Montreal Canadiens

[Bass56]

Practice lines:

Byron - Galchenyuk- Radulov
Andrighetto - Plekanec - Gallagher
Pacioretty-Danault/Desharnais-Shaw
Carr-Mitchell-Flynn

Dirty Therrien; spreadin' that talent!

[PenguinHunter]

I watched a bit of the game last night on Sportsnet. Am I the only one who noticed that the two announcers (John Bartlett and Jason York) keep saying that Galchenyuk is Russian? Are they just that ignorant or that uninformed? Get your facts straight boys. Geez.

That is bad... just because he has a long Russian sounding name? that's not good at all..

[ericdaoust]

Galchenyuk isn't a "good Canadian boy" so nobody bothers to find out anything about him.

[PenguinHunter]

Galchenyuk isn't a "good Canadian boy" so nobody bothers to find out anything about him.

That's probably true... but he plays for a Canadian team.... I would expect this from a non-hockey market.

[Bass56]

Galchenyuk isn't a "good Canadian boy" so nobody bothers to find out anything about him.

It's a purely Canadian name; it's just the hyphenated part that throws some people off... he should just go with his mother's name instead of the full one:
Gal'Chien-Yuck (the Yuck name, his father's, is from Northern Ontario... his mom, Lucette Gal'Chien, is from Saguenay)

The same confusion happened with the team's last Quebec-born captain, Saku Korriveau

On a side note, can someone please explain why sportscasters in French add an ''S'' to Plekanec when pronouncing it? '' PlekanecS''

Or why Mario Tremblay says ''TomaH VaukoooMM'' instead of TomaS VokouN?

[rataylor22]

It's a purely Canadianr name; it's just the hyphenated part that throws some people off... he should just go with his mother's name instead of the full one:
Gal'Chien-Yuck (the Yuck name, his father's, is from Northern Ontario... his mom, Lucette Gal'Chien, is from Saguenay)

The same confusion happened with the team's last Quebec-born captain, Saku Korriveau

On a side note, can someone please explain why sportscasters in French add an ''S'' to Plekanec when pronouncing it? '' PlekanecS''

Or why Mario Tremblay says ''TomaH VaukoooMM'' instead of TomaS VokouN?

Every name must be pronounced the French way when they get to Eastern Canada. Case in point, Alex Chaisson was pronounced "Chay-saun" in Dallas, when he was traded to Ottawa it was then pronounced "Shee-a-soh" (as requested by Chaisson), and now that he is in Calgary, he's re-requested "Chay-son". Ridiculous.

[Thunder]

It's a purely Canadianr name; it's just the hyphenated part that throws some people off... he should just go with his mother's name instead of the full one:
Gal'Chien-Yuck (the Yuck name, his father's, is from Northern Ontario... his mom, Lucette Gal'Chien, is from Saguenay)

The same confusion happened with the team's last Quebec-born captain, Saku Korriveau

On a side note, can someone please explain why sportscasters in French add an ''S'' to Plekanec when pronouncing it? '' PlekanecS''

Or why Mario Tremblay says ''TomaH VaukoooMM'' instead of TomaS VokouN?

It's Plekanec with an "s" sound cuz that's the proper Czech pronunciation.

It's VokOOOM because, well, because it's Mario Tremblay.

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Every name must be pronounced the French way when they get to Eastern Canada. Case in point, Alex Chaisson was pronounced "Chay-saun" in Dallas, when he was traded to Ottawa it was then pronounced "Shee-a-soh" (as requested by Chaisson), and now that he is in Calgary, he's re-requested "Chay-son". Ridiculous.

The name is Chiasson, not Chaisson.

[ericdaoust]

Desharnais/Pateryn out, Andrighetto/Hanley in tonight.

[rataylor22]

The name is Chiasson, not Chaisson.

Appreciated

[LeTrefle]

Pierre Houde (RDS) asks players, personally, the way they want their name to be pronounced.
Plekanets, Hudobin, Beckstrom, Yemelin, Yossi (Josi)...
I appreciate that. Players too.

[ericdaoust]

One that irked me last game was PasterrrnYak

[rataylor22]

Pierre Houde (RDS) asks players, personally, the way they want their name to be pronounced.
Plekanets, Hudobin, Beckstrom, Yemelin, Yossi (Josi)...
I appreciate that. Players too.

Every Canadian market does that. It just changes year to year and depending on what part of the country they play in.

[ericdaoust]

Much better effort last night vs Kings. At least they were not constantly pinned in their own end and the Kings' size made that a real possibility.

[niconasr]

Yeah, much better effort last night. Appreciated Danault's game at center, even though I don't believe he can work as Patches center for the long haul. Is Patches playing hurt? He doesn't seem comfortable out there skating or even taking shots.

Price's save on Kopitar was simply insane. It's mostly luck, but he sure gets lucky often!

[ericdaoust]

Price = best player in the world.