The Habs........Rise To The Top
Posted 12:48 PM ET | Comments 2
At the beginning of the 2007-08 NHL hockey season almost all NHL analyst and sports magazines and rankings had the Montreal Canadiens out of the playoffs. There placements were between 15th spot in the conference all the way to 12th. Most people called them an up and coming team "for the future" others just called them to young to compete among the elite teams in the league. Almost all said in the next three years we will become a great team but until then were just average.
Well that was all the motivation the Habs needed. They found a first line in the Kovalev-Plekanec-A.Kostitsyn line and have solid goaltending with youngster Carey Price. There defence tandem of Komisarek and Markov have helped out a ton and in the words of Pierre Mcguire, Komisarek has been a "MONSTER". The addition of Roman Hamrlik at the beginning of the year had led to a steady defence with yet another youngster in Ryan O'Byrne helping the case.
One of the few minuses you can find are the fact that 2 of the players we acquired as free agents have not performed to there potential and are sitting in the press box as a waste of money. Tom Kostopoulos one of those wastes has showed some bright spots such as sticking up for his teammates but he does not provide much if any scoring that is needed.Smolinski has really not done much and with hot forward Mikhail Grabovski coming in he wont get much playing time to prove anything.Did I really have to mention Brisebois?
Our coach,Guy Carbonneau, is in my opinion one of the most underrated.He is also a big reason to the success of this year. I think the fact that at the beginning of the year Carbonneau and Gainey sat down with their *STAR* Alexei Kovalev and had a chat about the upcoming season and I believe that is the thing that lit a spark under Kovalev backside.
I believe that My Team the Montreal Canadiens is a Stanley Cup Contender, but I also think "NEXT YEAR IS THE YEAR" of "THE CH".
Ovie's Best Friend(My website name)
My hockeybuzz name:HabsCaps9
Well that was all the motivation the Habs needed. They found a first line in the Kovalev-Plekanec-A.Kostitsyn line and have solid goaltending with youngster Carey Price. There defence tandem of Komisarek and Markov have helped out a ton and in the words of Pierre Mcguire, Komisarek has been a "MONSTER". The addition of Roman Hamrlik at the beginning of the year had led to a steady defence with yet another youngster in Ryan O'Byrne helping the case.
One of the few minuses you can find are the fact that 2 of the players we acquired as free agents have not performed to there potential and are sitting in the press box as a waste of money. Tom Kostopoulos one of those wastes has showed some bright spots such as sticking up for his teammates but he does not provide much if any scoring that is needed.Smolinski has really not done much and with hot forward Mikhail Grabovski coming in he wont get much playing time to prove anything.Did I really have to mention Brisebois?
Our coach,Guy Carbonneau, is in my opinion one of the most underrated.He is also a big reason to the success of this year. I think the fact that at the beginning of the year Carbonneau and Gainey sat down with their *STAR* Alexei Kovalev and had a chat about the upcoming season and I believe that is the thing that lit a spark under Kovalev backside.
I believe that My Team the Montreal Canadiens is a Stanley Cup Contender, but I also think "NEXT YEAR IS THE YEAR" of "THE CH".
Ovie's Best Friend(My website name)
My hockeybuzz name:HabsCaps9
In all due respect, Kostopolous was not brought in to add a scoring punch. He knows his role and does it well. Have you heard a peep from him since he has been in the press box?
It is a very close race in the east.