krob1000

Member since November 12, 2007

Kingston

Habs fan since: Conception
Favorite current player: Saku Koivu
All-time favorite player: Lafleur/Naslund

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• Comment on Senators become Canada's only hope for Stanley Cup
  My offseason wish list is the same as everyone elses...Clarkson ...but I would target Regehr. I would also get a fighter but he would be a special occasion guy....fiorst game vs OTtawa, games against Bruins, etc. The following year I may target another player of that mindset and I think you are ready to go. Regehr is the type of guy the Habs could use and Clarkson is the type of guy everyone can use.
• Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
  is there an official release of nygren signing or any confirmation anywhere
• Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
  and more coming...july 1 is just around the corner....Gomer advancing may actually be hindering the Sharks free agency recruitment plans. Don't be surprised to see "upper body injury" and then a photo of Gomez at dinner with David Clarkson doing what gomez does.
• Comment on About this season ... and next season ... and the one after that ...
  The interesting coincidence with your "bad surprises" is r of the 5 just singed extensions...all longer than we thought they would sign and the other is Markov who is understandably where he is...he is a grizzled vet who had hardly played in 3 years. He still has big value but his 25 minute days are likely behind him.
• Comment on About last night ...
  The technology is there...why can all major sports not use it better? How that goal was allowed to count is beyond me. REferees, umpires and other forces are impacting too amny outcomes. I see too many hockey games swayed by discretionary calls or non calls, different rules for playoffs vs season, different rules on a given night vs the next, calls made even by the vidoe judges that defy logic...this is not exclusive to hockey...they are still people. Hockey and football in recent years have been marred by horrfiic calls, the NBA is horrible...some guys never get a foul call and others are allowed 3 or 4steps and get a million calls, some pitchers have expanded strike zone.....one strike changes an entire at bat, which affects an inning which affects a game. It is not the only factor but can be a big factor. Do I think PEel and Lee are intentionally out to get the hAbs? no....not intentionally...but do I think they subconsciuosly dislike the Habs as the fans have given it to them for years and there has always been displeasure...sure do.....they are human. IF anyone thinks that because you put a striped shirt on a person means they are instantly a robot with no human factors entering their decision making process I cannot agree. There is no way...and I mean no way that goal would have counted if MOntreal had scored it. THe suspension system has been shown to repeatedly go back and forth depending on who a player is and what team he plays for or his marketability,etc. I doubt Gryba would have been suspended if he were Ovechkin. I mknow this rant is ill timed and comes off as a whiner baby rant...it is just that...but I have had enough. I have watched several Jays games this year where they fall behind in at bats becuase of calls that are not strikes...then I see the pitch locator graphic show the same pitch made by another pitcher and it is a ball. It is almost to the point where they should just count swigs instead of called strikes...and penalties in hockey are the same thing. That DD penalty early was a penalty....BUT...there were at least 3 OTtawa infractions before that...if any referee in the entire world can review last nights game and find only one infraction against the Senators he should lose his ability to referee. Why was the whistle put away? Could it have had something to do with the game before? headlines will read nice, great comeback in low penalty hockey game...what a great counter to the ugliness of the last one. This is a useless rant but I am more fired up today than I was watching the game.....I was with 3 Sens fans who all thougt it was no goal. Montreal is not the only team that is affected by this type of stuff...all teams are ...the refereeing is atrocious...I realize it is the best we have under the current system..maybe the system needs the updating. An aerial referree...a mandatory tv timeout when a goal is being reviewd (they generate revenue and give time for correct decision to be made and they could reference past cases to at least have some consistency?)
• Comment on About last night ...
  The NHL cannot fix results...the players still play...but the playing field can definitely be tilted and in a league with so much parity the smallest of details may or may not change the outcome. Last night..it did though. I knew the game was in trouble when 3 or 4 infractions went uncalled and then tehy called DD ofr his hook...it was a penalty...but not after what they had let go already. There is now way that game can be reviewed objectively and a referred could call one penalty against OTtawa and 3 against MOntreal. They should just call any goal a goal off of feet intead of pretending there is a rule.....we have seen too many other goals disallowed for far less. Just let the goals count and eliminate the discretion. Discretion is the issue...the people making the decisions are all people too.....and people consciously or subconsciously are bias by nature. I don't think Peel and LEe are on the take...I think they know they are loathed in Montreal and therefore I beleive have a bias built in whether they try to or not. It is the only explanation....the league has sseveral referres I don't even know by nam,e yet almost without gfail these two keep coming back to haunt Montreal...and have for years.
• Comment on About last night ...
  Because I love the game....I don't like how the rules are enforced but I love the game...always have and always will. Same goes for other sports that drive me ewqually as nuts...why umpires are used in baseball at all boggles my mind. There is no need in that sport for umpires at all and they affect so many games with the imaginary strike zone. IF hockey wants to go with 2 referees get one of the ice and give him an aerial view and a microphone.