My Trip To Montreal

barry33 · Guru

My Trip To Montreal

Muller93 · Guru

Hey Barry. Excellent post. Ribeiro had the "mike" on him last night( whenRDS follows one player's soundbites) and he was cheering Kovalev on etc. I thought that was a good sign. But I guess all in all, this team is in trouble.

davidb · Guru

Barry an excellent post I must say. What great insight you got into the team last night. Hope CJ is doing well.

macneil · Guru

was listening to the blueline after the game and a caller was commenting on ribs being miked up and on 2 occasions he was asking people (crosby -and roy i think )for thier sticks after the game , what a punk.

superhab · Guru

Barry thats troubling how can that happen? How does someone offer you a beer pass?

Oh and that stuff you said about the game very intrested it doesn't surprise me and its something that you've been saying all along. I suspect the main culprit is Kovalev as that has always been his rep. But there is a hint of hope in your post, Gainey and Carbo having dissagrements mean that next year maybe all the things that i think Gainey does wrong behind the bench will be fixed. That is if the team doesn't give up on him after seeing him undermined time and time again.

barry33 · Guru

Muller93 wrote:

Hey Barry. Excellent post. Ribeiro had the "mike" on him last night( whenRDS follows one player's soundbites) and he was cheering Kovalev on etc. I thought that was a good sign. But I guess all in all, this team is in trouble.

Actually Mulsey..all kidding aside..and hold the laughter lol..but Ribs actually impressed me (ok maybe it was the free beer). This guy is working so hard out there...I think Gainey finally lit a fire under him.

barry33 · Guru

superhab wrote:

Barry thats troubling how can that happen? How does someone offer you a beer pass? Oh and that stuff you said about the game very intrested it doesn't surprise me and its something that you've been saying all along. I suspect the main culprit is Kovalev as that has always been his rep. But there is a hint of hope in your post, Gainey and Carbo having dissagrements mean that next year maybe all the things that i think Gainey does wrong behind the bench will be fixed. That is if the team doesn't give up on him after seeing him undermined time and time again.

Well dont read to much imnto Carbo and GAiney disagreeing. That is pretty common at all levels and that is hwy you have assistant coaches. To offer differing points of view. The bottm line is that the head coach has the final say. I think (and please take this witha grain of salt..I only sat teher for one game) that from what i saw, Carbo seems to be a better coach than Gainey and this, a s Martha Stewart says, is a good thing. Since he is taking the helm.

Jedah · Guru

In all honesty, Carbo should be the better coach, otherwise who would support him taking over next year?! But another thing that is interesting about them disagreeing is people seem to think Gainey will go really easy on Carboneau because he picked him himself and that he shares all of Gainey's views. Well, I for one like that they don't agree on everything, because ifhe does a bad job maybe Gainey won't keep him.

plouf · Guru

Jedah wrote:

In all honesty, Carbo should be the better coach, otherwise who would support him taking over next year?! But another thing that is interesting about them disagreeing is people seem to think Gainey will go really easy on Carboneau because he picked him himself and that he shares all of Gainey's views. Well, I for one like that they don't agree on everything, because ifhe does a bad job maybe Gainey won't keep him.

Good thought.

Anyway, Carbonneau is my favourite post-70s Hab. I'm hoping for big things from him too. Gainey is fine and all so far, but I don't know about how effective a temporary coach can be, especially one who's been upstairs for so long. Personally I preferred Julien as coach, but that didn't really work out so well.

The Kahuna · Guru

macneil wrote:

was listening to the blueline after the game and a caller was commenting on ribs being miked up and on 2 occasions he was asking people (crosby -and roy i think )for thier sticks after the game , what a punk.

I heard Ribero talking to Crosby on TV. The way I heard it was; Ribero asked Crosby if he could have his stick after the game, Crosby responded, but I couldn't hear what he said. Then Ribero said something that I thought sounded like "psyc", laughed and skated away. I got the impression Ribero was trash talking Crosby.

plouf · Guru

The Kahuna wrote:

macneil wrote:
was listening to the blueline after the game and a caller was commenting on ribs being miked up and on 2 occasions he was asking people (crosby -and roy i think )for thier sticks after the game , what a punk.

I heard Ribero talking to Crosby on TV. The way I heard it was; Ribero asked Crosby if he could have his stick after the game, Crosby responded, but I couldn't hear what he said. Then Ribero said something that I thought sounded like "psyc", laughed and skated away. I got the impression Ribero was trash talking Crosby.

Excellent.
Being a punk can be a good thing, even if Crosby got the last laugh.

The Kahuna · Guru

plouf wrote:
Excellent.
Being a punk can be a good thing, even if Crosby got the last laugh.

It's gamesmanship, it goes on in every sport. I wont say I like the behaviour, but it is part of the game. Sure the Pens won, but Crosby had no goals and only one assist (on the flukey winner) so maybe Ribero had the right idea

-- Edited by The Kahuna at 00:54, 2006-03-20

Caper_hab_fan · Veteran Member

Ribs knows what its like to have attention up the ying yang. Back in his junior days he was always being razzed and taunted cause he was the talented one on his team. So he's taking a bit of that towards crosby, i highly doubt he was in the back hallways after the game looking for Sid and his stick.