PunCHed in the mouth and the game plan goes DO DO . So now our team is on the edge, and what should we do? Pressure cook a big advance with FAB 500 landing on our defecenc every night? No we gotta go to the parking lot where the Tanks Tank. I tell you know and you will believe me later. Demigod will shake the deviel out of our recaliams and eveyone will be a NHL player and we win the cup this decade. I realize compared to JFK i have made a even more impossilble promise. No matter he did by lone gunman and still his words and vision put men on the mooon. Hugo has far less to worry about.
My scrappers identified this as wonderful. It will make the list of the info fed to the President it will take some time to make the punching noise, he likes everything in context.
We'll see what tomorrow brings but I would say it's all over but the crying. Sign 7Evans and ditch the rest of the UFAs. Demigod will not save them he will need to transition like Bitchkov. Get a 2nd line C, trade Slaf for Cousin Cozen straight up. Rework the D and hope and pray that Fowler is the 2nd coming of Price.
Yes ..my bad...I was more thinking about the tribute we paid to him after his shuttie. But thats 2 on the trot...so I wasn't thinking clearly. Reckon Sergachev gets a Hattie this afternoon then?
Wellup the fat lady has been handed her microphone and is clearing her throat in preparation. Shut out really? And yes Honda Civic looked better than a fourth rounder seem to remember he’s 6’5 and shoots right Bet Hugo would like that one back my Bet he would also like lekkie back Anyway expectations crash hard so it’s time to dump Devo and army start rotating the kids and see who’s who Didn’t think we were so fragile that loosing Heineken, a rookie, and goules would make us crash and burn Sigh Go Canada Go Habs
Does Mailloux have a nick yet? Suppose we could call him BJ? Oh and while we are on nicks...I'm rescinding the PFL moniker from Wool...I went to early with that...
I sorta watched some of the Canucklehead/leaf game last night, muted of course, and there was something I noticed. Both teams seemed more organized in their attack and defensive games. There were missed assignments here and there of course but overall there was much more structure than what I see watching the Canadiens. Their style is way more chaotic with no structure between the forwards and the D. Both of those teams last night had far better goaltending as well.
It seems that after the Habs lost that game to the putrid leaf on Hockey Day their play went off the rails. I'm starting to have doubts about the coaching and the talent level of this Montreal team. I doubt I will bother to watch this afternoon's hockey game, I'll make my chili and stick with golf.
Okay, all the right teams won yesterday (except this bunch, that can't score in two straight home games). It's gotta turn around since Tampa also played yesterday, winning decisively, and then had travel. Doobie in front of the home crowd and all the kids and families should not disappoint. I hope Beck is put at Centre today and Strobelight gets another chance.
Regardless, Everyone should be driven to put in a good effort after yesterday. Simplify the game, focus hard, and don't try making passes that aren't there. Fight to the teeth for every puck. Whether the playoffs are out of reach or not, today is a day for digging deep and giving Marty and your fans a full team effort, so they can say this Habs game was the best game they saw on Super Bowl Sunday. GYFHG!
I flip and flop on Marty and I feel bad doing it. As a dedicated Habs fan I should always be all in. For a young rebuilding team he was the guy. Positive mentoring always talking explaining never negative or punishing. I have no problem with him as a head coach or even the offence but I firmly believe that positive reinforcement and happy chats are not what a defence is all about. I think we need a defensive coach to implement structure and physicality. Defence doesn't have the ebb and flow of a fluid offence. Defence is different and I don't think Marty has the tools to take us farther. He has brought us this far but we need to take the next step and I hope Hugo sees that and I hope Martys feathers don't get ruffled. Go Habs
If you have zero interest in the sham tournament like I do, but want to keep watching hockey, Primo and the Rocket are on fire if you can find those games. And Jacob Fowler and BC play in the Beanpot final tomorrow night at 730pm AST. I know that one is on NHL Network if you have access.
It's bad when the TB crew is making apologetic statements about the Habs still being a young team and still learning. I for one am done with that excuse.
There are stats for everything. I'd like to know if Maths has the most shots blocked in the league? Not blocked shots by him, I mean his shots blocked by opposition.
Just an FYI for fellow golf fan Saint Paddy, Scheffler falling apart with back to back bogies, the young Belgian Detry leading the field by 5 with 7 holes to go.
Yep I have it on. Though I took a break to go shovel. Any time a non-Murican wins it's a good day. Hadwin is playing well but you probably don't know he exists if watching the broadcast.
I wonder how many of these guys have played their last game in a Habs sweater? Three? Devo, Army, Savvy? More? Hell the way he's playing I could see a team interested in Gallagher if Hughes was interested in eating 2.5 of his 6.5 for the last 2 years. Matheson? Possible but I think he stays for now. I wouldn't be sad if a team wanted Newhook. Lots of options and possibilities. Still have to ice a team so they all can't move for picks obviously. I think HuGo have a plan and stick to it.
After the orange turd's attack on us I think we, as Canadians, look at the American people a lot differently. What a load of phoney patriotism delivered by Brad Pitt earlier. They are not even a democracy anymore having elected an authoritarianism government led by a megalomaniac with Nazi whackjob as his right hand man. Unbelievable.
The Canadiens have three futures, and they are all very distinct from each other at the moment. The immediate future is prepare for full sell action on their unrestricted free agents. Choices have to be made for Dvorak, Armia, Jake Evans and David Savard.
Popular consensus is Dvorak will not be given an offer by the club, Savard is expected to get a one-year offer, Evans will get a serious offer of three years, and Armia will get a serious offer as well. If the players reject their offers to hit the open market, then they will be traded.
The Habs go 1-7-1 over the past 9 games for 3 points. Had they just played .500 hockey they would be tied in points for the 2nd wild card spot. It's painful watching them the past couple of weeks. I just hope it's for the best in the long run and we see the results of the true 5 year rebuild before long. I plan to retire around June of 2027. A Stanley Cup for the Habs would be a hell of a retirement gift.
I don't think I've watched a complete game since the leaf debacle. I either tuned in late or turned it off early. I can't watch my team get beat up all the time. Too demoralizing.
I was looking at the Carey Price buyout option again. I had it wrong the first time. If they buy him out, his cap hit for 25/26 is still $9.1M and would be $667K for 26/27. He is due a $5.5M bonus on July 1 and his base salary for 25/26 is only $2M. What are the odds he leaves that $2M on the table and retires after July 1, which would remove the $10.5M cap for 25/26 since he signed his contract before the age of 35? Or is the approx $120M he's earned not quite enough? Easy to say from this chair, but $2M is still $2M. But hell, Molson could say "Hey Carey, if you retire I'll give you this contract to be a goalie advisor for $2M."
Based on current projections, the final wild card spot 'could' be had with 90/91 points. For fun I went through the Habs' sked and without tabulating as I go, just assigned either zero, one or two points to each game (based on how they 'could' play, not on the past 2 weeks). My final tally was 34 more points for an 89 point season. This includes an impressive 7 game win streak in April. Had they just beaten Carolina in the final game, they could've squeaked in (in this totally fictional and definitely unlikely scenario). Around .500 hockey is more probable ending them near 80 points or so.
It's fun to play 'what if' but, based on the fact that all the teams between the Habs and a wild card spot play each other (someone has to win) and also that Montreal's players have no idea how to protect a lead, or even get one, I think they stay right where they're at. One bit of news I read this morning suggested that when the fire sale begins HuGo are not looking for futures but NHL ready young players. It's more likely HuGo will be trading some of their many picks to get some high end talented help for the nearer future, like next season. Names like Zegras and Cozens were mentioned. I think that's the more likely scenario.
Ya we are past a mittful of picks. We need help in the form of at least on top forward and one top D man. I'm not convinced about Doch or the hooker or even wool for that matter. Don't know about TJ but wool and doch were flyers that Hugo took. I mean at some point we gotta stand up and realize that if we want to be a serious contender we need serious players not reclaimation projects. I think these people need to be read the riot act and if nothing transpires then adios mutherfucker. This is how you win. So now we dump and chase and if nothing transpires between now and tdl then fine summers coming and the draft. Time for Hugo to make some tough calls here. So Fuck Trump Go Canada Go Habs
So in the stupid 4 nations thing, the one francophone - and only Québécois and only Hab - will not start, nor even dress for yge game in Montreal tomorrow. And they're wondering why they can't sell any of the high-priced tickets. Not only that but we have a blizzard warning tomorrow evening. HAHAHA
So I don’t know what the plan is if there is one. Couple three days off back to practice try and figure out why we can’t score defend or save pucks. I think it would be good to try and figure some of that shit out. I think the dachster is either traded or benched it’s enough. I think TJ need to be told that he can skate fast so he should skate fast ffs. I remember Lord Byron skating fast TJ doesn’t do that. These were two of Hugo’s pet projects that I don’t think are working out. Anyway. We watched an Eagles defense win the S bowl so we should be like the Eagles and get a real D and an effing D coach it’s enough. Go Habs
HuGo will give this team a little more time with a few tweaks here and there. Dach and Wool have one more season after this one, Hook has two to prove themselves. By then Gally and Pony will be finishing up as well. HuGo wants proven NHL talent and will probably swing for the fences in the UFA season. In the meantime, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
Well let’s take a who’s in approach as opposed to whose out So the keepers are in no particular order Forwards Suzi CC Slav Dach(?) TJ Wool Gally Powerhorse Sevens(?) Need 3 to field 4 lines Defense Maths Fast Lane AC Ax Goules Need 1 to field 3 pairs So maybe Sevens is gone and we need 4 And one D and we’re talking no reclaimed retred projects Five real hockey players… So where are we gonna get that and that’s keeping Dach and then Powerhorse and gally are probably gone so that’s basically half your effin hockey team in two years We’re all going to die Go Habs
I assume demigod and beck will be with the team. Is beck 2nd line C material? I see him more as a 3rd line guy but it's early. But basically, and assuming Slaf improves and stays on the first line, we need a new 2nd line. Demi +? +? I mean I wish I could say Wool would be the guy on that line but it's not looking good. Maybe put him with our best playmaker Suzuki and move Slaf to the 2nd line. So we need to find a legit #2C. J Roy will be given another shot unless he is traded in a package because Kent has said he wants to bring in players, not picks or prospects in any trade he makes. Harley2.0 in Laval is another interesting prospect. He's officially a C but I think he can play wing too. One of those late bloomers. Could be a good 3rd/4th line guy the following season if not next year.
I really think with the cap rising, Hughes (and probably most GMs) are looking at UFAs in a different light and the teams with deep pockets are looking at the big names that could be available and hoping they go to free agency. This rapidly rising cap is saying so long to parity in the league. I think it will ultimately be the death of some of the smaller franchises, so Bettman can put teams in Houston, KC, etc. I've gone off the rails. It's early. I haven't finished my coffee...
OK Pretty clear that the outstanding glaring need right now is for a bonified no 2 C. OK Beck is coming and JRoy so that still leaves major holes in the offence. Like an entire third line with the bulk of the offence comprised of kids. It's very clear we need another real late 20's something honest to goodness scoring winger unless Slav suddenly morphs into a scoring power winger. I think my disappointment runs deep because of the failure of Dach and TJ. We blew some capital on them with not much results. If 2025 was sposed to be the year we compete I think Mr Hugo better roll his sleeves up and get some stuff done. Go Habs
To moe's point about the QMJHL ROTY trophy being named after Sid. While it seems the tongue was planted firmly in cheek with the part Québécois comment, Sid is at least (or at least was) quite fluent en français :). For what that's worth. And it is now the Quebec-Maritime Junior Hockey League. Which makes me wonder. With the Acadie-Bathurst Titan moving to the Rock, will it be renamed again to the QMNLJHL?
I'm still amazed at how little interest I have in this dumb tournament. I scroll the headlines of the sfu sites to see if there is anything of interest to me happening in sports in general. The amount of 'ink' these shitheads are spilling trying to justify this tournament is astounding. I haven't read a word of one story nor do I plan to watch 1 minute of the hockey. Which is a shame. I am not just a Habs fan. I like watching hockey. Period. But this has Bettman and the SFU's dna all over it and I can't stomach it.
At least the Scotties start on Friday so I can watch that and listen to some fine ladies screaming to "hurry hard!"
There’s things to laff at about this 4nation tournament but nostrils being loudly booed, Sid getting a beauty of happy noise and Mario getting massive cheers is a start.
As we await the big snowstorm here, I have the game in the background. I like all Team Canadas, despite some villains and leaf. sn’s graphic for the tournament features Henderson and Sittler as the biggest images. Bigger than #66 and #99. Weird.
Massive ups for the Bell Centre crew. Great opening and fans are proving that the true centre of the smartest hockey universe is in Montréal. It isn’t even close.
marner 2nd, yeah, nope, give it to MacKinnon. marner is a good player but he is a narcissistic jerk. sn has shat on the Habs and Montreal for the entirety of their NHL contract. Actually goes back further decades of pure hnic jealousy and hate. Bell Centre fans never forget and know the game better than the clown 🤡 panel.
The only hi-lite I watched was Mario's reception. Montreal fans are the best. As it does, it got me wandering down the draft path of '84. Man he would have looked good in a Habs sweater. But it was a decent draft year for the Habs grabbing Petr Svoboda and Shayne Corson in the first round and then grabbing Stephane Richer in the 2nd and Patty Roy in the 3rd. It could have been even better as there were some great players taken later in that draft. In the 6th round at 116th overall, the Habs select Jim Nesich. Next pick? Brett Hull. Interesting that 2 players from this draft played exactly the same nubmer of games in their career at 1431. One of those players was Scott Mellanby who went in the 2nd round. The other? Luc Robitaille, who went in the 9th round! 171st overall. Not to worry though, the Habs had picked up Brad McCaughey a few picks sooner. Just imagine...
It has been so long since the last time one of these things mattered that you may have forgotten what a real Canadian hockey crowd cheering for the real Team Canada sounds like. But Montreal remembers.
The real genius pick for this team may have been the host city. In a fraught moment for international relations, Montrealers reminded everyone how you treat visitors. They booed the Swedes upon introduction, but without much venom. Toronto Maple Leaf William Nylander in particular seemed delighted at his jeering. It must feel strange to finally play hockey games that matter. The audience was selective when it came to the other team captains and legends of the game. Teemu Selanne? Nice cheer. Aleksander Barkov? Something between a cheer and a boo. Auston Matthews? A feral booing. A real oral pasting.
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Including my Anna
Nice job
What a blog!
Now we either get some wins here or well we won’t talk about it
Go Canada
Go Habs
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ReplyDeleteGo Nick Taylor !
Go Adam Hadwin !
Go Canada !
In the immortal words of Robert De Niro : "Fuck Trump!"
OK Les Habitants ... win both of these games please. Go Big or Go Home.
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Go Canucks (in golf)!
I guess Hughes traded HondaCivic for a 4th round pick because he thought Von Clumsy was ready to make the leap?
ReplyDeleteOne of his few mistakes so far, trading a young dependable right shot Dman.
Hughes realized he mad a mistake with Von Klumsy, rectified it asap.
DeleteHeh, tsn showing massive cleavage behind coach Marty, just a FYI
ReplyDeleteI noticed that actually...clearly she follows GYFHG - dressed appropriately
DeleteHeh yeah saw those as well.
DeleteThat's on Savard...wtf was he going with that pass?
ReplyDeleteWelp, I think I have time for a quick nap now.
ReplyDeleteMissed opportunity: the Bell Centre DJ should play the Ramones' Beat on the Brat every time Bratt is on the ice for a face-off.
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Slaf definitely not 1st line material. Nap time.
ReplyDeletePathetic.
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I've been there since the end of the 1st. Pathetic indeed.
DeleteBack to throwing up all over themselves, but wait, there's more! Now they're spewing diarhhea all over the ice too.
ReplyDeleteOuf.
ReplyDeleteAfter they puke on themselves tomorrow again, HuGo will make his moves.
ReplyDeleteNot even entertaining.
ReplyDeletePunCHed in the mouth and the game plan goes DO DO . So now our team is on the edge, and what should we do? Pressure cook a big advance with FAB 500 landing on our defecenc every night?
ReplyDeleteNo we gotta go to the parking lot where the Tanks Tank. I tell you know and you will believe me later.
Demigod will shake the deviel out of our recaliams and eveyone will be a NHL player and we win the cup this decade. I realize compared to JFK i have made a even more impossilble promise. No matter he did by lone gunman and still his words and vision put men on the mooon. Hugo has far less to worry about.
Not since Dylan wrote like a rolling stone has such prose appeared in public.
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Deleteit will take some time to make the punching noise, he likes everything in context.
We'll see what tomorrow brings but I would say it's all over but the crying. Sign 7Evans and ditch the rest of the UFAs. Demigod will not save them he will need to transition like Bitchkov. Get a 2nd line C, trade Slaf for Cousin Cozen straight up. Rework the D and hope and pray that Fowler is the 2nd coming of Price.
ReplyDeleteYep.. that's all she wrote...
ReplyDeleteAre there any other former Habs goalies due in town any time soon? First MAF, Now Alain...who's next?
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Yes ..my bad...I was more thinking about the tribute we paid to him after his shuttie. But thats 2 on the trot...so I wasn't thinking clearly. Reckon Sergachev gets a Hattie this afternoon then?
DeleteSeems like a good time to rewatch one of my favourite John Candy movies, Canadian Bacon.
ReplyDeleteWellup the fat lady has been handed her microphone and is clearing her throat in preparation.
ReplyDeleteShut out really? And yes Honda Civic looked better than a fourth rounder seem to remember he’s 6’5 and shoots right
Bet Hugo would like that one back my
Bet he would also like lekkie back
Anyway expectations crash hard so it’s time to dump Devo and army start rotating the kids and see who’s who
Didn’t think we were so fragile that loosing Heineken, a rookie, and goules would make us crash and burn
Sigh
Go Canada
Go Habs
Thnx Van City.
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Does Mailloux have a nick yet? Suppose we could call him BJ? Oh and while we are on nicks...I'm rescinding the PFL moniker from Wool...I went to early with that...
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ReplyDeleteI sorta watched some of the Canucklehead/leaf game last night, muted of course, and there was something I noticed. Both teams seemed more organized in their attack and defensive games. There were missed assignments here and there of course but overall there was much more structure than what I see watching the Canadiens. Their style is way more chaotic with no structure between the forwards and the D. Both of those teams last night had far better goaltending as well.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that after the Habs lost that game to the putrid leaf on Hockey Day their play went off the rails. I'm starting to have doubts about the coaching and the talent level of this Montreal team. I doubt I will bother to watch this afternoon's hockey game, I'll make my chili and stick with golf.
Okay, all the right teams won yesterday (except this bunch, that can't score in two straight home games). It's gotta turn around since Tampa also played yesterday, winning decisively, and then had travel. Doobie in front of the home crowd and all the kids and families should not disappoint. I hope Beck is put at Centre today and Strobelight gets another chance.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, Everyone should be driven to put in a good effort after yesterday. Simplify the game, focus hard, and don't try making passes that aren't there. Fight to the teeth for every puck. Whether the playoffs are out of reach or not, today is a day for digging deep and giving Marty and your fans a full team effort, so they can say this Habs game was the best game they saw on Super Bowl Sunday. GYFHG!
All coaches are hired to be fired but I would love to have Rick Tocchett coach the Habs for a year or two.
ReplyDeleteI flip and flop on Marty and I feel bad doing it.
ReplyDeleteAs a dedicated Habs fan I should always be all in.
For a young rebuilding team he was the guy.
Positive mentoring always talking explaining never negative or punishing.
I have no problem with him as a head coach or even the offence but I firmly believe that positive reinforcement and happy chats are not what a defence is all about.
I think we need a defensive coach to implement structure and physicality.
Defence doesn't have the ebb and flow of a fluid offence.
Defence is different and I don't think Marty has the tools to take us farther.
He has brought us this far but we need to take the next step and I hope Hugo sees that and I hope Martys feathers don't get ruffled.
Go Habs
bring back Luke RiChardson for the D. We still have a long shot, got to start winning and today would be a good day to start.
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The chili is simmering on the stove.
ReplyDeleteAs much as the orange turd and his MAGA assholes piss me off I still want to watch the football game. I hope Saquon can get his championship.
Ouf.
ReplyDeleteIs there a curse I'm unaware of? The CH will never score again inthe Phone Booth? Was it Hugo's trip to Russia?
ReplyDelete2 shots. 2 goals. First is on Slaf. I didn't see the 2nd. But the shine is off of Doobie to no fault of his own.
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ReplyDeleteIf you have zero interest in the sham tournament like I do, but want to keep watching hockey, Primo and the Rocket are on fire if you can find those games. And Jacob Fowler and BC play in the Beanpot final tomorrow night at 730pm AST. I know that one is on NHL Network if you have access.
ReplyDeleteLep! Breaks the curse
ReplyDeleteNope. Still cursed
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ReplyDeleteIt's bad when the TB crew is making apologetic statements about the Habs still being a young team and still learning.
ReplyDeleteI for one am done with that excuse.
Agreed. It is a badly assembled, weak, poorly coached team. HuGo says they have a plan but I'm not seeing any progress. Retrogression for sure.
DeleteThere are stats for everything. I'd like to know if Maths has the most shots blocked in the league? Not blocked shots by him, I mean his shots blocked by opposition.
ReplyDeleteI'm watching golf ... I sure would like to be out there swinging the clubs. Oh well, a little less than 3 months to go. Hopefully...
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ReplyDeleteNot done yet...perhaps...?
ReplyDeleteI am loving Ax in this 3rd period. Everyone's playing desperate hockey here.
ReplyDeleteJust an FYI for fellow golf fan Saint Paddy, Scheffler falling apart with back to back bogies, the young Belgian Detry leading the field by 5 with 7 holes to go.
ReplyDeleteYep I have it on. Though I took a break to go shovel.
DeleteAny time a non-Murican wins it's a good day.
Hadwin is playing well but you probably don't know he exists if watching the broadcast.
Should have had both games. Not out played but outgoalied.
ReplyDeleteWell they fought hard at least. Enjoy the break boys. Devo, 7vens, guess we'll see you traded soon. GI Finn maybe too.
ReplyDeleteGet some rest boys...you need it!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many of these guys have played their last game in a Habs sweater?
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Devo, Army, Savvy?
More?
Hell the way he's playing I could see a team interested in Gallagher if Hughes was interested in eating 2.5 of his 6.5 for the last 2 years.
Matheson? Possible but I think he stays for now.
I wouldn't be sad if a team wanted Newhook.
Lots of options and possibilities. Still have to ice a team so they all can't move for picks obviously. I think HuGo have a plan and stick to it.
Oh I'm sure there is a plan. But, sometimes the best laid plans can go awry. And often do.
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Imagine celebrating the biggest event in the US having to do it in light of massive gun killings.
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After the orange turd's attack on us I think we, as Canadians, look at the American people a lot differently. What a load of phoney patriotism delivered by Brad Pitt earlier. They are not even a democracy anymore having elected an authoritarianism government led by a megalomaniac with Nazi whackjob as his right hand man. Unbelievable.
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That D is something else. Can they play hockey?
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Well there it is 27 pts. If they were waiting for the record comeback.
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Chiefs getting draked.
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ReplyDeleteThe Canadiens have three futures, and they are all very distinct from each other at the moment. The immediate future is prepare for full sell action on their unrestricted free agents. Choices have to be made for Dvorak, Armia, Jake Evans and David Savard.
Popular consensus is Dvorak will not be given an offer by the club, Savard is expected to get a one-year offer, Evans will get a serious offer of three years, and Armia will get a serious offer as well. If the players reject their offers to hit the open market, then they will be traded.
The Vince Lombardi trophy is a joke compared to the Grey Cup.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Saquon, Giants fans miss you.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the best possible outcome for the house, that is always the final score.
ReplyDeleteThe Habs go 1-7-1 over the past 9 games for 3 points. Had they just played .500 hockey they would be tied in points for the 2nd wild card spot.
ReplyDeleteIt's painful watching them the past couple of weeks. I just hope it's for the best in the long run and we see the results of the true 5 year rebuild before long. I plan to retire around June of 2027. A Stanley Cup for the Habs would be a hell of a retirement gift.
I don't think I've watched a complete game since the leaf debacle. I either tuned in late or turned it off early. I can't watch my team get beat up all the time. Too demoralizing.
DeleteI was looking at the Carey Price buyout option again. I had it wrong the first time. If they buy him out, his cap hit for 25/26 is still $9.1M and would be $667K for 26/27.
ReplyDeleteHe is due a $5.5M bonus on July 1 and his base salary for 25/26 is only $2M.
What are the odds he leaves that $2M on the table and retires after July 1, which would remove the $10.5M cap for 25/26 since he signed his contract before the age of 35? Or is the approx $120M he's earned not quite enough? Easy to say from this chair, but $2M is still $2M. But hell, Molson could say "Hey Carey, if you retire I'll give you this contract to be a goalie advisor for $2M."
Based on current projections, the final wild card spot 'could' be had with 90/91 points.
ReplyDeleteFor fun I went through the Habs' sked and without tabulating as I go, just assigned either zero, one or two points to each game (based on how they 'could' play, not on the past 2 weeks). My final tally was 34 more points for an 89 point season. This includes an impressive 7 game win streak in April. Had they just beaten Carolina in the final game, they could've squeaked in (in this totally fictional and definitely unlikely scenario). Around .500 hockey is more probable ending them near 80 points or so.
It's fun to play 'what if' but, based on the fact that all the teams between the Habs and a wild card spot play each other (someone has to win) and also that Montreal's players have no idea how to protect a lead, or even get one, I think they stay right where they're at.
ReplyDeleteOne bit of news I read this morning suggested that when the fire sale begins HuGo are not looking for futures but NHL ready young players. It's more likely HuGo will be trading some of their many picks to get some high end talented help for the nearer future, like next season. Names like Zegras and Cozens were mentioned. I think that's the more likely scenario.
Cheers All!
I read that too. It makes sense. 300 draft picks aren't going to do anything on the ice.
DeleteYa we are past a mittful of picks.
DeleteWe need help in the form of at least on top forward and one top D man.
I'm not convinced about Doch or the hooker or even wool for that matter.
Don't know about TJ but wool and doch were flyers that Hugo took.
I mean at some point we gotta stand up and realize that if we want to be a serious contender we need serious players not reclaimation projects.
I think these people need to be read the riot act and if nothing transpires then adios mutherfucker. This is how you win. So now we dump and chase and if nothing transpires between now and tdl then fine summers coming and the draft.
Time for Hugo to make some tough calls here.
So Fuck Trump
Go Canada
Go Habs
The sfu are going to make this shinny tourney all about their leaf.
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ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to 2 weeks without a loss. That's about it.
ReplyDeleteAHL or junior hockey for me. And I might stay with that depending on how it goes. I can't watch shit hockey.
DeleteI'll probably watch a few Moncton Wildcats games to check out Caleb Desnoyers. I hear he's pretty good...
DeleteSo in the stupid 4 nations thing, the one francophone - and only Québécois and only Hab - will not start, nor even dress for yge game in Montreal tomorrow. And they're wondering why they can't sell any of the high-priced tickets. Not only that but we have a blizzard warning tomorrow evening. HAHAHA
ReplyDeleteAnd when I say this, I am aware Monty is not the best of the three. But it's supposed to be an exhibition, no?
DeleteSid is part Québécois. They just announced the QJMHL rookie trophy in his honour.
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I did not know that!
DeletePer wikipedia, His dad, Troy, played goal for Verdun in the Q and was deafted by the CH in 1984, 240th, but never got to the NHL.
Fuck the four nations, fuck Trump, boo everything, dont watch and for Fucks sake dont buy any of the disposable merch.
ReplyDeleteSo I don’t know what the plan is if there is one.
ReplyDeleteCouple three days off back to practice try and figure out why we can’t score defend or save pucks.
I think it would be good to try and figure some of that shit out.
I think the dachster is either traded or benched it’s enough.
I think TJ need to be told that he can skate fast so he should skate fast ffs.
I remember Lord Byron skating fast TJ doesn’t do that.
These were two of Hugo’s pet projects that I don’t think are working out.
Anyway.
We watched an Eagles defense win the S bowl so we should be like the Eagles and get a real D and an effing D coach it’s enough.
Go Habs
HuGo will give this team a little more time with a few tweaks here and there. Dach and Wool have one more season after this one, Hook has two to prove themselves. By then Gally and Pony will be finishing up as well. HuGo wants proven NHL talent and will probably swing for the fences in the UFA season. In the meantime, the beatings will continue until morale improves.
ReplyDeleteWell let’s take a who’s in approach as opposed to whose out
ReplyDeleteSo the keepers are in no particular order
Forwards
Suzi CC Slav Dach(?) TJ Wool Gally Powerhorse Sevens(?)
Need 3 to field 4 lines
Defense
Maths Fast Lane AC Ax Goules
Need 1 to field 3 pairs
So maybe Sevens is gone and we need 4
And one D and we’re talking no reclaimed retred projects
Five real hockey players…
So where are we gonna get that and that’s keeping Dach and then Powerhorse and gally are probably gone so that’s basically half your effin hockey team in two years
We’re all going to die
Go Habs
I assume demigod and beck will be with the team. Is beck 2nd line C material? I see him more as a 3rd line guy but it's early. But basically, and assuming Slaf improves and stays on the first line, we need a new 2nd line. Demi +? +? I mean I wish I could say Wool would be the guy on that line but it's not looking good. Maybe put him with our best playmaker Suzuki and move Slaf to the 2nd line. So we need to find a legit #2C. J Roy will be given another shot unless he is traded in a package because Kent has said he wants to bring in players, not picks or prospects in any trade he makes. Harley2.0 in Laval is another interesting prospect. He's officially a C but I think he can play wing too. One of those late bloomers. Could be a good 3rd/4th line guy the following season if not next year.
DeleteI really think with the cap rising, Hughes (and probably most GMs) are looking at UFAs in a different light and the teams with deep pockets are looking at the big names that could be available and hoping they go to free agency. This rapidly rising cap is saying so long to parity in the league. I think it will ultimately be the death of some of the smaller franchises, so Bettman can put teams in Houston, KC, etc. I've gone off the rails. It's early. I haven't finished my coffee...
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DeletePretty clear that the outstanding glaring need right now is for a bonified no 2 C.
OK Beck is coming and JRoy so that still leaves major holes in the offence.
Like an entire third line with the bulk of the offence comprised of kids. It's very clear we need another real late 20's something honest to goodness scoring winger unless Slav suddenly morphs into a scoring power winger.
I think my disappointment runs deep because of the failure of Dach and TJ. We blew some capital on them with not much results. If 2025 was sposed to be the year we compete I think Mr Hugo better roll his sleeves up and get some stuff done.
Go Habs
To moe's point about the QMJHL ROTY trophy being named after Sid. While it seems the tongue was planted firmly in cheek with the part Québécois comment, Sid is at least (or at least was) quite fluent en français :). For what that's worth. And it is now the Quebec-Maritime Junior Hockey League. Which makes me wonder. With the Acadie-Bathurst Titan moving to the Rock, will it be renamed again to the QMNLJHL?
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed at how little interest I have in this dumb tournament. I scroll the headlines of the sfu sites to see if there is anything of interest to me happening in sports in general. The amount of 'ink' these shitheads are spilling trying to justify this tournament is astounding. I haven't read a word of one story nor do I plan to watch 1 minute of the hockey. Which is a shame. I am not just a Habs fan. I like watching hockey. Period. But this has Bettman and the SFU's dna all over it and I can't stomach it.
ReplyDeleteAt least the Scotties start on Friday so I can watch that and listen to some fine ladies screaming to "hurry hard!"
Same here.
DeleteStupid league has it only on Sportsnet and TVASports so it's not an option for me anyway. Fuck 'em
Deletehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-at-a-time-when-were-searching-for-identity-sidney-crosby-represents/
ReplyDeleteSid is the modern day version of Jean Beliveau. Sid should have been a Montreal Canadien.
DeleteThere’s things to laff at about this 4nation tournament but nostrils being loudly booed, Sid getting a beauty of happy noise and Mario getting massive cheers is a start.
ReplyDeleteWee willie getting a taste of boos too, then a sweet PP goal setup by Sid was nice.
Deletecuthurtandsimpleton are horrendous with their lame jibberjabber
Deletesfu panel, I think they say they are Canadian, said that Weewillie and marner will/would shine as their best (biased) guess for best players tonight.
DeleteAs we await the big snowstorm here, I have the game in the background. I like all Team Canadas, despite some villains and leaf. sn’s graphic for the tournament features Henderson and Sittler as the biggest images. Bigger than #66 and #99. Weird.
ReplyDeleteAs a true Canadian, I’d punch mclame in the face for free and/or donate any/all funds to the Terry Fox foundation.
ReplyDeleteI am Canadian.
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I’ll never DEI diss but botterill is an earache.
ReplyDeleteMassive ups for the Bell Centre crew. Great opening and fans are proving that the true centre of the smartest hockey universe is in Montréal. It isn’t even close.
ReplyDeleteBig East Coast first period.
ReplyDeleteWhat is in the water over there ? 😉
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Sounds like the Bell Centre dj is playing nothing but Canadian artists. 🇨🇦
ReplyDeleteSid, still the best overall player in the game.
ReplyDeletemclame is a moronic, narcissistic putrid clown but botterill is just a slice of wonderbread with nothing on it.
ReplyDeleteWill the sfu panel facts be beholden to nostrils or team Canada when that puck drops ?
ReplyDeleteI think this made for tv event is to give sn a chance for redemption with their rights to broadcast the games.
They have NOT grown the game and we know why.
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cuthurt says McDavid has got marner loose. WTF does that mean ?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting to hear cuthurtsimpleton comment on how the crowd is into the game, unlike the tronna morgue/library.
ReplyDeleteMan I hope The Hip are getting paid every time sn uses their tunes but I think if they keep it under 10 seconds they, sn, get away with it.
ReplyDeleteNo better hockey fans in the world.
ReplyDeleteleaf media can suck marner all night long, they aren’t true Canadians or true fans of the game.
ReplyDeletemarner 2nd, yeah, nope, give it to MacKinnon.
ReplyDeletemarner is a good player but he is a narcissistic jerk.
sn has shat on the Habs and Montreal for the entirety of their NHL contract. Actually goes back further decades of pure hnic jealousy and hate.
Bell Centre fans never forget and know the game better than the clown 🤡 panel.
The only hi-lite I watched was Mario's reception. Montreal fans are the best.
ReplyDeleteAs it does, it got me wandering down the draft path of '84. Man he would have looked good in a Habs sweater.
But it was a decent draft year for the Habs grabbing Petr Svoboda and Shayne Corson in the first round and then grabbing Stephane Richer in the 2nd and Patty Roy in the 3rd.
It could have been even better as there were some great players taken later in that draft.
In the 6th round at 116th overall, the Habs select Jim Nesich. Next pick? Brett Hull.
Interesting that 2 players from this draft played exactly the same nubmer of games in their career at 1431. One of those players was Scott Mellanby who went in the 2nd round.
The other? Luc Robitaille, who went in the 9th round! 171st overall. Not to worry though, the Habs had picked up Brad McCaughey a few picks sooner.
Just imagine...
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ReplyDeleteIt has been so long since the last time one of these things mattered that you may have forgotten what a real Canadian hockey crowd cheering for the real Team Canada sounds like. But Montreal remembers.
ReplyDeleteThe real genius pick for this team may have been the host city. In a fraught moment for international relations, Montrealers reminded everyone how you treat visitors.
ReplyDeleteThey booed the Swedes upon introduction, but without much venom. Toronto Maple Leaf William Nylander in particular seemed delighted at his jeering. It must feel strange to finally play hockey games that matter.
The audience was selective when it came to the other team captains and legends of the game. Teemu Selanne? Nice cheer. Aleksander Barkov? Something between a cheer and a boo. Auston Matthews? A feral booing. A real oral pasting.
Free box of TimBits this morning.
ReplyDeleteGo Finland. Marner now greater then Henderson.
ReplyDeleteOur anonymous friend was on a roll last night 😉. I enjoyed every comment.
ReplyDelete"That's what I'm here for !" ~ The Hip
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