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Koivu and Kovalev back at the Bell Centre
posted by Mike Boone at 18h42 EST on Jul 14
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I grew up in Park Extension, within walking distance of Dickie Moore's Dairy Queen on Jean Talon. Moore had a place on L'Acadie Blvd., and we used to see him driving around in his convertible with a Samoyed and a very dishy wife.
While "studying" at McGill University during the 1960s, I used to attend games at the old Montreal Forum. My fellow undergraduate reprobates and I would scramble up the stairs to get centre-ice spots in the top standing room section, where aged ushers didn't know or care what we were smoking.
I stood out in the cold for six hours to get tickets to the 1975 New Year's Eve game between the Canadiens and Central Red Army. With the exception of the birth of my daughter, the 3-3 tie was the greatest event I've ever seen in my life.
The Canada-U.S. Gold medal game comes close .... but I wasn't there.
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Will there be an English or sub-titled version?
this is something i would also like to know the answer to.
Go Habs Go!!!!!!
Another excuse for fans and the team to get puffed up about our glorious past? Haven't we learned our lesson from last year's Stinkburger?
I have no desire to see it.
Give us a winning team that shows up to play every game this season; that's the movie I'll be watching.
Sorry Bard, I think you're off-base here. It's one thing to over-do an anniversary (even if it's 100 years), but it's another to look back at our history with pride and remember what the Habs of the glory days were made of.
If anything, this could and IMO should be required viewing for those new to the team going forward - there's no harm in displaying the pride and glory that players once had once they donned the CH.
Last season we celebrated a big, old, round number which the roster wasn't able to hold a candle to and we all bit - hook, line and sinker. This film doesn't cherish a centennial, it reminds us of the legends that once made this team great, in a time when making the team alone was worth more than anything any hockey player dream of (besides winning the cup in Montreal of course).
I agree.
You don;t have to remind me of last years ugly season from the performance of the players, to the organization marketing these events and the media hyping these events including the friggin All-Star game if you can call it that.
I, for one will not watch. It will only be shown in Quebec from what I hear in the grapevine.
I'll be content watching an old cassic retro movie made in the 70's called "the mystery of the million dollar hockey puck" and starring our MOntreal Canadiens.
I could watch this movie over and over. A classic!
"We will win the Cup one day only with a mature Carey Price in the nets"
I concur.
~ Listen to the smart dog - he knows his poop!
Has the schedule been posted on any sites yet for 09/10 season? Can't wait to se it!!! Go Habs Go!!!!
I believe this will be a great movie to watch from start to finish. Oh the memories of the great past.
A simple 30 second trailer sparks so much emotion of pride and joy being a Canadiens fan. I am happy to have captured memories of great teams in the late 70s and mid-late 80s. What we saw last year and over the last 15 years is an atrocity to the team's history and simply a fleecing of HABS fans.
Good ridence to all and welcome new blood. "Win or tie, don't tie too often"
--I will die a delirious fan and never apologize for it!--
The trailer looks to capture the emotion the Habs generate. That this emotion is a very real and visceral thing. It looks like the movie Hab fans have been waiting for. I hope it's as good as it looks.
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Beliveau is the best that ever was.
Do they show the wild nightclub parties the players attended and the fiascos in the dressing room in the movie?
That definitely would be a R rated movie.
"We will win the Cup one day only with a mature Carey Price in the nets"
Ya to be young and rick eh... throw in the "accused" players messing around with the mob and you got american gangster 2
Picture of two perfect things clashing
Wow, that's a 36 secs teaser trailer but it still gave me goosebumps somehow haha. Can't wait to see it.
Have any of you seen the Rocket film with Dupuis? That was an awesome film too! He did a great job and so did the rest of the cast.
edit: I watched it again and the shots of Koivu and Kovy made me sad, I miss em already hehe.
I agree. The Rocket is up there as one of the best sports movies ever along with The Natural and Hoosiers.
"We will win the Cup one day only with a mature Carey Price in the nets"
The Rookie with Dennis Quaid was pretty good too, based on Jim Morris.
There were to many movie stars on this club last year.
The 100 th year was the largest turd year in our history.
So Bob gave the whole team a double glass of that stuff that you take the day before a colonoscopy.
Now that they are cleaned out properly, we can start to enjoy our new TEAM! in training camp this fall.
Ian
Ian! I am surprised by your candid admission that last season was a major turdfest. I can't ever remember being sad to the point of nearly being brought to tears at the end of the Habs' season. I think that it was a reflection of the collective agnst we all felt for Carey Price, the team AND the fans at the Bell Centre that fateful last game, especially with the expectations of the year before and the 100th all rolled into one. I won't dump on the fans. They were in a sense voicing what we were all feeling to some degree whether we like to admit it or not.
Bob sure did make a major overhaul and nobody can accuse him of never making moves anymore. It's clear to me that he and Jacques Martin are up to something. The danger is to get too high and ahead of ourselves. Look what last year's high expectations brought us. The best I can ask for is that the TEAM leaves it all out on the ice and truly gives it their all. There's no shame in losing when you put in a valiant effort and give it all you've got. I think we all felt that last year there was too much wilting going on. I just don't see that happening this upcoming season.
Ian buddy, YOU are one funny dude LOL!
What?!? Your supposed to take that stuff orally?!?! oh man.... that explains a lot
Looks good, cant wait
Right now I don't give a rats a-- about this.
~ Listen to the smart dog - he knows his poop!
If there's anyone I feel worse for than I do for we fans, it's the guys who've made this movie. First, the Centennial season sucks harder than ABBAmania, then everyone in the movie is dumped in the six months before the film debuts. Selling this to disillusioned Habs fans must be like trying to sell Georges Laraque a slice of seal flipper pie.
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The movie is about the history of the team. About how the rosters may change, players come and go, but they're still the Canaadiens. What better way to illustrate that fact than by putting out such a film after The Purge?
LMAO! THE PURGE!!!!! What a great way to call it.
FYI, I've trademarked that phrase as it relates to the Habs.
The Purge, (TM) Chuck, 2009.
:)
"Purgemeister Chuck!"
The only way I am buying this is if this movie reveals to us what really happened in the dressing room last year. ANd also who was the one who approved those barber uniforms last year.
will they show up.
lol, Koivu will, he'll bust his butt for an hour while Kovalev make a flashy entrance and then just sits at his table and stares at himself on the big screen.
------------------------ Vive La Sainte-Flanelle!
Christmas 2009...that's a long wait. Wonder if I'll notice the scene that I was an extra in...heh, probably not.
Haha thats what i was wondering. Thought i saw myself in the trailer.. paused it and not even close