HF Habs: Anyone else completely losing interest in the Team?

[LyricalLyricist]

Therrien wasn't getting fired because Bergevin always thought he was doing a great job. See Lefebvre. He was forced to fire him because the team was downward spiralling again and rumours say Price led a mutiny. People also forget that he fired Therrien prior to Julien getting fired. That's why he reached out to Florida for Gerard Gallant (who doesn't speak French).

Personally I think everyone in the organization should learn how to speak french, mostly because I think everyone in Canada should be bilingual. But I also think it's something you can learn on the job, like many of the players do. Every candidate is available to the team because every candidate can learn French when they get here. I don't know why it isn't just looked at that way.

Yah but habs interviewed a few Anglophone guys for GM job too...what do you know.

For what it's worth, I'm 100% okay with a coach coming here and being told to try and get acclimated with the culture, learn some French on time off, specifically summer.

I'm all for everyone in Canada being bilingual although that's because I think knowledge is power. If someone in Vancouver learns English and mandarin that's fine by me, doesn't need to be French. In Quebec? needs to be English & French. A good case could be made for Ontario as well. Still that's kind of beyond my level here. I don't know enough about the school systems in other provinces to give a fair answer. Just knowledge is a good thing, so if it can fit, why not?

 

[LyricalLyricist]

Coaches hired by the same team twice that I can recall.

Julien
Therrien
Hitchcock (won cup first time)
Nielson

Maurice in Carolina.

It happens. I just don't think it's ever happened back to back coaches in an organization.

hey, maybe I'm wrong but if any team in the CFL, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB ever hired a coach they already had back to back(MT/CJ style) I think habs are only one in history.

 

[nhlfan9191]

The next time hockey counts will be the draft lottery.

Sad that the next meaningful event for our team will be a 3 minute intermission segment 2 months from now.

 

[OldCraig71]

I don't think I have ever seen this board have less interest in all things habs.

 

[groovejuice]

I don't think I have ever seen this board have less interest in all things habs.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here

 

[Runner77]

I don't think I have ever seen this board have less interest in all things habs.

It'll be that much sweeter when better days will be upon us. Whenever it is that they'll come.

 

[OldCraig71]

It'll be that much sweeter when better days will be upon us. Whenever it is that they'll come.

 

[Runner77]

this is the correct answer.


Whether the team is good or not I cant remember the last time missed a game.

There is no "correct" answer. Everyone is entitled to be a fan in the manner they see fit. It's an all-inclusive club, no one gets to make definitive determinations, nor remove allegiances that in many cases, are decades old. You can't tell someone they're not entitled to hold on to their childhood team, just cause they want to take a sabbatical from the condescending and non-entertaining shit-show that ownership and management are content to put out.

 

[Masuli]

I remember watching this for the first time and having goosebumps (Therrien or not). Now, haven't watched a single game this season and I'm not going to.

 

[Rapala]

Once upon a time I PVR'd every game.
It's incredible how much stuff you miss when wearing your fan hat.
Then we got the second coming starting with MT. At the end of his first full season I stopped doing it because it was like Groundhog Day watching the same games over and over again. I know a lot of people were pleased with Da Record but I honestly never was.
I didn't get the impression we were improving at all (except for the Vanek move) Despite how it ended there was a period of time where the Habs were going globetrotter on our opponents. I still can't figure out why MB turtled after that season?

 

[PaulD]

Sad that the next meaningful event for our team will be a 3 minute intermission segment 2 months from now.

Do they still make the 5 loser GMs show up for it.

 

[PaulD]

No Habs game all week and no one cares. Arizona plays Vegas tonight, no help for the tank.

Ha! Didnt even know that.

 

[PaulD]

Remember good Friday 84 ?

Loved that play off run.

 

[nhlfan9191]

Do they still make the 5 loser GMs show up for it.

I doubt it. With the lottery being the way it is now, you’d have to invite all 15 GM’s who have a chance.

 

[Laurentide]

Remember good Friday 84 ?

Loved that play off run.

I was at that game. Best live event I ever attended, bar none.

 

[Laurentide]

Once upon a time I PVR'd every game.
It's incredible how much stuff you miss when wearing your fan hat.
Then we got the second coming starting with MT. At the end of his first full season I stopped doing it because it was like Groundhog Day watching the same games over and over again. I know a lot of people were pleased with Da Record but I honestly never was.
I didn't get the impression we were improving at all (except for the Vanek move) Despite how it ended there was a period of time where the Habs were going globetrotter on our opponents. I still can't figure out why MB turtled after that season?

Being a fan is many things but mainly it's a habit and like any habit if you try hard enough you can break it. I used to schedule my entire life around the Habs' schedule so that I wouldn't miss a game. Today I'll only watch them play if I literally have nothing better to do, which isn't often. And on the rare occasions when I do watch a game in its entirety I often spend a lot of it with my head down looking at a computer screen rather than watching the action. The Habs for me nowadays are just background noise. If I hear a goal siren I'll lift my head and watch the replay. Other than that I'm not bothered. This team as it is currently being run, gives me no reason to invest any more of my time in it.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

Maurice in Carolina.

It happens. I just don't think it's ever happened back to back coaches in an organization.

hey, maybe I'm wrong but if any team in the CFL, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB ever hired a coach they already had back to back(MT/CJ style) I think habs are only one in history.

You have to include euro teams in different sports, rugby included.

 

[PaulD]

Being a fan is many things but mainly it's a habit and like any habit if you try hard enough you can break it. I used to schedule my entire life around the Habs' schedule so that I wouldn't miss a game. Today I'll only watch them play if I literally have nothing better to do, which isn't often. And on the rare occasions when I do watch a game in its entirety I often spend a lot of it with my head down looking at a computer screen rather than watching the action. The Habs for me nowadays are just background noise. If I hear a goal siren I'll lift my head and watch the replay. Other than that I'm not bothered. This team as it is currently being run, gives me no reason to invest any more of my time in it.

This post hits home.

I started watching the habs that way in 015.
Now they are not even back ground noise anymore. The simply aren't on at my house.. I have the Jets game on, or Pens, Preds game or Bruins game on instead........The Habs don't even offer good back ground noise anymore. Check scores on my phone. I refer to them as Gallagher updates.

Just as players get cut from teams. Can only justify so much time in front of a TV screen. Got to be selective. ..........So MBs squad got cut.

Get this. Habs Leafs game a couple of weeks ago....... the wife and I watched Fargo on net flicks instead. Needless to say she loves the new Habs. I never would have believed in a million years that could be so.
Looking forward to play offs though. Cup is up for grabs.

 

[PaulD]

I doubt it. With the lottery being the way it is now, you’d have to invite all 15 GM’s who have a chance.

Right.

 

[groovejuice]

There is no "correct" answer. Everyone is entitled to be a fan in the manner they see fit. It's an all-inclusive club, no one gets to make definitive determinations, nor remove allegiances that in many cases, are decades old. You can't tell someone they're not entitled to hold on to their childhood team, just cause they want to take a sabbatical from the condescending and non-entertaining ****-show that ownership and management are content to put out.

One of the reasons I still frequent this board after such an awful, self-immolating season is posts like this one.

 

[PaulD]

I was at that game. Best live event I ever attended, bar none.

"I was at that game Best live event I ever attended bar none" That line left me speechless for a few seconds. I just stared at it.

The Montreal Forum. Good Friday 1984. Canadiens vs Noriques. Awesome that you were there. I would get your autograph if you told me that in person.

One of my favorite games of all time. Friend taped it so I watched it many times over the next few years and loved it each time.

That is a piece of history you share with a great Canadiens team !

Still remember where i was and who I watched it with.

Hated Nords lead 2-0. All the brawls broke out. Steve Shutt scores 2 goals to tie it up. Rick Green scores. Carbs scores. Chabot scores. Habs win 5-2 and go on to win series !!!

Hunter brothers started to go at each other . ha!

Trembly broke P Statsnys nose.

Nilan ignited the second brawl.

All while Hamel lay motionless on the ice from a sucker punch by Thelvin.
**** correction by Catanddogguitar***** ..not Thelvin. Sucker punch that ignited Good Friday Brawl was thrown by Louis Sliegher.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

All while Hamel lay motionless on the ice from a sucker punch by Thelvin

Hamel lay motionless on the ice from a sucker punch by Louis Sleigher and Thelvin from Bruins broke Richer's finger in game 2 PO.

 

[PaulD]

Hamel lay motionless on the ice from a sucker punch by Louis Sleigher and Thelvin from Bruins broke Richer's finger in game 2 PO.

You are right my friend.

I mixed up two hated Bruins.

Great call....thx.

 

[sheed36]

I don't think I have ever seen this board have less interest in all things habs.

I've been here for 13 years and it's also the worse I've seen it. Too many of the regulars that were here for the past few years seem to have disappeared. If MB stays for much longer there won't be anyone left on this board other than the handful of MB supporters still left and I'm not even sure they're really supporters of him anymore and are just trolling.

As long as the Bell Centre keeps bringing in the high profits I doubt Molson even cares what fans think of the on ice product. I wonder how long Molson will have to wait until he see's some playoff revenue again? The Habs are getting left behind in today's NHL with so many teams having highly skilled young players currently on their teams and more on the way. Must be nice..

 

[Shabs]

One of the reasons I still frequent this board after such an awful, self-immolating season is posts like this one.

Get a room, you two.

Best memory of live habs playoff game I ever saw was 1986 game 7 vs Hartford. I was in the rafters. Lemieux backhand upstairs beats liut . He was a playoff monster. Every time richer carried the puck people lifted out of their seats.