^^ Because he's a turnover machine who doesn't hit AND doesn't score.

[Edited on May 1, 2006 at 11:39 AM. Reason : 20]

5/1/2006 11:39:18 AM

thanks bandit....i somewhat assumed as much.....babchuck (SP?) would be fun to watch but probably more of a liability right now

5/1/2006 11:47:51 AM

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=5c42f42e-3c45-4366-8dae-e75280f45795

Quote :

"On Monday, doctors in Raleigh, N.C., will remove the cervical thoracic brace from around the broken neck of Erik Cole. And then the Carolina Hurricanes left winger will hold a special ceremony for the plastic-and-steel support that's been clamped to him almost every minute since early March. "I'm going to run over it a few times with my Cadillac," Cole said yesterday. "And then I'm going to drive at least a few miles down the highway, dragging it behind the car." He vows there won't be even a single bolt left to sell on eBay."

5/1/2006 11:50:11 AM

That fucker Jack Todd is a draft dodger. This is what i got from wikipedia: "He left the U.S. Army in 1970 to avoid being sent to Vietnam and settled in Vancouver, BC."

5/1/2006 11:54:52 AM

Quote :

"Cole says that late last month, Orpik tried to get his cellphone number from Mark Recchi, who had been traded to the Hurricanes from Pittsburgh five days after the check. "I told Mark to tell him not to bother. I wasn't interested in his call," Cole said. "At that point, I felt a call was more for his benefit than for mine, of him trying to clear his conscience. "It's up to a player to make decisions out there. Things happen quickly, and you choose to take advantage of situations or you don't. Accidents will happen, and there are always going to be mistakes and misfortunes. "But I think his first comments told me how he really felt about this. I definitely look forward to next year, when we get to play Pittsburgh.""

Note to self: get tickets to Pittsburgh game next year.

5/1/2006 11:59:00 AM

so is cole gonna be ready for the next series? when is he projected to come back? if at all?

5/1/2006 12:05:54 PM

He's projected to come back in the conference final the last I read.

5/1/2006 12:08:23 PM

I think that was a best case scenario. He still has a lot of rehab to do. I wouldn't expect him back until next season.

5/1/2006 12:08:54 PM

yea, I don't want him to seriously risking his career by rushing to come back.

5/1/2006 12:10:10 PM

Quote :

" "I'm going to run over it a few times with my Cadillac," Cole said yesterday. "And then I'm going to drive at least a few miles down the highway, dragging it behind the car.""

funny


from the looks of the montreal boards, this series is over.

to any canes 'fans' that stopped watching at game 2, you deserve to be shit on and shot.

[Edited on May 1, 2006 at 12:33 PM. Reason : 0,.,]

5/1/2006 12:29:36 PM

^i agree except for the "fans" part.

[Edited on May 1, 2006 at 12:40 PM. Reason : too good a name for them... try um... cocksuckers]

5/1/2006 12:39:59 PM

who does that?

can you even call yourself a sports fan in general? thats like being down 1-0 in the 5th and leaving because you are gonna lose the baseball game

5/1/2006 12:43:54 PM

^while i see your point, dropping 2 games in a row at home to start a series is much worse than being down 1-0 in the 5th inning of a baseball game!

5/1/2006 12:45:50 PM

true. but you have the same chance of coming back

5/1/2006 12:47:04 PM

being down 2-0 was nothing short of devastating.....i mean, we were one odd bounce, one single goal away in game three's OT from being down 3-0, an impossible hole.

its true that in the new NHL, being down 2-0 goals is now easier to come back from, but being down 2-0 games is still what it always was.



[Edited on May 1, 2006 at 12:48 PM. Reason : io]

5/1/2006 12:47:20 PM

Quote :

"babchuck (SP?) would be fun to watch but probably more of a liability right now"

SET US UP THE BOMBchuk is pretty solid defensively, more so than Tverdovsky. The top six are playing pretty well recently (not great, but better), Commodore especially, so he doesn't really have a spot to fill in.

5/1/2006 12:51:35 PM

at least boobsrgreat has officially been proven wrong, the habs cannot win in 6 games.

i said the canes in 5; now, if ward (or a competent gerber) had been in goal, we would have split at home, and the series would have been over in 5 games.

5/1/2006 1:03:03 PM

agreed

5/1/2006 5:29:43 PM

that was a great atmosphere last night...however the one area where they legally allow people to scalp SUCKS because those black dudes ruin any good prices any of us could ever get. I however didnt even sit in my seat and I sat way up there..it was great because I stood up and was loud as I wanted without some yuppy behind me yelling at me.

5/2/2006 12:00:04 AM

those black dudes

5/2/2006 12:02:35 AM

THOSE DAMN BLACK DUDES WHATS NEXT THEY GONNA WANT TO START PLAYING THE GAME???

5/2/2006 12:05:06 AM

^oh please no remember that stupid Weeks fellow

5/2/2006 12:32:42 AM

Canes - 4

Canadiens - 3

5/2/2006 12:41:27 AM

the black scalpers r assholes and have been all year

5/2/2006 12:46:16 AM

Quote :

"that was a great atmosphere last night...however the one area where they legally allow people to scalp SUCKS because those black dudes ruin any good prices any of us could ever get. I however didnt even sit in my seat and I sat way up there..it was great because I stood up and was loud as I wanted without some yuppy behind me yelling at me."

How are they ruining any good prices? If you think they're selling the tickets for too much (i.e. more than $3 over face value) just threaten to report them.

If on the other hand you're trying to sell tickets for more money than they're selling for because they actually obey the law, I have no sympathy for you trying to rip off the fans.

5/2/2006 1:08:45 AM

Quote :

"(or a competent gerber)"

you realize that Gerber has been sick with the flu for the past few weeks. He's lost over 10 lbs and cannot get the energy or weight back.

5/2/2006 1:15:31 AM

we dont know the truth. if he didnt have a problem they would have put word out that something was wrong to save face.

5/2/2006 1:16:44 AM

No, they wouldn't have. That's not hockey.

They didn't do it with Staal or O'Neill, so why do it with Gerber?

5/2/2006 1:19:53 AM

when did staal cost us two hockey games?

[Edited on May 2, 2006 at 1:20 AM. Reason : 20k]

5/2/2006 1:20:30 AM

He disappeared for two long stretches. As a forward he can't intrinsically "cost" the team a game like a goaltender can, but that doesn't change the situation from a press standpoint.

If goaltenders are subject to different rules, where are the stories about Miller and Giguere having the flu?

5/2/2006 1:22:48 AM

notice we only heard about the bug after he was pulled. if his cold was so bad that he actually lost 13 lbs in a week, theres no way he would have started.

Quote :

"As a forward he can't intrinsically "cost" the team a game like a goaltender can,"

which is my point.

the situation is very different.

Quote :

"That's not hockey."

this is also a business, with tons of fans.

[Edited on May 2, 2006 at 1:26 AM. Reason : 03]

5/2/2006 1:24:25 AM

So explain Miller and Giguere.

5/2/2006 1:31:50 AM

It's the playoffs. It's hockey. Unless a doctor forbids a guy from playing, he's going to play. Shit, I remember when Brent Gilchrist had groin muscles fucking tearing off of the bones, and he would just go to the locker room and get it numbed up, and get back out there. Mario Lemieux had to be helped to the ice some games because he was in such pain. It didn't matter how sick Gerber was; if he wanted to go, he was going to go. The coach is always going to at least give the guy the chance. Once he saw he wasn't up to it, he got him out.

5/2/2006 1:32:51 AM

^^

you said it yourself

the situation is very different.

5/2/2006 1:39:12 AM

SO, IF THE CANES ORG IS GOING TO MAKE AN EXCUSE FOR GERBER EVEN IF HE ISN'T SICK, WHERE ARE THE EXCUSES FOR GIGUERE AND MILLER

5/2/2006 1:46:50 AM

DIFFERENT SITUATION

the canes can tell the press whatever the fuck they want. they dont have to be consistent, they dont have to be honest.

5/2/2006 1:48:46 AM

Explain to me how the situation of Gerber playing like shit and getting yanked in favor of a rookie is different from the situation of Giguere playing like shit and getting yanked in favor of a rookie.

5/2/2006 1:50:06 AM

did the two events happen in different games?

5/2/2006 1:51:20 AM

When you'd like to discuss hockey, I'll be here.

5/2/2006 2:04:57 AM

all i am saying is that there is a chance there was nothing physically wrong with him. how can you claim that you know with 100 percent certainty that there is not?

5/2/2006 2:10:53 AM

I never claimed that.

It would, however, be a 180 degree turn from the history of this organization and that of the game of hockey in general.

5/2/2006 2:12:53 AM

Jesus christ, just looking at Gerber you can tell he is sick. He looks absolutely terrible.

5/2/2006 2:19:56 AM

He's constantly frustrated in practice and warmups as well. You can see he's not moving like he wants to.

5/2/2006 2:21:29 AM

Quote :

"from the looks of the montreal boards, this series is over. "

from that quote alone you lose credibility throughout this whole thread. since when does a message board decide when a series is over???

5/2/2006 2:37:26 AM

Quote :

"since when does a message board decide when a series is over???"

message baords decide all hockey games.

[Edited on May 2, 2006 at 2:40 AM. Reason : thats common knowledge]

5/2/2006 2:38:31 AM

5/2/2006 10:56:05 AM

^that's so awesome

Quote :

"He's constantly frustrated in practice and warmups as well. You can see he's not moving like he wants to."

I know this is a stupid quiestion, but are you allowed to go and watch the canes practice?

5/2/2006 12:09:01 PM

^you sure can, although certain practices are not open to the public, there is a practice schedule for those open to the public:

http://caneshockey.com/custom/radF92BE.asp

[Edited on May 2, 2006 at 12:28 PM. Reason : .]

5/2/2006 12:28:17 PM

oh god, that's fucking sweet

i know what i'm doing tomorrow!

5/2/2006 12:47:51 PM

4-2 canes

5/2/2006 12:56:56 PM