Price to start, Spacek to play

Sometimes you eat the bar; sometimes it eats you, mate. Crying serves no purpose except to expose weakness. Shan't put up with it.

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Lord Bugs Potter, esq. Deputy General Counsel of Ungleberger Investment Group Trial and Litigation Section, Managing Shareholder of Spitz and Steen Enterprises and Senior Advisor to Flannelcom Industries Antitrust Division.

i forget who it was last night but komi got faced planted into the glass behind his own net when he got up he did a phirouette and was incredibly wobbly and dazed. on the bench the trainer asked him if he knew where he was and i saw him mouth "yeah, of course i do. I'm in Montreal."

“Talent is a gift from God, but you only succeed with hard work. Yvan was proof of that.” Jean Beliveau

Thanks for the link. I had not seen the item. I hope many people take the time to read it. It seems to me with thirty teams and a different era, we are doing just fine at the moment. Patience is a virtue; (or should I say our patients are virtuous?)

I don't know why nobody down there hates him...who knows... maybe they're a little chummy with some bad types down there... like maybe they run in the same circles as..............SsSsSAAAAATTTaaaaNnNnNnnnn

(I do apologize for marring your well intentioned sarcasm with dated shtick.)

i knw some people here think Bob Gainey is the worsrt GM ever, and all he wants to do is destroy the habs...

but Mike Modano is actually very respective of Bob Gainey and has said that they always refer to him and what would he do?

but what does Modano know, compared to some of the arm chair gm's we have here

Hmm, that article made me realize that Bob's worked for both Tom Hicks in Dallas and George Gillet in Montreal who own Liverpool FC.

Sounds like fun but I make no guarantee of any minimum grade.

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No one man can replace Markov.

My cable company does not and will not carry the NHL Network even as a pay channel. When I get blacked out, which is often on Gamecenter Live, I have no alternative but to use Hockey Streams. It is very frustrating. I emailed the NHL people with an expanation of my predicament and asked them to review their policy,since they seem to be able to know where I live by my zip code etc and they know I can't get the game and should therefore allow it on Gamecenter Live. They never answered. I am frustrated with them, to put it mildly.

What about the NHL Network?

------------------------"Let this be a reminder that this organization will not tolerate failure." Dr. Evil

i just read this thread and I don't know if you are aware of 'free to air'? my dad and all his neighbors use it farther north from me. he downloads the codes into his USB stick and uploads them to his 'free to air' sat box and voila....every damn channel in the universe basically. if the channels get scrambled , which they do every few days he simply downloads the new codes and he's up again in seconds

“Talent is a gift from God, but you only succeed with hard work. Yvan was proof of that.” Jean Beliveau

Were do you live?  If you have bell or starchoice, get RDS added on.  You get every game.

james i was able to negociate the NHL network channel when i bought my NHL CENTER ICE Package i am with the dish network.

"The Future Belongs to Those Who Believe in the Beauty of Their Dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

Yeah, he's a regular Rocket Richard.  That's why the Wild traded him straight up for Latendresse.  LOL  Mckeen's didn't even mention him under prospects.

09-10      14GP         4Pts

08-09       37GP       11Pts

07-08       GP11        3Pts

I'm not holding my breath waiting for an immediate impact.  That being said, he does have upside.

the journal wrote that he's getting closer but still feeling pain in his wrist. they drew an analogy to buying a sportscar and not being able to drive it. whether or not pouliot ends up being a hit, i'm dying to see what he can bring.

Just had a very awkward conversation with my dentist explaining why it is that I won't be able to come in for my appointment today....apparently he's not a hockey fan.  Luckily I have everyone on here to keep me sane....what was I thinking????

Are you a hockey player? Can you rock that look?

Fixed? Have them all pulled! Stanley Cup, here we come!

I say go for the Bobby Clarke look and the Habs will go on a long winning streak lol. 

LOL...I think you should leave it for rest of the season...we don't wanna jinx things now..do we?

halak will be gone at the end of the season habs can't keep him cause he'll be up for a nice raise form the 750k a year he makes now ( also i would think a few teams might submit offer sheets for him if he is still a RFA beacuse they wouldn't have to give up 2 many draft picks if they offer 1.35-2.25M a year). He also will probably want a chance to start somewhere too.

You should know that last few years giguere has been very inconsistent and during that time hiller was given a chance to take the #1 job. The thing in montreal is halak will never be given that chance for the #1 job regardless of his play; maybe halak will get more starts if price is slupping but only eventually to go back to Price (as has been the case)

Showing my age but I remember Patrick Roy with Doug Soetaert then Brian Hayward in his first 3-4 seasons with the Habs.  Halak doesn't fit the same criteria because those goalies were more experienced but they provided a cushion while allowing Roy to become more consistent.  For Roy's first 6 seasons he played 45-54 games.  I don't expect Price will be held back as long but considering the HOF Roy took till his 7th season to play over 60 games, I think it says something about having a competent back-up while your franchise goalie matures.  Having said all that, I expect Halak will be someone else's number 1 guy next year.  He's too young and too good to be held back indefinitely.  

Halak's GAA is 2.80 according to ESPN.

Ok, it was just an impression I had. I clearly feel outnumbered in my opinion, however. Thanks for the feedback... even the cheap shots were deserved, I guess. :-)

AndyF You're just ignorant to hockey. Spacek and Hamr have been rock solid for us!! Everyone has a slip up from time to time! You must be from laughs nation!!!

Yep, just you....

Definitely just you.  He's 2nd in +/- on the team, and third among D-men in points, after Hamrlik and Bergeron.

1. www.flickeringpictures.com - not a hockey site, but still kinda neat
2. Mike Boone: "With Gainey at my side, I'd walk into any dark alley in the world."

Carefully watch him in our own zone. He works miracles sometimes. We're overworking him and he's staying solid. Hopefully Markov comes back quick to give him a break.

It's just you.

And Spoonman.

not just you, but you're in select company. I'm not sure what else you could expect him to do really, but we all see the game differently

It's just you!

It's just you

That game he and Hamrlik played against Ovechkin sold it for me.  I am worried that  all the extra ice time the two have received in the absence of Markov combined with playing in the Olympics, they won't have anything left for the end of the season and the playoffs...

That's right, I said the playoffs!!

I think he has been extremely overworked and expected to fill roles that do not play to his strengths at his age....he has been thrust into being our top pairing guy and he is ideally a second pairing guy at this stage but I love what he brings...his game agaisnt Ovechkin fully demonstrated to me his ability...he has missed the net waay too much and at times has appeared sloppy but I think that may be a result of his expanded role personally.  He has by no means been ba d or anything close to it but he hasn't lived up to his offensive billing yet but then again he hasn't an opportunity to. If you look at him like a second pairing guy it gets much better...we did slightly overpay there too but again that is the cost of bringing guys to Montreal....

"Spacek opened the scoring 8:30 in and Boston, which hadn’t lost in regulation in seven games (6-0-1), was unable to tie it during a 5-on-3 advantage for a full 2 minutes after Spacek and Maxim Lapierre(notes) were both penalized for roughing 5:34 into the second."

slapshot, goal. and first goal to boot. it kinda helped the MO

He and Hamrlik have easily been our best d-men. Gorges is great aswell but as for pairings, the Hamr and Spatch one has been the best bar-none. He's a +6 so he can't be that bad, right?

Yeah F. that guy!! Patrick Traverse>>>>Jaroslav Spacek.

But seriously "Whatchu talking about Willis!?"

 For a 35 year old Dman, logging around 28 minutes a game on a regular basis, he's doin a hell of a job. He has hit the net with his slapshot numerous times, 53 times actually this year with 3 goals, dummy.

Don't knock his play, him and Hamrlik have saved our asses big time this season in the absence of markov.

Pour moi, Saku c'est un champion qui n'a pas encore gagné. Il joue comme un champion, il s'entraîne comme un champion, il mange comme un champion. Un jour, il le deviendra

not gonna say it's ONLY you....but pretty sure you're in the minority.  I concede that he is not an EXCEPTIONAL d-man, and really should be a 3-4 pairing player, rather than a 1-2 pairing.  However, injuries have required he take on more ice time, and he has filled in admirably.... all factors considered

I wish Gainey had spent that Gomez money on Gaborik.

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If a man speaks in a forest where no woman can hear him, is he still wrong?

good post.  At the end of the day,  like it or not we have Gomez and his contract.  Every time a trade is mentioned on here, his name comes up.  No one is going to take on that contract.  So we may as well make the best of it, accept him for the player he is (a solid second line centre and great on the PK) and all move on...

Getzlaf over crosby????  Man i wish i were in your pool id trade you Getzlaf for Crosby Right now.

“Well, he’s a thoroughbred, and maybe your wife doesn’t recognize that, but then again, I can’t bake bread all that well. We all have different skills.” ...Bob Gainey "Classic"

I do the same thing in my pool Harani. Otherwise I'm pretty much ensuring they're gonna light it up

It's admirable that you bench Crosby when he plays the Habs in your hockey pool. But its a tad foolish since he has 11 goals, 13 assists in 16 games vs our boys.

I only say this because I'm more dedicated to my own hockey pool than i should be.