Can the Canucks make life worse for the Canadiens? Pregame and Game Thread
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 4:26 PM PST
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Vancouver Canucks at Montreal Canadiens, Feb 24, 2009 4:30 PM PST
2:40 PM ET Update: We forgot to mention tonight is also a homecoming for Bernier and Bolduc, both from Quebec. In honor of the event, expect Bolduc to challenge Laraque and Bernier to miss an open net no less than 10 times before Vigneault buries his foot in his ass.
Game Stats Update (via canucks.com)
- The Canadiens are 8-4-1 against the West this season
- Vancouver is 20-2-2 in games they score four goals or more goals
- This is the 112th meeting between the two teams with Montreal the holding a strong historical edge at 27-71-13.
Random Notes
- Look for Burrows and Luongo to put on a show in front of their home city.
- As Sean noted below, look for Alex Kovalev to remain relevant for a second straight game.
- For notes from the other end, visit Eyes On The Prize. If you feel brave, try Habs Inside/Out too.
Montreal's centennial season is turning into a bit of a gongshow.
- 3 wins in 11 games in February.
- 4 wins in their last 16 games.
- The complete meltdown of Carey Price as a starting goalie, and the general lack of success of both he and Jaroslav Halak. It appears Halak will start against the Canucks, as Guy Carbonneau said today that he will go with the goalie that gets wins or has the "hot hands".
- Alex Kovalev has mental issues and is sent home from a road trip by Bob Gainey. This story has a happy ending for now, as Kovalev has said that the break did him a world of good. Well, he did get 3 points in his first game back in a Habs win over the Senators on Saturday. He may be a major force against the Canucks.
- Ah, and then the Kostitsyn Brothers and Roman Hamrlik are reportedly linked to a druggie/crime suspect. I don't even know what is happening with that scenario except that the League and Bob Gainey are "dealing with it".
So many distractions for a Canadiens team that doesn't need distractions. They are sliding down the Eastern Conference standings, once at/near the top, now in 5th spot, only 2 points up on 9th place Carolina.
Saku Koivu missed practice on Monday due to the flu.
No Francis Bouillion, who has a groin injury.
Oh yes, the Habs did acquire Mathieu Schneider since we played them last.
The Canucks are the exact opposite.
-No distractions.
-Luongo is looking like his normal self again (just close your damned 5-hole at key times in the game, Louie! Jeezus!)
-They've won 8 of 9 games in a masterful month of February.
-These times are gold, and you can see it in the players' faces, here and here.
It couldn't be better timing for Francophone Alex Burrows to stroll into Montreal, with a rumored 70 friends in attendance. He has 7 points in his last 4 games, and Vigneault is looking like a genius for putting him with the Sedins. (admit it, Yankee!)
It's another early game: 4:30 PST, and it's on Sportsnet Pacific.
It's tough to bet against the Canucks lately isn't it? They had better play a more sound game than they did in Toronto. Maybe Sundin is over his illness and can play better as well. A shootout winning goal against your former team doesn't get you off the hook does it?
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Me admit it? No no, you admit it.
I’d put Rod Blagojevich with the Sedins right now if they scored regularly (plus, you know, that fantastic mop). So as long as Burrows is clicking don’t move him.
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Yankee: Oh yeah, I’m eating Crow on that one too!
Sleza: what? Would you prefer: “silly fiasco?”
You can’t take me all that seriously, Sleza. I was just poking fun at a team I hate. If the Habs pull out of this ‘slump’ then they have major character and should be fine. Way to go, now I’m retracting! :)
Sorry...
I was joking… :) The team just depress me so much, the only way to handle the misery is to make cheap joke about it
Как же так может быть?
retracting?! That’s it, I’m calling them a circus in every post I make about them now!
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 8:06 AM PST up reply actions
We're doomed
8-1 Habs
Kovalev (3), Halak (2) Carbonneau (2), Gainey
LaBarbara’s left pad with the only marker for Vancouver
Against Luongo in front of his family?! Silence you fiend!
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 12:11 PM PST up reply actions
Nice update, Mike! Agreed on the Bernier comment fo sho! You’re starting to sound like Red Foreman from That 70’s Show!
I’ve never seen that show but I’ll take that as a compliment. I hope?
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
Really? You poor man
But not as poor as the Canucks tonight. It’s gonna hurt real bad.
Fortunately I’ll be drunk by 5:30pm pst
Go over to Eyes on the Prize
Treacherous snakeman!
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
Why is that? He doesn’t have a game thread up?
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
No
I meant Temujin should bring his Montreal hard on over to that site!
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:13 PM PST up reply actions
Red Foreman is awesome. He always has some comment about putting his foot in someone’s ass.
I can’t believe you haven’t seen that show.
Oh, found a great Red Foreman compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i308sX3C3PA
Love it!
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 2:56 PM PST up reply actions
“And you are about to read a book that my foot wrote. It’s called ’On the Road to In Your Ass!”
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
Enjoy the game, guys
I’m stuck with meetings and visitors here…way too much work and its interrupting my hockey fix…dammit!
I may just be stuck at work myself…. oh gad..
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
Nobody puts GZ Expat in the corner!
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
I'm feeling a little more optimistic about the game,
so I’m going to revisit my prediction
6-0 Habs. We won’t even score a goal. :-)
The Habs are my second favorite team, but they are so stinky right now. A Canuck loss tonight would be a bit demoralized, and a win would be fantastic. I’m trying not to get my hopes up.
GZ: Ya poor sonofagun. Things will never change until you convert the local population (especially your immediate co-workers and clients) to the joys of NHL.
To me, it won’t be all that demoralizing if we lose. We’ve won 8 of 9. If this was January I’d have a bottle in one hand and a gun in the other.
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 4:00 PM PST up reply actions
I love early starts! I think this may be the last one of the regular season.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
I’m unsure about tonight. IF the Nucks won, they would join the ranks of the super-hot, especially with the Lightning waiting. I’m hopin for a win, but its gonna either be a big-time loss (5-2) or big-win (6-2). Either way its gonna be big.
Nucks better sign up Burr also, I could see Montreal makin a pitch for him in the summer to toughen up there pansy-assed lineup…
I think the Habs are tightening down. Canucks will win, but it could be another close one or even into OT.
Let’s try a 4-2 prediction, similar to the Sens game.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
Burrows will be resigned before the summer. I’d bet on that.
These early games SUCK! I will get called back to work at any given moment. We’ll see.
Hard to believe the Habs have only lost 6 games in regulation at home this year. But with Luongo playing in his home province, I expect great things from him tonight
Sean did you see?
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/van
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:34 PM PST up reply actions
The different face pant patterns completes this train wreck. I believe the “K” dude may have paint on his eyeballs.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Toronto was nicer. Take THAT Habs fans.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Oh never mind. Reading is fundamental.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
The Habs
have come out way better in this game than the last. They are all over us.
Hang in there boys!
Split screen fights…oh yes good times.
Bieksa is going to feed someone their spine before their night is over.
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I think the NHL Network is having a preview soon; maybe this weekend? That may include a Canuck game, not sure though.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:58 PM PST up reply actions
OH
well i am out of tricks
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:59 PM PST up reply actions
does for me
:-(
I’ll peak around and see if I can find you another feed somewhere. Will let you know if I come across anything else
I’ll trade OB for Komisarek off the ice for 5 minutes any day!
Split screen? What channel are you watching?
Sportsnet I think
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:58 PM PST up reply actions
Not yet! But I swear they split the screen to follow both fights.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 4:59 PM PST up reply actions
hockey > basketball
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:01 PM PST up reply actions
I’d skip it, but we’re playing the Mavs, which is somewhat of a big game, and its on HD, and I might go blind from watching this.
keep the audio on for hockey
but watch the nice HD signal
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
try here:
http://www.myp2pforum.eu/nhl-icehockey/35300-ice-hockey-today-2-24-streaming-discussion.html
There is a link there. One is a SOPCAST (you have to d/l a little program). The other is Ustream in french… boooo….
No excuses to fuck this up
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
I want the core of the team walking by the start of the second.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
Hear here! If only it had happened.
by Andrea's evil twin on Feb 24, 2009 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
I think we could just narrow that down to Jaroslap Halak
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 8:22 PM PST up reply actions
Haha maybe up by Dallas, its pretty much just football here, which in my opinion, is the worst sport ever.
B-ball is cool to play, but I hate watching it.
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
You missed golf and, from there, tennis, curling, any professional female league and finally frisbee.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
I suppose at the correct viewing angle there is something to be said for female wrestling.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:35 PM PST up reply actions
OK some golf can be cool
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:36 PM PST up reply actions
a bit late...
A bit late to the party, but I have no idea why anyone would bother watching a basketball game for more than the last 5min. And even then all you have to do is check the math to see who will most likely win.
After getting used to hockey I can’t watch any other team sport… everything else is too slow, too boring, too lame.
Watching:
Hockey > Individual sports involving snow > National team games (if I’m bored) > individual sports with girls in skimpy outfits (only if I’m deadly bored) > other sports… um no, that’s why we have internet and torrent TV series.
Reading about:
Hockey>Sports that involve snow>Footie>Baseball>Basketball>Football
Golf is the worst. I cannot understand how anyone burns lean tissue sitting down on the couch watching that on the TV.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:31 PM PST up reply actions
That’s shit. Fire AV damn it.
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:41 PM PST up reply actions
I don't know why but...
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by Yankee Canuck on Feb 24, 2009 5:45 PM PST up reply actions
This game has all the makings of a clean loss. One of those" couldnt bury our chances and they did" type of cliches
It's clear to me that
if we are going to get one, it’s going to be a third line grind goal. Or maybe some kind of tip-in.
But the big guns are playing too frilly and aren’t finishing.
This is a steaming pile of ass
smothered in ass gravy.
Fucking Ref. that 5 min penalty was garbage.
And we have no finish tonight at all.
I see that. Well, we have won 8 of 9. Like I said earlier, this won’t hurt too much if we lose this one.
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
When he shoots something I think. It’s been so long!
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 6:21 PM PST up reply actions
Blanca was the best, and I think with a little practice. i would still be unbeatable :), now if nothing else. I want to see a E honda 100 hand slapdown on Kovalev or some other Montreal turd
Yeah, I dunno about this one
But if we can snag a cheap on, we might get in Halak’s head. This Habs team is one move away from collapse. So who knows?
This could be worse. It could be a division rival.
But I’d never give up on the Canucks..not even tonight.
I want to bag on the RPM line, but I haven’t been impressed with any of the lines tonight.
“Canucks have taken 42 minutes in penalties tonight.”
Submitted without further comment.
If the Canucks really tank the third…
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6661,00.html
Lets marvel at Penelope…
Mute button is your friend
Gads, the Canucks are not coming back tonight, I’m afraid.
Can’t get anything going now.
here's a chance
but sweet lord I am seeing terrible decisions by Canuck players all over the place. Waaaay toooo cute-sy and not enough forcing the issue
Halak
has shown some skill at seeing through people.
I don’t like Demitra on the point. Ohlund would be better, imo.
Those were the only twins to show up tonight
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 24, 2009 8:21 PM PST up reply actions
This is the kind of game they’d win if Luongo could steal the first period. Gives them time to get going… if the slow start problem is due to the travel/environment. If it’s all mental and they can’t get going until they’ve played pattycake for 40min I don’t know exactly what you can do except put them on the ice for 40min before the game starts.
travel ain't an excuse this time
they’ve been in Montreal two days now.
It’s so silly. This Habs team was on the ropes and we couldn’t take advantage.
yeah, me neither. What could he have done differently?
The breakaway was a golden shot, and he was saving our ass for almost the entire 5 min PP
40 shots is evidence of getting up for the game
but Sundin sucked a dick tonight, Demitra had several chances, and no one else had any finish.
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