NHL Connect ID
habsroyalty
Description
I was raised a die-hard habs fan in the most unfortunate of hockey cities, Edmonton! I am an accomplished curler and chess player (played hockey until I was fifteen but just wasn’t a good enough skater to get anywhere). Love to see the Canadiens faithful out in full force! Go habs Go, the drive for 25 is alive!
Favorite NHL Team
No answer
Favorite Sports/Teams
Canadiens, Wings, Flames…with a passion for hating on the Leafs and the Oilers
Favorite Players
Chris Higgins (this kid is gold!), Michael Ryder, Mike Komisarek, Saku Koivu, Jarome Iginla (golfed with him, good guy), Dion Phanuef, Kristian Huselius, Miikka Kiprusoff and of course (the greatest player of all time) Steve Yzerman
Music
Classic Rock (Pink floyd is my second passion), and Heavy Metal
Books
anything by George Orwell, William Golding or HG Wells
Movies
…anything featuring an underdog that simply refuses to go away!
Other interests
Napoleon(and other history), curling, chess and hanging out with my beautiful wife and daughter, arguing philosophy and theology
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Nat23Lem
Oct 10, 2008
Good game tonight
It was good to see our HABS back on the ice, I was a little bummed that Higgins was not playing but hopefully he will be back soon. Let’s hope we beat the LEAFS tomorrow
take care
Benstarsfan
Oct 07, 2008
thanks
dude it works like way in wash state as well. Whats so cool were I live I get to see hockey night in Canada which is hardcore. Did you watch the pens today. It was on NHL network or CBC.
JAMIENYC63
Oct 01, 2008
Why the Habs lost
In my opinion, one reason the Habs lost to Philly and haven’t won a Stanley Cup since the early 90s is the “new” (since 96) Molson Centre or Bell Centre or whatever. The Montreal Forum was to hockey what St. Peters is to the Catholic church and Yankee Stadium is to baseball. It was intimidating to opposing teams. Twenty four Stanley Cups won by the Habs in that building! Visiting teams didn’t have to just play against the habs of today – they had to also play against the ghosts of those great Canadiens teams of the past. 24 stanley Cups before ‘96. How many since ’96? ZERO! The Flyers are going to do away with the Spectrum at the end of this season. Of course the Spectrum can’t compare to the Forum, but the change still sucks!
JAMIENYC63
Sep 27, 2008
Things in common
It seems that we have a lot in common – I hate the Leafs (the only team I ever hated more were les Nordiques du Quebec – Thank you God for taking that team away from us), I was a high school chess champion, am a history buff, and used to be a pretty good curler (I had to give up curling when I moved to New Orleans in ‘86. They don’t even have a curling club here in the Big Apple, where I’ve lived since ‘89. The only thing about Canada that I miss more than curling is having packets of pure white vinegar for my fries at fast food restaurants.) One thing that we don’t have in common, though, is that I’m an ex-Habs fan….I was in Edmonton once, way back in the summer of 1975. I had gone up to Fort McMurray to visit friends. Edmonton is also the birthplace of one of my favorite players of all time: JOHN KORDIC.
Nat23Lem
Sep 11, 2008
hi Blaine
Are you looking forward to the season? I am seeing the Habs in Ottawa on the 27th. How is the family?