My name, for the sake of these boards is SPARTACUS.
I am a 46 year old Montrealer who played for the Junior Habs in 1979. I was 17 at that time. 13 years prior to this, I learned how to skate on The Outdoor Rinks in Dollard Dex Ormeaux from the most unlikeliest of sources...Mr. John Fergusson...who was for those of you too young to remember,one of the most bruising if NOT THE MOST BRUISING players in NHL History. Noone messed with him period... he was that Mean & Tough !!!
Anyways, like all of you, and being a Montrealer it was/is/has always been, impossible to grow up here without inheriting a depplyrooted love for the Hockey team and more importantly, thr sport of Hockey.
I watched in science class at Riversale HighSchool in Montreal when Fergusson, Esposito and Dryden carried the hopes of our nation to Russia...down 3-1-1 in an 8 game series and seething with stung pride after being Fed Our Lunch At Home inthe first 4 games.
I watched when Fergusson leaned over the bench and told Bobby Clark to break Makarov's ankle.
I watched Bobby Clark Do It !!!
I was in the Old Forum the night The habs, ahead 7-5 with 3 minutes to play in game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals against Chicago allowed 3 goals and lost 8-7, and as a result, never getting any closer to seeing that Cup In person !!!
I watched the Ilsanders and Oilers win it 4 times straight.
And Between 1966 and 1993 I myself attended 7 Stanley Cup parades!!!
I am writing this now because I am in serious grief over what I percive to be a BLATANT IGNORANCE and COMPLETE DENIAL, or just plain living in denial... about the state of this Hockey team.
The Montreal Canadians Management Team is a Complete DISGRACE.
now...please don't misunderstand me...I LOVE BOB GAINEY...AND I LOVE THIS TEAM...BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND SOMEONE HAS TO SAY SOMETHING !!!
1ST OF ALL...
THIS TEAM IS GOING NOWHERE AND FAST !!!
FOR 5 YEARS NOW OUR OBVIOUSLY BLIND AND STUPID COACHING STAFF HAS FAILED TO REKOGNIZE THAT SAKKU KOIVU HAS 26 GOALS IN HIS LAST 300+ HOCKEY GAMES.
THAT NUMBER IS SO FAR BELOW WHAT IT SHOULD BE THAT IT IS AMAZING HE HASNLT BEEN BIUGHT OUT AND KICKED OUT OF THE SPORT.
HIS PERFORMANCE NUMBERS ARE N9THING LESS THAN A COMPLETE DISGRACE AND THIS CITY SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO HAVE AGUY WITH NUMBERS LIKE THESE AS A CAPTAIN.
HE IS ASHADOW OF HISFORMERSELF AND NEEDS TO BE STRIPPED OF THE "C" AND DEMOTED AT MINIMUM TO 2ND LINE CENTER.
IF YOU SEE THIS ANY OTHER WAy you are living in complete denial.
as a captain, this man will NEVER EVER LEAD THIS TEAM TO A CUP AND IT WILL NEVER EVEN BE CLOSE AS LONG AS HE IS THERE!!!
#2- CAREY PRICE WAS A JOKE. A SICK AND VERY REVEALING JOKE.
his performance should have set off alarm bells the size of Gabraltar and if he isn't gone by next September I will eat my hat. Someone, probably Gainey himself or the entire Scouting staff completely BLEW that one...the man is nowhere neartready for this league and half the golatender of say a Josee Thodore or Chritobal Huet...in one sentence...the deal to get rid of Huet was perhapos the singleworst deal made by any GM in 120years of Pro and amateur Hockey...BAR NONE !!!
#3- For 15 years now this team's MGMT team has been LYING TO THE PUBLIC. let's start here...with a guy named...Patrice Brisebois, who in over 12 seasons amassed a ttl of 15 goals. Honestly...a 5 year old pee wee could do far better. I Defy anyone to PROVE me wrong...I AM 50 TIMES A BETTER SKATER AND HAVE 50 TIMES THAT IDIOTS PUCK SENSE AT 46 YEARS OLD IN MY PINKY THAN THAT GUY WILL EVER HAVE IN HIS ENTIRE RETARDED FRENCH BODY !!!HE DOESN'T BELONG IN THE NHL LET ALONE THIS TEAM...HE HAS ZERO PUCK SENSE. AND THE KICKER IS THIS...YESTERDAY...GAINEY DUMPED MARK STREIGHT...HOW IN THE **** DOYOU DUMP MARK STREIGHT WHEN BRISEBOIS IS STILL ON THIS TEAM...STREIGHT WAS ONE OF OUR BEST PLAYERS ALL SEASON LAST YEAR...PERIOD...HE DID ITALL...PLAYED "O" AND "D" AND GAVE 200% EVERY TIME HE WAS ON THE ICE...THE DECISION THO DUMP STREIGHT AND KEEP BRISEBOIS DENONSTRTATES A 100% COMMITMENT TO LOSING !!!
AND THATS MY POINT
THIS TEAM IS COMITTED TO ONE THING AND ONE THING ONLY
LOSING!!!
THE DECISIONS THEY ARE MAKING ARE RETARDED.
YESTERDAY WE LOST OUT ON HOSSA
WE HAVE ALREADY LOST OUT ON SUNDIN AND FRANKLY NOONE WANTS TO PLAY HERE ANYMORE BECAUSE THE FRENCH PRESS AND THE FRENCH FANS ARE RETARDED !!!
CASE IN POINT.
WE LOST OVER 23 GAMES AT HOME LAST YEAR AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THE FRENCH FANS CHANTING "OOOOWAAAAYYYY OOOOWAAAYYY OOOWAAAAYYYY OWAAAAYYYY OWWAAAAYYYY" AND RAZZINGBTHE OPPOSING TEAMS PLAYERSAND GOLAIES WHILE WE WERE WINNING BY 1 GOAL WITH 2 1/2 PERIOD LEFT IN A MUST WIN GAME.
IN EACH AND EVERY CASE YOU COULD PHYSICALLY WITNESS THE OTHER TEAM RE-AQUIRUIBNG IT'S LEGS JUST TO SHOW UP THESE RETARDED FANS...AND IF YOU THINK THIS IS AN EXAGGERATION OR IN ANY WAY NOT TRUE, YOU HAVEN;T BEEN TO A HABS GAME IN THE LAST 3 YEARS!!!
THE FRENCH FANS HAVE NO CLUE WHAT"T-F" THEY ARE EVEN DOING !!!
#4-WHERE IS THE MONEY?
WHEN GEIRGEGILETTE TOOK OVER THIS TEAM8YEARS AGO THE HEADLINE INTHE PAPER THE NEXT DAY HERE IN MTL WAS THIS....
"I WILL RESTORE THIS TEAM TO IT'S FORMER GLORY"
IN THE 8 YEARS SINCE WE'VE MADE THE PLAYOFFS TWICE...LOST OUT QUICK TWICE, AND HE HASN'T SPENT DIME ONE...
IN FACT..HES TRYING TO SELL THE RINK, AND HE'S SOENT A SMALL FORTUNE{MILLIONS} ON HIS SOCCER TEAM!!!
HE IS IN SHIRT A LIAR WHOIS MORECONCEREND WITH TURNING A PROFIT. BUT LIKE A STUOID FRENCHMEN HE CANNOT SEETHAT TO DO THIS- HE HAS TO OUT A WINNING PRODUCT ON THE ICE, NOT A LOSING ONE !!!
#5-What improvments to our offense..have the Habs made?
GEORGE LARAQUE...????????????????
OH YEA BABY OH YEA...THATS GONNA GO A LONG WAY TOWARDS BOOSTING OUR OFFENSE...
ALEX TANGUAY...IS 100%NNOT THE ANSWER TO ANYTHING !!!
JESUS CHRIST WTF IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE FOLKS????????????
THIS IS WHATS WRONG...
THE HABS ARE COMMITTED TO LOSING !!!
THEY DON'T CARE ABOIUT THE FANS...AND IN 15 YEARS YOU SHOW ME ONE INSTANCE WHERE THEY DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY DID!!!
#6-BOB GAINEY AND GUY CARBONNEAU HAVE LOST TOUCH WITH THE REALITY OF HOCKEY IN MONTREAL!!!
WE DO NOT CONDONE LOSING HERE!!!
AND SOMEHOWALL OF THIS TEAMS FANS SAVE FOR A FEW OF US ARE LIVJUNG IN COMPLETE DENIAL...AND WILL KEEP TELLING YOU...
"WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR"
WELL I GOT NEWS FOR YOU PEOPLE...
IT WAS NEXT YEAR 12 YEARS AGO
IT IS NEXT YEAR RIGHT BLODDY NOW !!!
AND...
#7-MICHAEL FARBER AND SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ARE RIGHT
THIS TEAM IS NO LONGER THE CLASS OF THE LEAGUE OR THE MOST STORRIED FRANCHISE IN SPORTS...RIGHT NOW THE 'CH" STANDS FOR ONE THING ONLY..."DISGRACEFUL"
THIS TEAM HAS COMPLETEY LOST IT'S MEANING TO THE SPORT IN GENERAL AND IS A DISGRACE AS REPRESENTATION TO THIS CITY
#8- until the fans wake up and stop prtending like everything is fine here...when it is clearly not...
things with the Habs are NEVER ghoing to improve.
how anyone is O.K. with Kovalev's performance in this years playofs is Beyond Ratgional Thinking...tghe MAN WAS AHUGE MASASIVE WUSS and as for Koivu it was far too little and far too late...
So RIGHT NOW...WHILE GAINEY AND CARBO ARE MAKING WRONG DECISION AFTER WRONG DECISION AFTER WRONG DECISION...
IT MIGHT BE WISE TO START VOICINBG YOUR DISPLEASURE !!!
WE THE FANS ARE BEING SCAMMED, AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR 15 YEARS NOW.
GETTING RID OF FIRST THEODORE AND THEN HUET WERE THE ACTIONS OF EITHER INCOMPETENT FOOLS OR RETARDS!!!
IT'S TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH !!!
IT'STIME FOR THE MGMT TEAM OF THIS FRANCHISE TO START MAKING THE RIGHT DECISIONS...
IF YOU THINK LAROQUE IS A "RIGHT DECISION" WE ARE IN DEEPER TROUBLE THAN I EVEN KNOW RIGHT NOW !!!
Wait... the Habs are committed to losing? Thats odd. They seemed to be trying pretty hard to win to me. And Koivu has something like 38 goals in his last 2 seasons.
Basically what I'm saying is, you're full of crap.
Wait... the Habs are committed to losing? Thats odd. They seemed to be trying pretty hard to win to me. And Koivu has something like 38 goals in his last 2 seasons.
Basically what I'm saying is, you're full of crap.
OH my... 38 goals and not 23 in approximately 300 games AND ACTUALLY IF YOU LOOK PROPERLY ITS MORE LIKE 400 GAMES - THE MAN IS A CANCER TO THIS TEAM RIGHT NOW...PERIOD...AND IT'S BEEN THIS WAy for 3 years!!!
THANKS
YOU JUST PROVED MY POINT AND ARE OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE RETARDS THAT THINKS EVERYTHING IS FINE
AND BUDDY
LMAO..INSULT ME THOUGH...I GUESS IT FEELS BETTER TO LET IT OUT AND IT MUST STING BIG TIME TO HAVE TO FACE REALITY WHILE YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING IN DENIAL FOR SO LONG !!!
Wait... the Habs are committed to losing? Thats odd. They seemed to be trying pretty hard to win to me. And Koivu has something like 38 goals in his last 2 seasons.
Basically what I'm saying is, you're full of crap.
ALSO, AND THIS JUST HAS TO BE SAID
IF YOU CALL WHAT THAT WAS...TRYING TO WIN...YOU ARE DEFINTLY WAY WAY OUT OF YOURELEMENT AND I WILLMAKE IT A POINT TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOU.
YOU HAVEN;T A CLUE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
THE MAIN PROBLEM WIHT THIS TEAM RIGHT NOW- IS THEY DON;T HAVE ONE GUY, NOT ONE, WHO WANTS TO SCORE ENOUGH, DOES SCORE ENOUGH, WILL SCORE ENOUGH, GAME AFTER GAME AFTER GAME
15 YEARS AGO, THAT GUY WAS KOIVU
FOR THE LAST 5 HE PLAYED IN...KOIVU HAS DONE NOTHING !!!
PERIOD
WHERE THE "F" HAVE YOU BEEN BUDDY????????????????
YOU JUST AKNOWLEDGED AND EVEN USED CORRECTING ME TO DO IT THAT THIS GUY HAS 38 GOALS YOU SAY IN 2 COMPLETE SEASONS
IF YOU CANNOT SEE THAT THIS TTL SHOULD BE FOR 1 SEASON NOT CLOSE TO 3 THAN YOU SHOULDN'T JOIN THE DISCUSIONS WITH THE BIG BOYS !!!
I AM INTERESTED IN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH, NOT THOSE THAT LIE TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELESE THAT EVERYTHING IS ALL "HABBY" !!!
OH my... 38 goals and not 23 in approximately 300 games AND ACTUALLY IF YOU LOOK PROPERLY ITS MORE LIKE 400 GAMES - THE MAN IS A CANCER TO THIS TEAM RIGHT NOW...PERIOD...AND IT'S BEEN THIS WAy for 3 years!!!
THANKS
YOU JUST PROVED MY POINT AND ARE OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE RETARDS THAT THINKS EVERYTHING IS FINE
AND BUDDY
LMAO..INSULT ME THOUGH...I GUESS IT FEELS BETTER TO LET IT OUT AND IT MUST STING BIG TIME TO HAVE TO FACE REALITY WHILE YOU HAVE BEEN LIVING IN DENIAL FOR SO LONG !!!
2 seasons= less than 160 games for him, not 300+. Not to mention the intangibles he provides as a good leader, and the fact he is a good back-checker. And I'm not even an Habs fan. How can I be "one of the retards that thinks everything is fine" if I don't even care about the team?
IF YOU CALL WHAT THAT WAS...TRYING TO WIN...YOU ARE DEFINTLY WAY WAY OUT OF YOURELEMENT AND I WILLMAKE IT A POINT TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF YOU.
YOU HAVEN;T A CLUE WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
THE MAIN PROBLEM WIHT THIS TEAM RIGHT NOW- IS THEY DON;T HAVE ONE GUY, NOT ONE, WHO WANTS TO SCORE ENOUGH, DOES SCORE ENOUGH, WILL SCORE ENOUGH, GAME AFTER GAME AFTER GAME
15 YEARS AGO, THAT GUY WAS KOIVU
FOR THE LAST 5 HE PLAYED IN...KOIVU HAS DONE NOTHING !!!
PERIOD
WHERE THE "F" HAVE YOU BEEN BUDDY????????????????
YOU JUST AKNOWLEDGED AND EVEN USED CORRECTING ME TO DO IT THAT THIS GUY HAS 38 GOALS YOU SAY IN 2 COMPLETE SEASONS
IF YOU CANNOT SEE THAT THIS TTL SHOULD BE FOR 1 SEASON NOT CLOSE TO 3 THAN YOU SHOULDN'T JOIN THE DISCUSIONS WITH THE BIG BOYS !!!
I AM INTERESTED IN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TELL THE TRUTH, NOT THOSE THAT LIE TO THEMSELVES AND EVERYONE ELESE THAT EVERYTHING IS ALL "HABBY" !!!
You're going to make an example out of me? Really? Do you think you've succeeded so far?
Koivu hasn't been in the league for 15 years. He has never scored more than 22 goals... which he got in 06-07. He is what he is. A solid leader, who scores key goals and plays by example. A player who has persevered through great personal hardship. I have a feeling you're the one who does not know what you're talking about.
2 seasons= less than 160 games for him, not 300+. Not to mention the intangibles he provides as a good leader, and the fact he is a good back-checker. And I'm not even an Habs fan. How can I be "one of the retards that thinks everything is fine" if I don't even care about the team?
You're hilarious.
okie dokie
thats it
time for you to get schooled buddy
here are saku koivus goals ttls for the last 492 games
he has 69 goals in his last 492 games
THIS AVERAGES OUT TO ROUGHLY 0.14 GOLAS PER GAME OR 14/100TH'S OF 1 GOAL PER GAME !!!
DUDE...YOU ARE WAY WAY OFF EVEN TRYING TO DEFEND HIM !!!
THE MAN DESERVES TO SIT OR AT THE VERY LEAST BE DEMOTED TO 3RD LINE CENTER...HE DOESN'T SCORE AND HE ONLY GETS MULTIPLE ASSISTS IN GAMES WE LOSE!!!
AND BUDDY PLEASE...DO YOUR HOMEWORK OR STF UP !!!
SERIOUSLY MAN !!!
Last edited by SPARTACUS : 07-04-2008 at 05:51 PM.
here are saku koivus goals ttls for the last 492 games
he has 69 goals in his last 492 games
THE MAN DESERVES TO SIT OR AT THE VERY LEAST BE DEMOTED TO 3RD LINE CENTER...HE DOESN'T SCORE AND HE ONLY GETS MULTIPLE ASSISTS IN GAMES WE LOSE!!!
AND BUDDY PLEASE...DO YOUR HOMEWORK OR STF UP !!!
SERIOUSLY MAN !!!
Thats 3x's the 23 that you said before. He is a career 0.81ppg player. Last year he had 0.72ppg. He's a center, one that back-checks better than anyone else on his team. He is a quality leader. Goals are a perk, not a necessity, from him. In last years playoffs he was tied for 2nd on the team in points, with 9 in 7 games. He's a quality player and leader.
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