Well boy and girls (no offense Joshtm) It comes down to this Saturday night between the Laffs and the Habs. The team who wins that game will make it to the playoffs I think. The question is “Who wants it more”?????

If Gainey & Carbo were smart, they would lock those two Russians in the bathroom, feed them under the door until the Habs make the playoffs and the season is completly over.(hopefully in june)

The team don’t need thier negativity in the dressinh room.

Hell, we could even send them over to Joshtm’s place. After the going over that Joshtm would lay on them (if you know what I mean). The Russians would not be able to speak another word for months anyway.

Yeah, I think last night may have been a sign that the heretofore “unexplained” transition from one of the top teams to one of the worst teams may have in fact had something to do with dressing room politics. I mean, imagine how some of those guys probably feel when they outproduce someone who makes at least five times their salary…and imagine how those guys must feel when they work hard to “follow a system” that some of the veterans ignore completely. My hunch is that Samsonov will probably have a hard time finding a team after the Canadiens buy out his contract: there’s no question he has enough skill to be in the NHL, but how much would you pay for poison in your locker room?

It’s a simple mindset now. Take it one period at a time and outskate and out work the opponent.

I called Carbo and told I would bring my gear Saturday incase he wants me to suit up. I told him I was just as happy to play as I would be to watch, He told me if I was to play on my first shift I have drop the gloves with Tucker on center ice. If thats what it takes then thats what it takes.

Well, I can always put the nega-spin on it all if you want… This team’s still gonna fail waaaaaaaaah, but then I’d sound like joshtm.

I’m sorry the ‘one period at a time’ comment bugs you but it’s the simple truth. Ain’t no doubt ’bout it, yup.

Doesn’t annoy, smiler. Just the same cliches we get to hear every night on the sports news. ‘Take it one game(period) ata time, work hard to get our bounces, blah blah. Do pro athletes have to attend a school for this? It seems 99% of them spout the same rhetoric every time there’s a mike handy.

Except for the 1% of Kovalev, Samsonov, Ribiero, et. al. They just spew venom and high pitched whines.

I just wanted to admit something most of you guys did not even think of. A great portion of this site’s bloggers wanted Gainey to acquire Bertuzzi. Sorry if I offend some of you guys, but you guys aren’t making sense. If you guys are complaining about Samsonov and Kovalev, what are you guys going to say about Bertuzzi if he would have been acqired by Bob? He earns over 5 million a year, and is not even playing!?!?!!!!!!!!! Are you getting my point? I rather have a Kovalev on my team rather than having a Bertuzzi that misses 3/4 of the season resting in the beaches in Florida.

But listen I do not mean that Samsonov and Kovalev are positive aspects to the team, but that you guys have to acknowledge that there underachievers in other teams too.

i.e:
TORONTO: Mc Cabe, Kubina
BOSTON: Savard (he has lots of points but doesnt help the team at all)
NEW JERSEY: Gomez, Elias(worst captain in the league and earning around 7 mil.)
NEW YORK R.: Jagr ( is on a slump just like Kovalev + earns 8.8 million)
NEW YORK ILS.:Yashin (this man is not even close to be worth what he’s earning)
WASHINGTON: Kolzig (what a joke)
NASHVILLE: Forsberg
VANCOUVER: Naslund ( is he really wearinbg the C??)
DETROIT: Bertuzzi ( 5 millions????)
CALGARY: Tanguay
COLORADO: Theodore ( no need fo explations for this one)
ST-LOUIS: Doug Weight
PHOENIX: Ed Jovanovski

Becareful Jack LOL…. Don’t wake up Joshtm. He is due for his feeding pretty soon. If he don’t get it he will become pretty nasty. Especially if some one like your self makes comments that he don’t like. Beware of the wrath of Joshtm. LOL…

Hey Jack, talk about brown nosing hey, since you don’t got Rivet’s flu to blame for the slump, Carbo has decided to give you another excuse, now we can say Kovalev has the flu, so the habs didn’t make the playoffs.

By the way, big difference in your listing of underachievers, while they may underachieve, they at least show up in the top 100!

Our’s don’t even show up in the top 200!

funniest comment made after last nights game…when Higgy was interviewed on the NY TV station about the injury to DiPietro..Higgy replied, “yeah, he is a good kid….etc”.. DP is older than Higgy..but higgy is way mature for his years..Guys, focus on what makes the Habs great, rather than what hurt thems.
every team is made up of haves and have nots.. or this case, Habs, and Habs not..

see you in the playoffs

Joshtm. Are you mad at me. I said Hello……….

Did anyone else think that maybe the team that played last night is built for speed?

Guys like Kovy and Bonk are slower pace setting players. Maybe the chemistry is off because their timing is set at different speeds. My strategy would be to match up slower guys w/ slower guys and the Fast guys w/ the faster guys; Kind of like in Football’s Defensive strategy when using a nickel-back D against the pass and a bigger prevent D against the run. Or the case of a Pitcher, when throwing an off-speed pitch in baseball. Changing tempos could be used to our advantage…
And again, I doubt the Habs management will bench Kovy just because they won without him… unless he is still has the vertigo problem.

FYI… Latendresse is hot with 4 goals in the last 3 games:
Guillaume Latendresse, 15 (Tomas Plekanec, 23 Andrei Kostitsyn, 4)
Guillaume Latendresse, 14 (Michael Ryder, 24 Saku Koivu, 40)
Guillaume Latendresse, 13 (Alex Kovalev, 28 Francis Bouillon,
Guillaume Latendresse, 12 (Mike Johnson, 19 Andrei Markov, 34)
*Notice anything? None of the same linemates on any of the goals! Wierd stuff! Anyway…

My Projected lines:
Latendresse, Koivu, Ryder
Higgins, Pleks, Kostitsyn
Kovy, Bonk, (Streit/Johnson)
Begin, Lapierre, (Johnson/Streit)
Murray (extra) inserted if you’re not hustling!

It was nice not to have to depend on Souray’s shot for offense.

Just a Habs thought…
Go Habs Go

Smiler good point~
“Pittsburgh should be an entertaining game win or lose but I just hope they’re up for creaming the sh@#t out of the Laffs on Saturday after the Pennsylvania funfest”

They have played well against Pitt this year, but not so well after big games… Lets hope they’ll fight til the end! I would hate to win against Pitt and not have enough gas to get by the Laffs!

Great win last night, it was even more important where T.O. won. 5 teams, 2 points, 2 spots, we’re gonna be alright i think. The rooks are finally playing well and ryder stepped up big last night too. Get Mr. Huet back and we’ll be set for a solid playoff run, hopefully we can play buffalo first round, seeing we have the best record against them of the whole league.

Kovalev has that vertigo problem, and it we all know why he has it:
Because we haven’t heard that song nearly enough from him at home this year!!

not that i pray or anything. Losing both off our roster would be a prayer answered though.

Oh no, if we lose Kovalev, Gainey’s “chemistry” for the team could be in jeopardy! What is BG going to do?

I think everyones “jumping the gun” a bit… he says he feels better than yesterday, he’s only had it a few days, so why would he decide,now after a goal and assist in St. Louis playing on the 4th line, to scheme up a career ending insurance scam, so he can get out of Montreal? I must be missing something? Virtego can be cause by something as simple as fluid in the inner ear; Not that uncommon with someone suffering from the Flu.

I know TSN the “Know-all” when it come to medical evaluation, but lets wait until it comes from the horses mouth before we spend his cap room.

According to everyones analysis Kovy’s getting paid off for doing nothing so why fake the injury.

Kovy looked good in St. Louis, yet everyone still jumped all over him. Not surprizing Latendresse, just a couple of days ago, was seen as Carbos great french mistake that should have been sent to Hamilton long ago… its the same old same old…

How much money do you need to retire in Mother Russia??????????????A few botlles of Vodka……………

I just cannot figure out why people have Kovalev as this evil monster that brings down the whole team. He does play on the top line when they’re not scoring. He does not seem to be out-spoken, like the NFL football idoits, that whine and cry to teammates demanding the puck. He must possess some Russian VOODOO mind control that makes not just his line but everyother line suck! He does have a fishy scowl 8(

Anyway, I hope he is alright. It’s bad Karma to cheer player injuries; especial your own teams.

He hasn’t been an impact player, so hopefully they’ll continue to push for a spot with or without him.

Go Habs Go

Sometimes the Hockey Gods smile on us, and sometimes they give us the unfortunate to look after, for now its the UNICEF of Hockey period I guess, where Montreal saves those hapless veterans, maybe Gainey should set up a mini statue of liberty, “give us your broken down veterans, your undesireable UFAs”….

Let’s talk about Mr. Vertigo(Kovalev). I actually have vertigo. It’s a cronic condition, caused by fluid in the inner ear. It affects your equilibrium, and makes you dizzy. But there are pills(called serc) which you can take for it. Tho I have dizzy spells, it comes in waves so you never know when you’re going to get dizzy. But, IT HAS NEVER STOPPED ME FROM LIVING A NORMAl ROUTINE. You can drive a car, skate, ski,almost anything, including PLAYING HOCKEY!
Isn’t it strange, that in the last few weeks, all of a sudden, these 2 imaginary illnesses strike Kovalev? Makes sense that it’s happening near the END OF THE SEASON(as in rest time for Mr, hard worker). He was okay when we were winning, but when the focus is on him, he’s got these ailments.
LOKK AT THIS: THE ELBOW INJURY HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER HE’S BENCHED.
THEN THE VERTIGO HAPPENS, RIGHT AFTER THE MEDIA STORY FROM RUSSIA!
It’s TOO CONVENIENT, AND I DON’T BELIEVE HIM FOR 1 MOMENT! HE CONJURED UP BOTH THESE AILMENTS, BECAUSE HE’S A COWARD AND AFRAID TO FACE THE MUSIC! SHAME ON YOU, KOVALEV! GOOD RIDDINS! I HOPE YOU NEVER ERVER PLAY FOR US AGAIN. TAKE YOUR 4.75 MILLION AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR RUSKY ***! YOU’R PATHETIC, AND YOUR ACT HAS WORN OLD!

Actually, Rubberman, Samsonov has clauses in his contract that prohibit trades to certain teams, or so I heard. And we can’t pay him no six mil for this season–cause that’s what it’ll be like, when he’s free to sign with and make money for another team.

We just can’t reward this guy with a buyout–it’s exactly what he wants the Habs to do. No doubt he’d spend all of next year crying about us to the press some more as well. I say Hamilton looks good enough for him. Gilette can afford to pay a guy $3.5 mil to play in the minors.

Just a note for everyone who thinks Samsonov can be traded to a team by having Montreal agree to pay a portion of his salary. That’s not allowed under the new CBA. You can’t agree to pay any portion of a players contract in a trade. The only way to move a player like Samsonov is to accept someone in return who is overpaid and underachieving. That is why there was talk of Samsonov to Chicago for Aucoin.
He’ll be tough to move at his contract price and without being able to pay some of his salary and may meen they’re stuck with him.

Kovalev better be playing Saturday nite I wanna see that son of a ***** score twice and lay out Tucker again,

Hey Dr. R Hab.

I have this pain right in my ***. Ya have any idea what it is…LOL…….

Die Hard: I have a pain too, Kovalitis! I hope it disappears!

you guys are a riot…love this site even though a lot of the same stuff over and over, keep it going guys.
Someone up above made the comment on bertuzzi….trust me he is just anothere maggott
like samso and kovalev, overpaid, gutless a,d downright coward to boot.

OK, maybe I was a little harsh there on poor Kovalev!!!!

“I went on the Internet yesterday to try and find out what the causes are,� said Kovalev. “I want to make sure it doesn’t happen again. There’s no medicine that you can take for it but there are certain exercises you can do with your head.� R Habs 4 Real Post #45 Pills are called Serc right?
“I definitely wouldn’t wish this experience on anyone. I’ve heard some guys say that some players were forced to retire because of it. Hopefully that doesn’t happen to me.”
Is this his nice way of telling the media and the fans he’s done? He’s going to play a few games regardless, whether its toronto on saturday or buffalo 2 weeks from now. if we make the playoffs, he’ll be in the lineup for sure. if we don’t, salut alexei! don’t fall on the golf course!!!

Been cruisin’ the net this morning, and see a lot of “experts” saying this or that about the whole Samsonov charade. Alan Adams, of Sportsnet.ca, thinks the habs would be,”…Smart to buy him out…”. Sean McCormick thinks,”The bulk of the blame lies with Guy Carbonneau.” While I agree that Samsonov has to go, and that Carbo is at least partly to blame, it irritates me to the nth degree when I read/hear these so called experts rattle off about things they only ever see on the highlight reel.

Though I don’t agree with everyone posting here, or on other hab forums, we all at least watch the Montreal games, as many as we can, and are thus informed in our opinions. Discussion/disagreement is good as it promotes debate. But no-one can see the kind of season Samsonov, and other habs for that matter, have had without watching the games. I sicerely doubt McCormick has seen any hab games the last few seasons, unless they were vs the Oilers, his self professed fave team.

That’s not a condemnation of McCormick, just simple facts. I’ve seen all but 3 or 4 of the hab games this year and not too many other teams non-mtl matchups. As a rule, we watch our favorite teams games before those of other teams. Even with the center ice package, there are only so many games a person can watch. Other factors, such as family/social life, late games interfering with work schedules, and such, preclude watching every game.

I just wish these highlight only sportscasters would watch a team play before they spout their ignorant drivel. You don’t, and won’t, see me on a Predator’s blogspace( if one even exists!) talking about things I haven’t seen, and only understand via a brief flash of morning highlights.

As for Alan Adams, I’ve made my thoughts on buying the stiff out abundantly clear on this space before. It’s what the puke has been angling for ever since he shot his mouth off. He should take a page from Ninnimma, and STFU!

Post#60 LeBeau - Although, I agree we need a impact player, I think we would need more of the goal scoring kind at his price. I doubt the organization would gamble on a player at his having a questionable back and spotty history. Could only imagine the media harassment causing him the serve most of his contract behind bars for killing one of them.

His last complete year of stats does not look nay better than our current guys:
Year Team GP G A Pts +/-
05-06 VAN 82 25 46 71 -17

I think we could find better quality for the money.

Well at least someone took the time to imform us, that maybe Kovy was not fit to play if he was suffering from these symptoms…

To add further info, there are three main types of vertigo: spontaneous vertigo, recurrent attacks of vertigo, and positional vertigo.

“The vertigo problem can be dervived from the ear or the brain. If the problem comes from the brain, then it is called central. Central causes of vertigo include stroke/or tumor in the brainstem, multiple sclerosis, migraine, drugs (sedatives), panic or anxiety, and head trauma. Peripheral dizziness can be seen to be less severe of the two because it does not severely affect the brain.”

Just Call Me DR.D - M.D, PH.D

I have a PH.D in:

Habs Science

I am a M.D in KICKIN LEAF ***………….

Thats’s my Prognosis yes.

It is good that Kovalev may/will get better. I don’t want to see anybody suffering from sickness. But I don’t mind Leaf Fans suffering at the hands of the Habs though. I don’t hate Kovalev. I don’t hate anybody. Hate is such a hard word. I dislike a few people………..

BUT will his return help or hurt our Habs?????????

Yes He sure did…………

Should be ‘fate’ not Faith. although, our faith has been shaken recently…

Kovalev is simply- AN IMPOSTER! If he sneezed once, he would tell us all he has the flu, and not show up for a week. Besides, he did undergo tests, and it was concluded: a simple case of dizzy spells- ONE OF THE MOST COMMON AILMENTS SUFFERED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! SERC IS THE MOST RECOMMENDED PILL AND WORKS FOR ALOT OF PEOPLE. But as I stated in an earlier post, I do have to question his timing on all these so called ailments. First, the elbow injury IMMEDIATELY AFTER HE’S BENCHED! then the vertigo thing, RIGHT AFTER HIS BASHING OF TEAMMATES AND COACHES TO A RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER! It’s just all too convenient! And we already know he has NO HEART, so it wouldn’t take much to keep him out of the lineup. Besides,whether he’s in the lineup or out of the lineup, HE’S STILL INVISIBLE!
And County habs fan: I made my comments about Vertigo, only AFTER he had undergone a battery of tests to pinpoint and eliminate other related illnesses.
And yes of course, when you’re dizzy, you get nautious. I can relate to that. It’s not fun, but an attack usually last for only about 15-20 seconds.
For me. I find it difficult when sleeping, because when I turn my head to the left, I get extremely dizzy. Another cause of vertigo, is STRESS! I get attacks when I feel very stressed. But what does Kovalev need to be stressed over? He certainly doesn’t work hard, and he makes an exsorbient amount of money for working maybe 20 games a year. (that’s the only amount of games he’s truly visible). Oh, yeah and his wonderful 14 goals! What a joke he is!

Moving on… What worries me is PITT still rolling toward the playoffs with a full head of steam. They’ve only lost 1 game outright this month and are coming off an impressive shutout win over our nemeses NJD. The surprising thing is the NJD win was the only game that was not decided by 1 goal. They seemed to have strung together wins in an eerily similar Habs style looking, if one looks back to compare it to the 1st half of our season. Maybe it will catch up with them too… but at the most crucial time!

What is the cure? OR Should I ask that…………..

Xhabsfan:

That was a great one!