Comments on: What the Habs need for a successful 2007-2008 campaign

By: brocarl99

brocarl99 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:11:35 +0000

In my opinion, you are just not looking at the situation logically. You should feel grateful that Mike Keenan was dumb enough to give you Luongo for a couple sticks and a bag of pucks cause your Canucks would not be where they are right now! But dont get me wrong, you guys have a good team, but to say that you are way better than Montreal, thats where you are wrong

By: TheStryker

TheStryker — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 17:25:23 +0000

After the Preds getting Forsberg, alot of teams in the west are getting itchy to make moves. We all know Souray wants to move out west, well let's make his wish come true. We all know Detroit isin't going to stand pat, so let's see if we can package Koivu, Ryder, and maybe a pick and get Datsyuk. The Canucks maybe looking for a vetran d-man, Dandenault comes to mind. I know the Penguins are looking for a 3rd line center and a stay at home D-man= Bonk and Rivet. All the talk of Sammy going to Chicago, well let's bring in Aucoin.

So...

Souray
To San Jose
Bernier

Koivu,Ryder,2nd round pick
To Detroit
Datsyuk

Dandenault
To Vancouver
Burrows

Rivet,Bonk,Perezoghin
To Pittsbugh
Talbot,Letang

Samsonov
To Chicago
Aucoin

Re-Sign
Markov,Johnson,Datsyuk

Sign Briere,Sykora,Hannan as UFA's

Higgins-Briere-Kovalev
Sykora-Datsyuk-Bernier
Latendersse-Pleckanec-Johnson
Burrows-Lapierre-Begin

Komisarek-Markov
Hannan-Letang
Bouillon-Streit

Huet
Price

By: BieksaForMVP

BieksaForMVP — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:04:57 +0000

The Leaf's are probal better then the Hab's.

By: BieksaForMVP

BieksaForMVP — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:00:44 +0000

The Hab's would be 12th place if it wasn't for Souray, and the goalies (combined they might be comparable to Luongo). Also just because Bieksa is one of my favorite players and I put something about him in my name does that mean your not gonna listen to me? If someone puts "MarkovForMVP" in there name I wouldn't care, because he is a good player, and likely someones favorite player.

By: xJayce

xJayce — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:07:04 +0000

Hummm. Your post seems to be a bit pointless.

I said Ryder is having an OK seaons, production wise. He's going to end up with 20-25 goals at the end of the season, which isn't too bad for a player in his third year. A decent year would be 25 goals? A good year would be 30? Argue that however you want, he's still second on the team in goals. Maybe if there was a solid first line, Ryder could play on the second line, and if anybody was scoring goals, it might take some of the pressure off.

As for Samsonov, I'm not sure what they were expecting. He's never scored 30 goals in a season, last season he had about 50 points, and he's not getting any younger. A wrote he was a bit of a disapointment cause I wasn't expecting too much from him. If you take a look at his stats on nhl.com, he still has about the same number of shots that he has every season, but his scoring rate is down from and average of about 13% to about 7-8%. Doesn't appear to be lack of effort. Either he's lost the ability to score, or the puck just isn't bouncing for him.

Anyways, the point of my post was to see what people felt we needed to do to make sure we have a stronger team this year. I took what we are most likely going to have next year, added that maybe Smyth would be a nice edition, and see what other people would add. The only answer you've given is 'blow this thing up'. Have any better suggestions?

By: xJayce

xJayce — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:46:58 +0000

You know, I hope I'm wrong also. For the lines, I took a look at what we have on hand, and added the possibility of a couple of free agents. But unless there is room made for new players, and some big transactions this summer, that's the team we have.

I've heard people talking about 'changing the face of the team', and they're talking about trading Kovalev, Koivu, Samsonov, etc. But lets face it, how much, if we trade Koivu, will we be getting in return? What can we get for Kovalev? Samsonov is already up for grabs, and nobody seems interested. Dumping Kovalev and Samsonov is nearly 8M in salary. That's Briere money right there. Droping Koivu and Ryder's salary is another 7M. That could be a Ryan Smyth type guy.

There's a lot of different things that can happen, but I'm not sure how different this team will be next septembre.

By: SabresFan220

SabresFan220 — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:04:32 +0000

How has Montreal fallen off the world in the last 30 years? Well it certainly helps that they no longer automatically get the 2 best canadian players in the draft every year. They were in contention for a good long while during the season, I think it was that bout with the flu that really did Montreal in. They were winning until the entire team seemed to get the flu, then they couldn't buy a win. It's tough luck, I kinda feel bad for Habs fans, they could still make the playoffs and make some noise, but without Huet I'm sorry but you're toast in the playoffs if you get there.

By: Tim_Silver

Tim_Silver — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:32:19 +0000

just cause u dont care doesnt mean no one else does...some people are just idiots?

By: TheStryker

TheStryker — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:10:59 +0000

This could possibly be the worst post of all time. To say Ryder is having a decent season is rediculous. To say Samsonov is a BIT of a dissapointment is just insane. All I see you doing is taking the same players we have now and shuffleing the lines up. Gainey has to blow this thing up. He has to get rid of alot of players, cause this group is and will be going nowhere.

By: jayhabsjay

jayhabsjay — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:37:49 +0000

listen man, just because you're probably a leafs fan who would rather read about if they will resign tucker 40 times in a row, doesnt mean that "most of us really dont care about the canadiens". why read this post then? why post a pointless comment?