JohnBellyful - (JC)

Member since September 25, 2010

Habs fan since: 1960
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All-time favorite player: Jean Beliveau

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-- "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants." --

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• Comment on Avalanche names Roy as new head coach
  The NHL is trying to keep it hush-hush but apparently one fan grew so irate over the terrible officiating in a recent playoff match he confronted the referee after the game The league is so concerned it's arranged for special security to escort officials to their hotel rooms.
• Comment on Avalanche names Roy as new head coach
  Three chairs? That doesn't sound so bad. Imagine trying to play for Herb Brooks and his 12 chairs. Players were either scorers, checkers, heavy hitters, playmakers, ice-the-puckers, deflecters, good in the room, good on the bench, fast skaters, penalty killers, power play specialists or shot blockers. Anything else and you were off the squad. It did cause a lot of tension on the team. ( ... I think it was Herb Brooks)
• Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft
  A constant refrain on these pages is the need for Montreal to toughen up, to insert some steel into its lineup so that other teams will think twice, and then decide not to engage in any rough stuff with the Canadiens. The question becomes, where will the Canadiens find the enforcers so many believe they need. Many suggestions have been made. Here’s some more, a list I’ve compiled from my many sources in the semi-pro, industrial and prison hockey leagues (I’ve included only those players due to be released by training camp): Patrick Bordeauline – Tough leftwinger with a reputation for being inconsistent (scoring, backchecking, mental stability). Averages five shifts, two fights a game (three if include warmup). How tough? Sharpens skates on his chin. Zenon Konniption – Rugged centre whose special talent is winning faceoffs. Known for tossing linesmen out of the circle. Willing to drop the gloves at the slightest provocation (the most notorious incident being the time he went after a rival player he saw yawning during the national anthem). How tough? Doesn’t wear a jockstrap. Abe Shipp – Right defenceman who specializes in clearing creases; his own goaltender requires a permission slip before each game. Quick to anger, he loses all control once a fight starts, as 13 one-eared opponents will attest. How tough? Won a ice cream cone-eating contest with a record 27 in 45 seconds. Double scoops. Perry Noyde – Rightwinger accused of playing with an edge (a straight edge, to be exact). Favourite play is to ice the puck, or, as he likes to say, “ice the defenceman.” How tough? Chews nails and spits out spikes. Percy Aloysius Montague – Choirboy centre who’s sent many an opponent to the Promised Land Infirmary. Only one rival ever made a joke about his name. One. Cagey fighter with a lethal one-two combination: right jab, left hook (usually sharpened). How tough? Deflects shots with his head. Removes helmet first.
• Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft
  He's also listed as six-foot and weighing 180 lbs.
• Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft
  For your reading pleasure, vis-a-vis Canadian politics (but nothing to do with the Senate), I would highly recommend The Best Laid Plans and its sequel, The High Road, by Terry Fallis. Excellent, excellent (that being excellent for the first book, and a ditto for the second).
• Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft
  Hey, don't blame the delivery boy. I told Milt he should wait a couple of days before getting back into the swing of things. That's when he took a swing.
• Comment on Rimouski defenceman Morin could be a good fit for Habs at draft
  VANCOUVER – In a bizarre move that stunned, then delighted, then stunned fans of the Vancouver Canucks, the team’s president, Mike Gillis, announced today he had fired GM Mike Gillis. “He didn’t get the job done, pure and simple,” president Gillis told a news conference that got more hostile the longer it went, with both sides accusing the other of incompetence. “He’s full of malarkey,” GM Gillis said. “I was handcuffed from the start with that outrageous contract the team had with Luongo.” “He's the one who signed it!!! And then when it proved an albatross, he promised he would be able to work something out,” president Gillis said. “I was also told I’d have five years to rebuild the team,” GM Gillis said. “Check the calendar, you idiot, your five years was up in April,” president Gillis said. “Check your pulse, you buffoon, you could have shown a lot more interest in the team and a lot more spirit as soon as you started seeing the club decline under your watch,” GM Gillis said. The news conference ended abruptly when president Gillis, showing some unexpected spirit, got into a wrestling match with GM Gillis. As the ‘two’ executives fell to the floor in a tight grip, reporters said it was the best one-on-one exchange they’ve ever had with the Canucks’ president and GM.