OUr winning percentage was horrific without this stud on defence so signing him was a must. 5.75 is alot however he would have gotten 7 on the open market. WE would have had to spend at least 6 to get timonen so keeping Markov is the best move. Good job Gainey. Just dont sign Briere to 7 million please.

You have to admit, Markov has what it takes, but what everyone forgets is Hockey is a team sport. Unless you have constant level of defense, having a great defenseman on one line for only part of the game means what, some 40 or 45 minutes of watching Dandenault and Bouillon basically destroy the defense, and basically ruin the confidence of up and coming rookies? It’s like having one really nice tire on the car and using cheapies for the rest….guess what, its gonna ruin your ride and your engine….and it looks weird.

I still prefer to have Markov and inexperienced or immature instead of only inexperienced and immature players…..

Wow!! big bucks, can’t wait to see what K-man and Higgy will end up with

Detroit can have Dandeneault for nothing if they take Sammy off our hands. Let CUbe stay for another year. AN injury free offseason will really help his game.

Geeze, aren’t we missing our Lithium pills today? Is the sun a bit hot today on you? Cause hey you are just radiating there, drink a bit of salt to go with your brown nosing of those losers. If you can’t see Dandenault for being what he is, a really lousy defenseman, and the other just as lousy defenseman and all those losses we had to endure all year long, like, gee, Habs fans, eyes open but brain ain’t working….no wonder Gainey can rip you off, and give you the con job of “great chemistry” for Sakku’s slump, Johnson’s slips, and Kovalev’s elbow and don’t forget Jack Todd’s fav. Rivet’s Flu….and we can’t forget the food poisoning excuse.

No wonder Gainey used the same words as the “w” he is just as dense and stupid.

It is sad that Gainey would sign Markov for so much for so long, leaving very little room to manouver, yet continuing to waste money on the likes of Dandenault and Bouillon, and praising **** like Johnson, Ninnima and Samsonov.

Honestly, how much more obvious “go phoque yourselves Habs fans” by both Gainey and Kovalev do you have to hear from Bob and Alexei to figure it out? Crazy Bob doesn’t care.

And what’s this bull about inexperienced and immature players. Listen buddy, it was the rookies that pulled us out of the slump. Because guess what, your great heroes Sakku and Alexei were busy being guess what “immature and inexperienced” leaders. Most of the Habs dynasty was won with guess what “immature and inexperienced” rookies, ala Dryden, and the list goes on and on.

It is sad when Crazy Bob doesn’t take advantage of his “immature and inexperienced” players like oh gee, the Ducks and the Senators, who have managed to play in the playoffs so many years in a row.

What a pile of **** about “building” the team, as opposed to Sakku worrying that he would get the boot that he so justly deserves for basically destroying the season with his prima donna hooks and turning a power play into a power play against the habs. How many “great” hockey players have that stupid and unique skill of destroying a promising offense with young rookies and turn it into a horrible loss at the hands of lousy defensemen like Ninnima, Dandenault, and Bouillon?

Where the hell was Johnson all this time that he was supposedly shutting down Crosby and Alfredsson? No where, he is the great white ghost on the team, the spirit falling on the ice after he gets so boozed up he can’t even check instead he falls on the other team….how many times did we see that?

What kind of GM would keep a coach who changes lines more often than his socks? Man that was so Un-NHL-like, what is so professional about that? What kind of “great God-like” wisdom is that for a GM to watch his coach basically destroy a winning momentum with getting rid of rookies who were responsible for all the victories and benching good players just so Dandenault and Bouillon and even friggen Samsonov and Johnson could get more ice time so they “could get better”….well it sure didn’t work that way, I still can’t believe Gainey would say something like that. Ya right, they were so good they cost us a foot into the door of the playoffs. So answer this, if Gainey is so good, why did he allow all the **** that went on, the prima donna complaints by Rivet, Kovalev and even Koivu?

HUH????

Well, after i heard the news about the Markov signing i had to let it digest a little. Obviously this means that Souray will sign elsewhere…my guess is in Anaheim because they feel they need to hoard all the best defenseman in the league.
I personally love Souray here in Montreal, however if Markov is worth almost six million a season, Souray will be commanding close to 7 mill after his “career” year. I would rather see him leave than to give him that kind of money, only to end up with another Bryan Mccabe scenario because we all know Souray will not be scoring 26 goals next year, probabaly not even 15. Good luck to Souray with his future team, but lets concentrate on fixing the in-house problems with our money in aquiring another top centre-man, and a scoring winger. I am sick and tired of seeing Kovalev’s talent go to waste because he either does not want to play here, or is injured or againg or just really is passive about winning. I like the prospect of briere coming to town…we need a player that we can brag about, a scorer…someone who will actually be up there with the leaders in scoring. When was the last time we had a player net over 80 points anyway?
We have great youth on the team and i see great promise in Higgins, Ryder, Komisarek,Plekanec and Latendresse. Koivu is entering the twilight of his career and is really passionate about winning here in Montreal. Only a couple missing pieces and we will have a stanley cup winner in no time. I predict with confidence a cup banner raised in this city within 5 years.

Any comments to that?

I don’t understand why Carbo and Gainey don’t remember that size and talent are a key ingredent to building a winner,they should emulate Burke and the Ducks!

Lapierre should be captain and play on the PP with Latendresse and Begin. Also we should bring up Groulx, CHipchura and Milroy to be the second PP unit. ALso me and Josh will be taking over the off ice services. NO more jerseys or flags allowed in the arena. ALso no cheering of encouragement for the team after the opening face off. THis is a business and we should not be able to enjoy the team unless it is run like a regular 9-5 job. ALso no families allowed anymore and we will decide where eveyrone sits and encourage opposing teams fans to attend the games. NO more beer or food sold at the games. Just water and sour grapes. We must remember we are not fans to enjoy the game or to have hope. We must only be critics. HOckey is a business and must not be taken to heart. IF we win we say nothing, if we lose we will be heard. THIS IS THE WAY OF ME AND JOSH>

Okay, We all know that Souray asks for a bit much, but personally the guys deserves it. If we lose Markov, we need Souray, I love Souray. It is very difficulty to score 28 goals in a season as a DEFENCEMAN! I mean not even the offensive players score that many goals and for sure there will be changes because the Habs didn’t make the playoffs this year, but there is no reason to sign Souray somewhere else. If anything Begin should leave, he’s done absolutely nothing this season and Carboneau should talk some sense into Kovalev, all of a sudden he stopped being amazing like he used to be. I’m pretty shocked at what kind of money Markov is making, Souray will defenatly ask for at least 7 million if Markov is getting 6. Don’t trade Souray! That’s for sure. With an 100 mph slap shot, Gainey better leave him where he is!
Go HABS GO!