Comments on: Jack Todd: Habs need to get bigger, tougher

By: blaze

blaze — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:39:53 +0000

Parros is not the current heavyweight champ. However he is a top contender. Parros shouldn’t hurt you in limited minutes so he would be a decent pickup.

Big Steve Mac I would say is an even better fighter than Parros but would be a waste. He is a god awful player and dumb as post. Parros atleast is a well liked team guy.

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:10:20 +0000

intereting tim i like that and never thought of that but if we do land o’reilly wow we’d be very good and actually have some size down the middle!

By: TimTheBone

TimTheBone — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:13:38 +0000

Jack todd is a tool, if you read the montreal gazette youd knowthis….he makes his career slandering the habs at every turn, and usually looks like a fool trying. He rarely sys anything that makes sense about any thing hockey… He’s a horrible read and the Montreal gazette should fire him if they haven’t already…

And ryan white needs to be in the gosh damn line up.. ESPECIALLY against bigger teams.. He would have made a big difference in that blow out game vs Toronto… Outside of white and prust… A couple middleweights at best… No one has a semblance of fighting ability…. White needs to be there… Hurry up bergevin and flip ellar and diaz for oreilly already… Play galchenyuk on the wing this year with oreilly and gallagher…. Then either trade plekanec or desharnais in some sort of package for a winger … then going forward with oreilly galchenyuk white and desharnais/plekanec down the middle doesnt look too bad for the future… Mix of size and skill … I like it…. Cole patches bourque gallagher prust looks a,little weaker… Hence the flip of a center for scoing winger deal….

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:11:01 +0000

parros definately would …………like i said parros is the current heavyweight champion in the league ,however like i said steve macintyre is one tough customer and alot of guys fear him so i’d be happy with either guy if we could pick one of them up

By: mapleleafsfan

mapleleafsfan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:04:28 +0000

Just like 6’8 270 lb Scott made Orr pay right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnjFmQVys4M

I’m a big Parros fan though, and he would be a good pick up for the Habs for sure.

By: HABSSTAR

HABSSTAR — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:54:35 +0000

I’m pretty sure you could at the top 5 “toughest” guys in the League to the Habs and they wouldn’t win the cup. Why? Simple, they need more talent. We’re finally headed in the right direction on that front but we’re still a long ways off.

By: reinjosh

reinjosh — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:14:10 +0000

hey trademan, is there anyway to maybe slow down the amount of articles? The flow currently just wipes out threads with a lot of comments. It’s…frustrating. It stifles good convo’s.

By: lafleur10

lafleur10 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:56:21 +0000

we need to aadd one of either george parros(the current heavyweight champion and toughest guy in the league0 or another really ,really toght guy that could be the heavyweight champion and a fighter that is feared by alot of the tough guys in the league steve macintyre…….. we need one of these guys as a deterent to the tough guys on boston,toronto and philadelphia ..much like we did when we had georges laraque nobody would fight him and you’ll have that with parros or macintyre we can’t continue to have small skilled guys it’s not working! last year when we finally got brad staubitz that stuff almost didn’t happen because he would make a guy like orr pay for that ! much like parros and macintyre would! if bergevin does get one of these guys and i had to chose i guess i’d go with the 6’5 275 pound macintyre ………..but parros would be awesome as well! and either one of those guys would even the score in the fight department pretty fast!

By: nordiques100

nordiques100 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:47:50 +0000

its not necessarily the fighting but more the willingness to do it, the willingness to do it to stick up for someone, the willingness to do it to stick up for yourself.

the fights so far this year were not to put up numbers or help the team win, but to establish that they can fight, will fight and will fight for eachother. I think that was an important thing for the team to do.

I mean the last couple years, Brown really racked up the fight numbers. But really the fights weren’t really meaningful.

Orr’s fight and win over John Scott was big. The roughing up of the Habs was an important step.

I mean all that sort of led to the Flyers not really wanting to engage in a blowout type of fight fest with the Leafs. The sort of message one sends when losing the war.

As mentioned above, its important that those players contribute in other areas. We saw McLaren win a couple draws, block a shot in a blowout game. Orr has a 2 game point streak. Fraser is +10. they have to be able to play too, not just drop the gloves.

if they continue to maximize their limited minutes, they can keep making the team play bigger than it is.

Kessel can go dig into corners or actually try once in a while to battle on the side boards to get the puck out and get slammed by a pinching D. He knows someone has his back.

Reimer can go and challenge knowing he has physical D to push people out of the way or in fact hurt them should they breath wrongly.

Kadri can throw big hits knowing he can probably take care of himself against those his size, or be protected if picked on by bigger guys.

There is definitely value but like i said, those guys have to keep earning their limited minutes and making those 5 minutes or so count.

By: doorman

doorman — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:31:41 +0000

It is good to see him back and better to see a guy go down and do what needed to be done to get back to the NHL. I am sure he coulda just sat on his a$$ and collected a paycheck.