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joeybarrie - (Joseph Barrie)

Member since December 13, 2007

Washington DC

Habs fan since: 1976
Favorite current player: Carey Price
All-time favorite player: Mats Naslund

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  • Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
    I don't need to get flamed. Price is an incredible goalie. I don't need to measure. The most respected pros in the NHL have said it. He starts for the 2nd place team in the Eastern Conference. And when he is on his game nobody question how great he is. NOT EVEN JACK TODD if you read his articles. Cause even he admitted he was wrong about Price. He isn't a god. He is one player on a team. And if you don't think he is incredible, then I don't know what to tell you. I watch. I've seen. And again, he has more games (340) than most his age.... That alone proves it. 4 different coaches. 3 GMs. All agreed. Again. We expect him to be a .950 goalie every game, every season. What he needs to learn is how to deal with the heavy lifting. When the team needs him to stop everything. He needs to step up. There have been times he has done just that. But we only remember the last 5 games ever.... And every bad instance ever.... we are not a positive people when we don't win.
  • Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
    Absolutely. We need to keep in mind. Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Stamkos, etc, etc.... Are not ever going to be traded. Its near impossible to get one of the heaviest lifters... Without giving up everything. Then you only have one heavy lifter. You are right and so is MB about balance.... And its isn't easy to achieve. Just cause we think we can trade Kaberle, Ryder,and DD for the next Stamkos, doesn't make it realistic.
  • Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
    I think the biggest problem with players like Price, Leblanc, Bourque, Eller, Kaberle, Moen, DD, Gorges, and Markov are expectations from fans. Markov is the biggest example. Common sense goes out the window, and because we paid him a certain amount of money we expect him to no longer be human. Anyone who doesn't attribute a large part of our success this regular season to Markov is lost. But being injured for 2 seasons and then playing a 48 game sprint at 24 minutes a game. He is human. You can't just rest him one game and all of a sudden he is back to his best. It doesn't work like that. another big part of our success is players like Prust, Emelin and Gorges. Playing like mad dogs with pure adrenaline. That takes its toll as well. And when your successful season starts to unravel, because it depends on a lot of moving parts, there is nothing you can do. The only way to get thru that is to have your Goalie play like Halak, Roy, Dryden, etc, etc. Keeping in mind all these goalies had their ups and downs. We just have selective memories when it come to common sense. The other side of the coin is simply this. Carey Price, is in fact, CAREY PRICE. He is not Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden, or anyone else that we desperately want him to be. He is a 25 year old incredible goalie who has gone thru a few rough patches where he didn't save the team when everyone wanted him to save the team. There are no exceptions to this. Roy, Dryden and every other goalie ever have done the same. The only difference is, when Roy and Dryden did it.... The rest of team followed suit and made it happen. We haven't had a true superstar player in quite awhile. We EXPECT our players to turn into top 5 scorers because we are the Montreal Canadiens. Doesn't work that way. All teams hit a slump. We hit ours at the end, and mostly cause guys had already given everything they had. I think we had a great season. The worst part is that it is over until September... But we are looking bright. We just have to realise that we, as fans, cannot beat the dawn. Always remember: "I don't own the Sun. I don't own the Moon. They only come out when they want to... They don't care whether I promised you."
  • Comment on Bergevin finalist for NHL's GM of the Year Award; Subban joins Team Canada
    Which Habs are you a fan of then??? Seems like you hate them all...
  • Comment on About this season ... and next season ... and the one after that ...
    Unfortunately it isn't complicated. Yes we could use more size. Especially when our guys get hurt. But we lost this series as soon as Eller went down, and Price wasn't saving us. Injuries put a hole in this team that had played to its potential all season. Markov hadn't played very much in 2 years, then all of a sudden he was playing 3-4 games a week and was fairly responsible for our great play. Of course its going to take its toll. Ryder had a great few months when he came to town. After that he went cold. Thats how he is. MaxPac playing injured. Losing our heavy hitting D, Emelin. Bad calls by the refs.... It happens to everyone. It happened to us at the worst time. I counted 3 posts last night. everything went wrong. That's what happens when half your players are out, and playing the tail end of a ridiculous season. Some teams benefit from the chaos, some don't. The East was tight this year, and the Senators were a good team. They lost their superstar, and got him back in enough time to play us. He averaged almost half the game in ice time, and had 6 points in 5 games. He leads all D along with Letang. With a healthy Karlsson all season. They would not have been 7th. anyways, while their team was on the up. We were going down. Unlucky in the end, maybe we shouldve gone another round. But in the end with players like Chucky, Gally, Max, Pk, Prust, Tinordi, Bourque, Eller, Markov, Emelin.... We gotta be happy with our season in the end. Again given the moves we made, and our opportunities in the off season to continue in MB's big plan. gotta be excited for next season. This one barely happened anyways, and it was alayws going to be an asterisk season... My mind says I'm happy with our team and its general direction... Happy with most of the season. I just have to give my heart and stomach time to catch up.
  • Comment on Liveblog: Game 5 – Senators end Canadiens season
    One of the good things this team has shown this season is that it doesn't NEED any particular players to win... That being said that's also why we seem to be in this 3-1 hole. BUT WE CAN BEAT THE SENS WITH WHAT WE HAVE. Ryder, Max, DD, Bourque, Markov, PK and Pleks have to be playing great and producing. D has to be tight, and disciplined. We can do it. But it is uphill. I just hope we win tonight, take it one game at a time.
  • Comment on 'When he heard the news, our captain was crying in my arms', Therrien says
    Completely disagree. I think the crazy jammed season is what helped do us in. Guys like Markov (who hasn't played a full season in a long time)are having a tough time right now. Injuries caught up with us, and again I think the 3 to 4 games a week norm have been the catalyst. 82 game season we would have 30 games to get back on track and healthy. timing is everything. our future looks great.