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You know what, I'll outright say it: I like Carbo. Sue me.
Look at our team guys. Honestly, Carbo really didn't have much to work with. We had a bunch of kids, and when you have rookies, there's usually a lot of inconsistency. People moan and complain, but you honestly have to look at what Carbo has done for this team. NO ONE expected us to make the playoffs, much less in the position we are now, yet look where we are. Hell we've had one 1st line trio and 3 4th line trio's in the past couple of games yet look where we are.
I don't know, I was a Carbo basher like all of you once, and still question some of his decision at times, but that's ok. What's not ok is the interminable bashing he gets constantly, and it's totally not deserved. It's so much easier to blame Carbo, then to point out how Higgins and Saku have been completely useless in the past few games right?
I don't know why nobody likes Carbo,I think he has done a great job with the Canadiens. If this line shuffling is so horrendous, then why are the Canadiens one of the highest scoring teams in the league? We don't have any superstar talent, yet we have the best powerplay in the NHL.
Carbo has also kept our team in playoff position all year despite what the critics said at the beginning of the season.
His choice of Huet as our No. 1 at the beginning of the season was a good one, there's no arguing he gives the Habs a chance to win almost every night, he's not the superstar Price will be one day, but he's an excellent choice for now.
I doubt any other coach available would have the Habs in a better position than they are now.
GO HABS
Why are so many of us Habs fans happy with mediocrity? We are only a few points out of the playoffs again this year,no big change from last season. I have no complaints with Carbs but when is Gainey gonna take a risk and bring a number one center to Montreal. No offense to Koivu as I think he is great but he never was or never will be a true number 1 center. I think this is the year to put that important peice of the puzzel in!!!
we have a lot of depth so could throw together a number of packages that wouldn't compromise our future. Jokanen is a blue chip player. Period. I like the potential of this one much better than a Tanguay deal...won't get my hopes up though!! As beaten as the line changing comments have become....What is he doing? We had a great combo going over the holidays...How can Carbo's memory be shorter than his patience?
sag i was wondering that myself if carbonneau has gotten dumb over night!!some of the things he's been doing lately have me scracthing my head!!like last game for instance he has koivu, ryder on the pp for 1:50 seconds and put kovy out with 10 seconds left!what's that all about?kovalev is the best pp guy in the league i'd leave him out for the whole 2 minutes!!!
Good point!! I noticed that too, and when Kovy was out there he never played the right wing, Koivu was there for most of the pp and who would you rather shooting from there, Kovy who has the most PP points on the team or Koivu???...Damn, no wonder why we got shut out!!
hey guys i heard a rumor that we(the habs)are looking at olli jokinen!!this is the player for us!!and our #1 center we'd solve a alot of problems with jokinen as#1 between higgins and s.kostitsyn!!
cournoyer12 the only thing is if we get jokinen we wouldn't get perry!1but wouldn't it be nice to have both!!...........it would probably take koivu and other stuff in a package to land either one so if i had my choice out of the 2 players i'd take jokinen!!
Just wondering, where is the Perry talks coming from??..Why would Burke ever trade that guy??..I do agree of taking Joikinen over the 2.
yes we do deserve a good player or 2!!they're coming i just know it!!gainey is going to get us a couple because the centennial year is coming and we want to go for broke and go for it!so yes he will but who and when!!!
too good to be true!! Has a NTC doesn't he???
he does but he wants out!he doesn't get along with jacques martin!!so the panthers would move him!!
I can only imagine that Ryder alone would not be enough. I bet Panthers would not interested in any of our deadwood either. If we are to get Olli I will cost us at least of the premium prospects/rookies. But I am still for it. Jokinen is a great forward and will give our offense a great boost.
timo i would think that ryder and koivu,and macdonagh would be the package ..but yeah man i agree with you if we could get him we'd have our big #1 center!!that we've been looking for!!
i agree but unfortunately the panthers would want our #1 prospect that is macdonagh!!so i don't think fischer would get it done but like they say to get something good you have to give up something good!!
Kostitsyn's goal was # 2 on the NHL channel's plays of the week behind Rick Nash's goal.
Komi is an early candidate for the Monster of the Year :)
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=227896&hubname=nhl
Pens and Caps are going into OT. Man, I hate these 3 point games. Seems like every game goes into OT these days.
Oh, and they are playing Judas Priest in Pitts. Nice. That I respect.
You may hate those 3 point games but don't forget 8 of our points came that way!!!
Actually Habs and Leafs have highest number of points for overtime or shootout loss - 8. What gives.
Apparently Carbo said it's not necessarily a matter of Ryder being out of the doghouse, but Koivu and Higgins in it.
According to TSN that is.
Ha! So anyone in the doghouse gets put with Ryder. If that's the case I guess we'll see Ryder, Smokes and Breezer on a line against the Devils on Thursday. Oh wait, that's the fan's doghouse, not Carbo's.
So Caps score 4 on Sabourin before he got pulled in the middle of the 2nd. That's 4 more than Habs did all game. Hmm...
Sabourin was good on Saturday but he was lousy tonight. (So was Kolzig.)
However, they have Ovechkin, we don't...and never will.
His family did not drive down from Val D'or to cheer him on like they did at the Bell.
Did you see the highlights of the Sabres/Canes game with Thibault in nets ? He looked as good as Sabourin did tonight.
Ovechkin vs Malkin; that's hockey !
You mean guys who pick corners instead of shooting at a goalie? :)
Well Kovalev isn't too shabby with picking the corners. Maybe he could give Ryder some tips :-)
Long overdue.
Carbo has the urge to shuffle the lines and Huet has the urge to wander away from the net. Both are cancers to our team.