Dutronc
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Least favourite Hab All-Time
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David Suzuki
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1. Ribeiro (obvious reasons)
2. Patrick Roy (Spoiled asshat, even worse human being)
3. Ken Dryden - Great person, I'll never forgive him for walking away from the team or becoming President of the Leafs lol
4. Benoit Brunet - No specific reason, I just always disliked him lol
5. Geoff Molson - Spoiled brat, should have kicked his ass in day camp years ago.
6. Habs management team who made Guy Lafleur retire early.
2. Patrick Roy (Spoiled asshat, even worse human being)
3. Ken Dryden - Great person, I'll never forgive him for walking away from the team or becoming President of the Leafs lol
4. Benoit Brunet - No specific reason, I just always disliked him lol
5. Geoff Molson - Spoiled brat, should have kicked his ass in day camp years ago.
6. Habs management team who made Guy Lafleur retire early.
Saku Koivu. I used to call him captain hook. Once a game, he would take an hooking call in the offensive zone. I hated it so much.
Also Dwight King
Also Dwight King
Andrei79
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I want the juicy details for number 5.
Number 1 and 2, can't agree more.
People don't know how much of an asshole Roy is. The kind of guy who physically beats up minors who play for him.
JC Superstar
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As least favorite players go, Robert Dirk is a Hall of Famer: his 3 games with the Habs are legend material. Some might trip on the blue line, he did it on open ice.
In yesteryears I'd say Murray Wilson: he was so fast he outrun the puck every time it landed on his stick.
Phil Goyette was an honest player that Pat Burns would have called a deer in Courtnall fame, but what good could you be behind Béliveau, Richard and Backstrom in a 3 lines era?
In yesteryears I'd say Murray Wilson: he was so fast he outrun the puck every time it landed on his stick.
Phil Goyette was an honest player that Pat Burns would have called a deer in Courtnall fame, but what good could you be behind Béliveau, Richard and Backstrom in a 3 lines era?
Wow… I remember that. Embarrassing for everyone. I recall Lemieux saying he was hurt but nobody was buying it.
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Patricia Breeze-by was a *HORRIBLE* defenceman. The guy had zero guts, he was a toothpick on blades. Sure he could skate and had a decent shot and decent playmaking ability, but so what? He had the heart of a lamb, he couldn't hit, couldn't fight, couldn't clear men sitting in the crease............just a big fat zero. He wasn't even a PP quarterback - didn't have the guts and balls to take over games a la Hedman or Robinson. Breeze-by got so much work because he was a Frenchman, no other reason. On another team he would have got 14 to 16 minutes a game - second PP D - otherwise a complete loss. I disliked him intensely. I felt the same way about Saku Koivu. These weren't WINNERS. They had talent, sure, but they weren't WINNERS.
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Shae Weber
Hard working professional but nothing more. No heart or passion. Guy was basically a career factory worker clocking in and out for a paycheck. He'd show the same level of emotion if he worked at an Amazon warehouse.
The CH obviously meant nothing to him and it showed.
Hard working professional but nothing more. No heart or passion. Guy was basically a career factory worker clocking in and out for a paycheck. He'd show the same level of emotion if he worked at an Amazon warehouse.
The CH obviously meant nothing to him and it showed.
Catanddogguitarrr
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My memory I disliked him more than I liked him but to say he was zero. His negative sides are all described in your post and I couldn't disagree completely. His positive side doesn't equal his bad side in the game, when it counts. He lost the puck in such different ways, he was a bit Lagaffe, he looked so horrible at times.
If we go in worse D habs had, put names like Traverse, Popovic, Bouillon, Spacek, Baron, other guys all as bad as the ones mentioned. But they just passed and bye-bye, Breezer stayed too long in a market where he was disliked.
It's like a greek trajedy.
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Catanddogguitarrr
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Koivu I have mixed feelings about him. Yes he was a good center but not enough for #1 C. His best chair would have been 2C but no one better came after him except maybe Plekanec. That wasn't good combo, too small, not fast enough for small players. Folks here used to say about Koivu he's poorman's Yserman or poorman Sakic, like if being 85% or 75% of a great player was enough to qualify 1C. He gave a lot of efforts himself but his team surrounding him was always weak and slow and very soft. We always needed better goalers than average to survive. In memory the complete Koivu years had been a failure, there was always too many missing elements in the mix.
edit : Everybody wasn in the wrong chair in the Koivu years. By chance we had good Kovalev years but he wasn't constant enough. Good for the show but forget about SC.
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Do you remember Ted Harris? Big, strong, clear zone type of D. But never passed the offensive line in his whole career (yes it's true) except once and he scored a goal. I'm not sure if that's true but that was told to me by older folks or maybe a guy on tv.
edit : I like when Pat Burns is mentioned in a post.
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JC Superstar
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At that time, if you weren't Bobby Orr, you were not allowed to cross the offensive blue line. Even J.C. Tremblay stayed put, except on the power play. Serge Savard was a young upstart that couldn't be tamed, even by two broken legs. The great Tim Horton was the all time scoring leader for defenseman with 115 and he scored most of his goals from the blue line.
Harris was the Rick Green of his era, an honest worker doing what was expected. The charismatic under achiever defenseman of that time was Terry Harper: you could count on him to let a player go along the board or lose a fight. When the All-Star game was the SC champion vs the All-Stars, I saw him score a goal on his famous eephus slap shot: the puck defected on a defensive player, Giacomin had time to square to the deflected puck but a second defensive deflection was too much and Harper got an All-Star goal.
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Peter Chiarell, once played for the habs but in 2011 but when Chara nearly KILLED patches, Peter Chiarell told everyone Patches was FAKING and even when the docs told everone Patches had a broken neck, still Peter Chiarell still told everyone the docs were faking and when Patches never played another game that year still Chiarell said Patches was faking to get the year off and get paid.
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Claude Lemieux. Hated when he would dive and act like he'd been shot, like a European soccer player, looking for a penalty.
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It was made so much worse by the over-the-top PR campaign made to cater to the trade and him. Media bozos would talk about Shea Weber's aura as if it was real. It was all coming from the organization.
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