Comment #1817

fantastic

- Alex on More Mega 9 Goodness

Tags: sports, hockey, montreal canadiens, ottawa senators, calgary flames, new york islanders

i'll start with Eric Neilson
wow, 2 fights, which he won, and a big hit on some ottawa player. looked like he gave everything during the game and he is definitely a replacement for laraque who always seems to be injured or have a reason for not playing.

Glen Metropolit
the more i see of metropolit the more i like him. he's a skater, a puck handler, a passer and a shooter. i just wish he was a scorer as well. oh and he can hit too.

Tomas Plekanec
i think he's really going to pick up the slack left open by the guys who weren't brought back this season, kovy koivu and higgins. he's a skater, he was flying last night and made 2 great plays that i can remember, and he can score, just not very much. and like metropolit he was one of the few last season during the playoffs who seemed to care.

Brian Gionta
God he's tiny.

Curtis Sanford
didn't see much of what he can do but he gives the sense that he could be a good back up goalie.


also what do people think about this. a brief description. dion phaneuf (calgary red) checks kyle okposo(islanders white) in a mid ice collision that knocks okposo out(mild concussion). Morency (islanders white) jumps off the bench to get phaneuf for the hit.

in my opinion, the hit was clean, okposo had his head down from chasing the puck and from a minor collision with a calgary player before being hit by phaneuf. so maybe a roughing call but no suspension or anything. this might be complicated because phaneuf is known for hitting hard like this.

morency is suspended without an amount of time for jumping off the bench when he wasn't supposed to be on the ice. it was his first game in the nhl and it could be his last. the nhl will decide on what disciplinary actions to take on the matter later on.

i think he should be allowed to play again, he's young, was his first game, was a huge hit with big concequences.