Habs goalie Bunny Larocque defends his net against Toronto’s Darryl Sittler during a 1970s game at the Forum.
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The Canadiens have made 16 deals on NHL’s trade-deadline day since the process began in 1980, beginning in 1981 with goaltender Michel (Bunny) Larocque to Toronto for defenceman Robert Picard.
Here’s today’s story about the Habs trade-deadline history. Read on for the complete list to refresh your memory…
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The Hab mgmt. doesn’t care about what the fans say or think. The games at the Bell are SOLD OUT for the next 100 years. Every season ticket holder has a waiting list of 20 people for that seat. The Hab owners and mgmt. are not idiots. No one on this board really has the brains to run the team. Everyone has 20/20 hindsight. Pollock once said that listening to the fans is a great way to start losing. That’s what’s wrong with the Leafs. They listened to the fans and gave Burke unlimited power and look where the sad-sack Leafs are today. No one wants to play in Montreal except the smurfs and ‘over-the-hill’ players and they demand 1-2 years more on a contract than they would get anywhere else. Cole looks great today but that’s a long contract so check with me in 3 years. Every team screws up (except maybe Detroit). Every team like Carolina, Tampa, Pitts., Colorado, Chicago has tanked for years before winning the Cup. Others have tanked for years and got high picks and still will never win the Cup like the Islanders, Oilers, Leafs, Washington, Florida and on and on. Stop your griping and let’s just see what the future brings us and be thankful that we get to watch and support the team for free. Nobody who gripes here is a season-ticket holder and if you hate watching the team play give up your season’s ticket rights or sell them for double the face value to guys like me when I come to town and want to catch a game to remind me of my childhood days when the Habs were perennial contenders. They will be BACK. On with the TANK for 3 more years.
Everybody finally realizes we are a team that will have turmoil for the next number of years.
Bad days are coming back to this franchise. as I’ve said the past few seasons.
Sad but true.
We’ve go to make major trades by the deadline but that will not happen.
Many questions have to be answered and a complete overhaul has to be done form the organization and down right to the players.
Players like Markov and Pleks don’t mean nothing to me, they are not our saviours for our club.
The way I see it. we need young blood on this club, big and having grit although not necessary skilled, teamwork on this club who play hard and consistent every game and not fragile players or floaters (we know who they are).
So PG, it’s in your hands to make a splash and major deals. just do it!
Tank I say! Tank!
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
Speaking of tanking, the Lightning are very good at it.
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I don’t think they’ll catch us.
Talk about a team that needs to clean house.
This team isn’t as bad as their record shows, unfortunately we lost out on Markov this year and injuries to key personnel hurt us but we are a -10 (GF vs GA), it was around -5 till Gill left. Compare that to TBL (-39), Buffalo (-25), Florida (-19) we aren’t an awful team. More goal scoring will definitely help.
Hopefully a top 5 pick and 2 decent defensemen will put us back in the playoffs next year. Subban, Gorges, Emelin & Diaz are all solid defenders who will only get better.
I hope Kaberle gets dumped anywhere. Zidlicky got traded for a lot, Kaberle is around the same caliber player maybe someone will offer a 3rd or 4th for him or even a prospect.
Same with Bourque. With Hemsky & Ruutu off the market maybe some team will make a good offer for the guy and we can get rid of him. He’s a 40 pt player with a long contract.
When your position in the conference standings is dead last it means that you are not very good. A clear indication of the quality of team mgmnt. It aint rocket science.
We’re last but it is not indictive of this team’s ability. We lost a lot of players to injury, had the coaching change through it all we have found a lot of positives going forward, DD-Pac-Cole, Eller’s flashes, Diaz & Emelin have all had good seasons.
I think 2 more solid defensemen (#5 & #6) will solidify this team as well as 1 top 6 winger.
This team will not be a basement dweller next season that’s for sure.
I hope you’re right and I do like your optimism. I just wish I could share in it.
Bourque? 40-50 pt player who’s tough as nails, can fight & plays with an edge. I’d keep him
I dunno for 3.x million/yr for like 4 more years that’s a lot for a guy who likely won’t be in the top 6. But I would trade him for a good offer, not sell him to get rid of him like I would with Kaberle.
Why do I get the feeling the Habs want to be sellers but nobody really wants what they are selling. I don’t see many teams wanting Campoli. Travis Moen is hurt so teams will shy away from him.
And in the biggest blunder by the team, they put AK on the 4th line and bench him before the deadline just to make sure no team will be interested in him either. I don’t understand why they didn’t play him on the 1st line and on the powerplay, raise his stock and then trade him. Stupid management.
Don’t know how necessary it is to showcase a player with almost 400 games in the NHL – everyone in the league knows exactly what he brings
Yeah & you don’t want to risk injury to him at this time either.
so bench him to be safe? that’s silly
You can’t trade an injured player period. Moen would have brought some value but he won’t be ready to play in time so that’s that. I don’t see anyone touching Kaberle now that he has disappointed 4 teams in 2 years (leafs,bruins,canes,habs)
Personally I doubt AK will attract many offers.
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A little OT:
Anybody else had trouble with Bell service calls lately? I’ve been trying for a week to get an HD receiver installed. I book the appointment, they don’t show or call, I call back, they have no record of the appointment and reschedule. Repeat loop infinitely. I’m on my 6th appointment now. I talked to them an hour ago. I don’t think they’re coming.
Incredible that such a leader of information technology companies can’t seem to get a txt to a guy in a truck.
ask to speak to a supervisor… give them an earfull they deserve it, all they have to do is a simple task and they can’t even do that.. Threaten to leave until they use save tools
Thats the way the cookie crumbles
Yeah, already spelled it out for a couple of supervisors. One guy gave me a $50 credit, but I still don’t have my receiver. Fired a scathing letter off to executive.office@bell.ca. Still waiting. I bet if I called back they’d have no idea what I’m talking about.
Montreal needs defense badly heading info next season.
I’m still waiting for something exciting to happen…don’t think anything is gonna change
CTV Montreal’s Brian Wilde tweeted the following a little while ago:
TSN 990′s @TonyMarinaro has just told me of a huge scoop we will reveal on Sports Extra on CTV MTL at 6:45. Don’t miss it. #habs
Take it for what it’s worth.
More from Wilde: “Tony will tweet it after we air it. His scoop. His solid source. But nothing beats watching to get all the #habs details. CTV MTL at 6:45.”
Tony M found a new eating establishment & will do an on air commerical about it starting next week…….lol
Or he’s learned that there is such a thing as the past participle in the English language and will stop saying stuff like “would have went”, “should have showed” and “could have ate”.
LMAO
Lets go Jets!
P.K. traded!
The years of weeping and gnashing of teeth as Subban plays exactly the same game for another team, while getting worshipped for it by our fans and the media while they advance the narrative that “all he needed was a change of scenery and/or a coach who understood him,” would almost make it worth the trade.
Dont get me wrong I am on the side who thinks it would be a dreadul trade.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply anything of the sort. It was just a joke about, as someone else put it, our grass is always greener mentality.
He found out the Habs are losing on purpose and tank
Anyone know what the big scoop really was?
Poster just posted that Keith Ballard on long term injury by Canucks to reduce cap hit. Too late now to be relevant but anyone knows why Markov was never on long term injury. Regulations forbade it or because PG just assumed Markov will be back?
Ummm, he has been almost all year.
He is on IR
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Remember when people were screaming blue, bloody murder about how Montreal got FLEECED in the D’agostini deal? That once again Habs management had blown it BIG TIME. Remember him? He’s the guy that’s on pace for 24 pts this season in St. Louis.
What ever happened to those people?
I wonder if Palushaj will get 24 points in the NHL
Speaking of which, whatever happened to the people who were convinced that Claude Julien (aka “a REAL coach”) was going to turn Pouliot into a 35 goal-scorer?
Remember that guy? He fell down a lot, and is on pace for 25 pts this year while playing on the highest scoring team in the league.
Don’t forget the Guy Boucher people, they were the best.
Oh right, how can we forget how the author of the 1-3-1 would bring exciting, offense-first hockey back to Montreal!
Not to pick a fight but ok these playerrs ettc seem to be a bust elsewhere too… are you saying then that management as it stands is competent? I dont get your point.. can you explain?
that’s 22 more than Gomez, buddy.
Huh?
To be fair, it’s actually only 15 more than Gomez in 20 more games played by D’ags.
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Turn on the tank, the party’s over…
Can we have a trade now, please? I have been waiting patiently for quite a while now.
http://youtu.be/lWpAB5YAO5A
Stand by Your Habs (This ain’t Toronto Baby)……
Best lyrics put to song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxYYUbkCr64
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Kiss my hAbSS!!!
NHIC tweeting that the Leafs…get this…are going to have a pre-game ceremony to mark the 50-year anniversary of their 1962 Stanley Cup win. Wow.
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HA HA HA HA.
Are they going to one for the 1967 win?
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
It was time for Gill TO go!
CH = Les Glorieux!!!
Are you serious?
I’m not sure whether that’s funny, or just pathetic.
Ok, maybe both!
The celebration of The 62 SC win will be in colour this time & not in black & white like it was the first time……..