Habs / Flyers: Game 4
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The Canadiens trail a playoff series for the first time this year. Down 2-1 for game 4 tonight in Philly.
Despite out shooting the Flyers by 20 shots the Canadiens dropped game 3. The powerplay clicked in the end, but was horrendous in the beginning when it was needed. Combined with some bad bounces, unlucky posts and bad goaltending, the Canadiens played catch up down 2-0 for the third straight game.
Guy Carbonneau is playing a few headgames by keeping his starting goalie a ’secret’ until game time.
Expect Carey Price to return to the lineup and redeem his poor effort on Monday night.
Other than Martin Biron and their penalty killing unit, the Flyers have not overly impressed in any way. The Canadiens have defeated themselves.
Should the Habs start executing - manage to score first, have decent goaltending and have an average or better powerplay - they should not have any problem getting back into the series.
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April 30, 2008 pm30 4:39 pm
I haven’t noticed Don Cherry for a certain time on CBC Hockey Night Canada. Has he left only for the playoff or for good?
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:04 pm
I will bet on Ryder, Plekanec and Brisebois tonight.
GO HABS GO !!!!!!!!!!!——!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:06 pm
The citizens of the city of Montreal should thank the Flyers after this series for saving their city from another riot.
P.S. refer to Blog 215 (Habs/Flyers: Game 3)
GO FLYERS GO!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:12 pm
HALAK IS IN ! official.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:24 pm
The citizens of the city of Montreal will thank the Flyers for taking their fans golfing with them.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:32 pm
Incidentally, do the Flyers intend to help out with crowd control at hip-hop concerts in Montreal? Because that was, in fact, the source of the riots. Do your homework.
April 30, 2008 pm30 5:34 pm
dammit we need carey in nets……
he is our number 1 and easily will bounce back…. games 5 and 6 of last series
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:00 pm
So has Montreal Canadiens figured out what they are doing for a net minder?…how about a brick wall?…because thats about all thats going to stop us…Philly, on the other hand, have Biron, which solves our net minder problem unless Montreal gets 60 minutes of power plays this game vs. 20 minutes last game. How do the matadors say it?…OLE OLE OLE…what a *** saying…must be a Canadien thing.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:03 pm
All your Biron was all his carrer was a Backup. He will be again soon!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
To 6
Joseph,
I don’t give a rat’s *** what happens in Montreal…been there once, bad choice of places to visit on my part, and never again… so why would I care to do any type of homework on Montreal? So I really don’t care how or why or who about these riots…they just happened following the Habs 7th game win over an unskilled team like Boston and now the low class Hab fans have blood on their hands.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
Actually, Philly Pucks, “OLE OLE OLE” is a chant that is heard at bullfights.
Just like the matador drives the sword into the bull so are Les Canadiens going to skewer the Broad Street Thugs.
The Special tonight will be FLYERS SHISHKABOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a thought……..how about playing the Russian National Anthem to get our Ruski Habs going? Please, no Communist jokes!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:14 pm
Biron was saved my his posts all this series, I have never seen so many posts … in 3 games
Where is the link saying its official for Halak?
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:20 pm
Jack:
You’re immature and ignorant. Only a loser wouldn’t enjoy being in Montreal. Is that what you’re telling me… that you’re a loser?
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:21 pm
It’s also a soccer song.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:23 pm
If the Habs decide to finish their many chances against this weak Flyer defense, they’ll blow them out of their own arena. If not, then they don’t deserve to win anyway.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:24 pm
Here is the link looks official to me.
Right or wrong Carbo’s got balls.
http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080430.wspthabs_update30/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/home
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:27 pm
Do they have excuse books at the book stores up there in Montreal? You Hab fans have an excuse for every loss…”goal posts, rough playing(too many Russians on your team), Biron was lucky, Price had a bad game”…etc. Why can’t you loose with class and just accept the fact your team does not have what it takes to win playoff style hockey against the Flyers, maybe next year or the next but not this year…PERIOD! Either you go easy or hard…we’ll take you out…even with the officials on your side!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:31 pm
I can’t believe that benching one young goaltender with some playoff experience in favor of another young goaltender with 20 minutes of playoff experience will be what the Habs need.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:32 pm
Carbo better wear his “Very ***” Tie ……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:33 pm
Hey Jacko,
Why can’t you go to your own team’s fan site and annoy your own fans with your ignorant nonsense? Let me guess, they rejected you.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:34 pm
JACKASS, what will be your excuse tonight when your Fylers lose.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:35 pm
If his Flyers lose, I can guarantee you that he won’t be anywhere near here… because he’s that type of ‘fan’.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:38 pm
Let’s go, Habs! Wake up! You’re a better team than you’ve shown in this series.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:44 pm
Jack’s an A..hole
Jack’s a *****
Jack can’t even hold a Hockey stick
WHAT A JACK OFF
OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE OLE
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:47 pm
Did I see ref on our side looser????? Look who is complaining and trying to find excuses for the unsportmanship of his poor team…..Hey Jackass, you better tell Biron to hide himself from the puck tonight, cause our shots are all going in bast….!
See ya after game, after our 2nd victory!
Go habs Go!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:50 pm
Jack’s just frustrated with all the losing. The Flyers, the Phillies, the Eagles… all mediocre franchises. The last Philadelphia team to win anything was the 76ers, and that was 26 years ago.
Sucks to be Jack.
April 30, 2008 pm30 6:53 pm
Score Habs Score!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:03 pm
Sorry guys for deserting you the last couple of games I had to go away an no internet.
Anyway here is how I see the last two games, considering we outplayed the flyers both games and came out losing in both cases concerns me but being a die hard habs fan I still have faith in my team.
This is what we have to do, we have to start to screen Biron, he is not that good of a goaltender but we have made him look good. Most goalies can make 99% of the saves if they can see the puck. We have not screened Biron at all so we have to start putting players in from of the net and get some screen shots. Now there is no point in putting men in front of the net if the defense is not going to shoot the puck so that is another priority. Once we start to do that then it will force Philly to come out to the point which will give our forwards more room to work down low. That should improve our power play as well as our five on five. Now our defence have to give our goaltender a chance to see the puck. Two of the three goals Philly got last game were screen shots that Price did not see to the last second. He got his glove on both of them but not enough to stop the puck. To me the media has been far to hard on him. Also you have to realize that he only had 17 shots on goal and at the time of the two goals he only had 6 shots, so he was hard for him to physically be in the game with so little activity.
I have not lost faith, but we do have to win tonight otherwise it will be difficult to win three in a row.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:19 pm
Hi, Senet 1.
My goodness, the Flyers’ defense is terrible.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:20 pm
Big save by Halak.
Lets bury those flyers!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:24 pm
I agree, but the one thing they are doing is keeping the shooting lanes open so their goalie can see the puck and they have been able to clog up the passing lanes down low. Our forwards are looking for the perfect pass, good things happen when you shoot the puck at the net, just look at the goals that philly are scoring.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:25 pm
Post#25,you are turning into one heck of a Habs fan …..go habs go….
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:26 pm
We need to get some garbage goals and that will open up the game for us.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:28 pm
See the shot that Striet just made from the pass from Lappiere. It was a useless shot, the only way a goalie is not going to stop that shot is to have a heart attack. It would have been much better had he held onto the puck and waited for the rest of the team to clog the front of the net.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:47 pm
I wouldn’t let Streit play. he is horrible.huring the team and responsible for the flyer breakaway. Next game he should be scratched.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:50 pm
Great points, Senet 1… good insight.
Another period where the Habs dominated the Flyers and came up short. And as you stated, the Habs are making Biron look good in this series. They need to get bodies to the net and screen him, agreed.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:52 pm
And again, when the Habs get the puck in the slot, they have to just shoot it. It’s frustrating watching them always thinking ahead to the next move, or the next pass. Shoot it!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:54 pm
SHOOT if you’re open, damn it.
QUIT OVERPASSING!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:57 pm
37 duckdoc: EXACTLY MY POINT, THEY ARE TRYING TO MAKE THE PERFECT PLAY, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU PUT THE PUCK ON THE NET, HOWEVER, YOU HAVE TO GET A GARBAGE GOAL TO UNNERVE BIRON.
April 30, 2008 pm30 7:59 pm
Montreal could not score in a ***** House…………
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:02 pm
In the Boston series I said that the habs character had to come out in game seven, there was no urgency in games 5 or 6 but there was in game 7.
Well there is urgency in game 4 in this series because we cannot go down 3-1. Hopefully, they will respond. Here is what I would do, I would break up our checking line and put one player on each of the first and second lines. We need to get some phycial play on those lines and getting someone in front of the net.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:02 pm
well,if anything from the first it shut up the trolls as thier phillypilons were out played once again.And how about that Halak kid ,way to go!!!ole ole ole………………………………..
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:04 pm
Senet1: exactly what I was saying after the last game - we need to crash the net, get in the lanes and screen Biron. You can’t stop what you can’t see, and at the moment Biron is seeing everything.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:04 pm
Halak is a very good young goalie and will be a #1 anywhere is this league
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:06 pm
The ref was looking for an excuse there… let’s kill this one off and then get a goal or three…
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:14 pm
Takes grit and irrational dedication to get the front of the net. I’d put Begin with Kovalev and Koivu, and Kostopolous with Kastitsyn and Higgins.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:16 pm
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In court the other day there was a case regarding the custody of a small child.
The judge asked the boy, “do you want to live with your mother?”
He replied, “No I don’t want to live with her because she beats me!”.
The judge then asked, “Do you want to live with your father?”
The boy stated, “No he beats me too.”
Finally the judge asked, “where do you want to live?”
The child responded, “I want to live with the Montreal Canadiens!”.
The judge asked, “Why do you want to live with the Montreal Canadiens?”
The boy exclaimed, “Because the Montreal Canadiens don’t beat anybody!”
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:17 pm
It’s all over folks!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:19 pm
I like you Begin move but I would put Smolinski with because he is a centre with Higgins and Andrea. and Kostopolous with Plex and Sergie.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:24 pm
48 future habs fan: Are you really a habs fan??????????? Our team is playing well but he have to find a way to score goals. Have some faith in your team>
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:24 pm
This is frustrating to watch, i cant imagine what it’s like to play. Montreal is playing against the worst team in the playoffs, dominating like never before, and they can’t get a save from their goaltenders. Biron is playing very well, true, but how many games can you win when your goalies literally never bail the team out. Pathetic.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:32 pm
I agree it is frustrating, it would be one thing if we were playing badly but we are not Philly seems to be getting the breaks and taking advantage of them. We need out leaders to step up and show some leadership.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:34 pm
Halak has played very well, The guys just cant bury their chances, this is weird, not sure what else they can do, they need to keep working and just hope to get a few bounces
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:35 pm
Come on guys… don’t get frustrated. After all you are playing against “the worst team in the playoffs” and you are on the PP 1/3 of the game and you’re only going to be down 3 games to 1.
Come on it’s 8:30… there has to be something on Candian TV to watch that your team will win… Curling maybe?
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:39 pm
Well. Carbo’s experiment is not working out to well so far is it?
That was a weak one on Halak. Talk about Price……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:40 pm
Well nobody wants to crash the net, and cause some trouble for Biron. The longer we go without a goal the harder is it going to get, they are already starting to squease their sticks too hard.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
I mean why are we so inept at scoring? This is a shadow of the team we saw during the regular season. It’s not the same team. Normally we would bury all these chances. Also our shots aren’t on net, and the fewthat are, are without power.
FOR THE FLYER FANS NOT HERE BECAUSE THEIR BLOG IS CRAPPY: no team is getting by Pittsburgh. so you’re not winning anything! Pitt will win the stanley cup!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
Well Don, Price played well in the playoff too, only to have his D-Men hang him out to dry many night.
I’m glad this is blowing up in Carbo’s face.
Price in game 5 & 6 last series not the best. Next game a shut out.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
54 Flyers~cup2008: Well I would not expect an unbias statement from a Flyer’s fan but the last time I looked both teams have been penalized exactly the same amount
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:42 pm
Flyers fans are classless turds.
That being said, the Flyers are a weak team, and the Habs are playing like they’re a weak team. The difference, again, is goaltending. Soft goals by Montreal’s goaltenders and the inability to score on Brion - a highly overrated goaltender.
Oh, well. They’ve only themselves to blame.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:43 pm
Its not over yet, and I think Halak was the right choice, of course your going to **** on him you would **** on your own mother if you had a chance..
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:45 pm
Don has a love affair withy Halak I see.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:47 pm
Halak is playing well. It’s not his fault if his team can’t score. Carbo did make the right choice, and he should have changed goalies in game 3. If the habs could learn how to get a puck on net thru to the goalie, and screen him, then they’ll score. that’s the only way!
Nobody dump on Halak. He’s playing so much better than Price!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:47 pm
I’ve no problem with Halak. He’s young and he allowed a soft goal when he was deep in the net. Rookie mistake. But this continues to be the difference in this series - good goaltending vesus bad goaltending.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:50 pm
Halak is playing well, but the goal was the result of a rookie mistake (a.k.a. bad goaltending) - being deep in the net.
Anyway, as I stated in the previous thread, if the Habs would convert half their chances, it wouldn’t matter who was in goal.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:54 pm
Anyway, no surprises. Carbonneau and the Habs have a lot to learn with regard to success in the playoffs. This can be considered a stepping stone.
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:54 pm
I’m with you guys. Enough of the passing. Get in front of the net and shoot the damn puck! God, I could stop the shots Biron’s facing too. GET IN BIRON’S KITCHEN!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 8:55 pm
58 DieHard Habs Fan: As I see it,Carbo would have been criticized by you whether he made this move or not, if he left Price in the net and he had another game like the last one, (not that I am blaming him for those goals or the loss) then everyone would have blamed Carbo for not making the move. Halak has played very well and if you listen to the experts, the goal was not entirely his fault either. You cannot let philly have those kind of shots because they are in a good position and a hard shot for the goalie to cover the entire net.
Anyway I see this move as a good move for two reasons, one to shake up our team and the defense and secondly simply to see if he could get some spark into the team. One thing our defense has played better tonight. Our team as a whole have played very well too. If we loose we do have one thing going for us even though we are down 3-1 we are playing well. So if we loose we come back with Price next game, if we win we stay with Halak until we loose. Halak if you remember played a number of games last year at the end of the season when Huet was hurt and had he played the last game against the leafs we probably would have made the playoffs.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:04 pm
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:04 pm
yea BABY………..YEA!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:06 pm
oops. sorry. thought i was at the Flyers FanZone. Back to my LaBatt Blue.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:07 pm
My oh my!
Two soft goals on Halak.
What a time to experiment???
IN YOUR FACE CARBO! IN YOUR FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:08 pm
flyers are the luckiest team. won by luck only, because they’re crappy! With any luck we’d be leading the series 3-0.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:10 pm
#74-
But your not….your down 2-1 and probably (though there is still time left) going to be down 3-1…..in a one game playoff….ok a team can get lucky and the New York Giants can beat the New England Patriots…..but over a 7 game series…. 9 times out of 10 the team that plays the best wins….it really is ok you guys can admit it.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:12 pm
Yeah, Halak is da man. He will get the #1 job next year……
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:13 pm
LUCK?????? Have you been watching Biron?
Put you glasses on Pappy and why are you a “future” Habs fan. Too much commitment? After the Habs lose are you a Future Pens Fan?
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:13 pm
If it wasn’t for luck in Game 1, the Flyers would be wrapping this thing up tonight, you convoluted rose glassed a-hole…
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:14 pm
So can we all agree now that our position has very little to do with our goaltending but has everything to do with the fact we can’t score? We’ve missed at least three open nets tonight, and we’ve not given Biron any grief at all. That’s why we’re losing this game, and the series - it has nothing to do with anything else…
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:16 pm
portly,lol
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:20 pm
Yes!! Traffic in front of the net at last!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:20 pm
that’s one
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
Again!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
take that flyers fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:21 pm
that’s two whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:22 pm
now at least have the guts to say that second goal was lucky….if you are going to say they flyers have gotten all the bounces you need to admit that its not going to be any better than that
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:23 pm
LOL
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:26 pm
yer right ,the flyers 2nd goal was lucky!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:26 pm
Sacre Bleu!!!
waiddaminute! This isn’t LaBatt!! It’s BEAVER PISS!! BARMAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:27 pm
Oh Know…………. Did they just……….
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:28 pm
SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see the Pens in your future, “future habs fan”
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:28 pm
no…they created a chance for themselves just like you did there….luck happens in cards not in a real sport….teams create what happens during a game…you can create a bad situation and give up a “fluke” goal or you can just stand your man up at the blue line and have it called great defense
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:32 pm
All the Flyers goals are lucky beacuse the Flyers are Crappy… Oh wait
If Flyers=crappy and they are winning 3 games to 1 then what does that make the Habs?
Sing it Fat Lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:33 pm
please shut up until the game is over….we dont need anything going wrong here
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:33 pm
There’s no luck in this game guys. The Flyers are winning because they have a better goaltender. That is it. It’s the only reason this series is 3-1. Playoff games are always low scoring.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:34 pm
Murray Wilson, you are a homer!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:35 pm
Defibrilator…..STAT
……forget this beer - i need a shot!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:36 pm
Refs are so f**ken biased! that wasn’t a penalty! Flyers are the luckiest team and the the crappiest! They’re going nowhere!nowhere!nowhere!
They’re never getting ny Pittsburgh!
Habs are totally unlucky!!!!!!!!!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:36 pm
Thank you Begin for handing the series to them… great move.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:37 pm
yes….running at a guy while the puck is on the other side of the ice isnt a penalty….you are right…..and the door was open….talk about a lack of respect for the opponents
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:40 pm
I’m getting really pissed here. 3 losses in a row! Goddamn it!
F’in Begin. He cost us the game.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:41 pm
97 future habs fan
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Refs are so f**ken biased! that wasn’t a penalty!
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Dude, that was a penalty. No doubt about it. STUPID F’ING PENALTY!
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:50 pm
Future Habs fan wrote:
They’re going nowhere!nowhere!nowhere!
They’re never getting ny Pittsburgh!
And just imagine how bad the beating would be if the fu(king Habs some how get to the east finals against Sid the Kid?
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:55 pm
The Flyers are a weak team. The Habs are supposed to be a better team but showed that they’re actually a poor team when it comes to playoff hockey. They’ve got a lot to learn. Carbonneau can start by teaching them about killer instinct. Killer instinct is needed to finish a team that’s down 3-1. Killer instinct is needed to bury your offensive chances. They have none of it.
As to the classless Flyer fans that have poisoned this site with their presence, I’d like to return the favor in telling you that I’ll be enjoying watching the Penguins take your team apart period by period, game by game… letting you know just how far your team acutally is from a true champion. If you had shown any kind of class at all in here, I’d likely be cheering for your team (as I usually like the underdog), but you haven’t, and I’ll rest easy knowing that you special fans are whining about penalty calls whilst your team is getting destroyed by a far superior team in the next round. Start practicing your whining skills…
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:55 pm
Really disappointed at the fact there was no tenacity or hitting by Montreal.
I am sick of fancy passes and those feeble attempts at blind back passes by Kostitsyn…Price is no better than Halak, this is not a goalie situation, but a lackluster, lazy, poor performance from a team thats happy enopugh getting through the first round..PATHETIC !!!!
NO HITS, NO FIGHTS….Roll over and die then !
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:55 pm
Rayzor, the Habs would be destroyed by Pittsburgh as well.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:56 pm
Se ya all next year !
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:56 pm
Well it isn’t going to be easy but with those two goals, both going to the net and giving the goalie some trouble, we may have lost the battle guys but I still think we can win the war. Price will be back in the net with four days rest, some thought he looked tired.
If we were playing badly, I would say the series is over but we played well enough to win the last two games and all we need is the puck to bounce our way instead of Phillys way. they have got the breaks the last two games and they have worked hard to get those breaks, it is just unbelieveable that some of the breaks haven’t gone out way so far. Philly is a good team, and we should not keep running them down, they beat a good team to get here. However, I still feel we have a better team and can win three in a row. Whether we will or not we will see. BUT HAVE FAITH HABS FANS.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:59 pm
#104
1) Even if we lose every game 100-0 we will still be further than your team and the fact that we finished dead last last year would make even getting to that point an incredible feat.
2) If you go on the Flyers blogs you will see Montreal fans saying the same things that have been said here, every team has dumb fans
3) If the Flyers are a weak team that I guess you guys are a Junior league team then? Just admit that the Flyers are a team full of grit and yes some skill and your team isnt mentally strong or talented enough to over come them.
4) You should be embarrassed not supporting your team when they are down and saying that the series is over.
April 30, 2008 pm30 9:59 pm
Someone give Begin a medal…way to blow the comeback and all but knock your team out of the playoffs dummy. This team is going nowhere anyways…they never did evolve into playoff hockey players. Here’s Guy’s choices to put on the ice….a bunch of soft European pussies, or a bunch of no-skilled bums who are barely NHL level players. Either choice is lose-lose. Change this team for future playoff success Bob. Thanks for the terrifc regular season though. But a very weak and pathetic playoff efford. See ya next year bloggers…have a good off-season.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:03 pm
this team is built for the regular season. too soft, too many euros, not willing to pay the price! Gainey please go get big bodies. we need them!
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:04 pm
#109
4) You should be embarrassed not supporting your team when they are down and saying that the series is over.
But that’s why they’re habs fans…when it comes down to Fu(k or walk in a series, they start on about how great 1993 or 86 was and how this version of the team is a disgrace to the team’s history….blah, blah, blah…
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:05 pm
Chris:
That is why I specified ‘classless Flyer fans’. There are classy Flyer fans as well.
Also, keep in mind that I don’t go to the opposing teams’ fan sites, so I’m left here to contend with a plethora of stupid and classless comments against my team and its fans more often than not. It gets old.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:06 pm
109 Donnie
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 9:59 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Someone give Begin a medal…way to blow the comeback and all but knock your team out of the playoffs dummy. This team is going nowhere anyways…they never did evolve into playoff hockey players. Here’s Guy’s choices to put on the ice….a bunch of soft European pussies, or a bunch of no-skilled bums who are barely NHL level players. Either choice is lose-lose. Change this team for future playoff success Bob. Thanks for the terrifc regular season though. But a very weak and pathetic playoff efford. See ya next year bloggers…have a good off-season
Couldn’t agree more.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:07 pm
i’m gonna sock the first Flyer fan in here that says this thing is over! In case you didn’t notice, we were up 3-1 against a vastly inferior Caps team and it took a game 3 overtime to finally squeak out of THAT series. Joseph is right, the Flightless Fowl are likely to eat either team coming out of this series for LUNCH. i’m not sure the better team won tonight, and it really defies understanding, but there it is. The realists among us thought this young team would start to make noise after a few more years together cause they DO have some talent, so this unexpected success (so far), against a superior foe, is pretty startling. There is NO ONE south of Moose Factory that thinks the Flyers could beat the Habs in four straight games, so buckle up! This ride ain’t over by a LONG SHOT!
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:09 pm
Fair enough….just realize when you say classless Flyers fans it certainly seems like you mean all fans.
And you should try going to another teams blogs…it is beyond interesting reading how the other teams fans perceive the same event that you saw.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:09 pm
There’s a difference between supporting one’s team and realizing that one’s team is going to lose a series. And that’s nothing to be embarrassed about.
I am not a bandwagon jumper, Chris. I called this team early on in the Boston series when I stated that I didn’t see a potential champion in them yet. That’s not abandonment, that’s just a realistic perspective.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:11 pm
Chris:
Read my posts in the previous thread and you’ll get a better idea of my views.
Anyway, my apologies for coming across as though I were generalizing.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:11 pm
103 Joseph
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 9:55 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
The Flyers are a weak team. The Habs are supposed to be a better team but showed that they’re actually a poor team when it comes to playoff hockey. They’ve got a lot to learn. Carbonneau can start by teaching them about killer instinct. Killer instinct is needed to finish a team that’s down 3-1. Killer instinct is needed to bury your offensive chances. They have none of it.
Joseph, I am disappointed in you, I thought you learned your lesson from the Boston series. Philly is no different than the Bruins except they are getting the breaks and we are not. To this point we have made their goalie look good, the last two goals showed that we he is no better than our goalies if we do the same things to him that Philly is doing to ours. Sometimes the best team does not always win but what you ask for is the an effort. The team must change it’s game plan. That is the only thing I am disappointed in with our Coaching staff, not just carbo but all the coaches, we need to go to the net, shot the puck and set screens. We did both for about four for five minutes at the end of the game and got two goals. The ghosts of habs past came out in game seven of the Boston series and it is time for them to come out again. Anyway, I was hoping I would hear that true habs fan spirt and continue to have faith. again one game at a time it is never over until it is over.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:16 pm
One thing win or lose, we have played at least 12 playoff games, and the kids will have learned alot but most of it will not sink in until the playoffs are over. Then they will understand whether they have what it takes to move their game to the next level. It will also show Gainey what he actually needs to do to make this a better team.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:18 pm
Who said Pittsburgh was going to win the cup? Have you heard about this upstart team in the West from Detroit?
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:18 pm
I realize that a team’s fans will always be biased toward their team, and thus they’ll see things diffeently than the opposing team’s fans.
On that note, I am done purporting the Habs as something that they are not this playoff year - the better team. They have more skill than most, and they may be able to take the play to the other team in the offensive zone for longish periods of time, but none of that matters if they can’t score the goals and come out with wins. That in itself makes the Habs a weak team. Fair enough.
That said, the Flyers, in this series, remind me of the 1991 Northstars. They would get bottled up in their own end for extended periods of time every game but they would captialze on the opportunities that they got. Of course that team got crushed by the Penguins in the Final.
Apologies to Flyers fans. Your team may have been outplayed more often than not in this series, but they’ve held the fort and they’ve been opportunistic. And they lead the series 3-1, which they honestly deserve.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:20 pm
Well said and thats all that I asked to hear.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:21 pm
you gotta beleive boys you gotta believe….we had boston down 3-1 and they forced a game 7
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:23 pm
111 Robbie Rayzor
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 10:04 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
#109
4) You should be embarrassed not supporting your team when they are down and saying that the series is over.
But that’s why they’re habs fans…when it comes down to Fu(k or walk in a series, they start on about how great 1993 or 86 was and how this version of the team is a disgrace to the team’s history
YOU WILL NEVER EVER HERE ME GIVE UP ON MY TEAM. I STILL THINK WE CAN WIN THIS SERIES WITH A FEW BREAKS AND A LITTLE STRONGER PLAY THOUGH OUT THE LINEUP. IN MY OPTION WE WILL SEE YOU BACK IN PHILLY.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:23 pm
I’m sorry to disappoint you, Senet 1, but the Habs were up 3-1 in that series, not down. Regardless, lightning is not going to strike this team twice. They’ll probably find a way to win Game 5, but I’ll be as shocked as Flyers fans if they find a way to win the next three.
Paul:
No one said that Pittsburgh is going to win the Cup. I think it will likely be Detroit. Although I also think that the Penguins will give them their biggest challenge.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:30 pm
I AM GOING OUT ON A LIMB BECAUSE I FEEL THAT ALL MY HABS FANS ON THIS BLOG HAVE DESERTED THEIR TEAM WHEN THEY NEED US THE MOST. SO HERE IS MY PREDICTION, IT MAY BE A LITTLE PREMATURE BUT SEE YOU IN GAME SEVEN IN MONTREAL.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:30 pm
I hope that the Habs do come back and win this series. I just don’t see it happening the way that they’ve played. I mean, come on. The Flyers have taken a 2-0 lead in all four games. That’s piss poor hockey on the Habs’ part. In fact it’s ludicrous for a team with plans of winning it all.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:31 pm
Emotional stress, Senet 1.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:32 pm
Carma is a great equalizer but if the Habs fans don’t provide it then their team will not feed off it. So please guys have faith and provide the carma that our team needs.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:34 pm
NA NA NA NA, NA NA NA NA, Hey Hey Hey, GOOD BYE!
This series is over!
Have fun making tee times on Sunday morning!
LOL…
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:35 pm
I need a break from hockey in the form of a cheesy comedy. I’ll be back with some mustered up karma tomorrow…
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:35 pm
# 129 Senet 1
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 10:32 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Carma is a great equalizer but if the Habs fans don’t provide it then their team will not feed off it. So please guys have faith and provide the carma that our team needs.
Senet1….Your a loser…Carma! your team needs heart..
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:36 pm
Bye bye habs fans thanks for coming! But it is time for you to go…Have fun wrecking your city
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:37 pm
Wow, the Flyers pulled another one out of their collective *** tonight.
What is up with your team? They seem to give you guys a heat attack in the playoffs so far, just like ours. Maybe we’re kindred spirits in a way?
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:37 pm
Don’t call Senet 1 a loser, FLYERSFAN. He’s anything but. You, on the other hand, could use some maturity.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:37 pm
I`m a Flyers fan and I know this series is in no way over, despite the fact that the Habs are 1-12 when down 3-1 in a series and the Flyers are 18-2 when up 3-1. Despite that, Montreal could easily win the next three. Why?
1. Montreal has completely dominated up to this point. Especially shots.
2. The referees are obviously trying to get Montreal into a series with Pittsburgh as there have been at least a half dozen rediculus calls against the Flyers in this series and many non calls against the Habs
3. Montreal is obviously a much better team, especially in the speed department.
This should be interesting. I predict Montreal in 7.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:38 pm
Joseph, I understand why you feel that way, believe me in my younger days I used to feel the same way. However, experience tells me that this team has played well, they have carried the play the last three games and lost, so what are the little things that they have to do in order to win instead of loose. It is not difficult, go the net, pay the price, set screens and shoot the puck. These are all fundamentals that this team has got away from for whatever reason. If they start doing them then there is no reason that they cannot come back and win this series. They are a better team on paper and on the ice, but they have to do the little things that win games and most of them are doable.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:38 pm
#119 Senet 1:
Good post, you’re absolutely right. Win or lose we’ve had a great season and our many young players as well as our staff will have learned a great deal and have a lot to look forward to next year.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:39 pm
Washington almost came back and theres no way way montreal can’t do the same. At least Montreal will still be first next year, and Price won’t be a rookie in the playoffs cup 4 sure next year! Montreal will wn game 5, no doubt but will they win game 6? probably not.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:40 pm
Now Habs fans realize why Pittsburgh LET the Flyers beat them last regular season game, throwing the game to NOT have to play them 1st round of the playoffs. They knew then, that it’s better to lose to the Flyers in the Conference Championship, than get knocked out of the playoffs in the 1st round.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:41 pm
Fair enough, Senet 1. As I said though, I’m in ‘knee jerk reation’ mode. It happens.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:42 pm
Whatever makes you feel better, Benjamen. Watch what you ask for.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:42 pm
132 FLYERSFAN: If you understood anything about heart you would know that is where it comes from. I would never call you a loser because I attempt to have more respect for fans from other teams that have not had the success that my team has had over the years. All I ask is the same from you.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:44 pm
Paul
History means nothing in this seies so far. If you want to use stats as a fallback, look no further than the recent season. If you like, look even further back…the Habs lead the all-time playoff series according to playoff history. But stranger things have happened, the Flyer look to be on a mission this year. GO EFFIN’ FLYERS!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:46 pm
FLYERSFAN is a child, if not in age, then in mentality. He showed his ignorance immediately by not reading the posts throughout this entry. People like him just come to take shots about somehting that they don’t understand.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:47 pm
EFFINFLYERS:
You read an insult in my post the other night. There wasn’t one. I was simply conveying to you what Milbury said to McGuire.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:48 pm
57 future habs fan
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 8:42 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
FOR THE FLYER FANS NOT HERE BECAUSE THEIR BLOG IS CRAPPY: no team is getting by Pittsburgh. so you’re not winning anything! Pitt will win the stanley cup!
125 Joseph
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Paul:
No one said that Pittsburgh is going to win the Cup. I think it will likely be Detroit. Although I also think that the Penguins will give them their biggest challenge.
Joseph:
Um…well…er…read comment 57 (above), someone did in fact say that Pittsburgh would win the cup.
Signed
Paul
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:49 pm
And FLYERSFAN has fled the scene, of course.
That’s the problem with the world today, friends - too many have no sense of personal accountability.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:50 pm
Oops, overlooked that comment. My mistake.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:51 pm
I tend to overlook ALL CAPS comments… usually.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:52 pm
This series is nowhere near over. Havlak(or whatever his name is…i think) actually looked good, although he faced minimal shots tonight. Biron on the other hand, still playing out of his head. There may be no stopping him. He might possibly be one of those playoff performers.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:54 pm
Now that I think of it, Biron came in for an injured Hasek in Buffalo and stoned the Leafs in the playoffs several years ago.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:54 pm
I know Joseph, I appologized about that. Sorry man, I read it wrong that night. Too many beers.
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:56 pm
No worries.
Now, that cheesy comedy…
April 30, 2008 pm30 10:56 pm
144 EFFINFLYERS!!
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 10:44 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Paul
History means nothing in this seies so far. If you want to use stats as a fallback, look no further than the recent season. If you like, look even further back…the Habs lead the all-time playoff series according to playoff history. But stranger things have happened, the Flyer look to be on a mission this year. GO EFFIN’ FLYERS!!
If you read my comment Effin, you`ll see that I`m in fact not using the stats as a fallback to buttrest my point. I said DESPITE the stats, I was predicting the Canadiens to win in 7, and I`m a Flyers fan!
Also, the stat you made about the Habs being the all-time playoff series leaders is missleading as well, as the Montreal Canadiens for years, used to be awarded the 1st pick of the best French Canadien player in the draft each year. They haven`t had that for years though so this changes the impact of that stat.
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:10 pm
For those of you who think there will be a 7th game, you are truly Retarded!
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:14 pm
132 FLYERSFAN: Oh buy the way when was the last time Philly won the cup???????????? Lets see was it 86 NO, was it 93 NO! HMMMMMMMMMMM 1975 I think!!!!!!!!!!!!
So you have a good team, is it better than ours no, can it win this series Yes, can it loose this series yes, Will it win the Cup in 2008 No!!
So don’t give me all this bull about heart and loser and all that stuff, but there is no relevance to you argument. The only difference between you winning this series and us is so far you have got the bounces and we have not, your team has earned some of those bounces and I would say that our team has earned some too but has not got as many as your team. As a habs fan I hope that turns around in game 5,6, and 7 and I expect that you hope it does not.
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:20 pm
156 DieHard Habs Fan
Posted on April 30th, 2008 at 11:10 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
For those of you who think there will be a 7th game, you are truly Retarded!
AND IF YOU DON’T THEN YOU SHOULD LOOK FOR A NEW TEAM TO CHEER FOR BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT TRUELY A HABS FAN. A TRUE HABS FANS WOULD NEVER GIVE UP ON THEIR TEAM UNTIL THEY HAVE PLAYED THEIR LAST GAME. I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT A TRUE HABS FAN WOULD RIGHT THEIR TEAM OFF SO EASILY, OH AND I AM NOT RETARDED I AM JUST A FAN OF A HOCKET TEAM THAT HAVE LEARNED OVER THE YEARS THAT IT IS NEVE OVER UNTIL IT IS OVER AND I WILL CHEER FOR MY TEAM UNTIL THEIR LAST GAME WHETHER THAT IS IN THE STANLEY CUP FINAL OR IN THIS SERIES. SORRY THAT YOU DO NOT HAVE THAT SAME COMPLETITVE DESIRE AND MOST ATHELETES HAVE.
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:20 pm
Paul
Sorry man, yet again too many playoff beers, slowly I’m becoming that playoff alkie. DAMMIT!!! Beer ot not, I still don’t believe that a game seven is looming. Lady luck seems to have laid down with the Flyers. It’s just a matter of discipline now, and Biron!!!
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:25 pm
Oh, by the way…sorry for missing last game, I was incredibly tired. Barely watched the game, I enjoy blogging with you guys. Like I said, I will continue leaving my smelly American mark after this series is over.
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:30 pm
I relish speaking with others who actually know hockey. I’m in a bit of a craphole in New Jersey right now (born ad raised in philly!!) with no real hockey fans. I’m trying to convert people, but it’s pretty hard.
April 30, 2008 pm30 11:36 pm
There are some Flyers fans down here, but not like me…they don’t know the game like I do. Most of them are Devils fans that think that the Devils are a Jersey team…Idiots. Everyone knows that they are a New York team, they just see a team that won the cup multiple times in the past ten years and think there’s a dog-gone winner down here y’all!! God I hate Jersey!!!
May 1, 2008 pm30 12:35 am
Shoulda been a sweep! Who’s the guy that posted canadiens will win 7-0 in this game, and who’s the other idiot who said flyers will loose the series at home, n whose the guy who said Price shouldn’t start? Take a fork and eat those words up. Who would have thought Bill Mcreary( who any Flyer fan will tell u the guy will do anything to make sure the Flyers loose) would be the only ref to give the Flyers a fair shot. When i saw him come out before the game i was almost sure we’d be in the box the whole game. N I’ll admit the canadiens dominated most of that game, maybe Price would have been a difference maker in this one, but i would have to say the only reason they dominated is because the Flyers were not playing physical for fear of being thrown in the box. N against the speed of canadiens the only way to win is being physical, or have Biron in net. N it’s just ridiculous how the NHL try’s to take the Flyers out of there game, which is punish anyone who crosses your path. I mean Hatcher was actually trying not to hit people becuase he know’s hes a marked man. But it ain’t over so don’t go crying yet. I wouldn’t be surprised to c this one go 7 n Flyers win it in Montreal cuz the Fly guys now how to overcome adversity.
May 1, 2008 pm30 12:47 am
Yo, Benjamin, I am referring to a post you put up a while back. You said the Pens LET the Flyers win because they did not want to play them in Round 1.
The way things are unfolding in this series, that was a sharp pickup on your part.
Everybody is crapping on Carbo, which I think is ridiculous.
However, the unsung hero for the Flyers is the coach (sorry but I don’t even know the dude’s name). Class guy, especially when given a chance to get negative on the Habs during interviews, he plays it low key.
The way the Flyers are getting’er done,he must be one heck of a communicator.
Not only is he good for the Flyers and the Philly community, but he’s good for the game. Many Kudos!!!!!!!!
May 1, 2008 pm30 12:54 am
boys any one going to the game sat nite should start chanting birons name every chance u get, get into his head, throw him off his game
May 1, 2008 pm30 4:41 am
Biron’s head is wrapped in a cocoon of awesomeness. Series ends Saturday. Begin the countdown.
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:26 am
It’s not over yet. Maybe luck can start coming montreal’s way now. Philedelphia almost let the caps come back.
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:36 am
Montreal will win on saturday but I can’t see them winning in Philly.
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:38 am
Mark this post, (Time and date) This series is not over. In Fact Montreal is going to take it. As I have stated before Philly teams just do not win at anything!
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:42 am
If Montreal loses this series it’s going to suck knowing they were the better team, I rather have montreal playing like ****, that way I can say they’re doing bad. What do I say know? MONTREAL IS AMAZING, Then my friends willlaugh and say that’s why they’re loosing 3-1, which is not deserved. Biron has been good and goaltending is the most important thing in the playoffs and when u lose that u cant win. And it’s just about goaltending, 2 goals is not enough! The forwards have to stop hitting the post and just aim alittle closer to the open net.(lol) Philly plays like **** but at least their capitalizing on their fluky wrist shots from the point. Montreal gets luck in the third when It’s all done.
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:45 am
If montreal does come back, don’t worry philly fans I won’t bash u guys because I don’t have any anger problems. I know how it feels to have ur fav team beaten out in the second round.(MTL-tampa 2004)
May 1, 2008 pm30 7:13 am
This series is eerily similar to the Montreal/Buffalo series in 1998-Montreal badly outshot the Sabres in 4 games(174-101) and were swept!!Hasek was unbelievable.Biron is playing well,especially positioning.Halak-pretty average I thought-nice save on the 1st period breakaway but terrible on goal 1-not tracking the puck well on 2 and 3.Defense still backing in-check out the”backcheck” by Latendresse and Smolinski on the 2nd goal-BRUTAL!!Thats the difference in the series(besides the goaltending)-Flyers forwards are digging just a bit harder and winning the races to loose pucks-as Ive said before-give me north american players over euros in the playoffs any day.Price will be back in Sat.-bank on it.Carbo and the gang need to show some video to these guys about all the good things that happen when you GO TO THE NET!Both goals were the result of someone in front.DUMB,DUMB penalty by Begin-good call I thought,ref had no choice-you cant hit a guy like that anymore and the timimg was terrible.Did the game winner remind you guys of Kessels ppg in game 5 of the Boston series?Komisarek blocks shot while screening his goalie and forward snaps in rebound-Briere in last nights case.Kovalev-average again-made some fancy moves but didnt generate many scoring chances.Breezer played well(for him)-his holding penalty in 2nd was typical of him-no upper body strength.BENCH that f—ing Streit-when are they going to wake up??Wsate of a roster spot putting that idiot in-gave up another shorthanded breakaway in the 1st-how many did Boston get when he was on the pp point?I still think this series can change but they gotta find another gear
May 1, 2008 pm30 7:21 am
STUO -dude this is the 2nd round.
May 1, 2008 pm30 7:42 am
Habs Fans…quick question:
Why did Halak start??? I just don’t understand it. Sure, it’s certainly not all on him last night, but I believe this has done more damage to the team psyche, not to mention to what Price muct be thinking.
You want to point fingers…two “men” that should know better:
1. Gainey for placing way to much presure on the kid, and trading the veteran for a bag of pucks.
2. Carbo…for what he said to the media before the game about Price’s confidence.
Note: Any fan of a philly based teams has series complex issues…ask any other fan from any other sport in NA…philly fans are absolute crude, lunatics…just think Hextal with his tongue sticking out…there you, that’s a Philly fan.
Tony (really wish the habs play the pens in the next round)
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:04 am
Hey Carbo put Ryder back in at least you have someone to blame if we lose the next one fn a$$.Ryder kick a$$ next year with your new team Go HABS GO but still not out of it yet.
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:24 am
#160 Senet 1:
Talk about me giving up on my team. There are few players I can name that have already given up and what country they are from. I guess they want to go back to the Mother land to start their vacation. They can’t have to many bruses you know. Bruses don’t look good in a tank top and shorts…….
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:40 am
broad street bullies are back montreal going down
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:45 am
stanley cup stays on u.s. soil again nice ha ha ha ha ha
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:04 am
Morning Hab Fans,
I’m not here to rub in your loss and my predictions on my previous written blogs, just here to mearly state my dissappointment in how all the Hab fans have given up on and abandon their team with all their comments written following their loss. Even though I’m not part of your fan base(I bleed orange and black)…the series is not even over yet and you guys are talking how the Pens will perish in the next round with the Flyers. As a fan you should always stick with your team through thick or thin even after they but a fork in them…maybe you guys should take lessons from some Leaf fans!…my condolences.
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:13 am
I’m a Flyers fan and have been reading over the postings and their corresponding comments on here throughout the course of the series (just as I did with Japers Rink for the Flyers-Caps series). As someone mentioned earlier, I like to get the opposing team’s fan’s reaction and perspective on the play of both teams throughout the series. At no point have I left a comment though simply because I know the opposing team’s fans DON’T CARE what I think, just like I don’t care what they think of the Flyers (or Phillies, or Eagles, or Sixers). That being said, the moronic Flyers fans on here need to shut the hell up. Montreal beat the hell out of us this season, and, if not for the play of Biron, they’d be doing it again this series. Also, we’ve seen that we’re fully capable of blowing in-game leads and series’ leads during the course of the playoffs, so you might want to keep it quiet until we actually win the series. To those of you who aren’t familiar with Philly fans, the people here running their mouths and the idiots who the media love to point out (for throwing batteries, starting fights, etc. are GREATLY in the minority). Unfortunately, one or two people can ruin it for everyone and Philadelphia gets a bad rap because of these people. We’re always going to be emotional/fanatical about our teams, but some take it a bit too far (just like any city). Sorry for the rant, but it had to be said. Carry on.
May 1, 2008 pm30 10:39 am
The better team DOES NOT always win a series. Do you remember when Jose Theodore was making 40 saves a game and Montreal was being outshot 45-18 by the Bruins a few years ago. Montreal won that series. Biron is doing the same now.
The breaks are not gonig our way. I would have played Price last night
but he will be well rested for the next 3 games(hopefully it goes that far).
Habs have two days off and I like the fact that games 5 and 6 will be back-to-back. Look at Begin’s stats at http://www.hockeydb.com-he never had 30 points in a season anytime during his career. Cementhead.
Get Ryder in the line-up.
May 1, 2008 pm30 10:40 am
Habs are probably going to lose this series but I will still be watching Saturday as anything can happen.
Win or lose though I am proud of this team and they have given us a lot of thrills and entertainment over the course of the season.
They are a young team and they will only get better although hopefully Gainey will take some steps to address the weaknesses that have become apparent in the playoffs this year.
May 1, 2008 pm30 11:22 am
There you go this guy knows what he is talking about and what I have said many a time:
“We have already seen Carbonneau crush the confidence of Carey Price early in the calendar year. Price had done a good job carrying the load while Huet was out with an injury. Upon Huet’s return, Price promptly found himself on the bench for about a dozen straight games. Then Carbo tossed Price into a game with a win or be demoted ultimatum. We all know that Price then found himself in Hamilton for a period of time.
Bob Gainey had to intervene twice this year to right his goaltending situation after Carbonneau’s mishandling. Perhaps, the third time Gainey has to step in, it will be to remove the biggest ego from the dressing room”.
May 1, 2008 pm30 11:29 am
John S,
“hopefully Gainey will take some steps…………….”.
When he took over, the CH were floundering. After some much needed housecleaning he started putting his stamp on things. Look how far they’ve come so far.
Don’t you think finishing first in the East means something? Gainey works like an architect, building level by level until he completes it with the penthouse.
Look at all the young guns that have come up from our farm system. They all have the “Gainey-Carbo” work ethic. I think this team has achieved a whole lot more anybody would have imagined.What Bob is putting together is a TEAM. It would be nice to have a couple of “finishers”, but when they come you can bet they’ll not be just “one way” guys. Defense and backchecking is what brought the Cup to Montreal and you can go all the way back to the 56-60 teams.
For example,if you watch some old clips you’ll see Beliveau catching opposition players on breakaways before they even hit out blueline.
If Gainey is allowed to make his moves without interference, Montreal will once again become home to a dynasty.
In all fairness to this group,we gotta give them at least 2 more years for serious Cup consideration.
May 1, 2008 pm30 11:54 am
Hey Duckdoc dont get me wrong I am thrilled with what Gainey has achieved up to this point but we do have some weaknesses to address.
I fully expect Gainey will address them and hopefully with the success of the team this year we will be able to land some decent free agents in the off season.
I agree that serious cup contention is probably a couple of years away but I am not giving up on this series until the habs loss that fourth game.
May 1, 2008 pm30 11:57 am
Good morning Jack. Our expectations are higher. That’s why ownership in Montreal, unlike Toronto, does not have a free-hand to run things like a bunch of clowns.
We all still love the Habs, but we still call it like we see it. That’s also why RDS is the best hockey coverage in the world, if you can understand French. They are Habs fans to be sure, but their coverage is objective and balanced.
We’re having goaltending, difficulties. Not a big deal. We don’t make excuses. The goalie is a part of the team. Our #1 is 20 years old, our #2 makes me cringe every time he touches the puck. That said, the team is being built around youth rather than high priced antiques (Toronto).
If the Flyers win this series, it won’t be the first time in NHL history that a goalie stole a series for his team. Biron is playing like a first-rate NHL goalie, stopping 95% of the shots. Our goalies, on the other hand, are playing like young rookies (stopping less than 90% of the shots). That’s the difference so far.
May 1, 2008 pm30 12:25 pm
To 184 groundworking,
If you read my Blog(178) more closely, where I’m refering to the Leafs, I’m refering to the “Leaf fans” not the Leaf organization(Management, ownership, etc.). When I stated “you guys should take some lessons from the Leaf fans”, I’m refering to their loyalty to their team considering their Stanley Cup drought(known to be the most commited fans-Air Canada Centre is sold out for every game even though they are the priciest tickets in the NHL)…so I’m not comparing the two teams, I’m refering to their fans…I could have used NY Rangers as an example. All I’m stating is Hab fans should never give up and bad mouth their team when they loosing or in a rut(refer to the blogs following last nights Habs loss).I’m a Philly fan lose or win…the later in this case…Go Flyers Go!
May 1, 2008 pm30 1:28 pm
The Canadiens are going to win the series. This is the Cinderella team. Now is the time to bet on the Canadiens. Down 3 games to 1 means nothing.
May 1, 2008 pm30 1:46 pm
I don’t hold a grudge against the Flyer Fans in here. Their team is beating our team. Habs Fans would do the same exact thing if they could find a Flyers blog like this one.
Montreal Fans should be the last ones to talk about the **** that comes out of the Flyers Fans pie holes. cause the Habs Fans are the same.
I call a spade a spade!
No matter how the Habs Fans look at it Philly is the better team cause they make the best ot their scoring chances & they are ahead 3 games to 1.
May 1, 2008 pm30 2:05 pm
Stanley:
I will bet my House that the Canadiens will NOT win this series……..
May 1, 2008 pm30 2:16 pm
Someone please explain to me how Montreal is the Cinderella team? Are you on crack? Clearly the lowest seed still left playing well is traditionally the cinderella team. Not the top seed of a conference, dingleberries.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:02 pm
DieHard Habs fan: your going to lose your house lol. I have faith in my team because luck will turn the other way. No other team in the nNHL could be philly in this series because of how much luck they have. Pittsburgh would average 50 shots on net and would hit 5 posts as the flyers would sweep. Don’t lose hope. Only 2 wins in a row to get a tie. and theres no way philly would win game 7.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:06 pm
Blade:
They are talking about how all the Hockey Experts pegged them to finish 13th in their divison. They have come a long way proving the Experts wrong.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:10 pm
It won’t take montreal 2-3 years. Next year is the year. I said 2009 back in 2002 and I’m still sticking with it. 1909-2009 100 years of the habs and they’ll do it next season. Price won’t be a rookie and there u go. If we had goaltending it would be 4-0 for montreal. Next year they will. The habs are last years Penguins, except better and next year montreal will be better then this years penguins.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:12 pm
STUO11:
If I do lose my house. Can I come live with you?
I have lost all RESPECT for Carbonneu. All my negative comments are direct towards Carbo. That’s why I am so mad and it sounds like I hate the whole team. But I don’t hate the team, just the Coach.
It was because of Trembley we lost Roy and it will be Carbo’s fault that we will lose a lot more……
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:12 pm
yeah and they also had the 5-0 comeback. It’s far from over. U philly fans can say what u want but It doesn’t change a thing.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:13 pm
STUO11:
When I move in with you I want some of what you r smoking OK.. LOL..
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:14 pm
lol yes u can, I actually have an empty room in my house lol. Why do u hate carbo so much, I think he’s pretty good. It’s only his second year.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:27 pm
for some of you who want Ryder in the lineup, here’s what he was doing at the Wachovia center yesrerday: In the stands making paper airplanes, laughing and shooting these little paper planes at Philly fans. As well, talking on his cell phone and laughing, WHILE HIS TEAM IS LOSING!
Is that the player you want on the ice?
habs players should string this guy up and pound the living daylights out of him
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:33 pm
U guys n this better team bs. O were better but were gonna loose. Face it fellas your honestly not that good. The only reason u ended the season in 1st place is because the 3 other teams still left in the playoffs r all in the same division n have to play each other the whole year, while montreal is out playing walk overs. N hop off the penguins dk’s. They look good against an Ottowa team that if there was another week left in the season wouldn’t be in the playoffs, n a Rangers team that’s best players average 39 years old. Don’t like to look ahead but believe me if Flyers clean up this series, Crosby will be wetting his bed everynight before a game against the Flyers. I was at a game earlier in the year, Flyers were beating the penguins by 3 goals, n sidney crosby didn’t play the whole third period. Talk about a lil biotch.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:34 pm
He didn’t play the whole third period cuz he didn’t wanna get hit anymore knowing the game was out of reach, if u didn’t pik up on that.
May 1, 2008 pm30 3:37 pm
future habs fan:
Did you see this out of your own eyes?
What do you want Ryder to do. Cry all the time.
Ryder got the last laugh while Carbo’s season and stupid moves are falling down around his ankles.
Ryder knows he will go to another team where he will be that 30 goal scorer again.
Ryder is laughing at Carbo. Good for him!!!
May 1, 2008 pm30 4:51 pm
Ryder will never score 30 goals again!!!!!
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:20 pm
181 jrs1t
It’s folks like yourself, jrslt, that are putting the unfortunates more and more in to persepctive.
# 192 The Blade
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Someone please explain to me how Montreal is the Cinderella team? Are you on crack? Clearly the lowest seed still left playing well is traditionally the cinderella team. Not the top seed of a conference, dingleberries.
They’re considered a Cinderella team because all of the analysts and self-proclaimed experts predicted them to finish well out of a playoff spot by season’s end. Further, this team was supposed to be building for next season and beyond. They were early bloomers when the won the conference.
# 188 Jack
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
To 184 groundworking,
If you read my Blog(178) more closely, where I’m refering to the Leafs, I’m refering to the “Leaf fans” not the Leaf organization(Management, ownership, etc.). When I stated “you guys should take some lessons from the Leaf fans”, I’m refering to their loyalty to their team considering their Stanley Cup drought(known to be the most commited fans-Air Canada Centre is sold out for every game even though they are the priciest tickets in the NHL)…so I’m not comparing the two teams, I’m refering to their fans…I could have used NY Rangers as an example. All I’m stating is Hab fans should never give up and bad mouth their team when they loosing or in a rut(refer to the blogs following last nights Habs loss).I’m a Philly fan lose or win…the later in this case…Go Flyers Go!
Jack, you’ve no idea what you’re saying here. I currently live in the middle of Leafs nation and I can assure you that the Leafs have as bandwagon jumpers as any other team. And as for the sellouts, that’s largely to do with the fact that corporations own more than half the seats. Corporations affiliated with the Leafs. You want an analogy? Loyal consumers. When’s the last time that consumers actually did anything about ever increasing gas prices?
Further, Habs fans are emotional because they have high expectations, whereas Leafs fans have become much more accustomed to disappointment, and thus tend to settle for the product on the ice at the ACC regardless of its quality.
I’m speaking from experience. But perhaps you had the luxury of brushing up against some more loyal Leafs fans. Either way, the comparison is a flawed one.
May 1, 2008 pm30 6:29 pm
The Penguins will destroy the Flyers, plain and simple. They will exploit their weak defense, which collectively resembles something akin to an old tractor (it’s true), they will light up Biron, and they will have an answer to the Flyers’ physical play. In other words, they will execute where the Habs have not been able to execute.
And whoever goes after Crosby will get a face full of Laraque.
May 1, 2008 pm30 7:57 pm
Joseph close your but cheeks, i can hear u talkin out of your a$$. Laraque’s gonna have to go after the whole team, cuz thats who’s gonna be goin after crosby, if we can win one more in this series. Pitt threw a game so they didn’t have to play the Flyers, obviously there coach knows it will be there toughest oponenet in the playoffs, but i guess u know more than him, keep talkin out of your a$$.
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:25 pm
Hey Habs fan, the only one taliking out of the A$$ is you! Montreal is going to win this series. The Flyers like all other Philly teams will choke. It’s the Philly way!
May 1, 2008 pm30 8:55 pm
# 207 habsfansrawesome!
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 7:57 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Joseph close your but cheeks, i can hear u talkin out of your a$$. Laraque’s gonna have to go after the whole team, cuz thats who’s gonna be goin after crosby, if we can win one more in this series. Pitt threw a game so they didn’t have to play the Flyers, obviously there coach knows it will be there toughest oponenet in the playoffs, but i guess u know more than him, keep talkin out of your a$$.
First of all, you disrespectful little ****, mind your manners. (I’d like to slap your parents for not teaching you any.)
Secondly, it must be frustrating for you watching Pittsburgh get all of the great talents that the Flyers don’t. Crosby is a whiner, no doubt, and his whining certainly annoys me, but he’s far more talented than any player on your Flyers. And his talent will embarrass your team. As will Malkin’s, Hossa’s, Gonchar’s, Malone’s, etc.
If the Flyers win this series, which is likely going to be the case, they will lose in the ECF. Lose the halloween goggles, nancy - it’ll be no contest.
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:09 pm
Frogs,
Phantoms won the AHL wat three times in the past ten years, so theres one team that hasn’t choked. N you can talk about your 24 stanley cups, but the last won was 15 years ago, distant memories my friend close the yearbook.
Joseph,
Crosby is great, n so is malkin, n every other player u named. n there walking through teams right now. but wat happens when they go down 1-0 in a game? or 2-1 in a series? can they fight through adversity. Champions can, n so far the Flyers have fought through every opsticle put in there path. Whether it be the ten game loosing streak down the stretch, giving up a 3-1 series lead to the caps, a 2-0 lead in game seven to the caps, getting screwed out of game 1, giving up a 3-0 lead, a 2-0 lead. N thats the sign of a champ. I’ll take any one of my Flyers over the pretty boys u named cuz they have the hearts of champions. n im sorry if i was rude, but to crown them champs when they havn’t overcome an obsticle yet is ridiculous. n believe me if u slapped my pop, his 6-5 a$$ would squash u worse than hatcher to your boy boullion, the man is mean.
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:15 pm
John Stevens was the coach of the Phantoms when they won, he knows how to win championships. Glad he’s at the helm.
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:50 pm
Carbo won 3 stanley cups, as a player.
May 1, 2008 pm30 9:54 pm
did you know frogs is a derogatory term? You come as a guest on OUR blog, and insult us? Where are your manners? Oh, I forgot, Philly fans don’t have manners, they’re pigs!
May 1, 2008 pm30 10:06 pm
I call him pussnuts,lol
May 1, 2008 pm30 10:24 pm
you should see philly’s blogs. awful. so primative. no comparison. guess they want to see how the real world lives. I think we should pity them.
May 2, 2008 pm30 6:35 am
lol AHL Victories………….HAMILTON BULLDOGS WON IT LAST YEAR!!!!(HABZ FARM TEAM)
May 2, 2008 pm30 8:03 am
It is funny how I get bashed for my comments which are the same as this Guy:
While the great Montreal Canadiens franchise is not in danger of crashing and burning, they do have their backs against the wall trailing in the series to Philadelphia 3-1. Hence, the comparison to the popular legend: Nero played the fiddle (lyre) during the great fire of Rome.
After three consecutive losses to the Philadelphia Flyers, Guy Carbonneau decided to give the team, including players, coaches and trainers the day off. “Everyone needs to go home and spend time with their family…recharge the batteries” said Carbonneau. For his part, Carbo said “I just stayed home. I went to play golf. I enjoyed my day.”
The NHL playoffs are a grind, both mentally and physically. A day of rest is no doubt, welcome. However, does Carbonneau realize that if his team doesn’t win on Saturday night, they will have plenty of time to ’spend with their family?’ Where is the sense of urgency?
It’s no secret that a number of the Canadiens (and Flyers) are banged up. In lieu of a day at the rink, the team could have spent time reviewing video. At the very least, would it not make sense for the coaches to meet and strategize? Here’s some of the important issues facing the team:
adjustments to the special teams, particularly the predictable power-play
positioning of players in front of the net to screen Biron or deflect pucks
improvements to defensive zone coverage
ensuring that the best players are in the line-up
If not on the golf course, perhaps Carbonneau would have also found the time to consult with his goaltenders. At his teleconference today, Carbonneau said “I have made my decision but I haven’t had a chance today to talk to Carey or Jaro so I want to make sure that they are the first ones to know.” I hope that he made his decision after watching three relatively soft goals scored by the Flyers on Wednesday night. Could he not have told Price in the dressing room at the end of the game that he would be starting on Saturday? No certainly not. Carbo’s ego wouldn’t allow him to admit that his decision was a mistake.
What about Carey Price? What do you think is on his mind today? Golf? Fishing? Rodeo? Likely not. I’m sure he would have appreciated a confidence boost knowing well in advance that he would be starting on Saturday night. What about the persistent rumours of an injury to Price? Carbonneau answered that bluntly “Carey Price is not hurt, not his finger, his hand, his shoulder, his knee. He’s got no injury.” His mental state? Carbonneau said “Right now his confidence is a little hit, but he is not injured.” And I wonder who is to blame for his shaken confidence coach Carbonneau?
In the absence of any team activity, there was additional scrutiny regarding Carbonneau’s decision to start Jaroslav Halak. No one could offer a reasonable explanation. Two former NHL’ers chimed in. When asked if Price should have sat out Wednesday’s game, Bernie Nicholls replied “Absolutely not!” Mike Bullard said “the kid (Price) is a proven winner.” Stephen Brunt from the Globe said “I don’t see any upside in what Carbonneau did. This should never have been about Price. What has been a great year could end sour.”
Pierre McGuire, one of the most respected hockey analysts on both sides of the border, was more blunt in his appraisal. “There is not one shred of evidence that Halak is a better goaltender than Carey Price. There is no documented proof that this young man (Price) has not stepped up at this time of year at any level.” When asked to describe Carbonneau’s decision, McGuire said “It is a hunch, no more, no less.” He continued, “The hunch was terrible. I would never have done it. It was a terrible decision.”
McGuire said that Carbonneau’s decision did not go unnoticed around the NHL. He said “Players around the league are asking ‘what was Montreal doing?’ ‘what were they thinking?’” McGuire suggested that the irrational decision could have lasting effects on the Montreal Canadiens franchise. When pressed, he would only say “Major damage can be done when players are put in the wrong position.” As if it wasn’t already hard enough to attract good free agents to Montreal.
While Carbonneau was on the golf course, there is no question that at least one Canadien was on the job today. Bob Gainey insists on running a top flight, professional organization with a carefully crafted media message. He has undoubtedly taken notice as his arrogant rookie playoff head coach makes senseless decisions. He wouldn’t be pleased to hear his coach say publicly that the team’s impact goalie was “ebranle” (shaken). He also wouldn’t be happy to hear an exasperated Carbonneau saying that he didn’t know how the team could get a puck past Biron.
In contrast to Carbonneau who shrugs his shoulders and heads out to the first tee, Gainey is smart guy, with a strategic plan who will not stand by ‘as Rome burns’. It’s unlikely during the playoffs, but expect Gainey to take action when the season ends.
For my part, I still have confidence in the members of this team. The Canadiens are a superior team to the Flyers. However, I have lost confidence in (and respect for) the team’s coach.
Oh, and how was the golf game? Carbonneau said “A couple of birdies. That was it. No hole in one.” Canadiens fans are trusting that Guy will get back to work tomorrow and hoping that he doesn’t get an opportunity to improve his golf score next week.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:37 am
216 DieHard Habs Fan
Wonderful post!!!!
Carbo is thinking like a player and not like a coach, which is a concern especially during the grind of the NHL playoffs.
However, Gainey should be looking in the mirror as well…what was he doing letting Huet go for a bag of pucks (5th rounder)??? Not a wise decision considering Price has no playoff experience, and is only 20.
I agree with McGuire…this decision might have a lasting effect on the kid.
Speaking of McGuire…..I believe the Habs may be looking for a coach in the off season…McGuire has the experience, can deal with the media, has a nasty streak, speaks french…and is a local boy.
Tony ( says…..Carbo could very well be the first Jack Adams winner in the same year he gets fired…think about it!!! )
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:45 am
Cool…..
NON-PLAYERS make better coaches in the NHL Bar none………….
May 2, 2008 pm30 11:43 am
wow, I can’t beleive the posts here.
Sure, Montreal is most likely out of the playoffs. They could still string together three straight wins. They have the talent. But it is unlikely.
But did the majority of us actually think this was a cup year for Montreal? It’s a fun idea to entertain, but was it really a serious thought that they were the best overall? Granted, they should be able to get by Philly, but let’s look at the facts. Montreal is a very young team with little playoff experience, two rookie goalies, a playoff inexperienced coach and a still in their re-building phase (altough nearing completion). This year is just a stepping stone in the process back to serious contention. Bitching about the performance of young players right now is ridiculous. Most have never seen the playoffs before. Whatever happens this year they will learn a great deal and will be much better next year. This team IS ahead of schedule and I think many of us have forgotten that. They were an absolutely crappy team a few years ago and have come a long way toward being a serious contender again. It takes time, but the time is almost here. A poor time to give up on the habs.
Carbonneau is a great coach. He worked with an inexperienced team all year that was expected to fight for the last playoff spot and got them to finish first in the conference. Basically, he got them to overachieve. He deserves a great deal of credit. Certianly, he has made mistakes, but he is the man to lead this team forward to their true goal of a cup in 2009, or 2010.
Ryder does not deserve to play for this team. He may play in the next game only to mix things up, but all of you guys who suggest he has been mishandled this year by Carbo need to be forced to watch all the games Ryder was in this past year paying special attention to everything he does on the ice. After that, you’d probably want to shoot him yourself. While he is capable of 30 goals and may well repeat that success again in the NHL, he is an absolutely horrible defensive liability and when not scoring contributes next to nothing.
Price has played well. Who the hell looks at his last game and blames him for the loss. Seriously, you guys all need to play net sometime, if not just watch other NHL goalies and the type of shots that they let in. Two goals that were complete screens and were next to impossible to save. Lucky goals for Philly and many of you give up on Price! Goal scoring is the let down this series, not Price. He should be back in for game 5. A phenominal talent that will learn from this and lead this team to some great victories. And while I like Huet I seriously doubt that he would have faired any better in these playoffs. It was a good trade, Montreal has a great goalie, let’s support what is the best young goalie in the game.
Let’s get serious, this is a team with a great future. Let’s celebrate the fact that the habs have so many talented young players that will carry the team to great successes in the near future. Trashing a team that is ahead of schedule in the rebuilding process is ridiculous.
May 2, 2008 pm30 11:50 am
Price IN for Game 5.
Let’s watch Price Carey the rest of games.
May 2, 2008 pm30 12:08 pm
“And while I like Huet I seriously doubt that he would have faired any better in these playoffs”. Huet lost to PHILLY in round one, the same team we are playing now! HELLO!!!
Ryder does not belong on this team?
Did you say that Kovalev did not belong to this team last year as well when he SUCKED WIND? You probally did along with 99.9% of the Montreal Fans last year. I bet you were singing he praises through out the Regualr season……
May 2, 2008 pm30 12:44 pm
It’s time to go to the lineups of winning Eastern Conference:
Kovalev - A. Kostitsyn - Plekanec;
Koive - Higgins - S. Kostitsyn;
Smoke - Begin - Kostopoulos
4th line: enough choices
Goalie: Carey Price
May 2, 2008 pm30 12:46 pm
I thought we got a 2nd roundr for Huet?
May 2, 2008 pm30 12:48 pm
Remember Mike Ribeiro?What did we get for him???Janne”I cant skate in the NHL anymore”Ninimaa?That is 1 trade maybe GAINEY would like to rethink.
May 2, 2008 pm30 12:54 pm
Joseph,
refering to your blog 204, you write:
“Jack, you’ve no idea what you’re saying here. I currently live in the middle of Leafs nation and I can assure you that the Leafs have as bandwagon jumpers as any other team. And as for the sellouts, that’s largely to do with the fact that corporations own more than half the seats. Corporations affiliated with the Leafs. You want an analogy? Loyal consumers. When’s the last time that consumers actually did anything about ever increasing gas prices?
Further, Habs fans are emotional because they have high expectations, whereas Leafs fans have become much more accustomed to disappointment, and thus tend to settle for the product on the ice at the ACC regardless of its quality.
I’m speaking from experience. But perhaps you had the luxury of brushing up against some more loyal Leafs fans. Either way, the comparison is a flawed one.”
Are you guys illiterate up there what dont you understand about my blog?…you are way off in left field here and contradicting yourself with your statement bud.
1st. All I’m saying is to be loyal to your team.
2nd. I used Toronto Maple Leafs as an example…just as an example, and it sounds like it’s a pretty touchy topic up there.
3rd. You said half of the seats are corporate owned, having said that, half of the stadium are Leaf fans and the other half are not or empty. I know the later is not true since the stadium is always full. So who in their right mind would go watch a team they don’t support?…I wouldn’t!…or maybe Toronto has enough fans to support the rest of all the teams in the NHL to fill the other half of the arena…NOT! So let’s assume you are accurate in saying corporations affiliated with the Leafs own half the seats in the arena…these seats must cost them a pretty penny, so why would anyone invest so much money(specialy a successful corporation with business smarts)if there is no demand(loyal fan base)?
4th. You then go on to say the Leaf fans are bandwagon jumpers followed by them being accustomed to a lower quality hockey game at their arena. First of all, the concept of jumping on and off the bandwagon directly refers to a team doing well and doing poorly and their fans supporting that team or not respectively. So if the Leafs are always performing poorly as you insinuated - “Leaf fans have become accustomed to disappointment…and settle for that quality”…how does thst analogy fit?
5th. Speaking of analogies, what the hell do increasing gas prices have to do with loyal fans? Gas, regardless of it’s price, is an energy source that is a necessity in peoples everyday life to suvive(Transport of goods and services, heating, personal transport such as bus, train, plane, cars…etc.), whereas going to see a hockey game is recreational. So who’s comparison is flawed here?
Anyhow, let’s get down to more important issues here…Go Flyers Go!
May 2, 2008 pm30 1:20 pm
DieHard, do I actually have to micro explain everything in a post for you to get it? If needed, here it is: I doubt Huet would have fared any better in this playoff series with Philly if he were still playing for Montreal right now.
And check my posts if you want to attack. If I think I was wrong about a player, I’ll say it. I have posted many times about the need to move Koivu and just recently posted I was wrong. But Kovalev and Ryder are very hard to compare. The talent level of Kovalev is miles above that of Ryder at his best. And even at his best he is a defensive liability. Kovalev can play competent defensive hockey when need be. Ryder could very well be put in the next game and get 3 goals. He still would be a player who had one great game and 25 horrible ones. Not worth keeping.
My intent is not to attack any one individual poster, or put down individual players. I just think this team has had unrealistic expectations placed on it and the reaction to losing by the “fans” has been somewhat over the edge. I can understand some knee-jerk reactions, but in the end everyone needs to realize that this team is ahead in the rebuilding process and is in a great position to seriously challenge in the future. Many of us though they would challenge now, and it is dissapointing if they can’t, but ultimately this year was a great step and was an exciting development phase for the habs. And it’s not over yet, miracles do happen!
May 2, 2008 pm30 1:29 pm
You know Jack I could understand your point if your Flyer’s team played like they were winners with a future in the finnals,but truth be told ,your team is overachieving and are a really unentertaining , unimaginitive and lucky …that’s it that’s all. And in the final sum of things The Habs have a team you can build with and refine”lot’s of talent there, just need a little more size , character and experience” and have a boat load of up and comers to fill the roster for years to come.And honestly you can’t say that about you team”slow,basic, uninspiring , unimaginative and will need TON OF IMPROVEMENT in the new N.H.L.IF THEY ARE TO COMPETE WITH THE LIKES OF Pittsburgh and Detroit IN YHE YEARS TO FOLLOW !!!That’s the Real Picture boy,suck on it for awhile,lol
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:19 pm
Okay Habs fans, religious or not this prayer must be said at 7PM Saturday.
Our Legends, who art at the Bell centre
Hockey be thy name
Thy will be done, the Cup will be won
On the ice as it is in the stands
Give us this day our hockey sticks
And forgive us our penalties
As we forgive those who cross check against us
Lead us not into elimination
But deliver us to victory
For thine is the penalty kill, the power play
And all is NOS GLORIEUX now and forever
In the name of the fans,
Lord Stanley and the HOLY HABS
Amen
Pass this prayer along so that we can all pray tonight from coast to
coast
GO HABS GO
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:19 pm
I agree with you Xtrahabsfan, Philly has gotten really lucky. But Montreal has to get the 1st goa no matter what!!!
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:23 pm
228 Dancan81, holy job.
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:29 pm
Ryder has been here 4 years and has had one bad year. You have to cut him some slack. IF Gainey had not messed with Ryder’s mind and asked him to keep his
+/-’s down Ryder would have had 30 goals again this year. Blame Gainey not Ryder.
No one can disagree with that. Kovy had had a couple or three good games so far in the Playoffs. The rest of the time he has been invisable trying to stick handle an 80% of the time losing the puck.
The chips are down on Sat. Will Kovy and Co. step up?
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:51 pm
biron hates the habs the habs could surely have used him a native QUEBECOIS
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:52 pm
PHILLY IN 6 BIRON IS THE MAN
May 2, 2008 pm30 3:53 pm
Flyers were dead last in the NHL last year, so if any team was suppose to have a rebuilding year, it was the Flyers, not the Canadiens. Excuses just keep pooring in. N there like A$$holes, they all stink.
May 2, 2008 pm30 4:33 pm
To 227 Xtrahabsfan
Am I missing something here? Should I be writting in French?(If it would help you guys I would…but don’t know French)
Xtrahabsfan, what the hell does your blog have anything to do with what I’m talking about, you guys have to quit smoking that oregano up there dude!
Anyhow, to respond to your blog(another topic what so ever…if you haven’t clued in yet), it is a well written point and you could just as well be right, maybe, maybe not. However, what the future holds for the Flyers is anyones quess, they may rebuild they may not, there might be changes behind the bench there might not. Things that only the management and owners know, heck even management changes may occur….who knows…they may win or they may loose…nobody knows. But I know one thing for sure is no matter what happens to my team, they are my team, always was and always will and I will never bash or bail on them them like some of the Hab fans do to their team when they loose.
P.S. Go Flyers Go!
May 2, 2008 pm30 5:02 pm
To 228 Dancan81
Now Habs have to resort to prayers to win a hockey game?…what happened to play better hockey and the better team prevails?
May 2, 2008 pm30 7:16 pm
I guarantee that if the flers were losing this series, their fans would be opff the bandwagon too. That’s jusat human nature. The chances of coming back from a 3-1 deficit, aren’t great. Just look at the statistics of that happening. Nobody on this blog is right or wrong. It’s called differences of opinion. You all need to cool down, and be realistic. If the habs don’t get it done this year,(and we weren’t even supposed to be in the playoffs) next year will be the year. Gainey now knows(after watching the playoffs), which players have the heart and grit to play in the playoffs. The ones that don’t will be gone come training camp. I strongly forsee Plekanec being traded along with Streit, and hopefully Latendresse spending time in Hamilton, learning how to become an NHL player, which he now isn’t. Changes will be made up front and on the blueline. For example, Stewart will make the team and replace Smolinski, Begin is probably gone as well, Breezer is gone, and maybe Bouillon, for Valentenko. Chipchurra might be up permanently, and maybe one of our prospects is ready for the jump to thge NHL. I am actually excited about the changes for next year. As well, finishing in 1st place, could make it easier to attract UFA’s. After all, players would prefer to come to a winning team with a bright future, rather than a team like the leafs, who never make the playoffs, and a bleak future. So let’s focus on the future, because next year is ours!
May 2, 2008 pm30 7:46 pm
Poster # 219 has hit the nail on the head …
May 2, 2008 pm30 7:58 pm
Jack:
Let’s simplify this, shall we. Habs fans don’t need to emulate anyone. They are as passionate as they come. Hence the knee jerk reactions following a disappointing loss. And I have witnessed the very same behaviour with Leafs fans, Bruins fans, Penguins fans, Flyers fans, Sharks fans, Oilers fans, and so on.
That being said, you should know better than to generalize based on the reactions of a minority of fans on a blog.
As to the rising gas prices analogy, it isn’t really relevant here, but I used it to make the point that consumers are owned by those that dictate the environment in which they live. It makes no difference whether we’re discussing consumers of entertainment or consumers of a forced necessity. MLSE owns Leafs fans just as oil companies own those who are fans of their cars. They set the terms, and in the case of MLSE, their terms revolve on their ability to make money off of the gullibility that Ballard marketed and sold to that fanbase long ago.
I am not suggesting that MLSE is an evil organization that conspires to deny Leafs fans a winner, but rather that MLSE feels absolutely no pressure to put a quality product on the ice for as long as they can continue to sell out every year.
May 2, 2008 pm30 7:59 pm
# 237 Jack
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
To 228 Dancan81
Now Habs have to resort to prayers to win a hockey game?…what happened to play better hockey and the better team prevails?
I’m pretty sure that that was a joke.
May 2, 2008 pm30 8:29 pm
# 210 habsfansrsoft
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 9:09 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Frogs,
Phantoms won the AHL wat three times in the past ten years, so theres one team that hasn’t choked. N you can talk about your 24 stanley cups, but the last won was 15 years ago, distant memories my friend close the yearbook.
Habs fans have every right to be proud of those 24 Stanley Cups, and to celebrate the most successful franchise in sports, which cannot be argued.
Also, 1993 wasn’t all that long ago, relatively speaking. Just 15 years. 1975, by comparison, was 33 years ago.
Joseph,
Crosby is great, n so is malkin, n every other player u named. n there walking through teams right now. but wat happens when they go down 1-0 in a game? or 2-1 in a series? can they fight through adversity. Champions can, n so far the Flyers have fought through every opsticle put in there path. Whether it be the ten game loosing streak down the stretch, giving up a 3-1 series lead to the caps, a 2-0 lead in game seven to the caps, getting screwed out of game 1, giving up a 3-0 lead, a 2-0 lead. N thats the sign of a champ. I’ll take any one of my Flyers over the pretty boys u named cuz they have the hearts of champions. n im sorry if i was rude, but to crown them champs when they havn’t overcome an obsticle yet is ridiculous. n believe me if u slapped my pop, his 6-5 a$$ would squash u worse than hatcher to your boy boullion, the man is mean.
Apology accepted. And the slap your parents bit was a figure of speech to prove my point, not a threat. But that doesn’t make it any better, so I offer a sincere apology to you as well.
That said, what makes you assume that I’m not 6′3 and thoroughly trained in combat?
Anyway, more importantly, ‘heart’ is something that is only required in small doses because it’s powerful and infects an entire team. Roberts has a lot of it. As does Laraque. As does Malone. These guys are warriors and their teammates have been emulating their work ethic and their passion, so don’t sell them short.
As to the notion that the Penguins haven’t yet faced adversity in these playoffs, I would have to disagree. The Rangers were up 3-0 in Game 1 of their series and the Penguins stormed back and defeated them. In addition, the Penguins suffered a loss last night (which was far more good for them than bad) and will have to bounce back in their next game to close the deal. I belive that they will do just that.
I’m noticing the bias in your take on your team. Giving up a 3-1 series lead to the Caps? That sounds familiar, doesn’t it? In fact, it sounds a lot like Habs fans stating that the Habs gave the Flyers a 3-1 series lead
when they failed to capitalize on their many scoring chances… or when their goaltenders allowed soft goals. Screwed out of Game 1? Remind me again how the Flyers got to the secone round. A Caps fan would no doubt tell you that his Caps got screwed when Huet was intereferd with on the second Flyers goal, or when the Flyers were awarded a seemingly arbitary powerplay in OT after the refs had retired their whistles for almost two full periods. And the Flyers ‘gave up’ all those leads, right? That had nothing at all to do with the likes of Ovechkin, Backstrom and Semin, no.
Bias indeed. But welcome to fanhood! We all have it because we all adore and support our respective teams. So you might consider cutting Habs fans some slack.
May 2, 2008 pm30 8:33 pm
Jack,why do you ,who follow a team that has only two Stanley cup victories try to tell the Montreal Canadiens fan base,who have 24 cups in there very successful history how to act or behave are you perhaps dyslectic or just stupid,lol,and I’ll smoke to that last remark some of British Colombia’s finest,ooohhhhh yyyeeeaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 2, 2008 pm30 9:44 pm
176 DieHard Habs Fan
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 8:24 am. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′
Your nick name is diehard habs fan, if that is true regardless of what you think about the habs players you have to hope that things can be turned around. I will admit it does not look good right now but then again it didn’t look good when Boston came back and forced a 7th game. Any back in 04 it didn’t look good when we were down 3-1 to Boston. The only thing that looks good here is that we are playing well but not scoring. If we can figure out a way to put the puck in the net we can still win this series.
May 2, 2008 pm30 9:49 pm
187 Jack
Posted on May 1st, 2008 at 12:25 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′
EXACTLY. WELL SAID.
May 2, 2008 pm30 9:49 pm
Joseph,
You make some good points, n after this im gonna have to stop talking about Pit, because i don’t want to jinx the Flyers who are far from playing the penguins still. but a nice comparison would be let’s say the Patriots, who had far more talent than the Giants, i think we can all agree on that. But watching the super bowl something other than skill took over the giants team, eli manning escaping the patriots pass rush ( which was a skill Eli had yet to show, n probably won’t show again) to make a pass to Tyree, who made an accrobatic catch, that seemed almost impossible. That’s a play that wasn’t skill,but sheer determination and hart, they just wanted it more. N the way the Flyers are playing right now, is with determination n hart. I love it, n i’ll tell u wat, the Penguins are more worried about the Flyers right now, than the Flyers r of the penguins. The penguins are built for a championship team, pickin up Hossa. The Flyers were dead last a year ago, n everything there doing right now is just extra, they have nothing too loose, n everything to gain. Pitt will be picked to win the series, as was everyteam the Flyers have faced in the playoffs. Pitt may sweep them, or they may win in 7, but the Flyers will give everything they have, every shift they touch the ice, that i can guarantee.
May 2, 2008 pm30 9:57 pm
I’m afraid that the Habs’ current problems run deeper than a failure to execute on the ice. The frightening reality is that they may be confronted with an internal problem known as Senatoritis. Senatoritis strikes quickly and without warning. It can turn a healthy organization in to an ill one in mere days. Its symptoms include a lack of passion, intensity and desire to win. Its cause is believed to be a monumentally bad coaching decision that trickles down through an organization and infects its players like a cancer. Although curable, Senatoritis usually requires damage control and extensive therapy to overcome, and is not often resolved within two days time.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:03 pm
216 DieHard Habs Fan
However, Gainey should be looking in the mirror as well…what was he doing letting Huet go for a bag of pucks (5th rounder)??? Not a wise decision considering Price has no playoff experience, and is only 20.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:07 pm
247 Senet 1
Starting over:
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:03 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
216 DieHard Habs Fan
However, Gainey should be looking in the mirror as well…what was he doing letting Huet go for a bag of pucks (5th rounder)??? Not a wise decision considering Price has no playoff experience, and is only 20.
This is the last time I am going to say this, Huet was not going to help this team and our yound goaltenders need to get the Playoff experience this year if next year is going to be our year. We did not get a 5th rounder we got a 2nd rounder and if Huet was so good why didn’t more teams want him. Gainey got down to the cunch time and either had to say trade or lose him as a UFA. Now why unearth would you not take a 2nd found draft pick rather than nothing??????????
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:11 pm
246 habsfansrsoft:
I agree with you that the Penguins are surrounded by expectations while the Flyers are allowed to play the underdog role. That’s true. And that could possibly be the crack in the Penguins’ armour. But I also think that the probablity of it happening is very low. Those players had the luxury getting a huge playoff disappointment under their belts last season when they fell to a team that they just got revenge against in the first round of these playoffs. In addition, they are mentally strong and focussed
So it’s possible, but the Flyers will have to do a lot more right than wrong if they are to plant a much needed seed of doubt in the Penguins’ minds.
The Superbowl comparison is interesting, but if the Giants had to beat the Patriots in a seven-game series, I think that they would fall tragically short of accomplishing that task.
Having said that, I might just be in the Flyers corner next round as I prefer the underdog when my Habs are out of the picture.
On a related note, this is precisely why it’s so frustrating to be a Habs fan right now. If the Flyers give their all and come up short against the Penguins, then the fans can at least be proud of their effort, their run. The same, however, cannot be said of the Habs, who seem to have forgotten how to play the brand of hockey that won them the conference. The league’s #1 offense and #1 powerplay appears to have gotten an early start on the golf course. And many fans, despite the fact that this has been a surprising season in many regards, will likely see it as a huge disappointment given all that’s transpired in these playoffs.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:17 pm
Hey Joseph: Senatoritis, I hope it is not infectious. Good point though. I personally think that too many people are reading too much into this Carey Price thing. The coach made a decision was it a right or wrong decision, well based on the loss it was wrong, having said that if Price was in the net and we lost many would have said why did he not make a goal tender change?
Price has to show he is an NHL goaltender and I personally think he will. If he plays saturday night I expect him to be great he is a pretty cool customer. I hope that Carbo shows the confidence in him for the next game, if he does then Price will be okay. If he doesn’t then we may have a problem, but then again we may have all summer to get over it.
Anyway her is hoping that Senatoritis goes back up stream to Ottawa.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:21 pm
Joseph,if the Habs pull it of and win the next 3 games,they could beat Pittsburgh in the next series.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:22 pm
Firstly, I am not writing off my habs just yet but if we do not make the conference finals against Pittsburg there is one thing that Pittsburg brings to the table that we seem to be lacking and that is someone to put the puck in the net. Currently Pittsburg has three things that we do not have, Crosby, Malkin, and Staal. They are all goal finishers, something that we seem to be lacking since the playoffs started. Philly will not get away with being outshot by 20 shots agains Pittsburg, it just simply will not happen.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:25 pm
I’ll say one thing, Senet 1…
If Carbonneau goes with Halak again in Game 5, then I think we can all agree that he’ll be a finalist for the John Paddock Trophy.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:26 pm
251 Xtrahabsfan
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
Joseph,if the Habs pull it of and win the next 3 games,they could beat Pittsburgh in the next series.
I AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT, BECAUSE HAVING SEEN HOW WE HAVE REACTED TO THE HEAVY GOING WE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF PLAYING THE SKATING CLUBS THAN THE BIGGER STRONGER CLUBS. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN INTERESTING TO SEE US AGAINST Ottawa and NYR and ALTHOUGH I THINK IT WAS UNPROFESSIONAL FOR PITTSBURG TO THROW THAT LAST BACK TO PHILLY IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS PAID OFF FOR THEM.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:29 pm
Xtrahabsfan and Senet 1:
When it come to offense, the Habs are lacking six things that the Penguins aren’t:
- Crosby
- Malkin
- Staal
- Sykora
- Malone
- Gonchar
I don’t know about that match-up, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:30 pm
Joseph, I would have to agree with you. It is obvious who is the better goalie and Price needs to play to know that the coach has confidence in him. If not for this year then for next year.
Personally, I like carbo as a coach but he has made a couple of rookie coach mistakes in this series and hopefully he learns from those mistakes. He and his coaching staff are directly responsible for this team playing as well as it has this year. Now we need to find the final pieces to make us a champion.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:34 pm
Having said everything that I’ve said about the Penguins and Flyers, the Penguins deserve to lose for that reason alone. Throwing games in unacceptable behaviour.
Did Lemieux learn that tactic from Eddie Johnston? Throwing games? Johnston did just that to get Lemieux in the draft.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:36 pm
I was as well talking of the momentum the Habs would have if that scenario come into play. Go Habs Go
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:38 pm
When it come to offense, the Habs are lacking six things that the Penguins aren’t:
- Crosby
- Malkin
- Staal
- Sykora
- Malone
- Gonchar
I don’t know about that match-up, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
I was not getting ahead of myself, I will give you malone although we have the malones and sykora and Gonchars on our team, they may be masked in a different look but you have to realize that Malkin and Crosby make all these players better players. Without Crosby and Malkin these guys are no better than the Kiovu’s, Higgins and Kovalev’s. Gonchar is a good defenceman but so is Komy and Markov although I have been someone disappointed with Markov this series. We did not get to first place with a bunch of nobody players, it is just that when you have superstars they make even the ordinary players much better.
Back in the early Edmonton days Gretzky had a player on this line that scored 50 goals one season, and he was traded away the next year, someone said why was he not able to score 30+ goals the next year and the answer was even a goal post could have scored 50 goals if he was on Gretzky’s line. I see the same things with Malkin and Crosby.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:44 pm
One final comment before I head to bed, our team did score the most goals this year. The difference is in the playoff you need the game breakers when the team is struggling and Kovalev is suppose to be our game breaker and the only thing he is breaking is a lot of habs fans hearts.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:46 pm
I’m aware of that, Senet 1. Mario Lemieux made Robbie Brown a 40+ goal scorer, Kevin Stevens a 50+ goal scorer. In fact, it was said that a can of tomato paste could have scored 30+ goals playing on Lemieux’s line. I think that one might have.
But the reason that I added those players to your list is because you were talking about goal finishers… something that all three have proven to be in these playoffs. Regardless of who is setting them up, they’re finishing the set-ups. To further my point, I’ll use the examples of Kovalev and Koivu. Both have distributed some bow-wrapped passes to their respective linemates on many occasions in these playoffs, and those linemates have failed to finish more often than not.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:48 pm
100%. Price will start game 5…………
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:49 pm
# 261 Senet 1
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 at 10:44 pm. About ‘Habs / Flyers: Game 4′.
One final comment before I head to bed, our team did score the most goals this year. The difference is in the playoff you need the game breakers when the team is struggling and Kovalev is suppose to be our game breaker and the only thing he is breaking is a lot of habs fans hearts.
Agreed. Despite some clutch goals, Kovalev has returned to his less desirable form on many regards in these playoffs. My favourites are his telegraphed passes which land right on the blades of defensemen’s sticks, who then clear the zone or carry the puck up ice on an odd man rush.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:52 pm
I want to start Game 5. I want to know what it feels like to be alienated by the Montreal media and fans… which I certainly would be if I started Game 5.
May 2, 2008 pm30 10:57 pm
You know, I wouldn’t mind watching the Habs lose to the Flyers in a hard fought, tightly contested, seven-game series. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth entertaining the possiblity that they’ll go down like a bunch of non-contenders in 5 games.
Fight, play, score! Make it worth watching! Make the fans proud!
May 2, 2008 pm30 11:01 pm
Down 2-0 in all five games? Come… on.
I’m officially talking to myself now, so g’nite.
May 3, 2008 pm30 9:12 am
GO Habs! They will win in 7!!!! Sorry Flyer Fans it’s the Philly Way!
When he was young youd not find him doing well in school,
His mind would turn unto the waters.
Always the focus of adolescent ridicule,
He has no time for farmers daughters.
Alienated from the clique society,
A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.
His mother says john this is not the way lifes supposed to be.
Dont you see the life that you are missing?
And he says…
When I grow up I want to be,
One of the harvesters of the sea.
I think before my days are done,
I want to be a fisherman.
Now years gone by we find man that rules the sea.
He sets out on a dark may morning .
To bring his catch back to this small community.
He doesnt see the danger dawning.
Four hours up, oh the ocean swelled and swelled,
The fog rolled in it started raining.
The starboard bow. oh my God were going down!
The do not hear his frantic mayday.
And he says
When I grow up I want to be,
One of the harvesters of the sea.
I think before my days are done,
I want to be a fisherman.
Ill live and die a fisherman.
Calling john the fisherman.
May 3, 2008 pm30 10:37 am
Xtrahabsfan:
I believe that momentum plays an important part in any hockey game, but I don’t believe that it is carried from one game to the next, one series to the next. Playoff history has shown that a team gathering all the momentum in the world in winning a playoff game often falls short in the next one.
Winning streaks are the result of good coaching and team confidence, not momentum.
But don’t get me wrong. I’d love to see the Habs win the next three and give Pittsburgh a run for their money. That’s a tall order though.
May 3, 2008 pm30 11:56 am
Did anyone watch Dallas get robbed of a series winner last night? It’s disatisfying watching the league and its officiating decide the outcomes of hockey games.
The Habs need a Brendan Morrow type player.
May 3, 2008 pm30 11:57 am
Joseph,it is a far stretch the fact the Habs did so well this year,oh, I got to cut off that idiot Philly troll”blade” that keeps saying ….”no its the fliers that shouldn’t be there”.I believe blade that your team had a lot of first round draft picks ala Bob Clark and trades that were possible cause of the strength of the American dollar and less pressure to perform in philly,plus a way lower tax system than Quebec.And trust me a lot of great hockey stars avoided coming to Montreal’FORSBERG,BRIERE,Shanahan,Smyth etc…”The Habs had to build from nothing and internally as well and got to where they are with unproven youth movement when the trades that Gainey made failed”Riberio for Niinimaa etc”.So truly,if anyone can get out of this huge hole,it is the BIG TIME SUPRIZE TEAM HABS…GO HABS
May 3, 2008 pm30 12:23 pm
Well, despite this team’s highly successful regular season, it’s once again time for the Habs to show what they’re truly made of. The Habs are officially facing elmination, as they were in Game 7 against Boston. Will they find within themsleves the kind of performance that they put on in last series’ Game 7, or will they continue to be frustrated by Biron and go down unexpectedly in five games.
The Habs have undeniably taken the play to the Flyers for most of this series, and it can be said that Biron is responsible for the Flyers being up 3-1. However, the Habs have more than the play of Marty Biron to blame for their current predicament. Their inability to finish when Biron has been down and out has been of great concern. They’ll need someone to step up and score on Biron, preferrably early. Also, we all know that the recent play of Price has left something to be desired. I believe him to be a phenomenal young talent, but I also think that the Habs are going to need him to return to the form that he showed in much of the Boston series if they hope to win Game 5 - they cannot afford to see the Flyers mount another 2-0 lead. The Habs will need to score first if they’ve any hopes of returning to Philadephia for Game 6.
May 3, 2008 pm30 12:47 pm
Montreal will win this game guys don’t worry, but you have to be afraid for tomorrow though.
May 3, 2008 pm30 12:54 pm
The Habs come back??!!!!??? I truely hope so but they are lacking confidence BIG TIMe.
May 3, 2008 pm30 12:54 pm
2 things have plagued the habs in this series. Inability to go to the net, and poor goaltending. Habs were lucky to escape it in the Boston series, but luck only goes so far. Sooner or later your flaws will be exposed. I do agree that we need a player like Morrow(Carbo’s son in law), or a younger Sakic. Maybe pickup Rolston from Minn, a good character player to replace Smolinski, and get Tanguay to replace Ryder. Plekanec for Carter? We need more grit. Somehow I just can’t ever see the Kostistyns being gritty players.
So it’s do or die tonight. Tomorrow doesn’t look like a good golfing day, so maybe they’ll decide to put off golf plans until Wednesday.
May 3, 2008 pm30 1:29 pm
The odds of the Habs coming back to win this series are not good, obviously. But I think that a win tonight (and possibly tomorrow night as well) will go a long way for next season.
As to grit, it’s something that I’ve been preaching on this blog for over a month now. It’s great to have the Kostitsins, but players like that cannot be the core of this team. Rather they need to be a complement to a solid core of grit and leadership.
May 3, 2008 pm30 1:39 pm
The Habs are going to blow the door off the Bell Center you’ll see and I say run up the score as much as possible and crack the flyers mojo,put out that flickering flame for good once and for all !!!The time is NOW!!!Tonight’s score”this is for you Blade”will be Habs 8-Fliers 1,, followed by a nervous break down by the flyers.As in the movie ” No country for…”heads or tails flyers fans,lol….go habs go
May 3, 2008 pm30 2:32 pm
If montreal wins tonight and tomorrow, montreal will take it. game 7 will already be secure. Montreal has been pissed off all series. since game 1 because of hitting sooo many posts and getting almost 50 shots when philly gets 12 and they win! If Montreal started to feel good no one can beat them. Habs will win this one tonight, but tomorrow could be a different story. Most my predictions are wrong though, but if u wish to listen go ahead lol. Go Habs go!!!
May 3, 2008 pm30 3:23 pm
we can only hope and pray our team shows some grit and heart tonight. Kovu will lead us tonight!
May 3, 2008 pm30 7:03 pm
Rula love, Go habs go…
This is going to be a great game everyone, enjoy!
May 3, 2008 pm30 9:58 pm
Maybe Carbo should realize if he is a horse race , he should use some Canadian horses, good for you Ryder they can’t blame it on you,Look forward to you scoring on the Habs next year with a team who appreciate you. Maybe the Habs should have benched the beloved Kovalev for all he added
May 3, 2008 pm30 10:19 pm
It’s been a good series guys, really…the Canadiens gave one hell of a fight. They owned quite a bit of the offensive zone in the 5 games played. With the Rangers winning tonight, I’m not sure who we’ll face next, just hope you guys wish us luck the same way I would you.
May 3, 2008 pm30 11:25 pm
Hello?