Brutal Game

[Ryan]

I hate playing the Leafs.  What boring, lifeless games.

Toronto completely outplayed Montreal, no doubt about that.  But there is just no intensity from either side.  This rivalry desperately needs a playoff series.

Horrible effort by all except for Theo, Gilmour, Petrov, and Berezin.

We don't have the talent to take a night off, we need everyone motoring to get into the playoffs.  Re-group and come out strong against Mo-Town boys.

[Habs_fan_in_LA]

Nothing wrong with the team that Larry Robinson couldn't fix.
NOT even Robinson could win with this bunch. We lack speed and talent. Savard has done a good job of getting to 9th place, but this isn't the path to 1st place. We need to start over from scratch. A playoff run that depends on a cancer weakened Koivu to lead a bunch of smurfs cast off from other teams isn't the direction we need to take. I'd rather be in last place with Kovalchouk in the wings than 9th place with no where to go but down.

[HFTO]

It took me a few hours to write the post game report,though I did have to tape the game.I should have burned the tape and saved myself the aggrevation.In our grading of Therrien many of us crtiziced his inability to have the team ready for the get go.Tonight was another perfect example.Though some may say we were probably due this chronic inability to start games will come back to haunt us.
HFTO

[MPLABBE]

Ryan said:

I hate playing the Leafs.  What boring, lifeless games.

Toronto completely outplayed Montreal, no doubt about that.  But there is just no intensity from either side.  This rivalry desperately needs a playoff series.

Horrible effort by all except for Theo, Gilmour, Petrov, and Berezin.

We don't have the talent to take a night off, we need everyone motoring to get into the playoffs.  Re-group and come out strong against Mo-Town boys.

Agreed.The Rivalry is gone.Especialy the games at the ACC.At least at the Keg having thousands of Leafs fans in the stands makes the game a bit more exciting.

[Pam]

MPLABBE said:

Agreed.The Rivalry is gone.Especialy the games at the ACC.At least at the Keg having thousands of Leafs fans in the stands makes the game a bit more exciting.

You're right about the Rivalry between the Leafs and Habs being gone, but I think that is just from the teams angles. From all I see on the net, most Leafs fans still hate the Habs and really don't like their fans, and most Habs fans still hate the Leafs and most Leafs fans.

With teams no longer keeping the same players for their whole career, it's very difficult to keep the teams feeling the rivalry of old. We have Habs players becoming Leafs Players, and Leafs Players becoming Habs players. How can a team keep it's rivalry alive with that going on. It's up to us, the fans, to keep that rivalry alive.

Unfortunately, or fortunately (depends on how you want to look at it) I can't share in that Rivalry feeling about the Habs. Growing up in California, and learning about hockey here, with the Leafs in the West when I became a fan, I was able to like other teams too. That's why I can like the Habs too.

I didn't like some Eastern Conference teams as much as I previously did once the Leafs moved back to the Eastern Conference, but I found it impossible to feel that way about the Habs. How can a fan just suddenly hate a team like the Habs with their history. Impossible!! At least for me it is.

I will always be a Leafs fan first and foremost, over all other teams, but I will continue to like the Habs as long as they don't play the Leafs (or Sharks). As for the Habs and Leafs game, I liked it. We won.  ;D (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.  )

I guess I'll just have to visit Molsen Centre again someday, but for a Leafs and Habs game instead. I can cheer for the Leafs and you can boo me.  

[MPLABBE]

Pam said:

You're right about the Rivalry between the Leafs and Habs being gone, but I think that is just from the teams angles. From all I see on the net, most Leafs fans still hate the Habs and really don't like their fans, and most Habs fans still hate the Leafs and most Leafs fans.

With teams no longer keeping the same players for their whole career, it's very difficult to keep the teams feeling the rivalry of old. We have Habs players becoming Leafs Players, and Leafs Players becoming Habs players. How can a team keep it's rivalry alive with that going on. It's up to us, the fans, to keep that rivalry alive.

Unfortunately, or fortunately (depends on how you want to look at it) I can't share in that Rivalry feeling about the Habs. Growing up in California, and learning about hockey here, with the Leafs in the West when I became a fan, I was able to like other teams too. That's why I can like the Habs too.

I didn't like some Eastern Conference teams as much as I previously did once the Leafs moved back to the Eastern Conference, but I found it impossible to feel that way about the Habs. How can a fan just suddenly hate a team like the Habs with their history. Impossible!! At least for me it is.

I will always be a Leafs fan first and foremost, over all other teams, but I will continue to like the Habs as long as they don't play the Leafs (or Sharks). As for the Habs and Leafs game, I liked it. We won.  ;D (Sorry, I just couldn't resist.  )

I guess I'll just have to visit Molsen Centre again someday, but for a Leafs and Habs game instead. I can cheer for the Leafs and you can boo me.  

I really think a playoff series is needed to get this rivalry going again.Especially a long,great series.Montrealers and Torontonians(aside from Habs fans down there) can really hate each other and bash each other.