this is much better than ribeiro Higgins will do well next year I think to bad we didint get arrnot.

Higgins is GREAT in the corners. Love that guys heart and fighting spirit.He has grown into a role player with heart like Begin.

FINALLY!! I WAS SO WORRIED ABOuT WHETHER OR NOT BOB WAS GONNA SIGN HIM!!!

Is there another site like this one, but with more people that post? I love hearin all that gossip and rumours

Sykora A Hab
tsn.ca reports that the rumors circulating between the habs and Petr Sykora are intensifying, and that he might end up being a hab next season. Sykora is a solid 20 goal, 50 point scorer, and he should come in handy as a replacement of the no-longer Montreal Canadien, Jan Bulis.

Rumors are also starting to come up when the name of Sergei Samsonov is mentioned. He would be a perfect fit as a left-winger on that montreal 2nd line, but it seems as though the Detroit Red Wings are also interested. “

Hey Stevejur, what part of the TSN site do you find all these rumours at? I would like do go check out that page on my own. It would be nice to have Samsonov playing with Kovalev. Sounds like there’d be some chemistry though. But if he was unhappy in Edmonton, he probably will be in Montreal too. Maybe he just wants to play in the states. DAMN THEM

Look, Gainey is doing the best he can. Most of the big name free agents don’t want to come to Montreal thanks to high taxes and our favourite bill 101.

Gainey is trying, it’s not his fault that Elias, Arnott and Shanahan didn’t want to deal with those things.

Of all the UFA’s after this season (Ribeiro, Zednik, Rivet, Souray and Markov) I’d expect that Gainey will aggresively try and keep Rivet and Markov, for Souray it would depend on how his season goes, put the two heartless puke forwards will be let go barring a miracle.

Something people will have to understand is that the Habs will never have another dynasty. Not with the new CBA and the age of UFA’s lowering. No team will ever have another dynasty. The Habs, like every other team will go through 4-5 year stretches were they will be contenders then they will have to rebuild.

Get rid of Zednik and Ribeiro to make room for Kotstisyn and Ferland.

All this talk in the media of why players don’t want to play in Montreal is damaging both to our team and the younger prospects currently coming through the system. Who cares if a bunch of over-priced, HAS BEEN UFAs don’t sign with Montreal! We don’t need any of them. Parachuting UFAs into new teams almost never produces the expected results. The talk in the media can only harm the Canadiens if Habs’ fans allow this to happen! We don’t build championship teams by hiring rent-a-players! If it worked, both the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers would have been the dominant teams for the last decade. Toronto will probably be weaker next year for their free agent signings this year; their supposed top four-D (combining for approximately 17 million bucks) were all negatives in terms of ice time last season; whatever scoring that they may have contributed to last season was offset by the fact that they were on the ice when scored upon even more often.

The message that should be heard in the media is that Montreal is without question the most storied and winningest hockey team ever, and players should be honored to be part of such a system/tradition.

Does anyone remember any significant UFA signings that contributed to the Habs dynasty of the 1970s and early 1980s. That’s probably because there weren’t any that did; the team was built from within, and only one to two major transactions took place per season. Some of the big UFAs that the Canadiens signed subsequently were arguably the dumbest moves in recent Habs’ history. Signing Trevor Linden really payed dividends for the Habs, eh.

UFAs?? Forget about it. Look at the bigger picture, guys. Gainey has a team to build! Rent-a-players can go live in Disneyland for personal reasons if they want to. That kind of hockey player, however, probably believes that there is, in fact, an “I” in “TEAM” and probably lacks the heart/desire required to win a Stanley Cup for his team.

Busts my ***. If you get someone with chemistry it will all run down good. And if Kovalev and Samsonov are chillin on the second line yelling russian obsenities to each other they’re gonna score a lot of goals (ha ha i dont know where that came from).

Everyone just gotta have faith. Lets hope Huet is the next Roy, and that Sammy and Kovy are gonna rock it out, and that Koivu will come back without a freakin eye patch, and that we resign ryder for a reasonable price, and that our young talent starting this year is kickass. We just gotta have faith. These are the habs were talkin about. Things will fall into place. So lets quit worrying and BRING IT ON

Why should Detroit pay more money, for a goaltender. After all, they have a good one in Legace, if he wants to resign with Detroit.They should resign him, because he is much better than Aebischer, and he’s cheaper! The player I’d love to see play for the habs, is Mike Peca! What a good fit. We need a centerman, and I believe he wants to return to the east! C’mon Bob! Go get him, provided he is not too expensive!