Canadiens Clinch!
The Canadiens have clinched a spot in the playoffs! The earliest they have clinched in many many years, and currently the ONLY team assured a spot.
Will the 3rd period mini collapse hurt or help the team?
With no games until Friday the Habs can rest comfortably. Having assured their spot before the 4 day lay off was a big accomplishment.
The Habs have 5 games left and can control their own destiny. They are in an excellent position to go on and win the Division and Eastern Conference titles.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 12:53 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Nice way to start the day,playing for a full 60 mins hopefully is the next step.And call in some beef….
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 12:59 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I think that the road ahead (meaning the remaining five games) will be a difficult one. Buffalo is still fighting for a playoff spot and the Leafs have decided that they aren’t going to stop playing until they’re told that they’ve been eliminated from post-season contention. So I think that a win by the Bruins tonight (which will essentially send that long awaited message to the Leafs), coupled with a key win by the Habs in Buffalo will go a long way in facilitating their efforts to solidify first overall.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 1:26 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
WOW! JOE’S GOT BITE.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 1:52 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Montreal is not going to call up a un-mobile rookie defencemen with 5 games left in the season. Are you kidding me? Come on guys be real.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 1:59 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
hey guys, wouldn’t it be great if we were the team to eliminate the leafs on Saturday. a little bit of payback for last year.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 2:21 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
A big lesson (3rd period) in a deciding win, I just accept it.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
It will be on April 05 that we will we put the Leafs out of their missery. I hope it is a Slaughter.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:29 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
toronto is going to lose one of the next games with Boston.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:45 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Watch for Montreal only to lose 1 more game this season. There no pressure, They want 1st place, but Not as bad as they wanted playoffs. they’ll end up with 103 PTS. Thats my prediction
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 5:33 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Well, you know, I do what I can… even if it means stating the obvious from time to time in the process of thinking out loud.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 5:39 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Incidentally, Ice Man, what do you bring to the table, aside form insults and criticisms? I get the impression that you spend a great deal of your time being tolerated by others, both in the virtual universe and beyond. That must feel good.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 6:27 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
So..they dont “pull” goalies after leads”, they only keep them in to torture them..costing them the best goalie they had scince Dryden’
But in 1995, the Canadiens missed the playoffs for the first time in 25 years, and only the third time in 54 years. In December of that year, when the Canadiens lost 11-1 at home to the Detroit Red Wings, then-head coach Mario Tremblay refused to pull Patrick Roy from the net until after the ninth goal, despite the goaltender’s repeated pleas.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 6:33 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
most important player on a hockey team?…GOALIE!
most important player on foot ball team, QUARTERBACK!
Its like saying…yeah boyz we are up 49 to 7( each goal resembles a touch town)
Theres one quarter left, and the back up sits there wondering what the hell is going on, the defense breaks down and sacks the quarter back 5 times, theres 4 turnovers and the other team scores an unanswered 29 points!
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 6:43 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Starting quarterbacks aren’t pulled in favour of backup quarterbacks, unless they get injured. That is the sole role of the backup as long as he’s a backup. The only exception being a horrible season by the starter.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:08 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I ve seen coaches making changes after big leads…giving more time to third stringers and resting prize players, ive seen it happen when teams had presumably insurmountable leads they will put in back up quarter backs..we will see if Price has anything , or it comes out ,,i doubt though
Should i call you coach..have you played?, and so with whom?..i may know you…
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Habman yeah Price must have been heartbroken that carbo didnt pull him after it was 7-1 pure touture. You say you have played hockey at a pro level? Whats your name so i can look up your stats on the D.B database.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:25 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Calm down there, habman. I was just trying to help you out with your analogy.
As to your comment, you’ve seen no such thing. I’ve never coached, but being from Pittsburgh, I’ve played my whole life, yes, and I can assure you that you’re pursuing a losing argument. Perhaps things are done differently in the CFL, but football isn’t hockey, so bad analogy.
That being said, why are you still on about last night’s decisions by Carbonneau? Move on. You’ll be happier.
And as a reminder, the Habs are in 1st place in the East. They presently own the league’s best offense and the league’s best powerplay. Tell me that you could have predicted such a scenario at the beginning of the season. Try being happy with the current situation.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:26 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
go habs there gonna win it all
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:36 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Hey joseph dont waste your time with habman. He digs in the montreal canadians archives from 20 years ago and tries to impress us with he so called hockey talk. This all comming from a guy who wants gainey to call up a slow un-mobile rookie defencemen with 5 games left in the season and thinks price should have been pulled last night lol. Hey but becarfull what you say about habman because he knows kung-fu or so he likes to tell people lol …. karate chop ..ya
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:45 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I’ll counter his mastery of Kung Fu with my training in CommonSensu.
Sakibom, habman.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Lol. Some people are so clueless.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 8:27 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Don’t worry about Price. He will do just fine. He will shine in the up comming playoffs like the true diamond that he is.
Joey boy, I fail to see what you bring to this blog.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 8:44 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Joseph fom Pittsburgh,Ice mAN’S just bitchy from being so fridged,lol
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Price and I both have ice in our veins. That is why we are both so cool at all times……
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 9:49 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Hopefully more than this:
“A bad coaching job by Carbo.” - Ice Man (Very informative, highly opinionated.)
This:
“Habman you are a retard.” - Ice Man (pot, kettle… you get it.)
This:
“Most of the Intelligent comments in here are copied and rewritten by Experts from various hockey sites.” - Ice Man (Is that a fact? I was wondering where they got their material from.)
This:
“It will be on April 05 that we will we put the Leafs out of their missery. I hope it is a Slaughter.” - Ice Man (An unsubstantiated prediction, and furthermore, one for April of 2005, apparently.)
And this:
“WOW! JOE’S GOT BITE.” - Ice Man (I’m a big fan of the ALL CAPS comments. (wink, wink))
Keep up the good work. We’d be lost without you.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 9:53 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Five (5) unanswered goals by Ottawa in the third period tonight! Holy sh*t! And Ruff left the backup on the bench for all of them! He must be out of his mind! He must have gone to the Carbo School of Coaching!
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 11:45 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Ijust want to wecome all Leaf fans to the site”its a n easy chant:GO HABS GO”it’s time you know what winning is,enjoy the ride!
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 6:22 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Monttreal actually has a good task against us on friday. Buffalo has beeen good of late, and they’re trying to make it to the post seaon. those 5 unanswered goas didn’t look good at all though. Price still hasn’t played good yet after the startings of Halak.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 7:48 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
“Price still hasn’t played good yet after the startings of Halak”.
What colour is the sky in your world?
The guy is 20 yrs old. Do expect him to play like Broduer.
Yet another bone head comment form the Peanut Gallery.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 7:50 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
By the way “it was FOUR (4) unanswered goals by Ottawa in the third period Monday night!!!
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 10:51 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
They scored five unanswered goals against Buffalo last night. That says something about Ottawa’s explosive offense, and perhaps less about the Habs’ third period meltdown in the previous game.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:07 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I agree with you Joe.
You have a wonderful afternoon Sir.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:44 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Get back to hockey talk…
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:52 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Thanks, Ice Man. You too.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:52 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
What ever do you mean Habs Blog.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Looking forward to seeing the Habs in the playoffs.Will Carey Price be the next Ken/Patrick? Keep hoping the Leafs will be finished once and for all.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 1:05 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Hey Joe what do you reckon Habs Blog is suggesting?
I told a guy in here that I would “TRY” to be good. But it is hard to. I am such a Die Hard Habs Fan and it pains me to see stupid comments. I know that everyone will not agree on what is said in here but some comments are just so foolish.
I admit that I do not know everything about our wonderful game.
My mouth gets the better of me. I admit it.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 1:33 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Guys lets all cheer up. Who in this blog would lie enough to say that they expected Montreal to be in first place, even for one week. They over achieved all year and the best part is that they are going to the playoffs with praticaly no experience, but they are going in with no fear of loosing. They going with heart and that is one of the best ways.
Go habs GO
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 1:46 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
5 points between us and the Sens….5 games left each….2 wins for us means the Sens have to run the table to get first in the Division…3 wins and they can’t touch us….our future remains in our hands…keep on winning boys.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Price isn’t doing that bad, but He can do better. Halak will start on Friday though, and Price will start against Toronto. Price is damn good against the leafs. The reason why I was pissed before is becaue I was hoping for a huge blowout, and 7-5 aint that much. I wanted the habs to sens a huge message to the sens. I guess they’ll have to do that in Ottawa.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 3:18 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
4 wins in the next five coming up boys. Higgins aid it himself, they’re looking for some good play heading into the playoffs.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I think he was implying that I’m a pretentious jerk.
And are you kidding? I come here to learn about hockey from you guys. It’s not easy growing up as an avid hockey fan, and more specifically, a loyal Habs fan, in Pittsburgh. I admit my yankee ignorance at times with regard to the greatest game on the planet.
As for you, Ice Man, you’re a likeable guy. And admittedly, I get carried away, but there’s usually more sarcasm in my comments than anything else.
As to foolish comments, unfortunately, they’re everywhere, and I’m no exception at times. But try visiting the Leafs forum. Yikes.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 7:43 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Thanks Joe. Your Ok. I think we will keep you..LOL..
Passion my friend makes people do and say strange things.
Lets go Habs tommorrow night. Damn, all week and no Habs Hockey.
I had to watch the Leafs game Tuesday. My wife is a Leafs Fan being born here in T.O.. She is very nice about it. She accepts the Leafs for what they are LOSERS ans HOSERS. But she still supports them. God bless her heart. A part of me kind of feel sorry for her in that she has never and never will see her team win a Stanley Cup. The way that I tease her about her Leafs, i’m surprised that she don’t leave my Ass.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 11:51 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
She has to be able to go around it in order to leave it.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 1:06 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
http://www.sportsgi.com/habs/bbrenglish.mp3
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Hey ExtraHab!
What’s that suppose to mean?
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Ice Man, you’re here in Leafsland too, stuck watching Leafs games? I share your pain. But if all goes according to plan in my job, I will be relocating to the greatest city of all by mid-summer.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Yes Joe I live in T.O. Ha, Ha, that rymes….LOL… It’s been a slow day….
I just watch the Leafs game with my wife. It keeps her happy and I don’t mind seeing them lose….
I have RDS HD. I have seen all of the Habs games so far this year. It is great. I don’t understand a damn word they say except for GOAL. I don’t care as long as I see the games. I don’t watch CBC anymore. They are a bunch of DICKS and the picture quality on RDS hd is 10 times better than CBC HD.
Good Luck with your Job relocation Joe. I have never been to Montreal but I would love to some day.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
It appears that Dandeneault, Brisecrap and Halak are playing on Saturday vs the leafs. Sundin and Antropov are playing tonight with hopes that the leafs will be eliminated. If that’s the case they probably would be in a downer mood for our game Saturday. But why is Carbo messing with chemistry again? can’t he just leave things the way they were on Monday? Brisecrap againat a physical team makes NO SENSE!
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 7:51 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Is it not a good idea to keep everyone involved and focused?
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 9:41 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Of course it is and its a good idea to play the players that have not had much ice time, while letting some others get a little rest and also avoid maybe some mishap.. but dont expect some people around here to ever let the real coach make the call, of course not we need to act as if we know better .
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Thanks, Ice Man. My condolescences to your wife’s Leafs. It must have been difficult seeing them trying to move the puck up ice with the goaltender out, in one final, fruitless attempt at salvaging yet another fruitless season.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
On the up side Leafs lost to the Bruins thats a win win for Montreal , it holds Washington in check and it make this year all that much sweeter .. watching the Leafs self implode and fizzle out
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 11:16 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
we’re now in 2nd place overall. We need to win both games this weekend.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 11:21 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Here’s an interesting fact. The caps, bruins and flyers could be tied at the end of the regular season. I hope the caps don’t get in. they’re playing great hockey right now. much more dangerous than the flyers or bruins.
I’ll take the flyers.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 11:21 am. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Look at the message posted on TSN.ca following Leaf’s hopeless to Playoff. LOL
No. 20 Author: habsfanlaurie
My husband is a Leafs fan, I am a huge Habs fan so this is good news for our marriage! I’ll just have to avoid him for the next few hours and all will be good in our house again!
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Washington doesn’t concern me as much as they seem to concern some others here. After all, how often do you see a team play its’ hearts out for over a month this time of year just to get in, and then fade quickly in the playoffs? And even if they did manage to play their way in and continue that high level of play for an extended time, I still have enough faith in the Habs to be able to handle them. (Edmonton of two years ago was a much different story than Washington of 2008.)
That being said, we could realistically face Ottawa in the first round, so who knows.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 2:39 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
I’d give my Left Nut for Montreal to win the Cup and Price win the MVP.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Joseph, I guess for once I disagree with you, i think Washington is the most dangerous team out there this year. They not only have the best goal scorer in the leage but it seems that we cannot figure out how to stop him. He has killed us when we play them. It all boils down to we have been luck against teams that cannot skate with us and teams that can skate with us seem to have the super stars that can put the puck in the net. Having said that I said last week we would find a way to beat Ottawa and we did albeit not pretty in the end. So hopefully our coaches that in my opinion are the best in the league and getting better, can devise a defensive way of neutralizing the Caps big scoring line.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 7:12 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Oh yes, and don’t forget the Huet factor, we will have to make him handle the puck alot so he can pass it to our forwards.
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm. About 'Canadiens Clinch!'.
Washington could squeek in now with Huet getting his 7th win last night.That would be a wild first round opponent for the Habs!!
The Habs are flying with Carbo and Gainey at the helm!! Let the games begin!!