The Habs, Or More Appropriately the Hab Nots
So, I've had the opportunity to see like three hockey games since I have been on vacation. I've seen them on television, as opposed to in the rink, but I've seen them nonetheless. The coverage of the Tampa Bay Lighting seems to be much better than that of the Atlanta Thrashers. Granted, if Atlanta were the defending Stanley Cup Champions, I imagine interest and fan based for them would be much greater, which would result in more coverage.
Anyway, as many of you know I'm a Montreal Canadiens fan. The first game I watched this week, I got some of the highlights of Montreal (also called the Habs) beating the New York Rangers and moving into seventh place in the Eastern Conference ahead of Tampa Bay by one point. Two nights later they played Tampa in Montreal.
What a horrible game - at least for a Habs fan! I mean I have coached atom teams and female teams that could have played a better game. Talk about flat, with no jump in their step, no hunger for the puck! And some of the players, how the brass for the Habs can even believe that Kovalev is worth the millions that they are paying him, I have no idea. Yes he does score some goals, usually in spurts (and when he isn't out hurt)- but he is the biggest floater on the ice, can't play defense at all and turns the puck over to the other team one out of every three times he touches the puck (usually when he is the last man back or right at his own blue line).
With the trading deadline passed, we are stuck with him for the remainder of the season. I don't see why the Habs didn't use his goal scoring ability, and the fact that he finally isn't injured, and ty and go out and get a solid defensemen or a moe consistent goal scorer. But the Habs lost to Tampa Bay and that means that they slide back into the last playoff spot in the East, one point behind Tampa Bay again.
Tags: hockey, Montreal Canadiens, Flickr
Anyway, as many of you know I'm a Montreal Canadiens fan. The first game I watched this week, I got some of the highlights of Montreal (also called the Habs) beating the New York Rangers and moving into seventh place in the Eastern Conference ahead of Tampa Bay by one point. Two nights later they played Tampa in Montreal.
What a horrible game - at least for a Habs fan! I mean I have coached atom teams and female teams that could have played a better game. Talk about flat, with no jump in their step, no hunger for the puck! And some of the players, how the brass for the Habs can even believe that Kovalev is worth the millions that they are paying him, I have no idea. Yes he does score some goals, usually in spurts (and when he isn't out hurt)- but he is the biggest floater on the ice, can't play defense at all and turns the puck over to the other team one out of every three times he touches the puck (usually when he is the last man back or right at his own blue line).
With the trading deadline passed, we are stuck with him for the remainder of the season. I don't see why the Habs didn't use his goal scoring ability, and the fact that he finally isn't injured, and ty and go out and get a solid defensemen or a moe consistent goal scorer. But the Habs lost to Tampa Bay and that means that they slide back into the last playoff spot in the East, one point behind Tampa Bay again.
Tags: hockey, Montreal Canadiens, Flickr
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