Big Test
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The Canadiens boast the NHL’s 3rd best record behind only Detroit and Northeast Division leading Ottawa, whom they’ll face today on the road.
The Senators are on record pace and suffered only their 2nd loss of the year in their last game Vs the Capitals.
The Sens may be a little tentative after their loss, but more likely will be highly motivated to keep the Canadiens 2 more points below them.
The Habs will have a real test against arguably the best team in the League and will have no room for error if they hope to steal another two points on the road.
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- nilan : D'Agostini looked like an NHLer saturday night. Thats more than I can say for the last 2 seasons of latendresse. For what its worth, I think its too soon to talk trades- this is a WAY talented team, but only have a handful of guys playing with heart. Oh, and I like Komisarek on the ice better than behind the bench!
- Habs Blog : flu kicked my ass
- Mats Naslund : *the pros. These players just need to step it up. They did it last year.
- Mats Naslund : I would agree that having Markov as the point shot on the PP has been a failure. He is much more effective as a set up man. The Habs could absolutely use the Souray and Streit type shot on the point (but they couldn't afford to keep those guys). It would be nice if someone from within could fill that spot, be it Tanguay, Lang or Andrei Kostitsyn or whoever. Sergei played that spot on the PP with Kane and Gagner in Junior and lit it up. I'm not sure if he has the velocity to make it happen in t
- habs#1fan : All I was saying is that I myself believe we need those players (the centerman and the D-man) to help us now. I'm no expert by no means, am I wrong? Quite possibly. But that D-man would help our struggling PP. This team is deep in prospects which would make a deal easier to do. But yeah given the team's record so far maybe status quo would be best. GO HABS GO
- Mats Naslund : I think this would be a terrible time to make a trade. We need to see these players handle this adversity. To get value you need to trade value, and right now its a buyers market in Montreal. If there are team needs closer to the playoffs then Gainey will have to make a move, but don't sell the farm in desperation.
- habs#1fan : I know everyone is sick of hearing this including myself, however I do think the time to make a deal would be now. I don't know who is on the block but we still need another center and a PP D-man with a big shot. We have got a lot of good prospects, Max Pac, Chipchura, Maxwell, White, D'Agostini not to mention the junior and college players.
- Senet1 : Well I understand your thinking groundworking, I guess I just choose to look at this team as a team that will build to the playoffs. I do not necessarily see us finishing first in the division but Carbo has to prepare them for the PO. I just hope that I am right!
- groundworking : I hope you're right, Senet, and positive attitudes never hurt. I guess my problem is that I don't see the rough stretch in the win/loss column as the main concern, but also the lack of effort in many of the games that they won early--squeaking out wins against lesser opponents, often in shootouts, and without much help from the PP. The killer instinct and the "something to prove" edge that they had last year just hasn't seemed to be there, with two exceptions: a pre-season against Detroit
- PACTUM SERVA : Dave morissette looks like a monkey lol.
- Senet1 : With due respect groundworking, I think you are jumping the gun. If we are going to panic everytime our team has a bad stretch then we might as well pack it in. This team is better than last years team on paper, they are just struggling right now. Let's stay positive. After a bad performance last night this is a game that the players may have started to doubt themselves. A win is a win and we always have had trouble with Buffalo.
- groundworking : I hate to be negative, but I broke down, watched the game, and I'm still panicked, lol--Buffalo is a weak team, they were 3-6-3 in their last ten, and this was a hard fought game by the Habs, at home, after a bad outing the night before...oh, and S. Kostitsyn took two selfish penalties...and the PP didn't score on a 5-3 for two mins. Sorry to be so negative. I just think they don't have it this year
- Senet1 : If Carbo has lost the dressing room then these guys do not deserve to be in the NHL, he coaches the way he plays and he would not ask anyone to do something that he would not do. The players better get over it. Maybe based on tonight they are starting to get the point??
- Mats Naslund : MUCH better 2nd period tonight. Almost looks like the Canadiens we've been looking for for a month. Great goal by Markov from Koivu. We should always play 4 on 4.
- PACTUM SERVA : GO HABS GO
- groundworking : I expect a decent effort tonight, and then I expect them to choke the next game and possibly the game after that. Someone suggested that Carbo's lost the dressing room. That's a good point. Hard to say. Something's wrong, though. I plan NOT to watch the game, as I've just been getting frustrated this year with their play (unlike the last two years).
- habs#1fan : Carbo demotes the Kostitsyns to the fourth line but yet he leaves Latalentless (to quote Mr Pactum lol) on the second line? Now cmon Guy, I know he's got the same name as you and all but he hasn't done squat to be on the second line. Did that guy even play last night? Then again who really did? Glad to see D'Agostini play maybe bring some energy and fight
- flyinghab : I don't even want to talk about tonite's game ... it can be also be ugly in front of the home crowd. Carbo is becoming a broken record with his speeches now. Has he lost the dressing room ?
- flyinghab : Last year was an extremely lucky year. No injuries, kovy on good year ( 1 outta 4 ), therefore the habs were a bunch of overachievers. This year reality has struck. If we could buy some "heart" Gainey should invest.
- flyinghab : Wow... after watching part of this horrid game, I'm thinking with this team we'll be fortunate to even make the playoffs this year. So sad. Get Bob on the line please.
- PACTUM SERVA : No effort no heart no balls. This team is like watching paint dry. Gutless effort. Maybe their tampons were bothering them tonight.
- Mats Naslund : wow terrible game. i'm not mad right now, i think i'm just revolted. they did nothing for 60 minutes. uninspired, uncoordinated, and unproductive. i didn't even like how carbo coached the game. totally disgusting night.
- VanHab : later
- groundworking : lol agreed -- ill talk to you later
- VanHab : certainly makes for a better Friday night than watching the rest of this horrible game
- groundworking : They've had worse teams, but none that worked less than these guys
- groundworking : I've followed the Habs religiously since 1985, this is the slackest team that they've had since then
- VanHab : lol groundworking
- VanHab : a change has to come and soon
- groundworking : I've stopped watching the game--I posted here to rant and now I'm going to do something I enjoy more, like shovel dog crap off my back lawn
- VanHab : I can't believe we're being shutout by Theodore
- groundworking : Even October when we were winning, the team was just barely squeaking by against some really bad teams
- groundworking : pathetic
- groundworking : no digging for the puck
- VanHab : not the way we've been playing the whole month of November
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November 10, 2007 pm30 12:25 pm
If Ryder dosn’t get it together then replace him with anyone else,we need all 3 fowards on no:1 line against the Sens to get the win.
November 10, 2007 pm30 1:42 pm
If Ryder can’t get it together we’ll have to trade this guy. Jaroslav Halak and Michael Ryder for Alex Tanguay!
November 10, 2007 pm30 1:43 pm
why isn’t Kovalev on the first line? I know carbo wants to have spread out lines but look at the top teams lke Ottawa and stuff,they stack up their first line!
November 10, 2007 pm30 3:16 pm
Ryder thinks he’s better than he actually is, so does most fans. He goes to arbitration every year demanding more money and in return we get the play of an echl player. He’s holding back the first line. His +/- of recent years has been brutal and all his goals come on the pp. Now that he;s not on the pp he has no productivity. Get rid of him! The sooner the better or else his tradeability will continue to plummet and we’ll have another Samonov on our hands. Good ridance RYder. You’re garbage.
November 10, 2007 pm30 4:48 pm
Ryder is killing this team! Look what he did on that 2 on 1. N O T H I N G!
He didn’t even get a shot on goal! how pathetic!
November 10, 2007 pm30 6:35 pm
Here’s why we lost: You can’t protect a lead for 50 minutes and expect to win!
The whole game was played in our zone! We can’r score 5 on 5! We have no offence! We’ve seen this same Sh*&t over and over and over again!!!!!!!!!!!!
When is Carbo going to realize, that unless you attack , you’re not going to win!!!!!!!!!!!! And I guarantee we will LOSE EVERY GAME WE PLAY AGAINST THE SENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are NOT in the same class as Ottawa! I knew that sooner or later Ottawa would score, because all we were doing, is dumping the puck out of our zone to center ice. We never attempted to score. Ottawa’s offence is like the ocean. They come in waves, one after another continuosly, over and over! And until we get an offence, and some talent, it’s NO CONTEST! You just can’t play this defensive style and expect to win! GET A F#$%^&KEN offence! I’m geting tired of scoring only 1 or 2 goals /game! Get rid of the deadwood-LATENDRESSE, RYDER, and GRABOVSKI ARE ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 10, 2007 pm30 6:40 pm
Nice loss guys! THE MONTREAL CANADIENS SUCK ***! I love the team but I think they’re going down hill now. they’ll lose against the maple craps and the win to buffalo then lose to Boston then lose to the sens again and then lose to the Islanders I see habs 13th still. U can’t win too many games with one goal!!! carbo says:”k guys we scored in the 1st period,now lets sit back for the rest of the game and test the BEST ******* HOCKEY TEAM IN THE WORLD!!!” The habs better ****** beat the leafs or they are gone!
November 10, 2007 pm30 6:40 pm
As long as Ottawa is in the same division as us, we’ll never finish in 1st place!!
November 10, 2007 pm30 6:58 pm
Habsfanatic/Chevy you perpetual whiner, can you ever see the positive? What makes you a fanatic? Your ability to whine loudest?
Time to move to Kanata….
November 10, 2007 pm30 6:58 pm
SUBJECT: RIDICULOUS SOCCER CHEER
I just watched the Habs lose to the Senators 3-1 when we had the lead late in the third. Is it just me or does anyone find that idiotic French soccer chant to be a bloody jinx?!! Whenever I hear it, the opposing team seems to score! Today, the fools were still chanting it when the Sens tied the game!! Don’t get me wrong, I’m as big a Habs fan there is - I just don’t think there’s a place for jinxed cheers!!
November 10, 2007 pm30 7:15 pm
We gotta score 5v5. it’s as simple as that. Need to shake up the first line. Ryder out, put in Chips or Lats. Lets hope we play the full 60mins next game vs the Laffs. BTW Huet was awesome.
November 10, 2007 pm30 7:59 pm
hey Habs Blog: WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ROSES! stop bitching at someone who sees the obvious! Maybe I should cheer for the SENS! At least they know how to win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They don’t have a crappy team like us, who folds areound this time every fucken year! And who the hell is Chevy? isn’t that a car? Get your facts straight before you chastize bloogers!
November 10, 2007 pm30 8:54 pm
I could think of a hundred other options than to put lattendresse on the first line.How about lattendresse to hamilton where he belongs?We showed that we can run with the best team in the league but a couple of bad minutes lead to a loss.We learn from this one and move forward
November 10, 2007 pm30 9:01 pm
Duncan81, allmost totaly agree with you except for near the very end when Huet let two goals,yes he played good and then it was for nothing. WE need to put PRICE IN AT THE END OF THE GAME AS A RELIFE GOALIE AND FOR SHOOTOUTS.yOU CAN DO IT IN bASEBALL WHY NOT hOCKEY?Huet allways gets tired and then looses it,its just the way it is ,so………..
November 10, 2007 pm30 9:16 pm
the truth is, once we get a lead in a game, we stop playing. Protecting a lead , never works. Allowing a team to play in your end of the ice, for an entire period, can only lead to bad things, and the oppoaition scoring. It’s as if this team plays not lose, instead of playing to win. tentative, and passive in 3rd periods thruout this season. That’s the truth,even tho HABS BLOG refuses to ackowledge it. And I’m right, even tho HABS BLOG refuses to allow me to voice my opinion! Unless I say nice things about the habs, he gets in a tizzy. Maybe he’s ***, or just very prissy.
November 11, 2007 pm30 3:19 am
I don’t like the soccer chant either. I have no idea where that came from: perhaps a substitute for the “hey hey goodbye song” that we haven’t been able to sing that often for a long time. I also think the hockey gods are still at the old forum, eating at that greasy spoon that I love so much right beside the place on De Maisoneuve. Is that still there?
It was a good game tonight. The Habs played very well and that game clearly could have gone either way. We don’t have enough depth to compete with Ottawa for three periods, but we outplayed them for two.
I agree, in the long term, about both Ryder and Latendresse. I think a stint in the minors would give them both some of the confidence that they need to get their game back–but this isn’t about “punishment”, it’s about giving them a chance to rediscover their game in a context where the pace is a bit slower. But if a trade for a Tanguay came up, or someone else who could play with Kovalev, then I’d jump on it. I’d trade Ryder for Tanguay any day, but the Flames wouldn’t.
I smell a Stanley Cup in the next five years though, and I haven’t felt that way since, well, 1986 (1993 was a complete bonus).
Huet is brilliant. I really can’t believe that there are people on here who think otherwise. I’m convinced that they don’t watch anything other than Habs games, because they’d know that Huet’s goaltending and his numbers are better than not only just about every other goalie in the NHL, but also just about any goalie in history. .900 or higher for a save percentage in every single NHL season isn’t something to scoff at.
November 11, 2007 pm30 2:43 pm
Groundworking
good comment on Huet, he deserves the support
notice no posts by the Huet haters out there, He has more than proved himself.
November 12, 2007 pm30 4:47 pm
They have to beat Toronto tomorrow! If they don’t. They lost my trust,even if they win 5 straight after that.
November 12, 2007 pm30 9:13 pm
Who’s in net vs the laff’s? At this point I feel sorry for Huet,if hes in goal for another loose to tarannna there’s going t be alot of pissed fans!
November 12, 2007 pm30 9:34 pm
Price in goal tomorrow.
November 12, 2007 pm30 9:38 pm
Thanks pactum, smart move Carbo…………
November 12, 2007 pm30 9:58 pm
Yeah huet has not had any luck against the laffs time for some new blood.
November 13, 2007 pm30 7:58 am
mtl should beat Raycroft. Toronto sucks when he’s in the line up.
November 18, 2007 pm30 2:06 am
Nice win against Boston! Chara’s an *******!
December 1, 2007 pm30 10:57 pm
Nice going once again with the f*!#ing moronic French soccer cheer! 4-1 against Nashville and then the singing starts…4-2, 4-3, 4-4…shootout loss. The soccer chant is a f*!#ing jinx arsewipes. You like Europe? Move there, buy season tickets to Marseilles and chant your dumb asses off!
March 1, 2008 pm30 11:25 am
LIKE US FANS GIVE A FLYING **** WHAT OTHERS THINK OF OUR TEAM!
Legendary team (despite the fact that we havent won a cup since 93) Best team ever and the best fans ever. We show our support for our team, something that many fans dont do to their teams. They are 2nd right now, how are they bad? Some people are just cynical!
You annoyed with our chant TOO BAD! Its not a soccer chant its an encouraging chant, do some research!
OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE!
GO HABS GO!