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Post by Raven on Jan 17, 2003 21:12:44 GMT -5
I just wanna hand it to Mr. Demers. This is the 2nd story he broke this year (1st being Jose signing). When this man talks, we should all listen. He's got some serious sources in the Canadiens organization to break the type of stories he does.
Also great coverage by The Team 990. Those guys really got their act together since leaving the Team network. They did a woderful job on the story today (stuck with it all day and cut off from regularly scheduled programming) and did a great job yesterday with the Expos deal. Good job guys. It's nice to finally have a credible all sports radio station in Montreal.
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Post by MPLABBE on Jan 17, 2003 21:13:58 GMT -5
I agree.
Demers is definitely a very credible source. When this guy talks, we should listen!
and yes, very good coverage by the team!
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Post by TheHabsfan on Jan 17, 2003 21:24:34 GMT -5
I think that JD's source is directly at the top. Something tells me that he and AS pretty close. Call it a gutt feeling.
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Post by Psycorp on Jan 17, 2003 23:15:12 GMT -5
I'm sorry guys but it was actually Dany Dubé who got the scoop this morning...
Demers did an accurate prediction but he didn't report the move officially
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Jan 17, 2003 23:19:38 GMT -5
Good for Demers. Sometimes it isn't wise to kiss and tell. Jacques knows that if he double crosses his sources they will quickly dry up.
Jacques wasn't that bad a coach either.
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Post by UberCranky on Jan 17, 2003 23:51:11 GMT -5
They were "allowed" to leak it this morning. Nothing else.
Rome was not built in a day and neither was this.
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Post by daspin on Jan 17, 2003 23:58:55 GMT -5
Demers is truly a class act. He reports with unbiase and clarity. I truly enjoy the thoughts of this man. Still wish he was chosen as head coach.
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Post by MC Habber on Jan 18, 2003 0:10:14 GMT -5
Wow I totally disagree with you guys! Demers was an okay coach but as a journalist I think he is an idiot. Half the stuff he reports seems to be completely made up. Some of it is impossible to believe. I never pay any attention to anything he reports, except ocaisonally to laugh at it. Just my two cents.
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Post by PTH on Jan 18, 2003 0:21:33 GMT -5
They were "allowed" to leak it this morning. Nothing else. Rome was not built in a day and neither was this. When will you come clean and tell us what you really did know ? Enquiring minds wanna know !!
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Post by MPLABBE on Jan 18, 2003 0:28:39 GMT -5
Wow I totally disagree with you guys! Demers was an okay coach but as a journalist I think he is an idiot. Half the stuff he reports seems to be completely made up. Some of it is impossible to believe. I never pay any attention to anything he reports, except ocaisonally to laugh at it. Just my two cents. Do you listen to him only on RDS? Demers is NOT the same guy on Team 990 at 6:45 am as he is on RDS during a game. The scoops come out on the team 990. The emotion comes out when he is on team 990. The slump was killing him. The guy loves the CH.
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Post by MC Habber on Jan 18, 2003 0:41:00 GMT -5
I don't listen to Team 990 or get RDS. I hear Demers interviewed on other chanels (mainly CBC) and read things he said on the RDS site. I've always considered him to be a very unreliable source.
He might well have a connection high up in the hab's management because he does get the odd scoop, but I still say some of what he reports is just bs.
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Post by Rhiessan on Jan 18, 2003 0:54:11 GMT -5
I have nothing against Demers but I'm glad he was not made coach because he's not a good systems coach. He's a players coach to the bone and lets not give him an over abundence of credit for '93. 1) He took over for Burns who we all know was/is a tyrant and his act was wearing thin so when Demers came in the player's responded to a new approach. The system stayed the same (as the players knew it well after having it drilled and beat into them for 3 years) so Demers job was to change the attitude and morale which is his style anyway. I give more of the credit to Serge for bringing in the right ingredients. 2)In the '93 playoffs our boys lost the first 2 games to Quebec and the players(most notably Muller and Carbo) not the coach saw that the system wasn't working and they called a meeting with JD to change it. 3) Roy was simply UNBELIEVABLE! I'm not saying he's a bad coach just not the type we need. If you look around the league 8 times out of 10 when a coach gets replaced it's with a guy who's the opposite. To everyone who says AS should of waited...I don't know about that. IMO we needed an x's and o's type that can speak french and sadly Lemaire and Martin are already spoken for so that leaves us with a very short list(in fact so short i'm having trouble thinking of anyone else) with Julien at the top. Hartley is not a systems coach and niether is Robinson. Bowman and Gainey are wet dreams as far as i'm concerned. Not to mention AS can hardly clean up the roster with a no coach media frenzy going on. Charon or Green as an interm? Maybe if we really wanted a shot at Horton.......
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