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rhino514 - (jason dobson)

Member since December 4, 2010

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Habs fan since: 1978
Favorite current player: Saku Koivu
All-time favorite player: Guy Lafleur

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  • Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
    If it´s starting to look like january or maybe much more for Emelin, I do think it changes off season priorities a bit. The thing is, are there any good, big defensemen out there who are available and don´t want term? Probably not I think this increases the chances of a trade involving Diaz. I hope they would get something good back, as he´s good.
  • Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
    Wizniewski....forgot about him. I´d be very curious to know what kind of offensive stats he´d have playing for the Canadiens. I suspect they´d be quite a bit higher than with Columbus. It´s disheartening that we didn´t sign him but then ended up with Kaberle and Campoli for about the same salary. It´s encouraging on the other hand that it is possible to attract quality players here if one is ready to pay the price. I liked the Wiz but i wonder if even at 208 lbs he is big enough for the huge number of posters here who salivate about size. Was he ok in his own end?
  • Comment on Habs GM Bergevin "100 per cent" behind Carey Price
    It´s an intriguing list. If the habs don´t add a winger, Kristo will essentially be given the top nine position if he gets off to a good start (unless LL has a great comeback year). So i´m curious to see what happens. If the habs, however, feel they need size and get s.one via trade or free agency, then it will set these kids back big-time. I´d personally try and unload DD, move Chucky to centre, get a bigger winger, and this way they still have a spot open for one of the prospects. But I don´t think that will happen. For the longer term, I´m pulling for Dietz.
  • Comment on GM Bergevin to hold press conference on Monday
    Seeing some of the comments, I ask you all again: Do you really think Price is just an average goalie? Everyone loves Tinordi because he´s tall (not even that big yet), but are you all confident he will be a good full-time D by next season? And who thinks Tinordi will be as valuable (though a different kind of D) as McDonaugh? Are you guys sure Markov should either be gone or if kept left strictly on the bottom pairing five on five?
  • Comment on About this season ... and next season ... and the one after that ...
    I have come to believe that most Canadiens fans have an inferiority complex. This team was/is damn good. I ask all of you to look at the first game bombardment of the sens, of the second and fourth game performances with a depleted team. How many times this season did we see the team play as well or better than the very top teams in the conference? We SHOULD feel terrible in the aftermath of what has happened. Because we lost due to bad breaks, bad calls, and injuries pure and simple. If we meet the leafs in the first round we demolish them, and I bet we get past the second round as well. Feel good about the future all you want, but don´t fool yourselves into thinking this team wasn´t good enough to go deep into the playoffs anyway, no big deal, it was a nice turn around season. Be mad. We SHOULD have had more games to savour (and the million $ benefit of more home games for the owner). We should have wanted to go down fighting with a healthy team, and we should have wanted to be beaten by a better team. Sure, next year´s team looks good, but just like we went from 15th to second this year....you never know. A lot of things have to go right for a team to be competitive. We now have to hope all of those things come together again next season. It´s not a given. This year was a great opportunity to do some serious damage in the playoffs. No way this team should have lost in the first round; it had talent, but more important, it had heart, and a good mix of guys with playoff experience who´ve been there.
  • Comment on About this season ... and next season ... and the one after that ...
    They are one of the top two teams in the conference when healthy, and we completely dominated them in game one, when we were healthy, as no team has dominated another in a heck of a long time. We also should have won the fourth game. If we stay healthy, we win the series. WE are an effing good team.
  • Comment on About this season ... and next season ... and the one after that ...
    Hey, Mr. Boone, if the team needs to get bigger, what do you think about the fact that the guys who got hurt are the big and gritty guys, with the exception of Gionta: Eller, Pax, Emelin, White, and Prust. The theory that small guys get pounded and decimated just doesn´t hold. The bigger guys actually get hurt more. So is adding more big guys really the answer? I do not like the DD signing, but that´s because we simply have three real good centres ahead of him, not necessarily because he´s small. If they can add a RW with some size, or unload DD and replace him with something of value, I don´t see any problem with the size of the forwards. The reasons the team lost are: 1) We didn´t face Toronto (it would have been a walk in the park; the team should have "taken it easy" during the last game of the season. This is what´s heartbreaking; we play TO and Eller and others are probably still around and we have a real good chance to go deep into the playofffs. 2) Anderson was other-worldy hot the first game, we completely dominated them. Nine times out of ten we win that kind of a game. 3) Injuries 4) terrible breaks in the pivotal fourth game, which we had in the bag and should have won. The one silver lining from all of this: We got to see what the team would be like without Price. Budaj is a capable, established, number two guy, yet didn´t last 5 minutes in overtime and got killed yesterday. So I think we can safely say now that Price is a decent goaltender. It´s the D, or the system, which was mostly at fault.