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[Guest Low Roller]

I love the fact that Montreal doesn't boo the hell out of their own team anymore. I'm still in awe how crazy the crowd was during the game against the Rangers, even when the Habs were 5-0 down.

edit: Sweet! Post #2000 in this thread. I dare anyone to read it from the beginning.

Edited May 4, 2008 by Low Roller

[Guest Low Roller]

So now that the season is over I can bring up the latest rumour going around... Swedish Elite player Fabian Brunnstrom has been coined 'the most talented player not in the NHL', and he's shopping his services around. He has shown interest in three teams so far- Detroit, Dallas, and Montreal

[rubberdinghy]

I've been afraid to call Andre.

[Booche]

There's nothing to be worried about Dinghy aside from this pretty serious 2-day hangover I am riding out. Great time in MTL, a poor defensive showing and at least 2 weeeeeeeak goals from Price buried a season in which Les Brahs beat everyone's expectations. Good on 'em.

I dont care what anyone says but Gainey made a massive mistake in trading Huet. He was the insurance this team needed. And I wont be surprised if he signs a veteran backup. But on one hand I can see how it gave Carey some invaluable experience yet I dont care at the moment because they had an excellent shot at getting to the Eastern Final and a shot at making a Cup run. We'll see how it all pans out because The Fortress Of Solitude still has to prove himself at the NHL level.

Fabian Brunnstrom?

[color:purple]Yeah, none of us have ever heard of him.

[Booche]

As for MattyC, TissueMan and Deuce?

We were on RDS. Confirmed. 4 co-workers have already told me about it. The first dude asked "Where did you guys get those awesome helmets?"

Man alive, did we have our pictures taken a ton or what????

I am still hoping Deuce and I werent shown on CBC. Fuckin' PEI talked me into doing a drunken robot. YIKES!

Let the dry-out period begin.

[Guest Low Roller]

Huet did not fare much better against the Flyers himself. The entire trade will be hotly debated all summer long.

Did I expect it? Nope. Did I like it? Nope. Did Gainey hurt the team in the short-term? Debatable. Did Gainey look out for the best interest of the team long-term? Yup.

For now Gainey has four major UFAs to deal with. Mark Streit has said that he wants to stay in Montreal, but he also said that he wants to play defence. If Montreal can't guarantee him a spot on the blue line he may decide to walk.

Bryan Smolinski said that he wants to stay as well, but I'm guessing that Gainey is not interested in the $2M price tag.

Ryder is done. Throwing paper airplanes? His $3M salary (and Smo's $2M) will be distributed amongst the RFAs Kostitsyn, Gorges, Lapierre, O'Byrne, and Halak.

Nothing has been mentioned about Brisebois, but I think that he had a great playoff (minus that one major gaff).

[badams]

Price hurt the team just as much as the PP which disappeared and the fact that the Habs would not go to the net while the Flyers were all over ours. It was a team effort to not make it to the next round.

Anyways...

It was a surprising season winning the Eastern regular season title and making it to the 2nd round. The Habs need some size. I believe the series against Boston and Phil really wore them down. They have great speed and skill but they need a few more bangers. Some guys to knock the other team off of their game. Some guys to create traffic and also clear the front of their own net.

Disappointed in the playoff results? Yes

Disappointed in the regular season results? No

Looking towards next season? Yes

Forgetting about hockey until Sept? Yes... BRING ON THE SUMMER!!!

[Booche]

Huet did not fare much better against the Flyers himself.

What? Carey shat the fucking bed playing Philly and Huet sported a goals against of around 2.90 against the Flyers. At least he was able to take them 7 games. The Habs needed some goaltending and did NOT get it. Plain and simple.

[badams]

Maybe we needed Emery!

LOL

[TheSloth]

Price didn't bounce back - that's the way it goes.

Great season for the Habs.

I hope the Pens crush Philly.

[Guest Low Roller]

I'm gonna go fry up some Umbergers on the BBQ.

[Guest Low Roller]

Rumour swirling around is that Halak (Wants more playing time), Grabovski, and Big Tits have been offered contracts in the Russian Super League.

Another one is that Dandy is expecting a buyout offer any day now.

[Tissue Man]

Thank you for the great season HABS!

finally a team to actually cheer for again.

wooooooooooooooo!

GO HABS GO! next year.

[Booche]

The Sloth should appreciate this one.

Five times unlucky

Habs ghosts turned off by riots. Karma plays a big part in postseason success

DAVID JOHNSTON, The Gazette

Published: 12 hours ago

"You'll have to explain yourself now!" said a colleague at The Gazette yesterday.

That's exactly what I had been doing with another colleague over at the water cooler moments earlier. And she didn't like it when I said I thought Canadiens fans got what they deserved with the Habs' quick exit from the Eastern Conference semifinals.

I have to explain myself? Well, I did write that story on April 12, headlined "The Habs' magic number is ... 5," which described a series of happy coincidences involving the No. 5 in the Canadiens' surprisingly successful 2007-08 regular season that had led me to believe the storied ghosts of the old Montreal Forum had finally arrived this past winter at the Bell Centre, after a decade of seemingly inexplicable absence.

Furthermore, I made the bold assertion - through my own study of paranormal data - that the ghosts didn't just arrive by themselves, they were escorted to a new resting home in the Bell Centre rafters by the most recent of the historic Canadiens greats whose numbers were retired to die and go to heaven. Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion. No. 5. If anybody could orchestrate the magic, it would be the Boomer.

Over the years, our hockey ghosts have been friendly ghosts here in Montreal. Until the move to what is now called the Bell Centre in 1996, they consistently brought good karma to the home team. And, we have to admit, the karma was very good (well, for us) during the Boston series; the Bruins missed so many chances, never more so than in the first period of Game 7, otherwise their best period of the series.

But Philly? Philly didn't miss many chances, did they? Instead of our own point shots deflecting off the legs of their defencemen into their net (like the Habs' first goal in Game 7 against Boston netminder Tim Thomas), we now had the spectre of Patrice Brisebois scoring into his own net, our net - and that was just the beginning of it. Half the goals that Philly scored had bad karma (well, for us) written all over them.

I see that Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau specifically talked about the role of karma in playoff hockey after his club's elimination at the hands of the Flyers. Carbonneau said he "believes" in karma. Well, so do I.

I think you have to do, or have to have, three things to win the Stanley Cup:

You have to be healthy. Key injuries are hard to overcome (see: Colorado Avalanche).

You have to play to your full potential. (I thought the Canadiens consistently had an edge in all aspects of play against Philly, except for one, the most important: goaltending.)

You have to catch some luck, and get the good bounces. You have to have good karma, in other words.

The Canadiens, a franchise that reaped more than its fair share of lucky breaks and bounces over the years, had terrible karma during the Philly series.

Why? Well, stuff happens, right? It's a game of breaks, as much as it is a game of inches. Or is there more to it than that? I think there is. If you believe in karma, then you have to be at least open to the suggestion that there are also forces that create and determine karma, that giveth and taketh away the good karma and the bad.

So what can we say about the Philly series?

I think we, in the ghost-fearing community, can say that the otherwise friendly ghosts looked down on Montreal after the April 21 rampage on Ste. Catherine St. and said that this city, these fans, at this time, didn't deserve their favour.

And maybe we can also say that these ghosts communicated their displeasure by punishing the many for the acts of the few, so that a retribution against hooligans can and did become a retribution against Habs Nation as a whole. Not fair? Well, go read the Old Testament and come back and talk to me about fair.

Maybe I'm wrong. But as a born-again ghost fearer, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. I don't think it was any coincidence at all that the Habs fell to Philly in five.

[Booche]

MATTY! You're dream might come to fruition!

(MattyC's dream to follow in YouTube format)

Quebec publisher wants more French music at Habs games

Calls on government to enforce CRTC francophone policy

A prominent Quebec publisher is calling on the government to force the Montreal Canadiens to play more French-language music at the Bell Centre.

Michel Brule, publisher of Les Editions des intouchables, circulated a petition demanding the Quebec and Canadian governments set a quota for how much francophone music is played in the arena.

Brule said he was shocked the arena's disc jockey played only one French song during Game 7 of the Habs' first-round series against the Boston Bruins.

The petition calls on politicians to create content rules similar to CRTC regulations, and demands French-language songs make up at least 65 per cent of the tunes that echo through the Bell Centre.

Brule says many people warmed to his idea and he collected 200 signatures in two hours.

He says the Canadiens' organization has "no respect" for francophones in Montreal.

MattyC's idea for a song at the Bell Center

Foux du Fafa

[MattyC]

baguette!!

[Guest Low Roller]

Stephane Quintal is back with the Habs

[SmoothedShredder]

I think we, in the ghost-fearing community, can say that the otherwise friendly ghosts looked down on Montreal after the April 21 rampage on Ste. Catherine St. and said that this city, these fans, at this time, didn't deserve their favour.

Just exactly how many police cars were burned?

[Guest Low Roller]

Mike Ribeiro has been telling some reporters that Dallas should sign Micheal Ryder. Fine by me. Whatever.

Interesting to note that Ryder was Ribeiro's linemate in Montreal along with Pierre Dagenais. All three were essentially run out of town.

[Guest Low Roller]

Pop Quiz hotshot:

With Ryder unlikely to sign with the Habs, who is the only player left on the entire roster who was picked at the entry draft during the disastrous Rejean Houle era?

[Guest Low Roller]

Interesting breakfast reading:

Second chance at Shanahan?

Article on Gainey

Year-end Top 20 Prospects

2007-2008 Rookie Review

[Guest Low Roller]

Minor note: Second season in a row in which a Habs affiliate team makes it to the finals of their league's playoffs- The Cincinnati Cyclones have made it to the finals of the ECHL playoffs.

[Guest Low Roller]

God. There is nothing going on with the Habs right now.

I guess that the next newsworthy deadline is for signing draft picks by June 1st...

So far the Habs have signed:

- JT Wyman (RW, 2004 draft, 4th round, 100th overall)

- Ryan White (C, 2006 draft, 3rd round, 66th overall)

- Ben Maxwell (C, 2006 draft, 2nd round, 49th overall).

Left to sign are:

- Cameron Cepek (RD, 2006 draft, 7th round, 199th overall)

- Alexei Emelin (LD, 2004 draft, 3rd round, 84th overall)

- Konstantin Korneyev (RD, 2003 draft, 9th round, 275th overall)

All three of these guys are doubtful to sign. It's a shame about Korneyev, as he seemed pretty dominant at the World Championships (wicked shot from the point, played on the 1st unit PP) and we're thin on right-handed D prospects.

[Kanada Kev]

Happy Birthday Booche

ps - Shania is on the market again and only 2 years older than you fart-bag:

[Booche]

Pay attention Roller.

What Kanada Kev just did is a worthy post in the Go Habs Go thread.