Scrivy

 So Kassian for Scrivens. Why does this happen? I don't know. And I am not about to stand here and say "I know more rabble rabble rabble".  Here's the facts courtesy of the NHL Stats;

• Ben Scrivens 
• AGE : 29
• HT: 6'2"
• WT: 181 LBS
• CATCHES: LEFT
• LAST 10 NHL GAME : N/A
• LAST 10 AHL GAMES :  2-6-1
• GAA: 3.47
• SV%: .893

  So what does this mean? Sure Scrivy has 129 NHL games under his belt, but his career record is 42-56-17, which really translates to 42-73.  But the question is what does this trade mean?
Instead of dealing a D-man like Emelin, we deal Kassian, And get Scrivens, allow me to brake this down even more courtesy of General Fanager, the Oilers retained 21% of Scrivy's sallery, 21% of $2,300,000 is $552,000, leaving the Habs $1,748,000 to pay him. Then, dropping Tokarski down to St. John, they Habs took a $400K hit on the Cap.
 There is more trade rumors out right now, Such as Simmonds will be traded for some players, how much is true? I dont know, all I do know is this, Habs won tonight, snapping this downward spiral.
Scrivy will get his start tomorrow, against the now #1 Florida Panthers in the Atlantic. So only time and tomorrow will tell.

Columbus

December 1, 2015 Montreal, QC

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HAB'S WIN 2-1 against the Blue Jackets. What a game that was, Let's start with what we know. Condon was solid the whole game, he never once let the Jackets get in his head, and with a .957 SV% for this game, it shows that he was solid as ever. So during the day I found out courtesy of the RDS app for my phone, that Pateryn was out, and Emelin was in. Which wasn't a smart move on Michel Therrien's part, who coached his 700th game of his career. Because at 17:57 of the First, Emelin received a game major misconduct, and was ejected for the rest of the game. So yeah, Hab's are on the PK.

But remember I said the Hab's won so let's talk about points. Paul Byron was the first to score at the 2:51 mark of the first. With assistance from Christian Thomas and Nathan Beaulieu. Then at the 17:23 mark, CBJ scored their lone point, off the stick of Foligno. Any way, it became a game of possesion during the 2nd, and no one scored, So then at 17:51 of the 3rd, The Captian, Max "Wolverine" Pacioretty scores the game winning goal. Then the 3 stars were announced, which to be honest, I believe that the 3rd should have gone to Condon, but hey just my opinion. The Hab's won 2 of the 3 stars, 2nd Star went to Paul Byron and the 1st star went to Max Pacioretty.
So where does this win put Les Boys? The Hab's are 19-4-3 with 41 points, placing them still at the top of the league, The Hab's play this week The Caps on Thursday, they travel to Carolina on Saturday and on Wednesday go to boston, to play them before the Winter Classic.

We'll CARY on

Ya know something, I now know how Steve Dangle feels, I literally just got this update on my phone and the second I saw Pricer was out, all I could do was just sit there in disbelief. Now don't get me wrong, Condon is good, but don't get me wrong, Pricer is the best Goalie in the league. But here is my main concern with Condon, Its rest. As of right now, 6 weeks means 18 games, 8 back to back games. Can Condon have plenty of time to recover after the games. Anyway we shall find out, and one thing, we have a great Goalie duo.

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Veterans Day / Rememberance Day

November 11, 2015

 Sadly Montreal lost, 3-2 in the shoot out, Marky, Gally and Flynn all had goals, and I could go on about how I know were all upset but how about I take this medium I have to try and do something good.
 Today is Remembrance Day / Veterans Day depending if your in either Canada or America. And today is a day we should honor our Vets, I'm gonna put a list of charities we can donate to, all credited, so please, support our troops.

• The Wounded Warrior Project
• The USO
• Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society
• Homes for our Troops
• The Royal Canadian Legion
• Hope for the Warriors

 So yeah, recap, Habs lost, but ill go in depth with it more on Saturday when I talk about the Avalanche game.




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November First Week

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Its been a busy week if your a Hockey fan. Tomorrow they will be inducting the newest class to the HHOF. The pucks keep dropping and the goals keep getting scored.

November 1, 2015

 Hab's win 5-1 over the Winnipeg Jets. The Hab's dominated the whole game with scores. Byron , Fleischmann (2) Desharnais and Eller all got goals for the Club. This game started the series for Captain America , Mike Condon, who I will have his stats for this week in the Look Ahead.
 The three stars of the game went to Paul Byron with the 3rd, Tomas Fleischmann with the 2nd, and David Desharnais with the First Star.

November 3, 2015

 Hab's fall in overtime to the Ottawa Senators. Weise was the lone scorer for the team. Captain America stopped 25 out of 27 goals. Weise, Chucky and Marky all earned a point that night.
 Condon earned the 2nd star of the night.

November 5, 2015

 Hab's WIN, 4-1. Goals by Weise, Desharnais, Gally and Plecky. Hab's keep have been dominating, on a point streak. Condon got more ice time, making 17 out of 18 goals. 9 Habs earned 12 points.
  The Hab's earned all the stars, Jeff Petry earned 3rd, Dale Weise earned 2nd and David Desharnais earned the 1st.

November 7, 2015

 Habs beat that darned team from boston. Final score was 4-2. Lars got the GTG (game tieing goal) and David Desharnais won the GWG (Game winning goal). And he was in the crease agian. Captain America Mike Condon stoped 29 of 31 goals.
 The stars go to 3) Mike Condon, 2) Tomas Plekanec and 1) David Desharnais.

LOOK AHEAD

So a few things happened this week, as promised here is Captain Americas stats. And David Desharnais won the 1st star every night that they won a game. This week we have at Pittsburgh and host the Patrick Roy at the Bell Centre.

SA	95
SAVES	89
PIM	0
SV%	93.8
TOI	240:10:00

Now let me welcome everybody to the wild, wild west

WOW! That is all, and I'm so sorry for such terrible entries on the 27th and 29th. I tried, its hard to write about losses.

Vancouver Canucks October 27, 2015

 All good things must come to an end. If anyone said that to me I'd probably punch them in the throat. Hab's loose 5-1 to the Canucks. Lets see what can I say, Price had an 82.1% save average from that game, Torrey Mitchel got the loan goal, he had assists from Emelin and Smith-Pelly. So 3 points earned this game that's good.

Edmonton Oilers October 29, 2015

 Gally, Mitchell and Chucky helped the Hab's get the 3-0 lead in the first period, they played good, and where is the Defense? Edmonton pulled off the comeback. Luckily McDavid wasn't one of the scorers. But still the team needs to pick things up, this is sad. Last week they were on top of things, they were unbeatable and were the talk of the league. Now they're showing that there all human.
  Subby got the 3rd star. Final score, 4-3 Edmonton

Calgary Flames October 30, 2015

 HABS WIN 6-2, OLE OLE OLE! GO HABS GO [Insert random sounds of happiness]
Now that I have that all out of my system, This was the team we fell in love with that made us Hab's fans. The game allowed, Captain America, Mike Condon get the "W" and Oh so much more. Condon saved 30 out of 32.  SO here comes the fun part, the scorers, A Hat Trick for Weise, Beaulieu, Smith-Pelly, Byron all earned the goals. The Hab's earned 16 goals, and kept going.
 3 stars of the night go to Byron, Condon and Weise, each in the respective spot.

Upcoming news

The Habs play Winnipeg, Ottawa, The Isanders and Boston this week, all home


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lets make it 9-0

OK, sorry for the late post, but my schooling at University is, sadly , more important. So, I'm sorry if there has been a delay, I'm a busy person.

Buffalo Sabers 10/23/2015

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  After a flight down to Buffalo, what more can I say? The Hab's are on Fire. Mike Condon is a great back up goalie; they're amazing. This is the team that we all know and love. Weise started the scoring by launching a quick one past Johnson, and then the goals started to pour down the hill. Gally, Mitchell, and Marky (Markov) all got goals in the 2nd after Moulson and O'Rilley scored. After the 2nd it was 4-2. The 3rd saw Gally and Weise get one more goal each,  and Patches put another notch on his stick, making the game 7-2.
 The Stars of the night went to 3rd P.K. Subban, 2nd to Gallagher, and the 1st Star went to the Silent Russian, Andrei Markov.

Toronto Maple Leafs 10/24/2015

 Bell Centre- The dreaded rivals, the maple leafs, tested the boys. Pricer show downed against Bernier. And I'll jump straight to the first goal, P.K. Subban put his first goal of the season up, and showed his strength. The 2nd period saw Eller, Davey, Patches, and Gally all point up the board. With a total of 2 unanswered goals get scored. The team is now just teasing us. Komarov and JVR all got lucky and put 2 in. After 40 minutes, the score was 5-2. The last goal of the game came off of Morgan Rielly making the game 5-3.
 The game ended with the Hab's improving to 9-0-0. Setting them one win away from a league record. The Stars went to all Hab's, which is so nice to see. 3rd star went to Patches, 2nd to Pricer, and the 1st star went to P.K. Subban.

Outlook 

The next blog will consist of the Canucks, Oilers and Flames game. Stay safe Hab's fans, #GoHabsGO

This winning HAB-bit, (you see what I did there ?)

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St. Louis Blues 10/20/2015

 So um, yeah to be honest, I wasnt expecting to do a blog post tonight, just take a night off, work on homework but after the game is saw I feel compeled to simply say... HAB'S WIN 3-0 AND CONTINUE 7-0-0!!!!
 Yeah so now that my monologue is done. Price is proving his worth, stopping 38/38, and stopping everything that came his way. And the way the rest of the team played is so amazing, the chemistry is there, they know they are a family and will do anything that is legal to get the win. The scoring went along like this. The first goal went to the captain, Max is proving he is like Guy, LaFluer, Le Gros Bill, and both Richard brothers. With tonights goal, Patches earned his 5th goal and started the steamroller that is Hab's dominance. Semin and Torrey both recorded a goal each and helped teammates get more point totals. 
 All the stars went to the boys tonight, 3rd to Torrey Mitchell, 2nd to Max and 1st star goes to suprise, suprise, Carey Price. Well the next game is Friday in Buffalo, So Eichel gets to meet a brick wall? We'll

6-0!

 Who would have thought we'd see this? Well, maybe us young folks can say that. Considering how most of us have only heard stories of the Hab's best records, like loosing only 6 games all season. But what can we take from this? Maybe a perfect season? Well, maybe that's too much. But it allows us to see how our boys are doing. With Pricer in the net and and the rest out blocking and scoring, this is gonna be a great team. Any way that's my opening rant, get use to them, its time for the recaps.

New York Rangers 10/15/2015

 This is what I call karma. Hab's win 3-0, with the home opener at the Bell Centre. Price became the brick wall that we know he is. The start of the game included the ceremony of passing the torch. Former Captain Guy Carbonneau passed the torch to Patches, and from there he passed it to the entire team. Thomas Fleischmann lit the lamp first in the 2nd period. Davey Desharnais recorded 2 assists In the game. The karma that I mentioned early happened. Carey Price checked Chris Kreider getting revenge on the season ending injury that was inflicted on him in the 2014 Eastern Conference Championship. The 2nd star went to Desharnais and the 1st star went to Carey Price.

Detroit Red Wings 10/17/2015

 Hab's won 4-1, advancing the record to 6-0. Setting a new record. Price recorded 21 saves against the red wings. Gally's PPG tied the game in the 2nd period. Plecky and Flynn both got the final goals and gave the Hab's the win. 3rd star went to Price, 2nd to Chucky, and the 1st star went to Petry.

The Hab's earned 12 points in the standing and are undefeated going into the game against the Blues. And on top of that Price was named the 1st Star of the week for the entire league. We know that he'll be back in that spot a lot, and we hope that more Hab's make the list.

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Week 1

 This is a simple review fro the first three games of the 2015 Season. Hopefully I can eventually go to a posting before and after the Hab's play.

TORONTO 10/7/2015

 What an amazing way to start a game, against the dreaded maple leafs. The boys played their hearts out and pulled out the victory that we knew they would win. Plus, Max proved that he's the right man to wear the C this season. Max got 2 goals, and Galchenyuk earned a goal as well. And Price finished with a.973% SV%.
 The team won 3-1 along with Galchenyuk and Price taking the 3rd and 1st star respectfully.

BOSTON 10/10/2015

 Lets get one thing straight, the bruins aren't the same team, lets be honest, that's the truth. With out Lucic out there, its lost the feel of it. Now that we got that out the way, HAB'S WIN 4-2. Lars Eller did well out there and came close to a hat trick, although he'd have to wait until their home to get his hats, I don't see any bruins giving him a hat.  Persistence is defined as "firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition." Well, David Desharnais proved that during the first PP of the game. He eventually got the pads around Rask and put the first point on the board. Lars Eller like I said got 2 points and Tomas Plekanec put himself within 1 point of breaking the 500 points mark.
 3rd star went to Carey Price, 2nd went to Alex Galchenyuk and the 1st goes to Lars Eller.

OTTAWA 10/11/2015

 Ah, Ottawa, Canada's Capital. History was made in this game. History, that we will see one more time this season by a Canadiens player. Plekanec earned his 500th goal. The only player who is gonna get 500 this season is Andrei Markov. Anyway, Pleky earned his 500th on a assist from The captain Pacioretty and Brendan Gallagher. [Although I might have mixed this up with the previous season, if so, please let me know I will fix it and you will get credit for finding my blooper]. 
 To wrap this up so I can take notes for the penguins game, The Canadiens earned earned 2 stars this game, P.K. Subban and Tomas Plekanec took the 3rd and 4th stars, respectfully.






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Zach Kassian

Why are we so quick to judge? As a society, we act before we get the answers. This might be my first blog post but still. Zach Kassian was involved in a wreck on the morning of October 4th,, 2015. Most of the news I've seen seen has been really negatively directed at him. And who are the people i see bashing him? The fans. All of the tweets from fans make him out as a villian. Does anyone know what happened? NO? Ok then please be quite. Why is it ok to attack him? And if you have a reason please let me know in the comment box. Should he have been out that night? No, but should us the fans who will shout "Go Habs Go" and will yell and scream when we hear "Zach Kassian passe et la but!!", be the ones to chastise and ridicule him. The answer is no, he is a Hab and we as fans respect all Habs. So again, why are we quick to judge? Beats me, all I know is I will continually support Zach until he is better and back on the ice.