Predictably, his teammates rallied around Carey Price.
Hal Gill, Mike Cammalleri and Josh Gorges took turns conveying the same party line:
The Bell Centre crowd may have their doubts about the Number 1 goaltender, but his teammates believe in him.
“What’s important,” Jacques Martin said, “is how the organization and all the players feel about Carey.
“Our fans are very passionate, and you have to respect that,” Martin added. The coach ventured the prediction that Price would emerge stronger from a game in which he yielded four goals on the first eight shots he faced and was subjected to derisive cheers on the saves he made.
“Is he Superman?” Gorges asked rhetorically. “Is he supposed to save everything: breakaways, backdoor, 2-on-1s …
“We have to help him,” Gorges added. “This is our team. We’re all in this together. And as a fan, you have to be supportive.”
No you don’t. Not in Montreal, the self-styled world capital of hockey, where we love our teams, win or tie … and ties don’t happen anymore.
Yes, it was a meaningless exhibition game. And no, Price did not get great support from his D or backchecking forwards.
But an air of nervous expectation hung over the Bell Centre like a cigarette cloud in the old Forum. Everyone was holding their breath, waiting to see how Price would perform.
He was unlucky … but not very good, either.
And at least on this night, Price failed to exorcise the ghost of Jaroslav Halak.
He’ll get another chance, probably in front of a more sympathetic crowd – in Ottawa on Saturday night
How did Price feel about his worst-case-scenario ordeal?
We don’t know.
The goaltender did not come out to the room to be interviewed about a crowd reaction Gill candidly described as “disheartening”.
AUDIO: Jacques Martin | Mike Cammalleri I and II | Hal Gill | Josh Gorges | Aaron Palushaj
Pricey’s new mask!
“It must be love!”
The RDS stream I survived on last season is apparently using this link for pre-season Habs action, not sure if it will work but it’s the best I have so far.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
I love you guys
Line-up for tonight:
“It must be love!”
Dana, you make it sound like the kid’s never won a game in the NHL!
The pre-season has its downsides, but I’m just going to be an armchair GM in charge of inconsequential scouting tonight. The game is meaningless but the play should be informative. I want a look at the kids, to see not only how the NHLers look, but also to start getting a read on some of the AHLers.
Well, coming from one who was a believer in Halak over Price, I too have to say that I hope the crowd keeps their lips zipped. We’ve had most of the summer to digest the decision to keep Price over Halak (minus those who’d hoped for just that), & Price is all we’ve got going for us between the posts. We really have no choice but to believe (try?) & be supportive no matter what happens tonight (it’s pre-season, common!) – otherwise.. it’s going to be a very, very long year.
Excited for tonight nonetheless!!
GO HABS!
That’s what I was thinking. Price Era, Take Two *snap*
GO HABS!
MY PREDICTION: barring 3 early soft goals, fans will be supportive of Price. As they should. Besides, they realize he is their best chance, now that Halak is gone.
“Shit-disturber” -Bar
Haven’t really scoured the ‘experts’ predictions yet, but who in their right mind would pick Boston to finish ahead of Montreal in the standings. Their defence is worse, goaltending at best a draw, offence posesses less threats than Montreal’s, especially with no Savard for the powerplay. Nobody on that team will score as many goals as Cammalleri or Gionta. Seguin is a nice prospect, but I wouldn’t expect him to lead the Bruins to the promise land this year
I’m only mildly excited for tonight. The pre-season is far too long for my liking. What are the Habs playing? Something like 6 games in 9 nights??
Anyhow, I hope the win a few, just for morale purposes, but I don’t think we should put any real stock into tonight’s or any other pre-season game results.
I wonder about that first statement. Part of me thinks that all Pouliot needs to do in this town to keep his nose clean is sois beau et parle Francais, but then, the locals do have a history of being extra hard on the homeboys.
When has a goalie NOT been a whipping boy- in this town, or any other? Boos or no boos, a player has to go out and play his game. And there are guys who have been through worse- MUCH worse. The fact that O’Byrne is still with us, and playing more confidently, and keeping a positive attitude, is amazing considering how badly he was raked over the coals two years ago. And don’t even get me started about Brisebois.
I disagree. I think Pouliot will be able to silently do nothing if he chooses too. I don’t think Habs fans have too many expectations for Pouliot. We didn’t really give anything up for him, so if he excels, great, but if he doesn’t at least we’re no further behind than we were before we traded for him.
Price however, has been, and will continue to be, everyone’s favorite whipping boy. What’s disgusting is how Habs fans treat their 23 year old goaltender who has the potential to be a great franchise goalie. Patience people. Bob Gainey’s best (and maybe most prophetic, we’ll see…) line when he was GM was “the fans should be careful who they boo out of town”.
“I lined up next to him at a faceoff, looked over and said “Hi Rocket”. All he did was growl.”
-Gordie Howe
Boone uses MSPAINT.EXE
I have a gut feeling Pouliot will be this year’s whipping boy — Lars will jump up to the 2nd line, Halpern skates with Max and Moen/Pyatt.
I’m hoping both Pouliot and AK47 step it up — 20g for the former, 30g for the latter.
Good to see you again, Showey [tapping your pads]
Let’s go boys!
This year’s team should be a little better than last if one or both of Kostitsyn and Pouliot perform consistently to the level they’re capable of. But without solid goaltending, the team is going nowhere, and “the Price era begins tonight.” Price is the present and future of this franchise in nets; behind him are two veterans, neither of whom has managed to hold down a starter’s job (Auld and Sanford), and a handful of young prospects who are years away from having a chance to make it. I hope fans will remember this and give Price a warm welcome tonight, and support him through the bad times as well as the good. He’s going to give up bad goals and play bad games; it happens to all goaltenders. He needs to know that the fans are behind him and will not start mercilessly booing and chanting Halak’s name the moment things go wrong. His teammates and most observers agree that he matured a great deal over the last year; nevertheless, early in the season at any rate, it probably wouldn’t take much to shatter his confidence. We can’t afford to have that happen. We can’t afford to see him leave Montreal and develop his enormous potential elsewhere.
Happy birthday to my lovely daddy who I’m going to the game with tonight! Gotta love a daddy who buys me a 2007 Black Honda Civic! SWEET! Just hoping he doesn’t make me drive it till it hits Hickey-territory.
“It must be love!”
Anyone else feeling more comfortable having Sanford as a backup, rather than Auld?
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
It’s just pre-season, but I’m ultra-excited.
I think you mean the 2nd Price Era, don’t you? We already had the start of the Price Era a couple of years back. It ended prematurely.
And yes, I also hope the cheap seats (are there any cheap seats in the Bell Centre?) will be patient. I also doubt they will be.
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“Deserves” got nothin’ to do with it.
I’m totally jazzed to see tonight’s game, win or lose.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Thanks!
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Dumont is number 37
Regarde avec RDS, listen on CJAD.
http://atdhe.net/index.html
I’m getting a pretty good stream from there!
I just hope another broadcaster shows the games that RDS isn’t airing. I one of them makes it on atdhe.
Andre Benoit? Benoit Brunet?
In Andre’s case, no, he’s part of the Senators now.
Bouchard is the new commentator in Brunet’s case.
Sergio Momesso! Been a long time but I remember him well. Played like the Sutter Bros.
Boys, it’s been a long, long summer.
VERY excited for tonight. And the game doesn’t even count!
Ya, that was sweet: 3 5 on 3s?
Max Lap: gettin’ the love.
Has Benoit returned??? I actually liked him, this is good news if true!
Understatement of the year: Wilson on the laffs pre-game “Our power play wasn’t that good last night”
Here’s where I’m watching it.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
http://atdhe.net/
Leblanc is wearing 71? Did he get the Breezer’s permission?
What # is Dumont sporting?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
im begging the habs faithful. please give me a link to this game. PLEASE
Sorry Mr. Boone, but I ALWAYS count out the laffs. I put a curse on em.
LMFAO!!! That should have been done looooooooooong ago!
LOL, no coach will ever be able to get that abortion of a team turned around.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
We put the “fun” in dysfuntional.
Boone and his expert photoshop skills are back! It’s hockey season!!
Burke is the hail mary of the money managers of the MLSE organization, Wilson’s getting sacked first, every GM automatically gets himself out of a jam by sacking his coach and bringing in a new guy.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
As both a designer and an avid hockey fan and player it bothers me how incredibly stale goalie pad designs are currently. I don’t think I’ve seen a more boring set of equipment than what’s pictured there. What happened to goalies having some personality. I fondly remember the great Koho designs that Roy used to wear
It wont shock me if Burke is ***tcanned if the loafs remain basement dwellers this year.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Any listing out there for the player numbers the non-regulars will be wearing?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Ahh.. the live blog is back! Finally!
Looking forward to another season with you, Boone, and the rest of the Habs I/O (sometimes disfunctional) family.
GO HABS GO!
The only thing that the Leafs will be doing with a registered long gun will be being taken out back and Old Yellered.
As veteran readers of the blog can attest, I tend to low-ball the Canadiens … with the goal of being pleasantly surprised. And I forgot to mention the Sabres, who have Ryan Miller and a great coach. But I’m sticking to my registered long guns: Don’t count out Atlanta or the Leafs.
As long as the coach doesn’t bench him after a couple of great starts, he’ll be fine.
Predicting another strong season for Rask, plus the addition of Horton, Seguin putting new scoring punch back in the lineup would be how Boone is raising BOS over MTL.
Their D after Chara is questionable though and Rask has to escape the Sophmore slump. MTL I think has a real shot at the Division if Pouliot, AK and Price play to their potential.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Nice paint job… a blur!
Boone, good to have you back discussing themes of a hockey related nature rather than posting ramdom videos (although the last one was hilarious!), but I’m afraid you appear to have been drinking some form of tainted kool-aid given your Eastern Conference predictions:
1) Why would the Habs cede position to Boston? Do you actually believe they have a better team?
2) Atlanta will NOT be challenging for a playoff spot.
3) The Leafs have NO CHANCE of being within sniffing distance of 12th place come March.
Anyone disagree?
It’s only preseason…
It’s only preseason…
It’s only preseason…
It’s only preseason…
- In Price We Trust
3 goals on 5 shots?! WTF?! Wake up ffs.
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Canadien en 5! Never go Full Retard http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwGRJA28lY&feature=related
Same old Price. Weak.
One team is playing fancy and the other is playing to win… Frustrating.
LOL thank god it’s only preseason
Oyoyoy
If this were baseball, Price would be 2-for-5. He’s batting .400 sure! That’s not bad.
Edit: Yes I’m trolling, but good naturedly. It’s preseason, and as much jump as we’ve shown offensively, obviously defensively we are not putting on a clinic.
So Price wins because he got there in 1/3 the amount of shots it took for Halak!
OKAY, PEOPLE, TIME TO ABANDON SHIP. can I get by halak jersey in the third jersey or do i have to settle for that ugly white?
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Avon Old Farms: 2007, 2008 & 2010 New England Division I Hockey Champions – #5
Worst possible scenario. Lets go Carey, just stop one, please
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
And I’ll do it FASTER!
They always to call us on those chintzy penalties! 3 goals on 5 shots is bad though.
you’re weak. my god, let me put you in the net and have a canadian olympian come in on you, see how you fare.
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Avon Old Farms: 2007, 2008 & 2010 New England Division I Hockey Champions – #5
Ya know, Price is just the kind of beautiful flake to want to blow it and have his worst game out of the gate just to get it over with and move on.
Conboy in the box for a dumb*** play…
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
When in doubt, take a penalty.
It’s funny how i saw that coming… it’s going to be 4-0. Watch it.
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Bruins get a PP out of that even after McQuaid rammed his head into the boards? I guess the preseason has the same refs as the playoffs.
F’ing waesel refs are picking up where they left off last season!
Stupid fans…
its only exhibition thats why i was so suprised by the posters and their comments on the leaf vs senators game yesterday…one problem that many posters forgot is that we have many forwards that try and give the effort but cannot put the puck in the net on a regular basis
They’re already giving Price the sarcastic cheer. Awesome.
Same old Price.. Not really… He had years of .912 and .923 svp… I do’t know but that is not the price I know.
Price suks, get over it.
Yay, we killed it!!
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Oh come one guys… I know the game doesn’t matter but if you acted like it mattered A LITTLE it would be nice.
That was on Weber. And Price.
When do we hear the Halak chants?
Hey Price, just because it’s exhibition doesn’t mean DON’T TRY!
Not to be outdone by Halak’s three GA, Price says, I can do it too, guys…
Well that SUCKS!!!
Gotta laugh at it, it’s as predictable as the sunrise.
I understand that Price did not look good, what I’m saying is that his D looked far from decent when he was in the net, and I would argue there were a couple of goals that he cant be blamed for. He obviously needs a better showing, but I just think the fact that its preseason has to be accounted for.
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
But its fun to crap on the trolls and make them look stupid with actual facts. I am making it my mission this year
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God speed. May your words carry great weight, to smite the trolls within.
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facts don’t register with trolls. that’s why it’s so frustrating arguing with them.
Thank you Petrov! Wanna join me SF09? Comon!!!!
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Their responses are still good for a laugh.
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I’ll be the 3rd man in! lol
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p-p-p-p-plecky!
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It’s Tommy Jagr!!!
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
At least Pleks looks like he’s going to earn his raise
- In Price We Trust
PLEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a machine, I’m liking new contract Plecks
Pleckyyyyyyy! He deserves that
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Yeah! Go Pleky!! Totally worth the 5 mill!!
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I miss Murray Wilson’s patented “YES” when the Hab’s score.
Plekanec is taking this new contract business very seriously.
Prettty. Nice patience.
Bruins showing signs of playoffs! Losing an “insurmountable” lead.
LOL PRICE LEAVES HABS START SCORING! OY OY OY
51 – don’t be afraid to take the shot, you don’t have to defer to the big boys all the time!
Well at least their back in it. It AIN’T over folks!
STOP IT!!!!
Im thinking im getting a Plekanec jersey this season.
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SORRY BUD LOL
LET THE B’S MELTDOWN BEGIN
Boone/Stubbs, can you find out what the boys call 51 in the room? We need a nickname for him….
Poor Pricy can’t win. No that he’s out of the game we score. The injustice is so unfair.
51? What was that guys name again? ;0)
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Get two! I love your money!
Everybody laughed when I took Pleks in the 3rd round of one of the HI/O Fantasy leagues
You really must have NOTHING to do, to be posting on a “Geoff Molson” ID. Wow…… lonely much?
so was kinda of hyperventilating at the start of the game when it looked like we were heading down the path of the leafs , nice to see us waking up a bit,i kn ow it doesn’t count and i hope price isn’t feeling down, i still know he can do it… i do wonder though, are we going to break the habit of outscoring our opponent and losing this year??? i hope so
-”People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” Chuck Palahniuk
I took him last year.
Good hockey after the midway point of the game. I guess…er…something must have sparked them. As for Price, well, its just preseason, but I’m still not going to say its nothing. I don’t think one bad half game should affect anything long term, but lets just say with a GAA of 8.00 and a SV% of 55.5…I’m slightly less confident then I was this morning.
Oof, Denis Gauthier just delivered a low hit on a fan in the Bell Centre waiting for a hot dog… not cool
Voldemort! Voldemort!
Plekanec’s looking great. that play off the boards that led to the short handed goal was nice.
and people that keep saying ” relax its preseason” …face it..Price was absolutely horrible…its hard to relax when our number one goalie just came off his worst season yet and then lets in basically 3 goals on 3 shots after he supposedly “matured and improved”..I wish him all the best this year but it is not looking good for him. the rest of the team is playing decent.
Also impressed with Palushaj..fitting right in there with Cammy and Pleks. Feel bad for Dumont getting called on two crap penatlys
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http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/24279250
My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
Not really..its not like he chipped it in himself, he gave up a break away…yes. and the Price got scored on.
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http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/24279250
My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
B’s win 1st 3-0. we win 2nd 2-1. So as I see it were tied 1-1. Winner of the 3rd takes all.
Hey its pre-season, im gonna make my own rules….
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Thank god the hockey minds don’t jump to conclusions like fans do. ………………………………………”People build teams in certain ways. I’ve always traded for futures – not pasts.” – Sam Pollock
The reason we are Hab fans http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=1476
I have a couple of questions:
1. Didn’t we get rid of Benoit Brunet ?
2. What colour is JM’s hair?
3. Is that a can of Skoal or BC Bud in Carey’s back pocket?
We pot one 3 minutes into the third, and we have a game!
Now that we have a real goalie in there we might just win this thing. Preseason, regular season or postseason, Price still sucks.
Of course you have too much going on in your life to not post here. Those who live in glass houses…..
lol jokes on you, I get mine from a knock-off site for $60, shipping in!!
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Did you watch the first period and a half? The Habs looked sloppy and out of joint, its not Prices fault that the D couldn’t hold it together (cough Spacek cough) and we couldn’t make a breakout pass to save our life. I think you do have to consider the fact its preseason when evaluating Carey’s performance, his team let him down, when he was in, but good news, they found it now and we can all look forward to a better showing infront of him, and thusly a better showing FROM him the next game!
Only preseason folks
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Hes Money. The only thing he doesnt do is play goal…..unless…..hmm….
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Since i also have Cammy, Laps & Gorges those two goals would be 19 fantasy points, when you add in the PP & SH bonus,
Sanford couldn’t hold the fort playing half of his team’s playoff games in the AHL last season, he’s ‘real’ as a starter for an AHL team.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Didn’t take long for the Sky Is Falling crowd to come out tonight. eh?
Preseason, regular season or postseason. Fans like you are not needed
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Awww man, dont take the bait!!
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Yes Spacek was partly responsible for that one goal, but if youre trying to tell me Price was anything but terrible youre kidding yourself… and yes I watched the first period, we out shot them and out played them , and generated good chances…I know they didn’t look great..thats why I said decent.
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http://www.easports.com/media/play/video/24279250
My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
Because, of course, our goalie kept our team from scoring… right?
I thought it was kinda funny. I enjoyed the “Brian Burke” guy last year.
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“Partly” is an understatement.
Dumont definitely deserved the second penalty… He stopped skating, was gliding, and had his stick parallel to the ice..
If you’re serious, you’re sad. That’s zero funny.
We can on only hope…..
True, but when you see something for the umpteenth time, one feels it is just the same old same old, and tends to lose patience.
Agreed, Gainey warned the fans about that. Our expectations are waaaay to crazy!!
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Urgh. Meh. And so on.
He needs a good HI/O nickname ala GUI!, AK46, BGL ect…
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If they’re going to behave like ill-mannered drunks, why should we or the Habs have to listen to them?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
I hope history repeats itself and he plays well for the whole year this year, and you can call me Chris.
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
I thought it was funny
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Umm, fyi, both are NOT questions.
You’re welcome.
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After admiring the Stanley Cup: “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.”
- Steven Tyler
But then half the people here couldn’t go.
Me too.
Props
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That can very easily be seen as a good thing.
I feel the same way, Chris.
Why do you do this toyourself? Go play some guitar, maybe go outside and get some air. Make love to your wife, kiss your kids. Get a hobby. Go look at a tree.
This is a game.
Does that also apply to you?
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We’ll discuss at the upcoming mini-summit
If I played for the Habs and performed like Price has, then yes.
Everybody has looked better then spacek. Brutal that price is being treated the way he has. If sanford had started the game we would still be losing as bad as we are. Hey,back in it 4-2.
McQuaid was a 2nd round pick out of the OHL, he played 28 games for Boston last season. Conboy was a 5th rounder.
People getting pissed…it’s just preseason didn’t we lose 6-1 to Ottawa last year in pre-season?
Rask is solid. That had to be one of the worst trades in TML history.
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And the stupidity begins. See ya gents, it’s been a slice… until next time!
4 – 1 Laffs
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People are taking this way too seriously. It’s game 1 of the PREseason.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way- I mean, NICE try, Carey best of LUCK next game.
Does Price actually participate in the Rodeo or is he one of the clowns?
I swear we lost 6-1 to Ottawa last year in pre-season and no one complained. I thought this was the time to evaluate your prospects.
Ca va etre un bon test de charactere pour Carey Price.
More insightful commentary from the boys at RDS
Wow they’re not leaving Price alone, as least this isn’t the home opener.
The Bell Centre should make IQ tests manditory for people attending it’s hockey games.
I remember that one, and it was uuuuugly.
Chicken shit!!! Go run and hide and watch the Tampa-Chicago game. See if we care!!!!
Your right Andrew, but i really wanted Price to play well, just for him and his psyche
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Opinions are like A$$holes, everybody’s got one, lol
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Everytime I hear the “cheer” I’m happy price doesn’t do the “wave”.
Are the morons in the Ex Zone trying to see if they can get a rise out of him? Give it a rest already.
- In Price We Trust
Just me, or does Tinordi look better than Spacek for this game?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Good shift for Tinordi
51 (he whose name cannot be spelled) does not look out of place. Well, at least PG can rest easy about that one
This is depressing ………. i know its only the preseason and it doesn’t count for anything but wow…. cmon carey please for the love of god don’t do this to me again. All last season every time carey got the start i was always so confident that he’d have a good game only to be disappointed when he let in the quick weak goals that put the team in a bad spot. The positives so far are Pyatt , Lapierre ,Palushaj and plekanec.
I think Pouliot and Palushaj are the revelations of the night. I like what I see.
Wonder if Price will pull a “Roy” during the preseason… take the elevator up in his pads, go to the Habs’ suite and tell PG he’s done.
It’s been a test of character for awhile now. Poor guy.
It’s not just you.
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So did I, but if I remember correctly Topher he was atrocious last preseason, like an 84% save percentage or something like that, and then was lights out to start the regular season.
Spacek made one big slip, otherwise he’s been ok. Tinordi is wisely keeping his game simple.
I wish they would play the kids more.
Terrible fight, but I love Conboy throwing em from the ice
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Even worse than the Kessel deal
- In Price We Trust
lmao what a night.
Ouch, good try though, Conboy.
______________________________________ Gionta for Captain.
Question 1: Spell “mandatory” correctly.
Question 2: Explain the difference between the abbreviated version of “it is” and “its” – use both properly in a sentence.
Go Habs Go!
Oof, Conboy got the worst of it
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Spacek looks horrible, but it’s just rust…I think. Getting his legs working.
Remember in “The Rocket” when the poor people had the fence around their section? How about we do that with Molson Ex zone, but with soundproof glass?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Great. Timmins drafts a US College player as an enforcer and some guy the Bruins found in the beer league this morning throws him around like a rag doll.
Go back to Arnprior Trevor. As a scouting director you suck.
Too much perimeter play, and I do feel sorry for Carey Price tonight, not totally his fault, but he can definately play MUCH better. We fans are going to drive him out of Montreal, mark my words.
I’ve heard Pa-lu-sha too… if he makes the team make him get a new name.
So RDS is confusing me, anyone know if its:
Pa-lu-shy
Pa-lu-she
or
Pa-lu-shaj
I’ve been using the 3rd but im sure its wrong.
first one i believe. pa loo shy
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My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
It’s pre-season. Why are people in the arena and on here freaking out? They’ll come around, it’s the first game of the pre-season!
Chill people. It is only preseason. Enjoy the kids who are getting a shot at playing with the big club.
That’s a very big IF my friend.
PG to Stan Bowman: hey, so how’s it going… anyway, about Huet… could you send him a ticket to Montreal instead of Europe?
Betcha some of you guys wish Price`s contract was a two way one, lol.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
That trade looks good only if Price plays well
Palusaj definately worked his arse off tonight.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Having never had the chance to see a game at the forum. Were the fans at least smart enough to boo who ever was responsible for a goal or did they just boo dryden or whoever else was in net out of drunken stupidity?
Leafstv “telling their fans they deserve to win for over 40 years”
Doesn’t make him anything, like it or not we have a large contingency of meat headed fans.
Go Habs Go!
2010-2011
They play far more defensively for carey because he sucks? But yet they gave up a shorthanded breakaway,a 3 on 1 goal and a 2 on 1 which was deflected in? Didn’t see any of those in the 2nd half. Gee i would hate to see what happens when the habs don’t play defence.
Quite frankly, the Bruins played a much sounder defense in front of Rask in the first half of the game. Sure, the Habs piled up some shots, but a lot of them were from a long way out with the B’s defence making sure that Rask could see them.
Could not watch or listen to the game but 888 posts( and counting) for the 1st. exhibition game has got to be a record. Probably Price’s and JM’s worst nightmare came through tonight reading the 1st page of posts. Home game and a bad game it seems but hey it’s exhibition so lets live with it. If this happens when the regular season starts then we are in BIG trouble (woe to Carey 1st regular season game at the bell center if it’s a bad one). I have been a CP supporter so i’m not jumping ship but it’s up to him now to “show us the money” and if he can play with the big boys again.
It seems to me his downward spiral started when he rushed back from injury to play in the all star game , got shelled and has not recovered even though it was 2 years ago. Prehaps he should not have played (management’s fault?) or as a young player wanted to play (against his and the teams better judgement) in the All Star game.
BTW JH also lost his 1st. game this year and also did not set St. Louis on fire.
Where the rest of the ncaa players are,in school.
You obviously didn’t see the whole game. Once Price was out of the goal the team played great. Price has to do better, but the team needs to play the same in front of him. If you think the team played the same in front of both goalies, then you don’t know your a** fron your elbow.
Its not poor Carey, He needs to start making the big saves. Which he has done plenty in his time on the team. Tonight it was the situation. I can say Price need to play like RASK… He was great tonight.
Funny though how the Bruins had 5 useless shots once Carey was out of the goal, and the defence woke up…
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
Price will be OK..Its just ONE game and It is PRESEASON!
Using logic on Shiloh is like water off of a duck’s back…
Yeaaaaap
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My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
Riiiiight. I guess universities aren’t going to give students time off to play exhibition games. Forgot he was still in school.
TSN. Jennifer Hedger…Carey Price gets the hook. Ummm,.,.no you stupid Bimbo. They split the game with Sanford. Christ. Don’t let slander get in the way of a good lie. What a joke that network is. Can’t get their facts straight.
Rask made a ton of big saves from scrambles close in, just by his positioning with his pads. His positioning made some big saves on a few he was screened on also. Regardless, he looked a hell of a lot better than our goaltender, that’s for sure. That is not a good sign.
The team puts on a show like that for half the game, and every 3rd post is about Price?!
So Price did not have his best game…it was pre-season, and there were far more encouraging things on the ice tonight, than worrying about our #1. He will be better, he has to be.
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WOW! These kids came to play in the 3rd
Times in the 3rd were un-frickin’-real…I mean Plekanec is “The Mechanic”. Cammalleri, brilliant. Palushaj, VERY surprising. Tinordi, looks calm. Leblanc, was a machine and smart with the puck. St. Denis, Weber, Lapierre. So many players had great moments in the 3rd. I could watch another game like that right now.
That was fun to watch (but I am glad no points were involved).
After a long summer of reflecting on the Halak trade, it seems strange to me that Gauthier couldn’t get Halak and Plex both signed. Jaro signed for approx. 1.5 mil more per year than Price. I’m sure he could have gotten Plex inked for a little less, maybe 500K per year. It couldn’t have been that difficult to shave 1 mil off the payroll somewhere else.
Of course, Gauthier clearly chose Price, so I guess he never would have even considered it, so what’s strange to me is sensible to him. I just think it didn’t have to be a choice between Halak or Plex, as has been stated.
Your assumption is Price chose not to address the media. Perhaps. I agree he is typically in a difficult position with respect to the media. The fact is, he had and has options. If the media glare is too overwhelming for him, Price could ask (or could have asked) the team quietly to trade him elsewhere. Carey must use all the detractors as a motivating force to improve his on-ice performance. If he cannot do this, he will not have a very long career. Most posters here think Montreal is the only city in the NHL tough on its hockey players. The glare and scrutiny is a fact of life almost everywhere. Look at what the fans did with Joe Thornton in Boston? Vancouver fans were pretty rough on Kirk Maclean. If Carey is looking to avoid public scrutiny, he clearly chose the wrong profession.
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“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge….”
–Hunter S. Thompson
Pouliot and Kostitsyn need to score, no question there. I’m talking about guys like Leblanc and Palushaj, who aren’t likely to make the team this year but are making good in roads.
No, I don’t honestly believe that. That said, If I was Carey (and sometimes I like to pretend I am) I’d tell my teammates to not defend me since it makes me look like a helpless child and only serves to encouage it. There’s a portion of Canadiens fans that love to eat the weak and some of them always show up at Habs games. Carey must’ve known this when he declared he’d be happy to be our starting goalie during the summer after we had traded Halak. I can understand why he’d be a little rattled the first time it happened, but by now he should know what to expect and also stop wrongly assuming that the boo birds are suddenly going to change their attitude or give up attending games because a player/gm/coach told them to. There are other parts of your comment I’d like to address but since I’m typing all this on my PS3 w/o a keyboard it’s taking too long for me to bother. Another time. “It’s my goal to lead the league in 4 minute roughing things” -Scott Gomez
I’m anxious to see Avtsin play. Seems like he may have some real offensive skills and finish to his game and a real hunger to score, which is actually kind of rare. Everyone wants to score, but some guys are desperate to do so. Like Ovie, I. Kovy, Hull, Bure, Neely. I think Cammy also has that.
The thing is, it’s not just one game. This goes back 2 years now. If it was just ONE game, people would be cool. It’s like if in game 1 of the playoffs next April Joe Thorton doesn’t do much. People won’t be saying it’s just one game, chill out. The history cannot be erased.
Whine? its hard to grasp a tone off text. But if you want to jump to conclusions, be careful what you wish for as per some of the comments that followed your little rant here. It was an attempt at humor. No patterns can emerge until you have enough numbers to take averages. and the fact Carey had one of the lowest goal support in the NHL last year was a pattern. Maybe not so anymore, but since I got enough reply’s that it was not exactly a great half-game for Price, but more often then not goals coming off good/broken plays, I don’t need you to actually answer the question I asked.
Thanks for the reply.
No matter what Halak and Allan Walsh have said to the media, Halak would never have signed the same contract here. He would have been looking for 4.5 million on average I’m guessing. As for Plekanec, getting him signed before he was a UFA was more important than shaving 500k of per year.
Carey Price has only stopped 56% of the shots he’s faced for the last 2 years? Hot damn I’ve been misreading statistics. It was one game, a bad game for him, in a game that didn’t matter. Who cares.
LOL, It’s funny that to say anything positive about Price from last season, people always come back to those first 2 OT wins of the season. Oh, and that Nashville game.
They play far tighter with Super-Carey in net because they know if there’s a chance it will likely be in. What part of that observation made over the past three years is illogical? He has to play better. The team will make mistakes for every goalie, but he has to bail them out once in a while. If we don’t get decent goaltending, we won’t have a prayer.
Go drama queen all you want. The fact is right in front of you. When you have 2 young goalies who both want to be number 1,sooner or later one of them gets traded. Last summer it was supposed to be price this past summer it was halak. Nobody knows if halak even wanted to stay or if we would have accepted what he took in st.louis. But halak and his agent pulling the twitter stunt probably pushed him half way out the door. Its over. Stop crying about it. Halak got traded to a team that has nobody to challenge him for the #1 spot,just like price here in montreal. Get real? Is “getting real” whining day in and day out about a trade that happened 3 months ago? Its not our fault you get attached to hockey players like a teenage girl.
And how many scrambles did Price get scored on?
Rask screened, puck goes off two posts. Price screened, puck goes just inside post. Price wasn’t out of position on the screen shot goal, and Rask wasn’t out of position when the pucks rang off the post. Thems the breaks. Sometimes the game of inches works in your favour, and sometimes it doesn’t. The only goal that I wish Price had back was the fourth one, where Bergeron beat him with essentially the same move, except on the other side of the goal. Hardly any reason to tie one’s intestines in a knot.
This is the pros, not the juniors from 6 years ago. With only Sanford and Auld behind him, we don’t the luxury of giving Price the benefit of the doubt. Everybody wants him to succeed, true enough, but it is most important that the team succeed. All the other teams know Price is weak mentally and gets rattled, this is going to be an extremely long season. The team needs to figure out what to do about this problem (Eller and another prospect for Halak?)
Oh Price
Shake it off, it’s not a point yet.
On the flipside – WOW Leblanc and Palushaj. Very good shifts. Plek was his normal self.
…I think Gill, Cammy and Josh were very clear sending a message to Our Meathead Fans …the gratuitist booing of Carey effects the WHOLE Team, not only Carey
…and, if the unnecessary booing gets worse, there will be more than a few of Our Players whom will stop playing for Us, the Fans
Palushaj did pretty good, but I think he was playing with Pleks and Cammy. That certainly helps things. I don’t know, some people including yourself liked Leblanc tonight. I didn’t hate him, but honestly was not very impressed. He seemed a little lost to me.
There isn’t a lot of positives to point to from last season for Price. First two games, all of November and the stretch after the olympics until he got pulled in Anaheim.
Who knows what contact Halak might have signed? Not you or I. All I’m saying is that a different GM – one who would have chosen Halak over Price – wouldn’t have had a very hard time retaining Halak and Plex.
Is Jose Theodore still looking for work?
(Kidding!)
They play tentatively in front of him. They don’t take off up ice – the flow is slower and choppier. Showey, I hope he puts up 20 shutouts this year but I don’t think he’s capable of it. Maybe he’ll find his stride.
Listen, when the fans pay money to go to games, and when the “#1 goalie” holds out until the last minute to get money he didn’t earn, the fans have a right to boo and get frustrated when said goalie lays an egg. Under the circumstances, Price should have been motivated to play like Rask did last night, but he didn’t. Same ol’ story.
And, if it was just a pre-season game and no big deal, then Price should have been able to face the media.
Despite his physical gifts, Price simply does not have the mental toughness to play in Montreal. This is nothing new, and the team will pay for it.
I have to agree with TH…nobody knows what Halak might have signed for.
To me, Martin is playing the safe route concerning the `fans` He should call them out.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
I think that’s easy to say from the outside, if Halak stayed in Montreal he would have went to arbitration, no question. And then the Habs could have ended up like the Hawks.
Exactly why I want him to be the captain, but his contract and age, probably make it not probable.
And I know he’s a kid, but Price needs to start manning-up and answering the media’s questions when he lays an egg like this. I think it would go a long way towards him gaining the fans’ respect (back). Cammi, Gorges, et al never duck the media.
You’re missing the point. It goes to a pattern of Price not getting the job done and racking up another one in the Loss column. It’s not like it was a fluke Price became a back-up last season. It just makes people say ” Here we go again”, even though it’s just a preseason game.
They could have called to feel him out about before he became eligible (arb.) Andrew, and that never happened.
Come on, Andrew, I’m a big fan of your postings, but saying he would have gone to arbitration is even easier to say as an outsider.
I would have liked my GM to at least started contract negotiations with Halak, to find out what his asking price was. According to reports, that never happened.
“Is he Superman?” Gorges asked rhetorically. “Is he supposed to save everything: breakaways, 2-on-1s, backdoor …
“We have to help him,” Gorges added.
I’ll take the point of view of the guys inside the room. They know what has to be done. NO goalie will be successful if you continually put him in positions where he’s not likely to succeed.
Hey Boone, where’s “About Last Night?”………………….. I guess its pre-season for the writes as well
Get a life haters. Its only one friggin pre-season game. I was more interested in watching the prospects. Palushaj, Tinordi and the Great French Hope than scrutinizing every move Carey made.
Anyway, based on the comments in here, its going to be another interesting season.
No ALN till the regular season
So than you are saying that the other 18 guys don’t have any effect on Price’s “one job”, just making sure I understood you right.
This B.S. about the fans must stop1 If you crap the bed it’s not the fault of fans! As a Goalie your job is to keep your team in da freaking game man and try to get the win! Do any of you see this from Price cause I sure as sheit don’t.The masterminds who have set this up are going to get us the no:1 pick and spin doctor it too!And for all the Price fans that have lambasted any one for their truthful opinions regarding Carey’s shortcomings that first period was for you!!!lol
What do you expect? A good share of the posters on here couldn’t get that little fact straight, either!
Exit suggested Price was lit up by the AHLers on the Boston roster, he wasn’t, it was the regulars.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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You assume to know the minds of all the sports editors in Montreal. You assume waaaaay too much. It was a pre-season game that does not matter. Price hopefully knows this and will be better next time.
If this were January, I would care more. But, a game with nowhere near the regular rosters of each team is what it is: an opportunity to see and assess first-hand how the picks are doing. All the veterans have full dossiers; it’s the kids that count right now. Worrying or fretting over this is hyperbole.
Arbitration? You mean the process where good young players on the rise earn their new paycheques? I’m sure Halak would have done well at arbitration – because he played so great. And we certainly don’t want that in a goalie now, do we? Funeral-Face Gauthier could have found the dollars to pay Halak if he made it a priority. Halak’s salary is close to the total of Price plus Eller and Halperin. Maybe we would have had to keep Moore instead of Pouliot, but if they really wanted to keep Halak they could have. They chose Price instead, even though Halak was the superior goalie in every aspect of the game. Hope they’re right.
Price is AWFUL, but then again what did we expect? He spent his summer ropin’ calves. A Bruin of course, is a small bear…Carey needed to practice roping “bears”! On second thought…perhaps he should have PRACTICED finding aa way to stop pucks. Excuses…so many excuses. Please…. I could have stopped the “deflected” first goal. If every goalie let in a weak wrist shot that was slightly deflected, the league would be filled with 50 goal scorers. Mark my words…Price will have his contract bought out by next year.
From Georges comments, it sounds like they were manning up for not getting the job done in front of their goalie.
Maybe he’s a glutton for punishment.
You have no point because there is no point in a pre-season game. Get it?
These games are for tuning up for the regular season. Get it?
These games are to evaluate the team’s prospects. Get it?
These games don’t mean a bloody thing. Get it?
Let me know what you don’t understand about pre-season games and I’ll gladly explain it to you.
Price can do an interview. He can man up. He can say he sucked and that he’ll put in the effort to not suck next time. It’s called taking ownership for one’s actions.
Gill’s laments are going in the opposite direction.
Yup… and one of your goal scorers in tonight’s game would have been playing somewhere else this evening.
Considering the state income tax in missouri ranges from 1.5 to 6%. I’d say he would have wanted substantially more to stay in montreal.
If management wanted him they would have traded Price and signed him. Simple as that. They never wanted Halak as the #1. This was the case ever since he came to Montreal. That’s why they never even talked to him after the last game against Philly.
Basically who cares about tonight. If Price sucks all of the pre-season then so be it. Finish out of the playoffs, whatever.
It counts as of october.
If Pekka Rinne (an inferior goalie to Halak or Price) and oft-injured Kari Lehtonen were awarded 6.6 and 10.75 million $ contracts based on their play, what do you think the arbitrator would have given to Halak? Niemi got 2.75 for playing behind the best defence in the NHL last season. Arbitration is how an NHL team gets screwed these days, everyone gets more than they deserve.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Gill says it all in his post game interview. Keep it up idiots, your only shooting youself in the foot hoping that UFA’s will want to play for you. ………………………………….
“People build teams in certain ways. I’ve always traded for futures – not pasts.” – Sam Pollock
The reason we are Hab fans http://www.habsworld.net/article.php?id=1476
Must be why Gainey was ready to pull the trigger to send Carey to TB for Lecavalier in 2009…
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Darn it.
I had a cappy week and I was actually really looking forward to our first ALN of the season.
I love reading it over a bowl of Strawberry Mini Wheats in the morning.
“The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”- Randy Pausch
I agree with Habitant in Surrey the booing does effect the whole team…………..If you boo our Habs TAKE OFF THE CH SWEATER YOU ARE NOT A FAN……………………..it takes the whole team to win not just one………….get a grip……………. BOO JERKS>>>>IDIOTS………………….STOP DRINKING AT THE GAME YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE THE GAME MORE……..if you were SOBER…………….GO MY HABS GO YOU ALL OKAY!!!!!!! BUNCH OF YOUNG PUNKS!!!!!!!!!
As much as I agree with the team not playing well in the beginning, but come on. It takes time for skaters to feel each other out. In nets you do one job, and he sucked at that job tonight (3 goals on 5 shots) there is no way to sugar coat that sh_t performance.
Can’t give up the kid though…so much is banked on him.
Meatheats is a mild name to good for them..they are not ging to walk out they would rather stay & kick a guy when he is down GO HABS GO !!!!!!!
Jaro had a crap game last night, like I have said if Price isnt playing like dryden or plante he is garbage, its one damn game. Its preseason but here we go Jaro is god and price is crap so when Price gets better what are you going to say then, when he leads this team are you going to be like everyone else and jump on the band wagon!
Oh, excuse me for using the wrong wording. He waited until the last minute to sign a contract because he wanted his money. Everyone was signed at that point, except him. The funny thing is that he never even earned that contract.
How is that not tripping???
That was a hell of a shot by Weber
- In Price We Trust
I would happily have a Cup-winning goalie as my #1 for 2.75 mil. It’s shocking that you wouldn’t.
in or out?????
______________________________________ Gionta for Captain.
Good sequence by Leblanc, you can see he has skill. And Horton is throwing elbows all over the place.
People get it through your heads Jaro is this generations Steve Penny!
Oh wah! Everyone is complaining about the meanie fans. Hey, management put Price in this position by making him the “entitled one,” even though he’s yet to earn anything. Now, management can deal with the fans. News flash – when fans pay big bucks in a bad economy to see a game, they have every right to boo a bad performance, and personally, I didn’t find the fans’ reaction surprising. Price will be under A LOT of pressure. This could get really ugly.
Before entertaining a trade of Price for Vinnie, Bob tried pitching Halak to TB. He got laughed off the phone. “It’s my goal to lead the league in 4 minute roughing things” -Scott Gomez
out
Indeed
So close …
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Never judge another man’s decision poor until you actually have proof of it failing!
Fans have every right to boo.
Booing has been always a common tradition when you play in Montreal whether at the Bell Centre or the old old Montreal Forum or Jubilee Arena.
Ask any alumni who played for the Habs if they were ever booed and they will answer with a yes but they performed better after knowing the fans were on their backs.
If you can’t play in Montreal with the high expectation of the passionate fans of the club, all I have to say is…walk out then.
But calling our fans Meatheads, what does that make you?
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
I do like the idea that the HAbs are at least shooting at the net, this has been a big weakness for years…
I’d prefer one that did his part for more than 1 of the playoff series to win the Cup.
Keith, Campbell, Seabrook, Sopel and Hjalmarsson made it happen, not Niemi. I didn’t see a ton of NHL teams falling overthemselves to clear cap space when he became UFA either.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Awesome Gorges and Gill audio – that’s what I want to hear, leaders saying “wtf is your problem?” to fans
Forget denouncing the fans. Forget denouncing the stressed kid in nets. Forget whining about Price not giving interviews after the exhibition game.
Put Gauthier on skates for five minutes before every game, and have him skate around the Bell Centre. Or put his gob on the scoreboard if you’re worried about having to scrape the beer and cola off the ice. If you think the trade was stupid, take your concerns to the men who made that trade (if you can find them). The players are just trying to do the job they were hired for.
Let Price get his rhythm and find his game. Wait to see what level that game will be. It’s a comeback story. We have a seemingly fragile goalie? He’s the only goalie we have? Grin and bear it, and support the guy in his attempt to become a reliable NHL goaltender.
There was a lot of good in that game last night. I’m looking forward to seeing these young guys as they develop. But if I go to the game and boo Price, I’m almost guaranteeing some of these young, talented guys will have to be traded for a journeyman starting goalie at some point in the season. It’s not a clever place to go.
Oddly, I agree with you, to an extent. Price played like crap for sure, but you can’t possibly be saying how the team plays in front of him doesn’t effect his “one job”, are you?
So preseason games are good enough to evaluate if a young player is good enough to play in the NHL and is ready to be on the team come opening day, but when it comes to seeing if Price is looking good after being relegated to a back-up last season, then it doesn’t count? Sure you know what you are saying there O?
Regardless of the outcome, there will be many positive lessons learned tonight.
Poor Price, as usual he got precious little support from his teammates.
Tinordi has been a force tonight! I want to see more of him in the pre-season.
Agreed, the D let him down big time
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Never judge another man’s decision poor until you actually have proof of it failing!
They paid top dollar for a good show and got crap from the goalie?
Leblanc has speed but he’s been knocked around, he’ll bulk up and learn to brace himself better..
Goals shouldn’t go in from 65 feet out in the first 90 seconds of the game, deflected or not.
See, that’s the thing. No one seems to care WHY it turned out to be a rough night for him.
Carey was scored on twice on odd-man rushes in a preseason game, and folks are ready to toss him to the wolves.
Rask was scored on twice on odd-man rushes in a preseason game, and they’re ready to hand him the Vezina.
The only difference for Carey was a a deflected goal off of an odd-mad rush and a screened shot on the powerplay; the number of shots against to put him in those situations isn’t the issue.
Our screened shot hit the post twice, and bounced out. Theirs found it’s way just inside the post. Sh*t happens; next time maybe the bounces go our way.
For the big French superstar center, Gainey was even ready to sacrifice Price. Doesn’t change the fact that Gauthier/Gainey didn’t want Halak here before he won over the #1 job as well as after.
Tinordi has bought himself at least one more pre-season match, London Knights are lucky to have him.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Its only an exhibition game!! Has no one watched the NFL or MLB in preseason. Noone boos Vlad when he swings two feet above a breaking ball in March. No ones boos AP when he runs for the sidelines in august. Why rail on a goalie in September. I have cheered for this team for over 40 years, but this is getting pathetic. It is what happens in Feb and March that matters. Give the guy a chance. It is not his fault that PG made the decision to trade Halak. People will not be happy until they run this guy out of town.
It’s so great to see the kids (like Leblanc) realize how FAST the game is at this level- and pick up their games. Palushaj, Leblanc, and Tinordi have been just fine, with gusts up to excellent. So much young promise on this team.
Alex Auld will be our starter come December.
I kid. But seriously folks…. it’s a pre-season game. And the defence was ugly but let’s be honest, if Carey Price didn’t expect this he was fooling himself when Halak got traded. He’ll gave to not only play the best hockey in his life but he’ll also have to win the hearts of a good chunk of unhappy fans who aren’t happy on who was chosen.
Let’s see what happens next game…. this Palushaj kid though… wow. I LIKE!
the main problem that this team may still have is too many players who give effort but are life and death to score 6-8 goals a year.
He has a great shot, but too bad he’s not too good defensively
Good thing you are veteran with a one-way contract. I’m sure Kevin Mio would be in Hamilton is he negelcted an assignment
if people are mad at players performance then spacek should be thrown under the bus too. hopefully spacek bought price a beer for 2 goals that he caused
If you don’t want to get booed, don’t play like you couldn’t care less. This kid has been nonchalant for too long. If you can’t take the heat, go play in Tampa!
Play like you care, play like you deserve to be there, and no one will boo you.
Crapping all over those that boo as though they’re Nazis is B.S. IF you’re not ready, don’t play.
I’ve made a huge mistake…
That doesn’t make any sense. If deflected shots shouldn’t go in in the first 90 seconds of the game, then they shouldn’t go in for the other 58:30, either.
And the deflected shot was from in close, not 65 feet.
Has anyone noticed Seguin?
Didn’t know hortons goal came from outside the blueline. Since the goal line to the blue line is 64 feet.
Missed the game last nite as we are on our way to Dover for the NASCAR race this weekend … high expectations .. but the loss to Boston kinda put a early and I repeat early start to thr year ….
I hope Carey survives .. but he is goning to have to have thick skin !!!
I’m in Boston tonite and heading to New Jersey for 3 nites then to Dover from there …Bogity ..bogoity ..bogoty ..boys ..lets go racing !!!
afetr reading the game summary ..one word …. we can’t seem tofinish ..30 + shots .
Not a bit
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Preseason- no matter how poor the performances were, it just doesn’t matter. Good shot count and Rask being wasted for a full exhibition game when 30 minutes would have done. Nice to see some rookies and extra effort. 3rd period was fun to watch and Rask was solid. 4 goals on 8 shots will count in October. Right now, it’s water under the bridge. Shake it off and everyone work hard in practice.
Aside from Price, I’m very pleasantly pleased with the team tonight. Some breakdowns early, but everyone seemed to get better as the game went on. Tinordi, Palushaj and Leblanc have been especially impressive.
I have a suggested headline for you or Pat Hickey; :”A tale of two goaltenders”
Tonight at the Bell Centre we saw the only 2 goaltenders picked in the first round of the 2005 NHL entry draft; #5 (Carey Price) & #21 (Tuuka Rask). Both were hightly touted draft picks and viewed as potential saviours for their respective fanchises. Both are big and athletic but one paid his dues in the minors and had an all-star veteran netminder to mentor him (Tim Thomas) while the other was rushed through the system and handed every opportunity along the way.
Rask was expected to resolve the goaltending hole in TO but not Boston. When he was traded, Bos already had Tim Thomas minding the net so he could be developed slowly int he AHL with NO pressure to be the man between the pipes. Rask had 2 full seasons in the AHL before he was eased into the NHL. His maturity and development to this point is a result of good mangement and tempered expectations. It would be interesting to see what his development would have been like if he was stuck in TO.
In Careys situation he is set up to fail; everything was handed to him NOT because he earned it or beat out Huet or Halak for the job. the fans and the management expected him to be Roy or Dryden not Steve Penny. There are no more excuses for Carey he has to deliver every night or he is villified.
So here we are in September 2010. Tuuka Rask looks to be the next dominant goalie in the NHL whereas Price is still trying to find his game. I’m still a believer in Price but tonight is more of a lesson on how poorly the Habs management have failed to draft and develop their 1st rounders. Price has all the tools to be the goaltender of his generation but to this point he has shown none of that. A look across the ice at Rask and you have to wonder what might have been….
He got an assist on Boychuck’s goal.
And, in return, Price let the team down big time too. And it doesn’t matter unless the poor performance gets into his head. Goalies will have bad nights. So will defences. There’s no pattern yet. It’s a warm-up, practice game for him. Let’s hope he finds his confidence.
Note to Tim Thomas…get used to the bench, you’re gonna be seeing a lot of it again this year.
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
double post.
Honestly, not once.
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tinordi was terrible
i hope he has a good season in the OHL cause i can’t see keeping david fischer being any worse than what tinordi was on the ice tonight.
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
Yes it does. With gainey trading price for vinny it says they were more then OK with giving halak the #1 job even before last season started. But keep reaching.
Not a bad game at all, a loss, but many positives! Let’s hope for a better outcome next game
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Agree. I’m a HUGE Price fan and this game doesn’t matter. That said, he’s gotta learn to suck it up and not have everyone in the organization defend him after being booed. Taking boos for performing poorly is part of the job description of the Montreal Canadiens starting netminder. He’s gotta let this stuff roll off his back. Sticks and stones and all that. “It’s my goal to lead the league in 4 minute roughing things” -Scott Gomez
I think some early jitters were to be expected. Lots of good things on display tonight.
Seriously Chuck, I never said anything about Rask owning the Vezina trophy and I am not tossing Price to the wolves, read my other posts. You have to admit though Rask was good, anyone who knows hockey can’t contest that.
So Price gets scored on during a PP (great shot though) while being screened, and that is ok in your eyes, no goalie in the NHL could have stopped it. But did you see the save Rask made on the turnaround shot from Spacek, that was screened as well…but he stopped the puck, let me guess, you could have stopped it blindfolded and hog tied?
Anything that Price did stop, bounced around more than a chipmunk on acid trapped in Mr.Dressup’s tickle trunk.
And I have already posted, it was a pre-season game, it meant nothing. He had a bad outing and his team mates admitted he had a bad night. If you want to talk about people trashing him (maybe you want to start an argument) but you are talking to the wall my friend. Better luck next time at fishing.
Good shift by St Denis
You have to admit, there is a sizeable portion of Montreal hockey fans who know little more about the nuances of the game than the final score.
Not a bad start.
Again, my heart bleeds for Carey Price. Why can’t this team put in a solid effort for him?
Killed them in every part of the game except goaltending.
I gotta wait till feb.18th to see tinordi play here in sudbury. Looking forward to it.
Good game. Price needs to get that rust off. Rask looks like he’s in top form already.
OH MAN, Habs are FAST! Speedy team.
It’s obvious that you didn’t understand my comments. Evaluating a prospect is a bit more complex that your simple statement, since most of them will not be there on opening day or during the season, for that matter.
Now, on to your intense hatred for Price. You either didn’t see the game, in which case you shouldn’t comment. Or, you saw the game and you don’t understand what you saw. Three goals would have been scored on any goalie and the 4th one was questionable. And I will put up Price’s stats for the last 3 years against the vast majority of goalies of the last 40 years at his exact age.
i understand the booing, for me the mock cheering is worse than booing. it embarassed roy enough to raise his arms in response, then race to the owner of the team and told him he’s done playing in montreal. then two stanley cups later….
does anyone know if price stayed in the locker room after his 30 minutes were done? does anyone think that the bruins kept rask in for the full tilt because they were getting out played, and with another goalie in net they might have lost this one? julien knows this town, too. any loss could result in a snowball effect of derision and distraction. that could benefit a divisional rival down the road, n’est-ce pas?
Not much mention of Maxwell, but thought he played a fairly good match, he fought hard and along with Palushaj could be the other surprise at camp
Safe to say Rask stole one?
Ah well, at least we’re not worst than the Leafs from last night’s game against Sens…
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Do you honestly believe that Price is hanging out on the back of the locker room with Gill, Georges and Cammy and telling them to defend him from the boos?
They were asked those questions by the media, and answered them as best they could. As they said, it’s tough to hear one guy being booed when the rest of the team deserves the heat, too.
Strange… Spacek has that horrible giveaway leading to the 4th goal, yet it’s Price that’s booed the next time that he touches the puck. Go figure.
First half of the first preseason game jitters, I guess. They sure looked better as the game wore on.
I’m sticking with the positives from tonight:
Jarred Tinordi played against men tonight and did not look out of place, when he fills out, he’ll be a freight train with strong skating and a pretty good outlet pass.
Louis Leblanc started off nervous, but by the end showed his chops against the Bruins, he bulks up in the Q and AHL for the next 2 years and he’ll be a force.
Benoit Pouliot’s off-season conditioning paid off, he rocked a Bruin with a hit, skated towards the net and was much stronger on his feet than last season. Driving the net, he can score 20+ this season.
Aaron Palushaj proved he can keep up with an NHL line, if called up, he will be a good fill-in at the least.
Tomas Plekanec looks like he stepped out of mid-season from 09-10.
Jeff Halpern, Tom Pyatt and Max Lapierre? Energy line JM can throw together in a pinch for impact.
Carey Price, bad first game? Yes but better now and he’s got a few more pre-season matches coming up to shake off the rust and establish his headspace. He wasn’t that great in last year’s pre-season either, than he served up the first two wins of the season with outstanding efforts.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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That was fun. been a while since my last HI/O game….too long. c u next game.
That palujai….Too-Shy guy seems like the read deal. I hope to see more of him.
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Probably the best thing that could have happened to Price. He knows he’s on the hot seat and the temperature just got turned up. He’ll rebound with a fierce effort next time.
It’s just a preseason game anyway. This is not the team that will take the ice for opener … on either side. Wouldn’t put too much stock into it.
Full Breezer 4 Life
Here comes the worst part, let the over reactions begin!
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
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I saw some good and bad in this game. Alot of hussle from the kids, but unfortunately Carey Price was not at his best tonight, but it IS only the pre-season afterall, remember that everyone. Pricey WILL bounce back from this.
Heroes: Pleks, Cammy, JG, 51 (Voldemort), Tinordi, Lapierre
Zeroes: Price, Dumont, Spacek
Price HAS to be prepared, what would he have expected tonight? What did you expect tonight? I know I expected Price to play better than .600 though (6/10) With no Markov, Gomez, Gionta, Kostitsyn, Markov, Subban, Hamrlik, etc, etc. I knew the team would be weaker, especially in the beginning.
I agree, but to his credit that was Horton knocking him around.
I wouldn’t have mock cheered Price if I was at the game. If he’s still doing this by 25 games then fine, but he needs to be given a little slack for now. I don’t have much faith in the guy, but I feel bad for him. Management has given him the equivalent of a suicide pass. They’ve never ligitimized his position on the team by making him earn it. After Halak snatched the job away from him and became a Hero, management dumps him and props Price up as the #1 again, getting maybe one of the worst back-ups in the league behind him, to ensure no further contraversy. The majority of fans want their hero, who fought like a dog to become the undisputed #1. They feel they have been cheated, because Price has not earned their respect. It’s not his fault that management did what they did. He not only has to live up to being the so called “franchise”, but now also to Halak’s now mythic playoff performance. Even Halak himself probably couldn’t follow that up. I’m afraid that Price needs to be something he does not have the ability to be, for him to win in this tough situation.
Agreed chuck,if there was a goat tonight it was spacek. He also deflected the puck past price. But raking spacek over the coals doesn’t sell papers or get website hits like raking carey does.
I agree. Liked the tenacity from some of the kids and the aggressive forechecking by the team in general (very un-JM like). Just still a lack of finish and goal-scoring talent though.
Maybe Price should be more accountable to the media and fans, sorry to say but media and hockey goes hand in hand in Montréal. Why not come out and answer the dumb questions when you lose, everyone else does.
Until next time folks, have a great night! Hockey is back! GO HABS GO!!
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Didn’t think Leblanc looked particularly good for a first rounder. Definately needs to improve to reach this level.
agreed. i wonder, do some of you fans watch the habs hoping that carey will fall on his face just so you can post “i told you so.”? i feel bad for carey. it seems nothing short of winning the stanley cup via 16 consecutive shutouts will ever be good enough for some people, people that LOVE the team, supposedly. i do understand that good players are supposed to play well, that’s what they are paid to do, but i also believe you can’t say you support a team then throw players on that team repeatedly into the meat grinder. it’s counter-productive. that’s what you do to the opposition. it US against THEM, whatever US happens to be for the season. meaning halak is gone, he’s not coming back, ever. done. roy is gone, hell, the era of hab dominance is done. over. we’re just one of 30 nhl teams now, and in this age of the NHL 1 team can beat any of the other 29 teams. carey will win his fair share of games. he will also lose some games. some games he’ll be fantastic. others he’ll be less than fantastic. are any of us better than that? i bet less than 2 percent of the posters here could do what carey price can do, or what any of these players can do. it so easy to pick these players to death when you don’t have to spend one second in their shoes.
Yeah, there’s always next time or the time after that or a nice phone call from his parents or a pat on the back from Gainey or whatever. He’s the thoroughbred. The Superstar. The guy that can’t stop a beach ball against an AHL team from Boston.
Shitty goal 90 seconds in and boom that was it.
Good post SF. Unfortunately I missed the game so I will take your word for it.
What game were you watching? Tinordi was easily the best non-roster D out there tonight.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Not fishing, and I didn’t mean you specifically… but if you’ve read some of the posts on here tonight, you’ll get the idea.
Rask was indeed very good tonight. He played a more sound game then Price. But it’s still funny how we hold the two goaltenders to different standards.
If you’re screened, it means that you can’t see the shot. If you make the save, it’s because the puck happened to be on a trajectory to hit you. You put yourself in position depending on where the shot is expected to come from, and hope that it doesn’t find a hole. Sometimes you have to play the percentages. And the percentages worked in Rask’s favour tonight.
If you click on PHOTOS, 3 of the 5 pics are the puck behind Price
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…let’s take the positive first …We will have a different dynamic this season …significantly more skill and depth …as well as identified character, balance and solidarity as a Team
…clearly, in the wings, We have real talent percolating, awaiting opportunity if any of Our regulars disappoint or are injured
…I will be VERY surprised if the Montreal Canadiens are not a playoff team
…after only one exhibition game Our Achilles Heel, the negative, is represented by Our goaltending
…will We be let down by shoddy goals allowed that will undermine all the positive ?
…it was not that Carey allowed 4 goals in 9 shots on goal …but objectively, it was HOW He was beaten …seemingly lackadaisical, waving at the puck unfocused and seemingly without any reflexive muscle twitch, either with His legs or glove
…not appearing post-game indicates Carey is already dealing with major psychological and emotional stress that is magnified by the carry-over during the previous 2 seasons
…I am a Habs Fan that wants to be a Carey Price Fan too …I think that if this was happening while He was a Pheonix Coyote or a member of almost any other NHL team, Carey Price has WHAT it takes to turn it around
…as a Montreal Canadien it will not be as easy
…optimistically, the Montreal Canadiens will not be a Team that will frequently allow 40+ shots as They did last season …We will be significantly tighter defensively, controlling offensively much more of the play
…this is what We must be patient to allow to play out …let the Team meld around Carey, and vice versa
…if You as Fans of Our Habs have any remaining credibility …do NOT destroy Carey Price
Good game…some of the kids look real good…Maxwell looks real solid…confident with the puck
Leblanc will be a star and Tinordi too…
Not gonna touch the goaltending situation with a ten foot pole…nothing needs to be said…
Rask will be tough this year…
“Six more years…God Bless You Turtleneck Man!”
What game were you watching?
Ha. Carbonneau on RDS; he doesn’t know how to smile.
that’s not saying much considering st-denis was the worst player on the ice that he makes bergeron look like a superstar
tinordi was terrible…he messed up every pass he made, he got beat by speed on the outside multiple times…and it’s embarrassing when a 6’5 blake wheeler makes tinordi look slow..
tinordi also failed pretty badly when spacek pinched in from the point and tinorid over-committed to spacek’s side and couldn’t turn to skate backwards and his momentum was going away from the play making a 2 on 1 really just a 1 on carey.
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
He should be accountable to his team, that’s all I care about as a fan. Nothing he would have said to the media would make a difference, and he’s a terrible interview anyway.
Islanders will need more than Streit on their blue line with a senior citizen G and another G who’s 28 but has the skeleton of a 90-year old to get in the playoff battle.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Purely by default. Maybe they would have brought in someone else anyway. If they weren’t even willing to talk to Halak after what he did last season, even after Price’s poor season, then you know they never saw him as the future goaltender. If you can’t see that, then you’re more blind than I had previously thought.
See, the kid can’t win. If he gets into the post game scrum and the questions about booing come up, what is he supposed to say? And by not coming into the scrum, people like you call him unaccountable for his actions.
So not only does he get raked over the coals for what happens on the ice, but also what happens after.No wonder why he’s want to take a pass on question period.
Oh for the love of God. He wasn’t ready for the first goal and then it spiralled down hill from there. Boo hoo hoo…”I figerred there weren’t many million dollar jobs at TIm Hortons in Bohunk BC so I decided I betters come back here to Mawn Tree All”
The kid seems to be thicker than a brick with a cruddy attitude bordering on entitlement.
i was watching the game as if it was an NHL game..
what are you expecting? tinordi’s 18 years old, he’s going to suck to start and he did…
i wish him well in sudbury but he was terrible tonight…Louis Leblanc wasn’t great either, he was positionally sound, but wasn’t great with the puck…tyler seguin was invisible…if i didn’t know he was starting the game, i would have never guessed he was playing the game.
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
#1 was tipped on Spacek’s stick and every goal was from a roster player on Boston. Unless Horton, Boychuk and Bergeron are the next to be cut from the Boston roster of course…
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Articulate thoughts. There does seem to be an emerging view that Price’s development was poorly managed by the Canadiens. One could say the same for Latendresse and Pacioretty.
I admire Gill and the team for standing up for Price during the interviews, but all of this is certainly an ominous sign. I am somewhat bothered that the players expect the fans to treat Price like some 8 year-old boy. The fans have the right to express their displeasure–but I genuinely hope they do not respond to Price like they did with Brisebois. Yet the fact the team is shielding Price after tonight’s game reveals to me a player who is unable to handle the pressures of professional sport. The team claims Price has matured, but they treat him like a child who must be sheltered from the viscissitudes of sport…and life. None of this looks very encouraging to me.
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–Hunter S. Thompson
Price didn’t even go to the locker room after his 30 minutes were done… he stayed on the bench.
He was right there to hear the fans go crazy after every save Sanford made. Idiots. I was at the game. I was as disappointed with and concerned about Price’s performance as anyone else. But I’ll never understand booing (or mock cheering) your own players… how the hell does that help them or your team?
Exactly correct. Not a bad thing. Took until we switch goalies just for the defence to show up. Get out all the idiots calling for Halak right away, so we will be ready the the REAL season.
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
unfortunately, if he ever did that, which would be awesome, he’d be lambasted by the media for having crepe thin skin. and that the fans have every right to vocalize their distaste whenever a mistake is made. which they do, of course. you’d just think fans would have more class than that.
it would be nice to see JM or PG make like bob gainey did for breezer back when and call the fans out for b.s. like this. i mean, the last time i looked at the standings the bruins still have zero points. what a second, what’s this…ALL THIRTY TEAMS HAVE ZERO POINTS AFTER TONIGHT!?!?!?!?! how oddly strange.
I never realize the game was already fast, especially the young’ins.
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hopefully by then he’ll be on his way to developing into a sound defenseman.
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
Awesome interview by gill. “having a hard time playing against the bruins,never mind playing against the fans. I just with they would help us” and “shouldn’t let fans who don’t know what going on bother him”. My 2 favourite quotes.
Agreed 100%.
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So by sudbury do you mean london? lol
Christ even the Gazette writers are idiots. Give the kid a break man. All this negative talk from the french press and the english press is so BS its sickening to associate myself with you “HABS” fans. Get on the wagon or shut up and F off to another team for christs sake. You “habs” fans need to move to toronto.
There’s a number of teams who dealt with bigger salary cap issues then signing both Pleks and Halak. Gauthier could have buried Hammer or Kostitsyn in Europe, made a salary dump trade, signed a few vets for league minimum or found some other creative solution. Price was simply the organizations guy, Halak was the fans. Remains to be seen who was right.
If it makes you feel better, Mr. Hero in St.Louis would have lost this game too judging by last night’s performance.
I don’t think they expect them to treat Price like an 8 year old boy, they expect him to be treated like a member of the team that they cheer for. Obviously Gill doesn’t like to hear boos for teammates in his own building, as I’m sure most professional athletes with pride would agree with. It’s classless, especially in a preseason game. Leafs fans did the same thing yesterday when Ottawa blew them out, is that the kind of fans we want to be?
Hell, I wish that if folks want to lay blame, then they should dish it out where it’s deserved.
Carey didn’t play well tonight, but he was far from the only reason that we were down 4-0… yet he’s the one taking all of the crap. No wonder guys like Gill, Georges, Cammy, etc. would be frustrated.
woops you’re right, you confused me with the sudbury comment down below…
i was scratching my head thinking he was with another team.
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
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Except Price DID beat out Huet for the job.
And while Rask is an excellent goaltender, he looks a lot better than he is because Julien has the Bruins playing one of if not the best 5 man defensive unit in hockey today. Same reason Thomas won a Vezina.
…Tony?
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
He made several good outlet passes I found and of course he’s going to get beaten with speed while playing against professionals, he’s 18 years old and he’s still getting used to skating with that monster body of his! He still used his reach and made some good poke checks and cut off the Bruins player when he was coming in alone on Carey.
He made mistakes, but that was his first professional game in his career and he battled to cover up his mistakes as well. He also had some good positioning in the offensive zone on that game when it came to keeping the puck in.
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I couldn’t have said that better myself.
This is rediculous. What ever happened to habs fans being THE BEST FANS IN THE WORLD? If we were trully the best fans we would not be booing our own team in our own building in a little preseason game. I hate to break it to everyone but like it or not, Carey Price is a Montreal Canadien and if you boo him on a regular basis like what happened last night it is going to affect not only Price, but your entire Montreal Canadiens.
It’s not like im saying don’t boo a bad call by a ref, or stupid Komisarek. All i’m saying is to lay off The kid a bit and support the team.
How would you feel if you were at your job, and you screwed up enough for you to think to yourself “FU@%!” And then at the same time while you’re pissed off that you screwed up, 21273 people all booed you for screwing up?
Everyone needs to just go crazy on possitivity the next time you see Carey Price in net.
Enough of this booing of Montreal Canadiens. That’s for Leafs fans to do.
-peace out.
Meh. First goal deflection, second goal screen shorthanded. He wasn’t great, but it’s not like they gave him a lot to work with, either.
I don’t know if it’s lack of goal scoring talent or just a couple kids were too eager. If you look at the Boston roster, their kids didn’t get anything done offensively tonight, and for the most part the game was dominated by Montreal. I’d like to see some of the kids pot goals, but it’s not essential that they do either, as long as they play well.
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“He was unlucky … but not very good, either.”
How the hell would you know this, were you behind the mask trying to see the puck and make the save. As gorges said, we all need to get behind this team and start the season off right with positive energy from the get go!! The players feed off of the emotions coming down from the fans so the fans do have an impact on the energy levels of the players no matter what they say.
prediction: my mid season Sanford will be our #1 goalie. he’s last year’s Halak. I can just see it
1 thing for sure: Price is the same as last year. that means no wins for the thoroughbred!
Makes no sense. You evaluate a player in preseason, then it’s equally valid to evaluate the goaltender. I have no hatred for Price. It’s not personal. I just don’t think he’s very good, that’s all. You and all the other excuse makers can go on all you want. The guy played bad and that’s the bottom line. That’s pretty much all I was saying. I’m concerned that the guy hasn’t been very good for the last 2 years and after the whole summer, things have not changed in his first 30 mins of play. We’ll see next time if he at least can play an average game.
Nice to see the excuse man is in mid-season form. Hope your excuse library is fully stocked. By the way Scarey played tonight, you’re going to need them.
“Maybe they would have brought in someone else?” Now you are basing your whole arguement on a “maybe”? Too funny. Didn’t know common sense made someone blind. But keep trying.
Price does rodeo but you have a hobby horse.
How was he terrible? He was solid physically, made very few mis-reads and kept it simple for the most part. As for Leblanc, he got better every shift, drove to the net and tried to create chances. I’m not sure what you’re expecting out of guys who aren’t NHL ready. They didn’t suck, far from it.
4th goal, nifty move.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Positives: Tinordi, Palushaj, Leblanc, Plekanec, Lapierre
Negatives: Price looked not all there. 4 goals on 10 shots is not going to cut it.
Bottom line is although goaltending is only a part of the game and goaltenders are just team-mates on a team, the position is too crucial to be mediocre or to be unlucky in.
Yanking him was a good move and sent a clear message. I hope Price gets it.
I know it’s only the 1st game of the pre-season but this is the big time and the back-up looked better than the starter.
Is this the curse of Patrick Roy? Every Habs #2 goaltender will steal the spot light and play better than the #1. Theo over Hacket, Huet over Theo, Price over Huet, Halak over Price ….
Regardless of who or how good the goalie is, the #1 will suck, the #2 will rise against the management like Patrick Roy crossing Tremblay and telling Corey that he’s done as a Hab. It’s like some kind of psychological bad karma thing.
T³
To be fair…..
Price was gonna get yanked either way.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
The negativity from those fans at the game and on this site is baffling. One pre season game is just that. I don’t get it. I’m also disappointed that Cary did not speak after the game and will beinterested to see what he has to say tomorrow. His performace off the ice is more of a concern to me than that on the ice.
Nice to see the patient comments about Price, my co-workers started revisiting the Halak trade after they heard the score halfway through the 2nd. 2 goals for Sanford though, maybe Price needs to start putting up some big money on the…blackboard(?) and buy some goals.
I didn’t see any of the 4 goals so maybe you guys/gals can answer if it was really a rusty start for Price or was there a lot of breakdowns that lead to shots from good angles.
Personally, I don’t think that Price should worry one iota about earning the respect of the “fans” who want him to fall on his face.
He’s here to play goal for the Montreal Canadiens, not to appease the beer-fueled lemmings in the upper reaches of the arena. The ONLY people that he has to be accountable to is his teammates and the rest of the organization. If he has their support, then that’s really all that matters.
Can’t wait for the season to start again. Just moved to Miami but I’ll be watching all 82 games online!! One quick question: does anyone know if they’re keeping the same intro song this year? (Coldplay)
He didn’t get yanked HH, the plan was Sanford would go in at minute 30, and that’s what happened. But Price was awful, no doubt about it.
Reminded me of the 2009 playoffs against the bruins when price was being booed and was blamed for the series lost while the team in front of him only scored 5 or 6 goals in 4 games.
This is so…like weird. Price did not play well in a nothing game. A dozen team mates did not play well either. A bunch of Bruins didn’t play well.
I would have loved it if Price had stood on his head, the kids had been able to contribute more than energy, and the score had been 6-0 for the Montreal Canadiens. But if it had I wouldn’t expect the Bruins to fire Rask, Julien, and the GM. I’d just think “Wow…a little more emphasis and focus in practice…maybe your camp roster is too big…oh well, we’ll see how the season shakes out.”
geez…
We’ll see how things go this camp, but I do think it is important some of these kids and/or question marks like Pouliot and AK show some scoring, because if we have to continually count on Cammy,Gio and Pleks again, it won’t be enough.
Smart move by Habs, Price not made available to the media tonight, from Stubbs Twitter: Cammy on Price: “If fans want to identify with this team, we’re all supporting him in here.”
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
“…he served up the first two wins of the season with outstanding efforts.”
And as a thanks he got benched for game three! Holy goalie mismanagement!
It was a nifty move, but I wish that Spacek would have done more to prevent the best scorer from going in alone, especially after the brutal giveaway. His attempt at stopping Bergeron was pretty half-assed.
He didn’t hold out! Half the leagues restricted free agents waited until late August early September to sign.
Nothing like basing an opinion on zero substance.
I found tinordi pretty solid in his own end and very mobile. You can see leblanc has the speed and skill,just needs to get stronger.
I think the poster means it takes two to sign a contract, there are other players that have to be signed, and the Montreal Canadiens are not the Coyotes – they spend it all.
My bad on the yanked, but sill.
Thumbs up..
Price was not yanked. It was planned in advance to split the game with Sanford.
I agree with your point about being bothered by players trying to tell the fans not to show their frustration with Price. I think they should hold back since it’s only preseason, but at the same time, if he played good to excellent, there would be no issue, end of story. The continually fails to do the job the past while and it’s the fans fault for not keeping quiet about it? Both Lafleur and Roy were booed in this town after all the great things they did. If they can get booed after having HOF careers, then certainly Price can be after how he’s played the past 2 years or so.
Here we go again. I guess it was inevitable… I mean we did have a 48% vote supporting seperation, so clearly we have a few people around who follow blindly…
Price 4 goals against vs Boston……….Simply terrible and useless
Halak 3 goals against vs Colorado…..BEST GOALIE IN THE NHL
Its a fricken miracle some people are even able to breathe without help.
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
someone definately needs to stand up and say something.. gill’s comments were a good start, but not enough.. It needs to come from someone all the fans will respect (even the boo birds).. We don’t need to be running goalies out of town because they have a bad preseason game
The first goal I saw was a deflection, the 2nd which I didnt see but heard on CJAD was a screen shot, the 3rd I didnt see at all, the 4th was a nifty move shorthanded.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Good post. I think management continues to get this wrong. They continue to put Price in situations where it doesn’t do him any favours. They should know by now how many of the fans feel and will react but they’re simply too obstinate to manage the situation better.
Did Price really need to start tonight? A lot of other organizations are starting their 3rd and 4th stringers. Give the fans some crappy goaltending from Auld and Sanford, save Price for the road or when you actually ice a team close to your regular season team. instead Price is hiding in the locker room and there’s already a smell to the season.
Gainey could have avoided the issues with Price and his mock salute to the fans two years ago by giving Jaro a single playoff game in which he would either have saved the day or been peppered as badly as Price was. Carey really didn’t need the experience of another tough loss with an injured spent team in front of him while giving Jaro a chance would have diffused a lot of the fan anger. Plus it would have saved Price from having to sit through that silly press conference about thoroughbreds and baking bread.
3 of the goals were on either breakaways or 2-on-1s, but Price was still not good at all.
as i’ve said, this i watched the game as an NHL game, not as a game for rookies to make mistakes.
there’s a difference between a team that’s hoping to compete, and a team that will compete and i want the habs to be a team that can compete this year.
i’m watching the pre-season with a different mindset, it’s been too long since we’ve entered a season following a good playoff run without actually having to hope some kid makes the team to save us
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
Naw, it is totally different now. If fans got on the goalie’s case, or any player’s case, they climbed off. They expressed discontent as “Hey, I saw that…you were napping out there.” Now they pick scapegoats and seem to delight in tearing down the team they claim to favor.
Andrew: I wasn’t at the game, so I cannot claim I know whether or not the fans overreacted, but I think you are overreacting by comparing those fans disappointed with the kinds of goals Carey tends to let in with Toronto fans. I explicitly said I hope the fans do not act viciously towards Price as the pre-season and subsequent regular season progresses. We all want the players to be successful and to fulfill their potential. That said, hiding Price after this game is not a good sign. From an outsider’s perspective, I makes me think Price is a weak person unable to muster the inner strength to use others’ doubts as a source of personal inspiration and desire to prove people wrong. That is the adult thing to do, and indeed the only way ultimately to silence one’s detractors.
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He has to be a lot better, no question. Tough to compare against what Sanford saw though because I don’t think the Bruins had a single scoring chance against him.
he’s prob going to be more of a hal gill type player than a pronger..what i don’t like is that we used a 1st rounder for a guy that needs 3-4 years to develop…much like fischer and fischer didn’t even develop…i would have hoped more to get a player further down the road in his development
- I support Carey Price as the Number 1 Goalie!
Very fair analysis, but as far as I’m concerned fan support doesn’t matter, as long as he has the respect of his team it’s fine.
Who cares, f them. They seem to forget their hero let in 3 goals in like 12 shots. I supposed he’s exempt from critique since it’s a different team?
From their comments, I didn’t take them as shielding Price; rather, a frustration that a certain contingency of fans don’t pay enough attention to spread their displeasure around as it’s truly deserved. Instead, they sh*t on the kid for mistakes that his teammates make that directly lead to goals.
And Hab fans are supposed to be the smartest fans in hockey.
More from Stubbs twitter: Cammy:
“No one in this room is booing (Price). We’re aware of (boos). That’s
our goaltender. It didn’t go ideal for him tonight.”
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
…1000 % agreed …was not a bright decision to start Carey
OK – I’m just about maxed out on the “They don’t score for Carey” whine. They don’t score for Carey because they are playing far more defensively – because he rarely makes the big save!!! It’s simple – we get 15 shots, they get 3 – and we’re down 2-0. Poor Carey, sniff, sniff. Wahhh – they don’t score for him. I guess not when you have to mind the baby back there. He’d better wake up and start playing like a major-league goaltender. No excuses, stop the ^%$%^$# puck!
Even an idiot can understand the difference between “fan” and “journalist”.
They only let up like 9 shots. A couple of bad defensive plays were in there, but the kid has got to stop something once in a while. There seems to always be an excuse from some of you for ever goal that goes in. If he can’t do better than this the Habs have no chance at the playoffs. No more excuses now. Look at Rask. Same draft year as Price and he was very solid tonight. Not a miracle worker, but did what he had to. Price has got to be like that.
I will admit though Pricey didnt look good. But its the first game. He is a good goalie. Let’s see how he rebounds.
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
See on the other hand if Price DID speak to the media, the story would have been either; Price says “These things happen, bad games happen, I’ll move on” [Headline reads: Price doesn't care enough]; Price says “I’m disappointed that I played poorly, I really want to win with this team” [Headline: Price is overemotional, cares too much]; Price says “The booing doesn’t bother me, I tune it out” [Headline: Price is checked out of Montreal, doesn't respect fans]: Price says “The booing gets to me of course, but hopefully over the year I’ll give them good reasons to stop booing” [Headline: Price rattled by booing; Mentally weak between the pipes].
This how sports journalism works in Montreal, especially for Price. He can’t win no matter what, so why bother speaking to the media?
I dont think anyone is claiming Halak is the best. People are just high on Halak cause he played so great here last year and Price didn’t. Yes Halak had a pretty crappy night last night too……but man….Price…seemed like they scored on every real shot he faced… It just gives you that feeling that everytime Boston pulled the trigger it was gunna go in…it sucks. I feel bad for him.
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My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
Don’t forget,these are the same fans that chanted “carbo.carbo” after the habs were eliminated by the bruins 2 season’s ago. The same coach that can’t get another gig and led the u-18 team to a 6th place finish or something.
If Palushaj, Eller, and Schultz all work out… D’Agostini + Halak for Palushaj + Eller + Schultz isn’t so terrible.
In fairness, Roy left when he was booed, so I’m not sure how that defends the fans in any way. Obviously it was Tremblay’s fault and not the fans, but they added to the emotion of the situation, and Roy was an emotional competitor.
First goal deflected off of Spacek’s stick, second was a screened slapshot on the powerplay from inside the blue line, third was a nifty move by Bergeron, and the fourth was a Bergeron breakaway which was the result of a nasty Spacek turnover just outside of the blue line.
Like who? Habs moved up to pick at 22nd overall and anyone outside the lottery position is generally a 3-year project minimum to begin with. What’s with the Fisher comparisons anyway? Tinordi was more or less picked where he should have been, Fischer was the stretch pick in 2006. He’s got a good record, Tinordi was the captain of the US Under-18 squad on their very impressive NTDP which is becoming a factory for US-born prospects.
Tinordi’s already a better skater than Gill, give him time. Obviously he’s not NHL ready but this was hardly a bad game for the kid.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Exactly!! I’m not a delusional Halakite, when my goalie plays like crap, I have no problem saying so. It’s one game and a preseason game at that. So I’m not to worried. I’ll leave the overreacting to the flip flopping, nut jobs.
Ok smart guy, Management wanted Halak as #1 all along. They just went with Price as the starter for 2 1/2 years until he couldn’t even win a game, because they were saving Halak as a secret weapon, then when he put on a semi-legendary playoff performance they traded him to St. Louis, without even speaking to him, because John Davidson blackmailed them with x rated pics involving Youppi…. I mean get real man.
Anybody know where Danny Kristo is? The Habs’ NHL website says he’s not on any of the training camp teams. It’d be nice to see this kid against NHL players.
I agree..Trade looks great actually, especially since we got to keep Plekanec because of it too
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My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
No one is expecting Tinordi or Leblanc to make this team, this is just giving them a cup of coffee with the big club and seeing how they perform against some NHL players, they’ll be back with their junior clubs sometime next week. Avtsin will be in the Hammer, only prospects making the team are Eller and Subban and that’s it.
This is just seeing what the Habs might bring out in 2-3 years.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Because your predictions last year were SO bang on, Aragorn. Were you right about a single thing the whole season??
You know you’re in trouble when Price basically admitted that he hated playing in Montreal the last few seasons and wanted to quit in his pre season comments.
Nice character assessment there Timmins. Pick a guy that has a shitty assed attitude because Trevor is the smartest hockey guy in his hillbilly village of Arnprior Ontario. Hey Timmins, this ain’t Jr. B anymore. Why don’t you just retire and do the Habs a favour. God damned loser.
Actually almost everything.
Oh good, armchair GMs and it only took 20 minutes of pre-season hockey. I admire the way you can reinterpret what Price actually said.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Which one of those two dogs typed this post?
the goal scoring issues the team had all last year and in the playoffs(gion and camm scored about 50% of the goals) will not suddenly go away.. it will take time and development of some of our younger players..this team on most nights will score 3 or less goals
oy-oy-oy..
Palushaj started well, Rask is still a machine and Lapierre and Pouliot atleast look like they’re trying.
As for the negatives, er, we suck lol. But its preseason, both teams have mediocre D, they’re just finishing. I have yet to decide if thats on them, or Price, we’ll see.
WAY too early in the season for this kind of mopiness. Man up
CAR-EY! CAR-EY!
I’m going to go poke myself in the eye with a sharp object now!
still early folks…let’s not organize a lynch mob…everyone’s a bit nervous and it’s an exhibition game, not game 7 of the Stanley Cup…. everyone breathe………that’s better
^^^^
this guys a real winner
edit: bah im too polite…this guys a real idiot…fooooo reaaaallll
“I went to see a fight the other night…And A hockey game broke out!” ~Rodney Dangerfield~
You know you’re in trouble when middle age men are overreacting like teenage girls after one period of pre-season hockey. get a grip.
We have a winner!
On behalf of middle aged men who like teenage girls, I find your comments DOUBLY offensive
Guys my site is back up…you remember the one for the live streams of
all the games…thought alot of people might appreciate it running
again. http://habsonlinetv.blogspot.com/
Tony D! How you be!
Gionta, Gomez, Eller, AK46, Markov, Subban and Hamr all have something in common:
They are not playing.
Calm down, guys. The goal scoring doesn’t mean much. Assessing our players’ performances individually is the name of the game right now.
…And assessing the damn refs! jk jk.
Wow…I think you may be freaking out a little too early, thanks for the Carey info though, nice of you to judge a guy when you dont even know him. He sure sounded like he hated playing for us eh? Don’t spread slander and lies dude…not cool
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
What!?!?! You mean the first period of the first preseason game doesn’t decide the entire season?!?!? Well I guess maybe base jumping without a parachute is a little premature then…
Don’t think it’s the lack of offense that has everyone squirrelly, Crabby. Lol
Ben Maxwell looked faster than I remember. Tinordi really is pretty
mobile for a big lug. Leblanc looked better that I thought he would (during his brief icetime).
That old record, over and over again, the Habs really could use a power forward.
I am too late to pitch the 2010-2011 Habs’ tagline? “Jesus Saves… But Price Doesn’t!” roll snare.
Gonna ignore the obvious negatives here and focus on the good that I’ve seen so far. Lapierre has been all over the place so far really playing hard. Pouliot has a lot of jump that he didn’t have last season. Maxwell seems to contributing. Can’t say I don’t like what I’m seeing up front.
I’m sure people would be a lot less annoyed if we’d potted a couple.
2 more periods left to catch up, chill boys and girls. According to CJAD, the 1st goal was a deflection, the second was a screen, the third was a bad one.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Arnprior is actually kinda nice.
See?
Ok, that always helps, Andy.
Nice rush by 51 (I am not going to try and spell his name)…
Wow Spacek, leave those passes in the preseason please.
That wasn’t on Price. Bergeron had time to order pizza before shooting
Yay for preseason PP’s. But what is up with the hits from behind? Bruins are getting away with a lot.
YIkes. Bergeron breakaway?
just how many SOG did Hall Gill have? career high? lol
Bergeron, admit it, he made a nice move there.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Wow. Price probably wishes we was still on the rodeo circuit right about now.
- In Price We Trust
Well that was absolutely BRUTAL!!!
Damn Bergeron, somebody hit him already! lol
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Oh Jaro, that pass was so predictable
Terrible play by Spacek, but Price is way over commiting on everything and getting embarrassed by Bergie. He couldn’t have started off any worse.
I’d bet Price asks for a trade by the end of the year….who in their right mind would put up with these dumb ass fans in thier own arena?
Carey getting the Bronx Cheer already…
Can’t imagine how JM is feeling right now
He made a good move on his other goal too. Might be a good year for him with Savard out.
I am pretty sure he developed that plan last year in the playoffs. I was kinda hoping he would have forgotten how to do that.
Ya, picked right up from the Philly series by scoring NO GOALS LOL.
Oh for…
Bergeron is world class. Give him 35 minutes to pick his spots and he will score on anyone.
Not on Price, I say again.
No one, and Gainey warned the fans about that crap.
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We always say we’re the best fans in hockey but I think we also have the highest concentration of assholes too.
- In Price We Trust
dumbass fans….hell no. dumb ass GM..PRICE SUCKS…
dumbass fans….hell no. dumb ass GM..PRICE SUCKS…
A sail! A sail!
Exactly…people act surprised if Price doesn’t seem that enthused about playing here lol who would be after this treatment…he is having a bad game though obviously…but still..
Trust me, this is only the beginning. It’s going to get ugly this season.
Well, I think the fans are frustrated at the play and lack of mental toughness of the goalie that’s “best for the team.” Any boos are directed at the GM, as well.
Price is just picking up where he left off.
That’s not the correct definition of “troll”.
If the trolls return tonight to complain about the team or its goalie following the first preseason game… I’m gonna be a little ticked off to say the least
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
St. Denis looked like he was tickled pink to be getting interviewed. Nice to see that excitement in a young guy.
At least Conboy is easier to spell than Kostopolous
unbelievable how idiotic some people can be, mocking your teams #1 goalie in the FIRST game of the PRESEASON.
Seems to me it is just carry over from the last few years.
Fearless prediction: Conboy won’t be making the team. At least he’s got spunk.
- In Price We Trust
Lapierre looks fantastic. You can tell his surgery last summer really hampered him, his skating is excellent.
Vintage 2008-09 form from Lapierre.
Jaysus, thanks GAWD hockey is back.
He’s not dressed tonight…
- In Price We Trust
He’s big, he’s bald…
Boone is cackling madly in the pressbox as the posts keep adding up for a preaseason game. I smell a pay raise Mr. Boone!
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Ah … the anticipation. I’m sure all of the usual suspects are sharpening their negative fangs already.
Damn Rask all game, no miracle comeback against a rusty goalie for us.
Nice wheels on Louis
Ok then, how about “rustic charm”?
Or “game but ultimately futile efforts”
This count as Boone’s first veiled crack at the Leafs this season?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Since when does Boone veil his cracks at the Leafs? Hard to be subtle with a team that atrocious.
Maxwell is making some plays tonight.
You are correct, I guess if they come on and ask how the Kool-aid tastes? I’m just a little put out by the performance so far
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Oh, don’t me wrong, I am right with you on the performance thus far.
Utensil.
lol
Tool.
LOL at Mcquaid getting leveled as he tries to hit pouliot. Looks like that extra weight is already helping.
Dumont, keep skating man!!
Anybody have an internet feed of the game? Stupid broadcaster I was watching it put it on the damn On Demand movie channel. Guess he likes being a jerk.
http://fr.justin.tv/exou05?#/w/410045952/2
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
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______________________________________ Gionta for Captain.
Some say Conboy is going to be our fighter..wow we had better keep looking.
Slashing is allowed, if the habs goalie is the victim.
Shortie!!!!
MAX!!!!
LAPPY!!!!!!!!!
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
After 1 fight? Are you serious?
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OLE OLE OLE OLEEEEE!!!!
no?
okay
Max! And so his breakout season begins!
FINALLY!!!
Mad Max!!!
Every time a Hab makes a good play I get excited for a second because I think there’s promise from one of the prospects. Then it turns out to be just Plekanec.
Yeah! Excellent Wheels Pleks & Laps, that was nice!
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Plecs + Laps = thank god….a GOAL!!
______________________________________ Gionta for Captain.
Good that one of the players who has looked good got it
Lapierre looks great hopefully his whole season goes this well.
Leafs did not score in their first game, Habs did… thus we win!
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Plekanec! SIGN HIM BOB!!!! Uh, whoops, never mind
Maxim!
Man of a thousand faces!
“Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”
He got thrown around by some guy no one here has heard of. Fighters come from the CHL, not the NCAA via Timmins beloved USHL.
The sooner Timmins is given the bum’s rush by Molson, the better.
Timmins is in over his head.
stupid flashbacks
I think Pouliot will be alright this year
Are the Habs playing the “when Price isn’t playing we will” game again this year?
______________________________________ Gionta for Captain.
Tinordi really knows how to use his reach, US WJC team better give him another shot at their next camp.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Yup, 4 goals allowed in 9 shots on a Boston “B” team out there. Yup.
It’s only an exhibition game but I am sensing a long season for us.
But we’ll see what happens after the 20 season mark if we really are a good team or a mediocre team at best.
Time for Pouliot, Kostitsyn, O’Byrne and Price to step it up this season, no excuses.
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
They are both kids, also have you ever fought on ice? Any can toss anyone around like that on ice.
If you haven’t, I suggest you try it then come back and comment.
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No worries about this one. All the Habs have to do is tell the Bruins it’s game seven in the playoffs and they’ve got a three goal lead.
How could they give 42 to Tinordi?!?!
I’m keeping the Perezhogin dream alive.
And of course the laffs are winning tonight. Karma sucks don’t it?
On a positive note, Pleks looks like he’s come out of the summer with his ass on fire.
Something like half our roster isnt even playing tonight.
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
Lol! Post of the day Mister Molson!
“Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”
Just got in and turned on the game – and then Pleks and Max scored. I almost hate to ask what happened with St. Carey.
Sanford better be careful. If he seems to be a threat to Price he’s gone.
B team?
As in Bergeron and Boychuck??
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After admiring the Stanley Cup: “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.”
- Steven Tyler
How did his Most Majestic do in St. Louis last night?
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Very serious WH, he was sh*t on by a nobody and handled quite easily. I do hope he has a chance to try again in the 3rd but I don’t think Martin will give him much ice time. AHL caliber in my thoughts.
20 season mark? Do we really have to wait that long Mike?
Nice to hear from you ZepFan2.
Does “the song remain the same” for our Habs this year? lol!
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
At least we scored a goal, and its not over yet.
Sanford wasn’t exactly spectacular in the last 2 Dogs playoff game last season, which Desjardins himself wasn’t even playing because he got yanked in the previous series for screwing up.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
Hi ya Andrew! How are you buddy? How are things with you this well?
I’m back with a vengeance on this site but I promise I will not be as negative as last year.
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
Can’t we all just get along?
Hope not. We’re going to need a whole lotta love though!
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After admiring the Stanley Cup: “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.”
- Steven Tyler
Don’t know – but even if let in a dozen he’s still twice the goalie that Price is.
Troll, Troll, Troll your boat, gently down the stream….
See below response
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Things are even keel I’d say. Ups and downs. Got engaged a few weeks ago, then tore a tendon in my ankle on sunday.
Haha, too late
Or it could be a “Communication Breakdown” of our team tonight buddy.
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
Congratulations Andrew on your engagement and sorry to hear about tearing your tendon……ouch!
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
meh…what is and what will never be, I guess.
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After admiring the Stanley Cup: “This is the only thing that has seen more parties than us.”
- Steven Tyler
Thanks, and yeah the second part sucks!
Perhaps they will “Bring it on home” in the third
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It has nothing to do with whether I fought or not this is about a player who is reported to be a tough kid. Yes their young as you say but he is no big time fighter and its my opinion that ( which I am allowed to have ) that he is not an NHL caliber fighter yet and I don’t think down the road either. AHL in my thinking.
Too-Shy right in front of the net, I love it.
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right now the first half of the game looked like many games last year when price started..as a team we have to overcome this and play with more confidence and better when price is in net…there seems to be a lack of confidence in the team when price is in net…we have to show a willingness to win not a willingness to lose…we need some type of momentum change that can build up the teams and prices confidence…once this happens we will elliminate the bad mistakes both the team and price makes in games.
Momentum all Habs right now
I guess Pouliot has hands of stone now to go along with the 13lbs
- In Price We Trust
The boys are skating and competing!
what a weird PP set up. One point man, with Weber in the slot.
Pouliot’s making some nice moves, that off-season conditioning really worked out.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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Looks like we’ve changed our PP, using 1 point man and the other D more in the slot. Who knows if its permanent, but its an interesting idea.
Is it just me or do the Habs seem play better when their goalie stops pucks.
PP looks good so far
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Did Gill have this many shots all of last season?
- In Price We Trust
That puck was way up in Pouliots skates. Couldn’t get a good shot off.
Boston is hanging on for dear life.
Still HUGE problems finishing nice plays. Besides Pleks and Cammy, are there any other natural scorers?
We’ve got ourselves a Conboy…
Well, the boys are definitely alive in the third.
This is entertaining.
They’re panicking with the puck. A little too much nervous energy.
They’re not dressed
- In Price We Trust
How can you tell? Sanford’s only seen 2.
WOW! The boy’s must have drank a pissload of Red Bull during the intermission. They’ve got WINGS!
Shots are 27-12 in favour of Habs – wooow!
Dude!! Not you too!!! Come on now, game 1 of preseason!
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
I doubt it, you’re not even real.
It is FUN. We came close there, and normally in the Reg season or playoffs I would be pissed we missed. But now that it doesnt matter its fun. I can laugh at all the misses and the stupidity. So far I like what im seeing since we woke up. lots of chances and not quitting.
Can’t wait for real games to start. And to see the rest of the team play.
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
Leafs fan…
He’s only faced 2 or 3, but yes, they do seem much better in front, maybe that Price luck deal is back again this year. Or more logically, Boston took their foot off the gas at 4-0.
Goaltending aside, this team is playing awesome, just a little more finish. All in all, im good with the performance tonight.
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
This team won’t play for Price. It’s just a matter of time. He’s toast here.
Just walked in ,anyone have a live online link for the game ?
And I don’t like what I see as a score 4-2 Bruins,.? How’s the game been so far ,are the Habs at least in it..(I guess I don’t have to ask how’s the goaltending)
I love the shoulder check by Pleks as he goes into the corner.
starting listen to the radio just now, and I heard Price has been benched… at least its pre-season, so he knows the tension the game gets since… um… when did Price last played? (that question is not sarcastic, I do want to know…)
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They better learn how to play for him, he is our goalie…simple as that
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
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- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
He wasn’t benched. Both goalies were slated to play half of the game.
Very early to judge, but it looks like the Habs biggest weakness this year is the same as last year, bad passing. And without Markov and Gomez in the lineup only Plekanec can thread the needle.
in the playoffs
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FUDGE MEEE
Im a Price fan and I dont want to make excuses for his poor perfomance tonight, but after Sanford came in there have been no odd man rushes , breakaways or screen shots that get deflected. Just sayin.
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
no live video feed, just listen to CJAD: http://cjad.player.amri.ca/
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JM said before the game that Price and Sanford would split the game 50:50
and that is exactly what happened
I guess Halak’s team wont play for him either huh???
IDIOTS
There may be other teams, but only ONE Club De Hockey…
What? There a video link?
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Thanks, guys!
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I am being sarcastic, but Price needs to either play better or get luckier.
Bruins definitely let off the gas a little bit, but we’ve been dominating for at least 25 minutes now. Can’t believe the luck Rask has gotten with the bounces.
Thanks …I was listening to CJAD,but the live online feed is appreciated
The benefit of having a team in front of him that worked off the rust in the first half of the game.
So you mean the D-Men finally showed up?
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More than a coincidence.
It’s not like he plays very good for the team. I’ve never seen a goalie give up so many goals that just suck the guts out of a team. He just has a knack for doing just enough to let the team down and at the worst possible moments. Been like that for 2 years now.
Have you guys started drinking yet?
Yeah, Im shotgunning a beer everytime Boston scores
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My spinorama shootout goal with Cammy
fuck
Bad words are bad dude. May I suggest “fudge”, or possibly “Ay ay ay!”
Hey look, spacek hit the net. It’s a #*%^ing miracle on ice.
LOL
I think we will see Auld now.
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Why do you think we’re gonna see Auld when hes not even dressed for tonights game. Carey will play till midway 2nd period, and then will be replaced by Sanford.
Nah. Price for 10, Auld for 10. Tel que prevu.
I agree. Price did enough damage for tonite.
It’s nice to hear Seguin pronounced properly. I can only imagine how the NESN crew is going to butcher it.
- In Price We Trust
I’m glad this game means nothing.
I’m even gladder I didn’t pay to go see it.
“Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”
Complaining about the reffing is silly. The Bruins have 3 goals on 5 shots, two at full strength. The refs aren’t killing us.
Nothing like reality to give one a reality check, eh.
It’s actually six shots
- In Price We Trust
Score means nothing. I know the refs aren’t scoring on us. They are, however, limiting our time of attack, deflating our momentum and crippling our team with idiotic calls. Sure, we’ve made some bad defensive mistakes and the Bruins have capitalized. But to just sit, grin and bear it, while morons like Auger are allowed to make stupid calls 82 games a year is kind of like pent up rage if you keep it in too long. Let it out in little spurts every game and you can get over it when the game ends.
Hey everyone has right to complain.The refs are missing a lot of partial holdings by the B’s.My thoughts.
Guess you’re not allowed to hit in today’s NHL. Nothing wrong with Conboy’s hit, feet weren’t moving, never left the ice, not high elbows… Then he gets mugged on cause McQuaid didn’t like it and WE get the call.
Auger is a pretty God awful ref, though. Almost as bad as our best pal Chris “the whistle” Lee.
Don’t knock Auger! Ron Maclean might dedicate the start of a HNIC program to do a hit job on you.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
http://habsandhockey.blogspot.com/
ummmm….you can’t hit a player who doesn’t have the puck, no matter how “by the book” you do it
A twist on a headline used earlier today by the stewards of this fine site: PRICE BOMBED.
“My face is my mask,” Gump Worsley
Notes on the first:
-Wow, #71 Louis? Well, I guess the Breeze really did have some hometown fans.
-The first two minutes look like the Habs have not yet been indoctrinated into the “We are a fast team. We are a fast team. We are…” philosophy.
-Nice rush by Palushaj. Too bad the question he’s destined to answer most often is how to pronounce his name.
-Uh oh. I guess you don’t have to worry about the five-hole when you’re riding a horse.
-Skillsie has his strengths, but shooting the puck isn’t one of them.
-Poor Gorges is like a pop-up punching doll even in the pre-season. Guy gets hammered all the time.
-RDS with the iso-cam on Leblanc. If I were him, I’d check my bathroom for electronics on a regular basis.
-Dumont looked nice on Pleks’ line. I have hope for him.
-Lapierre looks like he’s decided to take up residence in the blue paint. I hope he’s not just renting.
-I don’t know why Spooner’s name makes me want to make dumb jokes.
-Rask looks like he’s getting ready to have another solid year. Thanks a lot, leafs. Morons.
-The second Bs goal has the natives sounding restless. I wonder how long before Price gets tossed into the volcano?
-Third Bs goal, and Martin is thinking of pulling the Franchise to protect him. If Timmins is watching this, I hope he’s considering investing in some solid D fairly soon.
-Plekanec is not conserving anything for the real year. Or, is he?
-Muller on RDS. Preseason is such a waste of a good suit.
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Hey JT, your place get hit hard by Igor yesterday?
Called the family to see what the damage to my old home was, my brother said a small tree fell down but otherwise nothing too bad
I know, but after that period the first thing that came into my mind was that word. I’ll try not to use it again.
Pay attention: he’s doing you a favor my friend.
byrneoNL……………………I AGREE that, we don’t need………………Price had better smarten up or he is going to hear alot of jeers………………….That glove side is a killer.it was last year as well, i can’t figure out how he has not improved on that problem……………..GO HABS GO YOU HAD BETTER GUYS or else……….What a great goalie that Rusk is love to have it in our end
No one believes in you, go away!
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Sorry, the God I know has been around forever; not the 9 minutes according to your profile.
Midway of the second period cannot come fast enough.
“My face is my mask,” Gump Worsley
Thank you.
Oh yeah… haha! I think JM should go for Sanford for the rest of the game.
3 goals in 6 shots… that’s bad. No matter what kind of goals they are.
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I’m riding shotgun with Alex Burrows on this bandwagon.
Ah…herein lies the problem. If he goes after Tinordi we have the beginnings of a legend or perhaps the premature end to a prospect’s season. He probably kills Conboy but this would be the preferred tilt. Big MAC has nothing to prove against either of these guys.
So many of us have said it before…we need a bonafide enforcer for this small skilled team. BGL was an embarrassment and management gets an F for not replacing him.
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” (anon)
So who does McGratten fight, Conboy or Tinordi?
Gaston Therrien says Spacek looks like he’s in much better shape…
He probably means Spacek doesn’t look like he has his infamous gullet.
All good news, though!
Call me a liar for one shot. Point being, the refs aren’t to blame here. The Habs are showing a major case of the nerves.
Sanford. I know… didn’t need it mate.
I just hope we don’t stink it up like the laffs did last night. I hate putting up with unintelligent, ignorant laff fans and their tripe.
At least we aren’t the Leafs, regardless of the outcome tonight.
Besides, pre-season is just a good time to showcase young talent. You really shouldn’t read too much into it.
(In the Laffs case, it’s different because their young “talent” IS their main team. He he he.)
Couldn’t have said it any better myself. I almost enjoy a Leafs loss as much as a Habs win.
Glad to be back on your game day blog Booner. We’re back baby!!!!
Isn’t he on a tryout with the B’s? if so he has plenty to prove.
Chantal is looking great. HellllLO, honey.
I keep thinking about tan lines.
hahaha, one word for you God: Science
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I dunno, sometimes the fontrum is just too much to bear.
Would love to see him get to 15 goals again this season.
Lappy 2g and 1a tonight. Take that to the bank and cash it in advance!
Sounds like excuses to me. With Price there always are.
Is it just me or does Laps just seem to be all over the ice.
- In Price We Trust
Finally some O zone pressure
I like what i am seeing
The game has had it’s pond hockey moments, but I like the speed that I’m seeing so far.
Man, I’m really liking Palushaj’s mojo! He looks very comfortable out there.
Lapierre playing very smooth, good composure. Playing like a veteran.
Plekanec looks twice as fast tonight…Palushaj does NOT look out of place with him…and Pyatt is playing hard
him and Pyatt, I’m thinking they’ll be the team’s spark plugs and a good PK duo
are we already ripping on carey because he let in a goal?
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Palushaj looks way faster than I thought he was, might be a steal of a trade for D’ags.
Actually, no. But if he lets in another, all bets are off.
Strong move by Pouliot. I like seeing him go to the net like that.
He looks like he fits. Absolutely agree.
Boston hasn’t changed their style at all, one goal and then trap.
Pyatt is a machine out there!
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That’s what I like to see Pouliot do. Crash the gorram net.
Habs seem to be finding their legs
Every save for Rask makes the Leafs look like even bigger chumps.
Does Palushaj steal AK46′s spot this year?
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Is it just me or was that shots on goal total RDS put up way off?!
After what the bruins have got away with so far, that’s a chinzy call.
Good ol’ refs, we get hit from behind into the boards all game long and one littttttttle hook and we’re gone.
Shots from the point = WAY overrated
Get the effing puck into the slot, guys
Perhaps, to early to tell though.
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So who is the backup tonight?
uh oh…
LOL. Couldn’t see a thing. Some guys have all the luck.
I’m not making excuses but I don’t think he saw all of that and it was a bullet
- In Price We Trust
FFS!!! Girlchuk damn you!
oh the irony
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Without Price, it’s a 4-0 hockey game. Edit: With no goalie, it’s a 5-0 hockey game. Thanks to Price it’s only 3-0. 2 big saves to keep us in it!
Nice slapper, well placed.
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Sanford.
Haha, I should add that if you must shoot from the point, put it on the net
I purposely took a hiatus from H I/O during the summer but I am officially BACK!!
Let’s go Habbies
You will always be a Canadien in my eyes, Saku
Welcome back!!!!
Ummmmmmmmm McQuaid had JUST passed it off. It’s called finishing a check and players do it all the time.
Still should have been a roughing going to other way. Mcquaid smashed him into the boards face first. After the whistle.
i’ll grant you that one
Thanks guys.
So anyone know who these “rights” belong to for the MTL – MINNY pre-season game?
This Leafs/Sens game on TSN is killin me
Habs stream open in one window, HI/O open in another. Ahhhhh, this feels soo good. Brings back good memories….
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where did you get the stream?
That’s it Petrov.
Amen!
“Minimalist blogging tonight: I’m not doing play by play on a freakin’ exhibition game. Might miss a Ben Maxwell SoG.”
We wouldnt want you to pull an index finger on a pre-season game. As a vetern this should be a light warmup to get used to the speed of the NHL again, And to shake off the summer rust.
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YES! Janitors tied it up! Hurry up and drop the puck!
Ahhhh hockey night song, giving me chills! We’re back!
Gotta love the Proper HNIC theme
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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I thought Brunet was let go? Boone: That’s lazy talk!
Here we go folks! Let the fun begin!!
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I thought Brunet got canned by RDS.
Why is Benoit there? Lol.
Hey, I thought Benoit Brunet got the boot from the play-by-play?
YEAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO HABS GO!!!!!
Benoit Brunet???? lol
WTF, I thought RDS turfed Brunet.
- In Price We Trust
I was not a fan of it leaving CBC at first but I think its found a good home….when its the original (proper) playing of it.
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Carbo’s on RDS too? Nice!
GO HABS GO!
I won’t mind if Habs lose tonight.
Because it’s preaseason – who the heck cares about that??
I LIED!
I hate Tremblay, but he pulls off the white-hair look very well.
Carbo!!!!!!!!!
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iam really going to miss ben maxwell playing on the big club this year…there iam done no more negativity.
So Carbo must not be with HNIT anymore. Probably got sick of their laff lovefest.
CAR-BO!
Holy crap! Habs are back!! Have a great season everyone!!
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YES HABS CAN!!
Drop the puck!!!
I guess that security at the Bell Centre forgot to delete his passcard code.
I love being a Montrealer.
Man, Jacques Martin looks happy – he can smile! He needs to smile more often.
I guess Halpern is replacing Metro in more than just position. Number too.
WOW! Anthem sounds brutal lol!
Drop the puck Baby! Drop it, baby, drop it!
Getting so hyped up over a Habs game. BEEN SOO LONG. I NEED HOCKEY.
Is there a stream for tonights game?. Although it is nice to hear Rick Moffat’s voice
“It’s not an obsession, It’s a way of life..”
Drop the puck already! oy oy oy
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
- Bilbo Baggins
Drop the puck Baby! Drop it, baby, drop it!
Oh boy…now that I proofread it..
Not really seeing that, but I am being distracted by a fussy baby.
So how was Conboys hit a penalty, but that wasn’t?
Is Eller playing? AK46?
No and No
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They’re both in Team B
Nope, neither!
Conboy is impressive tonight.
BOONE did you see your Maxwell SoG??? lol
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I think people need to relax….its just PRESEASON.
OK did I dream this summer the story about Brunet not being brought back by RDS? I was actually surprised when I heard it because the boy is well connected at RDS.
Let’s hope the Bruins’ second string goalie has a worse outing than Price
PLEKS! SIGN HIM, BOB!!
+50
PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!
So remember how Plekanec was supposed to suck now that he got his cash? I don’t think so.
He’s not the type- he’s always been his own harshest critic. Those kinds of guys- the internally motivated ones- play hard no matter how much they make.
Habs hockey, life is good.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu.
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*grumblegrumble* I gotta head out to get the girlfriend from work…dammit
Goalies in Montreal have two roles, netminder and scapegoat.
The drive for 25 starts now!
Bold Prediction: The Pleks line totally dominates the game
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Palushaj with the wheels!!!
I’ve been waiting more than 80 minutes for Pizza Hut now. This is absurd.
Oh yeah, hockey’s on!!!
Go Habs Go!
Palushaj!
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Pully almost cashes one!
Shy-guy, very close….
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Boy, Dags better do something in STL. This Palushaj kid could be a real surprise.
No, we were lucky. Lots of others got hit really badly, though.