Tank this to the bank, our second first of the night via the Jets will be Calgary Flames (via. Vancouver Canucks): Sacha Boisvert, C, Muskegon Lumberjacks.
Our first pick assuming we dont move up one of three Cayden Lindstrom, C, Medicine Hat Tigers (-2) Konsta Helenius, C, Jukurit and the swing for the fence Tij Iginla, C/RW, Kelowna Rockets
This is my hope too, but I've looked at the top 30-40 goal scorers over the past three years and it's hard to figure out who that might be. Hope he can work some magic. Lots to hope for.
Remember the 'good old days' when anything less than a cup was considered a failure. I'm still in that mindset and I'm tired of hoping for a slight improvement or maybe a sniff at the playoffs. At an absolute minimum the Habs should be one of the automatic playoff teams every year, and a contender more often than not.
habsolutely StP. dont ever apologise for that mindset. this is who we are and who we will always be. dont ever let the apologists or the eternal optimists win out (including the many on this board). this is how you keep expectations high and not let standards slip.
ive read it twice just to be sure im not the only one here who is always angry. can agree with you more. thnx for posting.
Hugo has to pull a sniper outta somewhere. I'm expecting the 5th to be part of a "Big" deal no one saw coming...sorry but if the big rebuild plan is dependant on Kirby (call me a Dach(ter) being healthy, Habs are fucked...so let's see what happens
Next to Mc Splooge who has less CPU behind the script. I think its written and I an not. So no sniper, no UFA. Two years from now. If you don not belieb in what I just audo scyhced I am saying we got to create the vault around the goal that allowed Dumpster Diver GM to go to the cup finial. IF you have watched For ALL MANKIND, you will know, they would never ever erver let Bergy on ,Mars. We are going to ying yang with the ciadias. We will sleep and you will fly.
I don't know if he is on Hughes and Gorton's radar but the best UFA available this year is Sam Reinhart. Picked #2 overall in 2014, 6'-2" 193lbs Right shot center, he put up 57 goals this season. He'll turn 29 in Nov., would he be in the age range? Bigger question would he leave Sunrise Fla. for cold, high tax Montreal PQ? I say very doubtful, especially if the Cats win the Cup.
Keep that #5 pick and bring back MoneyHab for a 5 year deal if he is willing. Good vet to have around.
Heh heh ... leafnet managed to squeeze in a few very brief clips of the Habs in their Stanley Cup lead-in video, you'd think that Montreal had very little experience in that arena. Lots of clips of narcos for some reason, you would also think he might have done something at one time...
No it's TNT. Not sure who he is. Just a bit flat. No Gallivan for sure...and def not Edwards bad...good riddance to him and may he enjoy his retirement.
To be clear I'm not cheering 'for' the broons but you know....hahahahahah 4-0 in the 2nd. I might have to tune into the pukenet broadcast for the intermission.
The wretched, laughable leaf will never win as they currently are. Even a blind fool could see it. The stupid leaf are owned by a corporate clusterfuck (bell/rogers a match made in the pits of Hades) no different than when they were owned by the Teachers Pension Plan. The only motivation for the leaf for decades has been to earn the owners a profit, win or lose. This goes back to the days of Pal Hal, the convicted felon. As long as the franchise can sell matthews jerseys or whoever the latest flavour is nothing will change. And I hope it never does.
iirc.... sometime in january? or was it a trade deadline? dunno. his career didnt really resume in vegas. hope he can gain back some satisfaction from a career ruined by a criminal.
disagree. somebody check on maritimer's well-being please. he is talking nonsense.
even before he became a canada post hero.... he was already our greatest clutch finn (& yes, im realise saku is also) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZY6da0FDyY
Yeah in a redraft he is the top pick, ahead of Petterson.
Sounds like Lane will be more like Quinn Hughes. Sadly those games are far too late for me. Maybe the Nucks will make the final so we can see him at a reasonable hour.
according to espn, that wont be possible for you as they have smashville winning this round. they also have those cheating oilers beating the leaves in the final
7-6 final Jets win. I was thinking this reminds me of a game in the 1973 Finals, Game 5 in Montreal Chicago 8 Montreal 7, Ken Dryden and Tony Esposito in goal. Who would have believed that?
thnx for the concern M. the wonderfull fellas of the vpd came to check my drugs and they were within the allowable possession limts well as hallucinogenic limits.
a gem i forgot to mention. any of u familiar with the intro song these canuck guys play as the boys take to the ice?
wonderful troll job. gotta gove respect where its due. on the other hand.... theres a chance it was inintentional, and if thats the case, it proves my point with this city.
I’d like to see the Jets do well here They have been trying hard and getting abandoned by their people Like to see them take the series and have shitfly taken out That would be nice Go Habs
Started Manhunt on Apple TV. Two episodes in and loving it. Honest Abe never came off so likable. Great storyline and - stuff they don't mention much in Cdn history class I guess - a nefarious Montreal banking connection to the Confederates!
Without looking it up (and not counting TFS though he isn't officially retired yet), who is the oldest player still playing in the league who was drafted by the Habs?
Damn, you're too good. I thought this might throw you off. Patches and McDonagh both taken in the first round of the 2007 draft (and PK in the 2nd round - a damn fine draft!). Pacioretty though is a late '88 birthday while McDoh! (thanks to Gainey's trade, not his play) was born in May of '89.
Brendan Gallagher is the oldest drafted player still playing with the Habs, drafted in the 5th round of 2010. What other player taken by the Habs in that draft is still skating with an NHL team (or at least played until the end of the regular season ;-)
Had to look this up..Habs had almost no picks in 2010. Tinordi in the 1st round, no picks in rounds 2 and 3, then 1 pick in round 4, Gally in round 5, nada in 6 and one pick in rnd 7...How lucky does that make the Gally pick. WTF was going on at that point?
If my memory is correct, either Gainey or Gauthier traded a pick or two to move up in the 1st round to get Tinordi that year. They liked his size and his pedigree (His father Mark played many years in the NHL) so they paid the price. Jared didn't progress fast enough or the Habs were impatient with him, a common thing with young players in those days. Ironically Tinordi is the guy that took out Dach's knee with a big hit in game 2 last October.
Lots of draft chatter these days for Habs fans (we got nuthin' else) and it seems Berkly Catton is emerging as a favourite choice. FHFriend steve says he's too small (5'-11" 170 lbs) but he is one of the the most skilled guys after Mack the Knife and Semidov. I point to Lep who is (maybe) 5'-9" 183lbs and Whiskey 5'-7" (exaggerated) who seem to be doing OK. Catton is still only 17 so could grow another inch or so and add 10lbs easily and voila! If he makes it to 6' he is out of smurf territory for sure. Or, the Habs can crash Gary's Vegas shindig and win the lottery and get Celebrini after missing out on Bedard to the vile blackhawks last year.
Jarred Tinordi - that's pretty impressive @Maritimer. Golf clap for you. He has played 205 NHL games with 6 different teams over 9 seasons. He spent a good 3 1/2 straight seasons in the AHL from '16 to '20. Good on him for persevering but BOO for the hit on Dach. TBF, the hit looked pretty harmless at the time, I was shocked to hear it was a season ending injury.
Thanks man, yeah, that hit wasn't that bad I thought at the time but something obviously happened. It's funny, I can name every team that has won the Cup from 1956 to 2000 but after that, it's becoming fuzzier all the time from about '02 to present day. I guess it's because I've stopped watching the Finals for the last 20 odd years up until the Habs run in 2021.
I'm the same with the Cup winners, except it's more like late 60's to late 90's. After the '96 Avs win, I just know there was some Detroit, Dallas was in there...Devils...Avs again. Just couldn't pinpoint which years for which teams.
A bonus fact from that 2010 draft, other than Lep and Tintin, only one other player played in the NHL. PEI's Morgan Ellis played three games for the Habs in 15/16. He is currently a proud member of the Berlin Polar Bears in the DEL (Deutsche Eishockey Liga).
I watched a few games Morgan Ellis played with Cape Breton here in Saint John. I thought he had a chance to make it, he looked half decent on breakouts. He was one of many of Timmins picks to be not quite good enough, Dalton Thrower anybody? If you want to see a bad draft check out the 2008 class, yikes! Second rounder Danny (Frostbite) Kristo was the top pick, after that it was just junk. Is that the year Gainey traded his 1st for Alex Tanguay? Oof.
I love researching crazy facts, especially when we don't have a horse in the race...sadly.
Still in that 2010 draft. The Bruins acquired the 2nd overall pick from the leafs in the trade that sent Donut boy to Tronna. Bruins picked Tyler Seguin in that Taylor/Tyler draft. Bruins also received the 2nd pick of the 2nd round (Jared Knight) from the leaf. (they also received first round pick from 2011...Dougie Hamilton but that's not where this is going).
In 2008, the Habs traded Grabovski to the leaf for their 2nd round pick in 2010 (along with Plaid). Later that off-season the Habs traded that pick to Chicago for Robert Lang (almost forgot he had a cup of coffee with the Habs). The following off-season (2009), Chicago sent that pick back to its original owner, the leaf, in exchange for a 2nd and 3rd in 2011 (one of those being Brandon Saad).
So the actual cost to the leaf to get Kessel was 2010 first (Seguin) 2010 second (Knight - never panned out) 2011 first (Hamilton) 2011 second (Saad) 2011 third (didn't pan out)
I'm just happy to see the Habs have a small but not insignificant part in how all this played out. Habs got rid of a cancer in Grabovski and got a decent year from Bob Lang.
Crazy stuff. Good ol' Burkie trying to make the putrid leaf relevant with pHat pHil but ended up driving that 18 wheeler over the cliff. Remember Healy's kesseltracker? Now they have the auston circle jerk. I actually put the beaner/laff game on last night for a bit and said to myself wtf are you watching this shite for? Never again. They can both fuck off and die.
That dirty little prick Doucherov only had 22 penalty minutes in the regular season. Should've been suspended for concussing Guhle. Saw him on the same shift tonight crosscheck somebody in the neck, then after the whistle give a dirty little spear. No calls. Clearly on Bettman's no touch list, being on a southern team.
Apparently Captain underpants took control of game 2 and all the beaners could do was tip their hat…. Are we on the same planet? I watched some of that game and the leaf that impressed me the most was the thug reeves He just ran around and crushed beaners He didn’t even try to play the puck What a cromagnon Neanderthal Wow What a sad day for hockey when a team has a spot for a guy like that However I am all for crushing beaners Go Habs
Cuntbert and Homer wet themselves every time underpants steps on the ice. They have their little factoids of what useless category he leads in or is tied with at the ready to spoonfeed leafools. What little I saw he and the anxious marner were pretty much invisible. As for Reaves, the crowd in tranna is probably the last bunch in the league who still worship the thug. This goes all the way back to Conn Smythe who coined the phrase "If you can't beat 'em in the ally you can't beat 'em on the ice." The leaf crowd worshipped at the altar of Don Cherry and loved their goons, and there were many over the decades.
Ahhh Don Cherry Beaner coach leaf blower and as I call him Our National Embarrassment. When he started he was talking to the kids, you need to do this and you need to do that. Then he had a moment in an episode where he felt he needed to point out the situation when it's time to run the goalie.... So that was it for me. Then it and he just became a joke supported by the fucktards that run things in cotu. A clown with a mouthpiece. Anyway. Go Habs
Best Utah nickname I saw was The Latter Day Skates. Though some research tells me the LDS, while Mormons, did not settle in Utah. But I stand by it being a great choice.
Hate Steve Simmons, but love that he got the SFU and their fans all riled up before their big loss last night. Be looking for all the "Marner got a point, he's not invisible!" articles today.
tsn is all over the "ratface douchebag is in their heads shit". Yesterday their webpage was full of "narcos is the greatest" garbage, they are whistling a different tune today. Ha ha ha ha.
Played my first round yesterday, it was brutally cold. My knee held up well, just a few twinges here and there. Shot 81, the greens were in great shape you could actually make a putt.
Wow that's a great first round score. Pretty sure I'll never get into the 80s. Unless I figure out how to fix my short game - I probably lose a dozen strokes per round on poor shots from 60 yards and in. Played my 2nd 9 holes yesterday on the course I'm hoping to help with this. It's a Par 31 with 4 par 4s and 5 par 3s (and short ones at that). I birded one and got a couple pars but then also shot 2 6s and 2 8s. Inconsistency kills me.
It's not so much the distance I have trouble with as keeping the proper form and consistent swing. Like you say, the more I play (and maybe even practice...), the more that should improve.
This is hilarious! Sheldon blaming the refs for letting ratface get away with his shit (he actually may have a legit beef there) but leaf blower Joe Blowen calling out and blaming the fans for not cheering the leaf to victory is fucking hysterical!!! Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ratface probably deserved a penalty on the first Bs goal, but your goalie has to stop that shot. What a weak goal to give up. It's almost as if for years and years, everybody outside of tronna has noted that this team won't win without a beefed up defence and goaltender upgrade.
RIP b'y. Called our last cup win. Still remember "A 24th banner will hang from the rafters of the Forum! The Canadiens win the Stanley Cup!" like it was yesterday.
I'm not sold on Drake Maye. Was hoping they would take MH Jr, but knew they would take a QB. So we have a 'potential' elite QB with nobody to throw to and The M's Giants have an elite WR with nobody to throw to him. Best of luck to us both in next year's draft, we should be pretty high again.
Daniel Jones can throw the ball. And he can run too. He just has to not fumble so much. Seems to me they signed some guy out of Carolina who can help protect him. Regardless, a .500 season would feel like a win. This will be Jones last year if he doesn't perform.
Doesn't look like the Bolts are gonna make my 1st Round predictions come true. Thought they had one last hurrah left...but they're done. Still reckon this Cup is the Rags to lose...
I think Winnipeg lost last night, I thought they would beat Colorado but looks like it's not going to happen. I see some chatter about bringing MoneyHab back to the fold. That would be a solid move to bring in some veteran help up front.
May 7 the Hockey Gods roll the dice and everything comes up Habs. I hope Slafzilla gets his 7 for 8 and Ghost 6 for 8. Not sure how many more 8 we have left, at least two more, one for Fast Rock Lane and one for Mr x.
It took me a few minutes to figure out your comment but I don't think Slafzilla gets $7mil for 8 years, Hughes will bridge him for a couple years. Ghost (Ghule?) not worth that kind of dough. He might be the one they have to sacrifice to get a big name sniper. Hughes knows who is worth what from his agent days, unlike biceps bergy who would sign Lep for 6 years and cry like a baby after.
Nat King Cole Yezzer will be available, in the role of sniper. Considering the luck we have had with USTP players, I think HUGO will take the risk. I think that will be our limit of urologists. (three) all USTP. The most Ironic thing about the Leaf, is they are all urolgist and have a lousy power play.
Got in a few minutes ago from attending a comedy show at the Imperial Theater, well well, look at the score of the leaf game ... heh heh ... where oh where is that 70 goal scorer the SFU worshipped all year? SFU tears on the panel...
Well well well. Marner woke up in the 3rd but for Underpants.... "the doctors took him out" of the game just shows the mental infortitude of a guy too used to it always being all about him.
Shit show in TO.
It really looks like a team meltdown is we underway there.
Lets see the Rats sweep the Broons. The leaf are at the end of their road and we have not even crossed the first bridge. Going to be a fun decade to laugh at the leaf.
In the 2nd intermission the 'panel' unanimously trashed the leaf after they were booed off the ice. I think word came down from on high to 'lay off our bread an butter' so they were easier on them at the end of the game and just rolled out the excuses.
When, not if, the wretched, laughable leaf lose this series we will see the beginning of the disassembling of this team. Sheldon and his assistants will be gone within days. Tree will be told to look for a deal for mitchie, he's done in Hogtown. Narcos isn't going anywhere they sell too many #34 sweaters. Johnny PJs will play out his final year and be let go or sign for a lot less. Nylander, if he could be had, he's the one guy I would go after if I was Kent Hughes. He put up 98 points this year, wouldn't he thrive on a line with Nick and Slaf? Whiskey could play with Dach and Hook.
I think they hang onto Willy. But they do need D and draft picks which Kent has a plethora of. So who knows...curious to see what our offseason looks like.
Agreed they probably hang on to Willie because Treliving gave him the big extension. Unless Willie gets tired of the circus sideshow in T.O. and tells his agent: "Bro, get me the fuck out of here." Heh heh.
TheGumper Frequent Commenter Populare Much Beloved 13 hours ago Well all this play by playin about Bob Cole brings up some memories all right they say the first game he called for CBC radio was in 69 game six semis in Boston Garden Jean Beliveau got the winner for us in double overtime the only one the big guy ever tallied ten Cups an a Conn Smythe yet just the one extra time marker ever I watched it from the bench Rogie Vachon tended nets for us we eliminated them Bruins that night and then sweeped the Blues in four the fourth and final Cup in my career a good thing we won her that year too because Bobby Orr was tailorin a cape and learnin how to fly through the air like some sorta superhero on skates.
Retired from tendin the cage I watch games on the box a Sony they make a decent set that Bob Cole was good at the tellin Doreen said it made it like you was there livin and dyin with each pass I knew when Cole’s voice got a bit higher some goaler was about to get a workout he never said cannonadin drive though that was Danny Gallivan he did scintillatin too Bob Cole did the oh baby always cracked me up sometimes when I make my famous pineapple squares Gumpies Doreen calls em I take a batch out of the oven and say oh baby. I read on Cole’s passin that Foster Hewitt once gave Bob a helpin hand when he was startin out givin him tips on how to impart the flow of it and that makes me smile continuity they call her just like some veterans once helped me I did my best to help the youngsters when I was playin even showed em some good places to unwind with a drink or two afterwards all them cities can get confusin.
Some folks say you need to be there at the game to really get her in all her glory but Bob Cole could bring it to ya through the radio or the teevee and you didn’t have to leave the house even.
Year after year after year...A united team with awesome Defence and goaltending win the Stanley cup. Leafs have a shit defence, .they also have an overpaid group of individuals and pretty average goaltending - and because they have an entire city deluded enough to Believe whatever the leafhack supporters tell them, they have no incentive to ever change that. Long may it continue.
The artist formally known as KMAK speaks the truth. Leaf fans for at least 8 years where told we have players in the top of the regular season and we have spent millions on AI to verify this. You think we would have signed pajami boy or Notlander if the math did not control the converstion? we are like feral annimals eating copper and other low elements when we all knew it was silver we need to keep the tribe alive and push the truth into the future.
The future start at the draft and ends when Slavzillia is 25.
Should be at least 2 Canadian teams in the next round. Surprised that Winnipeg shit the bed but in retrospect Colorado are only two years removed from a Cup win. The stupid, inept leaf with all their prima donnas never stood a chance.
yeah, u guys right. everybody going mental here, but what if i told u everybody in the pub, on the street, and at work were convinced their team and the series were done after giving up the 3-1 goal 0:12 into the third?
You know I thought I could escape the SFU bullcrap and watch the American feed last night, but it's even worse, they have the biggest leaf cheerleader of all with BizDouchey on their panel and Whiteway Pang between the benches doing (ironically) colour commentating.
Before the inevitable speculation starts, no, Stamkos is not coming to Montreal and no, he's not signing with the wretched leaf. He takes a discount and stays in Tampa. My guess would be a 5 year deal with a sliding salary, AAV around $6mil.
Yeah things are going great so far. Owretchkin...gone. Douchevov....gone. Soon. wretched leaf....gone. Dallas could do it and the Pissers...gone. Canucks and Oil should knock off a couple more southern teams. Even with shitfly on the team, I was cheering for $Hab and Toffee, but it sounds like they're not showing up in the playoffs. So local boy Nate the Great will move on with the Avs. That's OK. That leaves just one disappointing result in the Carolina Shit Tornadoes taking out Roy and the Isles. Not bad.
Not counting chickens before they're hatched, but it does look pretty bleak right now for the Jets, Laff and Isles. I am rooting for tge Canucks but I would not count on them advancing. A lot of puck luck has brought tgem this far and the Preds could mount a comeback. I am impressed with the way the Stars have muscled their way back from down 2-0. Kinda like how the Habs did vs. Nordiques in '93? Time will tell.
Just a little perspective about the current Habs rebuild we are going through: I think we can all agree Florida is a powerhouse and perhaps a team the Habs can emulate going forward. In 2010 we took a family vacation during March break and went to Florida for the week. We went to Universal Studios, Busch Gardens and a water park in Orlando. I had purchased tickets to see the Habs play in Sunrise by calling the Panthers box office a few weeks before. Four tickets in the lower bowl, row 17, aisle seats. Cost me $300 US but our money was at par at the time, a pretty sweet deal. The trade deadline was the week before I believe and Florida had sold everybody of value for draft picks and Dale Tallon who was GM at the time told the fans they were going to do a proper rebuild through the Draft. Montreal kicked the Panthers butts 5-2 that night, there might have been 5000 Panther fans in a full building and the rest were fans from Quebec in Habs jerseys. It was nuts. Hal Gill scored 2 goals that game LOL!!
My point being that was 14 years ago when they started and they drafted high more than a few times including getting Barkov and Huberdeau. Then, after they were starting to climb the standings they got Bobrovsky from Columbus. Eventually they started making trades and signed a few UFAs to be where they are at today. So, this Habs rebuild may take longer than we anticipate, they are really just at the start. Cheers!
"Tremendous be-leaf that the leaves can still win..." SFU ... sure maybe tonight, but 3 in a row? Who do those clowns think are playing the bears --- the Panthers?
Lol Hayes and the Overdrive crew just want it to end tonight. Figure if the leaf drag it to 7 before losing, the team and many fans will fall into the same ol' "we're so close!" trap and nothing will change. They're not wrong. While I hope they lose tonight, to see them have that glimmer of hope before bowing out ain't so bad either.
May the wretched leaf rot in mediocrity for another fifty seven years.
Kind of like the biker wars here in Montreal a while back they just kept shooting each other I was cheering for the rock machine they were the underdogs Go Habs
I can't recall the broons playing a worse game than this and the leaf just squeaked it out in OT. Hard to imagine them doing this two games in a row...but there is that glimmer of useless hope for the leafers. Hahaha it'll be more sweet when it's over.
Pronman ... Overthinking Cole Caufield The 2019 team was always thought of as Jack Hughes’ team. Hughes was a budding play-driving star center with elite skating and skill who could dazzle on any given shift against junior and college players. But on that NTDP team, Caufield scored 38 more goals than Hughes did that season and was just as impactful at their U18 worlds, being named the tournament MVP. Hughes was a far superior skater to Caufield and is several inches taller. Height would come to define the conversation about Caufield. The comparisons to Alex DeBrincat were inevitable and constant. There were a lot of risks discussed about Caufield: His size. Is he just a product of always playing on Hughes’ wing? His skating isn’t elite for a small guy. There’s only one guy in the NHL who looks him. He’s not a super competitive type like DeBrincat. All those concerns are anywhere from valid to extremely valid. And if Caufield were just a very talented, small winger, he would be a replaceable piece. He needed to score in big numbers as a pro, and he has because he was more than just very talented; he had special qualities. His hands and shot are special and he has strong hockey sense. That USA team was so good in part because of how good Caufield was, not just because he happened to be put on the right line. I appreciate the risks a 5-foot-7 wing who is not an elite skater can present when projecting him to the pros. There are plenty of shoot-first players who were high picks in the last decade or so and haven’t panned out. Hence why there is reasonable apprehension in the league on now NTDP winger Cole Eiserman. There were reasonable arguments to not take Caufield ahead of some of the true no-doubters, but his drop to No. 15 seemed excessive at the time and has not aged well. The distinction for me between Eiserman and Caufield is that I thought Caufield’s skill and shot were both superior and, frankly, he was a leading player on a team that won games. Even though the player style is very different, the one guy whom I can best analogize Caufield to in this year’s draft is Berkly Catton. Catton measures in at 5-foot-10, but everything else about his game is excellent. He’s a high-end skater. He is extremely skilled. He competes well. He put up huge numbers in his draft season. He had very good numbers as a 16-year-old. He led his Hlinka Gretzky in goals and points. He was one of the best players at his U17 challenge. Like Caufield, I don’t think it’s worth overthinking Catton; just pick the supremely talented player who has dominated his age group for years and, yes, is a bit small.
love the write-up plus comparison. thnx for the heads up. i now have a second pick to cheer for after jr iggy.
do me a favour though: "He competes well". pleeeeeease no more repeating stupid made up words popularised by loser boy elliot friedsuckman. ditto for most other adjectives (or its it a verb?) he barfs out. the proper way to describe that is: "He is competitive."
hello from vancouver guys. totally bummed to see moneyhab and toffee exit last night, but its kinda a win cause lekhy, and druid go through. i really wanted st patrick to upset those rags next round, but not in the cards this yr. somebody above mentioned the oil a lot and just for reference, espn picked them to defeat the leaves in the final this yr. yes, i know its american reporters, but i suppose it shows at least they arent biased?
you guys noticed all those ads about saving sakic? this is the first ive ever heard of it. did you guys know about this back in the day? quite a fascinating story, though i doubt burnaby joe woulda actually left considering how much he went though with the franchise. in an alternate universe, it woulda changed the nhl eh? haha to the rags for again being the bad guys though.
in searching for background on that, i saw there is another documentary about mr alexandre daigle. this one i remember very much. do any of you remember what the habs offered to OTW for the no.1 pick?
Good to see Dallas put the Pissers in a hole. Now, bury them!
The Oilers move on, that's good for me as I have McD, Hyman and Bouchard in my playoff pool. By all accounts PLD was useless, I'm happy he's biceps bergy and company's problem.
Berkly Catton would love to play on a line with Dach and Slaf. I don't blame him but unfortunately the Habs are getting Celebrini.
Blondie
ReplyDeleteI'll drop a few updates and comments until we reach 200 ... moe
ReplyDelete1. Biggest surprise for me was the development of Slaf.
ReplyDeleteMontreal ladies team at the Bell at 13h00 ...
ReplyDeleteTank this to the bank, our second first of the night via the Jets will be
ReplyDeleteCalgary Flames (via. Vancouver Canucks): Sacha Boisvert, C, Muskegon Lumberjacks.
Our first pick assuming we dont move up one of three
Cayden Lindstrom, C, Medicine Hat Tigers (-2)
Konsta Helenius, C, Jukurit
and the swing for the fence
Tij Iginla, C/RW, Kelowna Rockets
I think it will be Lindstrom, Catton or Iggy Jr. with the #5 pick and Winnipeg's pick will be part of a deal for a sniper.
DeleteNo Smurfs, no Catton.
DeleteKonsta would be Saku2.0, not overly big.
DeleteI wouldn't be shocked if Hughes moved that #5 pick for a proven sniper in the 25-28 year old range.
ReplyDeleteThis is my hope too, but I've looked at the top 30-40 goal scorers over the past three years and it's hard to figure out who that might be. Hope he can work some magic. Lots to hope for.
DeleteRemember the 'good old days' when anything less than a cup was considered a failure. I'm still in that mindset and I'm tired of hoping for a slight improvement or maybe a sniff at the playoffs. At an absolute minimum the Habs should be one of the automatic playoff teams every year, and a contender more often than not.
habsolutely StP. dont ever apologise for that mindset. this is who we are and who we will always be. dont ever let the apologists or the eternal optimists win out (including the many on this board). this is how you keep expectations high and not let standards slip.
Deleteive read it twice just to be sure im not the only one here who is always angry. can agree with you more. thnx for posting.
Hugo has to pull a sniper outta somewhere. I'm expecting the 5th to be part of a "Big" deal no one saw coming...sorry but if the big rebuild plan is dependant on Kirby (call me a Dach(ter) being healthy, Habs are fucked...so let's see what happens
ReplyDeleteNext to Mc Splooge who has less CPU behind the script. I think its written and I an not.
ReplyDeleteSo no sniper, no UFA. Two years from now. If you don not belieb in what I just audo scyhced I am saying we got to create the vault around the goal that allowed Dumpster Diver GM to go to the cup finial. IF you have watched For ALL MANKIND, you will know, they would never ever erver let Bergy on ,Mars. We are going to ying yang with the ciadias. We will sleep and you will fly.
can somebody translate? this is hurting my head trying
DeleteI don't know if he is on Hughes and Gorton's radar but the best UFA available this year is Sam Reinhart. Picked #2 overall in 2014, 6'-2" 193lbs Right shot center, he put up 57 goals this season. He'll turn 29 in Nov., would he be in the age range? Bigger question would he leave Sunrise Fla. for cold, high tax Montreal PQ? I say very doubtful, especially if the Cats win the Cup.
ReplyDeleteKeep that #5 pick and bring back MoneyHab for a 5 year deal if he is willing. Good vet to have around.
Canes in 5
ReplyDeleteLeaf in 7 (this is a reverse psychology jinx prediction)
Rangers in 5
Fla in 6
Jets in 6
Preds in 7
Kuh-niggits in 5
Oil in 6
Tuned into the 3rd Isles Canes...good game
ReplyDeleteJake the Snake on mclame's panel, the smartest guy in the room... Classiest too...
ReplyDeleteHeh heh ... leafnet managed to squeeze in a few very brief clips of the Habs in their Stanley Cup lead-in video, you'd think that Montreal had very little experience in that arena. Lots of clips of narcos for some reason, you would also think he might have done something at one time...
ReplyDeleteListen to how cuntbert's voice goes up a couple octaves whenever austie touches the puck, it gets even more annoying.
ReplyDeleteThat's one
ReplyDeleteThat didn't take long...
ReplyDeleteCoyle dive...
ReplyDeleteJust gonna say one thing about the bruin play by play guy...he's no Danny Galivan!
ReplyDeleteJackass Edwards. The. Worst. Ever.
DeleteNo it's TNT. Not sure who he is. Just a bit flat. No Gallivan for sure...and def not Edwards bad...good riddance to him and may he enjoy his retirement.
DeleteHilarious how as soon as the other team scores the leafnet camera immediately goes to matthews ugly mug. They can't help themselves.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if all those leafools are still packed into maple leafool square? hee hee
ReplyDeleteMax, you can slash ratface all night long I'm OK with it.
ReplyDeleteTo be clear I'm not cheering 'for' the broons but you know....hahahahahah 4-0 in the 2nd. I might have to tune into the pukenet broadcast for the intermission.
ReplyDeleteI hate Boston. I hate Toronto even more. And you can thank leafnet, tsn and hnit for that. Fuck'em.
DeleteBingo.
DeleteClear dive by Underpants.
ReplyDeleteCan't stand da broons, unless it is when the beat the leaf. ~ moe
ReplyDeleteThere is a clear difference in the quality and maturity of these franchises. You can hate them both, but only the beaners merit our respect.
Deleteagreed. hate them both, but i only (tepidly) respect one. on the whole, i cannot argue against this.
DeleteSweep, and then let the fun begin in TO. Lesson Learned?
ReplyDeleteNot possible; rich man passing through eye of needle stuff.
DeleteThe wretched, laughable leaf will never win as they currently are. Even a blind fool could see it. The stupid leaf are owned by a corporate clusterfuck (bell/rogers a match made in the pits of Hades) no different than when they were owned by the Teachers Pension Plan. The only motivation for the leaf for decades has been to earn the owners a profit, win or lose. This goes back to the days of Pal Hal, the convicted felon. As long as the franchise can sell matthews jerseys or whoever the latest flavour is nothing will change. And I hope it never does.
ReplyDeleteIt won't...
DeleteJust when you think they can't be more embarrassing, SN comes out with this:
ReplyDeleteAuston Matthews has hit 12 posts / crossbars in his playoff career.
That's tied with Nikita Kucherov for the most by any player since 2017
Kucherov has played 46 more postseason games in that span.
The big takeaway for me is wondering why it might be that Douche has played 46 more games than Underpants. π€
DeleteF these guys are stupid.
im ok with this stat. it kinda does indicate narcos is snakebit, a bit in the playoffs
DeletePatches is a Cap... when did that happen?
ReplyDeleteiirc.... sometime in january? or was it a trade deadline? dunno. his career didnt really resume in vegas. hope he can gain back some satisfaction from a career ruined by a criminal.
DeletePretty comprehensive win for the Rags...no shots for Ovi.
ReplyDeleteWould that this trend continueth.
DeleteThe Jets look better than they did last year with PLD and Wheeler, I think we dodged a bullet there.
ReplyDelete"...when we dodged a bullet there"
Deleteare you talking about the cup run?
Underrated Leko gets one for the Avalanche. He was so underappreciated by many Habs fans.
ReplyDeletedisagree. somebody check on maritimer's well-being please. he is talking nonsense.
Deleteeven before he became a canada post hero.... he was already our greatest clutch finn (& yes, im realise saku is also)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZY6da0FDyY
If Fast Lane can be even 75% of Makar the Habs will have something. Wow what a shot.
ReplyDeleteYeah in a redraft he is the top pick, ahead of Petterson.
DeleteSounds like Lane will be more like Quinn Hughes. Sadly those games are far too late for me. Maybe the Nucks will make the final so we can see him at a reasonable hour.
according to espn, that wont be possible for you as they have smashville winning this round. they also have those cheating oilers beating the leaves in the final
Delete7-6 final Jets win. I was thinking this reminds me of a game in the 1973 Finals, Game 5 in Montreal Chicago 8 Montreal 7, Ken Dryden and Tony Esposito in goal. Who would have believed that?
ReplyDeleteSomebody do a wellness check on friend oleg, I think he got drunk after the Knucklehead win last night...
ReplyDeletethnx for the concern M. the wonderfull fellas of the vpd came to check my drugs and they were within the allowable possession limts well as hallucinogenic limits.
ReplyDeletea gem i forgot to mention. any of u familiar with the intro song these canuck guys play as the boys take to the ice?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nhl/elliotte-friedman-and-kevin-bieksa-speculate-if-vancouver-canucks-entry-music-of-u2s-streets-have-no-name-was-to-troll-nashville-predators/ar-AA1nq5fM
wonderful troll job. gotta gove respect where its due. on the other hand.... theres a chance it was inintentional, and if thats the case, it proves my point with this city.
I’d like to see the Jets do well here
ReplyDeleteThey have been trying hard and getting abandoned by their people
Like to see them take the series and have shitfly taken out
That would be nice
Go Habs
Yes. Yes it would.
DeleteStarted Manhunt on Apple TV. Two episodes in and loving it. Honest Abe never came off so likable. Great storyline and - stuff they don't mention much in Cdn history class I guess - a nefarious Montreal banking connection to the Confederates!
ReplyDeleteSome fun for you.
ReplyDeleteWithout looking it up (and not counting TFS though he isn't officially retired yet), who is the oldest player still playing in the league who was drafted by the Habs?
Pacioretty?
DeleteDing ding ding!
DeleteDamn, you're too good. I thought this might throw you off. Patches and McDonagh both taken in the first round of the 2007 draft (and PK in the 2nd round - a damn fine draft!). Pacioretty though is a late '88 birthday while McDoh! (thanks to Gainey's trade, not his play) was born in May of '89.
Since the first one was too easy apparently...
ReplyDeleteBrendan Gallagher is the oldest drafted player still playing with the Habs, drafted in the 5th round of 2010. What other player taken by the Habs in that draft is still skating with an NHL team (or at least played until the end of the regular season ;-)
Tinordi?
DeleteHad to look this up..Habs had almost no picks in 2010. Tinordi in the 1st round, no picks in rounds 2 and 3, then 1 pick in round 4, Gally in round 5, nada in 6 and one pick in rnd 7...How lucky does that make the Gally pick. WTF was going on at that point?
ReplyDeleteSounds like I guessed right!
DeleteIf my memory is correct, either Gainey or Gauthier traded a pick or two to move up in the 1st round to get Tinordi that year. They liked his size and his pedigree (His father Mark played many years in the NHL) so they paid the price. Jared didn't progress fast enough or the Habs were impatient with him, a common thing with young players in those days. Ironically Tinordi is the guy that took out Dach's knee with a big hit in game 2 last October.
DeleteThe SFU are quite giddy this morning for some reason.
ReplyDeleteAmazing how players like Microfracture and Doucherov can make these miraculous recoveries in time for playoff action.
ReplyDeleteLots of draft chatter these days for Habs fans (we got nuthin' else) and it seems Berkly Catton is emerging as a favourite choice. FHFriend steve says he's too small (5'-11" 170 lbs) but he is one of the the most skilled guys after Mack the Knife and Semidov. I point to Lep who is (maybe) 5'-9" 183lbs and Whiskey 5'-7" (exaggerated) who seem to be doing OK. Catton is still only 17 so could grow another inch or so and add 10lbs easily and voila! If he makes it to 6' he is out of smurf territory for sure. Or, the Habs can crash Gary's Vegas shindig and win the lottery and get Celebrini after missing out on Bedard to the vile blackhawks last year.
ReplyDeleteJarred Tinordi - that's pretty impressive @Maritimer. Golf clap for you. He has played 205 NHL games with 6 different teams over 9 seasons. He spent a good 3 1/2 straight seasons in the AHL from '16 to '20. Good on him for persevering but BOO for the hit on Dach. TBF, the hit looked pretty harmless at the time, I was shocked to hear it was a season ending injury.
ReplyDeleteThanks man, yeah, that hit wasn't that bad I thought at the time but something obviously happened. It's funny, I can name every team that has won the Cup from 1956 to 2000 but after that, it's becoming fuzzier all the time from about '02 to present day. I guess it's because I've stopped watching the Finals for the last 20 odd years up until the Habs run in 2021.
DeleteI'm the same with the Cup winners, except it's more like late 60's to late 90's. After the '96 Avs win, I just know there was some Detroit, Dallas was in there...Devils...Avs again. Just couldn't pinpoint which years for which teams.
DeleteA bonus fact from that 2010 draft, other than Lep and Tintin, only one other player played in the NHL. PEI's Morgan Ellis played three games for the Habs in 15/16. He is currently a proud member of the Berlin Polar Bears in the DEL (Deutsche Eishockey Liga).
DeleteI watched a few games Morgan Ellis played with Cape Breton here in Saint John. I thought he had a chance to make it, he looked half decent on breakouts. He was one of many of Timmins picks to be not quite good enough, Dalton Thrower anybody? If you want to see a bad draft check out the 2008 class, yikes! Second rounder Danny (Frostbite) Kristo was the top pick, after that it was just junk. Is that the year Gainey traded his 1st for Alex Tanguay? Oof.
DeleteI love researching crazy facts, especially when we don't have a horse in the race...sadly.
ReplyDeleteStill in that 2010 draft. The Bruins acquired the 2nd overall pick from the leafs in the trade that sent Donut boy to Tronna. Bruins picked Tyler Seguin in that Taylor/Tyler draft. Bruins also received the 2nd pick of the 2nd round (Jared Knight) from the leaf. (they also received first round pick from 2011...Dougie Hamilton but that's not where this is going).
In 2008, the Habs traded Grabovski to the leaf for their 2nd round pick in 2010 (along with Plaid). Later that off-season the Habs traded that pick to Chicago for Robert Lang (almost forgot he had a cup of coffee with the Habs). The following off-season (2009), Chicago sent that pick back to its original owner, the leaf, in exchange for a 2nd and 3rd in 2011 (one of those being Brandon Saad).
So the actual cost to the leaf to get Kessel was
2010 first (Seguin)
2010 second (Knight - never panned out)
2011 first (Hamilton)
2011 second (Saad)
2011 third (didn't pan out)
I'm just happy to see the Habs have a small but not insignificant part in how all this played out. Habs got rid of a cancer in Grabovski and got a decent year from Bob Lang.
Crazy stuff. Good ol' Burkie trying to make the putrid leaf relevant with pHat pHil but ended up driving that 18 wheeler over the cliff. Remember Healy's kesseltracker? Now they have the auston circle jerk. I actually put the beaner/laff game on last night for a bit and said to myself wtf are you watching this shite for? Never again. They can both fuck off and die.
DeleteThat dirty little prick Doucherov only had 22 penalty minutes in the regular season. Should've been suspended for concussing Guhle. Saw him on the same shift tonight crosscheck somebody in the neck, then after the whistle give a dirty little spear. No calls. Clearly on Bettman's no touch list, being on a southern team.
ReplyDeleteApparently
ReplyDeleteCaptain underpants took control of game 2 and all the beaners could do was tip their hat….
Are we on the same planet?
I watched some of that game and the leaf that impressed me the most was the thug reeves
He just ran around and crushed beaners
He didn’t even try to play the puck
What a cromagnon Neanderthal
Wow
What a sad day for hockey when a team has a spot for a guy like that
However I am all for crushing beaners
Go Habs
Cuntbert and Homer wet themselves every time underpants steps on the ice. They have their little factoids of what useless category he leads in or is tied with at the ready to spoonfeed leafools. What little I saw he and the anxious marner were pretty much invisible. As for Reaves, the crowd in tranna is probably the last bunch in the league who still worship the thug. This goes all the way back to Conn Smythe who coined the phrase "If you can't beat 'em in the ally you can't beat 'em on the ice." The leaf crowd worshipped at the altar of Don Cherry and loved their goons, and there were many over the decades.
DeleteAhhh Don Cherry
DeleteBeaner coach leaf blower and as I call him Our National Embarrassment.
When he started he was talking to the kids, you need to do this and you need to do that. Then he had a moment in an episode where he felt he needed to point out the situation when it's time to run the goalie....
So that was it for me. Then it and he just became a joke supported by the fucktards that run things in cotu. A clown with a mouthpiece.
Anyway.
Go Habs
Lets not forget how mclame just sat there next to the velvet clown and lapped it up.
ReplyDeleteAs we used to say in the sixties
ReplyDeleteSomewhere there is a Volkswagen without seat covers
Go Habs
The Utah Niche (you tarnish)
ReplyDeleteThe Utah Ktoomuch
The Utah Tahfornow
The Utah Pulls (topples)
Tha Utah Sirs (you tossers!)
The Utah Lerators
I got nuthin
The only obvious nic is the Utah Mormons
ReplyDeleteGo Habs
The Utah Polygamists?
DeleteYes
DeleteThat’s a good one
More to the point
Go Habs
Magic Underware
DeleteLater day Coyotes
Many Wifes
Traveling Evangalist
Leaf bwaa ha ha
ReplyDeleteBest Utah nickname I saw was The Latter Day Skates.
ReplyDeleteThough some research tells me the LDS, while Mormons, did not settle in Utah. But I stand by it being a great choice.
The Utah Tyoutawapuddytats
DeleteOf all their actual choices, I expect they go with Venom. Unless there is a copyright issue with Marvel.
DeleteHate Steve Simmons, but love that he got the SFU and their fans all riled up before their big loss last night. Be looking for all the "Marner got a point, he's not invisible!" articles today.
ReplyDeletetsn is all over the "ratface douchebag is in their heads shit". Yesterday their webpage was full of "narcos is the greatest" garbage, they are whistling a different tune today. Ha ha ha ha.
DeleteGood to see the broons coach (Montrealer?), call out bettman and the sfu for the tilted playoff schedule. ~ moe
ReplyDeletePlayed my first round yesterday, it was brutally cold. My knee held up well, just a few twinges here and there. Shot 81, the greens were in great shape you could actually make a putt.
ReplyDeleteWow that's a great first round score. Pretty sure I'll never get into the 80s. Unless I figure out how to fix my short game - I probably lose a dozen strokes per round on poor shots from 60 yards and in. Played my 2nd 9 holes yesterday on the course I'm hoping to help with this. It's a Par 31 with 4 par 4s and 5 par 3s (and short ones at that). I birded one and got a couple pars but then also shot 2 6s and 2 8s. Inconsistency kills me.
DeleteIt's not so much the distance I have trouble with as keeping the proper form and consistent swing. Like you say, the more I play (and maybe even practice...), the more that should improve.
DeleteThis is hilarious! Sheldon blaming the refs for letting ratface get away with his shit (he actually may have a legit beef there) but leaf blower Joe Blowen calling out and blaming the fans for not cheering the leaf to victory is fucking hysterical!!! Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteRatface probably deserved a penalty on the first Bs goal, but your goalie has to stop that shot. What a weak goal to give up. It's almost as if for years and years, everybody outside of tronna has noted that this team won't win without a beefed up defence and goaltender upgrade.
DeleteMunster's doing what he can. Not enough though.
DeleteR.I.P. Bob Cole
ReplyDeleteRIP b'y. Called our last cup win. Still remember "A 24th banner will hang from the rafters of the Forum! The Canadiens win the Stanley Cup!" like it was yesterday.
DeleteCaleb Williams goes #1 to da Bears.
ReplyDeleteJayden Daniels goes #2 to Washington.
ReplyDeleteDrake Maye goes #3 to Saint Paddy's Pats, he's probably having a drink celebrating.
ReplyDeleteArizona gets Marvin Harrison Jr. at #4. If the Chargers don't trade down, the Giants get J.J. McCarthy ... fingers crossed.
ReplyDeleteChargers take OT Joe Alt ... 6'-9" 321lbs!!! Holey Moley!!
ReplyDeleteC'mon NY take the QB!
ReplyDeleteOK then, the Giants take the elite WR instead. Daniel Jones will fumble... errr...
Deletebe throwing to Malik Nabers.
I'm not sold on Drake Maye. Was hoping they would take MH Jr, but knew they would take a QB. So we have a 'potential' elite QB with nobody to throw to and The M's Giants have an elite WR with nobody to throw to him. Best of luck to us both in next year's draft, we should be pretty high again.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Jones can throw the ball. And he can run too. He just has to not fumble so much. Seems to me they signed some guy out of Carolina who can help protect him. Regardless, a .500 season would feel like a win. This will be Jones last year if he doesn't perform.
DeleteDoesn't look like the Bolts are gonna make my 1st Round predictions come true. Thought they had one last hurrah left...but they're done. Still reckon this Cup is the Rags to lose...
ReplyDeleteGood
ReplyDeleteCanada won last night
Buttman must be squirming
So much Canada
So little murica
Fingers Crossed
Well cept for the leaf
Go Habs
I think Winnipeg lost last night, I thought they would beat Colorado but looks like it's not going to happen. I see some chatter about bringing MoneyHab back to the fold. That would be a solid move to bring in some veteran help up front.
DeleteFuck the leaf.
Go broons
ReplyDeleteMay 7 the Hockey Gods roll the dice and everything comes up Habs. I hope Slafzilla gets his 7 for 8 and Ghost 6 for 8. Not sure how many more 8 we have left, at least two more, one for Fast Rock Lane and one for Mr x.
ReplyDeleteIt took me a few minutes to figure out your comment but I don't think Slafzilla gets $7mil for 8 years, Hughes will bridge him for a couple years. Ghost (Ghule?) not worth that kind of dough. He might be the one they have to sacrifice to get a big name sniper. Hughes knows who is worth what from his agent days, unlike biceps bergy who would sign Lep for 6 years and cry like a baby after.
DeleteNat King Cole Yezzer will be available, in the role of sniper. Considering the luck we have had with USTP players, I think HUGO will take the risk. I think that will be our limit of urologists. (three) all USTP. The most Ironic thing about the Leaf, is they are all urolgist and have a lousy power play.
DeleteGot shivers down my spine listening and watching that montage of Bob Cole
ReplyDeletemissed it. was there any mention of the final call at the forum vs kings?
DeleteGot in a few minutes ago from attending a comedy show at the Imperial Theater, well well, look at the score of the leaf game ... heh heh ... where oh where is that 70 goal scorer the SFU worshipped all year?
ReplyDeleteSFU tears on the panel...
was he the headliner at your show?
DeleteEx-Brit James Mullinger, pretty funny guy, loves the lifestyle of the New Brunswick, married a local girl he met in London. Pretty cool story.
DeleteKeefe - gone this summer.
ReplyDeleteMarner - gone this summer.
Matthews - please trade me to Utah
Nylander - please trade me to Montreal
Tavares - I think I'll retire.
Deletei hope none of those happen. it just wouldnt feel right to dynamite this team of destiny. im not done with these guys yet.
Deleteditto for marchant and his gang of thugs. the last say is important and i feel nick and the boys havnt spoken their last words to either yet.
So you are hoping for more years of leaf failure and schadenfreude. I could be down for that but I think Sheldon is gone.
DeleteNo matthews in the 3rd ... who will leafnet put the matthews cam on now? Maybe they can find him in the shitter...
ReplyDelete3-1...3-1.
ReplyDeleteGood memories.
Suck it leafers.
Well well well. Marner woke up in the 3rd but for Underpants.... "the doctors took him out" of the game just shows the mental infortitude of a guy too used to it always being all about him.
DeleteShit show in TO.
It really looks like a team meltdown is we underway there.
Lots of leaf schadenfreude this morning on the SFU sites...π€£
ReplyDeleteLets see the Rats sweep the Broons. The leaf are at the end of their road and we have not even crossed the first bridge. Going to be a fun decade to laugh at the leaf.
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nylander, presumably to a teammate: “Stop fucking crying bro…this isn’t fucking junior hockey.”
ReplyDeleteheh ~ moe
That post-game comment: "we're grown men"
DeleteO baby!
Pretty sure that was directed at mitchie. Even Haharudey called him out for complaining to the refs instead of just playing.
DeleteThe clip I saw on SN blurred his mouth so we can't read his lipsπ . What a joke of a network.
DeleteIn the 2nd intermission the 'panel' unanimously trashed the leaf after they were booed off the ice. I think word came down from on high to 'lay off our bread an butter' so they were easier on them at the end of the game and just rolled out the excuses.
DeleteWe willie is a play when I feel like it player, and he is not good in the room or on the becCH. He hurt Billies feelings.
DeleteWhen, not if, the wretched, laughable leaf lose this series we will see the beginning of the disassembling of this team. Sheldon and his assistants will be gone within days. Tree will be told to look for a deal for mitchie, he's done in Hogtown. Narcos isn't going anywhere they sell too many #34 sweaters. Johnny PJs will play out his final year and be let go or sign for a lot less. Nylander, if he could be had, he's the one guy I would go after if I was Kent Hughes. He put up 98 points this year, wouldn't he thrive on a line with Nick and Slaf? Whiskey could play with Dach and Hook.
ReplyDeleteI think they hang onto Willy. But they do need D and draft picks which Kent has a plethora of. So who knows...curious to see what our offseason looks like.
DeleteAgreed they probably hang on to Willie because Treliving gave him the big extension. Unless Willie gets tired of the circus sideshow in T.O. and tells his agent: "Bro, get me the fuck out of here."
DeleteHeh heh.
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Well all this play by playin about Bob Cole brings up some memories all right they say the first game he called for CBC radio was in 69 game six semis in Boston Garden Jean Beliveau got the winner for us in double overtime the only one the big guy ever tallied ten Cups an a Conn Smythe yet just the one extra time marker ever I watched it from the bench Rogie Vachon tended nets for us we eliminated them Bruins that night and then sweeped the Blues in four the fourth and final Cup in my career a good thing we won her that year too because Bobby Orr was tailorin a cape and learnin how to fly through the air like some sorta superhero on skates.
Retired from tendin the cage I watch games on the box a Sony they make a decent set that Bob Cole was good at the tellin Doreen said it made it like you was there livin and dyin with each pass I knew when Cole’s voice got a bit higher some goaler was about to get a workout he never said cannonadin drive though that was Danny Gallivan he did scintillatin too Bob Cole did the oh baby always cracked me up sometimes when I make my famous pineapple squares Gumpies Doreen calls em I take a batch out of the oven and say oh baby. I read on Cole’s passin that Foster Hewitt once gave Bob a helpin hand when he was startin out givin him tips on how to impart the flow of it and that makes me smile continuity they call her just like some veterans once helped me I did my best to help the youngsters when I was playin even showed em some good places to unwind with a drink or two afterwards all them cities can get confusin.
Some folks say you need to be there at the game to really get her in all her glory but Bob Cole could bring it to ya through the radio or the teevee and you didn’t have to leave the house even.
There's nothing funnier than the collective sadness of the sfu.
ReplyDeleteThey can all F O with their biased tears.
~ moe
Year after year after year...A united team with awesome Defence and goaltending win the Stanley cup. Leafs have a shit defence, .they also have an overpaid group of individuals and pretty average goaltending - and because they have an entire city deluded enough to Believe whatever the leafhack supporters tell them, they have no incentive to ever change that. Long may it continue.
ReplyDeleteThe artist formally known as KMAK speaks the truth. Leaf fans for at least 8 years where told we have players in the top of the regular season and we have spent millions on AI to verify this. You think we would have signed pajami boy or Notlander if the math did not control the converstion?
Deletewe are like feral annimals eating copper and other low elements when we all knew
it was silver we need to keep the tribe alive and push the truth into the future.
The future start at the draft and ends when Slavzillia is 25.
Every time steve says Slafzilla I think of Blue Oyster Cult's 'Godzilla'.
DeleteWow, way to go Canucks! Imagine having a squad with the talent to score two 6 on 5 goals in the pressure of a playoff game. Good luck to them in OT.
ReplyDeleteThat move by Hughes to keep the play alive on the third goal. Yeah if Fast Lane has that hockey sense and ability, we'll be pretty damn happy.
DeleteWow, that was quick! Just a minute into OT. A big W with the third string Goalie between the pipes.
ReplyDeleteThere is actually a Canucks fan at work. I expect he'll be rocking the jersey tomorrow even though he's a manager and it's only 3-1.
Should be at least 2 Canadian teams in the next round. Surprised that Winnipeg shit the bed but in retrospect Colorado are only two years removed from a Cup win. The stupid, inept leaf with all their prima donnas never stood a chance.
ReplyDeleteyeah, u guys right. everybody going mental here, but what if i told u everybody in the pub, on the street, and at work were convinced their team and the series were done after giving up the 3-1 goal 0:12 into the third?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fragile fanbase that lacks faith in their club. To be fair, the limited shots they are getting each game, I'd be concerned as a fan too.
DeleteBut hey, the Oil only got 13 shots and got the W. A Canucks/Oil series could be a low shot affair, but will guarantee a Canadian team in the semis.
DeleteA Canucks/Oilers semi-final probably wasn't on Gary's bingo card. Will ESPN even cover it?
DeleteOops! I meant quarter finals.
DeleteBoohoo, Caps swept. Hopefully OvRetchkin retires and goes back to his good buddy Putin and we don't see anymore of him. He can take Wilson with.
ReplyDeleteLoved the gutsy effort by the Canucks. And the Oilers getting goaltending?? Wow.
You know I thought I could escape the SFU bullcrap and watch the American feed last night, but it's even worse, they have the biggest leaf cheerleader of all with BizDouchey on their panel and Whiteway Pang between the benches doing (ironically) colour commentating.
ReplyDeleteLooks like one despicable blue and white team will be gone shortly.
ReplyDeleteHa Ha ... nice turnover Doucherov, go get drunk on Bud Lite you POS.
ReplyDeleteSo much for that. And another Russian asshole star gets his golf season on.
DeleteBefore the inevitable speculation starts, no, Stamkos is not coming to Montreal and no, he's not signing with the wretched leaf. He takes a discount and stays in Tampa. My guess would be a 5 year deal with a sliding salary, AAV around $6mil.
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping Dallas can rebound and knock off the cheating Golden Showers.
ReplyDeleteI would like to see that; but my guess is that won't be happening.
DeleteYeah things are going great so far.
ReplyDeleteOwretchkin...gone.
Douchevov....gone.
Soon.
wretched leaf....gone.
Dallas could do it and the Pissers...gone.
Canucks and Oil should knock off a couple more southern teams.
Even with shitfly on the team, I was cheering for $Hab and Toffee, but it sounds like they're not showing up in the playoffs. So local boy Nate the Great will move on with the Avs. That's OK.
That leaves just one disappointing result in the Carolina Shit Tornadoes taking out Roy and the Isles.
Not bad.
Not counting chickens before they're hatched, but it does look pretty bleak right now for the Jets, Laff and Isles. I am rooting for tge Canucks but I would not count on them advancing. A lot of puck luck has brought tgem this far and the Preds could mount a comeback. I am impressed with the way the Stars have muscled their way back from down 2-0. Kinda like how the Habs did vs. Nordiques in '93? Time will tell.
DeleteJust a little perspective about the current Habs rebuild we are going through: I think we can all agree Florida is a powerhouse and perhaps a team the Habs can emulate going forward. In 2010 we took a family vacation during March break and went to Florida for the week. We went to Universal Studios, Busch Gardens and a water park in Orlando. I had purchased tickets to see the Habs play in Sunrise by calling the Panthers box office a few weeks before. Four tickets in the lower bowl, row 17, aisle seats. Cost me $300 US but our money was at par at the time, a pretty sweet deal. The trade deadline was the week before I believe and Florida had sold everybody of value for draft picks and Dale Tallon who was GM at the time told the fans they were going to do a proper rebuild through the Draft. Montreal kicked the Panthers butts 5-2 that night, there might have been 5000 Panther fans in a full building and the rest were fans from Quebec in Habs jerseys. It was nuts. Hal Gill scored 2 goals that game LOL!!
ReplyDeleteMy point being that was 14 years ago when they started and they drafted high more than a few times including getting Barkov and Huberdeau. Then, after they were starting to climb the standings they got Bobrovsky from Columbus. Eventually they started making trades and signed a few UFAs to be where they are at today. So, this Habs rebuild may take longer than we anticipate, they are really just at the start. Cheers!
It is LED so go broons. ~ moe
ReplyDeleteLeaf Elimination Day ... Nice!
DeleteGood one. May it be so.
DeleteDid you know that bears wipe there ass with leaves
ReplyDeleteDoesn't everybody....?
Delete"Tremendous be-leaf that the leaves can still win..." SFU ... sure maybe tonight, but 3 in a row? Who do those clowns think are playing the bears --- the Panthers?
ReplyDeleteJust for tonight...(Forgive me)...Let's go Bruins...get it done FFS!...must go wash now...yeah...
ReplyDeleteLol Hayes and the Overdrive crew just want it to end tonight. Figure if the leaf drag it to 7 before losing, the team and many fans will fall into the same ol' "we're so close!" trap and nothing will change. They're not wrong. While I hope they lose tonight, to see them have that glimmer of hope before bowing out ain't so bad either.
ReplyDeleteMay the wretched leaf rot in mediocrity for another fifty seven years.
3-1 lead for Carolina going into 2nd period
ReplyDeleteSOG for 1st period: 22 to 4
This is strange
ReplyDeleteI don’t know who to cheer for
Just want to see them crush each other
Go Habs
Kind of like the biker wars here in Montreal a while back they just kept shooting each other
ReplyDeleteI was cheering for the rock machine they were the underdogs
Go Habs
I can't recall the broons playing a worse game than this and the leaf just squeaked it out in OT. Hard to imagine them doing this two games in a row...but there is that glimmer of useless hope for the leafers. Hahaha it'll be more sweet when it's over.
ReplyDeleteLED will be observed on May 2nd this year I expect.
ReplyDeletebroons gave them some rope, dopes. ~ moe
ReplyDeletePronman ...
ReplyDeleteOverthinking Cole Caufield
The 2019 team was always thought of as Jack Hughes’ team. Hughes was a budding play-driving star center with elite skating and skill who could dazzle on any given shift against junior and college players. But on that NTDP team, Caufield scored 38 more goals than Hughes did that season and was just as impactful at their U18 worlds, being named the tournament MVP. Hughes was a far superior skater to Caufield and is several inches taller.
Height would come to define the conversation about Caufield. The comparisons to Alex DeBrincat were inevitable and constant. There were a lot of risks discussed about Caufield: His size. Is he just a product of always playing on Hughes’ wing? His skating isn’t elite for a small guy. There’s only one guy in the NHL who looks him. He’s not a super competitive type like DeBrincat.
All those concerns are anywhere from valid to extremely valid. And if Caufield were just a very talented, small winger, he would be a replaceable piece. He needed to score in big numbers as a pro, and he has because he was more than just very talented; he had special qualities. His hands and shot are special and he has strong hockey sense. That USA team was so good in part because of how good Caufield was, not just because he happened to be put on the right line.
I appreciate the risks a 5-foot-7 wing who is not an elite skater can present when projecting him to the pros. There are plenty of shoot-first players who were high picks in the last decade or so and haven’t panned out. Hence why there is reasonable apprehension in the league on now NTDP winger Cole Eiserman. There were reasonable arguments to not take Caufield ahead of some of the true no-doubters, but his drop to No. 15 seemed excessive at the time and has not aged well. The distinction for me between Eiserman and Caufield is that I thought Caufield’s skill and shot were both superior and, frankly, he was a leading player on a team that won games.
Even though the player style is very different, the one guy whom I can best analogize Caufield to in this year’s draft is Berkly Catton. Catton measures in at 5-foot-10, but everything else about his game is excellent. He’s a high-end skater. He is extremely skilled. He competes well. He put up huge numbers in his draft season. He had very good numbers as a 16-year-old. He led his Hlinka Gretzky in goals and points. He was one of the best players at his U17 challenge. Like Caufield, I don’t think it’s worth overthinking Catton; just pick the supremely talented player who has dominated his age group for years and, yes, is a bit small.
Works for me.
Deletelove the write-up plus comparison. thnx for the heads up. i now have a second pick to cheer for after jr iggy.
Deletedo me a favour though: "He competes well". pleeeeeease no more repeating stupid made up words popularised by loser boy elliot friedsuckman. ditto for most other adjectives (or its it a verb?) he barfs out. the proper way to describe that is: "He is competitive."
Catton could easily translate in CHatton but CHat works too.
ReplyDeletehello from vancouver guys. totally bummed to see moneyhab and toffee exit last night, but its kinda a win cause lekhy, and druid go through. i really wanted st patrick to upset those rags next round, but not in the cards this yr. somebody above mentioned the oil a lot and just for reference, espn picked them to defeat the leaves in the final this yr. yes, i know its american reporters, but i suppose it shows at least they arent biased?
ReplyDeleteyou guys noticed all those ads about saving sakic? this is the first ive ever heard of it. did you guys know about this back in the day? quite a fascinating story, though i doubt burnaby joe woulda actually left considering how much he went though with the franchise. in an alternate universe, it woulda changed the nhl eh? haha to the rags for again being the bad guys though.
in searching for background on that, i saw there is another documentary about mr alexandre daigle. this one i remember very much. do any of you remember what the habs offered to OTW for the no.1 pick?
oh... not what i want, but i know some of you have hard-ons for this: happy MLED. personally im hoping for something intergalactic on may the 4th.
ReplyDeleteIn true NHL fashion, the refs take over and fuck over one team. Congrats, Oilers, I guess. But I doubt they'll get past the Avs.
ReplyDeleteGood to see Dallas put the Pissers in a hole. Now, bury them!
ReplyDeleteThe Oilers move on, that's good for me as I have McD, Hyman and Bouchard in my playoff pool. By all accounts PLD was useless, I'm happy he's biceps bergy and company's problem.
Berkly Catton would love to play on a line with Dach and Slaf. I don't blame him but unfortunately the Habs are getting Celebrini.