that was a good two-game set after that disaster vs the leaves, especially ln vs tampa. that puts the boys at 2-0 on this current 5-game stretch. stay the course boys. dont get caught up in all this hype now that you are the "it girl". keep grinding out the WLWLW pattern. feel free to rearrance the letters in whatever sequence you wish.
i saw a really good article about powerhorse. swore i read this in g&m... but here it is again: https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canadiens-anderson-contributing-much-more-than-goals-to-teams-success/
Brian Wilde says they need to go 7-4 every 11 games. Maybe slip to 6-5 in one of the last 3 cycles. There are going to be many 3 point games played by all these teams. It's basically playoff hockey now.
35 games left. If we use the last game and break it into 12 game segments and they can go 7-4-1, 15 points per segment, that would be 43 more points (already have 2 from the TB game) for 95 total. That's pretty close to what a team will need I imagine.
Cudos to Gally for his 800 At the rate he was getting destroyed in front of the net I thought he won’t be long for this career well nice to be wrong about that His life is good carries the A married a stone cold Montreal fox expecting little Gally and playing meaningful hockey after the team spent a long time in the pooper Happy for him Also happy that the powerpony has reinvented himself and he has ascended back to The Powerhorse status Big on the PK getting his points and just being a real team guy The way he took care of business and slapped that trouba thug around meant a lot He survived last season and good on him for putting his head down and keep on keeping on He is the kind of player championship teams must have So let’s kick the dead things around and keep this train rolling Go Habs
fwiw... i thought kid-g got snubbed when patches got to be captain when gio was forced out. even worse... i thought it was a way huger snub when the same thing happened when bbq came in. he hadnt even been here for a season and they bestowed it upon him like he was the choosen one.
love the guy, he did no wrong while here in mtl, but loved the idea of kid-g becoming cpt-g more.
Tough loss. Just 3 teams with 60 or more points coming to town in NJ/WPG/MIN before heading to California to play 3 games in 4 nights. No sweat.
Currently 1-1 in this 3rd last 12 game segment. Just need to go 6-3-1 over the next 10. That's a tall order with their schedule. .500 hockey might be considered a win and hopefully keep them 'in the mix'.
But hey! the first 3 games of the penultimate 12 game segment is SJ/BUF/BUF
Seen this before We get up for the big boys and are flat for the weaker teams Lost to the Hawks and The Dead Things Anyway I'm sure the boys are tired and could use a break Go Habs
As awesome as it would be to have Sid in the CH, I'd back up the brinks truck to Rantanen's front door if he goes to free agency. 8x13 without question. He may even get 14.
So this is basically Avs getting Necas, Drury and a 2nd. The Chicago stuff is all just cap gymnastics. Hard to know, but the Canes typically carry a lot of Finn's on their team, so maybe he'll sign there.
fill us in more. missed that. friedman to me comes across as a buffoon who says a lot and uses big words deliberately to sound smarter, but at the end of the day, it is the listener who is dumber for having spent the patience to hear him out.
Rantanen is going UFA for sure. Someone suggested maybe Chicago would take a run at him this July, they have tons of cap space. Like us their fans are probably getting restless about being bottom feeders all the time.
14 large is a staggering amount of cap space for one guy. Maybe I'm just getting old. We can see the benefits of rolling four lines you have to have some money for the fourth line. I mean he's good but if that's what it takes to sign a top guy wow. I like the structure of our team. Like SIM says HUGO has done well without busting the budget Go Habs
The leaf and the Oilers have put most of their budget into 3 or 4 forwards with very little money for the D, the bottom 6 and most importantly, goaltending. The results speak for themselves. Good regular season results but playoffs a bust.
I like the 8 for 8 formula. Rock Fast Lane is the next up, and Demigod, there will be a CHallange. Go Habs Go, make the fucking playoffs, keep the band together we got enough picks and prosects
I haven't watched a game since last Saturday courtesy of the hated, biased, leaf blowing douchebags who pretend to broadcast to a 'national' audience. I will never listen to chris butthurt and homer simpleton call a game again. mclame and his bunch of shit heads are to be boycotted. Maybe someday the NHL rights will be held by broadcasters who have a modicum of decency to fans of other teams but I won't hold my breath waiting.
I will be curious to see if, whoever takes over the rights allows the CBC to retain access to the Saturday night games. I suspect for historical purposes they will be but, hopefully lame brain mclame and the rest of his clown show will be replaced with competent people. All the pregame now is just fucking gambling shit.
look at that! doobie was completely into the white making that save! now THATS confidence bros! (... as well as situational intelligence). has monty EVER done that!?!
to be perfectly honest... im not exactly a huge doobie brother. im just more anti-monty. ive seen enough and i simply dont wanna run with him ... anywhere. for me, he is exactly the same goaltender as scrivens, the hamburgler, charlie, montoya, auntie, the toker... even the snake.
my fault. i jinxed it by calling for those two forgetting theres another J on the ice.
should have been interference there on hudson there... and then also on that last play preventing MM from tracking down. referees are cowards, so yeah, i get it. but mcdavid isnt wrong
Nah he should've been able to accept that pass. He was terrible all game. The first goal was a direct result of his giveaway. He regularly thinks his shot from the point which usually hits a shinpad is better than passing to a number of skilled players on the wings. Trade him and get what you can.
Honestly, they were lucky to get a point, they did not deserve to win that game. They are in a bit of a slump and out of sync lately with very little if any practice time. If they can stay within 4 points of a wild card spot in the next two weeks they have a shot. According to Tankathon they have one of the best 'strength of schedule' scenarios.
Sounds like Colorado jumped the gun on the Rantanen trade he said he would have taken a discount to stay. MacKinnon sounded pretty peeved about it Saturday.
As a casual Bills fan I can just imagine the disappointment in Barfalo Losers three times in the 80s Now the chiefs, that and their hockey team is in a constant rebuild And the weather gods try to cover the city in snow Must feel persecuted Anyway I think the Eagles will topple the cheifs and I think the Avalanche blew it and as sad as it might be to say this but the large rotating storm looks very strong Blaa Now I have to go rinse my mouth RHP is not the answer never has been Go Habs
Josh Allen just can't seem to beat Mahomes. I thought KC was there to be taken this year, no stud RB, Travis getting older and slowing down, no big name receivers. So, it must be Mahomes and the D. That being said, the Eagles (Ptewwww!) with Hurts and Barkley look unbeatable. Somebody has to knock the Chiefs off their pedestal.
Habs in tough tonight against one of the league's top teams while Boston and TB each play a bottom feeder. Gotta leave it all on the ice and get that W! We know they can beat these top tier teams.
'sigh'... i wanna be fair, so im not sure if i can fault monty for all three. definitely two of em, but im also not sure which two are his fault.
at the same time, the boys AGAIN are wasting too many grade-A chances even chicken woulda potted. and then that last one is again another example of backbreaker goals, we simply should mean automatic bag skate next morning
In a recent interview Carey Price talked about his time as the goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and he stated he 'was blessed' to be in that position. I admit there were times I had my doubts about him but in the end we were blessed to have him. He should be a first ballot hall of famer in 2025. There is a chance his number could be retired but at the very least he will be in the Ring of Honour at the Bell Center. I have his Upper Deck Young Guns rookie card and had it graded by a third party at a NM/M 9.0. That is an heirloom that will be passed on to my boys.
I never once doubted a single minute of him on the ice. Hamilton, Team Canada and as TFS™. Not easy being one f the greatest Habs goalies of all time. He is Top 3-5. ~~~
I agree with that ranking. Roy was able to lead a couple of less than perfect teams to glory, where Price could not. Price may have had even lesser teams in front of him, but Bergy sure bet on him carrying that team.
Hey maybe 20 years from now, Dobes or Fowler will crack that top 3.
Price almost always had good defensive teams in front of him but always lacked that one superstar forward that could put them over the hump. How many games did we say that if Carey could score a goal he would win?
I missed yhe game but I see our poor, snakebit Ghoulish sliced into his quadraceps muscle with his own skate blade in a bizarre incident with no one around him last night. Operated today and out indefinitely. That sucks for everyone, except Strobelight (and possibly Mailloux or Engstrom). Hope he's back in time for a playoff run.
It will be interesting to see, depending on whether his team can hang around a wild card spot, if Kent Hughes brings in some D help for Coach Marty. Or, as you say, a call up form Laval. I suspect we will find out before the upcoming break one way or the other. That's my best insidredger or fried-man prediction. I can't decide whether to check the NHL standings or Tankathon lately.
I think we'll know by the break whether we should spend that time on tankathon or not. I think they will still be hanging around within a couple of points.
Me personally I thought he did his right knee so I think this is better news than another one rehabing like wool rino and dachster Bizarre injuries Hit by a car slice your own leg strange I think we stay pat call up strudel and be patient Probably need another D to sit maybe the heinamen fellow The injury curse is trying to get us again Go Habs
It's the first time I've really spent any time on puckpedia. Man, I think they've outdone themselves and are now far better and more user friendly than capfriendly ever was. TFS is entering the final season of his contract. He is owed a $5.5m signing bonus on July 1 and his base salary for 25/26 is only $2m. So they can buy him out with only a $667K cap hit for 2 years (2/3 of $2m split over 2 years). I still don't quite understand the LTIR rules, but I think buying him out is the better option. Be interesting to see how that plays out.
One thing I love about that site is the symbols they use. The anchor is the 'no movement clause'. That's hilarious. Carey Price and Gallagher btw are the only Habs with anchors. Gallagher does also have a modified no trade clause with a '6 team no trade' list. We can assume the leaf are on that list and he would invoke the Josh Gorges clause if asked to go there. That's good management by HuGo. Not that we 'want' to trade any of our young stars, but giving them only modified no trade clauses certainly helps for the future if needed.
Great researching, Saint Pad. You're hired! Now I'll be the COTU hockey analystless talking head and ask: "But what does this all mean for little Mitchy Marner and Maple Leaf fans?"
I'm still working on The Wizard for Slafkovsky 🪄
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure we used to call PP specialist James Wisniewski 'the Wiz'.
Deletethat was a good two-game set after that disaster vs the leaves, especially ln vs tampa. that puts the boys at 2-0 on this current 5-game stretch. stay the course boys. dont get caught up in all this hype now that you are the "it girl". keep grinding out the WLWLW pattern. feel free to rearrance the letters in whatever sequence you wish.
ReplyDeletei saw a really good article about powerhorse. swore i read this in g&m... but here it is again:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/canadiens-anderson-contributing-much-more-than-goals-to-teams-success/
Brian Wilde says they need to go 7-4 every 11 games. Maybe slip to 6-5 in one of the last 3 cycles. There are going to be many 3 point games played by all these teams. It's basically playoff hockey now.
Delete35 games left. If we use the last game and break it into 12 game segments and they can go 7-4-1, 15 points per segment, that would be 43 more points (already have 2 from the TB game) for 95 total. That's pretty close to what a team will need I imagine.
DeleteCudos to Gally for his 800
DeleteAt the rate he was getting destroyed in front of the net I thought he won’t be long for this career well nice to be wrong about that
His life is good carries the A married a stone cold Montreal fox expecting little Gally and playing meaningful hockey after the team spent a long time in the pooper
Happy for him
Also happy that the powerpony has reinvented himself and he has ascended back to The Powerhorse status
Big on the PK getting his points and just being a real team guy
The way he took care of business and slapped that trouba thug around meant a lot
He survived last season and good on him for putting his head down and keep on keeping on
He is the kind of player championship teams must have
So let’s kick the dead things around and keep this train rolling
Go Habs
Watching the Wings broadcast and they've talked more about Habs players in the first 10 minutes than you get in a month of SFU SN airings.
ReplyDeleteMonty was great all through tgat forst period until the very end of it.
ReplyDeleteSeems like Columbus plays every bloody night.
ReplyDeleteVastly outplayed. These slow starts will eventually start biting them in the ass. Perhaps as soon as tonight. Let's see if they wake up in the 2nd.
ReplyDeletefwiw... i thought kid-g got snubbed when patches got to be captain when gio was forced out. even worse... i thought it was a way huger snub when the same thing happened when bbq came in. he hadnt even been here for a season and they bestowed it upon him like he was the choosen one.
ReplyDeletelove the guy, he did no wrong while here in mtl, but loved the idea of kid-g becoming cpt-g more.
3-0 onn a shortie. Feels like that's the game. Then DaCH!
ReplyDeletethen montembo-oh-no
ReplyDeleteTaking a break from this one. Will check back mid third before bed.
ReplyDeleteGhoulish!
ReplyDeleteThat was a game worthy of 15 or fewer comments.
ReplyDeleteTough loss. Just 3 teams with 60 or more points coming to town in NJ/WPG/MIN before heading to California to play 3 games in 4 nights. No sweat.
ReplyDeleteCurrently 1-1 in this 3rd last 12 game segment. Just need to go 6-3-1 over the next 10. That's a tall order with their schedule. .500 hockey might be considered a win and hopefully keep them 'in the mix'.
But hey! the first 3 games of the penultimate 12 game segment is SJ/BUF/BUF
I forgot about Wisniewski as the Wiz. Maybe Slaf is just Jurai Heep. When he scores it's Heep Heep Hooray! Or maybe he's just Slaf.
ReplyDeleteHearing the names Petry and Chariot brought back memories.
ReplyDelete~~~
#metoo
Delete(but in a good way)
Habs need a rest...that mid season farce tourney couldn't come soon enough. Shame Monty has to play
ReplyDeleteSeen this before
ReplyDeleteWe get up for the big boys and are flat for the weaker teams
Lost to the Hawks and The Dead Things
Anyway I'm sure the boys are tired and could use a break
Go Habs
Hopefully they take today off.
DeleteBut they just took last night off. Ba-dump-bump!
DeleteBazinga!
DeleteAll teams deal with fatigue and travel, gotta push through it...
Doobie should get his first Saturday night start at home. Time to crown a new Mr. Saturday Night?
ReplyDeleteNobody will replace Carey Price for that title.
DeleteNot even Nostrils (sfu are trying hard)
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As awesome as it would be to have Sid in the CH, I'd back up the brinks truck to Rantanen's front door if he goes to free agency. 8x13 without question. He may even get 14.
ReplyDeleteTraded to the scumbag canes.
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Necas and KK and some kind of 3 way.
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Taylor Hall and Chicago involved with salary retention and a 3rd round pick.
DeleteI can't see Dumbdon giving Rantanen $14mil per. I don't know if Molson would either that's a lot of coin.
Chicago got fleeced!
DeleteSo this is basically Avs getting Necas, Drury and a 2nd. The Chicago stuff is all just cap gymnastics. Hard to know, but the Canes typically carry a lot of Finn's on their team, so maybe he'll sign there.
DeleteColorado didn't really want to pay Rantanen $14 large, that's more than Nate which is probably their internal cap.
DeleteSraverelli had the deets and fried man tried to take credit. Says it all.
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fill us in more. missed that. friedman to me comes across as a buffoon who says a lot and uses big words deliberately to sound smarter, but at the end of the day, it is the listener who is dumber for having spent the patience to hear him out.
DeleteRantanen is going UFA for sure. Someone suggested maybe Chicago would take a run at him this July, they have tons of cap space. Like us their fans are probably getting restless about being bottom feeders all the time.
ReplyDeleteI'm liking how much quality HuGo has amassed in the line-up without blowing cap room. Lep's contract is the only really difficult one left from BBB.
ReplyDeleteSFU re: Rantanen trade ... how does this affect the leaf... ?
ReplyDelete14 large is a staggering amount of cap space for one guy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm just getting old.
We can see the benefits of rolling four lines you have to have some money for the fourth line.
I mean he's good but if that's what it takes to sign a top guy wow.
I like the structure of our team.
Like SIM says HUGO has done well without busting the budget
Go Habs
The leaf and the Oilers have put most of their budget into 3 or 4 forwards with very little money for the D, the bottom 6 and most importantly, goaltending. The results speak for themselves. Good regular season results but playoffs a bust.
DeleteHow could you bring in a guy and pay him 7 large more than Suzi? That’s like double or like 3 or 4 Goules
ReplyDeleteMakes no sense
Go Habs
I like the 8 for 8 formula. Rock Fast Lane is the next up, and Demigod, there will be a CHallange.
DeleteGo Habs Go, make the fucking playoffs, keep the band together we got enough picks and prosects
Dobeš In.
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Interestingly they seem to be following Stéphane Waite's recommendation (as I recall he said on Antichambre), to start Doobie in 1 of 3 games from here on out.
DeleteI like Waite but my goalie philosophy is play the hot tender.
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Wilde and Todd say get Sid.
ReplyDeleteDo it HuGo !
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Bonus would be the sfu puking on itself.
Sid says hold my beer, "I ain't goin' nowhere."
DeleteG Y F H G !
ReplyDeleteGo Bills !
I haven't watched a game since last Saturday courtesy of the hated, biased, leaf blowing douchebags who pretend to broadcast to a 'national' audience. I will never listen to chris butthurt and homer simpleton call a game again. mclame and his bunch of shit heads are to be boycotted. Maybe someday the NHL rights will be held by broadcasters who have a modicum of decency to fans of other teams but I won't hold my breath waiting.
ReplyDeleteIt has been over 20 years of biased leaf coverage.
Deletesn has proven to be the worst yet.
toronto-based media is pure leaf-loving scum.
tsn would/will NOT be better but we would be rid of scum like mclame and fried man.
(RDS would flourish with a Habs resurgence)
May the sfu’s lleaf be perennial losers.
I will be curious to see if, whoever takes over the rights allows the CBC to retain access to the Saturday night games. I suspect for historical purposes they will be but, hopefully lame brain mclame and the rest of his clown show will be replaced with competent people. All the pregame now is just fucking gambling shit.
DeleteIt would be great if RDS gets the French tv Saturday night games back.
Deletecbc has been pure shit for decades, they should have zero influence.
Deletescum like mclame and the rotted cherry ruined it but they are narcissistic scum.
Just bury the now vile hnic forever.
PP is going to axe the CBC in whole so it won't be an issue.
DeleteWith our luck, he'll find a way to ax everything at the mother corporation BUT the jokers and their HNIC.
Deleteharpo ‘wrote’ a book about the leaf. 😆
Deleteleafools enjoy being deep-throated and swallowing mclamejizz in the hnic Saturday night gangbang.
ReplyDeleteI’d take a 4 minute penalty and a game misconduct if he were near me. Probably worthy of a suspension.
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Respect...
DeleteDoobie needs to be bogarting tonight!
ReplyDelete'sigh' ... come on MM! gotta be smarter than that to not fall for that easy screen pass set-up!
ReplyDeleteDoobie bubble bursting?
ReplyDeletecome on doobie! dont be playing like monty! :(
ReplyDeleteThey need to get some pucks on Allen he will let a few in.
ReplyDeleteHe's had it way too easy.
Deletewut? 4 sog isnt enuf?
Deleteu guys see the guy wearing the mexicant's jersey?
ReplyDeleteIs Suzuki's line playing tonight? I haven't noticed them
ReplyDeleteI hate NJ games.
ReplyDeleteSFU are worried about Wilde and Jack's scribings, so they're reporting that Sid 'has no desire to be dealt'.
ReplyDeleteNature!
ReplyDeleteNature! Wooo!
ReplyDeleteMarty must have told Nick they were playing tonight in the first intermission.
ReplyDeleteNice board work by Heep.
ReplyDeleteWhiskey!
ReplyDeleteToo bad Sevans couldn't channel his inner Wool there.
ReplyDeletei know u are referring to that 1-timer chance at end of 1st(?), but as usual, there have been LOTS of guilt edged chances wasted
DeleteRoCH!
ReplyDeleteRoCH!
ReplyDeleteis it just me, or when powerhorse isnt banging away, hes almost invisible?
ReplyDeletelook at that! doobie was completely into the white making that save! now THATS confidence bros! (... as well as situational intelligence). has monty EVER done that!?!
ReplyDeleteMonty doesn't wander too far from his crease.
Deletefacq! again! fighting for the white ice through a crowd just to make a higher % save. dammm... this kid has some nerve.
ReplyDelete(im on my feet also)
They're gonna get burned if the keep this foolishness up.
ReplyDeleteto be perfectly honest... im not exactly a huge doobie brother. im just more anti-monty. ive seen enough and i simply dont wanna run with him ... anywhere. for me, he is exactly the same goaltender as scrivens, the hamburgler, charlie, montoya, auntie, the toker... even the snake.
ReplyDeletemr doobie however... i would actually love it if MSL plays him every 7th-8th game just to keep him hidden more before letting him run wild in the éliminatoires
Loser point is good enough for me. They played like crap for the most part.
ReplyDeleteAll the wrong teams winning tonight. Need those 2 points. Let's go Captain Nick. You got another OT winner in ya!
ReplyDeleteits saturday night and u are in montreal. all u missing is a really nice hooker and jake/ jakub is your uncle!
ReplyDeleteMatheson you're fucking terrible.
ReplyDeleteFucking Matheson.
ReplyDeletemy fault. i jinxed it by calling for those two forgetting theres another J on the ice.
ReplyDeleteshould have been interference there on hudson there... and then also on that last play preventing MM from tracking down. referees are cowards, so yeah, i get it. but mcdavid isnt wrong
@the M, @St.P: no. u wrong. not his fault. interferrence/ pick by that devil and then also wooly bully making a bad pass
ReplyDeleteNah he should've been able to accept that pass. He was terrible all game. The first goal was a direct result of his giveaway. He regularly thinks his shot from the point which usually hits a shinpad is better than passing to a number of skilled players on the wings. Trade him and get what you can.
DeleteTake the point and fark the refs and the sfu.
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Honestly, they were lucky to get a point, they did not deserve to win that game. They are in a bit of a slump and out of sync lately with very little if any practice time. If they can stay within 4 points of a wild card spot in the next two weeks they have a shot. According to Tankathon they have one of the best 'strength of schedule' scenarios.
ReplyDeleteTurnovers and penalties the downfall for Washington. Looking like the Eagles heading to the SB.
ReplyDeleteYup.
DeleteBills getting farked by refs.
ReplyDeleteTied at 29 with 6 minutes to play, heck of a lot closer than the other game.
ReplyDeleteRHP to the rescue.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Colorado jumped the gun on the Rantanen trade he said he would have taken a discount to stay. MacKinnon sounded pretty peeved about it Saturday.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't put it past a greedy agent to not share those details with the club because he wants his cut of $14m/annum rather than 11 or 12.
DeleteAs a casual Bills fan I can just imagine the disappointment in Barfalo
ReplyDeleteLosers three times in the 80s
Now the chiefs, that and their hockey team is in a constant rebuild
And the weather gods try to cover the city in snow
Must feel persecuted
Anyway I think the Eagles will topple the cheifs and I think the Avalanche blew it and as sad as it might be to say this but the large rotating storm looks very strong
Blaa
Now I have to go rinse my mouth
RHP is not the answer never has been
Go Habs
Bills - 4 superbowl losses in a row in the 90s.
DeleteBuffalo is to close to toronto. Very bad omen.
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Josh Allen just can't seem to beat Mahomes. I thought KC was there to be taken this year, no stud RB, Travis getting older and slowing down, no big name receivers. So, it must be Mahomes and the D. That being said, the Eagles (Ptewwww!) with Hurts and Barkley look unbeatable. Somebody has to knock the Chiefs off their pedestal.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of the Eagles (unless they play dal or ne). Barkley is spectacular. How did the NYG let him go. Feels like when Roy went to Colorado.
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Oops
DeleteMy bad
Thought is was three in the 80’s
Go Habs
Habs in tough tonight against one of the league's top teams while Boston and TB each play a bottom feeder.
ReplyDeleteGotta leave it all on the ice and get that W! We know they can beat these top tier teams.
GYMFHG!
JFW!
I see the naked shovel girl is back...
ReplyDeleteWith Winterpeg in town, it felt fitting for her annual(ish) appearance.
DeleteShe is an always welcome sight.
DeleteGood start. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteHeep Heep Hooray!
ReplyDeleteI guess the plan this period is to stand around and watch Winnipeg get tired cycling in the Habs end. OK then.
ReplyDeleteWelp, that sealed it. I'm out.
ReplyDelete'sigh'... i wanna be fair, so im not sure if i can fault monty for all three. definitely two of em, but im also not sure which two are his fault.
ReplyDeleteat the same time, the boys AGAIN are wasting too many grade-A chances even chicken woulda potted. and then that last one is again another example of backbreaker goals, we simply should mean automatic bag skate next morning
Lack of detail and urgency in the last seconds of the second and it's likely game over.
ReplyDeleteToo many Grade A chances missed. Can't do that against a good team if you want a chance to win.
ReplyDeleteNeed the W vs Minny to go .500 vs these 3 teams.
At least the beaners, dolts and rags all lost in regulation too. Small victories.
ReplyDeleteHope Guhle's knee is not serious.
In a recent interview Carey Price talked about his time as the goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens and he stated he 'was blessed' to be in that position. I admit there were times I had my doubts about him but in the end we were blessed to have him. He should be a first ballot hall of famer in 2025. There is a chance his number could be retired but at the very least he will be in the Ring of Honour at the Bell Center. I have his Upper Deck Young Guns rookie card and had it graded by a third party at a NM/M 9.0. That is an heirloom that will be passed on to my boys.
ReplyDeleteI never once doubted a single minute of him on the ice.
DeleteHamilton, Team Canada and as TFS™.
Not easy being one f the greatest Habs goalies of all time. He is Top 3-5.
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Agreed. For me personally it's 1) Dryden, 2) Roy and 3) Price. I never saw Plante play for Montreal but he was Red Fisher's #1
DeleteI agree with that ranking.
DeleteRoy was able to lead a couple of less than perfect teams to glory, where Price could not.
Price may have had even lesser teams in front of him, but Bergy sure bet on him carrying that team.
Hey maybe 20 years from now, Dobes or Fowler will crack that top 3.
Price almost always had good defensive teams in front of him but always lacked that one superstar forward that could put them over the hump. How many games did we say that if Carey could score a goal he would win?
ReplyDeleteLots of 2-1 games.
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I missed yhe game but I see our poor, snakebit Ghoulish sliced into his quadraceps muscle with his own skate blade in a bizarre incident with no one around him last night. Operated today and out indefinitely. That sucks for everyone, except Strobelight (and possibly Mailloux or Engstrom). Hope he's back in time for a playoff run.
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see, depending on whether his team can hang around a wild card spot, if Kent Hughes brings in some D help for Coach Marty. Or, as you say, a call up form Laval. I suspect we will find out before the upcoming break one way or the other. That's my best insidredger or fried-man prediction. I can't decide whether to check the NHL standings or Tankathon lately.
DeleteI think we'll know by the break whether we should spend that time on tankathon or not.
DeleteI think they will still be hanging around within a couple of points.
Me personally I thought he did his right knee so I think this is better news than another one rehabing like wool rino and dachster
ReplyDeleteBizarre injuries
Hit by a car slice your own leg strange
I think we stay pat call up strudel and be patient
Probably need another D to sit maybe the heinamen fellow
The injury curse is trying to get us again
Go Habs
It's the first time I've really spent any time on puckpedia. Man, I think they've outdone themselves and are now far better and more user friendly than capfriendly ever was.
ReplyDeleteTFS is entering the final season of his contract. He is owed a $5.5m signing bonus on July 1 and his base salary for 25/26 is only $2m. So they can buy him out with only a $667K cap hit for 2 years (2/3 of $2m split over 2 years). I still don't quite understand the LTIR rules, but I think buying him out is the better option. Be interesting to see how that plays out.
One thing I love about that site is the symbols they use. The anchor is the 'no movement clause'. That's hilarious. Carey Price and Gallagher btw are the only Habs with anchors. Gallagher does also have a modified no trade clause with a '6 team no trade' list. We can assume the leaf are on that list and he would invoke the Josh Gorges clause if asked to go there.
That's good management by HuGo. Not that we 'want' to trade any of our young stars, but giving them only modified no trade clauses certainly helps for the future if needed.
Great researching, Saint Pad. You're hired! Now I'll be the COTU hockey analystless talking head and ask: "But what does this all mean for little Mitchy Marner and Maple Leaf fans?"
DeleteMAF tonight.
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Let's hope the Wild are a little weary after beating the Stanley Cup champion maple lumps last night.
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