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That might be the best way to have a more talented and competitive Habs team.
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That might be the best way to have a more talented and competitive Habs team.
FLHabs
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Yup Molson will have no choice, and maybe the whole "language" thing will fly over to quebec and habs can just focus on hockey. I also think that it will somewhat dilute the toxicity of the french media towards the habs
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Bring me back to 2006...
Some Leaf players getting "screeched in" and kissing the cod while here in Newfoundland for training camp.
Nice purse Auston. Lucky for you Ryan O'Byrne isn't still playing and on your team.
Jesus H Christ that's a proper fanny pack. A fanny pack. 1996-worthy.
JianYang
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Maybe you missed the context of the discussion , but the post I quoted was talking about 100 points. Why would I move the goalposts that were estaished by the OP?
Besides, 100 points was nothing unique in 92-93. There were 24 teams, and 21 players hit that milestone.
Kovalev's 84 points in 07-08 is much more impressive than any Habs individual output in 92-93, as that was good for the 11th rank in the league.
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Where do we sign the petition for that to happen?
Batman wouldn’t mind since it would be a Canadian team staying in Canada.
I believe the only hurdle is for a new owner to pay up a casino gambling debt.
Phil Parent
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Wow, quite the piece on Brad Ostrom who passed away recently and who spent nearly 50 years coaching minor hockey.
I literally saw the man's life flash before my eyes as I read it. What an unbelievable tale of selflessness and discipline. He did it all for others, didn't even have his own kid playing to justify him putting in so much time.
In the end, ill health felled him but evenso, he was fighting through as much as he could:
For decades, Ostrom brimmed with the kind of energy that permits a man to devote more than 15 hours a week on top of his full-time accounting career to developing local hockey talent, to inventing drills and securing ice time, to carefully selecting tournaments and booking the hotel rooms, to instilling life lessons and to navigating the helicopter parents — oh, the parents — and increasingly intrusive executive committees.
But Ostrom hadn’t stepped on a sheet of ice since November. His bag of gear — skates, gloves, that now-mandated helmet — had been stolen from his car, parked outside his subdivision home in Komoka, a farm town just a slapshot west of London. He could’ve bought new stuff, but why bother? He coached the remainder of 2018–19, his final season, from the bench.
Esophageal cancer feels like a fiery medicine ball in your chest. Eating solid foods either hurts or chokes you. If it’s not indigestion, it’s heartburn. If it’s not coughing, it’s vomiting. Weight loss is rapid and ravaging. Quality of life drops off a cliff. The survival rate, if detected early, is one of the worst among cancers: 19 per cent.
This is the man who coached the likes of Doughty, Kadri and Couture. They never forgot.
Some interesting anecdotes, like how he used to smoke behind the bench and when a kid complained, he'd put out the butt of his cigarette on that kid's helmet. Or how he would get parents involved in the game, especially in recent years as they'd become much more intrusive.
You really get to see how hockey evolved over his lifetime and how many were influenced by him and were thankful for it.
It's a long read but well worth it. RIP, Brad Ostrom -- what a journey.
I literally saw the man's life flash before my eyes as I read it. What an unbelievable tale of selflessness and discipline. He did it all for others, didn't even have his own kid playing to justify him putting in so much time.
In the end, ill health felled him but evenso, he was fighting through as much as he could:
For decades, Ostrom brimmed with the kind of energy that permits a man to devote more than 15 hours a week on top of his full-time accounting career to developing local hockey talent, to inventing drills and securing ice time, to carefully selecting tournaments and booking the hotel rooms, to instilling life lessons and to navigating the helicopter parents — oh, the parents — and increasingly intrusive executive committees.
But Ostrom hadn’t stepped on a sheet of ice since November. His bag of gear — skates, gloves, that now-mandated helmet — had been stolen from his car, parked outside his subdivision home in Komoka, a farm town just a slapshot west of London. He could’ve bought new stuff, but why bother? He coached the remainder of 2018–19, his final season, from the bench.
Esophageal cancer feels like a fiery medicine ball in your chest. Eating solid foods either hurts or chokes you. If it’s not indigestion, it’s heartburn. If it’s not coughing, it’s vomiting. Weight loss is rapid and ravaging. Quality of life drops off a cliff. The survival rate, if detected early, is one of the worst among cancers: 19 per cent.
This is the man who coached the likes of Doughty, Kadri and Couture. They never forgot.
Some interesting anecdotes, like how he used to smoke behind the bench and when a kid complained, he'd put out the butt of his cigarette on that kid's helmet. Or how he would get parents involved in the game, especially in recent years as they'd become much more intrusive.
You really get to see how hockey evolved over his lifetime and how many were influenced by him and were thankful for it.
It's a long read but well worth it. RIP, Brad Ostrom -- what a journey.
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Milhouse40
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Come on NHLPA, i couldn't go through another summer of Escrow, Cap, Contract and tons of other things not fun to talk about….still have the bad taste of the last lockout in my mouth
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Yeah, don’t do it NHLPA.
Otherwise a lot of us fans will be forced to issue ultimatums about how we’ll be quitting NHL games for good and then when the strike will be over, we’ll go right back to watching games like the shameless cattle we all are.
Milhouse40
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So true....still, don't do it, lol.
I'm pretty sure they will re-open it though….too much things that needs tweaking and the escrow is too high for them.
Because it helps with our internal problems? What if LV had ended up being Quebec would that also have changed the mediocrity the incumbents drown us in or just the narrative.
Funny thing is I was able to drop baseball after the disaster that was the year we had it in the bag. Hockey is a little bit harder to give up but my patience with the posers on both sides is wearing thin. Particularly with so many people just trying to make ends meet in the real world.
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Milhouse40
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There's so much issues than the Cap st this point...at best it won't move up bit it won't drop like that.
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If a Quebec city expansion team would have went to the cup final in their first year, the changes would have been epic, new coach, new gm, young players/picks traded to make the playoffs right f***ing now
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With training camps now open and the season right around the corner one would think the team and the agent would be upping their efforts to get a deal signed ASAP instead of not even talking. This just doesn't make any sense to me at all but I'm neither a GM or player agent so what do I really know.
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