Canadiens Clinch!
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The Canadiens have clinched a spot in the playoffs! The earliest they have clinched in many many years, and currently the ONLY team assured a spot.
Will the 3rd period mini collapse hurt or help the team?
With no games until Friday the Habs can rest comfortably. Having assured their spot before the 4 day lay off was a big accomplishment.
The Habs have 5 games left and can control their own destiny. They are in an excellent position to go on and win the Division and Eastern Conference titles.
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- goalie : I don't know when they'll announce it but the Oilers will be signing Sutter (Flames ex-coach) to coach their team - that's why Kevin Lowe chose him to coach in the World's. That was the world's worst kept secret.
- Senet1 : I guess I wish we could get it done so all the speculating was over and we can get to building out team.
- goalie : I can't type.... what a faux pas on my behalf...
- goalie : I just realized what I said adn didn't say yesterday. What a fayx as on my behalf. Regarding coaching Randy Cunnyworth MUSDT stay as an assistant- he deserves at least that after the tremendous job he did in the latter part of this past season. I'd still mlike to have Robinson, Carbo adn Allard on the staff also.
- Avatar37 : I agree Senet, my choice if we can't have Cunneyworth would be Crawford, Robinson on defense, Cunneyworth for offense, and Carbo as offense/faceoffs .
- Senet1 : I think if I had my choice it would be Crawford and see if he could get Carbo and Robinson as assistants. That would be my idea coaching team.
- goalie : I witnesed Marc Crawford MANY times when the Avs, etc. played against Oilers and let me tell you - he is constantly on the referees asses virtually game after game. He is the complete OPPOSITE of J. Martin. Crawford is calm on TSN but he is one excited coach behind the bench. A friend of mine who was an NHL linesman for 26 years said they dreaded Crawford he was so tough on the officials!
- goalie : You know, I've bee thinking about the coaching situation. I'd be really excited if the Habs had Hartley as head coach and Carbo adn Robinson as his assistants. I also read it somewhere about a month ago that Toronto's goalie coach Allard (?) wants to relocate back to Montreal where he has his goaltending school/business. Add him to the mix and I'd say the Habs would be in great shape coaching wise.
- Avatar37 : Well, from what I recall, Hartley didn't do all that well with the Thrashers. But, I don't know enough about him to judge one way or the other. Crawford I do know, and he always seemed to be a good, level headed coach to me.
- Senet1 : even Pacioretty two years ago did not impress any of us. Younger players have to play and make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. If they sit in the press box they are learning nothing.
- Senet1 : Of course if he have some good assistants like a Larry Robinson to teach the young defence and someone like Carbo to teach faceoffs etc. then your coach does not have to be as good at teaching. If Hartley fits the bill you get no argument from me. My only previous point is that if he is impatient with your younger players to the point that he does not play them, then we are right back where we were with Martin. Martin was a good coach too, but how he handled Emelin, PK and even Pacioretty two
- goalie : I would like to see the Habs sign a coach who realizes that our team isn't tough enough (we need to get bigger and somewhat more nastier),the coach needs t be a great TEACHER and be a coach who can get the players to understand and buy into his system. Other than that I couldn't care what lingo he speaks. I wnat to see our team become a ligitimate contender fast!
- HabsLoseAgain : Well we dont know if he is or is not a teaching coach. I woukd just hate to paint Hartley something that he is not. There will always be questions but if Hartley was hired as the habs new bench boss i for one would not be overly upset.
- Senet1 : My thoughts are not that he is or is not a good coach but rather that when he won the cup he had an experience team of superstars on that team. Where as we have a group of young inexperienced players, is he a teaching coach or a tactical coach or both? I am not question whether he is a good coach, but my question therefore is he the coach for us at this point in the deveopment of our team?? Not sure we are all purely speculating at the moment?
- Senet1 : Something happened to my first post. I will try again.
- Senet1 : That is why I said I am not sure he is the coach for us at this time? Right now we are all speculating including yourself, because non of us know for sure?
- HabsLoseAgain : Crawford also won a cup with Patrick Roy so would you say he is a good coach or did he just have great players and one of the best goaltenders of alltime?
- HabsLoseAgain : Senrt so please give me some reasons why you think Hartley is not the coach the habs need right now. What is it that you do not like about him or his coaching style?
- HabsLoseAgain : Well all great coaches had great players playing for them so i guess you you add a a pile of other coaches to that list including Bowan......
- Senet1 : Hartley, was he a good coach or did he just have great players and one of the best altime goaltenders of all time. I am not sure that he is the type of coach that this organization needs right now. Unless of course we sign a ton of free agents.
- Avatar37 : However, my feelings may completely be wrong, Hartley may turn out to be a good fit.
- Avatar37 : I didn't say Hartley was unknown, I said we demoted a good coach in Cunneyworth and now have an unknown quantity because we don't have a coach. I don't have that great a feeling about Hartley, I'd be much more comfortable with Crawford.
- HabsLoseAgain : In my opinion i think he might be a good fit in montreal. Oh and he also likes to have a tough team.
- HabsLoseAgain : Also this year he coached the ZSC Lions to the swiss championship title.
- HabsLoseAgain : lol the so called "unknown" won a cup in 2000-2001 with the colarado avalanch.
- HabsLoseAgain : lol Bob Hartley is not an unknown lol.....sheesh.
- Senet1 : I think he has until the trading deadline to show us that he deserves to be on this team. If he does not get back on track then he could be simply a 2nd round draft pick to whoever we can trade him to.
- Avatar37 : Bourque reminds me of Pouliot, size, skill, and invisible. He needs to get back to playing a physical game and bang people around and maybe he'll start getting some of those garbage goals again. Need to get to the front of the net. I hope he can find his game again.
- Avatar37 : We had a good coach in Randy Cunneyworth. Now we have an unknown, with Bob Hartley rumoured to be the front runner. I'd rather have Cunneyworth.
- goalie : A player like Rene Bourwue has al the physical attributes of what would be a beter than average player. Hwever, he certainly didn't play that well especially after being in Montreal about three weeks. We NEED players like Rene to play hard AND produce points on a REGULAR BASIS in order for us to be competitive.
- Senet1 : MONTREAL – Rene Bourque had a rocky start to his career as a Hab, but he’s planning on using the next four years to make up for it. After arriving in Montreal under less-than-ideal circumstances in January, Bourque spent the following 38 games hoping to find the spark he needed to rekindle his offensive production. Despite flanking Tomas Plekanec on the team’s second line to close out the season, the 30-year-old sniper suddenly found himself firing blanks in his new NHL home.
- Senet1 : I think we have to be patient and not expect too much too soon. Let's get a strong management team in place, make a good choices in the draft get a good coach and then see what we need at the free agent market. I will not be too disapointed if we miss the playoffs again next year if it means a long term team success. We have the opportunity to make some major strides over the next two years at the draft table. Then we fill in the holes.
- goalie : I certainly agree that we need to get some impact forwards who will sign for 5 years, not for a season then walk away. That's not going to help us.
- goalie : I wouldn't trade PK for Ovetchkin no matter what. He is a coach's NIGHTMARE and a poor team player.
- Senet1 : I believe he will as we graducally put better players around him and build this team.
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March 25, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Nice way to start the day,playing for a full 60 mins hopefully is the next step.And call in some beef….
March 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm
I think that the road ahead (meaning the remaining five games) will be a difficult one. Buffalo is still fighting for a playoff spot and the Leafs have decided that they aren’t going to stop playing until they’re told that they’ve been eliminated from post-season contention. So I think that a win by the Bruins tonight (which will essentially send that long awaited message to the Leafs), coupled with a key win by the Habs in Buffalo will go a long way in facilitating their efforts to solidify first overall.
March 25, 2008 at 1:26 pm
WOW! JOE’S GOT BITE.
March 25, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Montreal is not going to call up a un-mobile rookie defencemen with 5 games left in the season. Are you kidding me? Come on guys be real.
March 25, 2008 at 1:59 pm
hey guys, wouldn’t it be great if we were the team to eliminate the leafs on Saturday. a little bit of payback for last year.
March 25, 2008 at 2:21 pm
A big lesson (3rd period) in a deciding win, I just accept it.
March 25, 2008 at 2:22 pm
It will be on April 05 that we will we put the Leafs out of their missery. I hope it is a Slaughter.
March 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm
toronto is going to lose one of the next games with Boston.
March 25, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Watch for Montreal only to lose 1 more game this season. There no pressure, They want 1st place, but Not as bad as they wanted playoffs. they’ll end up with 103 PTS. Thats my prediction
March 25, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Well, you know, I do what I can… even if it means stating the obvious from time to time in the process of thinking out loud.
March 25, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Incidentally, Ice Man, what do you bring to the table, aside form insults and criticisms? I get the impression that you spend a great deal of your time being tolerated by others, both in the virtual universe and beyond. That must feel good.
March 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm
So..they dont “pull” goalies after leads”, they only keep them in to torture them..costing them the best goalie they had scince Dryden’
But in 1995, the Canadiens missed the playoffs for the first time in 25 years, and only the third time in 54 years. In December of that year, when the Canadiens lost 11-1 at home to the Detroit Red Wings, then-head coach Mario Tremblay refused to pull Patrick Roy from the net until after the ninth goal, despite the goaltender’s repeated pleas.
March 25, 2008 at 6:33 pm
most important player on a hockey team?…GOALIE!
most important player on foot ball team, QUARTERBACK!
Its like saying…yeah boyz we are up 49 to 7( each goal resembles a touch town)
Theres one quarter left, and the back up sits there wondering what the hell is going on, the defense breaks down and sacks the quarter back 5 times, theres 4 turnovers and the other team scores an unanswered 29 points!
March 25, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Starting quarterbacks aren’t pulled in favour of backup quarterbacks, unless they get injured. That is the sole role of the backup as long as he’s a backup. The only exception being a horrible season by the starter.
March 25, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I ve seen coaches making changes after big leads…giving more time to third stringers and resting prize players, ive seen it happen when teams had presumably insurmountable leads they will put in back up quarter backs..we will see if Price has anything , or it comes out ,,i doubt though
Should i call you coach..have you played?, and so with whom?..i may know you…
March 25, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Habman yeah Price must have been heartbroken that carbo didnt pull him after it was 7-1 pure touture. You say you have played hockey at a pro level? Whats your name so i can look up your stats on the D.B database.
March 25, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Calm down there, habman. I was just trying to help you out with your analogy.
As to your comment, you’ve seen no such thing. I’ve never coached, but being from Pittsburgh, I’ve played my whole life, yes, and I can assure you that you’re pursuing a losing argument. Perhaps things are done differently in the CFL, but football isn’t hockey, so bad analogy.
That being said, why are you still on about last night’s decisions by Carbonneau? Move on. You’ll be happier.
And as a reminder, the Habs are in 1st place in the East. They presently own the league’s best offense and the league’s best powerplay. Tell me that you could have predicted such a scenario at the beginning of the season. Try being happy with the current situation.
March 25, 2008 at 7:26 pm
go habs there gonna win it all
March 25, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Hey joseph dont waste your time with habman. He digs in the montreal canadians archives from 20 years ago and tries to impress us with he so called hockey talk. This all comming from a guy who wants gainey to call up a slow un-mobile rookie defencemen with 5 games left in the season and thinks price should have been pulled last night lol. Hey but becarfull what you say about habman because he knows kung-fu or so he likes to tell people lol …. karate chop ..ya
March 25, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I’ll counter his mastery of Kung Fu with my training in CommonSensu.
Sakibom, habman.
March 25, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Lol. Some people are so clueless.
March 25, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Don’t worry about Price. He will do just fine. He will shine in the up comming playoffs like the true diamond that he is.
Joey boy, I fail to see what you bring to this blog.
March 25, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Joseph fom Pittsburgh,Ice mAN’S just bitchy from being so fridged,lol
March 25, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Price and I both have ice in our veins. That is why we are both so cool at all times……
March 25, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Hopefully more than this:
“A bad coaching job by Carbo.” – Ice Man (Very informative, highly opinionated.)
This:
“Habman you are a ******.” – Ice Man (pot, kettle… you get it.)
This:
“Most of the Intelligent comments in here are copied and rewritten by Experts from various hockey sites.” – Ice Man (Is that a fact? I was wondering where they got their material from.)
This:
“It will be on April 05 that we will we put the Leafs out of their missery. I hope it is a Slaughter.” – Ice Man (An unsubstantiated prediction, and furthermore, one for April of 2005, apparently.)
And this:
“WOW! JOE’S GOT BITE.” – Ice Man (I’m a big fan of the ALL CAPS comments. (wink, wink))
Keep up the good work. We’d be lost without you.
March 25, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Five (5) unanswered goals by Ottawa in the third period tonight! Holy sh*t! And Ruff left the backup on the bench for all of them! He must be out of his mind! He must have gone to the Carbo School of Coaching!
March 25, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Ijust want to wecome all Leaf fans to the site”its a n easy chant:GO HABS GO”it’s time you know what winning is,enjoy the ride!
March 26, 2008 at 6:22 am
Monttreal actually has a good task against us on friday. Buffalo has beeen good of late, and they’re trying to make it to the post seaon. those 5 unanswered goas didn’t look good at all though. Price still hasn’t played good yet after the startings of Halak.
March 26, 2008 at 7:48 am
“Price still hasn’t played good yet after the startings of Halak”.
What colour is the sky in your world?
The guy is 20 yrs old. Do expect him to play like Broduer.
Yet another bone head comment form the Peanut Gallery.
March 26, 2008 at 7:50 am
By the way “it was FOUR (4) unanswered goals by Ottawa in the third period Monday night!!!
March 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
They scored five unanswered goals against Buffalo last night. That says something about Ottawa’s explosive offense, and perhaps less about the Habs’ third period meltdown in the previous game.
March 26, 2008 at 11:07 am
I agree with you Joe.
You have a wonderful afternoon Sir.
March 26, 2008 at 11:44 am
Get back to hockey talk…
March 26, 2008 at 11:52 am
Thanks, Ice Man. You too.
March 26, 2008 at 11:52 am
What ever do you mean Habs Blog.
March 26, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Looking forward to seeing the Habs in the playoffs.Will Carey Price be the next Ken/Patrick? Keep hoping the Leafs will be finished once and for all.
March 26, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hey Joe what do you reckon Habs Blog is suggesting?
I told a guy in here that I would “TRY” to be good. But it is hard to. I am such a Die Hard Habs Fan and it pains me to see stupid comments. I know that everyone will not agree on what is said in here but some comments are just so foolish.
I admit that I do not know everything about our wonderful game.
My mouth gets the better of me. I admit it.
March 26, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Guys lets all cheer up. Who in this blog would lie enough to say that they expected Montreal to be in first place, even for one week. They over achieved all year and the best part is that they are going to the playoffs with praticaly no experience, but they are going in with no fear of loosing. They going with heart and that is one of the best ways.
Go habs GO
March 26, 2008 at 1:46 pm
5 points between us and the Sens….5 games left each….2 wins for us means the Sens have to run the table to get first in the Division…3 wins and they can’t touch us….our future remains in our hands…keep on winning boys.
March 26, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Price isn’t doing that bad, but He can do better. Halak will start on Friday though, and Price will start against Toronto. Price is damn good against the leafs. The reason why I was pissed before is becaue I was hoping for a huge blowout, and 7-5 aint that much. I wanted the habs to sens a huge message to the sens. I guess they’ll have to do that in Ottawa.
March 26, 2008 at 3:18 pm
4 wins in the next five coming up boys. Higgins aid it himself, they’re looking for some good play heading into the playoffs.
March 26, 2008 at 4:22 pm
I think he was implying that I’m a pretentious jerk.
And are you kidding? I come here to learn about hockey from you guys. It’s not easy growing up as an avid hockey fan, and more specifically, a loyal Habs fan, in Pittsburgh. I admit my yankee ignorance at times with regard to the greatest game on the planet.
As for you, Ice Man, you’re a likeable guy. And admittedly, I get carried away, but there’s usually more sarcasm in my comments than anything else.
As to foolish comments, unfortunately, they’re everywhere, and I’m no exception at times. But try visiting the Leafs forum. Yikes.
March 27, 2008 at 7:43 am
Thanks Joe. Your Ok. I think we will keep you..LOL..
Passion my friend makes people do and say strange things.
Lets go Habs tommorrow night. Damn, all week and no Habs Hockey.
I had to watch the Leafs game Tuesday. My wife is a Leafs Fan being born here in T.O.. She is very nice about it. She accepts the Leafs for what they are LOSERS ans HOSERS. But she still supports them. God bless her heart. A part of me kind of feel sorry for her in that she has never and never will see her team win a Stanley Cup. The way that I tease her about her Leafs, i’m surprised that she don’t leave my ***.
March 27, 2008 at 11:51 am
She has to be able to go around it in order to leave it.
March 27, 2008 at 1:06 pm
http://www.sportsgi.com/habs/bbrenglish.mp3
March 27, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hey ExtraHab!
What’s that suppose to mean?
March 27, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Ice Man, you’re here in Leafsland too, stuck watching Leafs games? I share your pain. But if all goes according to plan in my job, I will be relocating to the greatest city of all by mid-summer.
March 27, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Yes Joe I live in T.O. Ha, Ha, that rymes….LOL… It’s been a slow day….
I just watch the Leafs game with my wife. It keeps her happy and I don’t mind seeing them lose….
I have RDS HD. I have seen all of the Habs games so far this year. It is great. I don’t understand a damn word they say except for GOAL. I don’t care as long as I see the games. I don’t watch CBC anymore. They are a bunch of DICKS and the picture quality on RDS hd is 10 times better than CBC HD.
Good Luck with your Job relocation Joe. I have never been to Montreal but I would love to some day.
March 27, 2008 at 6:55 pm
It appears that Dandeneault, Brisecrap and Halak are playing on Saturday vs the leafs. Sundin and Antropov are playing tonight with hopes that the leafs will be eliminated. If that’s the case they probably would be in a downer mood for our game Saturday. But why is Carbo messing with chemistry again? can’t he just leave things the way they were on Monday? Brisecrap againat a physical team makes NO SENSE!
March 27, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Is it not a good idea to keep everyone involved and focused?