Canadiens Clinch Playoff Birth!

Regardless of the outcome of their final game against New Jersey, the Montreal Canadiens have clinched a playoff birth.

The Atlanta Thrashers fell 6-4 to the Washington Capitals ending the Thrashers chance. It’s been a long year and great to have it finally settled after almost going down to the last game of the year.

The Canadiens will finish 7th or 8th in the Eastern Conference and face the Ottawa Senators or Carolina Hurricanes.

The Habs can lock up 7th with a win at home against New Jersey.

Congratulations and Good Luck to the Canadiens whose late season winning streak locked them a spot.

Get ready for the real season to begin.

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#1 Mark Hostin says:
April 17, 2006 at 9:51 pm

Hello,

Well, we’re in!!! Due to the heroics of Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday…we were all Washington Capitals fans on this night.

I was hoping and praying the Caps would put Atlanta way, and on Fan Appreciation Night in Washington, the boys from D.C. didn’t let thier fans down.

I know Bob Gainey and Guy Carbonneau will have a great system in place to help us beat either Ottawa or Carolina! Long live les bleau, blanc, et rouge!
Go Habs Go…and Hip, Hip, Huet!!!

Take Care,

Mark Hostin
CANADA

#2 Brad Chisholm says:
April 17, 2006 at 10:01 pm

Go Habs! Beat the Devils and let’s take on Ottawa who have that deer in the headlights look. Even with Hasek he’s going to be rusty.

LA Habber

#3 Bzzliteyr says:
April 17, 2006 at 10:13 pm

Yay!! That’s great.. anyone know when and how I can get me some tickets to the playoff games? I am currently in NB but home is Montreal and I want to take my family to a game. Cheers to all the happy habs fans!!

#4 fan3 says:
April 17, 2006 at 10:24 pm

Now that the season is all but officially over, here’s a link that summarizes it pretty well: http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?columnist=burnside_scott&page=seasonreview

#5 Gumper says:
April 17, 2006 at 10:47 pm

Don’t want to sound ungrateful but that was too close for comfort.

Ok,.. now come on boys, do that thing you do,.. you know, that thing where you play great and make Huet look like a hero?

Congrats to all!

Hope it’s Ottawa, too.

#6 J-Nic says:
April 17, 2006 at 11:30 pm

Now that Habs clinched a spot in playoff, who will they face ?

Ottawa or Carolina ?

Tomorrow game will decide on this, but either way it will take a win tomorrow to give the habs the moral to win in playoff. Carolina or Ottawa, will both be hard to battle against in a 4 of 7 game. With the lost of Begin, who probably won’t be back in the first playoff round, don’T know what it will look like.

I am crossing my fingers that they deliver the same strengh they did in their last playoff season.

BTW : who do you think will be the goalkeeper if they play against ottawa ? or Carolina ?

#7 Gumper says:
April 18, 2006 at 12:05 am

It was said by Gainey recently, that he’s not partial to speculations of a competition between the 2 goalies for the #1 spot, I don’t think he’s delusional (he can’t be), to this notion. I think he’s playing with the (first round) opponents’ heads and to a lesser extent, the MTL press. The choice is clear and the starting goaltender should be Cristobal Huet. Hands down!

Ottawa plays the Rangers (Rangers win)
Carolina plays red hot Buffalo (Buffalo wins)

And we win,.. it’s Ottawa VS Canadiens in the first round!

You read it here..

#8 Gumper says:
April 18, 2006 at 12:10 am

Habs in 5 games..

…now i’m gettin’ carried away here. (teehee)

Hey Hasek? We wanna make a wish,.. can we use you as a wishbone? What, yer groin is NAT TOO GOOT DEES DYES?

#9 Joe says:
April 18, 2006 at 2:45 am

Ha-ha!

Watch Hasek flop to the ice and feign injury if someone skates within 2 metres of him… and then get up and skate after the referee screaming ‘GOOTIE INDIFFERENCE!’

#10 habsfan says:
November 30, 2007 at 5:40 pm

DONT SAY THAT BITCHS!

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Senet1 : Galchenyuk scores to back to back goals in shoot out to help USA win Bronze metal. I did not see the second goal but the first was a beauty.
Senet1 : So we could pick anywhere from 25th to 23rd depending on who wins these quarter final series.
Senet1 : First, is the 14 teams in the lottery. Then there are 12 teams that did not make the semi finals in the order of the seasonal finish, Then there are the four teams in the semi final the first two eliminated pick in the order of the regular season points total and the last two based on who wins and who loses the cup. So as it stand now if say Detroit beats Chicago then Detroit moves up to pick after us. Boston or NYR will move up and pick after us. LA or San Jose will move up and pick after us
Senet1 : Basically, I was wrong about the draft pick situation. There are three groups of drafting teams within the 30 teams.
Senet1 : seriously ready to challenge for the cup. He will us win games but he will not be the difference between winning the cup and not winning the cup. You pick up players like that once you have the team ready to challenge,.
Senet1 : I am looking at the players to draft and there are a lot of big 6'3-6'5 forwards available ion the draft this year. If we could draft 3-4 big young players in the 2nd and 3rd round why would you want to give that up for a roster player who may have 2-3 years at best. If we are going to build a winner to have to build it with bigger players and there are a lot of good big players available this year. So you sign Ott and he is with us for the short run, but probably not when we are seriously re
Senet1 : Boullion is a great mentor for the young D-men
muller93 : Boullion is one of MBs great additions--Boull ion is a definite Keeper.
muller93 : Getting rid of Kaberle frees up a lot of cash. Boullion is small but is reliable and doesn't back down from anyone.
muller93 : Exactly Goalie any thoughts on a punishing D-man?
goalie : They;re showing determination adn skill vs Ducks and Blackhawks.
goalie : REd Wings could turn out to be the surprise team of this year's playoffs!
goalie : WE need to rid our team of Kaberle and Webber. Step two would be to then move Diaz. If we get that big d-man I believe that would push Boullion to # 7 on the chart. We'd then go with Georges, PK,Markov (to continue mentoring Ememlin) Tinordi as our starting six . THEN I'd be excited about our chances. We could then work on getting bigger forwards.
goalie : I too would gladly give up a 3rd round pick for Ott- the type of player we sadly lack. AND if we could get one more rugged, expeienced defenceman it would help immensely.
muller93 : Senet what you are saying makes sense but if we can get Ott for a 3rd round I'll take that all day.
muller93 : MB should be looking at a big D-man first, even though I like our blue line with the addition of Tinordi. We need that insurance just in case one gets injured. Also I'm a firm believer in starting with the goalie first then-defense-for wards-and we already have good goalie. We have all noticed when we have the lead Price is tough to beat.
Senet1 : So sometimes you have to sacrifice for one year or two to build that team in the draft. then add the finishing touches through FA and trades.
Senet1 : Muller, Detroit is another good example. They have been in the hunt every year with good well balanced teams yet only one or two cups to show for it. However, they have built a team that has a chance every years for the last 10+ years. That is what I think we have a chance to do this year with a good draft. It reminds me of the habs teams of the mid 80 and 90's we built a team then with sold draft picks and won the cup twice during that time period. So sometimes you have to sacrifice a one
muller93 : Very true Senet, you do need luck and we haven't had any luck it seems since the habs moved to the Bell Center. We had an incredible run in 2010 with some crazy goal tending from Halak. With Galchenyuk-Tinor di-Gallagher all in 1 year--not too bad, even with an early exit in the playoffs.
Senet1 : Muller I guess we all have our own ideas, but there has never been too many times that were successful when they traded their draft picks away. We have a chance to build this team so we have a shot at winning the cup over the next 10 years. Even as good as Pittsburgh has been they have only won the cup once since Crosby and Malkin have been with the team. That is because you not only need great players but you need luck to win, but one thing about Pittsburgh they have a chance every year. The
muller93 : Good point on Torres, he might be a liability. Torres has to tone it down a bit, but that's his game-very aggressive.
goalie : Though I don't condone what Raffi Torres did - thos shows you how repeat offenders or near offenders are going to be treated. His hit was NOT illegal BUT what the rap sheet adn reputation Torres has he got severly punished. Lesson to be learned by OTHER players because Torres dopesn't learn fromk his mistakes.
muller93 : Senet normally I would agree with you on not trading draft picks but we are not in a rebuilding stage. Sometimes draft picks can be a roll of the dice and it can take up to 3 years to be NHL ready. We have a good team and I agree with Stuo players like Clowe-Torres-Ott -Scott will make a big difference. Somebody has to protect Gallagher, he can't keep getting hit the way does--we need a tough forward so they think twice before going after Gallagher.
Senet1 : Really a heathly Habs team would probably win more games against the Pens that we did against the Sens. Reason they Pens would not play as physical against us as against the Sens. If we get good goaltending we win at least two games.
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stuo11 : hes a tougher big guy too! Just a minor adjustment but will help a bit
stuo11 : hes better than markov, and hes french who was in mention for defenceman of the year
goalie : Markov for Beauchemin - an injury prone d-man for an ;old timer'd-man. Beauchemin is NOT what the Habs need in my opinion. He is a HUGE defensive liability.
goalie : Stuo 11 I'd make that trade with Oilers fast BUT I doubt the Oilers will make that. Two marginal d-men at the best for a switch of first round picks - not a chance .
stuo11 : markov for beachemin?
stuo11 : let moen go
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stuo11 : we wouldve kicked out all other teams but pens, sens,
stuo11 : pens have alot of forwaRDS same with us but we have better goaltending