And most hockey players are Russian, Czech, or Scandinavian. So who gives a shiat?

farking Quebec. I bet if the rest of this country held a referendum about Quebec's independence, they'd be given the boot and not given a dime.

Uhm...I think what they're saying is he should be bi-lingual. And they're right.

Silvara: Uhm...I think what they're saying is he should be bi-lingual. And they're right.

You wouldn't hear a peep if they had hired a unilingual Francophone as coach. Anglophones are good for subservient roles in their world, but this is uproar is entirely about their inferiority complex as relates to the French language.

muck4doo: Silvara: Uhm...I think what they're saying is he should be bi-lingual. And they're right.

Uhm...No. You go be xenophobic somewhere else.

Um....I'm an English only speaking American. I just happen to think a coach in Montreal is probably better served being able to speak both languages. How the hell is that xenophobic?

It's Quebec. Might as well be the 4th moon of Yavin.

All I wanna know as a Leaf fan, with the Leafs a whopping 2 pts. ahead of Montreal, is when can we fire Wilson?

/oh and no I think they do need to have a french speaking coach...because there are so many ready to step right in there...
//oh oh and their coach is not what is wrong with that team.

Silvara: muck4doo: Silvara: Uhm...I think what they're saying is he should be bi-lingual. And they're right.

Uhm...No. You go be xenophobic somewhere else.

Um....I'm an English only speaking American. I just happen to think a coach in Montreal is probably better served being able to speak both languages. How the hell is that xenophobic?

The ONLY thing that matters is whether the guy is a good coach and the team wins. Everything else is typical Quebecois horsehit.

I have a solution to this:

prima nocta for all Canadians on fine French Canadien girls.



If we can't kick them out, we'll breed them out.

Really? And I wonder how the brilliant free-thinkers at AM 640 would react if Ron Wilson got fired, and MLSE replaced him with a coach that couldn't speak English.

Move the team to New Orleans. They speak French and English, and Louisiana is much more deserving of an NHL team than the asshole of Canada.

They're playing the same type of hockey that's scraped them into the playoffs the last few years, the only difference this year is that their shiat personnel has caught up with them. And as much as I hate Pierre Gauthier, this is Bob Gainey's fault. Two words: Scott Gomez. Four more words: I hate that midget. Wrap Markov in duct tape and couch cushions, convince Gill it's already the playoffs, remind Cammalleri and Plekanec that the season has started, remove all possible instruments of suicide from Price's apartment, try to keep Cunneyworth from implementing a "high-flying offense," nail the door shut on the Keebler Elf tree house to keep Gomez out of the line-up, and boom you've got yourself 8th place in the East by year's end. If Cunneyworth can learn the French word for win, the metropolitan redneck fanbase will love him by the end of this week.

legion_of_doo: There are a lot of cool people in Quebec, but also a lot of noisy stupid assholes.

The 49% Oui crowd can kiss my ass.

/never had any problems in Quebec City or Montreal. Always had good times, met plenty of very hospitable people, and never had to bust out much French... mostly just talked in English.
/helps to not dress & act like a total asshole tourist, I guess.

Hey! Oui used to be a pretty good mag back in the day.

Eh... All I have to say to that is:

Let's Go, Bruins!

Way back when Keith Olbermann was still doing SportsCenter on ESPN, he made a comment about the head coaching job of the Canadiens being a position with a cultural significance that was comparable to the pope--the point being that the job was essentially reserved for a French-speaking Canadian, for reasons that don't necessarily have much to do with hockey.

Cybernetic: Way back when Keith Olbermann was still doing SportsCenter on ESPN, he made a comment about the head coaching job of the Canadiens being a position with a cultural significance that was comparable to the pope--the point being that the job was essentially reserved for a French-speaking Canadian, for reasons that don't necessarily have much to do with hockey.

When did ESPN ever talk at length about Canadian hockey teams? Or hockey at all for that matter?

swahnhennessy: Way back when Keith Olbermann was still doing SportsCenter.

Still does not compute. Olbermann is more of a baseball guy. He's a total stats geek -- even has a degree in sabermetrics or whatever it's called.

fatalvenom: keylock71: Eh... All I have to say to that is:

Let's Go, Bruins!

This.

Should be a good game tonight.

Indeed... Habs match up well against the Bruins. Bruins have to stay out of the box and not let the Habs catch them standing around. Goaltending has been a bit suspect for the Habs as of late, so the Bruins need to get the lead early and pound the Habs into submission with their physical play.

After the routing of Philly, I'm expecting the Bruins to have a bit of swagger tonight.

sno man: All I wanna know as a Leaf fan, with the Leafs a whopping 2 pts. ahead of Montreal, is when can we fire Wilson?

/oh and no I think they do need to have a french speaking coach...because there are so many ready to step right in there...
//oh oh and their coach is not what is wrong with that team.

I will trade you straight up Wilson for Lindy Ruff.

wildestdreams3214: Warlordtrooper: I will trade you straight up Wilson for Lindy Ruff.

A) Both teams would riot.
B) I'd be on board with this, because no one can be a worse coach right now than Lindy Ruff. I've never seen a team so unmotivated to play for their coach. Even the Caps were more motivated under Boudreau than these guys are under Ruff. He's got to go.

I like ruff too but his time has come and gone. There needs to be a change. I have respect for everything he has done for this organization but nobody in the locker room is listening to him.