The Canadiens are Dishonest

Good post.

I don’t agree with is the stuff about Lucic always upholding “the code” and not punching guys in vulnerable spots. He has gotten carried away on a few occasions especially a few years ago when he would continue to wail away on guys on the ice. Thornton, on the other hand upholds the code better than anyone I have ever seen. I have never seen him hit a guy in a vulnerable position. Case and point: go back at watch the Dallas game. In that fight, Thornton actually stops and calls in the linesmen when he sees that his opponent is hurt.

As for Philly: Carcillo answers the bell. I will give him that. Scott Hartnell is a despicable piece of garbage.

hate the flyers and carcillo is questionably dirty at times, but a clean fighter. I cant stand the habs for alot of reasons, at least i can respect the yankees. the lakers and habs are concited trash that disgrace thier respective sports

Nice article. I don’t fully agree with the Lucic comments in the article but everything about Montreal is dead on.

Unfortunately for me, I grew up in surrounded by Montreal Canadiens fans right in their back yard. I knew no other Bruins fans growing up , other than my dad, me and my little brother. My only solace was that I could on occasion route along with Nordiques fans against the Habs, so in other words I am an expert on the hated Canadiens having collected 18 years of first hand observations.

To call the Canadiens ‘dishonest’ is accurate and let me just show you the ways with recent example at no extra cost. Remember back on Dec 16, we played the Canadiens in a tense match up. On numerous occasions the Bruins tried to get anybody from the team to go one on one.

This game is where P.K. Subban got a big hit on his admitted friend Brad Marchand. This is also the game where he showed off his amazing skill at skating backward away from trouble while also ‘slew-footing’ Gregory Campbell. Here is the quote from figure skater Subban about that incident… “I didn’t really want to fight, our team wasn’t in a position where we needed that. So I just tried to stay in the game and force him to do something, we drew a penalty out of it and ended up scoring on the power play. So that’s the type of game I want to play, just in your face and hopefully good things come out of it.” WOW!!! In other words I want to act like a tough guy, deliver big hits and then in scrums with plenty of linesmen and team-mates around I’ll get in your face but then once it’s time for me to step-up and back up all my talk like a man, well that’s where I’ll cower and hopefully get the ref to call a roughing minor on you. Does that seem like good honest play?

The only guy on their team who did eventually fight was their Captain who had to make a statement for the team after all the figure skating performed by Subban and Lapierre, and even then he skated backwards for 9 seconds (after agreeing to fight the known pugilist David Krejci) pleading with the linesman to step in. Look at the linesman shake his head ‘no’ forcing Cammalleri to follow through on his taunt. By the way, this was both players first fight even in their careers. Krejci 4 years and Cammalleri 6 years.

Montreal fans who despite their obnoxious, insufferable and holier than thou ways, are still very knowledgeable hockey fans and they were screaming at the team for their yellow dogs’ ways. Eventually the Montreal brass saw that this sort of dishonest play was going to be a huge problem and traded Lapierre because he was showing the very talented rookie Subban the wrong way to play the game. Unfortunately the damage was done, and Subban has been labeled.

Even Joffrey Lupul with 5 fights to his name in 6 years of play wanted to throw down against Subban, and here is what I saw. (Shout out to whoever invented the DVR, mankind’s greatest invention). Lupul, who’s name is a palindrome by the way, challenged Subban, who accepted much to my dismay and they BOTH start to take of their helmets. NO REALLY, WATCH THE REPLAYS IN SLOW MOTION! I DID LIKE 72 TIMES much to my wife’s displeasure. SUBBAN fakes as if he is going to remove the strap but instead cocks and fires. Not exactly honest play again…

The team as a whole is renowned for pushing up to the limit, and then seeking refuge in a linesman, or teammate. Montreal fans and more notably the press have been lamenting the team’s lack of grit saying that their dancing ways cannot compete against the likes of the Bruins, Flyers, Penguins and even the Rangers in the playoffs. They might win a series but eventually the stronger teams will wear them out.

But oh wizened blogger you say, what about the last game where the Canadians actually dropped their gloves and tried to step-up. Well it wasn’t Subban, who drew two roughing calls as is his plan and got a 10 min misconduct essentially having his ass saved by the refs at the end of the game. That last game against the Bruins where they ‘tried’ to step-up was only to try and shut the pundits up. "Look we can defend ourselves if we choose too…" Epic fail.

Look at this one. . . Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog

What a whiny ass post. Subban has more fighting majors than Lucic does this season. The reason Montreal’s skill guys had to fight Bruins the other night is because those are the only guys your goon squad WANTS to fight.

Hilarious that you guys bemoan guys like Carcillo when you employ idiots like Thornton and Campbell. Even more hilarious that you talk about Marchand like he’s an “honest” player, when he has ZERO career NHL fights, and he was taking liberties last week like nobody’s business.

Subban isn’t going to fight Campbell after a LEGAL check for the same reason Lucic didn’t fight Laraque a couple seasons ago, it’s not worth trading 5 minutes with a talentless nobody.

Also, the Bruins aren’t the only team to have a player stand up after his teammate doled out a headshot, Bill Guerin did it last year in Pittsburgh.

As for Lucic not trying to get the jump on people and always honouring the code? What a load of horse crap. Get your head out of your ass. Lucic constantly jumps people from behind, and as much as Komisarek is a meat head, Lucic continued to pound on him in that famous “fight” for a long time after Komisarek clearly injured his shoulder and wanted out. Lucic is a raging lunatic when he loses his temper, he doesn’t honour any BS code.

Point out exactly what cheap shot PK Subban needs to fight a Bruin over, please. Is it anywhere close to Chara two hand slashing Pacioretty for no reason? Is it as bad as Marchand running Subban from behind on an icing call (the most gutless play in hockey)? Or do you Bruins fans still have your panties in a wad over Subban’s “slew foot” on Campbell that was, in reality a stiff arm.