Comments on: Surprising star – balanced power play

By: jpmac

jpmac — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:50:55 +0000

You kinda misunderstood me man, I am a habs fan (who dominated the flyers in the game with the briere phantom call)..so I don't know what you are smoking but maybe you should read all the posts before you start making idiotic statements like that.

By: habskovalev27

habskovalev27 — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:52:24 +0000

wow…so much frustration…ohh…probably your team got beaten 5-1 last night…sorry idiot…and with that kind of language, you must also be a Tucker fan…got dominated by who ? the leafs ? hahahaha…they don't dominated nobobdy…

By: prayin-for-the-wce

prayin-for-the-wce — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:56:51 +0000

I think Kovalev has really been instrumental in the start the habs have had. He has exponentially picked up his game, and is playing with a purpose, which last year, he clearly did not have. I'm pretty happy i picked him up as my reserve pick, which i traded a injured bertuzzi to have him in my pool =)

By: jpmac

jpmac — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:38:02 +0000

So "moron" how did this one bad call change that game. They get one call thay went their way..give me some other examples where the Canadiens got calls going their way.

The fact of the matter is "moron" That every team gets calls for and against them, live with it.

Moron - If any team gets calls that all year they will have a great year..heck maybe even your flyers, but the I hope you realize that calls like that rarely happen. just quit crying "moron" because your team got dominated.

By: habsrock99

habsrock99 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:12:21 +0000

Komisarek is one of the most under-rated, under-appreciated defenceman in the NHL. He's one of the best, if not THE best 1 on 1 or 2 on 1 defenceman. If I see someone other then Komisarek on a 2 on 1, I begin to think "Goal" But when he's there, I think "He's gonna break this up".

By: habsrock99

habsrock99 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:53:27 +0000

Ok, the only thing I'll say is that it was a terrible call and I agree the ref should be fired but I have to bring this up, that's the first bad call that went in Montreal's favour which I have seen in a very, very long time. I can easily bring up 2 bad calls in that game that went against Montreal. I can also bring up another bad call or two going in favour of Montreal in that game. Point being, those 2 refs were BRUTAL and they really should get some seeing-eye dogs for the next time they ref a game.

If you want bad calls, a few years back, Montreal was in the play-off hunt and needed a win against New Jersey and Kerry Fraser was the referee. Well, Joe Nieuwendyk crashed into Jose Theodore, knocking him practically into the corner and also knocked Theo's mask off. Automatic whistle? You'd think so but Fraser kept the play going and Nieuwndyk circled to the front of the net, received the pass and scored into an empty net. It was the Game Winner and Montreal ended up missing the play-offs by I believe 1 or 2 points.

Another bad call came in a Habs-Leafs game, Montreal cleared the puck from their own zone and Tie Domi caught it and carried it, while not putting the puck down onto the ice, over the blueline with Mats Sundin still in Montreal's zone. Automatic off-side? You'd think so but no whistle, Domi ended up shooting it and scored the game winner.

But like I said, that Briere penalty was a terrible call but the thing is that was one of the very few bad calls that ended up going into Montreal's favour. To be honest, I thought Higgins was getting a diving penalty.

BTW, all 82 Habs games are boadcasted on RDS and yes, Yvon Pedneault did mention the Kovalev "hooking" call.

By: habskovalev27

habskovalev27 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:04:40 +0000

and what about all the bad calls they get from de refs. and what about all the no-calls they don't get from the refs (ex. hooking in the offensive zone by a backchecking leaf player 10 seconds before the 3rd leafs goals...)
give me a break

By: Archion113

Archion113 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:56:01 +0000

Defensive much?

All you guys are really defensive. Makes me wonder why.

Did i say the refs were helping them out in the original post? I said with calls like that, it will be a great year for Montreal.

Learn to read you frigging morons.

By: Archion113

Archion113 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:54:09 +0000

Oh i def give Montreal credit for having an awfully sick powerplay. Their pp units scare the crap out of me.

My only point was, if they continue to get Powerplays because of joke penalty calls like that, they're gonna have a great year.

By: Archion113

Archion113 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:53:00 +0000

Moron. My post was to say this, "If the Canadians get calls like that all year, its going to be a great year for them".

Never once did i make an excuse for any of the goals.. Learn to read you frigging moron.

God damn you Canadians Fans are really defensive about this whole bad call thing... must happen a lot more than i was aware of. It was the worst call i've seen in the past 2 years. Period end of story. The ref should be fired for making the call, thats how bad it was.

But i never once said anything about any of the goals in the original post. Learn to read tea bag.