123456 - (mr. habitant)

Member since April 20, 2009

new york

Habs fan since: 1986
Favorite current player: Tie between Gionta and Price
All-time favorite player: Koivu, before then Matts Naslund

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• Comment on Habs sign Drewiske to two-year deal
  and they drive bmw's
• Comment on Habs sign Drewiske to two-year deal
  agreed - markov or kaberle will be bought out - most likely to later. at some point weber will be moved unless he I kept for more spare parts. through the season I am guessing most teams have about 8 dmen that play... a couple spare parts earning the min is not wasted space. $3 M plus on guys who get a dozen goals is wasted money... also too many similar players - Armstrong, white, moen. . . . habs have too many of these guys.
• Comment on Habs sign Drewiske to two-year deal
  since I just saw a few posts on goalies - some food for thought - the blackhawks have had a goalie turnstyle the past few seasons - huet, khabibulin , niemi, emery, Crawford maybe more idk.... I remember thinking a few years ago they had $11M tied up in goalies. not that I think the habs need to follow suit. . . the point here is that many goalies are hot and cold throughout their careers (see Thomas, Miller)
• Comment on Avalanche names Roy as new head coach
  i am not a dr. but i believe back then a lot of concussions were diagnosed as "you got your bell rung". your headache would go away in a day or two and you played again. but more impartantly when you did get hit you were not getting hit my a piece of hard plastic or metal. the "pads" of today are like weapons. i still use my elbow pads from HS and college and they do not have any plastic in them - just layers of foam. if i used my elbow to hit someone in the head my elbow would be hurt. now having said that i will add that the game is at least twice as fast as it used to be. watch highlights form even just 20 years ago... the game was much slower and the hits, while hard, were not as violent.
• Comment on Avalanche names Roy as new head coach
  thank you for your first comment - for years i have bene an adovacte of any head contact is penalized. why must you control your stick and not hit a guy in the head with it but you do not have to control your shoulder? thrower hit to me was not an attempt to injure - just an attempt to hit hard and he hit too high... couple games. i do havfe an issue with the ref watchign the play and NOT calling a penalty immediately torts must be the best coach ever - he sits a superstar and his teams wins. i nominate him for coacd of the decade. i am not up on this stuff as must as some of you - but coach and VP operations while never coaching in the NHL.... seems odd
• Comment on Canadiens sign two Swedish draft picks; Emelin has surgery
  thoughts on the sabres signing john scott - we all want the habs to get better...but how about a guy who will play 50%-75% of games and not score a goal??
• Comment on No medals for Team Canada or Subban at world championship
  but you were feeling something some in rochester, ny felt it - i did not