Word is that the Habs have offered Briere a 6 year deal worth 42 Million.

habs will pick up zubrus.. his wife is from montreal and they want to raise a family here

OH OH!!………I feel a shut out comin’ on…..scary….besides defence…what forward could Montreal sign????? I guess we can hope that San Jose signs Drury and trades Marleau to Montreal!!!

The fans and media in Montreal are to blame for this whole mess!!!! They need to keep their passion but still remember that it is just a game afterall!!

They are scaring away the top talent!!!!

If hometown boy Briere won’t sign then that in itself says alot!!

Montreal is in trouble!!!

No one wants to come play for the habs. I am a big habs fan but i think we will only get 2nd of 3rd rate players because of the way they the media is there. Sad to say it but you know it is true, The only hope we have is the kids they have in the system

I’m surprised Souray isn’t already signed somewhere…is there still some hope for a return to the Habs? (I don’t care about the -26, he’s a leader and exciting to watch, I’d like to see him back!)

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Rumour is that Smyth will be signing with the Avalanche by tommorrow.
If Montreal fails to sign Souray then they will have been completely shut out of the frenzy!!

Sad!

I guess we have our choice between Yashin or Lang. Which will it be men??

Pathetic!!

I would not be surprised if by end of this month Koivu requests a trade. He said he is not interested in staying in Montreal if they are rebuilding and if they fail to sign any free agents of note then I would suggest they are rebuilding.

Pathectic to think that at one time, for so many years, Montreal was the place to be…now….not even a francophone wants to sign there!!

What in the hell will Bob do???? He certainly cannot sit tight? Obviously there are no big trades brewin’ or we would have had a sniff by now….what in the f-u-c-k will BOB do??

WTF!!!

Was just surfin’ and here is the latest;

Smyth has been offered a 6 yr 39 mil. contract by Montreal, apparently it is the larget offer he has and will receive. There are some questions as to whether or not he and his wife want to live in Montreal. If Smyth wants the big money, he will sign with Montreal.

Other rumour is Zubrus will be coming back to Montreal as their 3rd line centre. I ask, ” Why not just re-sign BONK?”

Also, reason that Souray has not been signed is because of his league worst +/-!! I guess teams think that for $5-$6 mil. you should be able to get a good all-around defenceman and Souray is not one of those!! Go figure that!!

He may have no choice but to sign with Montreal at 3-4.5 mil. per year. But don’t rule out San Jose…..Rivet is there and he and Souray are good buds. They also lost Hannan so they will need a replacement.

I still say Montreal should sign Allison for a mil . a year. Why not…situation cannot be any worse than it appears to be right now..

OH BOY!!

The Colorado Avalanche have signed winger Ryan Smyth to a five-year deal worth $31.25 million.

Gainey tried his best to get the forwards today … players and their agents (especially the agents) hate montreal because of so many different reasons, the most prominent one being our high tax situation. That being said, montreal’s offers to both smyth and briere were higher than the deals they accepted, so wtf is bob supposed to do? 8-years??? common.

the best thing to do would be to get souray signed and lock up a third line center, unless chipchura is on the way up next season.

This blog should be Canadians 2007 LACK OF FREE AGENT ACTIVITY and we can not blame BOB. It is sad when a french born player does not want to be here thanks to the media..

Kariya to the Blues for 3 years

I think I’ve develop angina from all this. Let me get this right,we still have Kovalev?We are not doing nothing? Sounds to me like we lost all the bidding wars,THIS IS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Rangers, who already had Shanahan, Jagr, Straka and Prucha, suddenly add both Drury and Gomez. This means they now have 2 lines better than the first line in Montreal. Get some good players already..

yA’all wanna know why no players wanna come to mtl? Cause we ain’t got good enuff players to help make the stars shine! This “Gainey is God” comment, kind disproves itself, cause if he was a hockey God, we’d have Smyth, Gomez, etc already. Heck we’d have the Neidermeyers.

But no, we go Johnson, Dandenault and Bouillon, heck the answer to last year’s big rush was Garth Murray and Downie! What’s so Hockey God about keeping deadwood…and this excuse of it being a small market team, honest…

I have never heard so many excuses, heck we’d put the Canadian Down Hill Slalom team to shame with our excuses! We routinely blame the media, the taxman, heck next we’ll blame Celine Dion! Why not coz there’s not enuff chip wagons left in Mtl? Or hey cause the roof falls in at the O! Or cause hey the Americans bought our beer! What other excuses do we have?

Why not put the blame where it belongs? With management. Its the management who signs this deadwood! We have crappy players, and because of that, superstars don’t wanna come to Montreal. Plain simple. Look at the wild west, heck if crappy little Nashville with nothing, can bring big name players like Kariya, okay now he’s gone, but even if little Nashville can do it why can’t Montreal? The answer is, Nashville players play with heart. What does Montreal do? Adopt the City of Montreal’s road crew work ethic! Work hard at making potholes! Look at Kovalev and his russian mafia team complaining and griping….or heck those Europeans who don’t hit back….or those crappy Canadian players who waffle at the smallest check! Honestly!

It’s no wonder Gainey can’t sign players, cause the NHLPA knows Gainey has assembled a bad news bears equivalent of a hockey team!

Come on! This is not Gainey’s fault. here’s my proof:
Smyth didn’t come because his wife did not want to live in Montreal.
Briere’s boyfreind is starting goalie in philly.
Drury and Gomez went to the rangers because they have way more talent.
And Kariya went to the Blues because his brother Steve signed with them.
Oh, by the way, Selanne’s still availible so Koivu could bring him here.

I wish Glen Sather was our GM

We aren’t going to sign any UFA’s. Stop dreaming habs fans. we’re stuck with this less than mediocre team for life! In Gainey, we DON’T TRUST!

Josh what are you talking about? The Habs only have just over 30 million tied up right now, and the cap is at 50 million next year. Niinimaa is unrestricted, as is Johnson(who didn’t make much to begin with) as is Bonk as is Aebischer. They have plenty of money available.

They said on TSN that Montreal offered big contracts to both Briere and Smyth. Players just don’t want to come to Montreal to deal with the constant bull****.

It kinda shows that Gainey is out of his league now. Maybe he had management do things for him in Minnesota. And all of a sudden, we see Gainey for what he is. A cheap son of a ****** who can’t spot veteran talent if his life depended on it. And he takes credit for the hard work of his scouts! It’s time to boot Gainey out! Give Trevor Timmins the boot too! He’s an insecure scout who doesn’t scout anyone who is too much bigger than he is…and maybe Gainey’s on the same insecure kick too! The reality is in this the new old NHL, size beats speed anytime! You may skate rings around Chara and Antropov and even little Straka, but hey, they are gonna wind you down over the rest of the game….

We need a real hockey team with real NHL players. Not this sad bunch! Granted some of the rookies are great, but hey you need an all around team!

who said that no free agents want to come here….”WHERE DID THAT COME FROM because the team 990 said it and everyone believes it”
who cares we didn`t get Briere all 5′-10″ of him seriously another small centerman…10 million the first year give me a break Philly is just stupid

Ryan Smith yeah that one was a sad one to let go but hey those are the breaks get over it. Gainey only went after 2 free agents that`s it…and so what they didn`t sign I am all about the guys in the minors now they are hungry and want to be part of this team…

so Joshtm go find yourself a nice women and take her out on date and just maybe just maybe she wil let you kiss her….LOSER FOR LIFE
I`m so tired of reading your **** and this blog…..

As I sit here watching all the notable UFAS slip through our fingertips, I can’t help but think… never mind the big name players who have signed already, and collaborate that Montreal is not the most appealing city to play in, we don’t have a single player signed from the UFA pool yet!!!!!!!!!!! Not One!!!! I really do hope that Shelly chooses to stay where he belongs, but the clock is ticking. I said this before, but at this point, why not two guys like Danny Markov, and Slava Kozlov? All I’m saying is that both of these guys are affordable, and veteran players. With Rafalski in Detroit now, I believe that Markov would be expendable, and Slava is a very creative forward who could help Kovy. He’s a very accurate passer, and has a great shot. Markov is a rock on the blue line! This is just food for thought, but if Le Bleau Blanc Rouge don’t do something soon, they could very easily be cellar dwellers by X-mas! Go Habs Go! (Make a move soon… you have no choice.)