I suppose Ribeiro and Dallas are made for each other, yeah?

How relaxing not to have to go back and post entries in blogs that I missed! Just one entry today.

I agree with u re Ribeiro - Gainey didn’t make a mistake. Team chemistry is essential at the top pro level and I would suggest that establishing and nurturing this bonding/fellowship has become the major preoccupation of the modern coach. In the `good ol’ days’ this was accomplished quite simply by the fact that the coach was an officially sanctioned tyrant and could do/say whatever he pleased to whomever he pleased. Thus, for example, the great 70s Habs teams didn’t need external motivation, they had the shared burden of Scotty Bowman to bring them together. So, what works better, bonding for positive or negative reasons? I used to believe/desperately want to believe that it was the former but now I am more inclined to go with the latter. If you wanna create solidarity, share heinous acts and/or strong negative feelings re someone or some group. Yeah, a big reason why Scotty was a great coach lay in the fact that as such he was also a great asshole. Alas, for coaches, this aspect of coaching can no longer be reduced to such a simple and elegant strategy - they must instill `positive’ bonding experiences and establish equally positive objects over which team solidarity can be defined. Ahh, yes, yet another principle of human action is illuminated by hockey: it is so much easier to be mean than to be fair. Sigh, why do people bother with other parts of the paper, especially the political bs - when the sports sections provides insight and understanding into human nature - in all its multivarious guises - in a much more informative, entertaining and concise fashion.

La P, you sassy sorry-assed Sabre suck-up, this site is not a democracy, bottom line is it’s a tyranny - one dood is at the top and he ain’t a she and only his vote counts. Well, okay, maybe an oligarchy which means a tyrant plus all his cronies which in this case means all troo Hab fans. Hehehehe, it therefore follows that you, as a punkette, are pretty low on the pyramid so watch it or I shall crush you like the fruity little merlot grape that you are. Also, I suggest you check out my entry on May 5.

And I don’t hate crappy pop music, I merely hate crass pounding deafening `LOUD’ music. As the bible sez, there is a time for sowing and time for reaping and ….well, a time for pretty well everything, even crappy pop music but that time and place is definitely not at a hockey arena! Talk about `VIOLENT’! Ha! The noise level makes pretty well anything that goes on on the ice seem downright civilized in comparison. Yeah, I can never understand how the pc twits go on about fighting when the noise is far more aggressive and far less acceptable.

Thanx. But what’s with the `designer’ squares? Your wife doing her Spring cleaning? If they must be filled in then at least make em bleu, blanc et rouge, eh?

I’m talking about `mommie’s boyz’ not girlz - u sound like you are not a `daddy’s girl’ which is, to say the least, heartening.

If the Buddha were alive today he’d probably be a Sabre fan or one of those HugBunnies in Ottawa. Hehehehe, he’d probably also be lobbying for the league to use those `illuminated’ hockey pucks. As for the Catholics (no, I’m not one) but, if nothing else, they know how to put on a good show!

Who is Sarah Silverman? Another punkette? Is she a stripper? Some kind of Hollywood movie ho? Is she a Daddy’s girl? Is she a Catholic or a Buddhist or a Seventh-Day Adventist?

UH? Don’t be down? If you are not suffering the agonies of defeat in all their horrific manifestations then you, Sir, would be naught but an ignominious panjandrum! I know you’re not so therefore I know that you are squirming in pain which is comforting because as is well known, misery luuuvs company.
As for that touchy-feely Linda: give her a last cig and a blindfold!

The post-mortens are easy for this series: 1) the best team lost - and the Habs were clearly the better team in every game, the Flyers did not `deserve’ to win this series and certainly the final 4-1 is one of the most misleading results I’ve ever seen. But, hey, that’s sports and sometimes luck just isn’t with you which it clearly was not with us; 2) we did not lose because of our goal-tending, we lost because of the Flyers’ goaltending and their goalposts/our poor shooting; 3) We definitely need at least one power forward with an attitude - for example, Latendresse just did not show up for work and if he is to remain a Hab he would be well-advised to take a course in anger managment - murdermaimmassacre - and perhaps review a few tapes of Lambert when he was cooking; 4) we were better than the Flyers but we weren’t good enuf to win the cup which means we need more depth which I think will be forthcoming next year.

Course you’re one of the best Habs blogs, one of the best sports blogs period if only because you stick to the basics without all the distracting whizz-bank frilly bs in which far too many bloggers indulge. Keep on KISSing, DK!