Bits: Lot's O' Stuff on a Sunday Morn

… But I’ve worn hockey gloves. wouldn’t one need an abnormally powerful jaw to cause any injury through a glove?… The other issues: it needed to be 100 percent conclusive intentional, which it didn’t seem to be in the replay they showed, and IMO they should have each received 10 minutes for delay of game. Once a linesman steps in, that should be the end of it- start enforcing that and there wouldn’t be fingers in the mouth to begin with.

i think given it is cup final, and nhl past history, unless it was so obvious that league had no choice, they were not going to suspend burrows…the guy does have a negative history as a weasel though…

Either
1. He did not want Kabonov at all because of something to do with moving forward into 2015 and the Krill would not be around for that
2. I think is more likely is that before he did not think about Krill before he drafted him. What kind of tipped me off was the line “J’avais zéro intérêt pour Kabanov” It is in the past tense and could translate into “I had not had any intrest in Kabonov”. It proabably meant that before the draft he was looking at getting some one to help his team through 2015 so Kabonov was not on his mind. The title “Roy didn’t want Kabonov” means more likely than not that he was not looking to draft him at all before the draft. Don’t really know what his feeling is now.

I grew up in central western ontario, near lake huron, but my mother’s family is from the eastern townships of quebec (vermont border) and i lived in montreal for three years, where i wrote my phd @ concordia university, which is right downtown, opposite of famous st. catherine st. with famous pub streets bishop and cresent right by.

montreal is probably the most liberal large city throughout canada and the united states. it has all the freedoms for young and old, and everything one might fear could lead Kabanov astray, not saying derrick sanderson astray but it is there….at the same time, montreal is a city full of life, culture, and hockey crazy…with a russian hockey loving minority population…so it could also be everything Kabanov needs…

Montreal has an unmatched night-life. bars and pubs everywhere. the drinking age in quebec is only 18. bars serve till 3 am. you can buy beer in most any corner store or gas station. you can even buy single cans and drink on the street, provided it is in brown bags. the city is full of university and college students.

Montreal is full of strip clubs, even chez paris (if i spelled that right) – canada’s oldest trip club, full of beautful women, and it is the bar most nhl players attend…in montreal, lap dances are $10 to $20 dollars a song, and it is full contact, meaning you can touch….Montrealers and general tend to believe one has the freedom to do whatever the want, so long as your right to extend your arm ends at the tip of my nose so to speak. Roy was known to have liked the night life himself, his wife was reported to have been a former “dancer”…so maybe he can help Kabanove, steer him away from negative influences…

when i was a teaching assistant at concordia university in montreal, most all of my students could speak 3 or more languages, many spoke 4, two actually spoke 7. the large european population may make Kabanov feel at home. Montreal is an outdoor city. with most appartments having patios, and festivals outside all the time. you can eat an numerous famous ethic restaurants, for cheap prices…but they think nothing of sitting you beside total strangers….the russian embassy is in ottawa, but the russian consulate is in montreal (for canada). one of my former students was in canada b/c of his father’s job with the russian consulate. he told me their is a huge ottawa montreal rivalry between the russians here in canada as a result. my brother’s childhood, life long best friend played for the Laval Chiefs, and stars in the video documentary that is out there on this team – Mike Bajurny. total pro-goon league, Laval is a subburb of Montreal….I guess what I am saying how it all works out for Kabanov is up to Kabanov, but he has every opportunity positive and negative in montreal

I don’t think it’s much of a stretch anymore. I wouldn’t be upset if we went with him, he really does seem to have a great intensity.

Big right D, Big Right centre and wingers, right forwards in general are organizations weaknesses with Isles…similar to 2008, this would be a good draft to trade down and accumulate extra picks…the players are so close….you have top five, next two, next three and then it is much more wide open. It comes down to who the scouts are really sold on. If their not sold on Hamilton, the Isles should pick a player that the scouts are confident will panout, or, trade down and get more picks. we are still too many players away to be able to afford not to score with a 5th overal pick, in a draft that may lack a Crosby, but is nonetheless deeper than usual. we have about 4 or 5 needs, and, our needs at the NHL level, literally mirror system wide weaknesses…if your convinced Mika will be either a right centre, right winger who will play physical, get 60-80 points a year, that is a player that the Isles must look at seriously, and if Hamilton has too many questions, with our holes, Mika looks better and better. of course, there are other players other than just Mika to look at.