Foutoire général

'tain cherapanov il est pas là pour déconner...
vla les mouvements qu'il sort
(bon les russes sont battus à domicile 2-0)

les russes reviendront pas ...

en même temps avec l'armada Canadien Turris, Gagner, Marchand, Bernier, Perron et Sutter (encore un ...) et encore plein ont refusé l'invitation pour faire les camps d'entrainement de leurs équipes : Toews, Kane, Esposito, ...

Ce sont les futures stars de la LNH !

Y'avait un paquet de futur star du coté des russes aussi cela dit
(mais oui.... ils ne devraient pas reviendre)

Dans la série nouveau maillot, aujourd'hui Vancouver



Et jsuis d'accord avec le consensus qui dit que le maillot serait mortel sans le "vancouver" en gros au dessus...

On dirait les couleurs de l'équipe NFL.
Bande de copieurs....

Baa les couleurs, elles ont pas changé énormement hein...
C'est le design et la coupe qui varient.

OOoooooooooooouh Messier ! OOoooooooooouhhh !

La suite qui va ravir kenan...

Jagr pour satisfaire Tarao

je la connaissais mais merc

et les plus chouettes jusqu'à présent :

Citation :

The rafters of the Bell Centre are home to a Rocket, a Pocket Rocket, a Streak, a Roadrunner, a Senator and a Flower.

This season, they'll be joined by Big Bird and Bo.

The Montreal Canadiens announced on Wednesday that the team will retire Larry Robinson's No. 19 and Bob Gainey's No. 23 this year, as part of the celebrations leading to the club's 2008-09 centennial season.

Robinson's ceremony will be Nov. 19 against the Ottawa Senators while Gainey, the team's GM, will have his night Feb. 23 against the Columbus Blue Jackets.

"Most of the things that happened in my career as a player happened as a dream," said Gainey. "Most of those things I had dreamed of - but not this one."

A defensive specialist, Gainey - nicknamed 'Bo' by his teammates - played with the Canadiens from 1972 to 1989, winning four consecutive Selke Trophies as the NHL's best defensive forward, the 1979 Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP and five Stanley Cups.

The Peterborough, Ontario native - once described as the world's best all-around player by legendary Soviet national team coach Viktor Tikhonov - was captain of the Canadiens from 1981 until his retirement in 1989.

Gainey played in 1,160 regular season games, scoring 239 goals and 263 assists. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992.

Robinson - nicknamed "Big Bird" for his large frame (6'4", 225 pounds) - played 17 seasons for the Canadiens, winning two Norris Trophies as the league's top defenceman, the 1978 Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the playoffs and six Stanley Cups. He played alongside fellow Hall of Famers Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe during the dynasty days of the 1970s as part of Montreal's 'Big Three.'

"I was very honoured to play on some tremendous hockey teams, and I wouldn't be the player I was if I hadn't played with them," Robinson said on Wednesday.

Robinson also holds the team record for games played by a defenceman (1,202), as well as career goals (197), assists (686) and career points by a defenceman (882). His 85 points in the 1976-77 campaign stand as the team's record for most points in one season by a defenceman.

He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995.

Already retired are No. 1 for Jacques Plante, No. 2 for Doug Harvey, No. 4 for Jean Beliveau, No. 5 for Bernard (Boom Boom) Geoffrion, No. 7 for Howie Morenz, No. 9 for Maurice (Rocket) Richard, No. 10 for Guy Lafleur, No. 12 for Dickie Moore and Yvan Cournoyer, No. 16 for Henri Richard, No. 18 for Serge Savard and No. 29 for Ken Dryden.

It's about time !

hop

haaan...

Ah je le connais lui... C'est le super entraineur qui mène son équipe succes après succes..
C'est celui là même qui avait nommé la franchise des Devils, une mickey mouse organisation.

Je le connais bien lui.

Crosby's better

vieux grognon rancunier !

Pour faire simple :

tout les maillots

Avec ça, on pourrait faire un ptit Survivor de la combi des deux maillots (home/away)

Pourquoi aucune équipe n'a de 3e maillot cte année ?

moustic a écrit:

Pour faire simple :

tout les maillots

celui des Blues est pas mal, aussi...

par contre celui des Stars, il est tout moche (surtout le dom)

Spoutnik a écrit:

Pourquoi aucune équipe n'a de 3e maillot cte année ?

Parcqu'c'était une idée merdique.

(ça, je suis d'accord)

et plus je regarde le maillot home des Stars, plus j'ai envie de gerber
(ça me rappelle le jour où j'ai mangé des rillettes sur du pain perdu, en buvant du jus de pamplemousse...)

Citation :

The Penguins agree, pretty much to a man, that the high-tech sweaters they will be wearing this season are lighter and more comfortable than the ones they replaced.

They also concur that the new sweaters are extremely effective at repelling moisture, exactly as planned.

Trouble is, quite a few have concluded that is not necessarily a good thing.

Right winger Mark Recchi, for one, understands what the league was trying to accomplish by adopting a sweater that does not absorb fluids, but does not think the designers took into account the moisture -- to wit, perspiration -- generated under a player's uniform.

"[The sweaters] don't soak anything in, which I guess is what they wanted," Recchi said. "But the problem is, it goes through all of your equipment. It goes into your gloves, goes into your skates."

And eventually saturates the leather in both, leaving the players feeling as if their hands and feet are immersed in liquid. Perhaps because, at least in some cases, they are.

"They do what they were designed to do, as far as repelling the water," defenseman Mark Eaton said. "But we've found, the last three or four days of wearing them, that, when the water's repelled, it has nowhere to go but into your skates and gloves.

"By the end of the second [period] or the start of the third, your skates are sloshing around and you have to change your gloves because they're [soaked]."

Not all players are unhappy with the new equipment system -- center Maxime Talbot said he "definitely" prefers the new sweaters because "they're comfortable, they're lighter, they stretch" -- but that appears to be a minority opinion.

"It's very good that the water doesn't stick on it, but the sweat all goes into our gear," goalie Marc-Andre Fleury said. "Sometimes, it gets really wet."

Veteran left winger Gary Roberts, who was to make his preseason debut when the Penguins faced Detroit at Mellon Arena last night, said he planned to withhold judgment until after wearing the new items in a game, but wasn't pleased with what he experienced during practice.

"My hands are soaked, my feet are soaked," he said. "I feel like it's May, in the playoffs, I'm sweating so much. That seems to be a complaint with a lot of guys."

Frank Brown, the NHL's vice president of media relations, said in an e-mail interview that "every equipment system requires a period of adjustment," and that the sweaters, which are made of four materials, are part of a uniform "upgrade" intended to "help optimize performance and protection."

Officials of Reebok, the company that developed the new equipment system, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

While other elements of the equipment system also have gotten negative reviews -- some players have mentioned that the socks that cover their shin pads are so taut that they are more prone to tearing than the looser-fitting ones worn in the past -- the sweaters have received most of the attention.

Recchi suggested that, although some complications caused by the new sweaters will be evident immediately -- like how some players will have to alter their in-game routines to deal with unduly wet equipment -- others might not be apparent for a while.

"My gloves never got soaked like [they do now]," he said. "They're literally drenched by the end of an hour[-long] practice.

"I'm going to have to have two pairs of gloves ready [for games]. I've never done that. I've always used one pair a game. Some guys are used to that, but that's going to be different. Maybe I'll have to change my socks between periods, which I don't like doing. You start sloshing.

"I think you'll see skates break down quicker because of it; they'll absorb more [perspiration], because it's all going down into your skate and your socks."

Whether the league and Reebok will consider altering the material that goes into the sweaters to make them less moisture-repellent isn't clear -- "They have a great feel, but I just think they have to find a way to maybe have some absorbency," Recchi said -- so it's hard to say how long the current ones will stay in use.

At least a few players, though, would prefer to see the league go back to the uniforms players used to wear, although they realize that probably is not a viable option.