I didn't find this board till 2000 or 2001. I signed up as Dan or HabfanDan or something like that. Then there was the great melt down of HF where everything got wiped out in Feb of '02. I waited a month to sign up as I was pissed that everything got wiped and wanted to see if the board would stick or crash again. After several weeks I signed up again but by that time there were several posters with some form of Dan as their username so I was lazy and just put my favorite hockey stick brand at the time as I wasn't playing much by then but in the '90's I would only use a Montreal brand stick, from one of the Finnish NHLers, loved that stick brand.
It was like the wild wild west back then compared to now. When I stated covering the Habs for HF, back when they were more then just a message board, the articles that we did, you could put comments after them. They weren't moderated so it was ugly people would say all kinds of shit about French this and French that. Didn't take long for them to figure out to remove the comment section if memory serves.
Fun times, I loved getting in debates about prospects and would go on and on, back and forth. But then the bad years and this place just got so dark, everything just became f*** you I'm right and won't listen to anything you say, just keep repeating it over and over that i'm right. But it's been tough to be a Hab fan these last 20 years on HF other then some good things here and there.
I still post a lot but don't write as much in depth stuff, time is much harder to come by.
