For myself I’m just happy to see a late first round selection panning out. He showed he should be able to step in next year and help the team. He might be an awesome 2/3 center down the road. The more depth down the middle the better.
Teams are going start coaching low IQ defensemen to stop shoving players toward the goalmouth. Because they're not winning the challenges anymore.Poehling shows that he knows where to go already.
Strange challenge on that goal.
The Bruins and Canadiens have played way more games that have mattered and have clashed in the playoffs way more often than the Quebec Nordiques. How many times did Montreal and Quebec meet in the playoffs in fifty years? Four times?
habs nords burned hot and fast and a lot of it had little to do with hockey, but boston mtl is the gift that keeps on giving. boston is our biggest rival, then then nords then everyone else ( yes including the leafs) a distant third.
vendredi saint doesn't push them into 1st, and I think we are coming up on the 35 year anniversary.
good times, good times.
By that logic, Montreal has more of a rivalry with the Penguins than with the Senators.
I am a Habs fan and have seen both; it is not even close. Think Montreal vs Bruins and add the pressure of a whole province dividing in two (some would even say a country). Families divided all over the province.
I love games vs the Bruins, but Nordiques games wass another level. The last time the habs won the cup, they played quebec in the first round; I've never been so nervous lol
haha you beat me to the Good Friday Massacre. I was looking to find where i had seen a part about someone losing an eye there.
having a big brawl doesnt make you a rival, if it did then the flyers and the senators would be rivals ( that was a beaut) and dallas and boston would be as well. rivalries are often geographic ( two teams in the same state/ province) but they have to be in the same damn conference at least so that they play each other alot. For the longest time, toronto wasnt so they are out. the nords, werent around long enough to make a lasting impression. sorry if this tweaks a nerve but its the truth.
when we did play them, sure, the games could get hot. but we just didnt play them enough. for a while, colorado detroit was humming, but outside of what 6 years it didnt have the juice to stay. no one, regardless of which team is better at the time, has ever suggested that the beef between montreal and boston could go poof. its a perpetual motion machine going on 50 years or more.every transgression by either team is simply added to an ever increasing file for context.
as for it " splitting families" that had absolutely zero to do with hockey.
boston-mtl isnt only the best rivalry for either team, it may well be the best rivalry in all of sports. the leafs would like to be our rival, but our dance card is full and they would be best off hitting up detroit or buffalo and seeing if those old flames can be rekindled.
Honestly, I don't know what to tell you if you think the Bruins aren't the Canadiens biggest rival other than that you are just plain wrong and you're ignoring decades and decades and decades of hockey to push forward a ten year window of hockey. It's frankly bizarre.
I dont see how this is so surprising, folks think Col and Det is one of the great rivalries, and that lasted what... 8 years? Most people ignore the 20 years with the Blues, or the great rivalries with Chicago and Leafs.
interestingly, ive done some research on the matter and there is a pretty good debate going on, with solid references. I was flabbergasted to find that Don Cherry, who played and coached the Bruins, said that the nordiques were the biggest rivalry. He usually says bad things about Quebequois and Quebequoi players
Cherry: No rivalry matches Nordiques-Canadiens - Sportsnet.ca