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Zenon Konopka will not be bringing his muscle to the Canadiens.
The free agent enforcer has signed with Ottawa for $700,000 (only $200,000 more than the Canadiens will pay Georges Laraque not to fight this season).
The Habs, however, filled out their depth chart way below Carey Price by signing two AHL goaltenders, Peter Delmas and Nathan Lawson.
In other signings around the league on Tuesday, Keith Yandle will be staying in Phoenix (five years, $26.25 million), Tomas Kaberle takes his magic to Carolina (three years, $12.75 million), the Hurricanes sign Jussi Jokinen (three years, $9 million), Clarke MacArthur stays in Toronto (two years, $6.5 million) and Andrew Ladd stays in Atl … uh, Winnipeg (five years, $22 million).
And the Stanley Cup champions made a move: the Bruins got Joe Corvo from Carolina for a fourth-round draft choice.
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In the “new”, almost no body contact NHL (it’s coming, you’ll see) Konopka will be about as useful as … well … uh … BGL, only worse. They’re going to make the league safe for Gionta, Desharnais and Gallagher. Once they can no longer even be sneered at, much less touched, these guys will score 100 points each. Heck Gomez will get 20 goals!
Now that we haven’t signed Konopoka after he cleary indicated he would love to play in Montreal not sure what Gauthier and Martin are thinking. We need a tough guy, figure it out. Take a look at the rest of the East they are loading up on grit. Eric Godard is still available and we could used another young power forward with size and toughness – that would be awesome. I don’t even want to get into not signing Pouliot for a million, 24 years old, 6’3″ and 200 lbs – could have traded him for a draft pick at the very least if he didn’t pan out after 20 games. Also not signing Auld, don’t get it – he had a good rapport with Price – would have been a good fit. Get us a young power forward with toughness and an enforcer. Gorges shouldn’t get more than 2.75 mil. Otherwise let him go, he is replaceable – he is a small shut down defenseman just coming off of major reconstructive surgery, not worth more than that. We have speed, finesse, goaltending, offensive defense – we need some toughness. Cammy and the Gionta need to know that they aren’t out there skating with bulleyes on their backs. If we stand pat in the toughness department, Martin and Gauthier’s days are numbered, Molson will get rid of them.
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Indeed, Gauthier is a Gainey clone of sorts….which is why Bob-O hired him as his assistant (GM).
Don’t know what Geoff Molson wants or expects out of the Habs (other than making a tidy profit to which he and the owners are certainly entitled).
If Molson runs the team similar to the way his family ran the team back in the 60s and 70s, I would expect management changes sooner than later.
It will be interesting!
another order of stretchers please.
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I’d rather have another hitter that can skate than a fighter. Most guys are just going to skate away from Konopka. That’s what happened whith BGL. The guys that you want him to fight like Lucic and Chara have enough sense to say no thanks and you’re stuck with a guy on the ice that can’t keep up with the play.
a big hit sends the same message and will sometimes draw a penalty on the retaliation.
There is very little differnce in direction between Gauthier and Gainey. I said no way konopka comes to Montreal b/c the habs do not want that kind of hockey, like I said, they like this “play nice Billy hockey”. And what happens, Ottawa gets him at 700k a year–a steal
What a joke. Keep this post b/c I have no problem saying Montreal is a 1st rd casuality next year at best–they will be lucky to make the playoffs. Montreal has a team designed to play in the KHL, not NHL. Another year of this boring, play nice turn the other chick hockey—some hab fan are being tortured with this direction.
Molson needs to clean house, I mean everybody goes-this is a circus
Gauthier has more hair.
Chara should never mess with our players again. Take him down.
When I hear gauthier talk, or see who he signs, I an watching another Gainey–like i said, Molson needs to fire everyone and get people with a different direction —this is a circus right now with the habs and whoever doesn’t see that is blind
Why can’t I see my comments
So I guess we won’t be hearing about Konopka on these boards til he flattens a Hab (or doesn’t) when they play Ottawa.
Kaberle in Carolina? Oof.
Ok. Now it’s just silly. Still love my phone though.
HABS* stupid iPhone. Stupid awese iPhone.
And Lyle odelein is a family member, and the reason I became a Hans fan at the age of ten. So my talking down about fighting I believe says something.
I never followed the Hans.
Would not be able to comment on them.
Only Hans Solo
That’s right. Having more people on the ice that fight will lead to less fighting. In reality, the league is supposed to insure that hockey is a skill game. Boston winning showed that’s a load.
Problem is that the fans want the violence. Remember when they stopped showing the fights? Ratings went down. Cutting to commercials during a fight ended pdq. The league giving up ad revenue for a fight. Speaks volumes.
We don’t want a civilized sport. Don cherry having multiple shows on multiple stations shows this.
We don’t want 3-2 skill exhibitions. We want 10-8 pummelings. I have read on here people talking about the lack of physicallity in European hockey like it means they don’t play hockey. Well if hurting each other is hockey, than I don’t want to watch. Getting some size is one thing, but getting people for the sole purpose of the size of their fists is not the way to go. Kanopka can go to ottowa. Bothers me not a bit.
Being able to accept a physical challenge (fighting or not) is not goon hockey…..it’s answering the bell.
The Habs of the 70s drafted Riseborough, Cam Connor and Chartraw for that very reason.
The presence of those guys in Montreal’s lineup allowed the skilled Habs to play and concentrate on their game of skill and of course winning.
Here’s hopin’ Gauthier wakes up to reality before next season begins.
All glorification of fighting is ridiculous. Do you expect bank tellers to “answer the bell” and duke it out with unhappy customers, airline attendants, baseball players? No! The bottom line is that no major sport in the world allows fighting (except perhaps boxing and UFC) (and don’t argue that hockey is violent, watch a football or basketball game sometime). International hockey does not allow, nor need, fighting to be entertaining. The NHL only has fighting because the league office lacks the confidence to market the sport based on the sport, opting instead to market it using violence. It is pure horse bleep.
It would be easy to fix. Take a page from European football. You get in a fight, you get a red card. Your team plays short for the rest of the game. The NHL should add an automatic suspension that doubles for each fight. One game the first time, then two, then four, then eight and so on; during that time your team has to dress one less player. Let’s see if Zenon Konopka (does anybody on the planet really think he’s getting hired for his faceoff prowess?) can get a job for $10 with an NHL team after that. And who would replace him? Oh, maybe a guy who can skate and stickhandle, maybe a guy who can grind along the boards and throw the occasional big hit, maybe someone who blocks shots – that’s right A REAL HOCKEY PLAYER.
I know, I’m dreaming in technicolour. There is no way the NHL has the courage or confidence to eliminate fighting, choosing instead to take a continously vague, evasive position on the subject. But let’s not give them a free pass by accepting for one second that it is necessary or inevitable in the sport. And let’s not buy into DC’s complete BS that somehow the sport becomes more violent if big guys aren’t beating the stuffing out of little guys because they got their stick up. What a load of horse poopie!
Save it for Oprah.
Chara should never mess with our players again. Take him down.
People are gonna start calling you Linus.
And what about Martin’s pacifist philosophy?
Chara should never mess with our players again. Take him down.
Agreed, i for one like fighting in Hockey, and would also stop watching if it was taken out. For people who don’t, which is fine, there is European hockey, feel free to watch that instead.
Ironic that we end up singing all these small players in a system without any protection for em. Hell if i was 5’10″ theres no way i would sign on a team like the Habs. Since they are hell bent on playing without enforcers they should at least try to keep the team big enough to endure the NHL, as in keeping the number of players with heads at shoulder level to a minimum. Don’t get me wrong, a 6’2″ player will still get a shoulder in the face from time to time, but its more likely to draw a penalty has the shoulder has to be raised to reach it. Oh well… Ill start a concussions pool this year, with stats for stars seen after the hit and games missed as a result.
I hope we don’t fill too many spots. I’m excited to see DD on the ice again. Oh but he’s too small! Better get a gorilla and put him on skates. Not only will he rip the arms off of lucic, but will put a child friendly product on the ice (what child wouldn’t love to see a gorilla on skates?) it’s a win win situation. Make it happen PG!
Awwww jeeeshhh… should’ve known the friggin Sens were reading HIO !!! Damn.
“I figure PG has one or 2 moves left to bring the Habs that extra step closer to perhaps being the best in the league.” – Einstein
Habs should try and sign Jason Arnott. Big guy with size that can play big minutes if needed. Two years at 2-2.5 I think is reasonable.
Ummmm, Mike, its Nathan Lawson…
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How about we don’t go for a tough guy. Let’s beat the beantown brawlers like we beat the broadstreet bullies. Did you forget how we beat the filthy fliers in the seventies? Brains beat brawn.
Do you really want to sink to bostons level? If so, cheer for Boston. Montreal has a legacy to live up to, and I don’t want to them to steer away from that. Heaven forbid the Habs play goon hockey, and leave me with no choice bit to cheer for the jets come playoff time.
Well, Konopka’s gone and so is Kaberle — so much for landing a tough guy. Where are we gonna find grit now? The answer lies within the Habs. Literally.
We DON’T need to change the makeup of the team to make it the bane of other clubs. We just need to change the team’s diet.
Sure, having a goon or two in the lineup might serve as a deterrent to other teams resorting to rough stuff, but has anyone considered flatulence? There, I’ve said what everybody’s thinking but was too polite to come out and say. The prospect of being enveloped in a cloud of gut-retching fumes upon contact would stop even the foolhardiest of players from committing mayhem. Habs could glide into the corners without fear of being crunched, and stand resolutely in front of the goaltender knowing the defence will give them wide berth.
Make the CH stand for something distinktive: CHili
Now that’s a system I know would work. I can just see the headline after another Price shutout: Habs skunk the Bruins.
I know the (septic) system needs tweaking but work beckons and I must go.
More details to follow.
We can all bemoan the Gauthier and Martin system of sitting duck hockey, but this post (thank you John!) at least had creativity. I laughed so hard I started to tear up. Very funny in the face of the same BS as the last 18 years! If we don’t knock Boston’s block off somebody should (Vancouver perhaps? See how far playing skilled hockey got THEM?).
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When the Habs meet Ottawa this season I look forward to them proving why signing this guy would have been a big mistake.
Or not
“I figure PG has one or 2 moves left to bring the Habs that extra step closer to perhaps being the best in the league.” – Einstein
Could mean closer to 4 million for Gorges. Insane contracts. Who is Marc Methot and why is he being paid 3 million a year? What PK be worth on his next deal or rather what will he get? Good thing we had a lockout to keep costs under control.
Marc Methot is actually a very good defenceman, he doesn’t get a lot of attention because he is playing in Columbus. His skill set is actually very similar to Gorges.
Thanks! I guess that gives us an idea as to what it may cost for Gorges. Somewhere between 3 – 4 million. Any more news on JF Jacques. I live in Edmonton and have watched him play. If we can get him on the cheap and two way contract he could help out on the fourth line. He is a good skater, has good size. Not saying he is the missing piece to the Cup but could come in handy. Who knows?
Not greatest of news.. what withthe thread that says Gorges may be heading to arbitration.
I hope the focus to sign Gorges isnt detracting PG’s attention totally from the UFA market.
Josh’s bargaining position just got a bunch stronger:
Kaberle to Carolina
Yandle re-upped in Phoenix
Corvo to Boston (there’s a downgrade for Beantown)