.
DeleteI’m thinking CJv2 is liking his new players.
DeleteOMG! what is wrong with you guys!? you are actually clapping your hands for this POS and that POS frolik? AND for biding adieu to LB? NO! this is madness! letting domini go for anderson was a mistake, adding tiffoli was a win. adding jakie boy was a win. but adding these two and showing out LB and/or druid? come on! this team was not that far off from round 3 of the playoffs! you do not need to make wholesale changes like this!
ReplyDeleteby doing this you just made told evans, belieze, CHud, POE, weal they are useless! thnx for ruining 2-3 years of development!
C'mon oleg get off the weed man. All those puds you just mentioned are AHL chaff. Bergy finally convinced some real NHL players to sign in Montreal and you're upset?!!? Too funny.
DeleteShortened season, taxi squad, new division, bubbled.
DeleteMight have one of the best made up teams going in.
Make the playoffs boys.
It's about depth, oleg. The only reason LB or Druid are being floated as expendables is their contracts and Bergevin now needs to shed some to get under the cap. I like them both too, and think Tuna might be on the outs instead, but we shall see. --SiM
DeleteLots of leafools are laughing at the Habs recent signings, meanwhile boy blunder signs fucking hasbeens like Simmons, Thornton, Spezza and Bogosian and they are planning the parade. Those idiots wouldn't know what a good team looks like if it bit them in the ass.
ReplyDeleteYou can smell their fear across Canada.
DeleteSo, Clooney’s The midnight sky, a good flic, 7/10.
ReplyDelete‘Your Honor’ on HBO/Crave, 3 Eps in is fucking amazing.
‘Fleabag’, watched it all is fantastic.
Going to watch Midnight Sky
DeletePass on 'Your Honor'
Tried Fleabag, couldn't get into it
Loved The Umbrella Academy
Looking forward to Season 3 of 'Cobra Kai'
Almost finished Titans, two episodes to go
Going to give 'The Boys' a try in the new year
Maybe 'The Mandalorian' as well.
Think I’ll do ‘The Boys’ too.
DeleteThe Boys was pretty good. Just finished the excellent The Looming Tower (from 2018, but now streaming on Prime - Condi Rice was pitch-perfect). Might try Fleabag soon. --SiM
DeleteFor the first time in many, many years I am actually looking forward to watching the Habs play as I think they will actually be competitive and not 'just trying to make the playoffs'. That was fucking lame and embarrassing for old time Habs fans.
ReplyDeleteShould be fun if they make the playoffs and go deep.
DeleteNot sure if its more fun to watch NE or Dallas suck.
ReplyDeleteFuck it, nothing beats the leaf sucking.
+ 1 million
DeleteRest In Peace Dawn Wells, aka Mary Ann.
ReplyDeleteFUCK COVID !
DeleteI always preferred Mary Ann, I may have dreamed about her in my youth... RIP.
DeleteI hear you, the M: The quicksand episode. RIP Ms. Wells. --SiM
DeleteWhew, that was close. There are reports bbb tried to land the shaved ape, thank the hockey gods it didn't happen. I would never have cheered for that slug, bad enough his former coach is polluting the Habs dressing room. Thankfully he is off to D.C., hopefully to never defile the sainted flannel of the Rocket and Big Jean.
ReplyDeleteThe Shaved Ape becomes the Shaved Cap. Would've been a mistake to sign him here. Our D corps is solid and fast. --SiM
DeleteHow about these fucking moron politicians flying to the Caribbean for a holiday ignoring their own public health advice? They should all be cut loose from their parties. They should be fired from their seat if possible.
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 update (Montreal version). Well, the die is cast. Mrs. SiM's floor is going back to being re-purposed for COVID-19 patients. Hers was the last hold-out, meaning all beds in the MGH will be dedicated to patients fighting the fucker. Notorious 2020 had one last card to play I guess. Take extra care, FHFers, the new strain is out there. Stay in and stsy safe. --SiM
ReplyDeleteSiM I hope you and Mrs SiM stay safe and healthy. I can think of nothing more to say about our health care workers that hasn't been said, but I know they all deserve more credit, more pay, and more time off when we're finally through this than they will ever see.
DeleteNot sure if I missed it upthread, but I hope the vaccine is coming to health care workers and their bubble family if that hasn't already happened.
What St. Pad said.
DeleteSiM, let Mme. SiM know she is in our thoughts.
I'm not sure about Perry's abilities anymore, but I believe he is great for depth and the type of player a team needs for playoff hockey so for the price, love it. And hey, he was a Habs fan as a kid so good for him to wear that sweater for a season. Frolik I'm a bit meh on, but again it's about depth so that's fine.
ReplyDeleteI am more excited about this opening day lineup than I have been for a very long time.
Oh yeah, fuck da leaf and the SFU.
Those soft leaf will be bruised up!
DeleteAs for what am I watching?
ReplyDeleteLoved Season 1 of The Boys. Couldn't get through season 2.
Also binged 2 seasons of Cobra Kai and was pleasantly surprised.
Just finished Titans 2 seasons. Again pleasantly surprised. Very dark.
The Flight Attendant. It was decent.
Letterkenny - not everybody's cup of tea, took me a few EPs to get into it but ended up really enjoying it. Some seasons are better than others, just watched 2 for the new season and it's a toss up so far.
Your Honor is on my list but I'll wait and watch it all at once probably.
Ray Donovan on the list. Started watching it years ago so might need to start over. Ditto for The Expanse.
Was thinking of starting LetterKenny, looks funny.
DeleteKK + + for PL Dubois, if you are bergy do you do it?
ReplyDeleteTough one.
DeleteI really like PLD but I love KK.
PLD signed with his team, 2x$10M total.
DeleteHey FHFers,
ReplyDeleteHope everyone is enjoying, as much as possible, the 2020 Holidays.
Just Chilling' here, awaiting our neighbourhood outdoor cheers to tell 2020 to Fuck Off !
As mentioned, the year's salute goes to the front-liners and healthcare workers and to ALL those we've lost, many that could have been avoided.
We are lucky but we must strive to be safe.
All the best FHFriends.
Happy New Year, FHFers, you've helped me get through some tough moments in a tough year. Mensches, all o'yous. Now bring on 2021, and a bona fide Cup run! --SiM
DeleteCould/should be a fun season.
DeleteHug (safely) our favourite nurse !
I hope Kid Koho develops into a PLD type player, they are both 3rd overall picks.
ReplyDeleteFuck the leaf and the SFU.
Agree, would love to see KK keep improving in size and skill.
DeleteLifelong Québecer here who tried watching ByeBye last night for the first time ever. Some hits, some misses, some stuff that proved how "plugged-in" to Québec culture I am decidedly NOT. Legault got off too easy. A good bit on trying to train Québec cops on treating minorities like people... Mostly lame. They made fun of poor folks in RV campgrounds in the Gaspé, a la Trailer Park Boys, and further research allows me to get the reference to a TV series I'd never encountered. The best part for me was Carbo entering when someone exasperated ly asked if 2020 would ever end and 21 would show up. I'm here! Says Carbo sporting his Saint-Flanelle #21. --SiM
ReplyDeleteWatched it back in the day when RBO did it. Been years.
DeleteNice brisk 12.7k walk in the forest this morning.
ReplyDeleteThat's a decent trek. I just did 5k around the neighbourhood to try to start to get rid of the holiday madness that was much eating and drinking.
Delete.
ReplyDeleteOops.
DeleteAnother 8k today but this time I snagged 5 neighbours to join us.
Gorgeous, sunny 0º, surrounded by white fluffy stuff.
How's 'bout dem cowboys?
ReplyDelete(I know, PIT played like shit, see I made a rhyme)
Go Giants !
Well, well, well. The New York Football Giants with a 6-10 record, can still possibly maybe make the playoffs if Washington loses to Philly. Crazy stuff. I thought the Cowboys were going to pull it off, until that 300lb linebacker stepped on Andy Dalton's hand. Ouch!
ReplyDeleteGo Eagles!!
Good luck Maritimer. 1 playoff game is better than none. Steelers will be in tough but a chance for revenge against Baker and friends next week.
ReplyDeleteThanks, it would be fun whoever the Giants play!
Deletemoe's Steelers will be tough at home, they were playing a lot of second stringers today.
NHL hockey is just around the corner. The SFU aka tsn and snet leaf PR machines will be churning full force the next two weeks. That's why it's so delicious when they ultimately fail. Speaking of failure, I read that the putrid leaf will tie the New York Rangers for Stanley Cup futility this Spring err, Summer I guess, when they hit the 54 year mark of not winning. The Rags run was 1940-1994, the laughable leaf should easily surpass that feat.
ReplyDeleteThis is why I kind of cheer for teams like the Cleveland Indians and Detroit Lions. It would be best for all if the wretched leaf were the reigning team of futility for the 4 major North American sports.
DeleteOoh, lots of salty Giants on the social media last night. Can't say I'm sad about it though, ever since David Tyree and 'the catch' on the same night that my mother passed...hard to believe it's 13 years.
ReplyDeleteOh well, the eagles fucked us. Typical philly behaviour...
ReplyDeleteRest In Peace to the beautiful Tanya Roberts.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was rakish news.
DeleteFake news?
DeleteShe's apparently dead for real now. If so, RIP.
DeleteI remember her in Sheena, I didn't watch that as a teenager for the quality film making.
I watched the Canada/USA match this morning, Team Canada has nothing to be ashamed about, the Americans played a perfect road game, their defensive play and goaltending were outstanding. They got two breaks (a deflection and a timely rebound) while the Canadians got zip. That's the way it goes sometimes, as we have all witnessed many times I'm sure. OK then, on to the NHL and our Habs, may they win many games against the wretched, putrid, hated leaf.
ReplyDeletewe seldom see i2i, but yep. spot on big M. nothing to be ashamed about. i thought the match was even. the only difference being the yanks more leathal finishing their chances than our boys were. if you wanna count quality scoring chances though... i think we outdid them 8-3?
ReplyDeletemy two biggest take aways is poise underpressure/in close. those two clear-cut chances when the D jumped in and took those shots is the difference between good teams and teams with high end talent. i know they are defensemen, but imagine somebody with hands like paul coffee bearing down on goal like that. sometimes, he'de shoot, other times, he would look for a killer cross crease pass, other times, he would make a fantastic move around the keeper. in the modern NHL, no D-man comes to mind who can do that and with those two plays the keeper knows its gonna be a shot so his guess work is reduced by 2/3. makes his job a whole lot easier and the posts a whole lot bigger.
funny stat when i was watching:
each time they play the americans for the gold at home, they lose. 3 straight times now incld yd.
Toronto Sports Network
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Will TSN be televising any intrasquad games of other Canadian teams?
Spoiler Alert: No, they will not.
#TorontoSportsNetwork #BigSurprise
I hope matthews gets hurt.
Fuck the SFU.
As I've said many times times before, it will get way worse before it never gets better.
Delete... and by worse I never once thought a pandemic and a shortened season with a Canadian division.
If anyone thinks the sfu's anti-anyone-but-their-leaf bile has been bad, just wait as they are cranking up their hate machine.
https://montrealgazette.com/sports/hockey/nhl/hockey-inside-out/canadiens-tv-schedule-in-2021-56-games-on-tsn2-and-sportsnet
ReplyDeleteThanks to Steve Faguy, (link above) I gathered buying TekSavvy's new RDS exclusive add-on for $15 a month is all I need, with 41 games there, and the remainder available on CBC. Think I'm set. I don't have time or attention span to worry about NFL or any other sports.
Hope you're all safe and sound, FHFers. GYFHG
Thx SiM !
ReplyDeleteWill check my new Helix account.
Go Bills !
Since I live in the east I get all the Habs games on tsn2 plus whatever hnit throws our way, probably CityTV or one of the leafnet channels. I know, I still have cable Mrs. TheM can't live without TLC and I can't find a stream for that channel. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteBills beat Indy, check.
ReplyDeleteRams beat Seattle, kinda surprised about that.
The Brady Bunch shouldn't have too much trouble with the WFT. Or is that WTF?
Brady Bunch moves on as predicted.
DeleteI know moe will be disappointed I'm cheering against his Steelers tonight but I most always root for the underdog in football. The Browns have been doormats for years, if not decades. Also, I like Baker Mayfield, I wish the Giants could get him.
Hey, anybody here watch the legendary blue and white game last night on the toronto sports network? LOL! I didn't think so. I hope Kristen Shilton achieved an orgasm watching her beloved leaf.
Scrimmage being televised on RDS2 tonight at 6:30. --SiM
ReplyDeleteNothing against your Steelers moe, but the Browns are one of those teams with a longer record of futility than the leaf. So I will always cheer for those teams so long as their is a chance to out the lead at the absolute bottom of the shit house.
ReplyDeleteYou know when I was born we still had an outhouse, but we had a new house built on the land, with plumbing, that we moved into just before my 1st birthday. Still made lots of use out of the old shorter though...but I digress.
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Delete*put the leaf
28-0 in the 1st quarter!?
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is happening?
Good news is there is lots of time left...
Gulp...
DeleteOuf.
ReplyDeleteHabs or Steelers, when you play like total shit, you deserve to lose. (Except vs. leaf or cowboys)
ReplyDeleteHopefully the days of the Habs playing like shit are over. *Fingers crossed*
DeleteI watched a lot of shit football this season... and they deserved to lose.
Habs on RDS2
ReplyDeleteSteelers on RDS1
Rum on Eldorado5
Cue the comeback...
ReplyDeleteHold my beer...
DeleteWell, it looks like the Steelers rallied in the second half but that was a big hole to climb out of.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll adopt Baker's Browns for the rest of the playoffs.
Thumbs up to American patriot coach Bill Belichick.
ReplyDeleteYeah at least BB had the sense to say no thanks at this time. Take that honour later...or not at all.
DeleteGeez boys it's possible that our teams are all searching for a new QB for next season. Good luck!
ONE MORE SLEEP!
ReplyDeleteI didn't think I'd be this excited for hockey, but I am so interested in seeing the new makeup of this team and how they fare against teams with more offensively gifted players. Most excited to see Raspy (throwing ideas out there). The Czar? Maybe Sasha or SaÇHa? Romeo - "I defy you, stars!"
I'll freshen up the blog before the game.
DeleteGYFHG !
I think the Habs are a better balanced team thank the fucking leaf. Columbus proved you can shut down the $40 million dollar men easily enough. And so did a 42 year old AHL Zamboni driver. The sfu and their leafool sycophants seem to forget that, or ignore it.
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Deletehttps://fourhockeyfans.blogspot.com/2021/01/2021-new-season-56-games-all-canadian.html
ReplyDeleteNature Boy!
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