Carey Price starts in Montreal

Carey Price is officially a Montreal Canadien. Price will share goaltending duties with #1 Cristobal Huet.

Jaroslav Halak who played strong down the stretch for Montreal last year will begin his year in Hamilton as will Maxim Lapierre and Ryan O’Byrne.

This means Mikhail Grabovski and Kyle Chipchura have also cracked the lineup adding to the new youthful look and feel of the Habs.

The Canadiens are starting the year with healthy competition to get and keep roster spots which should mean good things for the club.

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#1 jack hab says:
October 1, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Hopefully this is the beginning of a long and illustrious career in habland. Best wishes
to Halak as well. He also looks like another good one.

#2 HabsFan4life says:
October 1, 2007 at 3:20 pm

i THINK hALAK SHOULD HAVE STAYED AND PRICE GO TO THE BULLDOGS. pRICE has yet to prove himself, and if he started in Hamilton he’d have alot more playing time under his belt. Anyways; I hope the Montreal fans and media don’t eat Carey apart. Everyone has to remember he is a rookie goaltender, playing for the most storied franchise in hockey history.

#3 koivufan says:
October 1, 2007 at 3:45 pm

man i can’t wait for the season to start. i think we will be better than the media says we will be. i hope the habs trade halak. not because i don’t like him but because i think he is a good goalie who deserves to play in the nhl.

#4 Snake says:
October 1, 2007 at 5:52 pm

Well Price was going to over run Halk eventually, I think we all knew that so it might as well be to start the season. Grabovski is a interesting story. If he pans out he could be a very electrifying player. AS for Chipchura, Im not quite sure he is ready but I do like him better then Lapierre who I found to be over cocky. HE seemed to think he was a superstar. Im glad Carbo woke him up.

#5 Habs#1 says:
October 1, 2007 at 9:11 pm

Apparently Lapierre had a crappy camp where he didn’t really work, so he needed the kick in the rear to show him that the spot in the lineup wasn’t his right. O’Byrne will be up eventually cause Breezer will either get injured or play like himself. The all Slavak line with Kovalev, Kostitsyn and Grabovski will with soar or crash and burn. Price will get in at least 40 games cause Huet can handle 50 max.

#6 extrahbsfan says:
October 1, 2007 at 9:17 pm

Good one keeping Price Bob,it’s what the Fans want.Huet won’t last long mark my words and Halak will be back!BUT SENDING LAPIERRE DOWN AND KEEPING MURRAY IS RETARDED.Let the season begin and the changes continue…Vive Les Canadiens!

#7 superfan says:
October 1, 2007 at 10:28 pm

lapierre is a cocky. he may be a good player but all that merchandise and rds commercials went straight to his head a la mikey ribs..he will have to earn his spot on the team and not have it handed to him on a silver platter. you don’t get to play on this team because of your last name. garth murray is a work horse and he earned his spot on the team.

#8 extrahbsfan says:
October 1, 2007 at 10:47 pm

Garth Murray will not win us games ;Lapierre will and that’s the bottom line!

#9 Habs Blog says:
October 1, 2007 at 11:22 pm

Where was I when Lapierre became a ‘bottom line’ game winning savior??

#10 PACTUM SERVA says:
October 2, 2007 at 6:42 am

lol

#11 nilan says:
October 2, 2007 at 11:43 am

Lapierre needs to earn his spot like anyone else, and he didn’t do it this time around. Injury or fate may intervene during the season. If he folows in the path of ribiero, he will sulk and whine about being sent down. However, if he wants to play with the big club, he will make the most of Hamilton and proove he should be a Hab. He is a big guy, and we lack size, but he will be a liability if he cannot become more than a one dimension player. Good luck Price!
GO HABS GO!

#12 stanley says:
October 3, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Kostitsyn will be the highest scorer on the Canadiens this year.

#13 # 11 Hunter M says:
October 4, 2007 at 5:00 pm

great to see kaptain K off to a quick start!
it may be too soon to make halak expendable though. Price may be the future but it probably not the imediate future.
I thought Kovalev & Breezebye looked a little slow last night.

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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.