Another piece for LA?

Did fans of Montreal Canadiens player Alex Kovalev also use the power of gasoline to riot?

The teams he would have the potential to really mesh with can't afford him. The Pens have like $2m in cap space at most. The Caps have even less. The guy who turned down a 2 year $8.8m extension last week isn't going to join a new team and play for less than 50 cents on the dollar on a 1 year deal. It's just not plausible.
Amongst the teams that can afford him, I think Minnesota and Los Angeles make a lot of sense.

Kovy inspiring his own personal fan rally boggles the mind -- but then, as a Rangers fan, I'm well aware that he really malfunctions only when wearing the Blueshirt. I'll repeat my tweet-reaction:
"100 Montrealers rally for Kovalev??? summertime ennui in Habstown since the Expos left"

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoooooa...Jericho was in no way a crappy show.

Well, really, do you think you couldn't find 100 Rangers fans to show up to a protest about moving Gomez along? 100 people isn't a big deal. I'm a Habs fan, and didn't mind Kovalev during his tenure in Montreal, and for 4 mill a season wouldn't have minded him coming back, but even I blinked a few times at the idea of PROTESTING in favor of the guy.
But still, that's 100 of the wierdest fans. Any team has a few of those oddballs. I'm sure you can find 100 crazy leafs fans that think Harold Ballard was the savior of the franchise, or have their entire life decorated in Leafs memorabilia.
The next step was probably a squadron of airplanes flying over the city, skywriting bilingual proclamations that Kovalev's done with the Habs; let's hope it doesn't come to that."
I LOLed.

Bob Gainey is losing it! He's the one that should go! Get back Savard as GM. At least he knows how to wheel and deal and get a cup!

Pens need a D-man and a backup goalie, not another iffy winger. If they are set on a winger of questionable consistency, they can get Sykora back for much cheaper than AlexKOV

I love the sick pro Bob Gainey fools on Habs sites And one particular poster here...They blamed fans like me for saying all these years Mr Gainey doesnt do anything, so thanks to us, he made theses foolish moves...Thats like complaining to your spouse the house needs repairs, and he brings you home a cardboard box...

In reality, It was a Three person protest, each one of us voted 6,000 times!! You do remember the All Star game..

Kovy doesn't seem like a good fit anywhere. Isles perhaps?

Kovalev would fit in with the Flames, especially with Olli Jokinen. But I see the Leafs signing Kovalev, they have the Cap space, and Brian Burke wants to slap Gainey again by getting his best player to sign with the worst team

May be KHL?

Why not Phoenix? They need to hit the cap floor after all...

If Kovy leaves, who will I blame all the shortcomings of the Canadiens on? Gomez?

Wow, what a bad and ignorant post. Fans are right when they talk in accordance with your views, but they're wrong when they do otherwise?
Kovalev gave his best during his 5 years in Montreal. He wanted to win there, and the fans knew and felt it. Gainey left his brain in the dressing room when he decided to give fortunes to overrated players such as Gomez and Gionta at the cost of losing Kovalev, who produced more than them in a difficult context over the past two seasons.
The fans are right. You are wrong to ridicule them.

Where does Kovalev fit best? The KHL, obviously, where all the dog-fcking Russkies go to die. He was tragically overpaid in all but two of his NHL seasons. Lazy-@zzed carpet-bagger. Good riddance. Gainey's only fault here is that he didn't trade the guy five minutes after his peak-value season in 07-08.

The Petition Site/Bob Gainey is asking fans that are loyal to the Montreal Canadiens, and anyone else, to please visit the above site and ask fans to vote Bob Gainey out of the GM job here in Montreal. Please help us have him removed...The Petition site/Bob Gainey.....Thank you.

Habs 1 - in what alternate universe am I one of those uber-pro Bob Gainey folks? I've been critical of his moves, other than Cammelleri and the defensive pickups. I just aren't as frothingly rabid as you would apparently like me to be.
I give Bob this year - he has now made the team what he wants it to be, or the best he could do. He had a ton of cap space, and he remade the team to what he wanted. If the team tanks, he deserves to be gone. I'm just willing to give him this year to see how his moves work out. We can't do anything about the signings and trade now anyway, may as well let it play out and see where it goes. A new GM won't be able to really do anything significant between now and the start of the year anyway.

No Brain, you have sat on the fence as far as Gainey goes, one minute calling his moves a Possibility, then at the end saying..Well, Duhhh, maybe it wont work...Are you like really sick in the head!! Just like your blow up doll, she too goes both ways!!

Brian=Gainey enabler...Ba Doop Dee Doop...Lets all suck another year..and spend millions doing it..Brain approves!!

Because thats what it is - it could possibly work out well - all players signed have talent and ability. The question remains if they have the desire and the motivation. Or if Martin is the guy to get everything out of a primarily offensively creative squad. This is a huge gamble, and theres no way of knowing how it's going to pay off.
Doesn't matter if I'm an "enabler" or not, if I approve or anything you say either, for that matter. This is the team we are stuck with for this season. Nothing anyone says is going to change that. I'm going to cheer for the team, even through my reservations. Like it or lump it, this is the team Les Canadiens are going to roll with this year, RFA situations and further signings afterwards exempted.
Nothing you, I or anyone else on this board says will make any difference. Since I don't like wallowing in negativity, I try to at least see the positives in any given situation. There IS an upside to all this, no matter how hard you deny it. I'm just not convinced it's going to happen.
Again, if this year turns to crap, and the moves don't work, I'll be calling for Bob's head as much as you. This is his chance to make the team the way he wants it to be - if it doesn't work, its HIS head. But no matter how much you froth at the mouth, the owners aren't going to fire the GM after letting him spend their money on FAs and hire a new coach. Like seriously, its not going to happen right now. I'm not an enabler (not that Gainey cares in any way what I have to say anyway) just a realist. He's not getting canned until at LEAST the all-star break, and that's only if the season is a complete and utter disaster many orders of magnitude worse than this year (they were actually competitive until the all star break). Like 10 games out of a playoff spot or something.

Brian..Tell you what..Lets get this out in the open...Gainey stated he was done in free agency and may add a player before training camp..So our defense is set...Markov-Hamrlik ..Gorges-Spacek..Gill OByrne.....Fowards.....Camalleri-Gomez-Gionta- Pleks A Kostitsyn..S Kostitsyn..DAgostini..Pacioretty..Lapierre..Latendresse..Larague..Chipchura.. AND the bench......Now Brian..Defender of Bob Gainey.. Where do the Montreal Canadiens finish in 2009-2010..Regular season, and (if they make it)..Playoffs and how far...