Ladies?...and Gentlemen.
I'm disappointed in the injury. Price was the best player by miles for the Canadiens.
When Price is on his game he can be almost unbeatable. But any goalie is the most important player, so the loss would be the same for any team.
Maybe I am giving you guys too much credit to actually be fans of hockey as an overall sport but when it gets to the playoffs you should WANT to see all teams playing with all their best players. The Rangers should WANT to beat the Canadiens with Price in goal. .
Just like I wanted Gronkowski healthy for the Patriots in the last Super Bowl. It sucked he couldn't play more than a few minutes. But I never called the original hit dirty or blamed anyone for not wanting to see a great Super Bowl with healthy players, and I never though of using a total trash label. The injury is just a fact of life. Some of you have done a very sad job of dealing with that.
To the Habs haters enjoy the glory you get from their loss. Shows a lot of character when you need to cheer against a team.
Actually, I was publicly for the Habs over the Leafs during the season. A few of YOU have given good cause to change that. I don't have hate for the Habs, just revulsion for the character of comments, which has been bad in the extreme at times. Speaking of character, let's not pretend you didn't know "white trash" is a despicable semi-racist label...hatefully xenophobic at best. Yet the L-A-D-Y had no qualms about using it.
Hell may be freezing over right now but Doc is right. Brendan Gallagher ended Jhonas Enroth's season last March on this rush.
http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=578897
To be honest I viewed the video where G1G seemed to be admitting it was a dirty play. After watching it several times it's very clear Gallagher was hit from behind in the upper back at the last possible moment spinning his body so that he couldn't help his skates being thrust toward the goalie. There's no way Gallagher could have controlled the chance to take a dirty shot the way this happened. It was incidental and it just shows shit happens no matter what uniform you wear.
Apologies to 77777 and others who are so disappointed with my taking an honest stand on the Canadiens side, instead of using childish manipulation.
Gallagher is 5' 9" at 178lbs, while Kreider is 6' 3" at 226lbs and YOU MAKE A COMPARISON. Tell MR. Expert, when has Gallagher injured a goalie? Come on, tell me. NEVER !!
:lol: Too bad even your Habs buddy G1G called you out. Perfect example of misplaced fanboy mania versus honesty.
He did nothing to really avoid him. We’re in the NHL.
Okay, I just read about his, was it 6'3" 225 lbs size, going at speed beyond most professional hockey players, enough to split two Canadiens, and you expect what...the control of all of that mass and momentum while trying to score as he's being tripped as if he was a petite gymnast doing a planned tumbling act???? C"MON! That's not reasonable.
And once again here are the statements on the incident from two experts (insiders) that were better informed and know the reputation of Kreider better than an outsider like me who has never played pro hockey!
“Looking at the incident, it’s a reckless play,” said Therrien. “That’s the truth. And Kreider, this is not the first time that he is going at goalies. We end up losing our best player, but our group has faced a lot of adversity through the course of the season, and we responded, and we had the attitude to respond really well. And that’s what I’m expecting, starting tonight.”
Sunday, Montreal players expressed some anger with the hit. Forward Brandon Prust said, “Everybody says it’s accidental, but it’s accidental on purpose. He did nothing to really avoid him. We’re in the NHL. We know how to fall, how to not put our skates first when we fall. He did the same thing against [Marc-André] Fleury in the last series. I mean, he’s not doing anything to avoid him. It’s not totally intentional, but he doesn’t do anything to lighten it up a bit.”
Yes, you get all the credit for being honest.
Having seen the play a couple of dozen times now, especially in slow motion close up, I can understand why Habs fan feel the way the most unyielding critics of Kreider feel. The camera shows a devastating view of the skates coming at Price. It's very hard to take or give in that this could have been 100% accidental. Adding in that the loss of this one specific player ends a year in which the Habs played very well against the team some fans have a psychotic hatred of, and may well have gotten to the finals with a chance to win a CUP after 21 years...it's DEVASTATING. No question. Just like when Brady when down in the first quarter of the first game of the year 2008 after just missing the perfect season. Because it's so hard to take you almost need to yell C-O-N-S-P-I-R-A-C-Y!!! I looked at the hit on Brady and almost wanted it to be a deliberate dirty play. How can simple chance just do this. But like that perfect all-around kid who just graduated high school who everyone expects will go so far in life but gets killed by one tiny mistake, sometimes pure chance ends everything.
Looking at the Therrien quote you posted I see a ton of frustration, tough disappointment, and the need to believe it couldn't just be an accident. You'll notice he carefully avoids say anything about the two Montreal players swinging sticks, especially Emelin taking out Kreider's foot at the critical moment. I'm not saying Therrien doesn't believe all of what he said, but it leaves out the key cause, and it's perfectly crafted to fit what Habs fans want and in some cases needed to hear. There's no way he could say our guy Emelin initiated the sequence that caused Price to be put out of the series...be totally honest with Habs fans with the way feelings are running so angrily at this time...as abundantly evidenced on this board.
You know reputation alone proves nothing in any specific case, especially since reputation did not make Emelin knock the feet from under Kreider and cause this.
... Montreal is not the Evil cause your bruins have been eliminated by them...
So you deliberately misquote me, leaving off the critical end. Sorry you're so crushed by Price's loss that you've quit on honesty. Yet...I expected that, knowing you.
Cheers,
Merlot
