There is no worse feeling than when...

[hitmansb]

...your favorite player (Alex Kovalev) on your favorite team (Montreal Canadiens) leaves via free agency because the asshole general manager tried to lowball him. :noo:


Oh, and get this, he decided to sign with a divisional rival (Ottawa Senators) just to stick it to our idiot GM. So that means we can expect a very pissed-off Kovalev to play at virtuoso level against us 6 times in each of the next two seasons. :mad:

[Bouncer]

who? what sport are we talking about here? these chess players of some sort?

[Shibby]

Would you have rather the Canadians signed Hossa and doom your team :D

[3v1lj03]

who? what sport are we talking about here? these chess players of some sort?

LOL:rofl:

[hitmansb]

Would you have rather the Canadians signed Hossa and doom your team :D

No...he'd have been too expensive or too long in term. But they screwed up.


They needed a big center. Instead they traded for 5'10" Scott Gomez and his ridiculous contract.

They needed an offensively talented top-line Left Winger to replace Tanguay...they got Camallerri. This was the move I was happy about.

They needed to re-sign Kovalev for 2 years at 5mil per year. Instead they signed less-talented midget (5'7") Brian Gionta for 5 years at 5 mil per year.

The other free agent signings were nothing to write home about either. Spacek is a solid D-man, but I would rather have had Beauchemin...who was available. Hal Gill has size and is coming off a good season, and is now sporting a cup ring, but he has a tendency to get burned to the outside by wingers with speed.

Overall, I think Bob Gainey did a shit job. He had the ideal situation, with a ton of cap space and a few nice pieces of trade bait...and he somehow managed to screw it up.

[mindstar]

i'm a habs fan as well and it doesn't look good... :(