Big weekend, Big week: Philly (Sat), Philly (Sun), Rangers (Tues), Penguins (Thurs)!

4 wins and things start looking pretty good for these Habs!! Any predictions?

I think Philly is going to come out gunning tonight–they are on a losing streak and losing both games to the Habs would really, really hurt them!

Fingers crossed.

LET’S GET LECAVALIER…….. THE TIME IS RIGHT. JUST HEARD ON CBC HOTSTOVE THAT HE MAY BE READY TO LEAVE TAMPA BAY. I SAY WATCH OUT FOR GAINEY, HE ALWAYS KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. I SAY HE’S ATTEMPTING TO GET HOSSA SO HE CAN POSSIBLY BARGIN WITH TAMPA BAY FOR VINNIE……

2 nicknames for Price: Mr. Right, or the Ice man. which is more fitting?

Hey !!!!!!!!!!

I’m the Ice Man………..

But It would gladly give it up to Price.

I figure that young Downey is exactly what we need ,a real spark plug he is !Other than that ,fun game to watch ,Price won the game for us .Bring in Halak and let the Trading begin…

lol Nevermind. Anyways. Lets see how good Price does tonight!

lol Good going Ryder and Koivu, keep it up and we’ll have 2 good lines!!!

Now lets go kill those Rangers!!! Ottawa won’t beat Philly on Tuesday, I just know it. Philly has lost 7 in a row and is due for a win. Now lets get ahead of these Ottawa Senators!!!

O h yeah baby!!!!!go habs go…

Did everyone notice Ryder shooting! I like it. Ryder always holds on to the puck for way too long but last night he showed his shooting. Only got 1 goal but he did have some good shots though. I still think It’s too late, for Ryder will be gone come trade Deadline.

Ryder was skating like a man on a mission. O’Byrne was looking like Komisarek#2. Kovalev is on fire. Hamerlik makes Gainey look like a trading genius(we are only starting to forget Ribeiro). Price is starting to challenge Huet. Give some credit to Carbonneau for being tied for first place!!!!

Ribeiro is now in 10th place and 10 points out of 1st in N.H.L. SCORING, I can’t forget or forgive that ,even worse when we got Niinamaa in the swap,f@cking-bull$h1t.

Donnie: I was telling myself the same, about the poor coverage of the outside-of-Quebec media coverage, but here’s what we need to understand:

1) Leafs marketers want everyone outside of Quebec to cheer for the leafs; the media never was about ”let’s give the Habs fan outside some reporting services”, but more like: ”let’s convert those Habs (or any other given team’s) fans to Blue and White madness). I live 2 hours from Toronto and am always amazed at the fact that the Air Canada center would be full every night even if the team playing in would be last in the east coast league standings. Give credit to the marketers..

2)The NHL so called ”intelligentsia” from the States (ESPN) reporters (a certain Burnside guy) are not about to brag about the fact that they were way off in predicting Montreal standings. Talking about the Habs and making their Mea Culpa would show everyone in the hockey world that they know less then nothing about Hockey (you know, that sport that gets 5% of ESPN’s attention ) anyways. First thing every real hockey fan learns and then knows, his that you do not win Stanley cups on ”paper”, but on the Ice.

The Montreal Canadiens marketing team should not shy away from their fans outside of Montreal. I know a guy in Creston B.C. that got his subscription with RDS (not speaking even the slightest of French) only to follow the Habs games; that’s a Fan. I think he deserves more recognition, along with all of the Habs Fan outside of Quebec.

So TSN, Sportsnet, CBC sports (I’ve given up on ESPN)….I know you are paid to cover the Leafs, but a little more coverage (when deserved, as is the case here!) would not hurt your credibility in the slightest of ways.

Best way to make them look bad…is to earn that top spot in the standings!

I’d love to see the English Canada sports media try to avoid the subject after that…….

is price injured? because i was going to pick price for my fantasy team on sportsnet.ca but it said he was injured.

Just not updated for when he was brought up from the bulldogs

I really hope we don’t end up trading Higgins for Hossa. Higgins is a good young player.

The more I think about the apparent price for Hossa, the less popular it seems. Ryder and picks won’t cut it, so the question is: what can Montreal offer. I’d rather watch the young Habs grow together into a dominant team than to improve the team’s chances for this year. My guess is that well all probably feel the same.

According to the Fourth Period, Higgins’ name is in the mix for Hossa. Just rumors, of course, but that’s all there is for now.

Martin Havlat is what the Habs need,and for those who say he is injury prone,now he’s not injured and Koivu used to be called injury prone,get over it.And even though Ryder played like Ryder of old last nite I believe the Black hawks would be interested in him.I also believe Carbo’s benching of Ryder gave him his will to play back,so good trade for all.

I can’t seem them trading Koivu b/c I don’t know who would wear the C if he left. Kovalev perhaps. But Markov’s English isn’t too good, and much of the team is quite young. Kovalev has really turned it around this year. Anyone else notice how he smiles now when he scores a goal, whereas he never used to do that? He’s definitely a team leader this year.

I think if they can ink Hossa to a long-term contract that he’d be a good addition. Higgins isn’t taking much cap space, though, and I think he’s a RFA before he’s a UFA. He’s also only 25 to Hossa’s 30. Even so, long-term Hossa would be nice, I agree.

I don’t like the hometown Lecavalier. The pressure would be incredible; he’d have the weight of his team on his shoulder, with piles of old friends and family putting probably even more pressure on him. My bet is that he might not want to come here.

But can you imagine, just imagine, if Montreal ever got both Hossa and Lecavalier?! Imagine the lines!! Mind you, we’d only have 2 lines because the Habs wouldn’t be able to afford any other players, but what a two lines they’d be! We’d have the best first period hockey team in the NHL! And we’d have draft picks again beginning in 2015, so we could rebuild by the time Hossa and Vinny hit 40 years old.

Seriously, though, I’d put money on a team that could put Higgins, Hossa, Lecavalier, Kovalev, Plekanac, Koivu, Kostitsyn 1 and 2, Markov, Komisarek, Hamrlik and Price on the ice in the same game. Holy **** I’m getting myself excited. It would be like the Habs of old.

Being old, though, it’s nice to see that the days of disaster, the late 1990s, are behind this team. Gaigney is clearly moving in the right direction–sometimes we think otherwise, but only when we forget about how poor the management was in the 1990s. Just think of the Rajean Houle days. Who’d we get for Patrick Roy? We drafted Terry Ryan before Iginla! Turner Stevenson before Brodeur!! Jason Ward before Marian Hossa!!! Eric Chouinard before Simon Gagne!!!! Ron Hainsey before Alex Frolov and Justin Williams!

Since Reajan Houle left in 2000, we’ve drafted Komisarek, Higgins, Kostitsyn, Chipchura, and Carey Price!

Things are getting exciting again!

According to Jim Kelly on CTV Sportsnet that Al Stracha on CBC Hotstove Satalite’s take that Vincent Lecalvier wants to go to a contender is totally false. According to Kelly when Lecalvier was asked about Stracha’s comments, he said they were not true and was not looking to be traded. A little closer to the truth is that Jay Feaster is trying to shop Brad Richard’s huge salary so he can re-sign Dan Boyle. Quite frankly I thought Brad Richards was never worth that huge salary when he got it, so to think Feaster will get players in return as well as dumping an overpaid player is a little ridiculous. That being said there may be General Manager out there that might be desperate (Philadelphia – no Forsberg,injured Gagne. 7th in the east and dropping fast) Its possible.

Jaker…..I’m in Atlantic Canada also, we both know how broadcasts and updates go in this corner of Canada….all you have a choice to see regularly while growing up and even now to some extent is the Leafs or Habs. So you pick who you cheer for….luckily my dad is a major Habs fan too, so I ended up following him when I was young and going for the Habs also. Thank Christ…don’t think I could handle the sufferings of Leaf fans, lol.
Anyways, I watch the Habs play whenever I can, and thankfully this year I have been blessed with being able to see every game so far. In years past I have watched 99% of their games on RDS in french…so many games it got to the point where you start to understand what they’re saying, lol. But these last 2 years I’ve had the Center Ice stations…they’re wonderful…I think I’ve seen all but 2 games this year in english…and lemme tell ta something…these American announcers give the Habs more props than the Canadian ones. But also, outside of being a Habs fan, I am also a HOCKEY fan in general….I’m in pools and enjoy watching great players….these stations are terrific and I would suggest them if you havent tried them. They give more of a variety for Atlantic Canadian hockey fans to choose from..just a thought.

BTW, we got them friggen Rangers again tonight…our Achilles heel so to speak….get a 3 goal lead again tonight and hold it boys….play like you can and get those 2 extra points….whatta night for Philly to break free and hammer the Sens….lets go team…play hard. GO HABS GO !!!

It seems just when we start to write someone off they start playing the way we expected them to play all year. Koivu, Higgins and especially Ryder are prime examples of this. Ryder finally discovers that if he shoots the puck at the net it will go in and so he has started to score. His goal almost helped us pull out another come back last night against Pittsburg. On the other hand Huet did not look good in the net last night there were a couple of pretty soft goals where he just did not control the rebounds. After taking a 4-3 lead we should have won that game, but our defense got a little sloppy where as they should have been protecting that one goal lead in the third. Getting back to Ryder, His market value should have gone up in the last two weeks and maybe since he is a UFA this summer he will have to be moved because after this season I doubt he will want to go through the uncertainty again next year. Hopefully, Gainey can use his good play to his advantage.