OT: Why did you choosed to subscribe to the forum? (HFBoards Appreciation Thread)

[Chili]

Like others I posted elsewhere before, especially the Expos forums and the old Pens NHL forum.

The volume here was imprerssive, love the History of Hockey board. (and it`s great that alot of the old threads are there).

It`s interesting to go on the other team forums as well and get other perspectives. If the Habs had been reading the Rangers forum at the time, might have saved them the Gomez trade.

 

[Runner77]

I have to say though, this place used to be tough on new posters, it is much different now, the old school crowd was much tougher.

I remember when I began posting here, it was rough for newcomers all right.

 

[MasterMatt25]

Because it's nice to talk about other fans who know what they are talking about. Facebook comments and other forums where only Leaf fans resided were driving me crazy.

 

[Runner77]

Got tired of HIO

This is far better

Too bad the Habs reek.

"Just give me one weekend. One weekend and I'll fix the damn team."

- Paul Vegas D



p.s. "Don't forget to add three zeros to my salary." - Paul Vegas D

 

[CalgarySnow]

I came for the girls!

Sorry for the disappointment

 

[Runner77]

I joined during the 2005 lockout. I wanted news about what was going on.

Edit: based on my join date, I guess I joined shortly after the lockout was resolved, but I was lurking here for a bit before.

Guys, didn't you learn anything from your favorite posters thread? Liking Le Tricolore is a must!!!!

 

[Dick Duff]

As I am now roughly 3,500 miles away from Montreal (my home town) as the TransCanada Highway goes...how better to keep up with the news/rumours/gossip on my team?

 

[OldCraig71]

Best place to learn more about hockey/players/prospects.
Unfortunately, it comes with a huge amount of toxicity

Differing points of view are now coined toxic, bravo good sir.

 

[OldCraig71]

I remember when I began posting here, it was rough for newcomers all right.

I remember early on there was a guy that said to me, "who are you? Up until tonight I have never heard of you, good times.

 

[CalgarySnow]

I’ve only ever subscribed to this forum, liked most of the people

 

[BPD Habs Fan]

I was on Sportsnet Forums and Rogers decided to shut it down. One of the members started his own forums and I tried that but there just weren't enough people. I'm more of a lurker than a poster though.

 

[PaulD]

"Just give me one weekend. One weekend and I'll fix the damn team."

- Paul Vegas D



p.s. "Don't forget to add three zeros to my salary." - Paul Vegas D

 

[DAChampion]

There weren't enough active members on Canadiens.nhl.com.

There were a few good ones though. Corey Pronman started off there as Sportsfreak39 / Moneypuck, also I remember Roy_133 and Weeping_Minotaur.

But this forum has dozens of great posters.

 

[Bring Bak Damphousse]

I think I came across hockeys futures while getting ready for a hockey pool, made my way to the boards from there.

 

[LaP]

I came for the girls!

There's no girls on the internet.

 

[Kimota]

Edit - damn someone used my joke.

 

[Kimota]

I joined during the 2005 lockout. I wanted news about what was going on.

Edit: based on my join date, I guess I joined shortly after the lockout was resolved, but I was lurking here for a bit before.

Looking at my joining date, it was probably for that for me too. lol

Before this I was at the Habs Boards of the Official NHL Habs site. And it was a shore to go through. It was like a tight group of the same guys that were only responding to one another. And the separation of the subject matters were hard to start conversations and so forth. One of the worst forum experiences I've ever been through. (a lot of times I prefered to go to the Leafs boards, it was much better)

 

[Harry22]

Joined in March 2005 to talk about the lockout and how it sucked. Really started posting regularly in the 2005-2006 season.

 

[cphabs]

Great community and humor.

 

[Darz]

HF is like one stop shopping for everything Hockey and everything Montreal Canadiens. If it’s worth knowing, it will be being discussed to death here.
Also the amount of insight and write ups on prospects is great (looking at you Montreal)

 

[Habs]

I was on usenet and the old AOL Montreal forum back in the 90's.. wow. Used to write for HF back in their early early days, and the message board was a flat based txt forum where no registration was necessary. It was flooded with spam, finally convinced the old owners to go to a registered forum. The old owners got in trouble with their magazine and subscriptions, it wasn't pretty.

I do not see many of the original people around these days, some of the old mods (2002-2008) drove them all away.

 

[peate]

There's still some members on Usenet, but posting is very rare, especially in summer. You can still read it on Google groups.
Google Groups

 

[Peanut]

Came here to learn more about the whole NHL I hate having just one source for news and it’s great how many different opinions can have here for all teams around the NHL.

You get to learn and know the good ones to follow and it really starts to open your eyes of how the NHL works and have a greater understanding of the game instead of the narratives everyone tries to push on the average fan.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

To share my discontent

 

[De Montreal]

to improve my english, I dont really like hockey or care for sports in general