this would be another good signing by Burke.
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this would be another good signing by Burke.
Today's rumors around the NHL (as reported by ESPN)
Kaberle to Canucks?
There's a good chance Tomas Kaberle is traded this offseason, and the Toronto Star's Damien Cox thinks the Vancouver Canucks might be a good fit. "[Vancouver's] blueline is thin, although [Alexander] Edler looks like a comer. You might wonder if a good puck handler like the very available Tomas Kaberle could benefit the 'Nucks.
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As long as Cody Hodgson’s name is involved as one of the guys coming to the most important hockey market in the world, do it BURKIE!!!!!!!
I have a tough time believing the Leafs would want to deal with Vancouver, their arch-ennemy (management-wise). Once Edmonton gets rid of Sheldon Souray, they might be open to doing business with the Leafs in regards to Kaberle & possibly Andrew Cogliano. Team president Kevin Lowe & Brian Burke made peace at the Olympics and are talking again.
I wouldn't mind Ryan Kessler with the Leafs.....but i doubt Vancouver would want to part with him. But maybe they would considering their considerable holes on defence.
as i told you midway thru the season, Kessler would be a huge addition to the Leafs, and im sure Burke and Wilson both would love to have him, but i doubt the Canucks will part with him, and didnt they just resign him? Now on the other hand, Bobby Ryan from the Ducks would also fit well with the Leafs and Burke, who drafted him, and Ryan seems to be unhappy in Cali..... cant wait for draft day! ...
It's a total shocker that Montreal has knocked out the two teams which I thought were the best in hockey in consecutive rounds. It looks to me like 2 things have happened, (1) excellent goaltending by Halak, and (2) bringing up Subban because of the Spacek illness has infused the team with energy, enthusiasm and pride, and has also changed the chemistry of the defensive core of the team. Now they could end up playing Boston in the EC finals and it will be like the good old days when they played every year in the late 1970s.
Hi Doc,
I've followed your posts and it's amazing to read the "dark side" if you will of the excitement caused by or that often accompanies these celebrations. What I find disturbing is that there are usually a few dozen common thugs and thieves who will start the trouble and looting for no other reason than that of personal gain. THis causes a few hundred "followers" to join in which in turn puts a city of millions (the vast majority 99.9999% of which did not participate) a bad light. It's sad.
Tonight we're gonna party like it's nineteen-ninety........THREE!!
GO HABS GO!!! Bring on the Bruins or the Flyers! It doesn't matter which because we'll bury them too!!!
On a side note...the atmosphere at the Bell Centre was amazing tonight, the Alouette cheerleaders were there looking hot and the entire place was wall to wall babes everywhere we looked!
HAALAAAK!!!!
Hundreds of Habs fan riot after game (Surprise-surprise!!)
MONTREAL -- Police regained control of the downtown core early Thursday after firing tear gas at hundreds of bottle-tossing youths who looted businesses following the Montreal Canadiens' Game 7 victory in Pittsburgh.
The vandalism occurred after most of the tens of thousands of jubilant hockey fans left the area.
Looters wrapped their faces in garments -- in some cases the ones they'd stolen -- and dashed into a liquor store. With their identities concealed, they leaped through the smashed front window and emerged moments later with their arms full.
One man warned his female friend to be careful with the loot.
"Hide the bottle," he snapped. "The police."
He was referring to the line of officers who watched impassively from the closest street corner. Their reinforcements were on the way.
Rows of black-clad riot officers charged in from the peripheries, rattling their shields as a warning to the crowd before firing tear-gas canisters. Police said about 25 people were arrested and two officers sustained minor injuries.
Shortly after the Canadiens' 5-2 victory over the Penguins, fireworks erupted over Ste-Catherine Street as people crowd-surfed and held aloft trinkets including Stanley Cup replicas and a stuffed penguin.
The flag-waving crowd was as euphoric as the 21,000 fans who crammed into the Bell Centre to watch the game on giant screens. After the game, they spilled out into the streets chanting, "We want the Cup! We want the Cup!
Montreal has a history of hockey-related violence.
Cars were burned and downtown stores were trashed and looted after the Canadiens beat Boston in the 2008 playoffs, and there also were riots after Montreal's Stanley Cup victories in 1986 and 1993. The most famous riot was in 1955 when Habs great Maurice Richard was suspended and fans took to the street to cause such havoc that Richard had to make a public appeal for calm.
(Meanwhile, the bankrupt Mtl economy has to pay millions of $$ to cover for the damages & overtime costs involved with policing.....with the poor Mtl taxpayers' dollars. Again!)
Is this Scott Gomez?
It's an ugly trade-off, even if beneficial economically.
Hold on, mister 4 posts. They still have two more series to win before the BIG party. If it happens, that'll be the night that downtown Mtl will go down in flames. Just watch. They'll have to deploy the army out of Afghanistan!
I've never been in a city at the moment of a playoff series victory, but I know how exciting it must be and I can't blame people for being so eager to celebrate. Still, tearing apart an area after every series victory is just nuts.
ish,
Merlot
Hundreds of Habs fan riot after game (Surprise-surprise!!)
Get over your jealousy, bitterness and frustration.
Do you really think these thugs are hockey fans? or give a shit about the Habs?
Surprised to see someone from the good old U.S.of fucking A was involved in this.