Ian Schultz: corn on the cob must be a tough meal…
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Ryan White and Ian Schultz both are in Montreal but took the morning off at Brossard, having played three games in three nights with the Hamilton Bulldogs Friday through Sunday.
They’ll take part in tonight’s warmup skate before head coach Randy Cunneyworth decides on whether to use them vs. the Carolina Hurricanes.
There was no sign of Travis Moen, a late scratch Saturday with a stubborn upper-body injury. Yannick Weber, nursing a knee injury, and Petteri Nokelainen (upper body) both skated on Brossard’s second sheet of ice.
Defenceman Andrei Markov skated with some gusto before the morning skate began, working out with athletic therapist Graham Rynbend and Scott Livingston, the team’s former strength and conditioning co-ordinator. Presumably, Livingston is aboard to help out with Markov’s ongoing rehab.
Carey Price gets the start in goal tonight vs. Kirk Muller’s Hurricanes, a homecoming game for the former Habs captain and assistant coach, and ex-Habs defenceman Jaroslav Spacek.
Pregame video of White and Schultz to come in a few hours from the Bell Centre; strangely, uploads don’t work from the BELL Sports Complex in Brossard.
Canadiens forward Ryan White.
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Time to vent a bit…
If Pierre Gauthier was being truthful after the Rene Bourque trade when he said the Canadiens are now starting to address their size and toughness issue going forward – it has thankfully ended a long couple years of swallowing one’s pride being a Canadiens’ fan.
And if inserting Ian Schultz into the lineup is another sign that he is continuing to move in that direction I couldn’t be more thrilled.
For the past two years this site has become a rallying point for all the softies who have just gobbled up the Habs brutal plan for building a small and speedy team that will turn their noses when any sort confrontation arises.
Anytime that someone mentions the word “fight” around here they’re accused of being a Brian Burke or Don Cherry fan. Last time I checked 95% of the other teams in the NHL believe that standing up for your teammates is important and fighting belongs in the game.
The Buffalo Sabres, their fans and the media went into a state of panic when they didn’t respond to their goalie being hit by Lucic and now every game since has been a punch out.
Fighting always has and always will be a part of the game. It is a young man’s game where guys bash the heck out of each other in an inclosed area. People that sit behind their computers and think it should be regulated like a bill being passed in the Hosue of Commons are out of their mind.
If you don’t like violence than don’t watch NHL hockey. Watch golf. Watch tennis. Watch figure skating.
People go to and watch the games in large because of the added excitement that a fight might break out. Every person in every arena are on their feat screaming when a fight breaks out. They often cheer louder than a goal!
So I hope this Schultz callup is only the start of things to come. Lets get some swagger back in the Habs organization. The type of swagger we had with guys like Corson, Odelein, Quintal and even Souray in the lineup.
Thank god we’re moving back towards being a real hockey team again.
GO HABS GO!
Good vent Hobie.
1) Standing up for your teammates is necessary nowadays, but only so because of toothless regulations and negligent enforcement. In this age of HD cameras and super slo-mo, infractions could be dealt with by the league instead of relying on on-ice justice.
The thing about standing up for your teammates is that it causes a never ending cycle of violence. It is based on the mistaken belief that anger needs to be ‘let out’, that it must be vented instead of bottled up. The thinking is that this is the healthy thing to do, the pressure is released and everything reverts back to normal. In fact, all research has shown that people who act out on their anger and violent impulses don’t go back to ‘normal’, they learn to act in an angry and violent manner, and this behavior is reinforced. The old trope that ‘you deal with it on the ice’ is in fact a perpetuation of the problem. If dealing with it on the ice settled things, I wouldn’t still be homicidally furious at Dale Hunter and Ron Hextall.
2) Fighting will not always be part of the game. That is short-sighted. With all the evidence mounting that blows to the head cause lasting injuries, it’s inevitable that it will be legislated out of the league, either internally or from without. There are lots of facets of the game that has evolved over the decades, and this will be one of them.
To demean people who take a dim view of violence as a tactic in the NHL as milquetoast starry-eyed web trolls does everyone a disservice. The very accomplished Ken Dryden is one former player who I can think would disagree with you on that.
3) I liken the fact that people stand and cheer when a fight happens to the rubber-neckers at motor vehicle incidents. A car crash is spectacular, it’s something we wouldn’t wish on ourselves but will look at how others fared. It’s outside our normal realm of experience, and we are curious and fascinated, but that doesn’t mean we should foster the conditions that cause them, or even create more and sell tickets to them.
4) I don’t want to be told to not watch if I don’t like NHL hockey. By default, NHL hockey is hockey in my country and in the US. I refuse to let a few short-sighted billionaires decide what happens to our game. I also refuse that they be allowed to showcase whatever spectacle they see fit in defiance of societal mores. The constant display of thuggery and lawlessness and unenforced rules has to stop.
The NHL can be thought of as a public utility that we have bought and paid for several times over. I own the damn thing. I have a say.
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How about it NHL? No fighting, just hockey?
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Another “must win” game for the Habs tonight.
I’ve lost track of the number of those games they’ve played in the last few weeks.
Way too many!