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Steve Begin Breaks Foot

  • 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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  1. #1 T-RUM says:
    February 21, 2007 at 9:04 am

    anybody besides me notice that when joshtm is not on, neither is JL55 ( the guy who applauds his posts?)…coincidence?

  2. #2 T-RUM says:
    February 21, 2007 at 11:04 am

    “Gaby” sends in the following on the Montreal Canadiens: “Michel Villeneuve on the late night show 110% in Montreal has announced that the Habs are imminent on a deal with the Minnesota Wild involving Benoit Pouliot, nothing else was said. It also appears that the Wild have been scouting Habs games and that Assistant General Manager Pierre Gauthier has been scouting the Wild. Villeneuve goes on to say that since Bob Gainey has announced he would speak to the media when there would be news to talk about a couple weeks ago, something may be imminent since Gainey has agreed to speak to the media on Thursday in Nashville.” Hat tip also to Louis

  3. #3 Joshtm says:
    February 21, 2007 at 11:16 am

    hey T-Rum you are a real funny guy.

    I think the habs are in for **** kicking tomorrow, and Gainey is gonna bring the team down by being physically in the same building as the team. Anyone notice when Gainey is not at the games the team is energized? Coincidence?

    Hey T-Rum what other great conspiracy theories do you have. The media routinely asks Gainey to be present for media interviews, I think they want to interview him on the slump and why no trades are involved.

    A-GMs routinely scout each others teams but very little comes of it.

  4. #4 Joshtm says:
    February 21, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Hey Habs4ever would see us trade the kid line that has basically lifted us out of a slump, I guess like Gainey, Habs4ever is only happy when the habs are losing….I say bring up Kosty and Grabby and have a real **** kicking line. Dandy and Boully are just pansies honestly. Limp noodles.

  5. #5 T-RUM says:
    February 21, 2007 at 11:52 am

    conspiracy theories?

    lmao

    you are a demented little man but,

    you are a habs fan – gotta give you that

    hey, here’s one I heard on team 990 yesterday:

    maple leaf fans are the type of people that think Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company.

    struck me funny

    anybody seen Frank this morning?

  6. #6 smiler2729 says:
    February 21, 2007 at 12:08 pm

    I’m a Montrealer who moved to Toronto in 1987 (came for school, got a job, never left)… Grew to hate the Leafs and especially their fans, 6 years ago, I even moved 70 kms northwest of Toronto cuz the city’s so blah…

    I love hockey (as we all do) so while I work the afternoon shift (4-12) I listen to my second favourite team (whoever plays the Leafs) on the radio thru the Walkman. Don’t know if any of you know but they have a TV station LeafsTV and they dissect the game afterwards (segment called ‘After The Horn’) and take calls from ‘Leaf Nation’. It’s simulcast on LaffsTV and the radio so I listen only when they lose and last night was just beautiful.

    A shut-’em-down 3-0 win by the Bruins in Toronto and boy, were the fans about to lose it, calling Sundin a bad captain, saying the team had no killer instinct, that they better trade Sundin and/or Tucker before they become UFAs, criticizing the goaltender (Raycroft got the hook), slamming coach Paul Maurice for his line combos and, oh yeah, FIRE THE G.M. ASAP! It was Toronto’s first regulation loss since the Penguins killed ‘em 8-2 before the All-Star break!

    SOUND FAMILIAR? DOES IT NOT BOTHER YOU THAT SOME HERE SOUND LIKE LEAF MORONS WHEN THE HABS LOSE? We’re all Hab fans here but some of you have nothing better to do than slam the entire organization after a loss, please, PLEASE KNOCK IT OFF, YOU SOUND LIKE LEAF FANS AND THAT SHOULD JUST SHAME YOU…

    In Bob We Trust.

  7. #7 R habs 4 real says:
    February 21, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Hey Smiler: I watch on my dish ” after the horn”, but ONLY when the leafs LOSE!
    Hab fans think alike. I especially enjoyed watching when leafs were on that 7 game losing streak. So, it shows that fans in all cities get frantic when their team loses. But I feel smug when it’s the leafs.
    I hope the injury to Higgins isn’t serious. We can’t afford to lose him now. The team is almost depleted of players. I don’t mind Kovalev, Huet, or Rivet out, but not Higgins. Maybe it’s our fate, so the kids from Hamilton can come and show their stuff. Since you leave outside Toronto, do you ever go to Hamilton to watch some of their games?

  8. #8 Alestar says:
    February 21, 2007 at 1:42 pm

    smiler2729: true dat! We’ve got a pretty decent young team, best we’ve had in more than 10 years.

    Let Bob do his thing and Lord Stanley will be coming home soon enough…

    18

  9. #9 smiler2729 says:
    February 21, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    Smug’s the word… VERY SMUG.

    Classic Leaf moments of Smugness for me:
    *’03 Playoffs- Martin Gelinas scores in OT as Carolina knocks out the Leafs and Cujo’s played his last game in Toronto.
    *’04 Playoffs- After Sideshow Bob Darcy Tucker takes himself out of the play with a bodycheck on Sami Kapanen, Jeremy Roenick skates in alone down the wing and eliminates the Leafs with a great shot as the Flyers take the series.
    *Last March in Montreal, 2 games back to back with the Habs with their playoff fate in their hands, the Laffs get creamed by the Greatest Team On The Planet in consecutive shellackings! BEEEE-U- TIFUL!

    Yeah, the 7 game slide early this season was satisfying especially all those ’3rd period’ collapses! Also, Bouillon beating the **** out of Tucker early this season was cool.

    That team and its fans are so easy to loathe with their little tin foil Stanley Cups hoisted over their heads as they run up and down Yonge Street after the Leafs win a playoff game!

    As for the Bulldogs, we keep talking about going over to see a game but never get around to it but we’re definitely going to take in an OHL game in March to see John Tavares and Oshawa play Mississauga. Any free time I do have is spent with the kids or playing hockey with the boys, thank God my wife’s a hockey fanatic too (Blue Jackets fan but shares the hatred of all things ‘Leaf’)

  10. #10 Xhabsfan says:
    February 21, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    smiler, smiler ,smiler ,smiler,
    Now I know U taken too many Phil Esposito frozen street hockey balls to da head ,backstopper!!Just want attention or something,lol??? You should play less street hockey cause your game is OFF and start watching more RDS out there in LIL new york,SO YOU CAN BRODEN YOUR POMPUS AND DALUSSIONAL THINKING. It’s not even worth talking to you half the time cause you are so much in denile . STart watching the games smiler before you talk and only then it will come to you. Oh ya ,I’m older than you so take the free advice ROGIE.

  11. #11 smiler2729 says:
    February 21, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    Street hockey?
    BRODEN? Broaden. POMPUS? Pompous. DALUSSIONAL? Delusional. DENILE? Denial.

    Huh?
    What?

    Magilla Gorilla at the keyboard?

    RDS?

    IN…
    BOB…
    WE…
    TRUST.

    All others must be Leaf Fans.

  12. #12 Habz4EveR says:
    February 21, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    HAHA Duuuude… Just because I proved to ya that both Washington goals were scored while the kid line was on the ice doesn’t mean I want us to trade em! Look for one place where I speak about Bob, the kid line, and trading in the same comment. Find any? No. That’s what I thought. So Josh, stop inventing BS to defend urself cuz ur starting to get people on ur backs. If it wasn’t for the fact that we both love and cheer the same team and loath the Leafs, I wouldn’t be so polite.

    I’m only 18 and maybe you’ve been around to see more hockey then me, but I just stated facts and you can’t deny those. So don’t start blaming the Koivu line, nor me for wanting to trade youngsters, without EVIDENCE!!!

  13. #13 val1841 says:
    February 26, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    yeah Steve Begin is my best player.. and i wish i will come back before the season end!.. hehe!.. i love you begin

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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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