Yeah… you heard me right. Feynn… raving Habs fan dissing his team. Why is this you ask?
Quick quiz… who’s the best goalie in the league right now?
Jeff Hackett.
He has a .932 save percentage which puts him at the top of the league for active goalies. Other guys have been hot as of late but Hackett has been solid. Points in 8 of 11 games. Only 3 losses. Phenomenal saves worthy of the highlight reel.
Montreal has been thinking of trading him. To that I say, what the fuck? Are they on glue? Has all the cholesterol in that poutine clogged some arteries and blocked bloodflow to their brains?
Who’s going to be in net against Boston tonight?
I’m gonna guess… Theodore.
FUUUUUUCK!!!
His .881 save percentage and dismal play should be an indicator that you don’t want him facing the best team in the NHL right now. Play like that should get you sent to the minors for a few weeks for a wake the fuck up call.
I hate Boston (best team in the league) with an unbridled passion and odds are they are going to kick the shit out of my beloved Habs tonight.
They could at least increase the odds by putting a real goalie in net. Theodore has allowed 12 goals in his last tow outings… yes… 6GAA in 2 games. These aren’t the only games where I thought he was playing for the other team. His GAA for the season is nearly 4.
If Theodore does start the game and plays as he has (badly), for the love of all that is holy (the Grail)… give him the hook and let Hackett show him how it’s done.
I don’t even want to go into my theory on why Theodore has been allowed to play like he has, but if he was on any other team he wouldn’t be getting as much ice time.
Who knows… my Habs have been playing reasonably well and scoring more than usual. Perhaps we’ll be the ones to break Boston’s back tonight.
That is… if they can keep the puck out of their own net.
ohhh… sports. You mean, where you sit in your living room and watch a bunch of other guys get paid to play a game? It’s just a fad; it’ll never catch on.
At first I thought “Habs” was short for “Rehab”, but then I opened the thread and saw it had nothing to do with the Dallas Cowboys. I guess I’m mistaken.
Theodore won the MVP last year. I’m guessing that management is still hoping he’ll break out of his season-long slump and run off a half dozen shut outs in a row. That said, you’d figure they’d keep running Hackett out there every other game and take full advantage of his hot hand.
But seriously, how long has it been since Montréal’s management has done anything in a sensible manner? One Cup in the 90s?!? A perennial also-ran since that last Cup? I love the Habs dearly, but they’ve sucked for almost as long as the ultra-shitty Flames have (and living in Calgary, I’m reminded daily, if not hourly, of the Flames’ suckage).
It was a disappointing evening for the fans in Beantown as their beloved Bruins faced their perrenial rivals, the Canadiens. Surely they expected the number one Bruins to win easily against a team that had won only 1 game in their last 5 outings and hadn’t won in the Fleet Centre since February 1, 2001.
Prior to the game, Montreal’s coach Therrien pulled his head out of his ass long enough to figure out that the man he needed between the pipes was not Jose Theodore but Jeff Hackett, who’s save percentage of .932 is the best in the NHL. With 17 points in the 12 games he’s played, Hackett is the reason the Habs are over .500 and still in the hunt for the Grail.
I bet the Bruins wished Therrien had kept his head buried and started Jose “the seive” Theodore instead.
Hackett did not disappoint anyone except the Bruins and their fans… he shut them out in the first period and by the time they finally scored in the second Montreal’s snipers had already scored for four goals. Three of those goals came in a span of just over seven minutes in the second period on 9 shots.
Boston got one more in the closing minute of the second period and from there Hackett slammed the doors shut. He stopped 13 shots in the second and turned away another 14 in the third to lead his team to victory.
Credit has to be given to Montreal for stifling Boston’s formidable offensive talent while displaying some talent of their own at the other end of the ice.
Robby Ftorek (Boston’s coach) was impressed…
“They played a smart game,” he said. “We dumped and chased and they shut down some things. They had a nice game plan.”
He failed to mention that Boston’s defense was unable stop the Montreal players from making his goalie (Grahame) their personal bitch for the evening.
These teams will meet again on Dec 14 in Montreal. Expect Ftorek to start Steve Shields in net while the Therrien will surely have to give Hackett the green light for this match up.
Perhaps they can start their new backup man, Theodore, against the Lightning on Thursday night…
Islanders finally get control of the Blackhawks in a slow game, made even sadder by watching favorite player and former Islander Steve Thomas in the twilight of his career, and I think it’s safe to turn it off.
To watch the end of “The Corner”. Where classically trained and classically beautiful actors and actresses are dressed up like crackheads and told to act like them.
Turn the game back on, and the Blackhawks score two in less than two minutes. They won. This sucks.
Don’t give up on Theodore yet. Every player has slumps. Remember Roy, the Habs previous Vezina winner? He was going through a terrible slump and the Canadiens traded him to Colorado for a bag of pucks. Bet they wish they had that trade back.
First of all, Roy came off the ice after that 11-1 prison rape in 1995 and told Canadiens Team President Ronald Corey “it’s either [Coach Tremblay] or me.” Basically demanding a trade (he had been booed off the ice, not uncommon in the REAL Hockeytown). And yes, he had won the Habs the Cup in '93 (but perhaps no moreso than Scotty Bowman’s 6 on 4 gamble), but he wasn’t the God that he is now (or was a couple years ago). The Habs sent Roy and Mike Keane (the latter I think just emptied my recycling) to the 'lanche for Andrei Kovalenko, Martin Rucinsky, and Jocelyn Thibault. IIRC, Thibault was all of 18 at the time and touted to be among the best in the game (oops). So the trade wasn’t AWFUL, awful. Not as bad as, say, the Gretz trade.
