The Great Canadian 2011-2012 NHL season discussion thread - Page 93

Ayreonaut · #**1841** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 6:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Supposedly some protests are being organized for Habs games because they hired a coach who can't speak French.

Not even a coach, an interim coach. Ridiculous. A coach needs to be able to communicate with the players, and if he can get results by doing that, it shouldn't matter whether or not he can speak French.

I think it would be nice if all players and coaches of the Canadiens tried to learn French during their time there, but it would be stupid to pass up on someone simply because they don't already know the language.

chrisallard5454 · #**1842** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 7:02 PM**

I will be back here around ten o'clock tonight ready to reassure all Habs fans that your boys aren't gonna belly flop, and that losing to the Jets is now just a normal part of life. Now it may take some getting used to, but in time you will come to accept that Jets don't land in Montreal. They fly right over it.

Calgarian · #**1843** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 7:19 PM**

Didn' Montreal fans give Koivu crap for not speaking french? despite the fact that he already spoke like 5 languages?

The_Architect · #**1844** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 8:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

Supposedly some protests are being organized for Habs games because they hired a coach who can't speak French.

I wonder if anyone has pointed out that half the players can't, either. You know, the guys the coach is actually responsible for communicating to.

Ridiculous..

I guess we shouldn't count all the cups won by English coaches right? All the cups won by Toe Blake, Dick Irvin (2 unilingual Ontario natives) or the anglophone Scotty Bowman?

What a fucking joke.

Nicko999 · #**1845** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 8:17 PM**

Why are you guys taking about the fans that wants to protest? They are only looking for attention and do it more because the team is in 12th place rather than the language the coach speaks. Same thing with Koivu... some fans complained he couldn't speak french (which is false because he speaks french, he just wasn't feeling comfortable talking to journalists) because the team couldn't play for better than .500.

The protests are a result of the crap we see on the ice. There wouldn't be any controversy if the team was in first place.

The same idiots don't realize that only the last 2 cups (93 and 86) were won by billiangual coaches (Demers and Perron).
I see nothing wrong hiring a french coach (Roy please) but if the best one available is an anglophone, you have to hire him.

Once again, it justs shows that the idiot fans (those that likes to complain about everything) and journalists are the big reason why the team hasn't won anything since 93.

I mean they complained when we drafted McDonagh and Pacioretty in 2007 instead of Angelo Esposito(who's currently in the ECHL).

Nicko999 · #**1846** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by chrisallard5454

I will be back here around ten o'clock tonight ready to reassure all Habs fans that your boys aren't gonna belly flop, and that losing to the Jets is now just a normal part of life. Now it may take some getting used to, but in time you will come to accept that Jets don't land in Montreal. They fly right over it.

Oh don't worry.

Just let us score the first goal so we have a chance to blow another lead.

Oh... and tell Kane not to run Price because he's won't be as kind as Montoya was.

HomeInMyShoes · #**1847** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nicko999

The protests are a result of the crap we see on the ice. There wouldn't be any controversy if the team was in first place.

The same idiots don't realize that only the last 2 cups (93 and 86) were won by billiangual coaches (Demers and Perron).
I see nothing wrong hiring a french coach (Roy please) but if the best one available is an anglophone, you have to hire him.

Once again, it justs shows that the idiot fans (those that likes to complain about everything) and journalists are the big reason why the team hasn't won anything since 93.

Umm...if the team was in first, they probably wouldn't have fired the existing coach.

I believe this is the first time they've hired a coach who wasn't at least pretty close to bilingual. Demers, Burns, and Bowman all were pretty fluent in French and born in Quebec to boot. I think this is a good precedent for Montreal, but I'm not surprised by the outcry. Yes, it's not fair to Cunneyworth before he's even had twenty games to show what it's going to be like, but management and Cunneyworth should have seen the size of the fan before they threw this up in the air in Montreal.

I will agree with it being idiot fans for the most part. But it's Canada, I expect rabid, idiotic fans in every city. It's part of what makes the NHL entertaining.

chrisallard5454 · #**1848** Posted **Dec 22, 2011, 9:33 PM**

Ok maybe not 10 o'clock tonight. I am heading to Calgary at 6 and won't arrive until 2 in the morning, so expect a post at around 5 am. Mountain time.

Nicko999 · #**1849** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 12:09 AM**

Al Montoya out with a concussion is just what I needed in my SSP pool.

Time to pick Schneider... cannot afford having Price as my only goalie especially considering we sucks.

Flamesrule · #**1850** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 2:00 AM**

Flames recall Greg Nemisz, since Tangauy is out for tonights game wtih the flu.

yaletown_fella · #**1851** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 3:16 AM**

I didn't watch but nice to hear Kadri got a goal. Also, that was a very crucial W against Buffalo.

Denscity · #**1852** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 3:55 AM**

BC would like to thank Albertas hockey teams for beating the red wings and wild tonight. We are heading for the top so it's good to keep these good teams down.

Nicko999 · #**1853** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:01 AM**

http://thejuniorreport.files.wordpre...oringsurge.jpg

Pavelec's easiest SO in his career.

Yume-sama · #**1854** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:02 AM**

Guess goalies should call out their bum teammates more often.

Acajack · #**1855** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:09 AM**

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Originally Posted by Calgarian

Didn' Montreal fans give Koivu crap for not speaking french? despite the fact that he already spoke like 5 languages?

I didn't have much of an issue with Koivu, but if he already spoke 5 languages (actually it was 3 - Finnish, Swedish and English), you have to wonder why it was apparently so hard to pick up at least the rudiments of a fourth.

Acajack · #**1856** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:12 AM**

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Originally Posted by The_Architect

Ridiculous..

I guess we shouldn't count all the cups won by English coaches right? All the cups won by Toe Blake, Dick Irvin (2 unilingual Ontario natives) or the anglophone Scotty Bowman?

Dick Irvin is the only unilingual one of the bunch and he is from a distant era.

Toe Blake was actually a Franco-Ontarian from Sudbury and spoke fluent French. His family's original name was Blais and was changed by his forebears at some point because of... well you know...

Scotty Bowman is from Pointe-St-Charles in Montreal and speaks fluent, anglo-accented French.

Acajack · #**1857** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:14 AM**

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I believe this is the first time they've hired a coach who wasn't at least pretty close to bilingual. Demers, Burns, and Bowman all were pretty fluent in French and born in Quebec to boot. .

Pat Burns was a francophone for all intents and purposes.

Calgarian · #**1858** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 4:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I didn't have much of an issue with Koivu, but if he already spoke 5 languages (actually it was 3 - Finnish, Swedish and English), you have to wonder why it was apparently so hard to pick up at least the rudiments of a fourth.

He could speak French, just not very well, so he didn't want to look like an idiot bumbling in French, so he spoke English (which he did very well).

Joshy · #**1859** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 5:19 AM**

Jets crush the Habs 4 - 0 tonight, good shutout for Pavs and good payback for our season home opener

rrskylar · #**1860** Posted **Dec 23, 2011, 7:16 AM**

Actually felt bad for the Hab's tonight as they were my team during the LOST Jet years.