Hurricane Warning

The Habs are set to play the Hurricanes for their third time already this season. They probably couldn’t have drawn a worse time of year to face them so often as the Canes are one of the hottest teams in the league. Looking a lot more like they did two years ago when they won the Cup then they did last year missing the playoffs.

The Habs handed them their first loss in their home opener and look to steal another one before heading to Pittsburgh tomorrow.

Huet plays tonight and Price will play on the road in Pittsburgh where he won his first career start.

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#1 MrBigTime says:
October 26, 2007 at 2:41 pm

GO HABS GO!!!

This won’t be easy, but were capable for sure… let’s go les boys!

3-2 Habs prediction…

#2 DTD says:
October 26, 2007 at 3:09 pm

After tonite they will be light breeze…………..

#3 DTD says:
October 26, 2007 at 3:10 pm

It will take more than a Hurricane to stop the Habs…………

#4 coutNY says:
October 26, 2007 at 3:45 pm

ON the Road, with the hotest team in hockey, we should not under estimate the Canes. They have been gaining momentum every since their win on our home opener and one game against the B’s does not automatically cancel out our woes of Offense, although it shows signs we are capable. We do meet up with the Canes team facing some key injuries, but that hasn’t turn their force into a breeze or even a tropical strom yet….

One game, one period, one shift at a time.

Go Habs Go

#5 coutNY says:
October 26, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Vote for the CH Sweater http://www.sportsline.com/nhl/story/10431609

#6 johnnyhab says:
October 26, 2007 at 8:01 pm

go habs GO!!!!!!!

#7 Stuart-SB77 says:
October 27, 2007 at 8:30 am

ok ok.now I’m happy. things looked like there were going down hill before they killed Boston and the Canes. If mtl plays like this all year.4th place in the east!

#8 Rubberman says:
October 27, 2007 at 9:55 am

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh! I’m so happy. Ever since the Canes beat the HAbs out when they won the cup, it seemed the Canes were over cocky when meeting the Habs. I know it’s early but I’m enjoying this team and the way they’re playing. Who knows what’s gonna happen but it’s nice seing games like this…Keep it up Habs.

On a side note, noone mentions that if it weren’t for Koivu’s eye injury the Canes would have been eliminated, instead of winning the cup.

#9 Don Carnage says:
October 27, 2007 at 11:46 am

Duh if they play like this all year they will finish first… Looks like some people might have opened their mouths a little early and started to slam the team before the season started, where are the nay sayers now?

I am sure they will be back as soon as The Habs have a bad game we will see the same old blame game start again.

Great to see The Habs are able to compete with any team on any night, night after night… here’s to hopeing they keep doing this all season…

GO HABS GO !!!

#10 chevy4CH says:
October 27, 2007 at 1:06 pm

I don’t want to seem pessimistic, but weren’t we all happy like this last year at this time? Remember what happened after the new year started? so I’m reserving judgement until that point of the season , because that seems to be the same time ,every year, that this team collapses. Let’s be cautiously optimistic. slow as the team goes.

#11 jack hab says:
October 27, 2007 at 2:19 pm

Two things that have improved so far is their ability to get the puck out of their own end,
and to win two games in a row in convincing fashion. Also, this year’s Kovy is very
different – not just the goals, but the on-ice attitude.

Goaltending, PP and PK still rock!

My only concern right now is the 5 on 5 goal production. If the team fixes that aspect
it will be a major force in the east.

Enjoy tonight’s game boys!

#12 HabsFan4life says:
October 27, 2007 at 3:22 pm

Go Habs Go. Bring on the Pens

#13 jessef says:
October 29, 2007 at 1:16 am

guys don’t get your hopes up this has happened the last 2 years and they ended up droping down out of the playoffs or close to it. But i hope they don’t.

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goalie : Didn't get to see the game at all but it's great to see Pacs get a hat trick and fpor Cole to be + 3. When was the last time this team won three games in a row? Great victory -looks like they're giving 100% effort!
Senet1 : 4-2 win habs
Senet1 : Gomez scores, Yea!!!
goalie : As I said yesterday it will be interesting to see what our lame ass GM gets for players he ships out. Bourque is good and he'll help us but I still think we could have gotten more for him and for Halak when he was traded.
Avatar37 : round those picks occur (probably 3rd).
Avatar37 : An interesting article. If we slip to the 5th or 7th draft pick, a very interesting case could be made for drafting Galchenyuk. If we wind up with the second or third pick, I'm not sure who I'd draft, because clearly Yakupov is going to be drafted first overall. Our second round pick also becomes interesting, I know I'd take Vasilevski if he were still available. It will also be interesting to see if we can turn some of our veteran players (Moen, Gill, Campoli) into draft picks, and what
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Avatar37 : That is why PG should have waited on trading Cammalleri. Right now, there is a high demand for a top 6 forward, we could have gotten much more than Bourque in return. That isn't a knock against Bourque, but a knock against a knee-jerk reaction trade that didn't maximize our return on a top asset.
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Avatar37 : chips fall where they may. After all, the only difference between finishing 17th and 29th is how good a pick you get in the draft.
Avatar37 : We currently sit in 26th place in the league. We are 15 points ahead of Columbus, it's safe to bet at this point they will place last. We are, however, only 4 points ahead of Edmonton so it's still wide open as to who is going to finish second last. I still think that it's time to sit the veterans, play the youth, let them get experience, and regroup for next year. I'm not suggesting deliberately tanking like the Penguins, but give all our young players lots of playing time and let the c
Avatar37 : goalie - If it were not for the play of Cammalleri, we would never have made it out of round 1. Cammalleri played as big a part, if not bigger, than Halak did. Sure, Halak played well, but remember the team collapsed in front of him, making his job much easier. We had lots of blocked shots and the ones that got through were typically from the outside.
Senet1 : Goalie you are absolutely right, of course the one thing we had the two previous years that won the games that we are losing this year was our power play. If you look at say 10 games that we should have won had we had a similar power play, again we would not be having these conversations. When your PP goes from first to last in the league that is a lot of goals.How many games have we lost this year by one goal. Again poor management who did not prepare for Markov's possible absence.
goalie : I'll put it another way.... we need more players who are willing to get their noses dirty.
goalie : Two years ago when our goaltending stole series adn our players suddenly scored the coaches / GM believed that that was our true team . Well time has proven that was not. Though I was very glad to see the Habs knock off some very good teams we were very fortunate. And fortunate that spring was spelled HALAK!
goalie : The wrst mistake management could possibly make I believe is to say, we played well some games and we believe the team can play to that level more often in the future. This team CANNOT adnb DOES NOT play to a high enough level. Please do not kid yourself mamngement. hat is partially why we're in the lace we are.
goalie : Senet is correct when he says that if we had more games with a better efort this year we'd likely be in the playoffs. It has been very inconsistent effort but much more than that. We lack big, tough playing and finishing. Never mind fighting for a moment. We did not compete for the pucks nor along the boards nor in front of both nets enough this year. Thus we are in 29th. If the coaching staff doesn't see that then they shouldn't be there.
Senet1 : Surely Molson is not going to keep him as the GM?
Senet1 : when he knows he will be fired at the end of the season. Nothing really makes since in this whole process.
Senet1 : I am not sue why PG has not been fired by now. They could be waiting for another GM to come available at season end, but why would you not set up a committee to manage the team in the short run until a new GM can be named. There is no since in chaning coaches because whoever the GM is he will want to name his own coach. Gainey and a committe of other executives can manage the team through to the trading deadline and onward. What motivation does PG have to making any worthwhile trades when he is
Senet1 : I am too mch of a competitor to want my team to tank to. However, If these players played like they ae cabable of playing all year we would not be having this discussion right now, we woud be talking about the playoffs and who we would rather meet in the first round.
rocky : Exactly, and Senet nails it when he says we have not had an elite top 5 in the nhl player since lafleur.
goalie : I too want the Habs to get the best possible draft this June. We all need SOME hope!
rocky : He is persona non grata in habville, and a ghost in every sense of the term.
goalie : It remains a miracle how we have heard from our mighty GM twice since Christmas - the trades involving Spacek and Cammy and those comments were extremely brief. PG just does not cut it in my world. Part of a GMs job is to go public from time to time. PG never does that in fact he's a ghost GM!
rocky : Its true, there is no honor in that. These guys have only known the ethic of giving it all to win every night. I do not want them to "tank", and they will never do that anyway. I do want them to lose though, as awful as it sounds.
goalie : Roicky as a good point. We all want the Habs to get a really good draft pick. However, players, coaches etc. also have a keen desire to compete and win. That's why they're playing at the pro level. Thus we can only hope that the team plays some good games and let the chips fall where they may. After the disasterous season we've had let's not lower ourselves adn get involved in any dscussions about 'tanking' games.
rocky : So long.
Senet1 : Good discussion rocky, I have to step out for an hour, but may be back later.
Senet1 : The only way this team comes back to a team with long term potential is to draft a game breaker. Even all the other bad teams have a Stamkos or a player like him. He have some good player so what we need is a Malkin that we can count on 80% of the time to win a game for us.
rocky : I mean winning will only do them harm that is.
rocky : It really hurts because my reflexes make me want to cheer like mad, but it will only hurt the team now.
Senet1 : Yes I have mixed feeling when watching the game. Last night I say here we go again. with our record of shoot losses I did not expect to win that one. Yet I wanted to win real bad?????
rocky : God, so horrible to sit and hope for losses, but here we are.
Senet1 : Our problem is we play one out of every 4 games good and therefore, we play well enough to stay on the borderline of a top five pick. If we win three or four in a row we could take ourselves right out of the running.