Booche Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I'm fucking losing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Beauty call Hal, in January no less! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 I predict this place could be far more interesting. Is everyone afraid to talk case they are scared? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 TORONTO (Apr. 6) -- Please excuse me for having some difficulty with those who refer to the up-coming Montreal at Toronto regular-season finale in "classic" terms. Yes, as a potential winner-take-all battle for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, there will be a level of excitement and intrigue at the Air Canada Centre, but any person that equates this game with the fabled Maple Leafs-Canadiens rivalry of the 1940s and 1960s is going way overboard. In the hyped-up sports world in which we live, however, you can bet such comparisons will be flowing off the laptops and tongues of media poets until the moment the puck is dropped. We'll be inundated with stories of the great battles of yesteryear, and how this game ranks so significantly because the teams have not met in the Stanley Cup tournament since 1979. Don't let 'em fool you, folks.Saturday night's "classic" is actually a convergence of two desperate teams that are stuck in the mud... neither of which has seemed at all capable of closing the deal. The Leafs' attack has fizzled this week in the scoring absence of Mats Sundin (no goals in the past 11 games) and if the Canadiens didn't have a powerplay this season, they'd be battling Florida and Boston for the No. 12 and 13 spots in the East. It's incredible how Montreal's standards have plummeted since 1993, when the club won its last Stanley Cup. Though I covered the Leafs' brutal effort on Long Island Thursday night, I kept one eye on a TV in the Nassau Coliseum pressbox showing the Canadiens-Rangers game from Madison Square Garden. And, all I could think of was how proud, former Habs like Jean Beliveau, Guy Lafleur, John Ferguson, Ralph Backstrom, Serge Savard, Larry Robinson and others would cringe to see their team perform so aimlessly in such a critical circumstance. The only connection between this club and its wondrous predecessors is the logo on the front of the jersey.So, the Leafs and Canadiens clash for the final post-season berth in the Conference. Maybe. Given the Islanders' ability to rebound in a timely and impressive fashion from losing their No. 1 goalie at the most inopportune point of the season, perhaps justice will be served by Ted Nolan's crew winning its final two games on the weekend, and knocking Toronto AND Montreal out of the playoffs. It's a long-shot, but it certainly wouldn't be unjust, given how weakly the pre-expansion legends have played with their seasons on the line. For anyone to even think that Saturday's game is a clash of titans is pure delusion. A fantasy in the absence of any meaningful reality. It is simply a convenient quirk in the schedule between a pair of staggering teams that have shown no willingness or ability to go for the kill. Choke may be too harsh a term, but not overly so.http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=6648 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 During the game on Thursday night, someone had a sign that read " Can't light up this Dubie". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 I'll need a lot of Dubies tonight !Bring it on ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 "Bring it on" who? Don't you like both teams? You're like a banker!Sorry, just trying to stir some shit up.... where the hell is Booche?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Howard Berger is a fucking idiot. He talks about the Islanders losing their number one goalie at an "the most inopportune point of the season". What about Montreal you fucktard?They have a 7 and 3 record in their last 10 games. Hardly a record for a team "stuck in the mud" right now. No one here is comparing this to old school hockey and the 3 articles I have read havent. Those days are long gone Harold so quit fucking whinning about what people are not saying.What a tool of a quote. I guess it takes one to post one. Its not a clash of the titans. It is a clash of bitter rivals and a dream for any REAL Canadian hockey fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Myrna! Watch your language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Classic Myrna post.. strange how it reads like smelly Booche in the morning ... You drinkin yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Islanders are winnng 3 - 0 this afternoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
headymamamyrna Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 The champagne is on ice and the Grolsch are ready whenever I am. Feel free to call us tonight Rahmer if you want to hear some more cursing. Either way, my potty mouth is going to be reving at 10 all night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Good Luck booche, badams, and the rest of the Hab fans out there...I'm pulling for the Habitants ce soir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 The best part about the Leafs and the Habs meeting in a winner-take-all Saturday evening classic: I get to watch it. THANK YOU ILLEGAL INTERNET CABLE TV FEED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Winner take all what? I'm getting very scared of the Islanders right now... Who knows if New Jersey is gonna show up to play tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Booche here.God bless you Rubber Dinghy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 OMFG is this stressful watching the play by play on nhl.com... nothing like reading a hockey game... thank God i have good beer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Paraphrased:If both teams play like this if they get to the playoffs, they will be out in 3 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 POG, if you want to watch the game then go to Sopcast.com, download the P2P software, and find the channel with the game on it.Whatever happens in the third, the last three weeks have been incredibly exciting to follow. Go Habs Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Thanks LR... unfortunately the connection here is so slow im lucky that i can even get the play by play... we're talkin dial up + 1 pretty much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Fuck me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 What a hilariously sloppy game. Talk about lousy goaltending, on both sides. Was Kovalev even dressed tonight? Maurice did a great job matching lines in the third with the last change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOutGuy Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Our calls have come true so far Dave-O ... just hoping the second part of yours is wrong for tomorrow... anyone know if Brodeur is scheduled to start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave-O Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 No way, NJ has nothing to play for, Clemmenson starts for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakis Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 sweet..unfortunately i think my prediction might be right and islanders will win tomorrow. At least ted nolan coaches them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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