This team might just be ok after all…
You know what? I really like this team!
Brian Gionta is better than Alex Kovalev.
Scott Gomez is better than Saku Koivu.
Mike Cammalleri is better than Alex Tanguay.
Hal Gill is better than Patrice Brisebois.
Paul Mara is better than Francis Bouillon.
And this Canadiens team is better than last year’s Canadiens team.
Don’t get me wrong, I love all the former players mentioned above (not you Chris Higgins!), but that’s just my opinion, and I know lots, so trust me.
In a league where, on any given night, any team can beat any team, your Habs did just enough to come out with a victory.
The powerplay seems to be clicking, and the team has a system and an identity, something which was severely lacking last year.
This team battles and wins hockey games, and the coach has managed to turn players who barely played with each other into one team.
This group of guys is still gona have tough nights, but you can bet that they won’t pack it in like last year’s team did so many times.
So for now, let’s ride this winning streak into Pittsburgh to face the birds. Fucken polar birds.
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Hal Gill is totally useless, I thought he retired after last year, and after watching him play a half dozen games year, I see he has !!
totally uselless, just filling a spot
Hamrlik is just as useless. both he and Gill caused goals against last night, get rid dof them just the way they did loafalev and uselss larock–aka rockhead
who thinks he’s reincarnated lafleur
I imagine these people complaining about the Canadien players to be great big lazy fat people who sit in front of the TV and eat and complain. Life is for the living, so go die!
Five enlightened choices = cup
If I was the Habs GM since 2003… the team would be the favourites to win the Stanley Cup this year…
By drafting properly in the first round between 2003 and 2007, the Habs would be alarmingly better than the reality we see today… if the Habs would have made just five different 1st round selections …
So, instead of Andrei Kostitsyn in 2003, they could have had Zach Parise; instead of Kyle Chipchura in 2004 they could have had Mike Green; instead of Carey Price in 2005 they should have drafted Anze Kopitar, instead of David Fisher (this one really hurts), they could have had Claude Giroux in 2006, and they made two selections, Ryan McDonagh and Max Pacioretty, which they could have used to take David Perron in 2007.
By drafting more wisely, they wouldn’t have had to trade for Scott Gomez’s gigantic longterm contract that eats up valuable cap space, wouldn’t have had to waste their time signing (over paid and over the hill) Jaroslav Spacek, … and they wouldn’t have had to give away Jaroslav Halak in a fire-sale trade this past summer. You can try and argue that Gionta or Cammalleri wouldn’t have signed last year without Gomez in tow, but that would be stupid… in my ‘what if’ lineup, we would have three centres that would guarantee playoff dominance …
Centre Left Wing Right Wing
Anze Kopitar Michael Cammalleri Brian Gionta
Zach Parise David Perron Claude Giroux
Thomas Plekanec Benoit Pouliot Maxim Lapierre
Jeff Halpern Travis Moen Mathieu Darche
Dustin Boyd
Defence
Andrei Markov, Mike Green,
PK. Subban, Roman Hamrlik
Josh Gorges, Hall Gill
Ryan O’Byrne, Alexandre Picard
Goalies
Jaroslav Halak
Alex Auld