The Montreal Canadiens Thread

even flow?

Rygar wrote:

Haha, that's my favorite. Only the Leafs would celebrate 40 years without a cup :P

They rolled out most of the 1967 squad a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday night. And I must say that if that were any other building in the NHL which is supposed to be filled with hockey fans, they would have given those boys a hell of a lot longer ovation then they got that night. Made me kind of sad in a way. My joke is the Laughs last one the cup when I was born and I will be on my death bed before they win another one. So long ago the pics of them with the cup are in b/w. I have my little 1967 banner in the basement to remind me of how futile they have been in the last forty years.

Rygar

Big, big win last night. 2 points between 11th and 7th, nasty.
The 5th goal was a beaut, too.
Nolan said DiPietro was looking good when he got back from the hospital, though, so some good news for the Isles.

And more Sergei Samsonov shitstorm. Before or after the game against St. Louis he said he regrets signing here, and before last night's game he said he regrets saying he regrets signing here. There is one frustrated hockey player.

NY PJ1

it seems alot of people care about the habs on here

considering the amount of feedback u get

Rygar

They're around here somewhere.

thankyougrandma

Nice article in La Presse today about the Habs youth.

Carey Price (G)
Halak (G)
Emelin (D)
O'Byrne (D)
David Fischer (D)
Andrei Kostitsyn (F)
Sergei Kostitsyn (F)
Guillaume Latendresse (F)
Kyle Chipchura (F)
D'Agostini (F)
Lapierre (F)
Maxwell (F)
Ryan White ( F)
Grabovski (F)


Plus Higgins, Komisarek, Ryder, Perezhogin and Plekanec are not old and are not rookie anymore.

Future look bright for the Habs.

Present is a bit less stellar though, and the Habs need a win against Boston tonight.

Rygar

And another win on Thursday against the Bruins.

Kostisyn had a nice game on Saturday. I was cursing at the TV when I saw him in the shootout ("Why the **** did they put him in there!?!?!") then he scored, nicely, I might add...good thing no one was around to hear me cursing.

Good to see Kovalev back in the line up - the vertigo scare, short as it was, was not cool.

NY PJ1

Rygar wrote:

And another win on Thursday against the Bruins.

Kostisyn had a nice game on Saturday. I was cursing at the TV when I saw him in the shootout ("Why the **** did they put him in there!?!?!") then he scored, nicely, I might add...good thing no one was around to hear me cursing.

Good to see Kovalev back in the line up - the vertigo scare, short as it was, was not cool.

the announcers were talking about the pressure on kostisyn

they didn't finish the sentence b4 the puck was in

Rygar

It was a nice goal.
I seem to be more skeptical about the younger players in the Habs' pool than my fellow fans, but he played a good game on Saturday. If there is one team I f#@$% hate losing against, it's the Laffs.
edit - on the note of younger players, Halak played a spectacular game.

Rygar

Montreal can get 2 points tonight, and I expect Carolina to grab 2 as well.
Toronto's next two games are against Buffalo, which you'd think they'd lose, but I can't get those Leafs to piss off.
Islanders are up against Pittsburgh tonight, so they should have a rough go of things.





From TSN:
Habs and Bruins renew rivalry in Boston
Sports Network) - The Montreal Canadiens have improved their play recently and hope to continue that trend tonight on the NHL on TSN, when they visit the Boston Bruins at TD Banknorth Garden for the finale of a home-and-home series.

The game can be seen live on TSN and TSNHD at 7:30pm et/4:30pm pt.

Earlier this month, the Canadiens were mired in a four-game losing streak, but the club has won four of its last five contests since then.

However, the Habs are still fighting for their playoff lives and come into tonight's action tied with Toronto and Carolina for the eighth and final postseason spot in the East. The Hurricanes will also be in action tonight, as they host the Washington Capitals.
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The opener of this home-and-home set was on Tuesday evening at Montreal's Bell Centre, where the Canadiens skated away with a close triumph. Guillaume Latendresse scored the lone goal of the contest and Jaroslav Halak notched his first career shutout as the Canadiens edged the Bruins, 1-0.

Halak stopped 30 shots, including 14 in a busy third period for Montreal, which has won back-to-back games.

Tim Thomas finished with 31 saves for Boston, which has lost five of its last seven.

The Bruins were once in the heat of the playoff race, but have now fallen into 13th place in the East with 73 points. They are just seven points behind the trio holding the final postseason berth in the conference, but would have to also get past Florida and the New York Islanders before breaking into the top eight spots.

This evening's contest is the first of two straight at home for the Bruins, who are 18-15-3 as the host this year but have dropped four of their last six in Beantown. However, Montreal is just 15-19-3 as the away club and has been defeated in six of its last seven road tests.

The season series between these two Original Six franchises is tied at three wins apiece, but the Canadiens have take eight of its last 11 matchups with Boston.

Bathgate66

is TSN the same as Versus ?

we get stuck watching this one on Versus, which is just horrible.

the worst camera work in hockey, since the fox glowpuck.

Rygar

Bathgate66 wrote:

is TSN the same as Versus ?

we get stuck watching this one on Versus, which is just horrible.

the worst camera work in hockey, since the fox glowpuck.

I've never heard of Versus (other than your posts), but TSN is usually half-decent to watch. No glowing pucks, decent announcers and good coverage. CBC is the best hockey coverage we get in Canada, but unless your a Leafs fan it's usually not worth watching

Rygar

As much as I dislike bumping my own thread (yeah right!)...
Too bad those tarts in Pittsburgh couldn't help us out, lazy buggers. Carolina beat one o' the worst teams in the league, but it'd have been laughable if they had lost. TO has a rough back to back Fri-Sat against Buffalo. C'mon boys, keep the wins coming.



Canadiens rally to beat Bruins
The Montreal Canadiens staged a determined comeback Thursday night to keep pace in the playoff race.


CBC Sports
Chris Higgins had one goal and three assists as the visiting Canadiens scored five unanswered goals in a 6-3 victory over the Bruins before a stunned crowd of 17,026 at TD Banknorth Garden.

Tomas Plekanec contributed one goal and two assists, followed by Andrei Markov with a goal and an assist.

Trailing 3-1, Plekanec snuck behind Boston's defence and potted his own rebound to spark a remarkable rally by the Canadiens, who had for four goals in seven minutes early in the third period.

Michael Ryder's power-play goal with 6:23 remaining made it five consecutive goals for the Canadiens (38-31-6).

Montreal has won five of its last six games to move into a tie with Carolina for the eighth and final playoff spot in the NHL Eastern Conference.

The Hurricanes clipped the Washington Capitals 4-3. Mike Johnson and rookie Maxim Lapierre also scored in support of rookie netminder Jaroslav Halak, who finished with 32 saves.

Saku Koivu provided two assists.

Phil Kessel led the Bruins (34-34-5) with a goal and an assist, while Marco Sturm and Mark Mowers had the other goals.

Tim Thomas gave up six goals on 30 shots as Boston lost for the sixth time in its last eight games.

OffHeGoes29

Things haven't been the same since Roy left. They still how ever beat the Bruins in the Playoffs.....

Rygar

Kovalev scores twice as Canadiens beat Rangers 6-4, chase Lundqvist

Canadiens win fifth straight
By BILL BEACON

Montreal Canadiens Alex Kovalev celerates his goal against the New York Rangers in Montreal on Tuesday, March 27, 2007. (CP PHOTO/Ian Barrett)
MONTREAL (CP) - Oft-criticized Alex Kovalev is earning rave reviews when the Montreal Canadiens need him most.

Kovalev scored two goals for a second straight game as the Canadiens got five in the second period to chase Henrik Lunqvist and defeat the New York Rangers 6-4 on Tuesday night. The fifth straight win by the Canadiens (40-31-6) ended the Rangers' five-game winning run.

It moved Montreal into a tie with seventh-place Tampa Bay with 86 points, one point behind the sixth-place Rangers. The Lighting have one more win than Montreal.

Kovalev, who also potted two in a 4-1 win over Washington on Saturday night, accomplished little through the first 70 games of the season, other than missing time with vertigo after a controversy over some alleged criticism of the team in a Russian magazine, which he denied.

He has only 18 goals for the season, but the big winger has been playing with an edge during the playoff drive - going to the net and taking punishment to score goals.


"Alex said it - he likes playing at this time of the year," said coach Guy Carbonneau. "It's his time.

"He's playing hard and he's saying the right things. He's showing he wants to make it to the playoffs and he's helping us do that."

Kovalev did not speak to the media because he was having treatment for a bad gash over an eye, which came from Matt Cullen's stick while he was scoring Montreal's first goal.

Steve Begin, Michael Ryder and Tomas Plekanec, with his 20th of the season, also scored in the second period and Mark Streit got one in the third for Montreal, which has won seven of its last eight games.

Michael Nylander and Paul Mara scored in the first frame and Thomas Pock and Cullen had goals in the third for New York (39-29-9), which suffered only its fifth regulation time loss in 23 matches.

Lundqvist, the first star in the NHL last week, went into the game with a .979 save percentage in his last five starts, but allowed four goals on only seven shots in the opening 9:47 of the middle period before he was pulled in favour of Steve Valiquette, who is filling in for injured back-up Kevin Weekes.

"You don't like to give up four goals in 10 minutes but it will happen," said Lundqvist, pulled for the first time in 23 games since a 5-1 loss to Ottawa on Jan. 11. "We played a good first period but they were all over us in the second.

"There were a lot of broken plays. They found loose pucks and pounded them in."

Kovalev got it started for Montreal when he slammed a shot from in front of the crease on a power play at 2:17.

Begin elected to shoot on a 2-on-1 only 32 seconds later and beat Lundqvist between the pads. Ryder scored on his own rebound at 4:36 and Plekanec finished a rush with Andrei Kostitsyn at 9:47 to end Lundqvist's night.


Kovalev was battling in front on a power play at 14:09 when Saku Koivu's pass went off a skate and off the big Russian for Montreal's fifth goal, tying a season high for goals in a period established in October against Colorado.

The Rangers came back with two goals in the third when Thomas Pock's floater from the point went in off Montreal centre Maxim Lapierre at 6:23 and Marek Malik's point shot deflected off Cullen at 7:38.

But Streit cooled the comeback when his change-up from the slot went in off Valiquette's stick at 13:03. Koivu got his fourth assist of the game on the goal.

"We came out flat in the first period, waiting for things to happen," said Koivu. "But we got back at it in the second.

"We wanted to come back, but five goals?" added Higgins. "We were pretty surprised.

"We were just trying to tie it, but we'll take it. It doesn't change much because the other teams are still around us and we're really not in any better shape, but it was a big win."

The two teams meet again on April 5 in New York in the next-to-last game of the season for both clubs.

"Sooner or later we knew we'd lose a game, but now the question is how we'll react," said Rangers star Jaromir Jagr. "We didn't play a bad game, we just had a bad 10 minutes.

"In the first period, they played like they were afraid to lose, and in the second they had nothing to lose. It was so quick. Five goals. And at home, the crowd got behind them and they just kept coming."

The noise was at playoff level among the 21,273 spectators as the two teams came out hitting, but Montreal took three straight minor penalties and it cost them.

On a two-man advantage, Nylander shot the rebound of Brandan Shanahan's point shot into an open side at 11:55.

With 45 seconds left in the period, Sean Avery hit a goalpost and the puck went to Mara at the point for a wrist shot that went in through a crowd in front of Jaroslav Halak.

The Rangers end a four-game road trip Saturday in Philadelphia. Montreal plays Friday night in Ottawa and Saturday night at home against Buffalo.

Notes - Brad Isbister was scratched for the Rangers. Karel Rachunek, Fedor Tyutin and Marcel Hossa are all out with sprained MCLs. Weekes is day-to-day with a quariceps injury. . . Montreal scratched Sergei Samsonov, Josh Gorges and Garth Murray. Alexander Perezhogin (concussion) and Cristobal Huet (hamstring) are sidelined.

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Games/2007/03/27/3852137-cp.html

NY PJ1

LETS' GO RANGER'S


please keep ur habs crap here

Rygar

My Habs 'crap' is gonna go in your Rag thread as every situation permits.

NY PJ1

Rygar wrote:

My Habs 'crap' is gonna go in your Rag thread as every situation permits.

ah yes i forget,,NO ONE CARES here lol

Rygar

Well you keep coming back, so way to go!

NY PJ1

Rygar wrote:

Well you keep coming back, so way to go!

i feel bad ,, but now i will let this fall down to page 30 lol

until the next game comes and u post

Rygar

Your just sour that you got an ass kickin' last night. Suck it up, buttercup.