Andrei Markov’s knee is not 100 per cent, but his sense of humour is ready for the hockey season.
“Are you nervous about your knee?” Markov was asked at the end of his 10-minute media scrum Friday morning.
“I’m more nervous about you guys,” the defenceman replied, with the speed of one of his power-play point drives.
Does he have water on his injured knee?
“I have water in my basement.”
Markov said he would love to be scrimmaging with his teammates when drills begin Saturday morning, but admitted that’s not going to happen.
“I try stay positive and carry through with the (rehabilitation) plan,” Markov added. He is taking things “day by day” (first time that phrase has been used this season … but not the last) and sees improvement in his knee almost every day.
Markov says there’s “a chance” he will play in the Canadiens’ season opener in Toronto – at an ACC rink that has not been kind to his health.
Markov visited Dr. James Andrews last month to deal with swelling in his right knee. The acclaimed American surgeon was satisfied with the progress of recovery and told Markov a bit of swelling is to be expected after a second knee surgery.
Markov debunked rumours of a rift with team management and resentment that the Canadiens had neglected to monitor his skating drills.
“There are days when I’m disappointed at the progress of my rehab,” Markov said. “But I have nothing against the team or the medical staff.”
“I try to stay positive,” he reiterated. “I’m not going to play tomorrow, but the day is coming.”
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Hal Gill, a reliable source of good one-liners, was also in mid-season form.
On his best fitness test: “Reach.”
His least-favourite: “The VO2. You get on a bicycle and pedal until you puke.”
On competition between Josh Gorges and P.K. Subban to be his D partner: “I feel like the good-looking girl at the prom.”
On enduring Bruins’ fans during his offseason in Massachusetts: “It’s nice to be back in Montreal. I’ve had enough hearing about the best team evah.”
AUDIO: Mathieu Darche | Hal Gill | Brian Gionta | Tomas Plekanec | Raphael Diaz
Video to come this afternoon from David Stubbs
Candid photo of Alexei Yemelin, shot by Dave Sidaway of The Gazette, who also took the Markov pic.
Looks like the new guy’s been on the Pat Hickey Power Diet.
Pass the blinis, Ma!
The players began the morning down at the gym level, going through fitness drills and being assessed by people carrying clipboards.
In the media division, Patrick V. Hickey topped the vertical jump, rising three inches of his seat and yelling “Waiter!”
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Interesting to note – and 24Cups has – that each camp team includes an intact line that is likely to start the season.
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Dam…I’ve been bragging this guy up now for 3-4 years…I’ve got my bowl of crow on ice just in case…
Wow some people are pretty judgemental. Must think pretty highy of yourselves!
Holy crap : AK is a monster and Gionta looks like a body-builder.
Now that said, I bet there are Hall of Famers who played their whole careers with a higher body-fat percentage than Yemelin shows in
that picture. He could still be highly fit — anyone know his test scores?
Observations from around the Canadian camps as I emerge for summer hibernation:
My god do Gonchar and Alfie look old.
I didn’t realized that I missed Bryan Murray’s lisp.
Vodkov is to Yemelin as Red Bull is to Red Cow?
Jets jerseys get a non resounding pass …
My god Zibenijad and Da Costa look young …
Schenn is signed and Wyowitka wear #8 … Komi is truly and afterthought.
Habs (oops, hockey) inside out puckcast – i hope Mio is the designated driver for that crew…
Luongo looks to be in shape – he loks like he’s lost about 10 lbs, and thats only due to the use of more enviromenetally friendly hair products.
How many first round picks does is take to create another lottery pick. Anyone? Taylor? Ryan? Jordan? Oskar? Magnus? Sam?
Any chance thayt Iginla’s center has 2/3 of his point total this year? If only the man had some help.
Tony Marinaro … we’ve been punked!
Thank got for the majesty of the game. It’s been a long, hot summer. RIP Yaroslavl, RR, DB, WB.
Can’t wait till Tuesday – Habs rock!
I just hope Avtsin, Gallagher, Leblanc or Kristo soon come on board and wear 27 so we can finally put Kovalev behind us.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu. Habs and Hockey.
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None of these guys will have the skill and talent to be like Kovalev.
We’ll be lucky in any of them amount to anything in a Habs uniform.
Prospects? Only time will tell.
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
Pff. Hopefully they will make up for their comparative lack of skill and talent by a) working hard b) showing up every night c) playing to the system that their coach sets up d) prioritizing the team over their own divaesque interests.
If they try each night, they’ll quickly become respectable favourites and bring some pride back to 27.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu. Habs and Hockey.
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Pretty sure I recall you saying Subban wasn’t ready. Pretty sure.
Mikey do you dash these posts off before you had a chance to think? There is no question that the four players listed are prospects. They are in the system and are being developed as prospective NHL’ers. There is no need for time to ascertain whether they are prospects or not.
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Mikey, Avtsin is going to be better in a Habs uniform than Kovalev ever was. Not only will he flash as much skill, he’ll show up most nights, like everyone else does, and give good effort. Avtsin was paying pro hockey at 18. He’s 20, and when he is done filling out, he will be as big and strong or bigger than Kovie. And the real treat, when he learns how to comunicate on the ice better, will be how he makes his teamates better, something Kovalev could never do.
I’ll make a bold statement here: I strongly feel Andrei Kostitsyn regressed in his development because he played with Kavalev and picked up some horrific lazy habits.
true, and I dont know anything about them, but I they already have twice the heart !!!!
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Chorske, stop talkin’ about Yemelin’s wood!
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Can he even see his wood? I’m not 100% sure he can see his own toes.
@ Andrew, don’t bother, it’s hard for him to understand when someone says something. See he just posted about it again!
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Don’t bother? Why not? Chorske’s a good guy, known him a long time.
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Hate to pile on, but it looks even worse compared to Gionta and Darche, who are ripped: http://twitpic.com/6lsfhn
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Mesomorphs, ectomorphs, endomorphs…
Yemelin is the classic endomorph. The fat will burn off pretty quickly with all the cardio that professional hockey players do as a part of the game.
His physical strength has usually been cited as one of his biggest assets, so I would be a bit surprised if that is suddenly going to change at age 25.
Yes but Chris, imagine how good his cardio would be for the start of the season if he had a six-pack instead of a 3-litre. This doesn’t give one much hope about him managing a lot of ice time to begin the season lugging the extra weight.
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Some guys are in good shape at the start of the season and deteriorate as the season goes on, others get in shape as the season progresses (Vincent Damphousse, anyone?).
As long as he plays well, I don’t particularly care what he looks like under his jersey. Let’s wait until we see how he does in the games before writing him off.
He’s not bein’ written off nor do I believe anyone is particularly worried about his physical state.
A 25 year-old shows up for his first NHL stint with a gut. No need to overblow the issue, but the question of attitude-slash-mindset is fair ball.
Put another way, the moment somethin’ rookie-ish goes down, as it inevitably will, that picture’ll come up in the discussion.
I hope his mental preparedness is better than his physical preparedness.
That looks more like a keg to me.
Strength doesn’t look like an issue, his shoulders are large and he has ample muscle underneath his fat layer. However coming into camp like that is just NOT a good sign. It’s being overblown on the internet as everything always is, but it puts him one step behind everyone who’s already in shape, and it gives the outward appearance of not caring, no matter what body type you’re saying he has.
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AndreiK is pretty beefed up there too,
Hope you don’t mind me posting the pic from your twitter.
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Not my picture so I don’t mind at all! AK looks like a monster.
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I really wish AK has a breakout year, this guy could be exactly what the Habs needs if he just pushed it a bit more.
Contract year and all that jazz too…
If you don’t grok it, drokk it!
He’s in a good situation to be honest. Contract year notwithstanding, he won’t be forced to play against the tough competition that Plekanec has to handle every game. If that 3rd line really clicks he’ll probably still average 15-17 minutes per game, only against bottom 6 players. The only disadvantage I see for him is that he won’t get as much powerplay time. But it could definitely be a breakout year for AK if he wants it to be.
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Someone should perhaps inform Emelin this isn’t the 1970s where players prepared for NHL camp by cutting back their smoking to half-a-pack a day.
He has a great personality.
As long as Yemelin can stick that rear end of his out at the blue line and nail Lucic in the Knees, he can eat as many poutines as he wants!
Don’t worry too much about Fatty, I mean Yemelin, until he is proclaimed to be out of shape. Not only can a picture be misleading, but there are a lot of racial attributes that lead people to retain and conserve fat … especially if your genetic code was developed in the arctic and subarctic. (Remember, Russia share the same geography as Canada.) Ergo, an Inuit or Cree person, who might be capable of running a marathon, is not going to look like someone from a more southernly genetic stock. I am not going to waste my time looking for pictures of Jordon Tootoo without his shirt on — who’d want that in their browser history? — but I am betting he does not look like Cammy. Fit is fit. If Fatty, I mean Yemelin, can keep up on the ice then that is all that matters and that is all the remains to be seen.
And think of the energy reserves the boy has!
Fair point. I’m also wondering if the photog has seven or eight pictures and this is the least-flattering one of the bunch. The Hickey-Stubbs-Boone cabal might be trying to increase pagehits at the expense of our sanity again.
What’s next, an Erin Andrews interview?
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Everyones over reacting. Yemelin will be fine, he is not that out of shape. Compare him to PK, yes he looks bad, but he can still play hockey, with or without a 6 pack.
that is true if you are playing in a beer league. You have to be in shape to take the pounding of an 82 game sched. The KHL doesn’t play nearly that many games.
If he is in this kind of shape he will get an injury for sure.
Look at Gui last year. Missed almost the entire year cause of showing up out of shape. The worst part is Gui never looked as out of shape as Yemelin does
I’m not a athletic conditionin’ coach – I just play one on the Intraterweb – but given Yemmy’s 6’2″, I’ll venture he’ll be fine in about 10-15 lbs.
He is on the Spacek diet
Yemelin’s got the wrong kind of 220lbs on his frame. Must have the ‘training camp to get in shape’ philosophy, he’ll need to ditch that if he hopes to stick in the NHL and especially with the Habs. Training camp is going to be hard on him.
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Hey Serious, I’ll be auto-drafting this weekend…
You’re in the ESPN pool? Get your rankings sorted out, unless you figure you can afford to draft Marc Savard and Sheldon Souray in the top 200.
- I shall always remember Captain Koivu. Habs and Hockey.
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Thanks for the heads up! Souray might not be in the top 200 but He’ll score 12 goals and 30 assists.
I’m away for the weekend and won’t be able to access a computer…
ESPN rankings are horrid this year, just terrible with all kinds of strange settings. I’ve been warning people on the discussion board to check them out.
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I’ll try to be on for the draft too.
If you don’t grok it, drokk it!
I guess HIO can thank Marinaro for his complete bs “scoop” on Markov. Hope he’s wearing nose plugs, because that “scoop” stinks!
Yikes™.
I am in better shape than this guy and I am on weight watchers…..
The KHL is no NHL
Hee hee. Hypotheses? Roll of quarters for laundry, perhaps? Or some Mentos?
Didn’t even notice that. I was havin’ flashbacks to the mid-80s when David Letterman was callin’ the Braves’ Terry Forster “a fat tub of goo” on the air.
I’m guessin’ somethin’ Vachon®.
I guess the Marshmallow Diet was a bad idea.
Ok, I’m 35-years-old, never workout and I look like Yemelin in that picture. Ok maybe a little more flab than that but still!!!
Get your ass in gear there kid!!!!
Markov’s knee and now Yemelin’s gut, what else could happen?
I dunno what scares me more…..Markov’s knee or Yemelin’s belly?
“I kind of feel sorry for players who never got a chance to be a Montreal Canadien” – Cammalleri
Oh Alexei, I’ve just lost my mancrush. For shame.
There goes my July dream of a lethal Markov-Yemelin tandem to start the season.
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He certainly lacks the definition we associate with uber-atheletes but then again so does the physique of sumo wrestler and I imagine one of those might effectively clear Price’s crease assuming the sumo could skate. I am clearly looking for the upside here but having a son who is half Cree, I know that body fat is not necessarily a sign of lack of fitness. Okay, okay, he looks very soft here … sob.
It’s weird because Russian players used to be the most fanatical about off-ice conditioning. The first players over from the Soviet teams, aside from Vladimir Krutov, blew away their teammates with their fitness.
Maybe North American hockey, especially since the Gary Roberts-Steve Stamkos revolution, has overtaken the Russian system. Maybe Mr. Yemelin could dominate in the KHL purely on skill and natural ability and could coast on the dryland training. Obviously, he’ll soon understand that this isn’t going to cut it, when Mike Cammalleri and PK Subban are YouTube stars for their summer training. Here’s hoping theirs and Mr. Markov’s diligence rubs off on him.
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I’m not a professional athlete, but I believe my body fat percentage is not much higher than what Yemelin’s appears to be in that image above. That’s not a good sign…for either of us.
Doesn’t it say 205 lbs was Yemelin? If it’s true then this is not good. Imagine he weighs 205 and it’s mostly fat! He will have slower adaptation then expected.
Go! Hockey! Go!
I am sure the Habs’ coaching staff and management are displeased already.
Yemelin will never see the NHL if his idea of summer conditioning is lifting scoops of sour cream on perogies.
Well he does seem to have solid frame of muscle under that fat layer.
If you don’t grok it, drokk it!
“I have water in my basement”—classic.
Reminds me of Chretien. Remember? “I put pepper on my plate!”
wow yemelin looks like he could drop a couple houses…
also whats that in his pocket D:
I hope that’s a marker or something in his pocket.
HA beat me to it.
its a sharpee for autographs…. thaaaats it
ha ha ha good one!
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So, do we still throw Markov under the bus, as well as the rest of the team, or…….?
naturally
It’s somewhat encouraging that Markov says there’s “a chance” he’ll play in the season opener. That means he’s weeks rather than months away. The team needs to be careful with him. If he misses the first month of the season, it’s not a catastrophe.
So we have Diaz and Dietz? Awesome.
How many double d’s do you want…
I want the really good one.
i’ll take a set of double D’s
Haven’t really heard anything about Etienne Brodeur, does anyone think he’s going to be on Hamilton? He put up some really good numbers in the QMJHL this year!
25 before 14
Since he’s a smaller guy and needs to be physically mature before hitting the AHL or lower pro circuit, I think the consensus is that he needs another year in junior as an overager.
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What do people think about Willsie at some point coming up. He is 6’1 over two hundred. Scored 30 goals and about 38 assists for hershey last year. Veteran at age 33. This could be a good fourth liner that can score not like travis moen
If Willsie gets called up, we’re going to be in a world of hurt because that would mean our forward ranks would be decimated.
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HAH, clearly not big and gritty enough. I’ll let you duke it out with the Paul Gaustad guy.
I’m known to you as “the Paul Gaustad guy”? I guess my nick is too difficult for you to remember huh?
Mate, hockey is a game that includes toughness and even if you are correct and we out hit the Bruins (which you gave no proof of in your previous post), you can’t have enough of it. I’m not advocating gooning it up here a la Burke (which you referred to), the Maple Leafs have a lack of talent with toughness being the only ingredient in abundance.
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Gaustad. This week’s Konopka.
Dime a dozen but way too expensive for a 4th liner plug.
***Subbang Baby!!!***
We’re all entitled to our opinions. I have no problem with those who disagree. At the end of the day PG is the decision maker and we just have opinions.
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MJ ,don’t sweat it man….there are alot of fans on this site who view the Habs as a team destined for some kind of Gandhian sainthood and that will one day rise too the top so impressively it will change the nature of the game!Myself,I just want a Stanley cup run , win and an EVERY DAY BEAT DOWN OF THE BOSTON BRUINS….so Gaustad sounds good to me!As I see it the Habs need to grow a couple and really play as a team”every player” and for once I would love to see it where a team like Boston is afraid to try their intimidating bullspit on a Habs team again! ….
The Dude, Amen to that! As much as I am a fan of the peaceful approach, that doesn’t apply to hockey where toughness is a factor in every single game where at least one of the team has it. It’s part of NHL hockey and anyone that can’t stand watching it should find a non contact sport to watch. Toughness doesn’t mean goonery.
Teams like Philly and Boston that have toughness and players with talent need to know that we can also push back AND play with them on every front.
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Yes it’s true we need size but I believe it’s overblown that there have been statements regards to Canadiens being unable to compete in physical level. Our team did not back down that easy. We have a team that can compete and they showed that when playing against a Stanley Cup team. Bringing Cole and the come back (I hope he has his form back) of Pacioretty should be interesting this season.
Go! Hockey! Go!
@ habaddict_andy, never said this team lacks a fighting spirit. I’m simply a believer that there are two things in this game you can’t have enough of: talent and toughness. I too am excited to see what the addition of Cole and MaxPac for a full season will do for this team in terms of both offense and toughness.
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Oh dear. Where to begin. So many caps, so many exclamation marks.
Who is talking about “Gandhian Sainthood”? Did I not specifically mention the Habs and their ability to outhit the Bruins? At any rate, the larger issue remains whether the rock-em-sockem bruiser hockey by you Don Cherry wannabes actually wins championships. It does NOT. Just ask the Canucks, who tried to intimidate the Bruins and ended up getting away from their game plan and losing. Also: it just so happens that I prefer the Habs strategy of priotizing fast, skilled players (regardless of their size) because I like that kind of hockey, not because I aspire to some Gandhiesque ideal. I hate hockey goonery, because the NHL could showcase olympic-style hockey, all season long… and instead, we’re being force-fed some bullshit version with fights and grit and vendettas and that version is no better than pro wrestling. I think the game deserves better. And so do YOU, as a hockey fan, even if you don’t have the wit to realize it.
A guy that can’t remember a two letter nick writing about wit. Interesting.
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I suggest you look at my replies to your posts below and give us some proof about the ability of this team to out hit the Bruins.
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It’s not that I can’t remember your sig. It’s that I don’t care.
You want me to Google the stats for you? Really?!
Pay attention if you’re going to engage me in a discussion. I said that you can’t remember my two letter NICK, but hey that’s clearly too complicated for you to understand huh? Instead you refer to my sig yet AGAIN! Clearly you googling anything to back up what you say is beyond your capacity so I don’t expect you to do anything more than to watch, listen and learn from others.
You’re embarrassing yourself.
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1 injury in Markov to start the training camp.
Who’s next? Gomez? Pacioretty? Gionta? Gomez? Gorges? Gill? Price? Spacek? ………….?
Sometimes it would have been wiser to sign an underrated Hamrlik than blow all that money on a player like Markov who I predict, will not play 20 games this season if that.
Blowing money on Gomer, now Markov, oh the pain!
“We will win the Cup one day only with ? in the nets “
okay who farted?
I actually just did. Right before I hit your post. I have to leave my desk for a bit….
no no no never waste a good one, call someone over and ask them a banal question and see how long it takes to get their eyes watery
if you need an example of something banal to ask or say, use retromikey’s comment history as reference
you always go to someone else’s desk and drop heat and then leave making them look like the deucer
I like the ol’crop duster technique. Drop it slowly while walking past a number of desks and then vear off and dissappear. Crop dusted!
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From the looks of it I would say Yemelin did lol
You ARE aware that Hamrlik signed for $3.5 million with the Caps, right? I loved Hamrlik, and I agree that he was underappreciated– but to somehow link his departure to Markov’s signing… and to somehow link his ability to Markov’s… well, that’s just plain silly.
You make it sound like it’s your money being spent here. If Markov is injured long term as you predict, his salary will not count against the cap – just like last year.
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It has been explained many many times RGM. He just doesn’t get it…. either that he just doesn’t read the comment posts.
I posted the same comment two days ago.
He will still get paid no matter what, …easy money well spent by the Habs organization. Hey Gauthier, throw some money to me and other fans! It appears he’s just throwing it around like it’s monopoly money.
Markov is laughing all the way to the bank, he knows he’ll get paid the full salary no matter what if he sits on the coach or up in the press box during Habs’ games.
Easy money or should I say guaranteed!
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RM skipped over training camp and went directly to mid-season form.
Go to ILoveTheGooins.com. You’ll be right at home.
“Fragile recovery.” Are we talkin’ Markov or the economy? Either way, it’s hard to believe the experts.
Forget Markov… what about Gomez? How are his knees? I want more updates on him.
not 100 percent? thats not an update. what happened? how long until he expects back? we need to know what really is going on
If you take a look at forwards, its easy to tell who will play with who on opening night….
Different story on D:
Team A: Gill, Markov, Weber, Yemelin
Team B: Gorges, Spacek
Team C: Subban
What do you make of that?
IMO, I find it hard to pencil in the D as I have no idea how Yemelin will do, and if Markov is ready to go….
But if all healthy, and Yemelin playing at the level he played on international level… Im thinking about these match ups:
Gill – Subban
Markov – Yemelin
Gorges – Weber
Spacek…
Don’t shoot me here by having Gill as #1 D…. I think of it as balanced 1A and 1B D pairing.
Based on his regular season play in the first half of the last two seasons, I will be quite surprised if Hal Gill is playing anything close to #1A or #1B minutes. If he does, it is because Markov is not back and the Habs defence is in disarray.
Gill is at his best on the PK and in the playoffs. But he is simply too old and slow now to keep up with NHL calibre skaters for an entire season.
If you look at most successful team’s D , all the eggs are in one basket, and play nearly 30 minutes…
Pronger-Timmonen
Keith-Seabrook
Chara-Seidenberg
…
We have two defensemen that, when healthy, should be on the ice for 30 minutes a game… Markov and Subban. Otherwise we have a couple of guys who are role players, either limited offensively (Gill and Gorges) or defensively (Spacek – yet to be tested Yemelin, and Weber)
Therefore, I think our D parings shoud be
1) Subban – Markov – playing huge minute
2) Gill – Gorges as shutdown pair / first PK wave
3) Spacek / Yemelin or Weber: low minutes against the opposing bottom 6, second PP wave
Panic scale 7.
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You should downgrade your panic scale there Chris. At least he isn’t saying he hopes to play by December.
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Im a worry-er, what can I say. I guess its better that he takes his time to fully recover. Panic scale 6.
Hey, when is your fantasy league going to draft? I work nights so Im worried (again) ill miss the live draft.
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The draft time is currently set for Oct. 1st at 2PM eastern but it’s going to be changed because some people can’t make that time. It’ll all be discussed on the league message board. Are you in the league? Sorry if I didn’t notice but I got quite the flood of emails.
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I wanted to make sure I could make the draft first. Ill send you an email now if there is still room.
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The pool is full now, unfortunately.
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Oh well. Thanks anyway AB.
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And maybe I missed it, but this report says he had swelling in the knee, but it mentions nothing about the knee being drained of fluid, that was flying around here as fact the last day and a half.
That’s probably because Marinaro made it up, just like he made up the part about Markov and Gauthier having an argument, and just like he vastly exaggerated Markov’s injury last year when he got his “scoop”. If Marinaro would stop seeking attention and just stick to the facts, he would have a lot more respect.
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But the fans, especially the posters on here, always jump on these “leaked” stories like they are factually based. There were so many “I told you so’s” on here the last 40 hours I felt like a kid waiting for recess to get over.
Agreed 100% on that one. Everyone is eager to say I told you so.
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Wouldn’t the fluid make the knee swell up?
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Yes it may of swelled because of fluid. I’ve had fluid on the knee more than once. I’ve had it drained before, but other times, it just needed rest. My point was that the report Wednesday evening stated he had his knee drained, reports today aren’t mentioning that.
It might have been inferred by some people that the fluid had to be drained out, a common procedure with these occurrences. The swelling may have been minor and not needed draining.
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This team can use a 6’4″ fourth line centre full of grit and aggression. Andreas Engqvist anyone?
I don’t think he’s afraid of physical contact, but I wouldn’t call him overly aggressive, issue for him has been improving skating and upping his weight so he can handle the NHL.
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Actually, I was offering this post as a rebuttal of sorts to MJ’s “Paul Gaustad anyone?” sig line. But seriously, there’s room for one more and I think he is going to get a good long look in the next couple of weeks. I’m not real crazy about White or DD centering the 4th line.
Kempie, Engqvist can benefit from another year in the AHL.
Thanks for the flattery and paraphrasing me.
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This team can use a 6’4″ fourth line centre full of grit and aggression. Paul Gaustad anyone?
Well, he is 6’4″ and a centre, so I just thought it’s got to be worth throwing him between Moen & White for a couple of games next week and see what’s what before we start calling other GMs. I agree he would likely benefit from more AHL time, and he’s not the physical beast you’re after, but we should give him a look.
We agree. Of course the habs should give him a good look if for no other reason than to evaluate his progress. A lot of players of that size take a bit more time to develop, this is not a knock against what Engqvist will hopefully bring to this team in the future.
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This team can use a 6’4″ fourth line centre full of grit and aggression. Paul Gaustad anyone?
It would be a longshot if they gave that assignment to a rookie. Habs management wants their younger players to concentrate on defense and to not take themselves out of the play, so I don’t see Engqvist, or any rookie, going for the big hit, unless he’s paired with 2 wingers who’ll cover his ass.
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I personally don’t think Engqvist and agression belong in the same sentence
LOL
Careful, I know someone who’s gonna Gaustad on yo ass.
Dude go watch figure skating or girls hockey soccer might be too physical for you. We get it you don’t agree with me and anyone who thinks that the habs can afford to gain toughness. Get over yourself.
I posted the Gaustad thing as my sig and I don’t incessantly harp on it cause I have nothing more to bring to a discussion, you on the other don’t miss an opportunity to repeat your opinion that the habs don’t need more toughness with no consideration for other people’s ability to get your point the first time and the the fact that others have their own opinions too. I hope you get my point cause I don’t want to have to Gaustad on you again.
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This team can use a 6’4″ fourth line centre full of grit and aggression. Paul Gaustad anyone?
See? This is where it always goes with you gritaholics. If people don’t agree with you, you start invoking GIRLS SPORTS (an insult to the many fine ladies on HIO, and the many excellent and very tough female athletes). Or figure skating.
Come out of the cave! It’s the 21st century.
I love how a guy who sets up his sig to repeat the same trite message ad nauseam is giving me lessons about repeating myself. Gaustad away! That’s the whole point of the site. Besides, if you actually read my posts, you would see that I have more than one message. I also disparage people who crap on Gomez, and AK, and who boo their own team, and blame the refs, and those who advocate tanking or deliberately injuring another team’s players. Also, those who propose idiotic trades or line combinations. And those who crap on European players.
The only thing that repeats ad nauseam is your incessant rant, you’re annoying as hell. Seems like you don’t understand how a sig works, I set it up ONCE and it repeats every time I post, are you sure you’re not referring to my nick this time?
Frankly you’ve shown how little fact is included in your opinions and yes that is indeed the problem with sites like this one, people like you that can rant forever with nothing of substance to say.
Another proof of how limited you clearly are is that you somehow decided that I am a Don Cherry fan when I have repeatedly said toughness is not goonery, I don’t advocate goonery. Try making sense.
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This team can use a 6’4″ fourth line centre full of grit and aggression. Paul Gaustad anyone?
I’m curious as to how much Emelin actually weighs. We’ve seen all kinds of different numbers.
Will the players height and weight measurements today be released or reported? I would be interested in seeing that list.
People are obsessed with weight… it doesn’t matter how much you weigh. Laraque was what – 270? How useful was he? Or Boone… talk about weight… It’s not about weight, but how you use it. How aggressive a player is.
Yep. I’d be more scared of Cammalleri or Gionta coming at me than Laraque.
I think he is just over the 220 mark. I am really curious to see how well he does. I have the game PVR’d for Monday
I am much more interested in how he plays and how he uses whatever weight he has.