Steve Begin Breaks Foot
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Steve Begin fractured his foot in Sunday’s game against Columbus and will be out of the lineup yet again.
It feels like Begin hasn’t even been part of this team this year due to all the games he’s missed.
An important gritty player the Habs could have used down the stretch.
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- Senet1 : It will be interesting to see how Sutter does because to me the Oilers are not his kind of team, but then again neither were the Flames.
- goalie : I don't know when they'll announce it but the Oilers will be signing Sutter (Flames ex-coach) to coach their team - that's why Kevin Lowe chose him to coach in the World's. That was the world's worst kept secret.
- Senet1 : I guess I wish we could get it done so all the speculating was over and we can get to building out team.
- goalie : I can't type.... what a faux pas on my behalf...
- goalie : I just realized what I said adn didn't say yesterday. What a fayx as on my behalf. Regarding coaching Randy Cunnyworth MUSDT stay as an assistant- he deserves at least that after the tremendous job he did in the latter part of this past season. I'd still mlike to have Robinson, Carbo adn Allard on the staff also.
- Avatar37 : I agree Senet, my choice if we can't have Cunneyworth would be Crawford, Robinson on defense, Cunneyworth for offense, and Carbo as offense/faceoffs .
- Senet1 : I think if I had my choice it would be Crawford and see if he could get Carbo and Robinson as assistants. That would be my idea coaching team.
- goalie : I witnesed Marc Crawford MANY times when the Avs, etc. played against Oilers and let me tell you - he is constantly on the referees asses virtually game after game. He is the complete OPPOSITE of J. Martin. Crawford is calm on TSN but he is one excited coach behind the bench. A friend of mine who was an NHL linesman for 26 years said they dreaded Crawford he was so tough on the officials!
- goalie : You know, I've bee thinking about the coaching situation. I'd be really excited if the Habs had Hartley as head coach and Carbo adn Robinson as his assistants. I also read it somewhere about a month ago that Toronto's goalie coach Allard (?) wants to relocate back to Montreal where he has his goaltending school/business. Add him to the mix and I'd say the Habs would be in great shape coaching wise.
- Avatar37 : Well, from what I recall, Hartley didn't do all that well with the Thrashers. But, I don't know enough about him to judge one way or the other. Crawford I do know, and he always seemed to be a good, level headed coach to me.
- Senet1 : even Pacioretty two years ago did not impress any of us. Younger players have to play and make mistakes and learn from those mistakes. If they sit in the press box they are learning nothing.
- Senet1 : Of course if he have some good assistants like a Larry Robinson to teach the young defence and someone like Carbo to teach faceoffs etc. then your coach does not have to be as good at teaching. If Hartley fits the bill you get no argument from me. My only previous point is that if he is impatient with your younger players to the point that he does not play them, then we are right back where we were with Martin. Martin was a good coach too, but how he handled Emelin, PK and even Pacioretty two
- goalie : I would like to see the Habs sign a coach who realizes that our team isn't tough enough (we need to get bigger and somewhat more nastier),the coach needs t be a great TEACHER and be a coach who can get the players to understand and buy into his system. Other than that I couldn't care what lingo he speaks. I wnat to see our team become a ligitimate contender fast!
- HabsLoseAgain : Well we dont know if he is or is not a teaching coach. I woukd just hate to paint Hartley something that he is not. There will always be questions but if Hartley was hired as the habs new bench boss i for one would not be overly upset.
- Senet1 : My thoughts are not that he is or is not a good coach but rather that when he won the cup he had an experience team of superstars on that team. Where as we have a group of young inexperienced players, is he a teaching coach or a tactical coach or both? I am not question whether he is a good coach, but my question therefore is he the coach for us at this point in the deveopment of our team?? Not sure we are all purely speculating at the moment?
- Senet1 : Something happened to my first post. I will try again.
- Senet1 : That is why I said I am not sure he is the coach for us at this time? Right now we are all speculating including yourself, because non of us know for sure?
- HabsLoseAgain : Crawford also won a cup with Patrick Roy so would you say he is a good coach or did he just have great players and one of the best goaltenders of alltime?
- HabsLoseAgain : Senrt so please give me some reasons why you think Hartley is not the coach the habs need right now. What is it that you do not like about him or his coaching style?
- HabsLoseAgain : Well all great coaches had great players playing for them so i guess you you add a a pile of other coaches to that list including Bowan......
- Senet1 : Hartley, was he a good coach or did he just have great players and one of the best altime goaltenders of all time. I am not sure that he is the type of coach that this organization needs right now. Unless of course we sign a ton of free agents.
- Avatar37 : However, my feelings may completely be wrong, Hartley may turn out to be a good fit.
- Avatar37 : I didn't say Hartley was unknown, I said we demoted a good coach in Cunneyworth and now have an unknown quantity because we don't have a coach. I don't have that great a feeling about Hartley, I'd be much more comfortable with Crawford.
- HabsLoseAgain : In my opinion i think he might be a good fit in montreal. Oh and he also likes to have a tough team.
- HabsLoseAgain : Also this year he coached the ZSC Lions to the swiss championship title.
- HabsLoseAgain : lol the so called "unknown" won a cup in 2000-2001 with the colarado avalanch.
- HabsLoseAgain : lol Bob Hartley is not an unknown lol.....sheesh.
- Senet1 : I think he has until the trading deadline to show us that he deserves to be on this team. If he does not get back on track then he could be simply a 2nd round draft pick to whoever we can trade him to.
- Avatar37 : Bourque reminds me of Pouliot, size, skill, and invisible. He needs to get back to playing a physical game and bang people around and maybe he'll start getting some of those garbage goals again. Need to get to the front of the net. I hope he can find his game again.
- Avatar37 : We had a good coach in Randy Cunneyworth. Now we have an unknown, with Bob Hartley rumoured to be the front runner. I'd rather have Cunneyworth.
- goalie : A player like Rene Bourwue has al the physical attributes of what would be a beter than average player. Hwever, he certainly didn't play that well especially after being in Montreal about three weeks. We NEED players like Rene to play hard AND produce points on a REGULAR BASIS in order for us to be competitive.
- Senet1 : MONTREAL – Rene Bourque had a rocky start to his career as a Hab, but he’s planning on using the next four years to make up for it. After arriving in Montreal under less-than-ideal circumstances in January, Bourque spent the following 38 games hoping to find the spark he needed to rekindle his offensive production. Despite flanking Tomas Plekanec on the team’s second line to close out the season, the 30-year-old sniper suddenly found himself firing blanks in his new NHL home.
- Senet1 : I think we have to be patient and not expect too much too soon. Let's get a strong management team in place, make a good choices in the draft get a good coach and then see what we need at the free agent market. I will not be too disapointed if we miss the playoffs again next year if it means a long term team success. We have the opportunity to make some major strides over the next two years at the draft table. Then we fill in the holes.
- goalie : I certainly agree that we need to get some impact forwards who will sign for 5 years, not for a season then walk away. That's not going to help us.
- goalie : I wouldn't trade PK for Ovetchkin no matter what. He is a coach's NIGHTMARE and a poor team player.
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February 20, 2007 at 9:32 pm
what does it feel like to have a 3 -0 lead? didn’t we have this same lead against Columbus? Hope we don’t stop playing, like we did on Sunday.
I’m happy for Higgins. It’s been a long drought for him. But guys, this is Washington, we’re playing, and if you think we’ve been playing bad, take a look at their record. horrific! Keep skating guys. don’t let up!
February 20, 2007 at 9:38 pm
Nice to see the first line and the kid line working ,that’s two out of four,it better than nothing .If we can just blow them rite out of the water,big time,it would bring back the team spirit. No Kovalev,Abby, Huet , Rivet and Niinimaa,NO PROBLEMS !!
February 20, 2007 at 9:45 pm
See what happens when Gainey is too busy looking for injured players? Watch out, when he gets back, he’s gonna thrust more Ninny and Kovalev types down our throat, and he’ll trade the kid line to give us ****! Anyone wanna bet that Gainey is gonna trade the kid line for a washed up underachiever? Like we need another old folgy with matching walker to match Johnson, another Mr. Nice Guy Left Wing walking hernia….enjoy this break from Gainey….
February 20, 2007 at 9:47 pm
OH.oh….
February 20, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Montreal is not knocking em down, just like I said earlier, no matter how good Halak is, if Montreal doesn’t stop them on the boards and sides, they are gonna tic tac toe it to the net!
February 20, 2007 at 9:55 pm
wow… talk about deja-vu…. except this time its one period sooner that all this is happening. Hopefully the Habs can stop em from getting another goal. Cuz we all know the habs have lost their confidence and won’t score another goal…
February 20, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I don’t mind it so much cause the young guy’s are only going to get better,there’s a little hope now and thus more enjoyable to watch.
February 20, 2007 at 10:09 pm
What a contrast between the kid line and the old folgy line of Johnson and the other senior citizen’s line Koivu…big contrast. If Gainey and Carbo can’t see what young talent can do to bring some life into the organization, then I say its too bad, what a waste. We can’t be having the habs brought down by veterans. Not that all veterans are this bad. I mean Gainey could do better finding other senior citizens who would fit nicely with rookies. But Johnson, Koivu and etc just don’t measure up no more. Even Murray, but you can see him try to match the spirit, but the legs just are not there.
February 20, 2007 at 10:13 pm
um Joshtm… you do know that all 3 goals were scored by the koivu line or are you watching a different game?
February 20, 2007 at 10:16 pm
OMG Just beautiful!!!
February 20, 2007 at 10:17 pm
WE’LL BLOW ME DOWN BOY
February 20, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Hey the kid line knocked them outa sync though. If we didn’t have the rookies the caps would find their groove and then Koivu or Markov would get a hissy fit penalty. I guess you just are not seeing it are you. By the way it was also the Koivu line that got scored against too, can’t be having it both ways….
As soon as Ryder scores, Montreal steps back on its heels yet again. Almost like where were they two minutes ago?
But hey, the other teams skate around, and knock down our veterans and score on them.
February 20, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Just when u least expect it Ryder decides to show us what he is capable of
February 20, 2007 at 10:22 pm
pop
February 20, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Excuse me Josh but for the second goal it was the kid line on it. And that one was way worst then the first goal we let in. And I’m not even sure that Koivu was on the ice for that one neither. Just watch out what you say man. I’m 100% sure that it was the lapierre line for the 2nd goal.
As for the third goal, well, it was bonky bonk. So far the goals went against pretty much every line so don’t blame the old timers only.
February 20, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Ryder has got his groove back now! Another shorty, what’s that now,16 a new record perhaps. I got a feeling that this season is starting to get back on track now. Don’t give up Habfans. KEEP THE FAITH BABY!!!! GO HABS GO !!!
Smiler2729 that was HILARIOUS MAN!! P#14
February 20, 2007 at 10:40 pm
I’m sorry but I’ll be wearing me shade’s for the third and gots the bag with the eye hole’s ready for ruff sea’s and It’s going to be so ruff out there you can hardly drink your beer , bouy !
February 20, 2007 at 10:51 pm
hey, the Leafs lost…. sweet. things are looking up a bit. hold on habs!
February 20, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Good.now I’m going to find Frank on a Laff’s blog and bug the **** out of him..!!! L E A F S S U C K !!!!!!!!
February 20, 2007 at 11:02 pm
nail biter this is
February 20, 2007 at 11:04 pm
good ol SOURAY …..
February 20, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Keep up the good chatter everyone, here on the west coast, we are fed a steady diet of **** every Sat night on HNIC—meaning every sat ( almost exclusively ) it’s the Maple Leafs, quite obviously the ****** who decides the hnic sat games is nothing but a maple leaf *** kisser, who thinks that To is the center of the universe, we seldom ever get to see the Habs..unless of course they are playing T.O.
I enjoy your comments, keep up the good work, however Kovalev, Bonk and Samsonov are three totally useless scumbag pylons who need to be run out of town hitched to the bumper of any vehicle leaving town.
February 20, 2007 at 11:13 pm
GO GARTH
February 20, 2007 at 11:14 pm
WHOO HOOO
February 20, 2007 at 11:15 pm
nice way for Halak to start his career….. two strait wins
February 20, 2007 at 11:22 pm
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Time to get cautiously optomistic!
Habs win 5-3. Ryder and Higgins look like they’re coming around!
Oh, wait damnit, Higgins left with another injury. Well that just seems to be the way things go for this team.
The french media are already putting out columns and entire novels comparing Halak to Ken Dryden and Patrick Roy. It’s two games.
Kovalev not playing, the Habs possibly turning it around. Coinsidence? I think not.
Kovalev and Rivet should still be traded. Hey, if San Jose can’t get Souray maybe they’ll take rivet for Matt Carle, or more likely Josh Georges. And Washinton would take Kovalev to play with Semin or Ovechkin and apparently Datsyuk is almost a sure thing to go there in the summer.
But like I said, let’s get cautiously optomistic. Whooooooooooooooooooooo bring on those chumps in Nashville.
Oh, wait these standings are from 6 years ago. Let’s just bring up this years,
yeah, en hen, oh ****. And they just picked up who? Oh ****. They’re the best team in the west? When did that happen. Bloody Hell.
February 20, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Well ,you can forget about any trades now guy’s , Garth ‘s made sure of that…lol. We got two real team to play now, buckle up!!!
February 20, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Yo Josh, I just say the replays of the goals and they were both with the Lapierre line! Don’t rant about stuff that aint true next time…
February 20, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Yo Josh, I just saw the replays of the goals and they were both with the Lapierre line! Don’t rant about stuff that aint true next time…
February 20, 2007 at 11:41 pm
lITTLE BLOG ‘S JUST BEEN INFILTRATED BY LAFF ****, THEIR CAUSING K-OS ,GET READY FOR A KEY BOARD PUNCH-UP !!!!LOL
February 20, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Oh yeah i forgot… WE GET FREE WINGS AT CAGE AUX SPORTS HAHAHA!!!
February 21, 2007 at 12:04 am
Yo Frank ,your so quiet. Step in Bear **** buddy,to bad, that **** will never ever come off of there Maplefrank. nity nite stanky frankie,say good bye to your play off hopes,maybe 2067 is your year,oh wait you’ll be dead,ha ha ha ha ha
February 21, 2007 at 12:11 am
you guys know what would be my worst nightmare?
Seeing the Laffs get a cup before us lol
February 21, 2007 at 12:37 am
That ain’t going too ever ever ever happen !!!
February 21, 2007 at 12:49 am
yeah i hope not hehe… by the way, is it me or everyone is reeeaaaally quiet tonight? Theres only me and u Xhab. Seems like Frank or Josh have nothing to complain about today so they aren’t showing up!
February 21, 2007 at 12:50 am
or maybe Smiler got that hooker for Josh?
February 21, 2007 at 1:03 am
Does anyone know anything about Higgins injury? I heard it’s an upper body injury(shoulder). That’s all we need now. If he’s out for any appreciable time, we’re toast! It seems to be 1 injury after another. Before long, the whole Hamilton team will be playing. Do we have bad luck or what?
February 21, 2007 at 1:10 am
They said he was going to get x-rays to check it out so I don’t think we will know before tomorrow at the earliest… And it has to happen when he starts scoring again…. Such a bummer!
February 21, 2007 at 1:14 am
R habs,man we be winning with those BULLDOGS dude, hell ,bring the whole team, they be 4 real.
February 21, 2007 at 1:25 am
Our next 3 games are going to be tough ones. In Nashville Thursday, Sat afternoon in Long Island, and Monday against leafs. Well, we haven’t won an afternoon games this season, and Nashville is the best team in the NHL, and we can’t beat the leafs, so I don’t know. I do think Gainey will wait until we’ve played 3 more games(Tuesday), before he makes any moves. If we lose all 3, he’s selling. If we take 2 out of 3, we’re buying. That’s just the way it is. And please, no more injuries! Next, Youppi will slip and fall. Do the bulldogs have a mascot?
February 21, 2007 at 1:43 am
Nashville ,well we be losing that one, but I guarantee throw in SOME OF THE BIGGER TOUGHER BULLDOGS IN THE MIX AND IT WILL MESS UP THE PILE OF LAFF’S. They’re expecting the same old small Habs ,so don’t give them that,ROCK THIER WORLD PLAY OFF STYLE….YEAH…WOOOOOWOOO…
February 21, 2007 at 2:21 am
I say Habs beat Nashville…
February 21, 2007 at 2:35 am
I say your high
February 21, 2007 at 2:59 am
HIggins: scores twice
Ryder: scores twice
Joshtm: Still hasn’t scored with a chick
February 21, 2007 at 3:02 am
The vets really led the way tonight. Laps line played well but they made many rookie mistakes in their own end.
Best defensive game of the season . Only 18 shots against. TOo bad Semin went around Souray for the goal becaus eotherwise Souray was a monster in the defensive end tonight. Same with Komi and Boullion.
February 21, 2007 at 3:04 am
Gainey to meet with the media tomorrow. Rumour has it, that its to announce Joshtm’s real identity (Rejean Houle)
February 21, 2007 at 3:06 am
Hey josh:
Sorry I got to take the cheap shots at you but you make it far to easy. Constantly contradicting yourself and everytime you make a bold statement it is proven wrong the next game. I like your passion although sometimes HATE can be a horrible thing to pride yourself on.
February 21, 2007 at 3:06 am
Seriously Komi is da bomb!
February 21, 2007 at 3:44 am
ok well ima go take a snooze but before I want to do somthin…
February 21, 2007 at 3:45 am
I GOT POST #100 HAHA WHO DA BEST?!? IM DA BEST!!
hehe talk to ya guys later