Wednesday 26 June 2013
Canadiens to buy out Thomas Kaberle
Thomas Kaberle has been notified by the Montreal Canadiens that they will use their final buyout of the season (2/2) to buy out the defencemans contract. The 35-year-old has one year and $4.5 million US left on his current three-year contract that carries a cap hit of $4.25 million. The first buyout of the season was on the veteran centre Scott Gomez who was later picked up by the San Jose Sharks. No other details are confirmed at the moment.
Sunday 16 June 2013
Winners
PK Subban was the only player for the montreal Canadiens to win the award. Brendan Gallagher lost to Huberdeau (florida panthers) while GM Marc Bergervin lost to the GM of the Pittsburgh penguins Ray Shero. Congrats PK
Friday 14 June 2013
Awards
Tomorrow night (Saturday), before game 2 of the playoffs there are the awards ceremony (in Chicago). Montreal Canadiens are represented by three individuals.
PK. Subban is up for the James Norris memorial trophy (top defence). He is up against Ryan Sutter (Minnesota Wild) and Kris Letang (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Brendan Gallagher is up for the Calder Memorial trophy (top rookie). He is up against Branson Saad (Chicago Blackhawks) and Jonathan Huberdeau (Florida Panthers)
Marc Bergervin is up for the top GM manager of the year. He is up against Bob Murray (Anaheim Ducks) and Ray Shero (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Thursday 13 June 2013
Contract signing 1
Today, June 13,2013 habs have resigned defence man Davis Drewiske to a 2 year contract extension reportedly just under 2 million for the two years. Drewiske was traded to the habs from the LA Kings on April 13th for a round 5 draft pick. Waiting on more signing news. xxD
Tuesday 11 June 2013
Just when I thought we could be friends...
Okay...this is a little side track from the initial theme of the blog but it is hockey related.
So the Stanley cup game one starts tonight. It has been a very short season but a long playoff run. It is almost July and the teams are still fighting for the cup. The ice is bad...and the players are exhausted and injured.
Tonight is game one...Boston Bruins against the Chicago Blackhawks. Who is going to win? I have some ideas of who I want to win this season but I won't say. Both teams played exceptional this season and it will come down to the final game.
Brendan Gallagher of the Montreal Canadiens (see I can keep it habs related) said that he wants Chicago to win this season and not the bruins. He says its a rivalry thing but he is friends with Boston Bruins player Milan Lucic.
xxD
Mystery of Carey Price
Roland Melanson, a former goalie coach of the Montreal Canadiens....currently a goalie coach for the Vancouver Canucks made a statement saying that Carey Price has deteriorated as a goalie over the last few years since he left.
Melanson said that Carey Price has been all over the place the last few seasons since he left and that his goalie career is becoming destroyed. As a former goalie coach, what gives him the right to state that about a goalie who worked so hard to get us from not making the playoffs in 2012 to making the playoffs and second in the Eastern Division.
Yes, Montreal did not get passed the first round in the playoffs when the Ottawa Senators took them out in five games but was that really Carey Price's fault? He got injured and was unable to play the last period in game four and the full fifth game. As well as Carey being injured, many other key players were injured; Brian Gionta, Lars Eller, Ryan White, Alexei Emelin and Brandon Prust. So basically it was like having the Junior League...Hamilton Bulldogs playing in the NHL. So again can we really just blame one player?
The Montreal Canadiens are not taking and precautions for next season. They did not resign the former goalie coach Pierre Groulx. Many have blamed Groulx for most of the goalie problems the Habs faced. Melanson said while talking about Groulx, "He wanted to be his friend. A goalie doesn't want you to be his friend — he wants results. You're not there to be his friend."
Melanson should be careful what he says, because his comments can backfire. He was the first coach to start working with Carey Price and then he said that Carey Price is failing as a coach. But he is also working with the Vancouver Canucks the year before they went to the finals in the playoffs against the Boston Bruins. Roberto Luongo was one of the goalies he worked with. Luongo had many good saves but he was not consistent. Vancouver was up two games in hand but the series soon became pushed to game 7 and they lost. Is inconsistent goal tending coaching to blame for this loss as well?
Next season we will see the true side of Carey Price and the team as a whole. Maybe they will be unstoppable, maybe they will be a mess. It all lies on the hands of who will be left on the team...and who trains them.
-xxD
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