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Habs back in the playoffs
by Manwhore
It is now official; the habs will be part of the spring dance. They will have a shot at the Stanley cup like 15 other teams who will qualify for the tournament. Back in September, most of the experts predicted that the Montreal Canadiens would be deep down in the eastern conference standings. I believe these so-called experts didn’t really analyze the team and do their job properly. Since the Habs didn’t sign any big names over the summer and other eastern teams did so, the journalists simply put the Canadiens behind the Leafs, Islanders, Buffalo and so on. Here is a top 3 reasons why the Canadiens have fooled the sceptics.
Kovalev(2006-2007) vs Kovalev(2007-2008)
It is no secret that Alex Kovalev had one of his worst seasons ever last year. He just didn’t seem motivated, and did not look like he wanted to play for Guy Carbonneau. I think Guy realized that if he wanted his team to do well, he needed to let his star player play a much bigger role in the team. This is why for a good part of the season, we saw Kovy playing on the PK. I don’t care if the guy isn’t blocking shots; he still creates good scoring chances with Plekanec when they’re on the ice to kill penalties. We can clearly see that Kovalev absolutely loves to play with young players. He can teach them some new things about life and their energy seems to give him more fuel in the tank. It is not only his offensive play that has dramatically improved this season but the defensive side of his game is at its best. Last year, he finished the season with a -19 and this season he is a +17. This has nothing to do with his PP points since the power play goals and shorthanded goals let in aren’t accounted for in the +/- stats. It means that at 5-5 or 4-4 he has a +36 differential compare to last season. This to me, really proves that Kovy is on a mission this season and is the no.1 reason why the Habs have a good shot at the
Eastern conference.Aebischer vs Price
Personally, I was never a big fan of Christobal Huet, this is why I believe the second goaltender for the habs played a huge role in the success of the team over the past two seasons. Last year, whe Huet got hurt, we were looking for Aebischer to step in and really take care of business. Instead, he lost 6 of his 9 games played after Huet got hurt, which forced coach Carbonneau to use Halak, which by the way did a great job, for the rest of the season. Aebischer who was supposed to fight for the pole in October finished with a less than respectable 13-12-3 record and now has no more jobs in the NHL. Now, let’s talk about the magnificent Carey Price; the next one as I like to call him. He has been nothing short of excellent since the Habs management team has decided to give him the no.1 spot. He played a big role 7-2-1 record of the team in their last 10 to confirm their spot in the postseason. He is part of one of the best tandem in the NHL with his good buddy Jaroslav Halak. His record of 20-12-3 is much better than what everybody even him expected (his goal was 15 wins) and will play a major role in our playoff run this year. Let’s not put too much pressure on him though, the team’s objective was to make the playoffs, now extra round is a bonus for us.
Virus vs no virus
I know, I know, it sounds like a very bad excuse. It sounds like the good old: “my dad ate my homework”, but stills when a professional team all get sick at the same time for about a month, it is absolutely impossible to deliver the goods. Last January was the beginning of the end for us and it all got started by that virus. These guys are travelling most of the time and rarely get a chance to rest. They are in great physical shape which keeps them going and going but when you’re sick, there’s nothing you can do about it. Even Roger Federer, perhaps the best athlete in the world couldn’t win any tennis tournaments while he had mononucleosis. In average, a month in the NHL is about 15 games, let’s imagine the same situation would have happened this year and we would have lost 10 or 11 of these fifteen games, we would be nowhere near the top of the East.
Your comments are always appreciated…let me know why you think the Habs are in this season
Manwhore
Darcy Tucker big hit
by JT UTAH
I really hate Darcy Tucker, but I have to say he gave a big hit on a Philadelphia player.
Fuck the Leafs anyway.
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Like father like son
by Manwhore
Patrick Roy found another way to be in the news this week, but this time, he sent his son to do the job for him. As you probably all know, Jonathan Roy savagely attacked the Sags’ goaltender last Friday after his dad clearly indicated to do so. Even if he claims he never did so, it seems obvious from the video tape of the game that daddy sent his little boy fighting for him.
In deed, Jonathan did a 180 on himself, seconds after we can clearly see his dad pointing at the other end of the ice (probably Bobby Nadeau the sags’ goalie), and tried to get rid of the referee who was holding him. After a couple of tries, the linesman let him go thinking that he had time to cool off and think about his action but Jonathan just went straight for Nadeau as soon as he was free and started to beat down on a player who definitely didn’t want any part of it. Patrick pretended that the other goalie skated to the blue line to then retreat in his net, but it seems obvious that he never wanted to fight and never even got close to the blue line. It is simply unacceptable to attack a player who isn’t fighting back and it could have been very dangerous because Roy didn’t stop when the other goalie went down but instead continued to punch him in the face and even in the ribs once Nadeau was down. Jonathan was probably inspired from one of many videos of his dad fighting in the NHL but he should have realized that once the other player is down and not responding to your attacks, no matter how mad you are, it is time to stop.
I believe the linesmen and referees are also to blame in this event because instead of trying to stop Roy from assaulting Nadeau, they were blocking the Sags’ players who were desperately trying to defend their goaltender. Trust me, it could have been way worst and hopefully Nadeau didn’t sustain any injuries to the head during the event. Being a class act like his dad, the Remparts’ goalie decided to give the finger to the entire crowd once he was heading for the showers. At that moment, a Sags’ player decided it was enough and made his way to the goalie to give him a correction and to stop him from clowning around. Too bad he didn’t really have time to give him a good one right in the teeth; I would have loved to see that.
After the game, Jonathan Roy made it clear, he wasn’t sorry for what he did and he didn’t regret a thing. He seemed very honest and even if he had time to think about what he did, he didn’t seem to be apologetic at all. Today, a few hours before his sentence comes out, he decides to read a sorry letter in front of the Quebec press and pretends he his sorry for his act. You should have seen him during his press conference with his cocky look and his freaking ugly chain sticking out of his shirt. First of all, I am 99% sure he didn’t write that letter because I doubt he can write. He didn’t look sincere at all and we can just hope that the league will suspend him for at least 30-40 games for his disgracious behaviour last Friday.
Now, I am not trying to say that Roy is a bad father, but he is definitely a bad influence on the young players that he coaches because they look up to him and they would do anything he ask them to do. Roy should really consider giving his coaching job to someone else next season, because even if he really promotes the QMJHL, he does it in a very negative way and I believe Gilles Courteau should put his pants on and stop the madness now.
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Ovechkin house tour!
by JT UTAH
WOW! Ovechkin really needs a girlfriend to set up his house
Mike Tyson craziest moments!
by JT UTAH
Let’s remember the amazing career my Tyson had! Listen carefully to what he says
Filed under: JT UTAH | Tags: alain chantelois, chantal machabée, le baron, quiz des sexes, rds, sports 30
Chantal vs Le Baron ! (let’s go Chantal)
by JT UTAH
J’ai bien hâte de voir cette super confrontation entre Chantal Machabée et Alain Chantelois, le baron. Le Quiz des Sexes sera diffusé vendredi, 7 mars 2008 lors de l’émission Sports 30 sur RDS. L’émission débute à 18:00. Voici le lien, même s’il ne donne pas beaucoup plus d’informations que ceux mentionné ci-haut.
http://www.rds.ca/surnosondes/index.html?Commande=search&sport_id=EMISSION
Même si j’ai déjà “diss’ Chantal dans ma chronique Bounce ma Grosse, j’espère qu’elle va crisser une rince au Baron lors du questionnaire. Je trouve que le Baron est tellement, comment dire…. wack? C’est QUI lui anyway? En allant sur le site de RDS, je suis aller dans la section chroniqueur et collaborateur, et Alain Chantelois n’apparaissait pas sur la liste. Peut-être qu’il est sur le point d’être congédié…
http://www.rds.ca/chroniqueurs/
Je crois qu’Alain Chantelois devrait mettre sa ‘job” en jeux lors de sa confrontation face à Machabée. Un peu comme 50 Cent l’a fait face à Kanye West. lol
Go Chantal Go!
Enfin, le duo Yvon et Luc Gélinas lors du match face aux Coyotes était DÉGUEULASSE. J’ai vraiment été obligé de fermé le son de la télé tellement qu’ils étaient poche. Je me suis même ennuyé de Pierre, mais dison juste un peu.
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Dion Phaneuf of the Calgary Flames sure knows how to deliver some big hit. I wonder if Denis Hamel remembers that hit
Ayoye tabarnak, is what we say in Quebec.
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Huet et l’ironie du sort
by Eric Lapierre
Je ne vais pas revenir sur l’échange de mardi, car, malgré ma déception du moment, force est d’admettre que jusqu’à maintenant, Bob gagne son pari. Price n’a laissé que 3 buts en 2 parties, et il est en pleine possession de ses moyens. Il est calme et posé devant son filet. Il fait les arrêts clé, et n’a pas laissé de buts faibles qui auraient pu faire mal à l’équipe. Il réussit de façon éclatante, jusqu’à maintenant, à nous faire oublier son inexpérience.
J’espère que les performances de Streit, un autre agent libre cet été, qui, heureusement, n’a pas été échangé en retour d’un choix de 2025, auront convaincu Gainey de la nécessité de le re-signer à long terme. Le match contre Buffalo n’était qu’un exemple parmi d’autres, mais son jeu impressionne. C’est d’autant plus difficile pour lui, car lors d’un même match, il doit jouer sur un troisième trio et s’adapter à de nouveaux coéquipiers à chaque deux matchs et, lors des avantages numériques, revenir à la pointe et servir de général avec Markov. Résultat hier : 3 points, 2 passes en avantage numérique à la pointe, et un but à 5 contre 5 comme attaquant. Également, il ne faut pas sousestimer la valeur d’un joueur aussi polyvalent sous la nouvelle convention collective: Streit offre beaucoup de marge de manoeuvre à ses patrons en leur permettant de combler des trous qu’on ne peut désormais plus combler par l’achat d’un joueur.
Et que dire de Kovalev et Plekanec. Disons que ceux qui les ont tous deux dans leur pool ont du grimper de quelques positions après une telle performance. À rajouter dans la liste des bons coups de Gainey (et peut-être même son meilleur) est d’avoir résisté à la tentation cet été d’échanger Kovalev, un joueur bourré de talent, mais énigmatique et sporadique la saison dernière. Mais Gainey et Carbonneau ont su entourer Kove (est-ce un hasard qu’il s’agit de deux Européens?) de sorte que cette saison, à chaque match, il est le meilleur joueur sur la glace. J’ai d’ailleurs bien aimé les deux premiers buts de Plekanec, deux buts presque identiques, les deux fois sur de belles passes de Kovalev.
L’équipe se retrouve donc aujourd’hui premier dans la divison Nord-Est, devant Heatley, Alfredsson et Spezza, et affronte les Devils ce soir, les 1er de la conférence, avec un seul point d’avance sur le CH. Évidement, l’enjeu du match est particulièrement important. Une victoire, et l’équipe se retrouve seule au 1er rang. Même si à mes yeux, la lutte est beaucoup trop serrée pour parlé d’un réel avantage à finir premier, l’avantage de la glace (et plus de parties à Montréal!) n’est pas négligeable. Mais en même temps, c’est plutôt l’adversaire qui importe, car autant le Canadien domine certaines équipes (Boston par exemple), autant ils se font dominer par d’autres. Affronter le New Jersey ou Ottawa en 1ère ronde serait un problème majeur pour le CH, qui n’arrive pas à enfiler les victoires contre ces équipes-là. Mais, en bout de ligne, il faut toutes les battre pour gagner la Coupe.
Ironie du sort, Hossa s’est blessé à son tout premier match avec Pittsburgh, tandis qu’à ses débuts avec les Caps hier, Huet a bloqué 18 tirs pour son 3ème blanchissage de l’année. Peut-être encore davantage ironique: c’est ce blanchissage de Huet qui permet aujourd’hui d’être à un seul point des Devils. Peut-être que cela faisait partie des plans de l’énigmatique Bob.
Read more from Eric Lapierre at www.hockeybuzz.com
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OMG!
This video just got released on youtube, has about 21 views (at this time). These guys sure knows how to play with the ball. Thanks to the Goatman for sending me the link.
JT UTAH
