Comments on: CANADIENS FIRE MARTIN; CUNNEYWORTH NAMED INTERIM HEAD COACH

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:33:36 +0000

Lalime played great in a lot of those games and won a lot of games for Ottawa. But ya, I think the one game you're referring to is game 7 in 2002 when Nieuwendyk sniped those two long wristers in the first period.

We also beat Tom Barrasso in 2000, and Ron Tugnutt mighta got in there, so it wasn't all Lalime.

Also the year the Leafs swept Ottawa any "half decent calibre goalie ie. Carey Price" wouldn't have helped Ottawa at all.... just saying.

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:58:14 +0000

i bet in those days if he had a half decent calibre goalie.i.e. carey price instead of lalime the leafs don't win any of those series ……..just saying !

By: mojo19

mojo19 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:42:26 +0000

hahaha. Nice

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:53:45 +0000

isles fan your right i remember the sam pollock and scotty bowman era really well i grew up watching those guys win us those cups! pollock is the greatest g.m. in the history of the n.h.l. no g.m. past or present can ever be in this man's class same with scotty bowman he's the best coach in the history of the league,although we've had a couple more than were close in dick irvin sr and toe blake.pollock and bowman were both from montreal born and raised but yeah i agree i think they need to hire the best guy(s) for the g.m. and coach wheter they speak french or not like pollock and bowman

By: TheOnlyIslesFan

TheOnlyIslesFan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:59:35 +0000

Thanks for pointing out the coaches I knew I had forgotten someone how can you forget Hitch***** for pete sakes he won a cup against my second favorite team at that!

Lafleur with a nick like yours I can only assume you remember the glory years for the Canadiens when a guy named Sam Pollock and another guy named Scotty Bowman - pretty sure that these two cats didn't speak french and the organization needs to think about that when looking for new candidates.

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:11:02 +0000

ONLYISLESFAN: trust me you don't want martin as your coach! there are better guys available than martin to coach the islanders,as your buddy said i cunneyworth is only the interim coach until the end of the season so it's very possible that we could see saint patrick as our headcoach next season, i think you'll see us name a new g.m as well

By: blaze

blaze — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:09:33 +0000

Wilson, Hitchpenis, Quenneville, Renney, Vigneault, and Trotz all were around the dead puck days.

By: TheOnlyIslesFan

TheOnlyIslesFan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:57:34 +0000

I've seen Martin do some great things in his time behind the bench, funny how two seasons ago he was taking this team within three games of the Stanley Cup Finals, but his coaching style has gone the way of the dinosaur and outside of Ruff is the only guy I can think of who coached in the height of the Dead Puck Era.

My buddy the Habs fan was screaming that it should have been Roy who stepped behind the bench in Montreal,I'm under the impression that maybe a guy like Carlyle or even Maurice would have excelled with this team - a fast puck moving team with 4 or 5 guys capable of 30+ goals (Andrei K, Pac-man, Gionta, Cole, Cammy and Pleks all have the potential) yet they played under a guy who tried to make them all play like Doug Jarvis....

Saying that however - I'd take Martin running the Isles bench in a heartbeat.

By: senators_choke

senators_choke — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:14:08 +0000

Milbury is a Type A personality. He feels he has to beat a 4 year old at ping pong.

By: TheLeafNation91

TheLeafNation91 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:54:37 +0000

I think felt hockey was left out with all the other child assaulters in basketball and football.

Hockey just always wants to be included. Sad.