http://dennis-kane.com Rated By My Wife As The Best Site In The World Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Indeed it's sad when a good warrior and captain such as Saku Koivu is finished as a Montreal Canadien and will carry on elsewhere. We all loved and appreciated what he did for the team and city as a great player and a man who gave his time and money to hospitals and sick ... http://dennis-kane.com/in-my-book-its-not-about-the-players-its-about-winning/ This is the Canadiens roster at the beginning of last season, and where we're at right now. 2008-2009                                                                       2009-2010 Steve Begin                                                                        Brian Gionta Matt D'Agostini                                                                 ? Chris Higgins                                                                      Scott Gomez Saku Koivu                                                                          ? Andrei Kostitsyn                                                               Andrei Kostitsyn Sergei Kostitsyn                                                                 Sergei Kostitsyn Tom Kostopoulos                                                               ? Alex Kovalev                                                                        ? Robert Lang                                                                           Mike Cammalleri Maxim Lapierre                                                                    Maxim Lapierre Georges Laraque                                                                   Georges Laraque Guillaume Latendresse                                                       Guillaume Latendresse Tomas Plekanec                                                                      Tomas ... http://dennis-kane.com/program-sellers-are-going-to-have-a-field-day/ Brian Gionta is the Montreal Canadiens newest right winger. This is fine because Gionta's a good 20 goal scorer. But geez, he's only 5'7", 175. So another small player joins the team. I'm tired of small Canadiens teams. I want some big guys. http://dennis-kane.com/gionta-now-a-hab/ It's 5:33 PM Pacific time, and now that much of the Canadiens lineup has changed, it's now the waiting to see about the guys. Kovalev, Tanguay, Koivu, et al. Hoping it all works out. http://dennis-kane.com/just-waiting-now/ Mike Komisarek has signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Good. Toronto can have him. So many teams were interested in signing him. How come? He was one of the Canadiens' worst defencemen last season. He has no idea what to do with the puck. He doesn't score goals. He got pummelled ... http://dennis-kane.com/so-long-mike-you-and-the-leafs-deserve-each-other/ Mike Cammalleri, who scored 39 goals in Calgary last year, is the newest Montreal Canadien. He's only 5'9, 185 lbs, which means we're going to hear all year from people like Don Cherry that the Habs aren't going anywhere because they're too small. It's a good thing we got giant Hal ... http://dennis-kane.com/mike-cammalleri-joins-the-habs/ Montreal signed two defencemen today with two different styles and two different sizes. Jaroslav Spacek moves over from Buffalo and is a 5'11, 200lb puck-moving impact defenceman who thrives on the power play. Habs also grabbed big Hal Gill, all 6'7", 250 lbs of him, who comes from the Cup-winning Penguins. Size ... http://dennis-kane.com/canadiens-add-two-defencemen-as-mk-kk-looks-elsewhere/ Scott Gomez isn't exactly the big centreman most of us had in mind. In fact, the team just got smaller by dealing 6', 203 lb. Chris Higgins and minor leaguers defencemen Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko to the New York Rangers for 5'11, 200 lb Gomez, plus AHL'er Tom Pyatt and ... http://dennis-kane.com/higgins-for-gomez-the-habs-just-got-smaller-but-craftier/ Although I think Bob Gainey is an intelligent, thoughtful man, I'm here to set him straight. Gainey says Canadien fans should be a patient bunch. Doesn't he realize who he's talking to here? You want patience? We haven't won the cup since 1993. That's about a hundred years ago. We're not Toronto Maple ... http://dennis-kane.com/patience-bob-gainey-you-want-patience/ My sister in Ottawa sent me a May 30th newspaper clipping from the Ottawa Citizen written by Andrew Duffy. It's about mistakes on the Stanley Cup, and frankly, in some cases, the engraver (there's been a few of them) must have been either really rushed to get it done, drunk, or hadn't slept in days when they ... http://dennis-kane.com/the-ass-man-won-the-stanley-cup/