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Damn it! Isn't it 7:30 PM yet?!?! I think my clock on the wall is broken!!!
Submitted by projectpete19 on Mon, 03/24/2008 - 13:52.
as long as the habs follow what Gorges said below, they will be fine
"We give them too much respect," he said. "You look at the stats and they've put up some points against us in the past, but we sit back too much and watch what they're going to do instead of going after them and putting the pace on them like we do with other teams. If we do that for 60 minutes against Ottawa, we can be successful."
I see that the last time anybody scored 60 goals was in 1995-96, when Lemieux & Jagr scored 69 and 62 respectively. They were both great offensive players, something like the offensive talent that Ottawa has now, only better. Despite the great talent, Pittsburgh did not win the Cup, and I don't see why the Canadiens can't beat that good Ottawa offensive talent tonight.
About Dave Stubbs has been a sportswriter since 1976, which was roughly a decade after he wore the first of many holes through the knees of his jeans playing nets in road hockey (using a modified butterfly popularized by Hall of Famer Glenn Hall). He still has the welts to show on his shins from that rotten, frozen orange ball.
Stubbs kept thick hockey scrapbooks filled with game summaries and Gazette and Montreal Star stories, collected dozens of Bee Hive Corn Syrup photos and put a fortune of hockey cards through the spokes of his bikes. First book ever owned: Scrubs On Skates, the classic by Scott Young (Neil's dad).
Stubbs's fantasy is to travel back in time to the 1950s and watch the great Canadiens dynasty that won five consecutive Stanley Cups. Or a decade earlier, to watch Elmer Lach centre Rocket Richard and Toe Blake on the fearsome Punch Line. Or at least to get Rogie Vachon into the Hockey Hall of Fame – where he belongs.
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