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post #1 of 952
7/2/09 at 1:37pm
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What a crazy signing frenzy.

I'll act as your resident Montreal Canadiens guy, and be the first to congratulate Bob Gainey in grabbing THREE Stanley Cup winners and some size on the blueline, now that that prick-cock Homosarek has flipped the Habs the finger and signed with the Leafs.

At least that way, he's out of EVERYBODYS hair for 5 years, wasting a once-promising career in Hogtown. Loser. (I know, I'd be singing a different hit song if they managed to keeps him, but in hindsight, after his fight and rematch with Lucic, I think he's damaged goods)

Gaborik going to the Rangers is a good move on their part, if they like signing a guy to a contract to have him play 1/3 a season.

Biggest and bestset move is Chicago grabbing Hossa for a pretty decent sized contract. Things will be good going forward for them Hawks.

Anyone find it a coincidence that Saku Koivu doesn't get tendered an offer, and all of a sudden, quality guys are pretty much, for lack of a better word, flocking to the Mecca.

Junk Food for 'tot.
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post #2 of 952
7/2/09 at 1:57pm
for Canes Fans, We resigned Erik Cole and didn't resign Chad LaRose??? WTH were we thinking?

Whatever team snatches up LaRose will get one spunky player.
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post #3 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:00pm
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Why did they ever let him go in the first place? Didn't he play in EDM at one point?
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post #4 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:07pm
Is it sort of kinda OK this year for me to admit that I'm an Islanders fan? We've totally got a guy!
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post #5 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:26pm
Yeah, but you need a team, and the Islanders ain't got shit.

So, yeah. Gainey did great, considering how things were. I still think he made 2 mistakes: ignoring Alex Tanguay, the Habs best player last year, and Hal Gill. I understand why he picked him, but still, what the fuck?

Komisarek is good riddance. Since his fight with Lucic, he's broken. Spacek is great, but I would have liked a Beauchemin or Ohlund.

Gomez is expensive, but matching him with Gionta is aces. Cammarelli is a great pick.

GAaborik and Havlat have a shitload of talent, but are made of glass. Granting them long contracts will bite their team in the ass, especially for Gaborik, but if things work out good for them. I loved the Hawks before, but now, they're Teh Deadly.

And fuck Koivu.
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post #6 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:32pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Yeah, but you need a team, and the Islanders ain't got shit.

So, yeah. Gainey did great, considering how things were. I still think he made 2 mistakes: ignoring Alex Tanguay, the Habs best player last year, and Hal Gill. I understand why he picked him, but still, what the fuck?

Komisarek is good riddance. Since his fight with Lucic, he's broken. Spacek is great, but I would have liked a Beauchemin or Ohlund.

Gomez is expensive, but matching him with Gionta is aces. Cammarelli is a great pick.

GAaborik and Havlat have a shitload of talent, but are made of glass. Granting them long contracts will bite their team in the ass, especially for Gaborik, but if things work out good for them. I loved the Hawks before, but now, they're Teh Deadly.

And fuck Koivu.
They didn't bother with Tanguay because they're looking DOWN on him for refusing a cortisone shot and play in games 3 & 4. He was quoted as saying it was not in his best interest in the last year of a contract to risk further injuring himself in the playoffs. In the immortal words of Michel Therrien, "He's soff"

Don't get me wrong, he's a talent for sure, but he is too soff.
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post #7 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:36pm
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Originally Posted by Van Read View Post
They didn't bother with Tanguay because they're looking DOWN on him for refusing a cortisone shot and play in games 3 & 4. He was quoted as saying it was not in his best interest in the last year of a contract to risk further injuring himself in the playoffs. In the immortal words of Michel Therrien, "He's soff"

Don't get me wrong, he's a talent for sure, but he is too soff.
Didn't know that one. And that's the exact opposite of Bouillon. They fucked him, and now they won't sign him? He's a great 6th/7th D-Man.
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post #8 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:42pm
What's the deal in the NHL with 10+ year contracts? I've seen a few and it just seems a bad way to circumvent the cap. When did teams start doind this?

Seems they need to raise the salary cap.
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post #9 of 952
7/2/09 at 2:56pm
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Originally Posted by Anyawatchin Angel View Post
Seems they need to raise the salary cap.
No.
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post #10 of 952
7/2/09 at 3:49pm
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It IS a bad way to circumvent the cap, yeah. It's also biting a lot of guys in the ass. Who the hell thinks Hank Zetterberg is going to be the same force in 10 years? I'd NEVER OK a contract like that. Part of me is absolutely relieved that we didn't go for Lecavalier.
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post #11 of 952
7/3/09 at 8:55am
well the Canes resigned LaRose yesterday too. So that makes the Carolina fans happy.
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post #12 of 952
7/3/09 at 9:19am
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Fuck did Alex Kovalev shoot hisself in the foot. The only team to offer him a contract thus far are the Canadiens and a gaggle of "organizations" in the KHL. What does he do? Tells Gainey that he got an offer from the Kings to try and get some extra padding on his deal. Turns out the Kings haven't heard a thing from or spoken to Kovalev, and now Gainey has moved on (cough*Cammaleri and Gionta*cough).

I love the guy, but I wouldn't mind seeing him accept a 2 Million deal to stay in MTL. You play 60% of the time, you get paid 60% of what you're worth, clownshoe.
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post #13 of 952
7/21/09 at 12:23am
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Originally Posted by Van Read View Post
I love the guy, but I wouldn't mind seeing him accept a 2 Million deal to stay in MTL. You play 60% of the time, you get paid 60% of what you're worth, clownshoe.
I'm a fan of Kovalev. He's charismatic, spectacular and fun. Still, fuck him. We wish he'd played 60% of the time. The guy had one good season out of four in Montreal. It got so bad last season that Gainey had to send home for three days to take a time, something I'd never seen before. And this was the supposed leader of the Canadiens? Good riddance.

I'm really sad to see Koivu go but at least he'll get to play with Selane, a player the Canadiens should have traded for years ago. Still, I was hoping Koivu would be one of those rare player who play with the same team through their whole career.

Komisarek signing with Toronto is a nightmare I can't seem to wake up from. He was my favorite NHL player and now he's with the Leafs. I still can't believe it.

Finally, in my opinion, the best move this summer was the Flames signing Bouwmeester to a manageable contract. They now have one hell of a defense and Bouwmeester and Dion will take away the pressure from each other.
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post #14 of 952
7/23/09 at 1:48pm
Hurricanes resign Tuomo Ruutu for 3 years at 11 million!

Dude Hurricanes are going to destroy again this year. Penguins will still be tough but the players we needed to re-sign, we did, so I"m expecting good things for the 09-10 season.
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post #15 of 952
7/24/09 at 2:14pm
We stole Aaron Ward back from the Bruins! Holy crap the Hurricanes are going to be loaded this year.
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post #16 of 952
7/24/09 at 4:21pm
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We stole Aaron Ward back from the Bruins! Holy crap the Hurricanes are going to be loaded this year.
You're a lot more enthusiastic about players like Ruutu and Ward than I'd be.
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post #17 of 952
7/24/09 at 4:59pm
Us southern hockey fans love to Ruuuu. Ruutu was our second highest scorer last year and probably our best forechecker.

as for Ward, we needed a "bigger" guy desperately and since his family lives here in Cary, its good to have Aaron Ward back.

and since we are going to the Hurricanes Kids Fair tonight, its great news to get us hyped for the upcoming season.
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post #18 of 952
7/24/09 at 8:03pm
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Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post

Komisarek signing with Toronto is a nightmare I can't seem to wake up from. He was my favorite NHL player and now he's with the Leafs. I still can't believe it.

Finally, in my opinion, the best move this summer was the Flames signing Bouwmeester to a manageable contract. They now have one hell of a defense and Bouwmeester and Dion will take away the pressure from each other.
True for Calgary, but Jokinen was a severe mistake.

Komi was overrated. Let's face it. Not by much, but so much money for a guy who can't score, it's a shame. But after the Lucic "incident" he lost all his tough guy cred. Still it's a shame, as he could have been the new captain, and was pampered by the team from his drafting. Shame also he became a Leaf, as it's like voluntarily contracting AIDS, but I can't hate him enough to see him injured. Unlike the no-talent Grabovski.
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post #19 of 952
7/24/09 at 9:30pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
True for Calgary, but Jokinen was a severe mistake.

Komi was overrated. Let's face it. Not by much, but so much money for a guy who can't score, it's a shame. But after the Lucic "incident" he lost all his tough guy cred. Still it's a shame, as he could have been the new captain, and was pampered by the team from his drafting. Shame also he became a Leaf, as it's like voluntarily contracting AIDS, but I can't hate him enough to see him injured. Unlike the no-talent Grabovski.
Not sure yet about Jokinen, I'd give him another chance.

And I think that Komi being broken after the Lucic incident is exagerated. He played the rest of the season with an injured shoulder and still finished first on the team in checks. Beside, he never really was a fighter.
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post #20 of 952
7/24/09 at 10:24pm
But the thing is, Komisarek was considered the main defensemen of the team. Markov was the offensive one, and Komi the defensive one. I guess he made too many mistakes, and his weaknesses came out when Markov was out of play. I would have liked for him to stay, but when he chose the Leafs for 500000$ more (total), it's clear he wanted out. He's a good player, but he's really not a 5 millions/year guy. (So is Hamrlik...)

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And I'll take Cammarelli over Kovalev any day. People who say his last 80pts season was because of Iginla are forgetting he did the same with the King the year before...
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post #21 of 952
7/24/09 at 10:58pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
And I'll take Cammarelli over Kovalev any day. People who say his last 80pts season was because of Iginla are forgetting he did the same with the King the year before...
And he had two of those in three years while Kovalev had one in four.
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post #22 of 952
9/29/09 at 5:13pm
Bumping this thread. It's almost time folks! Got a bunch of teams kicking off the new season over in Europe. Who's it going to be this year?
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post #23 of 952
9/29/09 at 5:17pm
Vancouver, San Jose in the West. Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh in the East.

Montreal is a reforged team, and there's a much better potential than last year. I'm going with Montreal finsihing 5th in the East. Cammerelli and Gionta are aces.
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post #24 of 952
9/29/09 at 5:48pm
I have high hopes of the Lightning being very average this year as opposed to laughably bad like last season. If Mike Smith stays healthy I could see them narrowly getting or missing a wild card spot. If preseason is any indication(its not, usually) they have a much improved special teams unit and this time around they actually have competition for defensivemen instead of having to loose a bet to play on the blue line. Victor Hedman looks to be a good rookie addition, leading the team in ice time for the entire preseason.
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post #25 of 952
9/29/09 at 6:09pm
Is Detroit on a down turn? I hope the Hawks beat their ass. Either way I like their chances to go far again. Always nice to watch hockey once in a while.
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post #26 of 952
9/29/09 at 7:08pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Vancouver, San Jose in the West. Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh in the East.

Montreal is a reforged team, and there's a much better potential than last year. I'm going with Montreal finsihing 5th in the East. Cammerelli and Gionta are aces.
Get rid of San Jose and replace them with Chicago and I agree with Martin.
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post #27 of 952
9/29/09 at 7:28pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Vancouver, San Jose in the West. Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh in the East.
Meh. I think they need to get a better goalie than Tim Thomas - he's fine for the regular season but just isn't good enough come playoff time.
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post #28 of 952
9/29/09 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Vancouver, San Jose in the West. Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburgh in the East.

Montreal is a reforged team, and there's a much better potential than last year. I'm going with Montreal finsihing 5th in the East. Cammerelli and Gionta are aces.
Agree on San Jose, I believe they'll finish first overall. I would put Chicago and Detroit in front of Vancouver. Maybe even Anaheim.

Not so sure about Boston. My impression of Tim Thomas is that he's in the Théodore mold: sometimes brilliant, often weak. Last season was the only year where he was stable and consistent and that was a contract year. Also, the loss of Kessel will hurt them more than expected. They sure won't get those 36 goals from Ryder.

Philadelphia should be strong, especially with the return of Ron Hextall in goal.

Montréal as potential, especially with the addition of Spacek wich means the powerplay will work at the start of the season instead of at the end like last year when we aquired Schneider to shoot from the point. If The Canadiens can finish in the top three on the powerplay, they should be dominant in the East.

Shouldn't we start a new thread for this season?
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post #29 of 952
9/29/09 at 11:04pm
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Shouldn't we start a new thread for this season?
This is the new thread.
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post #30 of 952
9/30/09 at 9:02am
I actually started a beard on Saturday. Was it for hockey season?? I don't know, but I'm actually kind of liking the look (not to itchy).

And my wife is going to check for opening night tickets for the Hurricanes on Friday night.
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post #31 of 952
9/30/09 at 9:54am
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Originally Posted by The Alexor View Post
Agree on San Jose, I believe they'll finish first overall. I would put Chicago and Detroit in front of Vancouver. Maybe even Anaheim.

Not so sure about Boston. My impression of Tim Thomas is that he's in the Théodore mold: sometimes brilliant, often weak. Last season was the only year where he was stable and consistent and that was a contract year. Also, the loss of Kessel will hurt them more than expected. They sure won't get those 36 goals from Ryder.

Philadelphia should be strong, especially with the return of Ron Hextall in goal.

Montréal as potential, especially with the addition of Spacek wich means the powerplay will work at the start of the season instead of at the end like last year when we aquired Schneider to shoot from the point. If The Canadiens can finish in the top three on the powerplay, they should be dominant in the East.

Shouldn't we start a new thread for this season?

Shit, forgot about Chicago, my favorite team in the West. Detroit is also strong this year. Spacek was also a great pick. Add Markov, Cammerelli, Gionta and Gomez and you have one of the great PP in the league.

I'll give you props for Thomas, but for Kessel, the situation was noxious in MBoston. That guy has a bad rep as a team player, and no one wanted to play with him. Hence why he's gone. Now the Leafs have a player with obvious talent, but piss-poor attitude.
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post #32 of 952
9/30/09 at 11:42am
Yes... I got quite a deal. My wife nabbed tickets for opening night which cost us $45 a piece for 3 but the awesome part was that we got 3 upper level tickets for Tuesday night's game as well for $30. Yes $10 a piece tickets.

I can't wait until Friday. I will be ordering Center Ice tomorrow morning.. but probably watching whoever is playing on the Versus game Thursday night.
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post #33 of 952
9/30/09 at 11:49am
I'm going to have to figure out some way to watch some games this year, as I'm pretty sure I'm shit out of luck with DirectTV unless I want to spend like $200 on their package.
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post #34 of 952
9/30/09 at 12:02pm
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Yes... I got quite a deal. My wife nabbed tickets for opening night which cost us $45 a piece for 3 but the awesome part was that we got 3 upper level tickets for Tuesday night's game as well for $30. Yes $10 a piece tickets.

I can't wait until Friday. I will be ordering Center Ice tomorrow morning.. but probably watching whoever is playing on the Versus game Thursday night.
Jesus, you guys have tickets for nearly free. The entire season was sold out in 2 hours over here. I managed to get some tickets, but damn.

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I'm going to have to figure out some way to watch some games this year, as I'm pretty sure I'm shit out of luck with DirectTV unless I want to spend like $200 on their package.
Who do you cheer for, Brad?
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post #35 of 952
9/30/09 at 12:09pm
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Yes... I got quite a deal. My wife nabbed tickets for opening night which cost us $45 a piece for 3 but the awesome part was that we got 3 upper level tickets for Tuesday night's game as well for $30. Yes $10 a piece tickets.
These prices are for the Hurricanes games? How can they even stay in business?
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post #36 of 952
9/30/09 at 12:34pm
they make a very limited number of tickets at $9.99 for each home game. They sell out very fast for cheap seats.

Normally lower level seats run between $80-$200. Upper level from $25-50.
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post #37 of 952
9/30/09 at 12:42pm
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I'm going to have to figure out some way to watch some games this year.
Just be glad you're not in Europe for the year. If I watch anything approaching 10 games, I'll be happy. I love the Sabres, but not enough to watch games at one in the morning. Maybe for the playoffs, but that's a crapshoot at best (stay healthy Ryan Miller, please).
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post #38 of 952
10/1/09 at 6:12pm
Things are finally getting started tonight! The off-season felt alot longer this year...possibly because the Lightning season ended in early November last season. In any event its great to have the game back.
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post #39 of 952
10/1/09 at 6:15pm
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post #40 of 952
10/1/09 at 6:30pm
Viktor Stalberg, remember the name.
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post #41 of 952
10/1/09 at 6:34pm
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Get rid of San Jose and replace them with Chicago and I agree with Martin.
I think you have to add Washington to the list of East favourites, they took the Cup champions to 7 games and are still maturing.

Out west, I don't think Anaheim should be ignored. They have a siiick top six of

Ryan-Getzlaf-Perry
Lupul-Koivu-Selanne

I think Detroit should be competitive too, I'm looking for there to be lots of polarity among playoff teams this year, with the top and bottom of each conference clustered together with large gaps in between.
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post #42 of 952
10/1/09 at 11:51pm
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Viktor Stalberg, remember the name.
Jesus, the kid's got some wheels. I didn't see any of the pre-season games, so it was nice to see what everyone was talking about.
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post #43 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:13am
I saw the end of the Montreal game and holy crap that was a great game.

Also, if I was a Bruins fan I would be embarrassed.
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post #44 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:18am
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Viktor Stalberg, remember the name.
He's the goods. Toronto has a good defense ( but you were idiots for getting Komisarek. He's over-rated. He's a good defense, but 5 Millions a year for that? Just wait till Lucic smacks him again... Beauchemin, now that was great), but an average offense. Wilson is a good coach however. Who knows. Maybe Toronto will surprise. Yesterday's game vs Montreal was fun. Montreal is still adjusting to the fac that the entire team is new, with a new system, but fuck me ih the power play ain't fearsome.

Kessel is rotten. Sad.
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post #45 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:24am
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He's the goods. Toronto has a good defense ( but you were idiots for getting Komisarek. He's over-rated. He's a good defense, but 5 Millions a year for that? Just wait till Lucic smacks him again... Beauchemin, now that was great), but an average offense. Wilson is a good coach however. Who knows. Maybe Toronto will surprise. Yesterday's game vs Montreal was fun. Montreal is still adjusting to the fac that the entire team is new, with a new system, but fuck me ih the power play ain't fearsome.

Kessel is rotten. Sad.
Yes Komisarek is over-paid but that's the reality of hockey. I thought he was Toronto's best defenseman yesterday. Beauchemin was bad.

Kessel was playing?

It's only the first game so things may change and or adjust but Montréal fans better pray that Weber is ready very soon because the defense is now unbeliviably slow.
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post #46 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:32am
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Beauchemin was on the ice for all 4 Hab Goals. Fuck that clown. Homosarek was in the box for two Hab Goals, and on the ice for the other two.

Looks like Burkie Burke and the Truculent Bunch are more of the same. MapleFailures.

god I love the game.
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post #47 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:38am
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Yes Komisarek is over-paid but that's the reality of hockey. I thought he was Toronto's best defenseman yesterday. Beauchemin was bad.

Kessel was playing?

It's only the first game so things may change and or adjust but Montréal fans better pray that Weber is ready very soon because the defense is now unbeliviably slow.
Weber is ready, and he'll be coming. Yesterday's game was tough because of defensive mistakes. Markov, Gorges, Spacek, even O'Byrne are good. Mara is slow, but Gill, fuck. He makes Laraque look like a TGV. Speaking of which, Komi really didn't wan to taste Big George's fist, did he?

I like Beauchemin. Komisarek, individually, ain't that great. He played with Markov, who could make a bowl of Cup-A-Soup look like Bobby Orr if it was paired with him. I'm actually curious on how he's gonna be there.

Kessel is injured, but like I wrote before, it's a well-known fact that Kessel is typically hated by his teammates whereever he goes. He didn't want out of Boston as so much as the otehr way around. It's been like that since his junior years.
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post #48 of 952
10/2/09 at 9:55am
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Weber is ready, and he'll be coming. Yesterday's game was tough because of defensive mistakes. Markov, Gorges, Spacek, even O'Byrne are good. Mara is slow, but Gill, fuck. He makes Laraque look like a TGV.
This summer I didn't understand the signings of Mara and Gill. It makes even less sense now, especially after seeing O'Byrne play yesterday. He's better than they are and he's still got room to grow.
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post #49 of 952
10/2/09 at 10:07am
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This summer I didn't understand the signings of Mara and Gill. It makes even less sense now, especially after seeing O'Byrne play yesterday. He's better than they are and he's still got room to grow.
Mara I get. Even Gill. They needed big boys becasue the rst of the team is small. But I would trade Gill anytime.
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post #50 of 952
10/2/09 at 1:54pm
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It's only the first game so things may change and or adjust but Montréal fans better pray that Weber is ready very soon because the defense is now unbeliviably slow.
Looks like your wish just came through. Markov is out for 4 fucking months.

Fuck. He's one of the top 3 defensemen in the league. FUCK!
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