The Habs also get the title 'King of the North' that no other Habs team can claim.I read that the NHL removed awarding the conferences trophies a few weeks ago, but they changed their minds. The Habs are now fighting for the Clarence S. Campbell bowl. The only trophy they have never been allowed to put their hands on because it was in the other conference.
Ducharme used "have you ever done something special?" to motivate the team pre-Leafs game 5. Now they can do something no other Habs team have ever done and probably will never be able to do again.
made me chuckleThey got no one to post with. There are not enough of them to have more than one on the board at the same time.
Good point… I might use my neighbor’s cat tomorrow morning.I trust entrails more than tea leaves.
Absolutely yes. We limped into the playoffs, no one gave us a chance against either team, and we killed them all. Vegas is a GREAT team. I want us to win and I think we have a path to winning, but if we do lose there's no shame there.Serious question:
Do you consider this season a success regardless of the outcome of this series?
1. Beat the leafs in what will become an all time classic comeback
2. Swept the Jets to come out of the North.
3. Great showings from the youth (Caufield, Suzuki, KK)
4. Price showing he's best in the league come playoff time.
Frankly, #1 alone is enough for me. I'm excited and optimistic (voted habs in 7) but will be content with how the season ends if we don't get to the final.
Not only tea leaves, but Sacred tea leaves blessed by the archbishop of habs fefans, Rejean Tremblay himself. I have high confidence in the material I use for my rituals.Are you sure those 'leaves' your looking at are tea leaves, and not the 'special' kind of GREEN leaves instead?
Lol, just kidding.....
One of my annoying 'HABits' is my penchant for bad jokes!
Sorry everyone, please carry on intelligently...
gotta get one of the first two in Vegas... then hope CP can go nuclear as the series wears on to make up for our D that is going to get absolutely abused and ground down as the series wears on. Gotta bet that DeBoer is going to start the series going heavy and with marching orders for Reaves, Roy, Tuch, Kobesar to take a pound of flesh from our d every shift...
offensively, gonna need the JKO and Staal lines to be able to contribute because if the the Knights figured out how to neutralize Mackinnon's line outside of the PP, Suzuki & co. are in for a tough series... and Fleury is in a groove putting him right up there with Price's best...
this is very much a david/goliath battle... if the habs pull this one of, will be one of the more impressive series upsets i've seen in my lifetime!
Whether that storm of full capacity in Vegas for the first 10 minutes and that'll be a victory right off the bat.. then just continue to do what you've been doing, habs.
You obviously never watched Andre 'red light' Racicot play.
I read that the NHL removed awarding the conferences trophies a few weeks ago, but they changed their minds. The Habs are now fighting for the Clarence S. Campbell bowl. The only trophy they have never been allowed to put their hands on because it was in the other conference.
Ducharme used "have you ever done something special?" to motivate the team pre-Leafs game 5. Now they can do something no other Habs team have ever done and probably will never be able to do again.
Idk if we have to worry about them targetting one line to shut down, not ala Mack at least.
I think our lack of superstars kinda works in our favour in that the opposing team always has a line that dominate ours and we force them into our trap...
For example, Stone is their best defensive forward, but that line probably dominates any of ours. So what can they shut fown when they're on the offensive facing the Danault line?
i think the combination of Danault's line being in tough just trying to keep Stone/Patches in check, and Pietrangelo being a big minute neutralizing #1 d (the likes of which we haven't faced yet) that will see Suzuki's line all game long, will make it tough for either of those lines to find much 5/5 opportunity...
Avs got done in by their other 3 lines not being able to step up... kadri out really hurt and moving landeskog down didn't cut it...
twice in the last 4 games the knights held them to 20 shots or less (which is crazy when you consider just how offensively skilled that Avs roster is, especially on D), and they got 4 goals in 4 games outside of that top line (one of them was Saad, but while he was with compher) to close out the series.
1 goal/game from 3 lines, with that offensively minded d group supporting them, is not much... and our top line doesn't have the chops of Mackinnon/Rantanen to still be getting 1-2 goals/game while being "shut down".
offense is going to be tough to come by, we'll need a big productive series from Staal/Perry and JKO/anderson to have a shot imo