Ex GM: "If Habs can pull __ off this weekend, parade in Quebec"

[waffledave]

whoa, what makes you think there's any chance you're getting hossa?

It's an old joke from this board.

 

[SB164]

Let me guess. They went back to where Hossa's gloves were and found:

- Vinny's helmet
- Drouin's skates
- Crosby's jockstrap
- White's long lost twin brother
- DD's one-way ticket to Calgary?

Is this real life?

Son of a gun, if there's one team dumb enough to take DD, it'd be Calgary. Brilliant.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Devils need money so they trade us Kovalchuk?

 

[Habaneros]

But at what cost

A small parade cost like 50,000
A big parade cost any where from $350,000. To 1 million ,dependin on how many floats and clowns and ballons etc

 

[FireBurningBin]

DD+Plekanec+25th for Drouin

 

[Jmac1160*]

Son of a gun, if there's one team dumb enough to take DD, it'd be Calgary. Brilliant.

And they would too seriously. Feaster is a jagoff. I live in Calgary and to behonest I have no clue as to why he still has a job. DD for a 2nd or 3rd I would be happy

 

[Brainiac]

Son of a gun, if there's one team dumb enough to take DD, it'd be Calgary. Brilliant.

Sometimes I try to make sense. Sometimes I don't. Most of the time it's hard to tell the difference.

 

[Habaneros]

Devils need money so they trade us Kovalchuk?

That wouldnt be a parade......

What woould make QUEBECKers wanna parade?????

 

[Myron Gaines*]

A small parade cost like 50,000
A big parade cost any where from $350,000. To 1 million ,dependin on how many floats and clowns and ballons etc

Bout tree fiddy?

 

[otto bond]

It's Eklund... whatever.

For the record, of course I'd like Lecavalier, but not for more than 5 millions, and then one of Pleks or DD has to go. Or Gionto, but then you still have a logjam at C.

I don't see why that has to be. for fun:

Bourque-Plekanec-Gallagher
Max-VL-DD
Chucky-Eller-Gionta
Moen-White-Prust

Pk-Tinordi
Gorges-Markov
Diaz-Bouillon

Obviously the d needs help but that could be a solid forward line up. Could use bigger grit on the 4th line but still not bad.

 

[Habsfan18]

Remember, if you have a problem with the rumor being discussed, ignore it. It's as simple as that.

 

[Habaneros]

Hook line and sinker.

Hit me hit hit me one more time...

If the Habs can pull it off....well welcome to obvious land...hit counter goin cazy.

If the Habs can pull off winning a cup...Quebec will parade...e42

 

[CaptainBenn]

A small parade cost like 50,000
A big parade cost any where from $350,000. To 1 million ,dependin on how many floats and clowns and ballons etc

I heard Chicago had a parade too

 

[Agnostic]

Hahah, can't believe some of you are eating it up. Once a GM? A Habs source? So either Dudley or Carrière? As if they have time to feed stuff to Ek.

Only possibility of the guys on the possible trade market that would warrant a ''parade'' response would be Letang.

Trading key pieces then signing Letang to a $60M+ deal, that procession would not be a parade it would be the team funeral.

I hope MB keeps focused and stays the course, it's good to make upgrades but his own advice is what he should follow. Draft well, stay away from crippling long term contracts.

This is going to be like Y2K, mass hysteria and endless speculation until we realize nothing happened and we were all duped.

 

[otto bond]

Trading key pieces then signing Letang to a $60M+ deal, that procession would not be a parade it would be the team funeral.

I hope MB keeps focused and stays the course, it's good to make upgrades but his own advice is what he should follow. Draft well, stay away from crippling long term contracts.

This is going to be like Y2K, mass hysteria and endless speculation until we realize nothing happened and we were all duped.

To me any team giving Letang 60 million will regret it. Good player and tops among PMD but c'mon. That over 8/year.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

NO LETANG!!!...let Beaulieu mature; he's a stud in the making...

 

[Jay Wolf]

Maybe the entire Montreal Canadiens team has figured out a way to go back in time and win the cup. Now that would be parade worthy! If time machines look like Stewie's from Family Guy, then I'm not entirely sure all of them will fit. Maybe if they sit DD on Gionta's shoulders... Yah that'll work! Definitely time machine...

Or maybe the entire team has decided to come out of the closet all at once and have the first ever hockey/gay pride parade down Ste-Catherine street. But then they'd have to close down most of the streets downtown and I won';t find parking... I'll take a Bixie! Yah, definitely a gay pride parade...

Or maybe Eklund is making sh** up... Nah, that would be disingenuous.

It's close, but I think I'll go time machine.

 

[HCH]

Lecavalier can only be sign on July 5th.

I think you are wrong... I believe he can be signed before then because the amnesty buyout is a unique situation. Then again, I could be wrong.

 

[HCH]

To me any team giving Letang 60 million will regret it. Good player and tops among PMD but c'mon. That over 8/year.

I have to agree... even at $56 million I thought it was a stretch. He is good but not that good.

 

[Jmac1160*]

Remember, if you have a problem with the rumor being discussed, ignore it. It's as simple as that.

funny how if anyone else would have posted this it would have got moved. what happened to the ecklund thread? is this the start of a new one?

 

[Habsfan18]

funny how if anyone else would have posted this it would have got moved. what happened to the ecklund thread? is this the start of a new one?

Well, it's sort of a unique circumstance. It's draft weekend, a pretty huge sounding rumor, and it comes from a "legitimate" source as per the site rules.

If you have any issues with the way I (or other Habs mods) moderate the site, shoot me a PM. No need to post that publicly.

 

[Jay Wolf]

If there's anything to this rumor, it would have to be moving up into the top 3 or top 5. Nothing else would warrant a parade. I shutter at the thought of what MB is offering to try and pull that off!

 

[MasterD]

I don't see why that has to be. for fun:

Bourque-Plekanec-Gallagher
Max-VL-DD
Chucky-Eller-Gionta
Moen-White-Prust

Pk-Tinordi
Gorges-Markov
Diaz-Bouillon

Obviously the d needs help but that could be a solid forward line up. Could use bigger grit on the 4th line but still not bad.

I really, REALLY don't see DD being better at wing than center... he has vision and passing. Why woud you expect him to win races against defensemen and go in the corners to win battles?

EDIT and salary.

 

[Habaneros]

Bout tree fiddy?

Were goona sign the Lochness Monster.....parade!

 

[Hope Of Glory]

Since everyone knows how Eklund is not really reliable, there's not harm discussing what he says when we're heading to a pretty big week-end.

Some really exciting days are coming boys (and girls)!