Out of Town Thread Part XXIII

[417]

One Russian taken in the first round this year tells you all you need to know. The idea that Montreal is anti Russian is hilarious. The whole leauge has been moving away from Russians for at least a decade. Vegas is about to blow through TWO top KHL guys in their only two years in the league lol. Lots of teams haven’t had a significant Russian player in decades, in some cases ever.

I’d be ok with the Habs never drafting a Russian player in the first three rounds again.

I know I don't want anything to do with players from Manitoba...

Especially if they're from Flin Flon.

Edit - throw in the state of Idaho too...nothing good but potatoes comes out of Idaho.

 

[Adam Michaels]

2 x $3.25M

 

[OldCraig71]

I know I don't want anything to do with players from Manitoba...

Especially if they're from Flin Flon.

Edit - throw in the state of Idaho too...nothing good but potatoes comes out of Idaho.

This truly made me laugh. Those God damn Russians!

 

[sandviper]

Would be hilarious if the Flyers make the post season and we don't.

 

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[Mrb1p]

Really ? Ask KK or Mete or Juulsen or Lehkonen..... When they deserve ice time, they got it.

KK played 13 minutes a night and Lekhonen is a 4th liner. Who else is going to play above Mete? Hes literally our 3rd best D and hes been the 3rd best for two years now?

 

[Kriss E]

Pretty much.

A few new bloods have entered the last few years, but it's always been this way.

It kinda made sense before because the NHL was very much the same style for a while. Since the cap era though, due to new rules put in place and improvement in training/fitness imo, the league took a turn towards youth and skills.
So a lot of the coaches stuck around as you didn't need to bring in some fresh new minds when the league never changed.

Nowadays though, it really doesn't make any sense to stick with the NHL old boys club...You need guys who can coach better with the realities of today's game/world. Some guys have adapted well, but mostly, it doesn't make sense to stick with some of those dinosaurs.

 

[Adam Michaels]

It kinda made sense before because the NHL was very much the same style for a while. Since the cap era though, due to new rules put in place and improvement in training/fitness imo, the league took a turn towards youth and skills.
So a lot of the coaches stuck around as you didn't need to bring in some fresh new minds when the league never changed.

Nowadays though, it really doesn't make any sense to stick with the NHL old boys club...You need guys who can coach better with the realities of today's game/world. Some guys have adapted well, but mostly, it doesn't make sense to stick with some of those dinosaurs.

I agree. And it's nice to see more teams willing to bring in new blood and fresh ideas to their coaching staff. It is needed, as you say, to coach the modern hockey game. They're more in tune with the youth.

Carolina: Rod Brind'Amour
Dallas: Jim Montgomery
NYR: David Quinn
Chicago: Jeremy Colliton
Colorado: Jared Bednar
Vancouver: Travis Green
Anahaim: Dallas Eakins
Washington: Todd Reirden

I'll even add guys like Blashil, Cooper, Hynes, and Cassidy, who have been with their teams for a few years now, but never bounced around from team to team and been around for so long.

And the Habs did well to bring in guys like Bouchard (with Jacob and Burrows) in the AHL and Ducharme and Richardson in the Montreal staff.

 

[vokiel]

Don't know if this belongs to this thread but here is an interview with Scherbak. It is messed up. Unfortunately not surprising.

Scherbak tire à boulets rouges sur le CH

Confirming that this management is just a bunch of outdated dinosaurs with very little brain power. You'd put hockey moms in charge and it wouldn't make any difference.

 

[ZUKI]

To be fair it still looks better than Drouin's haircut ... or lack of.

Another grandpa that think that man can't have anything else than a short cut hairs . Go outside man , look around you if you go to a city . No , because it isn't like yours , it's bad , ugly and " ça fait pas propre "

 

[Gally11]

I find it weird when grown men are talking about what other guys wear or what they do with their hair. I don't understand how it affects anyone in any way

 

[ZUKI]

I find it weird when grown men are talking about what other guys wear or what they do with their hair. I don't understand how it affects anyone in any way

when i was younger , my sister asked me to be the father-in-law of her 3rd boy . When we were in the church and that the priest ask all the father-in-law to join the babies , a woman saw me and said " no ! he isn't his father-in-law " seeing me with my long hairs . It was such a stupid comment like if i would be a bad uncle just because of my long hairs ??? . I have always be liked by kids and i used to visit my sister's family at least once a week to have fun with them .
Funny thing is also that in a church , all the saints , Jesus and even God are represented with long hairs and the people from Rome are the one with the short haircut

 

[peate]

I find it weird when grown men are talking about what other guys wear or what they do with their hair. I don't understand how it affects anyone in any way

I haven't gotten a haircut in over two years now and Iove it. It's now long enough to comb back, cover the bald spot and tie it in a pony tail. Funny thing is, I see a lot of old dudes doing the same. Must be the 60's hippy coming back.

 

[Habs]

I find it weird when grown men are talking about what other guys wear or what they do with their hair. I don't understand how it affects anyone in any way

For some, they feel people like this care more about their appearance than their job performance. Like if they look good, maybe nobody will realize they suck at their job. So far its working for Bergefool.

 

[Mike Mike Caron]

I just remembered something concerning Scherbak complaining that French players could speak French with the staff and each others.

Isn't there a rule in the CBA that the working language of the NHL is English and that Montréal got an exception for French? So both languages are accepted? I remember reading that in the mid-2000.

 

[ThaDevilGirl]

when i was younger , my sister asked me to be the father-in-law of her 3rd boy . When we were in the church and that the priest ask all the father-in-law to join the babies , a woman saw me and said " no ! he isn't his father-in-law " seeing me with my long hairs . It was such a stupid comment like if i would be a bad uncle just because of my long hairs ??? . I have always be liked by kids and i used to visit my sister's family at least once a week to have fun with them .
Funny thing is also that in a church , all the saints , Jesus and even God are represented with long hairs and the people from Rome are the one with the short haircut

I sure hope that you mean "Godfather" (parrain)

 

[Runner77]

I sure hope that you mean "Godfather" (parrain)

I cringed when I read that father-in-law thing. It sounded like something you'd see in Game of Thrones.

 

[peate]

I cringed when I read that father-in-law thing. It sounded like something you'd see in Game of Thrones.

Jappo Targaryen?