Seeing rumours and speculation on a PLD possible buy out. Of course, certain elements say maybe the Canadiens should take a flyer on him. No, just no, PLD has proven to be a prima donna every where he has been. He would be a bigger flop than Drouin was. He is L.A.'s problem let them deal with it.
I'm watching the 'Nucks/Preds game and Van has a goalie named She Loves. 5 minutes left in the second still 0-0.
I'm looking forward to this off season more so than last year. The previous season was all about 5 high end forwards, Bedard, Fantilli, Carlson, Smith and Michkov. It seemed from the get go that Hughes would pass on the enigmatic Russian and so they jumped on the Right Hand D. Getting Newhook took a little of the sting out of that pick.
This year it has to be 99.9% that Montreal will get that elite forward as after Celebrini goes I believe the next 3 teams will take one of the high end D available, Levshunov, Parekh, Dickinson or Buium because those guys are so valuable and hard to get, leaving the next enigmatic Russian, Demidov and all the rest of a great bunch of forwards. I'm so looking forward to the Draft this year. Plus, whoever else Hughes manages to snag on the trade market.
Agree on the hard no for PLD His 15 goals puts him right there with GI Finn for oooh five big ones more Plus like The Maritimer says he has whined his way out of two clubs who went out and got him so you’re welcome I think the pressure here for a St Agathe boy would be too much and yes we don’t need Druid 2.0 As for our new sweed welcome to the most stacked D line gang of prospects in the NHL Good luck to you Go Habs
I think "In Hugo we trust" has to be our mantra for the off-season this year...it will be a big off-season and they appear to have a plan. Let them make it happen.
My predictions from the last thread. So far I have the east winners, hoping I'm not perfect on that side. Only have the Oil from the west. I'm happy to only have one correct there too. Go (barf in my mouth) beaners. Go Stars.
And Go HuGo! I'm very pumped about this off season too.
Yes no to PLD. Dogged the Huberdough and the PLD honey traps on my watCH. Go Broons, coup de grace for LED. Franchise ending loss, ban the Shanaplan, and bassover. The eviel empires will take each other to total franchise destruction. Hugo loves him some US college boys, thats why we will be Yzer's. The second pick will be more interesting. I expect some dumpster diving. THe lottery is ours. We finaly get the Soros payday color rot, blanc and bleue revolution at the NHL
With Edmonton meeting Vancouver we are guanteed a Cdn outfit in the Campbell Conference final. I think most will pick Edmonton and that seems fitting, given their relative playoff experience but I still have little faith in the Oilers defence and goalies to imagine them getting any further than that.
Honestly, I don't care which evil empire wins tonight, Florida shouldn't have any problems with either of them. As for the new Swedish kid's nickname how about AE? Isn't that a symbol of some kind?
Meteor would be good Clean no mess no link to anything Habs Hopefully take out Mclaim and the toronto sports network with it And especially that woman who yells Go Habs
Happy LED people ! Yet another loss for an inept unbalanced core of underperforming overpaid losers Emphasis on overpaid From the Shanaplan through Dumbass and the highest paid group of chokers may the forth was not with you tonight Sigh What will mclaim hahahrudy and the woman who yells talk about now Now Let’s see the cats demolish the weasel rat and the rest of his ilk Go Cats Go Habs
One of the few times during the season that I bother to watch the schadenfreude of the sfu. mclame is the worst but duthie is a close second. This clown yipping about 'the pain'. F U ~ moe
Six leaf will need hand surgury following a very intense handshaking after the broons showed their respect. No team in history has learned as many lessons as the leaf, but failed the exam everytime nevertheless. Cant wait for the real important stuff on May 9. If your not watCHing the Hockey Junkie, give it a try. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISC6XoAzfmk&ab_channel=HockeyJunkie
"Marner and Tavares both have full no-move clauses and one year remaining on their contracts. Big raises for Nylander and Matthews kick in next fall, which will sap any raise in the cap ceiling."
As with TurlePleks, Now it's Domini and Munster who tried but couldn't make the Leaf successful.
But they have Reaves locked in for 2 more years, eh? Oof
The annual LED autopsy continues without change. From the Globe and Mail "here are no good ways to lose a series in overtime, but allowing your opponent to float a one-hundred-foot billiards pass off the end boards to their best scorer, who has just tiptoed through the middle of your entire squad, while your goalie sits so far back in his net it looks like he is sheltering in place, must be among the worse. They played seven periods without Matthews and those were their best seven periods in the series.
Marner was invisible throughout, though you did catch a glimpse of him right at the end as Pastrnak treated him like a practice pylon.
Tavares was good for a four-million-dollar player, though they’ll have to keep paying him 11."
Well, the poor saps at tsn must still be in mourning, the lead story on the NHL page is still Boston beating their leaf in OT. Thought that would be long gone by now. And WTF, narcos nominated for the Selke trophy? In what effed up universe is that possible, the guy can't check his hat ffs.
If they dont cost mor than 20 USD I will buy some merc, but not underpants. This is the leaf dream team lead actor, underwear, NARCO, MexiCAN. This guy is a top 10 in todays NHL both regular and season. Dont look at the eye test, you will not like what your see. Use the mind
I have to admit his defensive game has improved. And apparently he blocks shots now. Not sure how much short handed work he gets.
I'm interested to see where Suzuki finishes in the voting. I would think he's got to be top 10...but then I don't see a lot of other teams play so I can't really say he should be in spot x vs spot y.
Which is why these awards are subjective. Even the writers that vote primarily watch their teams play and base their vote on stats, not the eye test when it comes to players aside from their own. I wonder how many voters are from the SFU region?
The M - Taylor Penrith with his first W. Played well all week. Needed a mistake on in 18 by his opponent, but that's golf for you. Interesting to see how many Canadians Weirsy puts on the Presidents Cup team.
It would be a fairy tale story if the Canucks met the Rangers in the final --- 30 years later --- and beat the dirty Rags. Our FHFriend oleg would probably be drunk for a week! I know he's a Habs fan but that would be worth celebrating.
I'm cheering primarily for the Oilers because I'd like to see McDavid hoist the cup and end any comparison to Underpants. Also Edmonton has primarily Canadian players on their team, while there are only 3 Canucks on the Canucks. But I'd also be perfectly happy to see Vancouver win their first cup while the leaf continue with 57 years and counting.
I would like to see McJesus hoist The Cup. Nothing against Van but just a personal choice. Going over the post elimination blabber in cotu and it seems that the leaf beat themselves somehow?? They blame the core fore and particularly little mitchie who just seems to vanish. Still can't find out what was wrong with underpants. sigh so much unhappiness so much sadness. Hey fuckwits ... the fish rots from the head down ... Fire shanaplan and maybe keep brad till he fucks up. Trade little mitchie and jonny toronto Or Just maybe give everyone a big fat extension a pat on the back and sell T shirts that say We'll Get'um next time fur sure. Cause there are few dumpster fires more entertaining than LED. Go Habs
Arizona Cardinals (NFL) - 1947 Cleveland Guardians (MLB) - 1948 *then the Indians Sacramento Kings (NBA) - 1951 *then the Rochester Royals Detroit Lions (NFL) - 1957 Atlanta Hawks (NBA) - 1959 Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) - 1967
Even if you're not a team of the other big American sports, here are five teams with a longer history of ineptitude than the wretched leaf that you can cheer for to win a championship before them. Be awesome to see Tronna at the top of this list. The Lions have a good team and could win a Superbowl this year or next if the cards fall right. I don't follow baseball or basketball enough to know the current status of those teams.
Also, just 50 more years and the leafs will tie the Cubs record of 107 years. We may not be around for that one, but hopefully it's still on the table when our times are up.
Just saw a picture posted earlier on Twitter showing the Utah Tabernacle Choir getting #2 pick. Some are saying it was a rehearsal but it would not surprise me in the slightest if it happened and I fully expect it to! Gary's big thank you to the Smythe's for solving his Arizona problems.😉👀
Well this is a first...ESPN stream watching the draft...talk about making a mountain out of molehill...fuck me what a joke. It's a fucking Butt man circle jerk!
Those were the order of odds which so happened to not change at all this year.
#5 so a physical specimen in Lindstrom or the skill and pedigree of Iginla. Or the pick is included in the package that brings us a goal scorer now. No bad options.
So one of the reasons they don't do the lottery live is that it's boring AF. You can find last year's draw on YouTube. This year's should be up before long.
Thing is they publish the 1000 set of 4 number combinations before the draw. So you can look it like it is a bingo card. The Habs this year had 85 out of 1000 combinations.
So they could draw the first three numbers. Then pause for dramatic effect. There will be 11 possible winning combinations remaining, each with a team tied to each set of numbers. Display those 11 sets of numbers. You might see that SJ had 6 of the 11 combos...but just maybe the Habs had one of the remaining numbers. Or other teams. Dramatically waiting for that last number...put up some odds for each team that has one of the 11...then draw the last number and BANG! "It's number 12 (for example) and Sam Jose gets the first overall pick!"
I guess where that hits a snag is doing the 2nd pick, what if it's San Jose again? I'd say in that case the remaining picks don't change.
So just like the Shakespearean play the Lottery was 'Much Ado about Nothing'.
Hughes pretty much stated he wouldn't take a LHD at #5 so that eliminates Dickinson, Buium and Silayev. I still believe Chicago takes Levshunov (RHD) and Anaheim takes Parekh (RHD) because they are the scarcest commodity. That leaves Columbus to take one of the lefties. Montreal takes a forward from among the many available. The question will be does Hughes parlay the Winnipeg pick and one of the many others in 2024 or 25 plus one of his spare D into another top 10 pick this year or another under 25 'project'?
2 to 15 are pickems. I think we take not Linstrom. I think we should take him. A huge body, If you wanna win the cup count the weight of your team. I dont know what the stats say, but the eye test says go heavy.
I wonder if we could get the Lindstrom fellow and trade up to get one of those big D men. I know we have a loaded bunch of D prospects but a couple of those in the draft look really good, I might consider Red Barron and the little one whos name escapes me now quite expendable along with a pick. Just thinking. Go Habs
Listening to a bit about the lottery last night and apparently my idea above (the 7:09pm post) will be happening next year. I did send it to NHL Public Relations too so that's obviously why they've already made this decision. And apparently last night, the Sharks won the first three draws and on the fourth attempt it was Chicago. Apparently that's also the first time they've had to do an extra draw, let alone two extra draws, but I guess they'll do that shit on Live TV next year.
Hopefully we will care even less because our team is in the playoffs this time next year. I still haven't figured out the conditions of that Calgary 1st round pick that 'may' belong to the Habs next year.
The M - heading out for my fourth 9 holes of the season after work. Still trying to get rid of the 2 snowmen I seem to get every time I'm out. My first goal is bogey golf...then go from there.
I've been thinking on Iginla and the Habs' record of drafting players with family ties to to the NHL. I'm not doing research just going on my sketchy memory...there are probably more samples, but they had pretty good luck with the Pocket Rocket and Pierre Bouchard. The last three+ decades though, they haven't exactly struck gold...yet. Marcel Hossa Valeri Bure Milkka Kiprusoff's brother Sergei Kostitsyn None of these were as good as their older sibling. I feel like I'm forgetting somebody. The book is still out on FX, we'll see. Lindstrom is the guy but if it so happens he and the demigod are gone, Tij is worth the risk because we're due.
As much as I despise the Rags because of the Cry-der incident, I love seeing the petulant little bitches in carolina fall on their faces. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of trolls.
Devo for KK was not the best. However argualbly Devo is one magnitute better than KK. We will see what we get for Devo at the draft. I hope its more than magic underwear.
Agreed I'm wondering if KK is still pulling down 6.5 large. Lot of cash to prove some stupid point. Speaks to the tone of management. Hope the rags take them out in short order. Go Habs
According to Cap friendly, KK got $4.82mil per for 8 years. I don't know what point Dumbdon and Waddell were trying to prove but even biceps bergy is laughing at that. That's a lot of coin for a 4th liner.
Yeah the $6.1M was the offer sheet offer that Bergy said no thanks and see ya later to. Sadly he over-reacted by only turning that pick and a 2nd this year into Devo.
thnx for thinking bout me fellas, but im begging u guys to remember: i hate the 'hockey fans' who live in my shity!
lemme give an example: before each home game, they bring out an old canuck to sound the alarm(?) before the puck drops. if this was in mtl, do u think it would be necessary to flash his name so everybody would know who he is?! round these parts, they not only havta do that, but also have the in house rink announcer give an intro. to say these ppl are bandwagoner fans is a compliment.
ex#2: yes, i live out here in la la land. and every yr when playoffs begin, there are loads of idiots wearing the jersey of one and the hat of the other team. the answer is always the same: "they are my second favourite team", "thats where i grew up", "its my father's team".... blah blah blah barf!
NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, the team u cheer for is who u cheered for growing up! none of this made up split allegiance! raise yer hands, how many ppl in mtl would proudly declare somebody else as their second favourite team like now when our boys arent even invited? the best u can do is cheer for juulsen, de smith, kulak, druid, lekhy, but not rah rah for another team!
smh... i doubt u guys get what i mean. it sucks being alone (kinda) out here
The owner of Nuck, Oilers, Broons, Phuctards, Whalercanes, Pissers and other lesser teams are all mini Trumps, I still want a Canadian team to win the cup.
oh and maritimer: yes, i am cheering for a 94 rematch or a 11 rematch. gawd i hate kreider and gawd i hate ratface like all of you, but i hate all the idiot insta-diehards here more. nothing is more satisfying than watching a city u despise go all the way only to steal defeat from victory.
I recorded the Nucks/Oil game and (kinda) watched it this morning to get an idea of the intensity of this series. I have to say, I was impressed, lots of nastiness between these two teams. oleg was trashing the crowd but they were pretty loud, unlike the mausoleum in Tranna where the only fans who are cheering are standing outside in Maple Leafool Square. And, when the sfu and the rest of the braindead Tranna media like to compare their hero narcos to Mcjesus, I would point to last night's game where McD (and Leon) show how to get things done.
The Panthers are starting to flex, the beaners are in for it now with Swayman getting lit up like Red Light Racicot. Doubtful the team in black wins another game even if ratface makes a comeback.
Rats I am remined of Johnny Rotten. When he was in grade 2 the teacher knew he was rotton. So when time came to assign Rotten Johnny a letter to make a word from the teacher carefully selected R. Nowdays there is that R word, but back in my day , no bad words start with R. Johnny, can you give us a word that starts with R. " Rats, big fucking Rats with 12 inch cocks" This is the Panthers.
Some classy people. I dropped the odd brown pop with Eddie Shack. RIP Ronny
WatCH for a move on Beckett Sennecke. Most likely we trade up for the 16 th pick. This guy could be the sleeper pick of the draft. Its looking more and more likely we get Tig IG, Iggy CH
Ellis was a good Canadian. R.I.P. Keon was propably the best leaf ever. A good Québecois (never mentioned by the sfu but they do like to compare primadonnamarner to him)...
How to compete with the fucking 500 vice presidents in Toronto. Due to the rise in value of an NHL franchise, there will be about 30,000 vice presidents in the future. Basicly anyone who has ever posted some kind of fitnees stuff, and anyone who has posted that the people in the himilayas can fly will be employed by the Leaf. We on the other hand, have welded shut every dumpster within a 10K radius of the the the the plade where some trains stop. The battle on the ice is secondary. The battle in the ex suite is bloody. Lots of plastic surgery and wellness after the fact. Lets cut down the forest to project it in the future for the benifit of all mankind who will have no idea what talking forest.
I've long stopped reading all the opinion (or demands in some cases) pieces about who the Habs should draft. Looking at Slaf's development (though I was very skeptical), I will just let Hughes and his team do what they think is right.
What I do know is what Brian Wilde has brought up a number of times, is that the Habs need to score about 30 more goals next year. That puts them in line with Boston and FLA numbers. I think they can do that with the growth of Slaf, a healthy Dach, and undoubtedly a UFA add. The bigger issue is that they need to give up almost one less goal per game on average. So yeah, this isn't the time to trade one of your two defencemen with more than 3 years of experience. And is our goaltending good enough? Primo/Monty were 41st/50th in GAA and 20th/38th in Save%. Monty has his moments but is Primo the guy until Fowler is ready? What about giving up on them and taking a shot at Laurent Brossoit? Sounds like he's from QC but isn't (he's from BC). 31 years old. Great numbers last year with a 2.00 GAA and .927 Save% with WPG. Or big Anthony Stolarz with FLA. 2.02 and .925 Both of them gave up nearly one goal less per game than our guys. REalizing some of that is on the D, but not all. For a while, each of our guys it seemed were good for one stinker per game. It's like my golf game, gotta get rid of those from your game to move on up.
Anyway, this is me not trying to think of the Habs at the beginning of a very long off season...
Status quo on the goalies, at least for 2 years. We also have two great prospects in the pipeline, especially Fowler and I believe a Russian one too. ~ moe
Agreed. Just spit ballin'. That Russian kid put up incredible numbers, but apparently the Russian junior league ain't all that so we won't have a true idea until he hits the KHL.
I can live with the current goalie tandem, less than $4mil for both. Yes, they both lay an egg occasionally but the Habs D is sometimes at fault. You have a riverboat gambler, a slow of foot vet and a number of interns learning on the job. Lots of work for MSL and Robidas to do yet.
The game should be called goalie not hockey. However a good goalie no longer exists. That why a good tandem is better. Its like knowing your brakes are going to fail after x many stops.
"In sharing my journey and experiences with young people in Anahim Lake and across the country, I want to shine a light on all the possibilities and pathways open to them," says Price, who is of Ulkatcho/Southern Dakelh and Nuxalk First Nations heritage. "Receiving this honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UNBC is an example of the unexpected opportunities that arise and fulfilling ways that community service gives back to you."
Wow! so sad, I wasn't aware he was sick. First saw him on Edmonton's ITV when I lived in northern BC in the early 90's. Distinctive voice and agreed, seemed like one of the better ones, he never drank the kool-aid. RIP. Way too young at 57.
We’ll at least the rat weasel is up front and just flat out says that he’s out to hurt as many people as possible Good thing for the captain to say No wonder the beaners are hated Just hate to see good Montreal boy Jim coaching that slime Leaves a stain Go Habs
That NYR POS, yes we hate him for taking out Price, but he is another case of what could have been. Louis Leblanc taken the pick before, possible pressure from the francophone media? David Pastrnak taken the pick before Nikita Scherbak. KK taken one pick ahead of Brady Tkachuk. Shane Doan taken one pick ahead of Terry Ryan. I'm sure there are other examples.
Helluva ConnSmyth-worthy performance by Kreider. The key was him being in the box to watch the Canes score to take a 3-1 lead. He hated that. He then scored three straight goals to destroy the Canes and their many pork-farmingly blubbery fans.
Global News Montreal's Mike Armstong (from Twitter): Michael Armstrong @ArmstrongGN The team that took out Koivu’s eye (costing us a Cup) is eliminated by the team that took out Price’s legs (costing us a Cup). Now… will they face the team that tried to kill Pacioretty (costing us a Cup) or the Panthers?
So the players this mgmt team put together can't win in the playoffs, despite having a really great coach (and even Hayley F. Wickenheiser on hand for advice)!
So they fire the great coach, whose contract they'd earlier extended still hasn't even begun.
So they hired Craig Berube so fast, you'd think he was in high demand in an urgent bidding war.
I would say the TO country club has come to an end. Berube won't be afraid to call out the prima donnas and he won't be apologizing to them in the media after like Shelley used to do. He also won't let narcos chase his personal stats. L'il mitchie will be giving his agent a list of teams he will go to. Johnny Tranna might thrive under Berube, he would like his veteran players.
I'll go first.
ReplyDeleteSeeing rumours and speculation on a PLD possible buy out. Of course, certain elements say maybe the Canadiens should take a flyer on him. No, just no, PLD has proven to be a prima donna every where he has been. He would be a bigger flop than Drouin was. He is L.A.'s problem let them deal with it.
I'm watching the 'Nucks/Preds game and Van has a goalie named She Loves. 5 minutes left in the second still 0-0.
I'm looking forward to this off season more so than last year. The previous season was all about 5 high end forwards, Bedard, Fantilli, Carlson, Smith and Michkov. It seemed from the get go that Hughes would pass on the enigmatic Russian and so they jumped on the Right Hand D. Getting Newhook took a little of the sting out of that pick.
ReplyDeleteThis year it has to be 99.9% that Montreal will get that elite forward as after Celebrini goes I believe the next 3 teams will take one of the high end D available, Levshunov, Parekh, Dickinson or Buium because those guys are so valuable and hard to get, leaving the next enigmatic Russian, Demidov and all the rest of a great bunch of forwards. I'm so looking forward to the Draft this year. Plus, whoever else Hughes manages to snag on the trade market.
BTW, welcome Adam Engstrom, can't think of a nick this late...
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the Canucks. Boy, they seem to be set in nets for a while. 3rd stringer with the shutout for the series win.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to the Canucks, friend oleg will probably be celebrating on the 'wet' coast tonight.
ReplyDeleteHappy for Vancouver. Adversity teaches again!
ReplyDeleteYay nucks!
ReplyDeleteGo Habs
Agree on the hard no for PLD
ReplyDeleteHis 15 goals puts him right there with GI Finn for oooh five big ones more
Plus like The Maritimer says he has whined his way out of two clubs who went out and got him so you’re welcome
I think the pressure here for a St Agathe boy would be too much and yes we don’t need Druid 2.0
As for our new sweed welcome to the most stacked D line gang of prospects in the NHL
Good luck to you
Go Habs
I think "In Hugo we trust" has to be our mantra for the off-season this year...it will be a big off-season and they appear to have a plan. Let them make it happen.
ReplyDeleteOne last time...(lowercase, very little enthusiasm...)... go bruins...jfw...then go fuck yourselves and die...
ReplyDeleteMy predictions from the last thread. So far I have the east winners, hoping I'm not perfect on that side. Only have the Oil from the west. I'm happy to only have one correct there too. Go (barf in my mouth) beaners. Go Stars.
ReplyDeleteAnd Go HuGo! I'm very pumped about this off season too.
IHWT!
Yes no to PLD. Dogged the Huberdough and the PLD honey traps on my watCH. Go Broons, coup de grace for LED. Franchise ending loss, ban the Shanaplan, and bassover. The eviel empires will take each other to total franchise destruction.
ReplyDeleteHugo loves him some US college boys, thats why we will be Yzer's. The second pick will be more interesting. I expect some dumpster diving.
THe lottery is ours. We finaly get the Soros payday color rot, blanc and bleue revolution at the NHL
With Edmonton meeting Vancouver we are guanteed a Cdn outfit in the Campbell Conference final. I think most will pick Edmonton and that seems fitting, given their relative playoff experience but I still have little faith in the Oilers defence and goalies to imagine them getting any further than that.
ReplyDeleteYeah one of either the Oil or Canucks will have a shot at being the first Canadian Campbell's Conference winner since the Habs in 2021 🙂
DeleteHonestly, I don't care which evil empire wins tonight, Florida shouldn't have any problems with either of them. As for the new Swedish kid's nickname how about AE? Isn't that a symbol of some kind?
ReplyDeletego broons
ReplyDeleteI am actually hoping for a meteor to hit the TD Garden and wipe out both teams and a few Bruins fans as well.
ReplyDeleteMeteor would be good
ReplyDeleteClean no mess no link to anything Habs
Hopefully take out Mclaim and the toronto sports network with it
And especially that woman who yells
Go Habs
I liked Joel Edmundson as a Hab, especially during the 2021 Cup run. Don't like seeing him in that wretched leaf rag. Ptewww.....
ReplyDeletebeaner fans are getting restless ... this team really sucks ... hahahaha.........
ReplyDeletechokula, clod and eMpTy are all wetting themselves watching these games...
ReplyDeleteHahahaha SUCK IT SFU!!!
ReplyDeleteNow, die beaners.
Happy LED everyone! Pastrnak is the least detestable Bruin.
ReplyDeleteHappy LED people !
ReplyDeleteYet another loss for an inept unbalanced core of underperforming overpaid losers
Emphasis on overpaid
From the Shanaplan through Dumbass and the highest paid group of chokers may the forth was not with you tonight
Sigh
What will mclaim hahahrudy and the woman who yells talk about now
Now
Let’s see the cats demolish the weasel rat and the rest of his ilk
Go Cats
Go Habs
Happy LED everyone. I had a good wash to get that Beaners stank off of me...Now die you bastards! Cats in 6
ReplyDeleteOverall my bracket picks have done pretty well...only mistake was thinking the bolts had one more run in them...Vegas win tonight and I'm 7 for 8
ReplyDeleteMe too, but my achilles heal was my romantic dreams of the illusory power of Saint Patrick's godlike passion to make up for his outmatched Islanders.
DeleteHappy LED day! I quit watching after the third period. I bet there were lots of salty SFU tears on the panel. And in Maple Leafool Square. Har Har.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite days of the year - watching/reading all of the leaf autopsy news.
ReplyDeleteNothing better than seeing the sfu choke on it's own bile. Love it ! ~ moe
ReplyDeleteNow die broons die !
ReplyDeleteOne of the few times during the season that I bother to watch the schadenfreude of the sfu. mclame is the worst but duthie is a close second. This clown yipping about 'the pain'. F U ~ moe
ReplyDeleteI watched that clip ... duthie sounds like Dr. Smith on the old Lost in Space ... "The pain! Oh the pain!!!"
DeleteI was hooked on ABC with actual professional broadcasters PFK and Messier.
DeleteSix leaf will need hand surgury following a very intense handshaking after the broons showed their respect.
ReplyDeleteNo team in history has learned as many lessons as the leaf, but failed the exam everytime nevertheless.
Cant wait for the real important stuff on May 9. If your not watCHing the Hockey Junkie, give it a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISC6XoAzfmk&ab_channel=HockeyJunkie
Great comment steve, spot on!
DeleteYessir, and thanks for the link.
DeleteJoined the channel - thanks Steve...not gonna pay him 5 bucks a month just yet ..gonna wait and see what comes out.
DeleteAnd tge best part (from Luke Fox):
ReplyDelete"Marner and Tavares both have full no-move clauses and one year remaining on their contracts. Big raises for Nylander and Matthews kick in next fall, which will sap any raise in the cap ceiling."
As with TurlePleks, Now it's Domini and Munster who tried but couldn't make the Leaf successful.
But they have Reaves locked in for 2 more years, eh? Oof
The annual LED autopsy continues without change. From the Globe and Mail
ReplyDelete"here are no good ways to lose a series in overtime, but allowing your opponent to float a one-hundred-foot billiards pass off the end boards to their best scorer, who has just tiptoed through the middle of your entire squad, while your goalie sits so far back in his net it looks like he is sheltering in place, must be among the worse.
They played seven periods without Matthews and those were their best seven periods in the series.
Marner was invisible throughout, though you did catch a glimpse of him right at the end as Pastrnak treated him like a practice pylon.
Tavares was good for a four-million-dollar player, though they’ll have to keep paying him 11."
The leaf dynasty has peaked at the start line.
Beautiful!
DeleteThis is a brilliant synopsis!
DeleteBig congrats out to Team Canada 2024 U18 champs at the IIHF WC in Finland. Tij Iginla looks like a snappy player to someday wear the CH crest.
ReplyDeleteNext round, I expect the Panthers, Rangers, Oilers and Avs (either opponent) to advance.
ReplyDeleteWell, the poor saps at tsn must still be in mourning, the lead story on the NHL page is still Boston beating their leaf in OT. Thought that would be long gone by now. And WTF, narcos nominated for the Selke trophy? In what effed up universe is that possible, the guy can't check his hat ffs.
ReplyDeleteIf they dont cost mor than 20 USD I will buy some merc, but not underpants. This is the leaf dream team lead actor, underwear, NARCO, MexiCAN. This guy is a top 10 in todays NHL both regular and season. Dont look at the eye test, you will not like what your see.
DeleteUse the mind
I have to admit his defensive game has improved. And apparently he blocks shots now. Not sure how much short handed work he gets.
DeleteI'm interested to see where Suzuki finishes in the voting. I would think he's got to be top 10...but then I don't see a lot of other teams play so I can't really say he should be in spot x vs spot y.
Which is why these awards are subjective. Even the writers that vote primarily watch their teams play and base their vote on stats, not the eye test when it comes to players aside from their own. I wonder how many voters are from the SFU region?
UNB coach Gardiner MacDougall, all this guy does is win. Gold medal at the U18s. Crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe M - Taylor Penrith with his first W. Played well all week. Needed a mistake on in 18 by his opponent, but that's golf for you.
ReplyDeleteInteresting to see how many Canadians Weirsy puts on the Presidents Cup team.
I was just going to post the same thing. I see he was born in Richmond Hill but he can't be a leaf fan because he knows how to win!
DeleteThe hockey gods were not amused. Dallas takes out the Kuh-nigguts and micro-fractures the heart of Stone. Only Bettman was sad.
ReplyDeleteSo 6 for 8 in Round one...Round 2 I got Oilers, Rags, Avs, Cats
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ReplyDeleteGood riddance to the two LTIR cheaters Vegas and Tampa.
ReplyDeleteGo Canucks ! ~moe
ReplyDeleteIt would be a fairy tale story if the Canucks met the Rangers in the final --- 30 years later --- and beat the dirty Rags. Our FHFriend oleg would probably be drunk for a week! I know he's a Habs fan but that would be worth celebrating.
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent read by a great Habs fan.
ReplyDeletehttps://habather.ca/2024/05/05/three-leaf-errors-the-habs-wont-make/
I read that last night. She at times has some good opinions, and this is one of those times.
DeleteI'm cheering primarily for the Oilers because I'd like to see McDavid hoist the cup and end any comparison to Underpants. Also Edmonton has primarily Canadian players on their team, while there are only 3 Canucks on the Canucks. But I'd also be perfectly happy to see Vancouver win their first cup while the leaf continue with 57 years and counting.
ReplyDeleteI'm OK with either option.
DeleteI would like to see McJesus hoist The Cup.
DeleteNothing against Van but just a personal choice.
Going over the post elimination blabber in cotu and it seems that the leaf beat themselves somehow??
They blame the core fore and particularly little mitchie who just seems to vanish. Still can't find out what was wrong with underpants.
sigh so much unhappiness so much sadness.
Hey fuckwits ... the fish rots from the head down ...
Fire shanaplan and maybe keep brad till he fucks up.
Trade little mitchie and jonny toronto
Or
Just maybe give everyone a big fat extension a pat on the back and sell T shirts that say We'll Get'um next time fur sure.
Cause there are few dumpster fires more entertaining than LED.
Go Habs
Happy retirement to Rick (Bones) Bowness. No doubt he'll come back home to a nice seaside shanty to live the next phase of his life.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the wretched leaf are going to 'roll it back again'.
ReplyDeleteIf their smart they'll re-sign Eddy and the Russian guy on D. They were hard on Pasta and ratface.
According to Blob's rankings, 6'-3" 219lb Cayden Lindstrom is going to drop right into HuGo' lap. 🤩
ReplyDeleteThat would be excellent!
DeleteBut I expect Habs to pick 6th. Chicago will get #1 and Utah will move up to #2 (or vice versa).
That would be Gary's preference.
DeleteArizona Cardinals (NFL) - 1947
ReplyDeleteCleveland Guardians (MLB) - 1948 *then the Indians
Sacramento Kings (NBA) - 1951 *then the Rochester Royals
Detroit Lions (NFL) - 1957
Atlanta Hawks (NBA) - 1959
Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL) - 1967
Even if you're not a team of the other big American sports, here are five teams with a longer history of ineptitude than the wretched leaf that you can cheer for to win a championship before them. Be awesome to see Tronna at the top of this list. The Lions have a good team and could win a Superbowl this year or next if the cards fall right. I don't follow baseball or basketball enough to know the current status of those teams.
Also, just 50 more years and the leafs will tie the Cubs record of 107 years. We may not be around for that one, but hopefully it's still on the table when our times are up.
Not that I would watch the Lottery anyway, but I will be at Tuesday Night Trivia. I'll just wish us good luck and Go Habs Go!!
ReplyDeleteJust saw a picture posted earlier on Twitter showing the Utah Tabernacle Choir getting #2 pick. Some are saying it was a rehearsal but it would not surprise me in the slightest if it happened and I fully expect it to! Gary's big thank you to the Smythe's for solving his Arizona problems.😉👀
ReplyDeleteLooking for my lucky numbers to come through. They aren't actually my lucky numbers...yet.
ReplyDelete2, 5, 9, 11
Go Habs!
I guess not.
DeleteWell this is a first...ESPN stream watching the draft...talk about making a mountain out of molehill...fuck me what a joke. It's a fucking Butt man circle jerk!
ReplyDeleteOk...wtf ..all the picks were listed on the board behind the guy making the announcement...what the fuckin kinda lottery is this?
ReplyDeleteOr do they shift around later?
ReplyDeleteThose were the order of odds which so happened to not change at all this year.
ReplyDelete#5 so a physical specimen in Lindstrom or the skill and pedigree of Iginla. Or the pick is included in the package that brings us a goal scorer now. No bad options.
Biggest non event I've ever seen in my life. What a fuckin joke
ReplyDeleteSo one of the reasons they don't do the lottery live is that it's boring AF. You can find last year's draw on YouTube. This year's should be up before long.
ReplyDeleteThing is they publish the 1000 set of 4 number combinations before the draw. So you can look it like it is a bingo card. The Habs this year had 85 out of 1000 combinations.
So they could draw the first three numbers. Then pause for dramatic effect. There will be 11 possible winning combinations remaining, each with a team tied to each set of numbers. Display those 11 sets of numbers. You might see that SJ had 6 of the 11 combos...but just maybe the Habs had one of the remaining numbers. Or other teams. Dramatically waiting for that last number...put up some odds for each team that has one of the 11...then draw the last number and BANG! "It's number 12 (for example) and Sam Jose gets the first overall pick!"
I guess where that hits a snag is doing the 2nd pick, what if it's San Jose again? I'd say in that case the remaining picks don't change.
We’re no 5
ReplyDeleteGo Habs
So just like the Shakespearean play the Lottery was 'Much Ado about Nothing'.
ReplyDeleteHughes pretty much stated he wouldn't take a LHD at #5 so that eliminates Dickinson, Buium and Silayev. I still believe Chicago takes Levshunov (RHD) and Anaheim takes Parekh (RHD) because they are the scarcest commodity. That leaves Columbus to take one of the lefties. Montreal takes a forward from among the many available. The question will be does Hughes parlay the Winnipeg pick and one of the many others in 2024 or 25 plus one of his spare D into another top 10 pick this year or another under 25 'project'?
2 to 15 are pickems. I think we take not Linstrom. I think we should take him. A huge body, If you wanna win the cup count the weight of your team. I dont know what the stats say, but the eye test says go heavy.
DeleteI wonder if we could get the Lindstrom fellow and trade up to get one of those big D men. I know we have a loaded bunch of D prospects but a couple of those in the draft look really good, I might consider Red Barron and the little one whos name escapes me now quite expendable along with a pick. Just thinking.
ReplyDeleteGo Habs
Listening to a bit about the lottery last night and apparently my idea above (the 7:09pm post) will be happening next year. I did send it to NHL Public Relations too so that's obviously why they've already made this decision. And apparently last night, the Sharks won the first three draws and on the fourth attempt it was Chicago. Apparently that's also the first time they've had to do an extra draw, let alone two extra draws, but I guess they'll do that shit on Live TV next year.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we will care even less because our team is in the playoffs this time next year. I still haven't figured out the conditions of that Calgary 1st round pick that 'may' belong to the Habs next year.
Is that not proof the San Jose ball was juiced?
DeleteThe M - heading out for my fourth 9 holes of the season after work. Still trying to get rid of the 2 snowmen I seem to get every time I'm out. My first goal is bogey golf...then go from there.
ReplyDeleteI just finished my 5th round today. No snowmen but only one double bogey.
DeleteNice! Snowman free today until I mentioned it on the 9th tee...
DeleteWhat a shock. The beaners losing big so start to goon it up.
ReplyDeleteSo long Sheldon, hello Craig Berube? Berubes will have li'l mitchie crying to his mom in no time.
ReplyDeleteLeafnet ... Marner for Shane Wright ... are they out of their minds, the media and talking heads would eat that kid alive. Ridiculous...
ReplyDeleteFrom Twitter:
ReplyDeleteI'm not someone who overly focuses on player size, but when I look at the Chicago Blackhawks, they don't have a top-6 U-23 player over 6 feet.
Bedard 5'10
Nazar 5'10
Moore 5'11
Reichel 6'
Kantserov 5'9
Lardis 5'11
I'm not as sold as everyone they pick Demidov at 2.
Agreed, I think they take a D or if a forward, Lindstrom.
Hope they stay away from lindstrom
ReplyDeleteGo Habs
I've been thinking on Iginla and the Habs' record of drafting players with family ties to to the NHL. I'm not doing research just going on my sketchy memory...there are probably more samples, but they had pretty good luck with the Pocket Rocket and Pierre Bouchard.
ReplyDeleteThe last three+ decades though, they haven't exactly struck gold...yet.
Marcel Hossa
Valeri Bure
Milkka Kiprusoff's brother
Sergei Kostitsyn
None of these were as good as their older sibling.
I feel like I'm forgetting somebody.
The book is still out on FX, we'll see.
Lindstrom is the guy but if it so happens he and the demigod are gone, Tij is worth the risk because we're due.
Oh yeah, Yodelin'! Meh. Might not even be on the team next year.
DeleteAs much as I despise the Rags because of the Cry-der incident, I love seeing the petulant little bitches in carolina fall on their faces. Couldn't happen to a better bunch of trolls.
ReplyDeleteDevo for KK was not the best. However argualbly Devo is one magnitute better than KK. We will see what we get for Devo at the draft. I hope its more than magic underwear.
DeleteAgreed
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering if KK is still pulling down 6.5 large.
Lot of cash to prove some stupid point.
Speaks to the tone of management.
Hope the rags take them out in short order.
Go Habs
According to Cap friendly, KK got $4.82mil per for 8 years. I don't know what point Dumbdon and Waddell were trying to prove but even biceps bergy is laughing at that. That's a lot of coin for a 4th liner.
DeleteYeah the $6.1M was the offer sheet offer that Bergy said no thanks and see ya later to.
DeleteSadly he over-reacted by only turning that pick and a 2nd this year into Devo.
Same. But basically I want any team form the west to win at this point. There isn't an East team I want to see win, including no more cups in FLA.
ReplyDeleteI see Johnny Tranna is going overseas to try and win something before he gets the boot out of the CotU.
ReplyDeleteHe might jinx them like that Minten kid did at the World Juniors. Losing can be contagious...
thnx for thinking bout me fellas, but im begging u guys to remember: i hate the 'hockey fans' who live in my shity!
ReplyDeletelemme give an example: before each home game, they bring out an old canuck to sound the alarm(?) before the puck drops. if this was in mtl, do u think it would be necessary to flash his name so everybody would know who he is?! round these parts, they not only havta do that, but also have the in house rink announcer give an intro. to say these ppl are bandwagoner fans is a compliment.
ex#2: yes, i live out here in la la land. and every yr when playoffs begin, there are loads of idiots wearing the jersey of one and the hat of the other team. the answer is always the same: "they are my second favourite team", "thats where i grew up", "its my father's team".... blah blah blah barf!
NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, the team u cheer for is who u cheered for growing up! none of this made up split allegiance! raise yer hands, how many ppl in mtl would proudly declare somebody else as their second favourite team like now when our boys arent even invited? the best u can do is cheer for juulsen, de smith, kulak, druid, lekhy, but not rah rah for another team!
smh... i doubt u guys get what i mean. it sucks being alone (kinda) out here
The owner of Nuck, Oilers, Broons, Phuctards, Whalercanes, Pissers and other lesser teams are all mini Trumps, I still want a Canadian team to win the cup.
Deleteoh and maritimer: yes, i am cheering for a 94 rematch or a 11 rematch. gawd i hate kreider and gawd i hate ratface like all of you, but i hate all the idiot insta-diehards here more. nothing is more satisfying than watching a city u despise go all the way only to steal defeat from victory.
ReplyDeleteI recorded the Nucks/Oil game and (kinda) watched it this morning to get an idea of the intensity of this series. I have to say, I was impressed, lots of nastiness between these two teams. oleg was trashing the crowd but they were pretty loud, unlike the mausoleum in Tranna where the only fans who are cheering are standing outside in Maple Leafool Square. And, when the sfu and the rest of the braindead Tranna media like to compare their hero narcos to Mcjesus, I would point to last night's game where McD (and Leon) show how to get things done.
ReplyDeleteThe Panthers are starting to flex, the beaners are in for it now with Swayman getting lit up like Red Light Racicot. Doubtful the team in black wins another game even if ratface makes a comeback.
Rats I am remined of Johnny Rotten. When he was in grade 2 the teacher knew he was rotton.
DeleteSo when time came to assign Rotten Johnny a letter to make a word from the teacher carefully selected R. Nowdays there is that R word, but back in my day , no bad words start with R.
Johnny, can you give us a word that starts with R. " Rats, big fucking Rats with 12 inch cocks" This is the Panthers.
RIP leaf Ron Ellis.
ReplyDeleteSix left from 67. Will any see another leaf cup?
RIP, hard to dislike the leafs from the '60s, many good players who actually knew how to win. I think moe liked Dave Keon, from Rouyn Noranda.
DeleteSome classy people. I dropped the odd brown pop with Eddie Shack. RIP Ronny
DeleteWatCH for a move on Beckett Sennecke. Most likely we trade up for the 16 th pick. This guy could be the sleeper pick of the draft. Its looking more and more likely we get Tig IG, Iggy CH
Ellis was a good Canadian. R.I.P.
ReplyDeleteKeon was propably the best leaf ever. A good Québecois (never mentioned by the sfu but they do like to compare primadonnamarner to him)...
How to compete with the fucking 500 vice presidents in Toronto. Due to the rise in value of an NHL franchise, there will be about 30,000 vice presidents in the future. Basicly anyone who has ever posted some kind of fitnees stuff, and anyone who has posted that the people in the himilayas
ReplyDeletecan fly will be employed by the Leaf. We on the other hand, have welded shut every dumpster within a 10K radius of the the the the plade where some trains stop. The battle on the ice is secondary. The battle in the ex suite is bloody. Lots of plastic surgery and wellness after the fact.
Lets cut down the forest to project it in the future for the benifit of all mankind who will
have no idea what talking forest.
One more FLA, you can do it. ~ moe
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DeleteThe Oilers aren't going to win a Cup with Skinner in net.
ReplyDeleteShe-Loves kinda reminds me of Jaro.
So long beaners ... and ratface...
I've long stopped reading all the opinion (or demands in some cases) pieces about who the Habs should draft. Looking at Slaf's development (though I was very skeptical), I will just let Hughes and his team do what they think is right.
ReplyDeleteWhat I do know is what Brian Wilde has brought up a number of times, is that the Habs need to score about 30 more goals next year. That puts them in line with Boston and FLA numbers. I think they can do that with the growth of Slaf, a healthy Dach, and undoubtedly a UFA add. The bigger issue is that they need to give up almost one less goal per game on average. So yeah, this isn't the time to trade one of your two defencemen with more than 3 years of experience.
And is our goaltending good enough? Primo/Monty were 41st/50th in GAA and 20th/38th in Save%.
Monty has his moments but is Primo the guy until Fowler is ready?
What about giving up on them and taking a shot at Laurent Brossoit? Sounds like he's from QC but isn't (he's from BC). 31 years old. Great numbers last year with a 2.00 GAA and .927 Save% with WPG.
Or big Anthony Stolarz with FLA. 2.02 and .925
Both of them gave up nearly one goal less per game than our guys. REalizing some of that is on the D, but not all. For a while, each of our guys it seemed were good for one stinker per game. It's like my golf game, gotta get rid of those from your game to move on up.
Anyway, this is me not trying to think of the Habs at the beginning of a very long off season...
Status quo on the goalies, at least for 2 years. We also have two great prospects in the pipeline, especially Fowler and I believe a Russian one too. ~ moe
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DeleteAgreed. Just spit ballin'. That Russian kid put up incredible numbers, but apparently the Russian junior league ain't all that so we won't have a true idea until he hits the KHL.
DeleteThe Oilers might want one of those aforementioned goalies though...
DeleteI can live with the current goalie tandem, less than $4mil for both. Yes, they both lay an egg occasionally but the Habs D is sometimes at fault. You have a riverboat gambler, a slow of foot vet and a number of interns learning on the job. Lots of work for MSL and Robidas to do yet.
ReplyDeleteThe game should be called goalie not hockey. However a good goalie no longer exists. That why a good tandem is better. Its like knowing your brakes are going to fail after x many stops.
ReplyDeleteBargainbin bergy the dumpster diver the new BJs GM?
ReplyDeleteMakes sense, his right hand man Timmins is there. I wonder if he would like Powerless Horse back? Also, PLD for Laine part deux?
Come on FLA !
ReplyDeletehttps://unbc.ca/our-stories/story/outstanding-athlete-indigenous-ambassador-and-philanthropist-receive-honorary-degree
ReplyDeleteAwesome news. ~ moe
ReplyDelete"In sharing my journey and experiences with young people in Anahim Lake and across the country, I want to shine a light on all the possibilities and pathways open to them," says Price, who is of Ulkatcho/Southern Dakelh and Nuxalk First Nations heritage.
ReplyDelete"Receiving this honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UNBC is an example of the unexpected opportunities that arise and fulfilling ways that community service gives back to you."
Rest in peace Darren Dutchyshen. One of the better media types. FUCK CANCER !
ReplyDeleteWow! so sad, I wasn't aware he was sick. First saw him on Edmonton's ITV when I lived in northern BC in the early 90's. Distinctive voice and agreed, seemed like one of the better ones, he never drank the kool-aid. RIP. Way too young at 57.
DeleteRIP. Being a prairie lad, I doubt he had any use for the leaf.
DeleteWe’ll at least the rat weasel is up front and just flat out says that he’s out to hurt as many people as possible
ReplyDeleteGood thing for the captain to say
No wonder the beaners are hated
Just hate to see good Montreal boy Jim coaching that slime
Leaves a stain
Go Habs
NYR POS taking them to the next round ? ~ moe
ReplyDeleteThat NYR POS, yes we hate him for taking out Price, but he is another case of what could have been. Louis Leblanc taken the pick before, possible pressure from the francophone media? David Pastrnak taken the pick before Nikita Scherbak. KK taken one pick ahead of Brady Tkachuk. Shane Doan taken one pick ahead of Terry Ryan. I'm sure there are other examples.
DeletetheM is gonna have to explain the Giants commemorative jersey. ~ moe
ReplyDeleteNope, no idea. They look like the Alouettes now.
DeleteBug bye aholes
ReplyDeleteGood riddance to troll rubbish.
DeleteHelluva ConnSmyth-worthy performance by Kreider. The key was him being in the box to watch the Canes score to take a 3-1 lead. He hated that. He then scored three straight goals to destroy the Canes and their many pork-farmingly blubbery fans.
ReplyDeleteJeff Gorton had a lot to do with assembling that Rags team. Gives me hope for the future.
ReplyDeleteWho will be Gorton's 'Panarin' signing in Montreal? McDavid? Might as well dream big.
DeleteHope Fla finishes the broons. East final could be a thing. ~moe
ReplyDeleteI may have found a trove of Raquel pics …
ReplyDelete👀
DeleteGlobal News Montreal's Mike Armstong (from Twitter):
ReplyDeleteMichael Armstrong
@ArmstrongGN
The team that took out Koivu’s eye (costing us a Cup) is eliminated by the team that took out Price’s legs (costing us a Cup).
Now… will they face the team that tried to kill Pacioretty (costing us a Cup) or the Panthers?
This is how I make my picks.
@CanadiensMTL
#Habs
A Po-em...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, in Trahnna...
So the players this mgmt team put together can't win in the playoffs, despite having a really great coach (and even Hayley F. Wickenheiser on hand for advice)!
So they fire the great coach, whose contract they'd earlier extended still hasn't even begun.
So they hired Craig Berube so fast, you'd think he was in high demand in an urgent bidding war.
So TO
So, so, so TO
I would say the TO country club has come to an end. Berube won't be afraid to call out the prima donnas and he won't be apologizing to them in the media after like Shelley used to do. He also won't let narcos chase his personal stats. L'il mitchie will be giving his agent a list of teams he will go to. Johnny Tranna might thrive under Berube, he would like his veteran players.
DeleteF U broons and gawl ee ~ moe
ReplyDeleteGoodbye and good riddance ratface.
ReplyDeleteHooray! It's Broons Elimination Day!
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