JF - (Jane Findlay)

Member since November 10, 2007

Montreal

Habs fan since: 1961
Favorite current player: Tomas Plekanec, Josh Gorges
All-time favorite player: Jean Béliveau

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• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  We also managed to shut down their stars - Ovechkin for the Caps, Crosby and Malkin for the Pens - after the first couple of games of each series. You're right about Philly hammering us physically. Any team that does that and keeps us to the outside is probably going to win. It's what the Senators did; and, coupled with Anderson's performance, is the main reason they beat us (plus, of course, the freebies they got from the officials).
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  I had planned to cheer for the Senators because I can't stand the way the Penguins were built - sitting at the bottom for about five years and drafting one top pick after another. But when it came down to it, I couldn't cheer for the Sens. Too much went on in that series - the hit on Eller, Maclean's remarks, the dirty hits and cheap shots the Senators got away with, the freebies they were given by the referees. So I'm looking forward to watching the Pens destroy them. But it's becoming more and more likely that I'll have to watch my two most hated teams, the Bruins and Penguins, in the Eastern final. Go Blackhawks!
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  He has something to say, but I actually find that he's a terrible writer. His sentences are clumsy and often ungrammatical.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  I agree, Steve. We had injuries to key players, and all the dubious calls went against us, but the Senators were the better team. They led us in every category - goaltending, powerplay, penalty kill, even-strength scoring. A bit unrealistic to say we were the better team in that situation.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Agreed. I don't understand how Therrien gets passed over while Boudreau gets nominated. Therrien did an outstanding job with only moderate talent. The Habs' late-season slide coincided with the injury to Emelin and with Price mysteriously losing his game.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  If Bruce Boudreau is nominated, I don't understand why Therrien isn't. The Ducks and Canadiens both finished near the bottom of the League last year, and both rose to finish second in their Conference this year. Both teams also lost in the first round of the playoffs. Almost identical trajectories; yet one coach is considered worthy of a nomination, the other not.
• Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
  I don't think the regular season was a mirage, but it was very different from most seasons in that it was only 48 games, a sprint rather than a marathon. The Habs were a model of consistency for the first three months, but the problems we ran into in April suggests this wouldn't have been the case over 82 games. There would have been slumps, losing streaks, and injuries that hurt us. In fact, we hit that type of adversity just before the playoffs began. The injury to Emelin was catastrophic, the injury to Eller scarcely less so. Then Price mysteriously lost his game altogether. The other factor is that playoff hockey is different from regular season hockey. The games are tighter, more physical, more grinding. Goals are generally harder to come by, the result not so much of pretty passing plays as of crashing and banging in front of the net. The only Habs who even tried to do that were Gallagher and Bourque.