Boston at Montreal 11/22/08

[mongoose]

Originally Posted by CatatonicMoose

Guys,

Keep this thread clean and on topic and no flame wars. We don't want to have to lock it as there is some good discussion going on.

No problem this rivalry is awesome, feels like the playoffs.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally Posted by hockeybooks

BGL has more to gain from this fight , looch has more to lose

it'll happen when the time is right for milan, or not at all

if the B's go up a few , thats when i would expect it

I disagree.

Everyone expects BGL to win that fight . If Lucic dropped the gloves he's already won in many peoples minds. It's about answering the bell. Nobody expects him to win, just to show up ...

[I like Boobs]

Absolutely.

I have alot of respect for Lucic's game, but you have to be a tough guy ALL the time if you're going to be a tough guy. Just drop the gloves and get it over with - exactly the same thing that the Bruins fans were saying about Komisarek. He dropped the gloves and got invovled and now its over, let Lucic do the same thing, he's had ample opportunity.

[hockeybooks]

7 mins left in the habs-bruins game, and cbc just switched over

guess who scored?...w00-h00

bob the boozer cole hasnt mentioned any fights

so far, no fireworks ?

[flex_buff_chest]

Just like a few people have said, if Komi is expected to fight Lucic, then Lucic is expected to fight Laraque.

[blackngold]

Haha that was funny. BGL stops playing hockey and just follows Lucic around the whole night. Except BGL is too slow and too sh!tty to actually have an effect on Lucic and Lucic ends up with the goal.
BGL the Gentle Giant makes another harmless appearance.

[OilersHockey]

Originally Posted by blackngold

Haha that was funny. BGL stops playing hockey and just follows Lucic around the whole night. Except BGL is too slow and too sh!tty to actually have an effect on Lucic and Lucic ends up with the goal.
BGL the Gentle Giant makes another harmless appearance.

Bingo. He had to find a way.

[AllHailKingDJ]

Originally Posted by flex_buff_chest

Just like a few people have said, if Komi is expected to fight Lucic, then Lucic is expected to fight Laraque.

Why is that? Lucic and Komisarek had a rivalry going for over a year that included questionable hits both ways, constant trash talking and both are good players. Lucic and Laraque have no rivalry to speak of, Laraque is too slow to hit anyone and is a useless hockey player. Lucic also weighs 20 pounds less than Komisarek and Laraque weighs about 40 pounds more than Lucic. Lucic and Komisarek are in that same middleweight/light heavyweight class, Laraque is the heavyweight champ.

Komisarek also fought Lucic in a 6-1 game, this game was either tied or a 1 goal game the entire way.

Claude Julien also just admitted that he had a no fighting Laraque order on Lucic tonight...so you can't really expect Lucic to go against his coaches orders.

"He's probably the toughest guy in the league, and I know Georges Laraque was [goading Lucic] because he was told to. Georges is not that type of guy and he respects the young kids and knows what that is all about," said Julien. "There was no way that was going to happen. Thornton was there ready for Georges and that never happened either. My tough guy was ready for their tough guy and it's as simple as that. I told him not to fight, and if you were wondering...it was me.

"I don't send guys to fight. When guys go out and fight they do it on their own. That's all I'm going to say. I know for a fact that [going after Lucic] was said and [Laraque] had a job to do tonight. He was to shadow Lucic and that was his job. It's as simple as that. For us I think Lucic is a good player and if they want Georges to shadow him then that means more ice time for Georges and good for him."

http://blogs.weei.com/joehaggerty/

[brandonh19]

i dont get it bruins fans were begging for a lucic komisarek fight, because they wanted to see lucic dominate him they did, they never saw it from our perspective saying he didnt have to fight were saying he was playing his game, and now its the same thing the other way around. Lucic is gonna have to answer the bell soon, but you cant call laraque a gentle giant, hes playing in the framwork of the rules the habs cant afford him to take an instigator penatly and lose him....,

[swirvin]

[yohan]

Originally Posted by mongoose

Im an avid hockey and fight fan and at 39 yrs of age ive watched a lot of great hockey, and awesome fights,I have never ever seen anyone get challenged four times in one period of hockey!!!And decline!!!!! Ive watched great enforcers for the habs Nilan, kordic ewen and many others for all nhl teams,Lucic hotdogged and showboated and has to answer for it!! This is the best ive seen laraque do his role in years! He wont take a cheapshot,he just hits clean and has forced the issue four times!! And Thornton has done fuk all!! If you bruin fans want to mock my team fine go right ahead!!But when it is your team doing it grow a set!!If you want to dwell on Komis getting beat , fine I never stated he was an "elite " fighter!! but he answered the fukin challenge didnt he????Luci hits hard out there and will be a force for years to come but man up!!

yeah i saw laraque follow him around and looch laugh. then i saw looch score a goal and put his arms in the air like Moses. priceless... why doesnt bgl give him a reason to fight? that would be the way to go. he tried checking him but bounced off like a little b*tch.... give me bgl following him around the rest of the season... lol

[MarCH]

Why Laraques didn't fight Lucic??? Every Habs fan HATE this show-off and the opportunity was here for Laraque. So why??? You're pay 1,5M$, so do your job and turn Lucic's mouthpiece to red!

Anyway, ANOTHER lose 'cause of the coaching. Seriously, Laraque with Saku and Tanguay???? Well, don't you learn from your mistakes Mr. Carbonneau. Samsonov, Ryder, Grabovski... Don't try to get the Kostitsyns out of Montreal!!!! Put Sergeï on the first line wasn't the logical option???

...

Well... Great hockey game, Habs dominated, but Bruins played good in defence and Thomas was "mardeux" on a few shot. Refs were not to bad tonight... They missed a couple of penalities, but that was for the both teams.

[yohan]

Originally Posted by MarCH

Why Laraques didn't fight Lucic??? Every Habs fan HATE this show-off and the opportunity was here for Laraque. So why??? You're pay 1,5M$, so do your job and turn Lucic's mouthpiece to red!

Anyway, ANOTHER lose 'cause of the coaching. Seriously, Laraque with Saku and Tanguay???? Well, don't you learn from your mistakes Mr. Carbonneau. Samsonov, Ryder, Grabovski... Don't try to get the Kostitsyns out of Montreal!!!! Put Sergeï on the first line wasn't the logical option???

...

Well... Great hockey game, Habs dominated, but Bruins played good in defence and Thomas was "mardeux" on a few shot. Refs were not to bad tonight... They missed a couple of penalities, but that was for the both teams.

he put him there to go against looch all night.. didnt work... laraque gotta learn. if you wanna fight someone, run someone.... dont just expect a fight for no reason... he should have ran someone and the bell would have been answered.. oh well. at leat we can hear BGL talk tuff to the media tommorrw..

[I like Boobs]

Yes,

Blame Laraque for constantly challenging another guy who couldn't get off the ice quickly enough on several occasions. Blame Laraque for openly looking for a fight, while the other guy won't look at him. Its clearly all Laraque's fault here.

[yohan]

Originally Posted by I like Boobs

Yes,

Blame Laraque for constantly challenging another guy who couldn't get off the ice quickly enough on several occasions. Blame Laraque for openly looking for a fight, while the other guy won't look at him. Its clearly all Laraque's fault here.

actually i saw laraque shadowing him and looch laughing at him.. if he wants to fight, run kessel or savard. he didnt do anything but look stupid.. looch laughed at him, scored, then did the god pose...priceless!!