Omar
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Good signing for them. Strong, structural coach but he made allotments for Kessel and Seguin and Pasta to freelance, either he fits in or he doesn't. No downside.
Downside is the draft.
Good signing for them. Strong, structural coach but he made allotments for Kessel and Seguin and Pasta to freelance, either he fits in or he doesn't. No downside.
Better 20 years later than never
In retrospect, who makes this deal? Not me.
You realize you're laughing at your own imaginary character development.Signing an over the hill Russian who doesn’t give a flying **** about winning for league minimum in a desperate and pathetic attempt to salvage whatever is left of another write off season for a team who has hardly anything but a star goalie who’s overpaid and who’s best days are behind him. That’s what I find hilarious.
I keep seeing takes like this and I’m baffled. Yes.....he was pretty damn fast in his prime. He was never slow? Not even close. That was the whole point of this guy......big/strong/fast with a bomb of a shot. That’s how you go number one overall.That's the problem he was never really fast and is even slower now, I figure he will have trouble keeping up with the play.
I just don’t get it. Why would they? He hasn’t played in over a month. Once he’s played with him for a bit they’re probably going to warm up to him a bit.Funny seeing the Habs players interviewed, they're not exactly breathing a sigh of relief like the cavalry has arrived, they're just like "he's a good guy, he's had a good career"
Still you're a -1 in goal differential. Must be because you've got the best goalie in the world making 10.5 mil.
So Kovalchuk is already one of our best forwards because Price is having a bad year? Cool story bro...
What?
Where did I say that?
The way I look at current Habs offensive lineup, Kovy might just be one of their best already
Habs are 14th in the league in goals, perfectly respectable. I know you're just shamelessly pumping tires for russian players, but it's not like we're the 28th place jackets or anything.
Still you're a -1 in goal differential. Must be because you've got the best goalie in the world making 10.5 mil.
That's what was being implied by your little non sequitur jab.
Did you same the same thing when signing Spezza?Signing an over the hill Russian who doesn’t give a flying **** about winning for league minimum in a desperate and pathetic attempt to salvage whatever is left of another write off season for a team who has hardly anything but a star goalie who’s overpaid and who’s best days are behind him. That’s what I find hilarious.
i dont know whether im more surprised that MTL went after Kovalchuk or that Kovalchuk agreed to go to MTL
Interesting. Kovalchuk was my favourite player growing up. Not sure if there's any point to this signing though, he doesn't really bring much anymore.
Montreal and Russia always had a good relationship.
There was just that one year where we didn't re-sign Markov, Radulov got divorced and bailed because it was too painful to be in the city anymore (his words), we didn't protect Emelin and he got scooped, waived our only Russian prospect (Sherbak), and we traded our fake Russian (Galchenyuk).
And then the years since where we haven't had a Russian player.
Your GM is doing what he can to keep his job. Good....
Sorry, but I don't buy the Radulov story as you present it -- I followed the ongoing negotiations for both players closely at the time. It is my opinion that Bergevin bungled his negotiations with both Radulov and Markov that summer. Both players did have a liking for Montreal.
Markov became a Canadian citizen and had lived in the city some 16 years before Bergevin's negotiations with the player went sour. Radulov was prepared to sign long term but Bergevin gave him an ultimatum on an offer he made to him while he was a UFA. Bergevin then withdrew the offer and during that time, Dallas swooped in and made the better offer, which Radulov accepted.
Hoping Kovalchuk can re-discover his offense in order to flip him to another team for a pick at TDL. Interesting move by MB. That said, hopefully Dale Weise is returned to the AHL now.
Bergevin was already making excuses and covering his ass at the presser. " he knows its his last chance" What a pathetic bastard. 10 years to late. I remember when Habs had Saku they would have traded anyone for kovalchuk in his stud years. I think Gainey said he would literally trade the entire team for him. Now we get him on his last legs when hes not even good enough for the hollywood slacker teams.. This is gonna suck. Talk about doing the absolute bare minimum to keep his job. His expression and demeanor at the press conference was that of a man who knows he has no chance in hell with his current roster and is just there to save money for Molsen. The Habs are literally just a tax write off for a rich buffoon at this point. It is awful. Embarrassing. If I was Mayor of Montreal , I would throw Bergevin and Molsen in Bordeaux prison for treason against the city! Yeah its that bad.. Tabarnac!
We need to find a billionaire owner who is a hockey fan! If you guys know anyone please tell em to save the Habs ASAP!
You think Kovalchuk and Scandella make us contenders?!!An INFORMED opinion! Thank you.
What people may not know or ignored is that Price has made comments about contending. The last two moves are about Price as much as anything. While they are not game changers, they are dirt cheap moves that have upside. Scandella can and may very well be a top 4 defensman that can buy time until the kids come along.
Kovy is far more dangerous scorer then Weise/Cousins/Weal can ever be.
If neither work out, so what. At this point, we have so many injuries that the season is in jeopardy. To tank, we will never be as bad as the Sens or Devils. so the "we wont get Lafrenier" argument is a waste of air.