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Habs in Philly

  • The Canadiens left the pressure cooker that is Montreal right now and hit the road to play the Flyers in Philly.

    Dropping 6 in a row at home this should have the Habs breathing a little easier.

    Michael Ryder sits again and Sergei Kostitsyn starts his first career NHL game. Hopefully he can provide a spark to an offense that is lacking in just about every department. Pretty lofty expectations for a first ever NHL game. He will play along side Koivu and Higgins and
    perhaps enthuse Saku who is paying with little or no interest at all.

    If the Habs lose again I heard Bob Gainey is calling up Raphael.

    raphael habs best prospect

    raphael

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  1. #1 Stuart-SB77 says:
    December 13, 2007 at 4:52 pm

    Come on Habs I’m confident that you guys can win this one! LEATS KICK SOME *** TONIGHT!SERGEI KOSTITSYN!!!

  3. #3 Habs#1 says:
    December 13, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Lol, Rapheal seems to have better moves in close then Ryder could ever dream of having! I have a really bad feeling the Habs will lose a squeaker tonight even though the Flyers have alot more talent then the Habs right now, including the newly inked on a 12 year 69million contract, Mike Richards. Yikes is that long. Hopefully Gainey doesn’t have to hand out an extention like that to Higgins. Nothing against Higgy by 12 years is still a little excessive, but Richards is better then Higgins.

    And once again congrats to PK Subban and Pacioretty!

  4. #4 windycity habsfan says:
    December 13, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    One of the best games I’ve seen the canadiens play all year. What is it with them on the road???? Why can’t they do this at home! I want to see the same when we play the leafs on Saturday. Habs have been dreadful to watch lately. This game has at least made me feel that there is some hope. Nice to see the Kostitsyn brothers mentioned in the same play. Would be nice to see them turn into a Sedins type of story.

  5. #5 Jeff says:
    December 13, 2007 at 10:44 pm

    Still nothing from Koivu.

    This is turning into the Plekanec Kovalov show.

  6. #6 DTD says:
    December 13, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    Way to go PRICE.

    Way to go HABS.

  7. #7 Xtrahabsfan says:
    December 14, 2007 at 3:37 am

    Wow,and a youthfull finish ,ahhh, maybe there is room for a couple more bulldogs..WOW…price…WOW….ALL THE HABS… wow… LUV’S IT..NOW LETS RAKE THE LEAFS AND BURN THEM!!!!!! GO HABS……

  8. #8 Don Carnage says:
    December 14, 2007 at 1:26 pm

    38 habs2010
    Posted on December 12th, 2007 at 9:26 pm. About ‘Sh*t Kicked Lightning in town’.

    “The only reason Kostistyn is being called up, is because Gainey refuses to make a trade.He’d rather sit on his hands and sleep thru the year. Yeah pretty soon we’ll be calling the habs the Montreal bulldogs, because we have all their players,and we now look like an AHL team on the ice. Just change the CH to a bulldog”

    There is nothing wrong with seeing the rebuilt Habs .. we all want to see them play as much as they can, they need to play and we need them to get better. How do you know Gainey has refused a trade? What trade did he rufuse? I bet you there will be a trade very very soon … will it be what you want? Will it be when you want? Nope Gainey does not get pushed around by the media or anyone else, he is xmas shopping right now and its all about to happen.

  9. #9 patrick says:
    December 14, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    I agree, the Habs have a desirable set of young players, Gainey should wait until the team is playing well (and they will) and their stock is higher, as well it’s becoming apparent that some teams are becoming desperate for goaltending (Tampa, Pittsburgh, etc.) Saying Gainey won’t make a trade is ignorant, that’s like saying he isn’t trying to sign a big name free agent, every summer he opens the vault to the top free agents, he hasn’t been lucky, but the same can be said about most GM’s.

  10. #10 DTD says:
    December 14, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    Hey DONNY BOY.

    U R pretty good at the copy & paste thing.

    Picking apart other people’s comments is your specialty right.

    I guess you have nothing else better to do right.

  11. #11 Don Carnage says:
    December 14, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    If you do not want people to comment on your posts then dont post … and when you make statments like Gainey refuses to trade.. back them up with facts. We all know he is always on the phone and always looking for a way to better the team, its a well know fact stated by people that know him personally, such as Jacques Demers …

  12. #12 DTD says:
    December 14, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I’m not talking about my comments Don.

    No one can pick apart my comments cause I tell it like it is. I tell the truth.

  13. #13 patrick says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:35 pm

    ha ha ha

  14. #14 paul says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:45 pm

    habs r the best.

  15. #15 paul says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:49 pm

    u guys r all negative.Habs r the best man.Till next time when we kill the leafs.

  16. #16 paul says:
    December 14, 2007 at 6:59 pm

    DTD your very negative and don,t u have anything better to do than comment on others opinins.You don,t know a hockey stick from a baseball bat,so take that.

  18. #18 habs2010 says:
    December 14, 2007 at 8:14 pm

    You know what? I guage a GM by what he’s done. Gainey has had 4 years to improve this team. It hasen’t happened. Please someone tell me about all the great trades he’s made in 4 years. Kovalev is the ONLY trade he’s made, and we all know how Kovalev likes to take nights off, so unless you can show me what great things Gainey has done, please don’t criticize my comments. Good GM’s are aggressive, not passive,and do whatever necessary to make their team better. And before you talk about his great drafting, 2 of his draft picks from last year, couldn’t even make their national team. they were cut! And where’s our depth on offence? Oh yeah, we have 2 defencemen playing at the forward spot. And how many offensive players did Gainey draft last year? Oh yes, can’t even name them, because nobody notable. Yes, Mr. Gainey has done a wonderful job,- at running this team into the gutter! He’s a patchwork GM. Don’t you ever get tired of the same thing every year? Wondering if we’re going to squeeze into the last playoff spot? I do. I’d like to see some stability on this team, and a good team for a change. I think 14 years of waiting is long enough. And please don’t tell me about patience. We’ve had 14 years of it!

  19. #19 Izzy says:
    December 14, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    so much for the habs / ducks rumors…….Ducks just traded Andy MacDonald ( center) to St louis for Doug Weight.

    R.I.P. Rumor.

  20. #20 habs2010 says:
    December 14, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    my point taken!

  21. #21 patrick says:
    December 14, 2007 at 10:57 pm

    Before everyone jumps on Gainey this trade is entirely the fault of one man…Brian Burke. This one’s really weird, you’d figure there would be a host of GMs besides Gainey that would have put together a stronger offer. The Ducks are a deep team, but if they were making room for Niedermayer why not trade a defensemen? Was Schneider that hard to unload?

  22. #22 Don Carnage says:
    December 14, 2007 at 11:02 pm

    20 habs2010
    Posted on December 14th, 2007 at 8:18 pm. About ‘Habs in Philly’.

    my point taken!

    What point? The one where you know better then everyone else… if you knew any better why dont you apply for the job.

  23. #23 habs2010 says:
    December 15, 2007 at 12:04 am

    Understand my logic: Good GM’s, like Brian Burke, make moves, and don’t screw around making promises(like Gainey did in the offseason, to get a scorer). If Burke was our GM, I guarantee this franchise would not be in disaray for long, certainly not for 14 years, or even 4 years. Unfortunately, people, not many, but some dummies think Gainey is a good GM because he was a great player, but GREAT PLAYERS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO GREAT COACHES OR GREAT GM’S. Just look at Carbo. He’s our coach, (but hopefully for not much longer) because he’s good friends with Gainey. Whatever happened to the logic of, the most qualified and experienced person becoming a coach? I just don’t understand it. Savard, Houle, Tremblay. C’mon.

  24. #24 Xtrahabsfan says:
    December 15, 2007 at 12:42 am

    Hey, wait just one cottonplucin moment,er you sayin Gretzky can’t coach either?lol

  25. #25 Don Carnage says:
    December 15, 2007 at 8:35 am

    This is Montreal the truth is some players do not want to play here period.

  26. #26 Donnie says:
    December 15, 2007 at 12:45 pm

    4-1 over Philly. Amazing what can happen when you keep skating hard into the 2nd and 3rd periods isn’t it. And when someone actually goes to the front of the net. This is a better team then what they’ve been showing this last few weeks. Come on guys, get your home touch back tonight and beat up on the dirty Leafs…GO HABS GO !!!

  27. #27 DTD says:
    December 15, 2007 at 10:48 pm

    Yes Paul. You know more than Scotty Bowman.

  28. #28 paul says:
    December 19, 2007 at 11:46 am

    I CERTAINLY KNOW MORE THAN U DTD.

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  • Senet1 : We need to draft a couple of star forwards who can score and become game breakers. It is hard to get these types of players in trades although Parise is available, so is Bobby Ryan. There is 60 goals a year. Gomez has now gone a full year without scoring a goal. So how much is that $7+ M per goal. So $7M divided by 0 is zero. So you see math does not lie. That is pretty good stat???????
  • Senet1 : You cannot win games unless with a team like this unless all 20 players I playing well. Even if you have 20 players playing well they still need guidance from the coaches.
  • Senet1 : PK played a H_ell of a game today Eller played well but had two wingers that were pretty useless on his line. To me there are a lot of positives on this team, put when you do not have any super star scorer like most teams then you need to play as a 20 man team.
  • Senet1 : We I have to disagree a little, I admit things do not look good, but until the second goal we were outplaying them but not finishing anything, when you look how hard some of the guys were working in the corners to get the puck out front and when they did no body was there to shoot it or deflect it. I thought that our #1 line played really well but when a team only has to worry about shutting down one line it usually is easy. Budia played well, could not fault him on any of the goals. PK played
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  • goalie : Can anyone come up with anything positive about our perforance today? I honestly cannot!
  • goalie : Even laayers like Cole, Pacs. Bourque seemed totally frustrated today. What we are seeng is the result of poor management over the past 5 or so seasons. The job wasnt dopne now we have a team that is probably the easiest team in the NHL to play against!
  • goalie : At least Deharnais is trying BUTR he is not and never will be a number 1 or even 2 center. When he goes up gainst bigger players he simply can't get anything done offensively. Thisis not to question his effort!
  • Senet1 : Basically we have one line and Washington was able to shut them down. We need a game breaker, even the other worse teams in the league have a game breaker we do not. Someone to bury the puck.
  • Senet1 : If you can score goals then eventually the defence and goalies will take care of the other end.
  • Senet1 : We need to go after goal scorers I would rather lose a game 6-5 and 1-0.
  • Senet1 : Well if you cannot score which has been our problem all year you cannot win games.
  • Mats Naslund : sorry - on replay he didn't touch the puck - which is an issue as well, but still as soft as can be in his own end. terrible play that probably does it.
  • Mats Naslund : BRUTAL giveaway by Kaberle kills the game.. soft as tissue.
  • Mats Naslund : Cole - dangerous shot.. but blocked again.
  • Mats Naslund : 18 blocks for WAS today.. all offense has been pretty chippy.
  • Senet1 : On the day before the trading deadline, I would put Gomez on waivers and see if someone selects him.
  • Senet1 : Oh better coaching and better attitude with some of the players. Some players like Plekanec seem to be working hard but not accomplishing anything.
  • Senet1 : Itn't it amazing how a coach has turned that team around. At one time Montreal had more points than they did. I have said it all year, if we could get a coach who could get these guys playing as a team we are a lot better team than we are showing. That is why I do not think that we have to do a lot to turn this team around, it is a matter of better scoring and better defensive systems 5-5. Lets face it you do not have a real bad defence when you have the top PK in the league. The kids are mat
  • goalie : In our rebuilding for nect year the FIRST things I would work toward is a new power play alignment - even if that means trading a guy like Plex. We need layers who can control the puck and do that thing called score. Then we go from there. Our PP has been the basis of player frustration that has now grown to virtually every apsect of the game.
  • goalie : Unfortunately for Budaj that was the correct call. Great save. Gomez must be totally embarrassed just like his play has been for the past year.--Yes the Blues are better than the Habs because they are COACHED BETTER not because they have vastly better talent.
  • Mats Naslund : no shots on that powerplay - if you can call it that.
  • Mats Naslund : 2 more chances after a brutal PP but they are blocked again.
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