hey dudes
after watching the game last night////
if the habs had played a quality team i am afraid that this new goal tender may well be in hospital seeking some kind of shock treatment!!!!!!
we are DOOMED !!!!!!!!!!!
time to start again bob , dump the slackers/
p.s. habs are still better than the leafs

Did all of you expect Gainey to cure all the ills of this franchise in three years?

This franchise had zero prospects when Gainey came just like Minnesota did when he took over the Stars.

Understand that Kovalev/Ninnamaa/Samsonov etc. are stop gaps till the guys Gainey drafted are ready for the bigs.

For all those people who think Gainey bought a cup in Dallas. Gimme a break. He built that entire franchise from the ground up. Other then Belfour, Niewendyk(I have no idea how his name is spelled), Hull, Carbo and Zubov he drafted that cup winning team. Who drafted the current stars in Dallas(Turco, Brendan Morrow)?

And you want to know why the Habs have no superstars? Let’s go back to 1996-2001. When the Habs constantly finished in 9th-10th place and just barely missed the playoffs but still were somewhat compeditive cause the fans and media wouldn’t except 4-5 years of the Habs finishing at the very bottom of the league so they’d be able to draft the likes of Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Olli Jokinen, Roberto Luongo, Vinny Lecavelier, David Legwand(finally breaking out in Nashville), Brad Stuart, Alex Tanguay, The Sedin Twins, Havlat, Dany Heatley, Marian Gaborik, Kovalchuk, Spezza, Rick Nash, Jay Bouwmeester, Ryan whitney, Joni Pitkanen, Keith Ballard and Alex Semin(Although I’ll give them a pass on 2002 cause they got Higgins).

Take a look at all those players the Habs missed out on cause all you fans out there refuse to go through a rebuilding process. You want to know why the Habs have no young superstar players? How about the fact that the management before Gainey buckled under your pressure’s cause you refused to be in last place for 3-4-5 years.

Oh ya, Habs#1, we had the lockout and a chance to rebuild, what did Gainey do, nada, like as if it is the fans to blame for Gainey acquiring and getting this bunch, gimmee a break already!

I say trade what the other teams want, if only to change the setup so Carbo can match players together, right now his line juggling has exposed that none of the habs fit together, it is a team afterall. But the way its playing, it is not a team. You need players who fit each other.

Ok, here’s my take on this thing….Gainey’s going to gear this team up for a time frame when Carey Price is tending the nets. That should be 2-3 years away, so Bob’s got to get his draft picks and free agents all lined up properly-again remembering that so many of these moves are predicated upon the “salary cap”- so that the Habs are competitive during his solid goalie years with Price. Until then, this is a mediocre 7th-10th place team that, if fortunate enough to make the playoffs, might only win a round at best. We want a team that will be a top 4 team for years to come.

doogie

So we all say, this team’s future is predicated by the drafting and trading that Gainey will do in the next 2 years. Let’s see what kind of players,(picks) he makes. And if we’re still having this same conversation,( or if the team is as stagnant as they are now,)2 years from now, then we will realize that Gainey did not do a good job, and is not a great GM. TIME WILL TELL!
I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
But I’m not willing to wait 10 years for a competitive team! So he better get this team moving in the right direction, and soon, or fans patience will run out!

Sexual frustrations. : ) Thats hilarious.

Go get laid josh.

I guess just want the LEafs learned about building their team around McCabe and Kaberle.

there is a rumour(here we go again), from team 990, that discussions between habs and Sharks are taking place, involving possible trade, sending Souray, Samsonov, and 4th round pick for Pavelski, Vlasic, and conditional draft pick. I say, when there’s no rumour, then it’s more likely to happen, because Gainey is as tight lipped as they come. But, nevertheless, it’s possible because Thornton ans Samsonov are great friends, and SJ is in need of a good D man. We’ll see.

I also heard that Kovalev(with that contrived injury), has swore to never play another game for the habs. did you notice he mentioned he was injured, ONLY AFTER HE WAS BENCHED IN THE 3RD PERIOD OF SATURDAY’S GAME?
I believe the injury was vastly embellished,(because he was playing with the injury for 2 months) and it’s his pride that was injured more than anything else. I’m told you can’t bench or scratch him, or he’ll never give you 100% for a game. Did he ever? I really believe, HE’S GONE!
I hope that’s true, because he goes thru motions more than playing hard.
What a prima donna. Who the hell does he think he is? No wonder NYR gave up on him. No room for loafers on this team!

You know what’s really sad to me is in 7 days the c@ckssucking Leaf’s are going to blow the fu@king Habs rite out of the Bell Center, which just sickn’s me and your still going to get these guy’s saying stupid thing like: U don’t know hockey ,I ‘m a goalie,I use my jock strap as a pillow at nite, It’s the fans fault,it’s the tax’s and the media…bla bla bla bla bla and were going to have Laff fans like Frank or THM RIDICULE US TO NO END and nothing …NOTHING will be done about it !!! What a bad fu@kin joke

Actually Kaberle is about 10 times hte player that Souray is. McCabe is a good proxy for what you can expect if the Habs try to build around that pylon.

And THM is a sens fan.

Rivet still thinks he should be on the first PP unit instead of Souray. At the beginning of the season I think Rivet was looking to get around 4 million/year from the Habs. NOw he will be lucky to get 2 million/year from anyone. RIvet is sooooo gone he might as well leave on the same flight as Niniamm. The cargo plane as its way to Germany.

hey, i like your blog. too bad the people (not all but most) who comment are clearly lacking between the ears. i think mitch melnik said it best. you guys are the reason why shanahan and other marquis free-agents didn’t want and will never want to come here. why did sammy get 3.5mil per year: because we have to vastly over pay just to get players to play in this city. shame on you all.

Watching an interview with Marty Brodeur Yesterday on SNY 360, he was asked “Did you ever envy Rangers fan support and would he like to be across the river some nights?” Marty’s response was “No I love it here but if I were to want to play in any city it would be Montreal, that place is like the mecca for hockey.”

Stioney mountian? Provincial rd 321? What is all of this? Chill out buddy, you think with all the bcrap you pull you would have a sense of humour.

Sorry, joshtm:

I apologize for my comments. I forgot that people who are REALLY against Bob Gainey don’t want anyone to even mention the name of Carey Price since drafting this guy will be the most ingenius move pulled off by a Habs GM since Sam Pollock was at the helm. Who are you working for anyways, dude?

If the Habs don’t get 2 or 3 more big defence men to control the action in the Habs end, I don’t care who they put in ,Halak,Price,Abby or Huet,those goalies are going to need Gulf War Syndrome treatment.

i think joshtm is on crack.. this guys has no idea what he’s talking about. the iraq war? buddy, it’s a hockey blog! i agree with Rob on all this, you seem to be the only one making sense. joshtm your a disgrace. go habs

xhabsfan—worst team ever??no there have been many worse than this,
Rhabs4real–I remember just a short couple years ago when the Habs were playing in the 7th game of the semi finals—Kovalev—that scum bag supreme, could not play because he had a sore finger. Now that we are fighting for a playoff spot, this scumbag is again, unable to play. Let me tell you these Russians and also a lot of Europeans, just don’t get the STANLEY CUP.
Let me tell you, if you are playing towards the Stanly cup, and someone chops your arm off, pick it up,put it in your teeth and on you way to the bench, you absolutely flatten two of their players, just the way Stevens did to that
useless, never won a thing flake lindros(doesnt deserve a capital L.

joburg,the difference is the salary cap ,we can’t buy our way out of this one.