The Canadiens practiced Friday morning.
Earlier, Andrei Markov skated for 20 minutes under the supervision of chief athletic therapist Graham Rynbend.
“Gingerly” would be the appropriate way to describe Markov’s skating.
AUDIO: Randy Cunneyworth | Lars Eller | Tomas Kaberle
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The AJ Army:
Peter Budaj gets the Saturday afternoon start against Washington and Aaron Palushaj has been recalled from Hamilton.
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Travis Moen is on IR.
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The NHL has fined Patrik Elias $2,500 for that hit on Mike Blunden.
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No Erik Cole or Josh Gorges.
And Blunden is hurt.
Practice is defined as “optional”, but everyone else is here.
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5 QUESTIONS ABOUT HABS MANAGEMENT:
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1. Will Martin coach in the NHL again?
2. Will Gauthier ever be an NHL GM again? (Let’s just assume he really is one now… aw…you saw that coming, didn’t you?)
3. Will Cunneyworth be a head coach in the NHL again or will people hold this debacle against him? (Will he even WANT to be?)
4. Does Molson really have a clue about how to clean up this mess? If yes, what in Bob’s name makes you think he does?
5. Is firing your experienced coaching staff one-by-one and replacing them with neophyte NHL coaches:
a. a novel but short-sighted way to spark your team
b. a sneaky way to try to keep your job
c. a subtle way to blame others for your inadequacies
d. a good way to screw the organization that’s about to can your ass
e. …all of the above
SD
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Listen to the Smart Dog. He knows his poop!
1. No, its over for Martin, he blew his last chance IMO
2. No, he also blew his last chance, everything he has touched has gone sour, see Sens and Habs
3. He will be, he hasnt had the horses and most people agree he is a good hockey man
4. Molson has no idea, he’s a businessman.
5. c. A subtle way to blame others. Though I do think Cunneyworth was a good choice, and even Scotty Bowman couldn’t get more out of the suckers on our team right now.
1. Yes, Martin will coach in the NHL again. Glad you didn’t ask for a reason why.
2. No, Gauthier will never be an NHL GM again. (GM stands for general manager, right?)
3. Yes, Cunneyworth will be a head coach in the NHL again BECAUSE of the debacle.
4. I haven’t a clue.
5. All of the above plus f.), he fires himself and then sues the club for wrongful dismissal.
Genetically Modified?
General Morons
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Listen to the Smart Dog. He knows his poop!
1.Yes, hes a smart hockey coach.. no reason he wont be hired again.
2.Yes, his job performance in MTL has been fine.. he gambled on a few bets and lost.. but we’re not losing because of Hamrlik, Halpern or even Wisniewski.. but we are doing less bad due to additions like emelin, cole, bourque, blunden.. he’s moving us in a new direction.. this season is wrte-off
3.if cunneyorth gets rehired so do all above people.. he hasnt done any better so doesnt deserve any better.
4.Molson is doing what any owner should do and is taking a hands off approach, acting as more of an intermediary then Gillette.. can’t complain with an owner who will show his face and show support for his team.
5. none of the above.. it started as a tweak.. firing the head coach and replacing with an assistant coach is not short sighted… it is a better move then hastily switching cocahes when no one better is availaable.. interim is interim and it happens all the time… firing the PP guy when the PP is ggarbage is not illogical
Go Habs Go
1. No.
2. No way.
3. Yes, hopefully in Montreal.
4. Obviously not.
5. e
I blame this whole season’s clusterf*ck squarely on Gauthier’s mismanagement.
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Jack Edwards is a clam, Bruins are pukes.
YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE REIGNING CHAMPIONS OF THE STANLEY CUP, AND BY THE WAY WILL REMAIN SO TILL SOMEONE IS GOOD ENOUGH TO DISPLACE THEM ……….SHOW SOME RESPECT
Gohabs
As one who firmly believes in the principle that a lemon can be made into lemonade and a grape into a raisin with a bit more time, I am fully confident the albatross that is Gomez can be turned into an Alaskan bald eagle.
And it doesn’t involve any weird experiments (that would be Plan B).
As I understand it, Gomez will make several million next season. A considerable sum of money for someone who, I am led to believe, unless the game sheets are out of whack, doesn’t score. Not someone who doesn’t score often or even every other month, but someone who doesn’t score. Period. Three periods a game.
This, I grant you, can pose a problem for a hockey team that relies, perhaps unreasonably, on its forwards to score. Especially if it’s the team’s highest paid player.
Now I say this without having seen the contract Gomez has with the Canadians. It could be he is, in fact, living up to the terms of the seven-year deal he originally signed. To suggest otherwise is mere speculation and should be discouraged on a website that assiduously adheres to the facts, truth be damned.
However, I think we can safely say the cost of having Gomez on the roster has somewhat complicated matters for the Canadiens. It limits their ability to improve their offence by adding free agents whose skill sets include being able to pot goals at the rate of more than, let’s pick a number, say, 25 or so a year (a hockey year, not calendar year).
But jettisoning Gomez is not as easy as some have suggested (apparently with little regard to Canada’s Criminal Code). Montreal would still be on the hook for his pay even if he were sent to Hamilton.
If the Canadiens are doomed to pay him, it only makes sense they try to extract as much value from him as possible with whatever means are available.
That would be to make him coach.
What makes a good coach? First of all, he doesn’t have to be good ON the ice, and Gomez has already proved himself in that regard.
A coach has to be good OFF the ice and here’s where Gomez’s experience pays off. He knows all about lines, having played on them all; he knows how to communicate, as any interviewer will tell you; he’s good in the room, which goes a long way to creating good morale, essential to breeding success; and his left-leaning tendencies indicate a liberal imagination, open to new ideas, which the team sorely needs moving forward.
Yes, he still gets the millions he’s owed, but he would be earning his keep – and not as a player, freeing up capital to be spent on the enhancement of talent. RC, meanwhile, would revert to being an assistant coach where his real effectiveness appears to lie.
I can think of only one objection to his being named coach: He doesn’t speak French.
I have no real answer to that.
But is it fair a team that has paid millions of dollars to someone to skate around who doesn’t speak French be denied the opportunity to pay that same person millions of dollars to stand around?
I don’t know, maybe if he were to change his name to Scott Göméz.
Maybe he could be one of those flag-carrying warm-up kids… the senior warm-up kid. And he could play with the little smurfs in the intermission and score lots of goals on 7-year-olds. Or they could leave him on IR and he could visit hospitals and charities on behalf of the Canadiens as a real Hab (wink). That’s gotta be worth sumthin.
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Listen to the Smart Dog. He knows his poop!
But, SD, the team would still have to pay for a coach.
Oh, you’re suggesting he do this stuff IN ADDITION to being the coach? Gotcha. Actually, that would be a great idea, have the Habs’ coach carry the flag before the game. Whip the fans into a frenzy. One more way to connect with the crowd.
Yeah, kind of like having Jack Black as your coach, and beforehand he gets the fans excited. Well, like Jack Black, but skinnier. And not funny.
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Listen to the Smart Dog. He knows his poop!
Maybe if he speaks Spanish real … real … slow, perhaps the Franco media will think he is speaking French !
Non? Si? Ques qui dit?
I don’t know if that would work. Many Hispanics find Alaskan Spanish difficult to understand.
He’s already Alaskan and bald, maybe the eagle will follow?
Randy is the perfect example of THE PETER PRICIPLE…..great assistant coach – not so great head coach…….he has now reached THE HEIGHT OF HIS OWN INCOMPETENCE……….sooner or later everyone does
Gohabs
Habs should of have gotten rid of JM at the end of last season. Given the reins to Kirk Muller and have Guy Carboneau as his man speaking to media in french. Now that’s gone and the future is who……………What’s available to coach and be next GM?
Head Coach Roy
GM McGuire
Imagine, a Montréal journalist dream come true. Wow that would be nutz!
Thank God! Another disciple of my scorched earth approach!
The Formula – (simplified)
Habs lose game, Price sucks
Habs don’t score, Price sucks
D doesn’t defend, Price sucks
Management messes up, Price sucks
x^2 + y^2 r^2 y^2 / a^2 – x^2 / b^2 x^3 + y^3 r^2 y^3 / a^2 – x^2 / b^1,L1 ≺ L2 and L2 ∈ P, then L1 ∈ P = sucks
No need for “debates”, science rocks!
I don’t understand a number you said…BUT it sounds HOT!!!
LOL – math, but not playoff math is HOT.
ur formula is WRONG price does not suck
I support Scott Gomez
You, habs17, are a genius. You solved the formula.
thanks man i majored in mathameatics
I support Scott Gomez
I wish Price sucked more, because I want the first overall pick! I will blame him if we don’t get a good draft this year, because this TEAM is terrible.
Well, I’ll blame the DD/Patches/Cole line a little as well…
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☞ “Talent is a gift from God, but you only succeed with hard work. Yvan was proof of that.” – Jean Beliveau. ☜
http://www.celebrations-gomez.com/en/
It’ll take some doing, days and nights in the lab, but I’ll work on the new formula.
Get on it then – we need help!
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☞ “Talent is a gift from God, but you only succeed with hard work. Yvan was proof of that.” – Jean Beliveau. ☜
http://www.celebrations-gomez.com/en/
I’m not much of a math whiz but is the common denominator Price?
The rest of it I can’t follow. (Did you crib that from JM’s notebook?)
The common denominator is sucktitude John. Jeez.
As for the rest, it’s an original LL™ Formula. Besides, I couldn’t read JMs’ handwriting.
Well, Miss SmartyPants, I entered your formula into the Googlelator and it turns out your second y^3 should be y^4. Yeah, y^4. Otherwise, the answer is ‘socks’. Did you fudge the numbers?
I was eating fudge CHocolate cake at the time.
Halak #5 in the league now: http://www.nhl.com/ice/playerstats.htm?fetchKey=20122ALLGAGAll&sort=goalsAgainstAverage&viewName=goalsAgainstAverage
Apparently,Randy Cunneyworth’s use of Rosetta Stone program has been paying off as his French vocabulary does seem to be expanding. Commonly heard words used by Cunneyworth during each game include: “Merde!” ”Colis tabernac!”Maudit jouer!”
http://www.didgomezscore.com/
Funny stuff for Gomez fans! http://celebrations-gomez.com
it really is a shame when ppl boo gomez in his own arena i could see at other arena’s, when they always boo good players, but come on in his own city SHAME
I support Scott Gomez
if any1 is depressed watch this video and realize how lucky we hab fans are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2od-sjrUx8
I support Scott Gomez
2:55 mark. Now that was great hockey by Scott.
He splits the Gr8 one and Backstrom. Drives around the D and hits the open side. Nice goal.
So why can’t he score or play like that more often? He has talent, what happened?
Wonder if Blunden hits Elias into the boards would he only get fined & not suspended if Elias was injured like Blunden is…….
Is a team allowed to change goalies for the shootout?
“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
yes
Excellent. Then I wanna see Lundqvist and Elliot in our nets the next time we go to the SO.
Edit: Wait, I just checked nhl.com and I want Fleury and Valamov instead
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Thanks Otter. Don’t mind Punkster..he’s one of the ” elderly ” members.
“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
Oh, pulling the age card now, are we? Whippersnapper.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Kick his a$$!
And if that can’t happen, beat him over the head with your cane
I’ll wing my dentures at him. Hell, if that isn’t enough I’ll stand next to him after I’ve had my Metamucil and prune juice cocktail.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
I thought chemical warfare was banned?
Oh heck, us old geezers need all the help we can get.
Yewww
Solomio – I seem to remember The Leafs changed goalies before a shoot out by putting Joseph in & pulling Tokosla I think…..