Yes. This is awesome.

The situation that caused him to leave should not impact what he accomplished in Montreal.

I doubt Roy was the only player in the history of the NHL, to be left in while his team was being bombed.
But he is: THE ONLY PLAYER IN THE HISTORY OF THE NHL TO DISGRACE HIS ORGANIZATION IN FRONT OF 18,000 FANS, AND ACT LIKE THE IMMATURE BABY HE IS!
It is, without doubt, disgraceful that his nimber is being retired, especially that it’s being done befrore LOYAL players like Shutt and Lapointe!
No wonder nobody wants to play in this city.
They honor players who are DISLOYAL, and don’t honor players who were totally loyal!
If his last name wasn’t french, this would never ever happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Habs get lang for a second round pick in 2010

Congratulations Roy.

It was Patrick Roy in 1986 who turned me onto hockey and onto the Montreal Canadiens. I was 7. I started playing hockey that year, watching hockey that year, and have been a die-hard Canadiens fan ever since.

Retiring Roy’s number is great for me!

The only reason why we won our last 2 cups, deserving imo.

I think there was more to Roy leaving than that particular night when Trembley hung him out to dry. Roy and Trembley did not see eye to eye on a lot of issues rounding the team and since this personality conflict was there Roy simply could not play for Trembley any more. The greatest goalie with the bests goalie record who played and won the cup for the Canadiens needs to be recognized and his number needs to be retired.

This is an interessting trade in that it gives us a bigger centreman who scored 20+ goals last year with Chicago. If he brings the same game to Montreal that he had last year he could score 30 goals for us. He has played with Kovalev in Pittsburg so there is a potential for him to centre Kovy and move someone else on Plekanec line. We could have three offensive lines with Koivu centring the third line. Lang had as many points as koivu scored more goals and had a better plus/minus so to me he could be moved into our #1 centre position. What do the rest of you think?

Our defence seems to be set although I think if we have a weakness this is it.

Markov – Komisarek
Hamrlik – OByrne
Gorges – Bouillon
Brisebois – Dandenault

Only six of these will play and they may bring OBryne on slowly to let him develop over the season. Play him against the more physical teams while Brisebois and Dandenault will play against the less physical teams. Dandy will probably see some icetime on the fourth line as well.

I still think Gainey will shore up the defence if the right player comes along.

for Lats, the wake up call he needs is Big Georges. He’ll see some ice time with Laraque to show him how to be a true force in front of the net.

Habs Blog, I agree, there is not much in the way of weakness in our forward positions we technically could put three first lines on the ice and our fourth line is pretty good too. As well we have some quality players to fill the holes due to injury or to act as competition for those extra spaces. I am still concerned about our defence. I was looking at some experience defenseman who are free agents, someone like a Hedican or Karney might be helpful. They are both solid plus minus players with decent size. I would like to see Gainey add a good defensive defenseman. To me we showed our weakness in this area last year in the playoffs especially against Philly.

Another view on Lang’s impact….

http://www.dobberhockey.com/content/view/1342/1/

We have to use Brisebois i the playoffs though. He was our best defencemen last year, and with this being his last hockey season of hs life he will play his best. They should have signed Brisebois to a two-way contract lol.

Our defence is going to be just fine this year…I really don’t see a major weakness there. And we a lot of good young defencemen coming up in a few years in case someone leaves or gets injured this year.

Brisebois will probably play 50 plus games ike last year. He had something to prove in the playoffs last year and I agree he played far better than anyone could amagine.

If Koivu proves me wrong and I hope he does, then he will deserve more ice time but you cannot give a centreman that only gets 15 goals a season the type of icetime that a 20-30 goal centre should have and you have to have your best wingers on that first line with him.

So the big question to me is do you reunite Lang with Kovalev or do you leave Kovalev with Plekanec and A.K. and Put Lang and Tanguay together. There is a third problem (nice to have) Higgins was our third leading goal scorer last year, do you relegate him to the third line or move him over to right wing with Lang and Tanguay.
Personally I like my original line combinations, because you have a youth line, a experience line and a fall back line with Koivu centering it. My only problem with that is having Higgins playing third line icetime.

hab faithful
September 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am

what kind of lousy blog is this, when they dob’t even acknowledge the acquisition of Lang? If you’re not going to report important news, you’re useless!

Why do you keep coming back then? Another year of reading your complaints and negativity is gonna be such a joy!

Besides it would be sort of anti climatic since we all know about the trade and we have already talked about it. One thing about the blog, one we leave one most of us seems to go to the next one and not come back to the original, so the Patrick Roy storey has had it time and most of us moved on.

Gentlemen, haven’t you figured out hab UN faithful is a Laff fan.

I see his name and laugh… remember josh tm? Same *****.

I think Roy should be honoured, but they are retiring too many numbers. Put the name and number on a wall of fame. The only retired numbers should be 1, 2 , 4, 7, 9, 10. . One per dynasty/era whatever [except Harvey, Plante, Rocket; each the best at their position]. The others honoured and taken out of circulation for 5 or 10 years

This is the way I see Carbo’s lines
A.Kots Pleks Kovalev
Tanguay Koivu S. Kots
Lats Lang Higgins
Begin Lapierre Laraque
after Kovalev, those RW can move up or down based on performance/chemistry. That leaves a small second line, but I don’t think there’s much concern about matching them up against most lines.
I’d love to see Lats, Lang and Laraque; but I think it unbalances the team. If Lats is as out of shape as I’ve heard then Stewart, Dandenault, Kotsopolous are in the mix . Breezeby might be the next D turned winger by Carbo, that way he’ll be available for the point on PP. anyway that’s my 2 cents.

[this from Habs IN/OUt:

Guilaume Latendresse will be coming to camp with wings on his skates.

OK, that might be a slight exaggeration.

But his stride looks fluid in that souvenir photo, and Gui! spent time this summer at skating school. Paul Lawson, a friend of Trevor Timmins who coached at the Canadiens development camp, worked with Latendresse and his brother Olivier, as well as Pavel Valentenko and Cody Hodgson,who was Vancouver's first round draft choice.

Latendresse, who's been a father for eight weeks, also did some off-season work on diet and nutrition.

so maybe my source saw a look-a-like?]

Well if Lang brings his game to Montreal then I think we should consider him in our top two lines. After all he did score more goals than Koivu last year and had the same number of points and he was supposely a third line centre. Besides He had good chemistry with Kovalev in Pittsburg so I would like to see him reunited at least for a while to see if the chemistry develops again. I see Koivu as our third line centre. I cannot see giving him number one centre icetime if we are only going to get 15 goals and 50 points out of him. I hope he proves me wrong but that is how I see it.

*****!!!!!!!!!!!!

…that Craig Ludwig comment was meant as a joke btw, didn’t think it would be taken seriously….

Where is that comment about Ludwig, I can’t find it.

I like most of your line combinations but you have Koivu with 65 points he only had 56 last year and Lang had the same number of points with more goals. I like lang either our first or second line centre