Time to break up the three amigos goaltenders in Montreal.
1) Full Monty is obviously the No.1 so, 2) Trade Primeau to Philthy, he has a better chance to start there, Hart is doubtful to ever return 3) Keep Jake for another year at least maybe more, he is a decent backup and 4) That lets Dobes and Fowler develop for another couple years and see what they have.
We are going to lose a lot. Espiciallly if the AI benches MontobotHO. Loose Loose hard and loose fast and hope for at least number 8. There are 30 teams in the NHL, you cant legacy your way to the cup
Interesting fact from Herb at the Gazoo is CC’s assists are at 23 compared to 10 in 46 games last year Speaks to the chemistry he has with Nature MSL would be wise to keep them together As CHester is old and can see into the past I always remember the great line combos that were kept together because there was chemistry between linemates It’s like lightning in a bottle or some such expression Also no disrespect to Sevens but the Pez man is breathing down your neck we need something more from Sevens just skating down on the forecheck isn’t enough in a competitive environment Hugo has fixed the goalies and has created a defence to be proud of and so the offense is clearly next We have many underachieving bottom six as well as players just keeping a place on the bench warm Should be interesting Go Habs
Spot on CHester. I too, remember the great line combos of the past, Richard and Lach were before my time but I remember Beliveau and Cournoyer, Lafleur and Shutt, Bobby Smith and Mats Naslund, Corson and Richer. Even to a lesser extent Saku and Kovalev. Let's hope Nick and CC can get there someday.
You are correct, the goaltending seems settled with Monty, Hughes still has a few details to work out there and the D needs experience. If the forwards can get their shit together and stay healthy it would be a big help.
Team played great in the first. Fell asleep in the 2nd. Woke up for parts of the 3rd. Nice to score 5 goals, but Washington is old and slow and Habs gave up 39 shots. Maybe all the loser 'experts' predicting lineups for the event next year and the '26 Olympics WILL be forced to consider Monty as one of the three goalies if he keeps this up.
Tuesday night is Trivia Night at Big Tide Brewing, a fun night with lots of laughs and a beer.
I looked at the Habs lineup pre-game and wrote it off as a loss. They had a goaltender, a defence and one line. The other 9 were just warm bodies skating around trying not to get scored on. All I can figure is Ovie's team were still hung over from the break and didn't take Montreal very seriously. Another two points the Tankers didn't want. Honestly, I don't think where they finish matters, Hughes has enough money in the bank to pull off a deal and get whoever he wants this June. Hopefully he goes gunning for a top end forward.
It annoys me to no end, these armchair GMs, saying 'trade this guy, trade that guy.' I think Hughes traded who he needed to, other than Pearson, all the other vets still have term. Keep them, they are more valuable to Montreal than more picks. Savard is still an effective defenceman and Allen is a great back up goalie. Like I said earlier, Primeau is never going to start in Montreal, send him to Philthy so he can have a chance.
They had the Calgary/beaners game on last night at the bar and I saw the Flames jumped on those scumbags early. I caught the hi-lites after I got home and saw some rookie got ratface douchebag right on his ugly beak with a nice high stick. Effin beautiful! Love seeing that dirtbag get a taste of his own medicine.
One more thing, I suppose it's only fair to give a shout out to bargainbin bergy for finding Monty while dumpster diving in Sunrise, Fla. An even better find than Lord Byron.
Didn't hear Cognac's name called much last night but he played nearly as much as Caufield and Anderson, and more than Evans and Pez. I did see him with a couple of speedy rushes, looks fast. 50% on faceoffs. Other than that he's still an unknown to me.
Watching that Sergachev injury, can't imagine he'll be playing again this season. Maybe TB will come knocking looking for Savard again. Or Matheson. Pay up big if you want 'em. Otherwise take a hike.
Looking at Cap Friendly, the Dolts have no 1st or 2nd round picks in 2024, no 1st round pick in 2025. They have a 1st round pick in 2026 when they should be on a severe drop in the standings so maybe that would be worth Savard. But, I say it ain't happening. Interesting, TB have the 2nd highest cap hit have the wretched leaf, they can't do much I would think. Doucherov is an asshole, Vaseline is struggling and they aren't negotiating with Stamkos, hard times coming for that bunch. Good, still hate them after beating the Habs in 2021.
Ya ditto Plus that cooper person is the definition of a smug little shit He deserves that coocherave creature they compliment each other Dickwads fuck them Go Habs
Bell Media sure are concerned about people's mental health eh? More like their shareholders and executives who will get their bonuses for cutting so many throats.
And since I am ranting, fuck post media too for ruining our local paper, only publishing 3 print papers a week, shrinking the print size so you need a magnifying glass to read it and cutting local news to next to nothing. They've eliminated some of the weekly papers too in small towns like Woodstock Bunch of heartless bastards
We’ll it’s better than what we get here in the 3rd world of queebek I can’t read the Montreal gazette because of all the stories of heir legault and his merry band of racists fucking over the English people here From denying English services in hospitals to restricting access to English universities My town that I live in is not classified as bilingual so nothing from city hall is in English As Mrs CHester and I are retired we have no options but to live in this god forsaken 3rd world country with the bigots If I were a younger man I would leave and move to Canada Go Habs
And the bilingual municipalities must reapply yearly to Québec to maintain that status. No, the welcome mat is not out, even for those like me, native anglo Quebeckers. Legault is doing the dirty work his predecessors didn't have the will to do, of getting rid of the "money and ethnics" who weren't on board with Parizeau's cockamamie separation plan, just doing it very slowly. The Maritimes would be my first option. NS stole Mrs. SiM's and my hearts.
Phoque lego and his ilk. Now we hear the pq party is in the lead ? WTF ?
Also, here in Gatineau, you'd be surprised at the level of support that lego gets. It is really weird. A lot of anti-immigrant sentiment, even some of my neighbours on the street. ~ moe
Funny how PM Trudeau has allowed all this anti-English (which seems more ramped up than ever) nonsense to happen under his watch. His father would never have allowed it. I don't think I will ever set foot in Quebec again. I feel the same way about the U.S. as long as the MAGA idiots are around. I'm fine staying here in the Maritimes. SiM and Mr. and Mrs. CHester are welcome to join us folks down here as well. Brother moe too.
Oh and thanks to The Maritimer for the hospitality to Mrs CHester and myself East coasters are the most salt of the earth people friendly and caring My dads side were from New Brunswick esso transferred my granddad to Montreal when my dad was a teenager I’ve lost touch with whom ever might be left Sad really Go Habs
There are more Ontarians here in Saint John and the province than you can shake a stick at, especially since Covid-19. Many of them are housing 'refugees', people who couldn't afford to buy a house in the GTA. Even prominent musician Maestro Fresh Wes moved here, he lives in the south end of Saint John and has his own TV show on CBC called Race Against the Tide where people try to build sand sculptures at New River beach before the tide comes in and wipes them out.
Alienated anglos in Quebec are welcome here too. Get a fresh start and get away from racists like Legault and Blanchett. Speaking of those two and the separatists, there is an easy solution to shut those guys up. Turn off the money tap. No more equalization payments. They want to be their own nation and speak French only? Sure, go ahead, see what happens when trying to negotiate deals with the Americans or the RoC when you don't want to talk in the language of the business world. I suspect there would be a huge out migration from la belle province pretty darn quick.
I know ignoring it isn't the solution, but there is so much shit happening in the world, sometimes I've got to just tune it all out and sink my time into something more mind numbing like sports. This is the perfect weekend with the two afternoon games, the WM Phoenix Open where Canada's Nick Taylor sits tied in first after tying the tournament record in round 1, and of course the Swift...err...Super Bowl Sunday night. F Bell Media. F the SFU.
My youngest son who works for Telus tells me they will be offering 1 Gigabite internet here in NB in the spring. If true, Bell Canada can kiss my arse goodbye. How is your Chill TV working out? A friend of mind subscribed. I've read there are buffering issues.
Looking at the lineups for today, I forgot Boris Badanov now plays for Dallas. No doubt he will want to pot a couple against his former team just to prove a point. He got a couple against the wretched, hideous leaf on Wednesday so maybe he has shot his wad already.
I'm a fan of the underdog. Plus I'm getting a little tired of KCs chop chop thing. I would love to see Mr Irrelevant take down Mahomes and Mr Swift. As much as I do have a great deal of respect for Fat Andy and Steve The Dman I love a fairy tale success story and that would be Mr Brock taking down Mahomes in The Big Show in The Big Place Kuddos for San Fran to give him the ball at the beginning of this season and double kuddos to Mr Irrelevant for producing. I'm sure 49 ers management had their finger on the replace button at the beginning but the stars aligned and here they are. Either way it should be a good show just sad for no commercials for Canada we get to see that girl in the wheelchair and her dog over and over Sigh Go Habs
It just keeps happening. RHP looks like he might be gone for a while with that collision . And the Habs have fallen apart since it happened , allowing two quick ones.
Yup, got beaten by Oetinger, no shame there. Only a one line team with a mobile D and Sammy Lightningbolt. I hate to say it but Josh might be as big a boat anchor going forward as Lep contract-wise. Bergy says: "hold my beer peasants..."
So I’m watching yesterday and every PP we get we do this stupid drop pass back to nature So now everyone is frozen at the opponents blue line waiting for nature So when he arrives at speed there are 10 people standing there I have never seen something so fundamentally fucked up as this I know some other clubs do this but are we paying Alex burrows to orchestrate this disaster The second PP team doesn’t seem to do it I’m sorry I just don’t get it Go Habs
Ghoul just tried it, to no discernible benefit again. I thought they'd learned how ineffective it was but maybe they just want to throw the other team off, assignnent-wise. One of these days it'll pay! It'll be glorious! Ticker tape parade time!!
When Gallagher made his bone headed play nearly all Habs fans were in agreement it was dumb and worth a lot of games.
Leaf fans on the other hand are aligning with their coach and saying the play was 'appropriate' based on the circumstances and a suspension is not warranted.
That is one fundamental difference twixt the fan bases.
It's pathetic. I'm getting tired of watching an AHL team, 3rd year in a row.
All the fan sites paint such rosy pictures of a great young team learning the ropes and all I see are players who can't or won't execute on special teams. You'd think after a year and a half they would have figured something out.
As bleak as things look going into the third down 4-1, I've got a sneaky-spooky Suzuki suspicion the Blues might step off the gas and a comeback with a shortened bench (and four D, sorry Strobelight) isn't outside the realm of possibility.
That doggie in the window. Maybe Alex Burgess says that is a d0oor to percep[tion. So Jake the SNAKE becomes an andaconda keeping the goal safe. Post to post is always there, Top shelf, you got to go three expect convolutions. I predict the Montreal CANADIENS will be the first team to make a SNAKE the goalie.
Hughes' biggest mistake by far (so far) is keeping three goalies all year. It's reduced the development of Primeau, and to an extent, Monty who hasn't played a a true #1 or 1A. And his limited use has rendered Allen worthless. Take a low pick for one or waive one and who cares if they get claimed.
Personally I'd trade Primeau if anybody would offer a 6th round pick, a round better than he was drafted. Fowler is the future a, possibly along with the Russian goalie that was drafted ilast year too.
I quit the Habs 'game' after the 4th Blues goal, just got caught up on my reading. Sounds like quite the shitshow at the end. Are there any D left to play? And, was Jake Allen playing that badly so as to NOT get traded? Seems like it, I wouldn't give a bag of pucks for him right now.
I'm going to defend Jake Allen. Is he still a capable goalie in the NHL? I think so. Is he a #1? Definitely not any more. We have to remember he was the backup to Billington in St. Louis and he was brought in to be Carey Price's backup. Price was finished and then Jake gets thrown to the wolves playing for a team that was self-destructing under an overwhelmed junior coach. Now he's playing very sporadically in a 3 goalie system where he has no idea when or if he will be playing again. That's on management. Could Jake have played better yesterday? Right off the bat the pylons playing D let a guy waltz right in untouched. Then the rest of the day this same D stood around and watched (especially during the PK) as St. Louis had free rein to stand in front of him doing whatever they wanted to. I quit watching after it was 4 - 1 but that is basically what happened, correct? And Coach Marty didn't even have the decency to pull Allen out of that effed up mess.
Don't blame Jake. Look at the team playing in front of him. Other than line 1, does any of that scare another team, especially a big, solid, talented bunch like the Blues? And then Harris goes down and they are shorthanded the rest of the day.
Allen may have little value on the trade market but it's hardly his fault, that's all I'm saying.
I thought the Niners would pull it off last night but Mahomes is almost unstoppable in those situations. Too bad, I would have enjoyed watching Travis and Tay Tay crying after. And Andy Reid should have punched Travis in the puss for his antics on the sideline.
It’s amateur to leave your goalie in for 7 goals You have a backup Bad play on the D aside you don’t do what fucking lepew did to st Patrick Things are going down the pooper pull Jake period fucking amateur hour on MSL Anyway Sad for 49ers I feel the difference in the game was fat Andy and Steve the D 49ers don’t match up there but they did everywhere else They took the chiefs to overtime But the coaching of the chiefs is the best in the league Would have liked to see the chiefs taken down a notch would have been good for the NFL Got sick of Brady getting sick of maholms Go Habs
I like that the women are using the 3-2-1 point system. 3 pts for a regulation win, 2 for an OT/SO win, 1 for an OT/SO loss.
The NHL has argued that it would separate the standings too much and we wouldn't have meaningful games down the stretch. That's a load of crap.
In the east right now with this system, there would be big changes. FLA would be on top with 89 pts. BOS and TB would round out that division's top 3. NYR would be at 88 pts with CAR and PHI still in that top 3.
But the wild cards...well! Instead of TOR at #7 we would have NJ with 68 pts. DET would still be in 8th with 67 pts. 9th place - BUF! at 62 10th place - PIT at 61 11th place - TOR at 60 ... ... ... 15th place - HABS at 45 16th place - CBS at 38
Yeah it would change things a lot. You might see more teams actually trying to win a game in regulation rather than playing for 1 point. I would love to see this change, but it won't be in the Bettman era, or maybe never, because somehow it probably has a big impact on gambling, which now owns professional sports. But the EPL use this system I think and there are HUGE sums gambled on that league, so maybe...some day.
My prediction for the Rielly hearing - 4 games. I'm not defending him or the play in any way, but I've watched the play many times, and it seems as soon as he makes contact with the head he lets go of the stick, whether that was intentional or just losing his grip. But I think that saved any potential injury to Grieg. So with no suspension history and no injury, I think it is just the nature of intent and the fact that it was after the play on an unsuspecting player (even if he saw Rielly coming at the last moment) with the head shot (whether intentional or not) will = four games. Though the fact it is in person means maybe it will be six. Or maybe he will walk away with a $5K fine when you compare that hit to the 2 games that Underpants got for his vicious shot to Sandin.
The blabber coming out of cotu is deafening They are indignant that the Reilly thug even got a penalty What a bunch of fuckwits I would love to see a playoff series with these two The snores might lose but not before they slapped the leaf around Go Habs
Regarding the 3-2-1 points system, I used to be against it because it would likely inflate the total points in a season and I didn't want to see the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens single season record of 132 points fall artificially. Now that the record has fallen anyway, IDGAF anymore. And as we all know, the dirty stinkin' beaners did not have the greatest season of all time. You have to go all the way to get that distinction. So F U SFU.
As for bad boy Reilly, he'll get 5+ for his offense. Remember a couple years ago when the SFU were saying auston was better than Gretzky and Reilly was better than Orr? Bwahahahahaha!!!!!! What kind of drugs do those idiots do up there in the Big Smoke??!!??
Gordie
ReplyDeleteTime to break up the three amigos goaltenders in Montreal.
ReplyDelete1) Full Monty is obviously the No.1 so,
2) Trade Primeau to Philthy, he has a better chance to start there, Hart is doubtful to ever return
3) Keep Jake for another year at least maybe more, he is a decent backup and
4) That lets Dobes and Fowler develop for another couple years and see what they have.
yep
DeleteBrilliant plan.
DeleteI washed my car this weekend...nowhere near as entertaining as what you shared here Moe...clearlybi need to get someone else to do it for me...
ReplyDeleteWe are going to lose a lot. Espiciallly if the AI benches MontobotHO. Loose Loose hard and loose fast and hope for at least number 8. There are 30 teams in the NHL, you cant legacy your way to the cup
ReplyDeleteI either didn't know or have forgotten that Patches plays for the Caps.
ReplyDeleteNature!
ReplyDeleteBeauty play from CC to extend his streak to 10 games.
DeleteNature again!
ReplyDeletePez dispenses one! 3 zip.
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ReplyDeleteOn PK, just loving how Putin's #8 is way out on his own, not a big enough threat to merit watching him too closely. How far the mighty have fallen.
ReplyDeleteOkay, maybe he's still a LITTLE bit of a threat.
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It's time for the Sheriff to get Cyr-ious with Mr. Wilson.
ReplyDeleteSlaf!
ReplyDeleteLast Slaf!
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ReplyDeleteInteresting fact from Herb at the Gazoo is CC’s assists are at 23 compared to 10 in 46 games last year
ReplyDeleteSpeaks to the chemistry he has with Nature
MSL would be wise to keep them together
As CHester is old and can see into the past I always remember the great line combos that were kept together because there was chemistry between linemates
It’s like lightning in a bottle or some such expression
Also no disrespect to Sevens but the Pez man is breathing down your neck we need something more from Sevens just skating down on the forecheck isn’t enough in a competitive environment
Hugo has fixed the goalies and has created a defence to be proud of and so the offense is clearly next
We have many underachieving bottom six as well as players just keeping a place on the bench warm
Should be interesting
Go Habs
Spot on CHester.
DeleteI too, remember the great line combos of the past, Richard and Lach were before my time but I remember Beliveau and Cournoyer, Lafleur and Shutt, Bobby Smith and Mats Naslund, Corson and Richer. Even to a lesser extent Saku and Kovalev. Let's hope Nick and CC can get there someday.
You are correct, the goaltending seems settled with Monty, Hughes still has a few details to work out there and the D needs experience. If the forwards can get their shit together and stay healthy it would be a big help.
Team played great in the first. Fell asleep in the 2nd. Woke up for parts of the 3rd. Nice to score 5 goals, but Washington is old and slow and Habs gave up 39 shots. Maybe all the loser 'experts' predicting lineups for the event next year and the '26 Olympics WILL be forced to consider Monty as one of the three goalies if he keeps this up.
ReplyDeleteGood win. Still learning. ~ moe
ReplyDeleteTuesday night is Trivia Night at Big Tide Brewing, a fun night with lots of laughs and a beer.
ReplyDeleteI looked at the Habs lineup pre-game and wrote it off as a loss. They had a goaltender, a defence and one line. The other 9 were just warm bodies skating around trying not to get scored on. All I can figure is Ovie's team were still hung over from the break and didn't take Montreal very seriously. Another two points the Tankers didn't want. Honestly, I don't think where they finish matters, Hughes has enough money in the bank to pull off a deal and get whoever he wants this June. Hopefully he goes gunning for a top end forward.
It annoys me to no end, these armchair GMs, saying 'trade this guy, trade that guy.' I think Hughes traded who he needed to, other than Pearson, all the other vets still have term. Keep them, they are more valuable to Montreal than more picks. Savard is still an effective defenceman and Allen is a great back up goalie. Like I said earlier, Primeau is never going to start in Montreal, send him to Philthy so he can have a chance.
They had the Calgary/beaners game on last night at the bar and I saw the Flames jumped on those scumbags early. I caught the hi-lites after I got home and saw some rookie got ratface douchebag right on his ugly beak with a nice high stick. Effin beautiful! Love seeing that dirtbag get a taste of his own medicine.
As CHester likes to say
Go Habs!
One more thing, I suppose it's only fair to give a shout out to bargainbin bergy for finding Monty while dumpster diving in Sunrise, Fla. An even better find than Lord Byron.
ReplyDeleteDidn't hear Cognac's name called much last night but he played nearly as much as Caufield and Anderson, and more than Evans and Pez. I did see him with a couple of speedy rushes, looks fast. 50% on faceoffs. Other than that he's still an unknown to me.
ReplyDeleteGot to give Nature some kudos, great game. ~ moe
ReplyDeleteWhiskey's pass to Nature on the 1st goal was almost as sublime as the way Nature smashed that pass home...smooth as...
ReplyDeleteMacallan single malt...
DeleteWatching that Sergachev injury, can't imagine he'll be playing again this season. Maybe TB will come knocking looking for Savard again. Or Matheson. Pay up big if you want 'em. Otherwise take a hike.
ReplyDeleteLooking at Cap Friendly, the Dolts have no 1st or 2nd round picks in 2024, no 1st round pick in 2025. They have a 1st round pick in 2026 when they should be on a severe drop in the standings so maybe that would be worth Savard. But, I say it ain't happening. Interesting, TB have the 2nd highest cap hit have the wretched leaf, they can't do much I would think. Doucherov is an asshole, Vaseline is struggling and they aren't negotiating with Stamkos, hard times coming for that bunch. Good, still hate them after beating the Habs in 2021.
DeleteYa ditto
ReplyDeletePlus that cooper person is the definition of a smug little shit
He deserves that coocherave creature they compliment each other
Dickwads fuck them
Go Habs
Watching the CTV news tonight, the 2nd story is... Guess what motherf#@ckers we're all laid off!!
ReplyDeleteNo more weekend news broadcasts in the Atlantic provinces, all of our news will be coming out of a shithole in Ontario.
Bell Media sure are concerned about people's mental health eh? More like their shareholders and executives who will get their bonuses for cutting so many throats.
DeleteScott Laurie is an old friend and colleague. He shared some stories. Ratfuckers.
DeleteAnd since I am ranting, fuck post media too for ruining our local paper, only publishing 3 print papers a week, shrinking the print size so you need a magnifying glass to read it and cutting local news to next to nothing. They've eliminated some of the weekly papers too in small towns like Woodstock
ReplyDeleteBunch of heartless bastards
We’ll it’s better than what we get here in the 3rd world of queebek
ReplyDeleteI can’t read the Montreal gazette because of all the stories of heir legault and his merry band of racists fucking over the English people here
From denying English services in hospitals to restricting access to English universities
My town that I live in is not classified as bilingual so nothing from city hall is in English
As Mrs CHester and I are retired we have no options but to live in this god forsaken 3rd world country with the bigots
If I were a younger man I would leave and move to Canada
Go Habs
And the bilingual municipalities must reapply yearly to Québec to maintain that status. No, the welcome mat is not out, even for those like me, native anglo Quebeckers. Legault is doing the dirty work his predecessors didn't have the will to do, of getting rid of the "money and ethnics" who weren't on board with Parizeau's cockamamie separation plan, just doing it very slowly. The Maritimes would be my first option. NS stole Mrs. SiM's and my hearts.
DeletePhoque lego and his ilk. Now we hear the pq party is in the lead ? WTF ?
DeleteAlso, here in Gatineau, you'd be surprised at the level of support that lego gets. It is really weird. A lot of anti-immigrant sentiment, even some of my neighbours on the street. ~ moe
Funny how PM Trudeau has allowed all this anti-English (which seems more ramped up than ever) nonsense to happen under his watch. His father would never have allowed it. I don't think I will ever set foot in Quebec again. I feel the same way about the U.S. as long as the MAGA idiots are around. I'm fine staying here in the Maritimes. SiM and Mr. and Mrs. CHester are welcome to join us folks down here as well. Brother moe too.
ReplyDeleteKoodos to pat hickey for his article slagging Buttman queebek pkp and the language racism
ReplyDeleteRight on
He writes what needs to be said
Good boy
Go Habs
Oh and thanks to The Maritimer for the hospitality to Mrs CHester and myself
ReplyDeleteEast coasters are the most salt of the earth people friendly and caring
My dads side were from New Brunswick esso transferred my granddad to Montreal when my dad was a teenager
I’ve lost touch with whom ever might be left
Sad really
Go Habs
There are more Ontarians here in Saint John and the province than you can shake a stick at, especially since Covid-19. Many of them are housing 'refugees', people who couldn't afford to buy a house in the GTA. Even prominent musician Maestro Fresh Wes moved here, he lives in the south end of Saint John and has his own TV show on CBC called Race Against the Tide where people try to build sand sculptures at New River beach before the tide comes in and wipes them out.
ReplyDeleteAlienated anglos in Quebec are welcome here too. Get a fresh start and get away from racists like Legault and Blanchett. Speaking of those two and the separatists, there is an easy solution to shut those guys up. Turn off the money tap. No more equalization payments. They want to be their own nation and speak French only? Sure, go ahead, see what happens when trying to negotiate deals with the Americans or the RoC when you don't want to talk in the language of the business world. I suspect there would be a huge out migration from la belle province pretty darn quick.
I know ignoring it isn't the solution, but there is so much shit happening in the world, sometimes I've got to just tune it all out and sink my time into something more mind numbing like sports. This is the perfect weekend with the two afternoon games, the WM Phoenix Open where Canada's Nick Taylor sits tied in first after tying the tournament record in round 1, and of course the Swift...err...Super Bowl Sunday night.
ReplyDeleteF Bell Media.
F the SFU.
Go Habs! Always and forever.
100% agree!
DeleteMy youngest son who works for Telus tells me they will be offering 1 Gigabite internet here in NB in the spring. If true, Bell Canada can kiss my arse goodbye. How is your Chill TV working out? A friend of mind subscribed. I've read there are buffering issues.
Off to Oka for a family gathering.
ReplyDeleteG Y F H G !
49ers 28 ~ Chiefs 27
~ moe
Hoping for the Niners but I think KC wins it. Mahomes is too good.
DeleteSame. ~ moe
DeleteLooking at the lineups for today, I forgot Boris Badanov now plays for Dallas. No doubt he will want to pot a couple against his former team just to prove a point. He got a couple against the wretched, hideous leaf on Wednesday so maybe he has shot his wad already.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of the underdog. Plus I'm getting a little tired of KCs chop chop thing.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see Mr Irrelevant take down Mahomes and Mr Swift.
As much as I do have a great deal of respect for Fat Andy and Steve The Dman I love a fairy tale success story and that would be Mr Brock taking down Mahomes in The Big Show in The Big Place
Kuddos for San Fran to give him the ball at the beginning of this season and double kuddos to Mr Irrelevant for producing. I'm sure 49 ers management had their finger on the replace button at the beginning but the stars aligned and here they are.
Either way it should be a good show just sad for no commercials for Canada we get to see that girl in the wheelchair and her dog over and over
Sigh
Go Habs
No goal
ReplyDeleteThe Habs have some jump this afternoon.
ReplyDeletePowerhorse has lost his hands. He should be working on shooting like Slaf.
Nature!
ReplyDeleteJosh should study that ideo
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DeleteIt just keeps happening. RHP looks like he might be gone for a while with that collision . And the Habs have fallen apart since it happened , allowing two quick ones.
ReplyDeleteSlafshortanglesky!
ReplyDeleteThe wheels fell off the Habs wagon in the second but they keep hangin' around.
ReplyDeleteHook looks not bad after a long layoff but I'll bet he gets used sparingly in the 3rd, he won't have the motor yet to keep up.
Fucking linesmen don't whistle obvious offsides and then they whistle an incorrect offside where Suzuki would've had a beauty of a chance
ReplyDeleteGood effort. Derailed by a bad 15 minutes in the 2nd.
ReplyDeleteYup, got beaten by Oetinger, no shame there. Only a one line team with a mobile D and Sammy Lightningbolt. I hate to say it but Josh might be as big a boat anchor going forward as Lep contract-wise. Bergy says: "hold my beer peasants..."
ReplyDelete32 pts in 69 games twice. Those are his best seasons with the Habs.
Delete3 more years at 5.5 after this one.
Yeah that contract ain't going nowhere.
Reilly should get a few for that cheap shot.
ReplyDeleteEff U Sfu you suck
Did one spin on Tankathon this morning and got #1 on the first try. Hello Macklin!!
ReplyDeleteSo I’m watching yesterday and every PP we get we do this stupid drop pass back to nature
ReplyDeleteSo now everyone is frozen at the opponents blue line waiting for nature
So when he arrives at speed there are 10 people standing there
I have never seen something so fundamentally fucked up as this
I know some other clubs do this but are we paying Alex burrows to orchestrate this disaster
The second PP team doesn’t seem to do it
I’m sorry I just don’t get it
Go Habs
Ghoul just tried it, to no discernible benefit again. I thought they'd learned how ineffective it was but maybe they just want to throw the other team off, assignnent-wise. One of these days it'll pay! It'll be glorious! Ticker tape parade time!!
DeleteOther teams do it too. I don't get it either, dumbass move.
DeleteLooked like Tweed lost his balance and injured himself before getting boarded, but.
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Seriously looked like Tweed got shaken up pretty bad, regardless.
DeleteWhen Gallagher made his bone headed play nearly all Habs fans were in agreement it was dumb and worth a lot of games.
ReplyDeleteLeaf fans on the other hand are aligning with their coach and saying the play was 'appropriate' based on the circumstances and a suspension is not warranted.
That is one fundamental difference twixt the fan bases.
leafools are dumb as fuck.
DeleteIt's pathetic. I'm getting tired of watching an AHL team, 3rd year in a row.
ReplyDeleteAll the fan sites paint such rosy pictures of a great young team learning the ropes and all I see are players who can't or won't execute on special teams. You'd think after a year and a half they would have figured something out.
Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.
ReplyDeleteToo many not looking as sharp as they should.
DeleteTime for football...
ReplyDeleteAs bleak as things look going into the third down 4-1, I've got a sneaky-spooky Suzuki suspicion the Blues might step off the gas and a comeback with a shortened bench (and four D, sorry Strobelight) isn't outside the realm of possibility.
ReplyDeleteI like your optimism but sadly, they are out of gas or, if you are an EV owner like myself, the battery needs to be charged soon...
DeleteNope.
Delete5 - what was I thinking
DeleteActually, the Phoenix WM Open is on today, I'm heading over there.
ReplyDeleteCrap, even Nick Taylor is choking...
ReplyDeleteWaiting for him to miraculously save par on this hole....
DeleteOhhh and what a 4th shot from the bunker!
DeleteLooks like he might after that shot
DeleteHe might need to shoot 60 again to win
DeleteYeah it's crowded at the top. They sure love Scheffler so you know they're cheering for him to win 3 in a row.
DeleteThis will not be a game to include in the Allen Cherished Memories folder.
ReplyDeleteAnd Hughes watching his plummeting stock price 📉
Delete#7 is the type of goal few besides our poor Jake is able to let in. Le sigh
ReplyDeleteGhoul injured in last two min. of a garbage game. Cue the tanks
ReplyDeleteI guess we won't see the Sheriff riding the pine for a while at least.
ReplyDeleteOnly 2 D on the bench, luckily only a minute left to play. Never seen that before.
ReplyDeleteI suspect Ghoul and Tweed will both be out of action a coiple weeks at least. Mailloux will get a call up.
ReplyDeleteThat doggie in the window. Maybe Alex Burgess says that is a d0oor to percep[tion. So Jake the SNAKE becomes an andaconda keeping the goal safe. Post to post is always there, Top shelf, you got to go three expect convolutions. I predict the Montreal CANADIENS will be the first team to make a SNAKE the goalie.
ReplyDeleteHughes' biggest mistake by far (so far) is keeping three goalies all year. It's reduced the development of Primeau, and to an extent, Monty who hasn't played a a true #1 or 1A. And his limited use has rendered Allen worthless. Take a low pick for one or waive one and who cares if they get claimed.
ReplyDeletePersonally I'd trade Primeau if anybody would offer a 6th round pick, a round better than he was drafted. Fowler is the future a, possibly along with the Russian goalie that was drafted ilast year too.
Hughes waited way to long on Allen
DeleteWow what play down the stretch and in extra holes for Nick Taylor for the big W and nice $1.5M payday. Oh Canada!
ReplyDeleteWow! I missed it watching this crap football game. We had company so I had no choice but the Taylor Swift show.
DeleteCongrats Nick Taylor you salvaged the weekend.
I quit the Habs 'game' after the 4th Blues goal, just got caught up on my reading. Sounds like quite the shitshow at the end. Are there any D left to play? And, was Jake Allen playing that badly so as to NOT get traded? Seems like it, I wouldn't give a bag of pucks for him right now.
ReplyDelete"I don't think we played as poorly as the score seemed," Nick Suzuki said after Super Bowl Sunday's 7-2 drubbing.
ReplyDeleteGeez Nick, what game were you watching?
So who's up for The Snake for your capable talented backup/starter ?
ReplyDeleteCrickets...
Go Habs
I'm going to defend Jake Allen. Is he still a capable goalie in the NHL? I think so. Is he a #1? Definitely not any more. We have to remember he was the backup to Billington in St. Louis and he was brought in to be Carey Price's backup. Price was finished and then Jake gets thrown to the wolves playing for a team that was self-destructing under an overwhelmed junior coach. Now he's playing very sporadically in a 3 goalie system where he has no idea when or if he will be playing again. That's on management. Could Jake have played better yesterday? Right off the bat the pylons playing D let a guy waltz right in untouched. Then the rest of the day this same D stood around and watched (especially during the PK) as St. Louis had free rein to stand in front of him doing whatever they wanted to. I quit watching after it was 4 - 1 but that is basically what happened, correct? And Coach Marty didn't even have the decency to pull Allen out of that effed up mess.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame Jake. Look at the team playing in front of him. Other than line 1, does any of that scare another team, especially a big, solid, talented bunch like the Blues? And then Harris goes down and they are shorthanded the rest of the day.
Allen may have little value on the trade market but it's hardly his fault, that's all I'm saying.
I thought the Niners would pull it off last night but Mahomes is almost unstoppable in those situations. Too bad, I would have enjoyed watching Travis and Tay Tay crying after. And Andy Reid should have punched Travis in the puss for his antics on the sideline.
Nick Taylor salvaged my weekend.
It’s amateur to leave your goalie in for 7 goals
ReplyDeleteYou have a backup
Bad play on the D aside you don’t do what fucking lepew did to st Patrick
Things are going down the pooper pull Jake period fucking amateur hour on MSL
Anyway
Sad for 49ers
I feel the difference in the game was fat Andy and Steve the D
49ers don’t match up there but they did everywhere else
They took the chiefs to overtime
But the coaching of the chiefs is the best in the league
Would have liked to see the chiefs taken down a notch would have been good for the NFL
Got sick of Brady getting sick of maholms
Go Habs
I like that the women are using the 3-2-1 point system. 3 pts for a regulation win, 2 for an OT/SO win, 1 for an OT/SO loss.
ReplyDeleteThe NHL has argued that it would separate the standings too much and we wouldn't have meaningful games down the stretch. That's a load of crap.
In the east right now with this system, there would be big changes. FLA would be on top with 89 pts. BOS and TB would round out that division's top 3. NYR would be at 88 pts with CAR and PHI still in that top 3.
But the wild cards...well! Instead of TOR at #7 we would have NJ with 68 pts. DET would still be in 8th with 67 pts.
9th place - BUF! at 62
10th place - PIT at 61
11th place - TOR at 60
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15th place - HABS at 45
16th place - CBS at 38
Yeah it would change things a lot. You might see more teams actually trying to win a game in regulation rather than playing for 1 point. I would love to see this change, but it won't be in the Bettman era, or maybe never, because somehow it probably has a big impact on gambling, which now owns professional sports. But the EPL use this system I think and there are HUGE sums gambled on that league, so maybe...some day.
My prediction for the Rielly hearing - 4 games. I'm not defending him or the play in any way, but I've watched the play many times, and it seems as soon as he makes contact with the head he lets go of the stick, whether that was intentional or just losing his grip. But I think that saved any potential injury to Grieg. So with no suspension history and no injury, I think it is just the nature of intent and the fact that it was after the play on an unsuspecting player (even if he saw Rielly coming at the last moment) with the head shot (whether intentional or not) will = four games. Though the fact it is in person means maybe it will be six. Or maybe he will walk away with a $5K fine when you compare that hit to the 2 games that Underpants got for his vicious shot to Sandin.
ReplyDeleteThe blabber coming out of cotu is deafening
ReplyDeleteThey are indignant that the Reilly thug even got a penalty
What a bunch of fuckwits
I would love to see a playoff series with these two
The snores might lose but not before they slapped the leaf around
Go Habs
Regarding the 3-2-1 points system, I used to be against it because it would likely inflate the total points in a season and I didn't want to see the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens single season record of 132 points fall artificially. Now that the record has fallen anyway, IDGAF anymore. And as we all know, the dirty stinkin' beaners did not have the greatest season of all time. You have to go all the way to get that distinction. So F U SFU.
ReplyDeleteAs for bad boy Reilly, he'll get 5+ for his offense. Remember a couple years ago when the SFU were saying auston was better than Gretzky and Reilly was better than Orr? Bwahahahahaha!!!!!! What kind of drugs do those idiots do up there in the Big Smoke??!!??
SFU and leaf are as narcissistic as it gets.
ReplyDelete"Make hockey violent again' = JFC
~ moe
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