The "Thank you for taking us to the playoffs, Bob" thread

[smon]

Originally Posted by citylife

Sometimes a crushing loss is the best lesson of all, as it crystalizes reality.

One poster here said it best...

You can view anything with either negativity or positivity... including your very own son or daughter.

It is a choice.

Wow, that's deep

You're quite the philosopher aren't you

[Born in 1909]

Originally Posted by smon

Wow, that's deep

You're quite the philosopher aren't you

The HFBoard madness brings it out in me, I guess

[Born in 1909]

3 hours before gametime.

The hockey underworld in Montreal is buzzing. Maybe not the bandwagoners, but for the REAL fans... a definite YES.



For those of you grumpy, complainer fans not in town, you ain't feeling it... Ya just gotta be here.

Sorry... but its true.

Its not dead yet... not just yet

Who is in the line-up is what everyone wants to know?



This is what I'm talking about!

I'll say it again...

Thanks for getting us in the playoffs, Mr. Gainey

GO HABS!!!

(if you don't like it, then find another team to cheer for/complain about)

[Team_Spirit]

Last chance tonight they can't drop that one!

I won't thank Bob because i don't agree with his recent lines and management ( like only giving 1 year to Komi last summer )

[Yarfangor]

Originally Posted by icerocket

The Kostitsyns are more than likely busts. I still can't believe we chose Andrei over Zach Parise. Those prospects are just that, prospects and judging from what we've gotten so far it isn't too promising. Pleks and the Kostitsyns were gonna carry this team and we haven't seen that. Price (although I still believe will become great) has major confidence issues and I hope he is better than M-A Fleury.

The only we had success last season was because everything went right and then in the playoffs this team was destroyed by the forecheck.

Yes injuries hurt this team (Markov is the best player on this team) but guess what? Injuries are part of the game. Clearly our depth is not as good as it seems.

I love Bob, and I constantly have to defend him when i talk to my friends but this topic is praising him for what is a miserable season.

And if this team looks completely different next season, how can you say the team Bob built was the right team?

The right team? No there could have been improvements but given what he had to work with its a pretty decent team when healthy. Kostitsyns are still too young to be called "busts" if Philly gave up on Carter so easily they would have shot themselves in the foot. Parise is a monster and we should of taken him, but theres so many shoulda coulda wouldas that you have to stop, look what we have, take into account their age and say wow, we started with **** all and now have a fairly decent prospect pool with some potential first line players. Don't judge kids who have only made it to their 2nd year, by that Logic Price is close to a bust considering he had a subpar year.

[DaHabMan]

man can people be this stupid?? Lets rewind back to last off-season shall we. We reach the second round but lose and get eliminated. The team finished 1st in the eastern conference (2nd for ppl who think pitts tanked) and our youngsters all had very good years. Gainey did what anybody in his position would have done, he strenghtened the center position and brought in more talent in lang and tanguay. At the time EVERYBODY thought o'byrne was gonna progress and fill-in the 4th defenseman role as he had played a good season. How was he to know that all the youngsters were gonna suck, that the goalie situation was gonna flop in the second half, that injuries were gonna hit the team, that the defense was gonna forget how to play defense and that the pp was gonna suck. He thought we had it in our team to replace souray like we did with streit but we didnt. This is where you can fault him though as it cost us a lot of points. But the rest of the team, you guys would honestly look at trading them all, after having finished 1 in the conference and all having career years? Gainey improved on that team with tanguay and lang and based on the previous year built a very good team. Now that everything has gone to hell, all of you bash him for assembling a team that sucks when all of you would have done the same thing. You guys make rational fans sick. Stop writing stupid posts and think for once.

[Born in 1909]

Originally Posted by DaHabMan

man can people be this stupid?? Lets rewind back to last off-season shall we. We reach the second round but lose and get eliminated. The team finished 1st in the eastern conference (2nd for ppl who think pitts tanked) and our youngsters all had very good years. Gainey did what anybody in his position would have done, he strenghtened the center position and brought in more talent in lang and tanguay. At the time EVERYBODY thought o'byrne was gonna progress and fill-in the 4th defenseman role as he had played a good season. How was he to know that all the youngsters were gonna suck, that the goalie situation was gonna flop in the second half, that injuries were gonna hit the team, that the defense was gonna forget how to play defense and that the pp was gonna suck. He thought we had it in our team to replace souray like we did with streit but we didnt. This is where you can fault him though as it cost us a lot of points. But the rest of the team, you guys would honestly look at trading them all, after having finished 1 in the conference and all having career years? Gainey improved on that team with tanguay and lang and based on the previous year built a very good team. Now that everything has gone to hell, all of you bash him for assembling a team that sucks when all of you would have done the same thing. You guys make rational fans sick. Stop writing stupid posts and think for once.

Yup... they can.

Go Habs

Bring on Game 3 and let the chips fall where they may