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To: Bob Gainey From: Santa http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=302814 (an early Christmas gift!)

Nice transtiton last night. During Warmup/pre game: Cheer the Habs wildly....some cheers for Lats...mostly boos. During the game: Boo Lats. End of the game: Boos the Habs off the ice. See what they did there? :(

He's looked good since he's in Minny...Now, Minnesota is hardly a place where hockey goes unnoticed...but it can't be anything like Montreal. I was watching the Van/Ana game last night and since being dealt to Anaheim, Chipchura has said that he had a difficult time dealign with everything (expectations/media...etc) in Montreal. So, it's not just Quebecers that have issues.

Odds on Latendresse putting up on a big performacne tonight in his return?

Great news...it will be nice to celebrate the holidays without test results and Dr's calls hanging over everything. All the best to you, your sister and family.

Benoit Pouliot sent to Hamilton for conditioning. I may have to go on Sunday afterall.

I can't imagine a coach/GM combo with Gainey and Martin's expereince forgot to do it. It's a big fine to be paid on a techincal (my theory) failure.

The most expensive 3 minutes in League history? http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=301798

FYI: http://oilers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=430807 White was not an eligible dressed player. There are 4 levels of eligibility within an organization. The transaction for moving White from the AHL teo the NHL roster was reported. I got Press Releases from the Bulldogs and saw the Habs release on their site. I'm sure the failure to report it to the League was moe a techincal failure of a fax machine or e-mail account. Similar to the transaction error that voided a Trade Deadline deal a couple years ago for Boston.

It happened to another team (last year, I think). I want to say Colorado....?? Anyone The NHL Rule FWIW: http://www.nhl.com/rules/rule15.html

Even if you don't like it...(which is not all that likely)...you've read so much about it...you'll think you do *L*

One of the guys on my team said he was watching a game the other night and they were talking about it. He told his wife that he had been skating on it for almost a year and she didn't believe him. Some a month or so ago asked me if I'd ever heard of it...I said..."Been skating on it since I went to Novi last year". Then I had to backtrack and explain what THAT meant!

Funny that the current player who had the most active role in the ceremony was Ryan O'Byrne. They hated on him pretty good in Montreal after that own goal last season.

What was the deal with doing the francophone legends introductions only in French? C'mon...It was a 2 and a hlf hour ceremony...if they did every introduction in both languages...it wouldhave been 4 hours. They always do that...Mr. Irvin does lots of stuff in English that isn't repeated in French...and Mr. Lacroix does the French...not always repeated in English. Viggo Mortensen introducing Lafleur was pretty cool though...

+1 The fact that he was the only one to go and shake hands with each and every one of the legends before the game, friday, shows his passion for the game and he knows what this tradition represents in MTL. Pierre Bouchard told reporters he was really impressed with Cammy's attitude last friday. He definitely gets the history and everything. Not often a guy comes in new and looks like he's been there forever (on ANY team, but espceicllay in Montreal).

I want to see the "C" on Cammy. He's been great and seems to have embraced the media as well (or they've embraced him).

Clips --------> http://canadiens.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?c...39&id=53446

Next game will be in Toronto, over the summer. Vancouver is a possibility somewhere down the road. toronto in the summer sounds reaaaaaaaaaaaaal good. cant wait for that one :D Me too.

Are those from the retro nights? They looked like a darker blue on TV.

I was out and didn't see it. But, I've seen some of the highlights...looked like quite to ceremony. I hope they either make it available on iTunes...or release it on DVD.

Everything looked so positve about a week ago...they were scoring more. Carey has his mojo going. Hoping they can get their shit together tomorrow for the big party.

Most likely. The TSN story said he was on the ice for the first 2 Leaf goals...and didn't play after that. So, unless Martin benched 2 guys last night...Chipper was the guy.

^^^ Traded to the Ducks for a 4th. Too bad. I really thought watching him Captain Team Canada at the WJC that he was the next Bob Gainey/Guy Carbonneau/Mike Keane type guy. He'd do whatever you asked him to do and do it well...and was SURE to be Captain material. I suppose he still could be...but right now...he's an 18th overall pick traded for a 4th rounder. Pretty disappointing.

Well, it sure as hell wasn't new...and I don't know when it was cleaned last. The only saving grace to it taking this long to replace (I moved in in late Sept) is that I also inherited almost a full tank of oil...so my only expense so far has been the hydro. My first bill (Sept 26-Nov 4) was just under $100.

Took out this: ...and had this installed today: