Squidy is frustrated

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Unhappy with losing, unhappy with ice time. Should have stayed in Calgary, Mike.

"I can't accept that we will display a losing attitude as we're doing this year. We prepare for our games like losers. We play like losers. So it's no wonder why we lose," Cammalleri said in response to questions about the repeated failures of the Canadiens.

"You've got to be sensitive to the fact that Canadiens fans live and die by their team," Cammalleri told reporters. "So if anything, you can identify with how they feel. They're unhappy, and they let you know it. So I wasn't disappointed; I think moreso I probably expected it."


Cammalleri frustrated with Canadiens 'losing attitude'

 

[jstewismybastardson]

saw a tweet that apparently the french media are hammering him

 

[Comeds]

Cammalleri went on to say that his team is playing with fear, scared to make mistakes

I couldn't agree more.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

i occasionally watch this show Le Match on TVA. Its french but entertaining none the less ... especially when it seemed like every 7th word was in english ("loo-ser")

last night they talked about my jewish paisano for the whole hour

they even brought Bob Hartley on by phone from Zurich to talk about it

 

[dash]

Feaster needs to employ a little duplicity - Rene Bourque + Mathieu Sta-jean for Mike Cammalleri. Hey, the Habs get two French sounding players in the swap.

 

[mattola]

Feaster needs to employ a little duplicity - Rene Bourque + Mathieu Sta-jean for Mike Cammalleri. Hey, the Habs get two French sounding players in the swap.

lol rep for Sta-Jean

 

[Comeds]

I know it does not help when a team is floundering and a player chimes in with criticism, but after reading his comments and watching a few more he made on TSN I find it hard to disagree with anything he said.

 

[IPostedWhat]

 

[Eddie_Shack]

He's getting criticized for those comments? Sounds like a candid, honest response and it sounds like he's empathizing with the fans, and taking responsibility as a player and a team. That's a captain's answer right there.

 

[Comeds]

I havent seen the quotes in print but one of the TSN videos had him complaining about the lack of offensive chances the Habs take. He said that the more chances you take the more pucks that will probably go in. He then said that you need to score to win.

Well that goes completely against the Habs plan from the last couple of years. All defense all the time then wait for a mistake and hope to win 1-0.

The past few years in the off season they have tried to address their lack of scoring by signing talented forwards then have asked those talented forwards to come in and play a ultra conservative defensive style. They would have been better served signing a bunch of marginal NHLers to come in and play that system.

Heads should roll and my guess is they will at seasons end.

I am no hockey expert but thats the way I see things.

I will also say that whomever the coach and whatever the system played is; the team has not been helped by about a 3rd of their payroll being hurt. If the Habs team doctor is the one who stated Markov would be ready then he should be let go too.

 

[Darkstone42]

He's getting criticized for those comments? Sounds like a candid, honest response and it sounds like he's empathizing with the fans, and taking responsibility as a player and a team. That's a captain's answer right there.

That's how I feel about it, too.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

From the “Maybe this is why he got fired” file, check out this anecdote from the Montreal Gazette’s Pat Hickey about Mike Cammalleri’s acrimonious departure from the Canadiens:

Let’s go back to the night on Jan. 12 when the Canadiens were playing the Boston Bruins. Between the second and third periods, general manager Pierre Gauthier told Michael Cammalleri to take off his uniform and return to the team hotel because he had been traded. Gauthier said he couldn’t tell Cammalleri where he was going because the trade – to Calgary for Rene Bourque – had yet to be completed.

A stunned Cammalleri asked if he could keep his game jersey as a souvenir of the good times in Montreal. No problem, said Gauthier, as long as he was willing to pay for it.

This week, the Calgary Herald’s Vicki Hall asked Cammalleri about this incident, with the veteran sniper neither confirming nor denying it. Hickey then went on to write that if Cammalleri had confirmed it, he would’ve revealed he was asked to pay $1,250 for the jersey — more than double the retail price of $600 (based on figures from the Canadiens boutique and online store.)

 

[mattola]

From the “Maybe this is why he got fired” file, check out this anecdote from the Montreal Gazette’s Pat Hickey about Mike Cammalleri’s acrimonious departure from the Canadiens:

Let’s go back to the night on Jan. 12 when the Canadiens were playing the Boston Bruins. Between the second and third periods, general manager Pierre Gauthier told Michael Cammalleri to take off his uniform and return to the team hotel because he had been traded. Gauthier said he couldn’t tell Cammalleri where he was going because the trade – to Calgary for Rene Bourque – had yet to be completed.

A stunned Cammalleri asked if he could keep his game jersey as a souvenir of the good times in Montreal. No problem, said Gauthier, as long as he was willing to pay for it.

This week, the Calgary Herald’s Vicki Hall asked Cammalleri about this incident, with the veteran sniper neither confirming nor denying it. Hickey then went on to write that if Cammalleri had confirmed it, he would’ve revealed he was asked to pay $1,250 for the jersey — more than double the retail price of $600 (based on figures from the Canadiens boutique and online store.)

stay classy Gauthier....

 

[dash]

Are you kidding me? That's crazy.

 

[Dacks]

Yeah, that guy was a piece of work. Set the Habs back at least two years, I think.

 

[DevilishWon]

From the “Maybe this is why he got fired” file, check out this anecdote from the Montreal Gazette’s Pat Hickey about Mike Cammalleri’s acrimonious departure from the Canadiens:

Let’s go back to the night on Jan. 12 when the Canadiens were playing the Boston Bruins. Between the second and third periods, general manager Pierre Gauthier told Michael Cammalleri to take off his uniform and return to the team hotel because he had been traded. Gauthier said he couldn’t tell Cammalleri where he was going because the trade – to Calgary for Rene Bourque – had yet to be completed.

A stunned Cammalleri asked if he could keep his game jersey as a souvenir of the good times in Montreal. No problem, said Gauthier, as long as he was willing to pay for it.

This week, the Calgary Herald’s Vicki Hall asked Cammalleri about this incident, with the veteran sniper neither confirming nor denying it. Hickey then went on to write that if Cammalleri had confirmed it, he would’ve revealed he was asked to pay $1,250 for the jersey — more than double the retail price of $600 (based on figures from the Canadiens boutique and online store.)

You can't make up shit like that! ....well you can....but I think this is true

 

[rares]

[MEDIA=twitter]193347165706403840[/MEDIA]

Michael Cammalleri‏ @MCammalleri93
Just received a hand written letter from Geoff Molson and my jersey from last game as a hab. Much appreciated thank you. Merci

Good to see the ownership doing the right thing with that one...

 

[puckhead]

Good to see the ownership doing the right thing with that one...

they waited until Mike's cheque cleared.