Thank God !, the Habs are already a better team after getting rid of that scumbag, I would much rather have a small player who will give total effort,
than a talented one who plays when he feels like it..and that is very seldom !!
Good job Bob, now get rid of that other slug and the Habs will be a WHOLE BUNCH better !

Steve Begin’s play was caused by his blocking shots. You can be the best hockey player in the world,but if your all banged up from 100m.p.h frozen rubber bullits cause your the only player that will block a puck in regular season play on your team,chances are your going to have a **** season.You can blame Carbo for Begins play last year and the funny thing is a lot of goalies don’t like it if you block their view . The only reason a coach would ask a player to block shots in early reg season is cause he don’t trust his Goalies!HUET???????????????????????

Any way you slice this…this is definitely good. The two guys should be some form of support if not for the Habs then for the BullDogs. You know, Yashin would be a good thing if he can work some give and go with Kovalev if there is another digger like Ryder…so if the salary consists of a small base and incentive based bonuses, then go for it!!! Especially where we can’t get Lacavalier or Ryan. Huet may have to be packaged for a shot at Lecavalier and it might have to take a Higgins. If Blake can be enticed then why not. Just my 2 cents.

Trading for Lecavelier is a pipe dream. It’s a nice dream to have but it won’t happen. The only way the Habs would get Vinny is to have a massive package involving Price, and trading him would be the worst mistakes the Habs will have made since trading Roy. You don’t trade goalie’s like this and Gainey knows this.

Vinny will not be a Hab till 2009 at the earliest when he becomes UFA. Look for Marleau at the draft, I have a feeling that a trade with the Sharks to get him.

So long Sammy! About time…..I never liked that signing from the start! We already had 2 lazy russians in Kovy and Perezhogin. Forget Briere, forget Drury, forget Marleau….go after Hartnell and Allison and then fill in the rest with youngsters.

GO Habs Go!!

You frogs don’t know what you are talking about. Because the Habs-not had a bad season you want to blame it on one person. You will never make it to the Stanley cup as long as you you the same two people coaching and as the general manager. The days of a team with nothing but french players is gone. There are not enough french players left to help montreal. Sergai will do good in Chicago

Allison????? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH

Why dont we just bring back Turner Stevenson. HE has more foot speed.

Agreed joshtm, It still blows me away that after that horrific signing of Samsonov last year”getting someone to help Kovalev,lol”,and the terrible year our Habs had,some of the praise Gainey’s getting.Realisticly,Bob hasn’t done the things he needs to do and it shows in the stats ! I mean if there going to fire Muckler and his team makes it to the finals ? I think this is a make or break year for Bob and Carbo.

Boy, the Flyers started early! They traded the first round pick they got for Forsberg back to the Preds for the negociating rights to Timonen and Hartnell and then got both of them signed to 6 year deals.

I didn’t want Timonen cause he’s already 32, but Hartnell was only 25 and had tons of grit to go with his skill. I really wanted Hartnell on the Habs. Oh well, the Flyers over paid for the both of them:

“Hartnell, who was scheduled to become a free agent on July 1, signed with Flyers on a 6-year, $25.2 million deal for a cap hit of $4.2 million per year.

The Flyers also agreed to terms with Timonen on a 6-year, $37.8 million contract for an annual cap hit of $6.3 million”

Marleau baby! I still feel it coming! And what has Gainey done to improve the team?

Umm….Price, Carle, Fisher, Latendresse, Valentenko, Emelin, Chipchura, Sergei Kostitsyn, Grabovski, Streit, Mathieu Aubin, MattD’Agostini, Ben Maxwell and Ryan White. All in juniors or AHL and all played extremely well last year and were drafted by Gainey.

If he hadn’t traded for Huet we’d probably still have Jose Theodore as the starter.

This team actually has depth for the frist time in 20 years and he’s done a good job cleaning up the horrible mess that Houle and Andre Savard left behind.

did Emelin sign with the habs? I heard he signed with a Russian team
does anyone know?

Higgy21….make fun of my sugg. to sign Allison all ya want….slow or not he is still PPG player of which Les habitants have ZERO!!!!!! He pots em’ and thats what it is all about baby!!!!

Hey joshtm…..i have been looking through all of the different blogs on this site and your messages are all the same…you don’t like bob……you need counselling man…seriously! Get over it cause he is not going anywhere..you are a huge pessimist.

All I am saying is Cullimore did not use his size never has probably never will. He is just another 6foot five inch 245 pound rag doll. Heck just replace Cullimore’s stats with any other Habs around that size, same thing. Johnson and Ninnima are classic examples, Markov another. Biron down in the Dogs another. The habs have hockey players who are assessed at playing below their capacity, nice way of saying, they are big lazy players who play like the wimps they are.

Crazy Bob has a thing for wimps!

http://boards.chicagoblackhawks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13877&pid=257976&mode=threaded&show=&st=&

Note for all you people out there that think Gainey is God once again for dumping Samsonov, Cullimore is a scandinavian version of Samsonov! Oh Gee! Gainey dumped Samsonov’s salary, actually the remainder of Samsonov’s salary plus buying out Cullimore’s…hmm…I don’t exactly see the saving there, either way you cut it, Gainey doesn’t have a lot of cap room left. The details are in the trade. I don’t see what is so great about that, it’s a moving out sale with Gainey paying someone once again at a garage sale price, with the Habs picking up the total tab!

Cullimore’s name was mud in Chicago, oh great, for someone who’s contract is supposed bought out and he will never don a Habs uniform, guess again genuiuses, Cullimore’s stats show on the habs site, not exactly saying he ain’t never gonna play. Great, so we trade one nose bleeding Russian in the Bell Centre rafters with guess what, a Scandinavian nose bleeding prima donna!

Salamander ain’t exactly hot neither, his TSN stats ain’t promising, they rate him as an underachiever as well….

This is from the Internation Herald Tribune”Cullimore spent the last two seasons with the Blackhawks, appearing in 118 games and scoring two goals while totaling 117 penalty minutes. Salmelainen played one season with the Blackhawks, appearing in 57 games and scoring six goals.”

And from the Daily Herald in Chicago: “Samsonov has one year remaining on his contract for $3.5 million, which the Canadiens desperately wanted off their books. Montreal GM Bob Gainey said after last season that the team did not want Samsonov back.

In dealing Cullimore and Salmelainen, the Hawks moved out a total of $2.7 million in salary of players that did not fit into their plans either.

“Basically we got a top-six forward for 800 grand,â€? Tallon said.”

Guess with Chicago only paying 800 grand for Samsonov, guess who ends up footing the rest of Samsonov’s salary, yup, Montreal. So where’s the cap room eh guys? What so Great About Bob Gainey in that one?

And getting rid of a prima donna whiner in return for two players who were a bust and basically replacing one crappy player with two, what is so great about that, it still leaves Montreal out 3.8 million! All we’ve done is free up Chicago’s cap space! Oh ya, Chicago just loves Bob now too! Further down in the Daily Herald’s story about Cullimore and Salamander: “The Hawks had been looking to move the disgruntled 34-year-old Cullimore and his $1.9 million salary since early last season.

“It was not so much Cullimore’s play, it’s just that we wanted to open up a spot for one of our young defensemen such as (James) Wisniewski, (Danny) Richmond or (Dustin) Byfuglien,� Tallon said.

According to a report by Canadian Press on Saturday, the Canadiens already have agreed to buy out the final year of Cullimore’s contract, making him an unrestricted free agent.

Salmelainen, 25, was a big disappointment to the Hawks after arriving from Edmonton via Europe in the 2006 trade for Jaroslav Spacek.

Salmelainen had good straight-ahead speed, but he never showed he could play in traffic or create his own chances and finished with just 6 goals and 11 assists in 57 games.

“He didn’t get off to a good start and then some injuries hit him,â€? Tallon said. “It just didn’t work out for him with us.â€?”

So here we are paying for two broken down concussion and hip damaged players who are exactly veterans, but play like the wimps they are. Hooray for Crazy Bob! Trading one crappy player for two!

That ain’t exactly earth shattering stats for either player. Trading Samsonov and buying out Cullimore doesn’t give Gainey room this year, or later in the year and early next year. Gainey has to wait two years to take advantage of the cap room created with getting rid of Samsonov. Essentially its a continuation of Gainey’s Great Welfare Plan for Russian Prima Donna’s…next to Crazy Bob’s