GameDay: Habs vs Bruins Lineup, Pouliot, Attendance

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All Habs GameDay: Thursday October 27, 2011

On this day in hockey history…  1963 – Detroit’s Gordie Howe scored his 544th NHL goal during a 6-4 loss to Montreal. The 544 career goals tied him for the all-time lead with Maurice Richard.

MONTREAL CANADIENS vs BOSTON BRUINS

TD Garden  7:00 p.m.  TV: RDS

 

►Canadiens hockey tonight!

Projected line combinations:

MONTREAL CANADIENS

Forwards
Travis Moen – Tomas Plekanec – Brian Gionta
Max Pacioretty  – David Desharnais – Erik Cole
Andrei Kostitsyn – Lars Eller – Mike Cammalleri
Mathieu Darche – Petteri Nokelainen – Michael Blunden

Defenseman
Josh Gorges – P.K. Subban
Hal Gill – Raphael Diaz
Jaroslav Spacek – Yannick Weber

Goaltenders
Carey Price – Peter Budaj

Scratches

Aaron Palushaj – Alexei Yemelin

►Injury update:  Andrei Markov will return to Montreal from Florida on Friday. Pierre Gauthier reports that doctors are pleased with his progress.  He hasn’t experienced any additional swelling in his knee.  There is no schedule for his return to the line-up.

Chris Campoli – hamstring tear
Scott Gomez – upper-body
Andrei Markov –  knee
Ryan White – sports hernia

► Pouliot excited to meet Habs : Benoit Pouliot gets his first opportunity to face his former mates tonight in the TD Garden.  Pouliot was signed as a free agent by the Bruins in the off-season.

“Everyone would agree that when you face your old team, you want to show them, ‘Well, you didn’t want to keep me, then I’ll show you.’  It pumps you up even more.” — Benoit Pouliot

Read more:  Pouliot Pumped to face Canadiens

►BGL takes his shots : Georges Laraque has never been shy to share his views when a microphone appears.  Is he “telling it like it is” or does he have an axe to grind? That’s for you to decide.  Laraque is critical about the coach and his cozy relationship to certain players.

Read more: Martin lost respect of the players (in French)

► Habs fans staying home : The slow start to the season and the Habs anger with management has them staying home from the Bell Centre.  The Canadiens are accustomed to seeing themselves at the top of attendance charts along with the Chicago Blackhawks. Not anymore, so far this season they find themselves ranked 17th in the league.

2011-12 Attendance Home Road Overall
RK TEAM GMS TOTAL AVG PCT GMS AVG PCT GMS AVG PCT
1 Chicago 4 86,250 21,562 105.2 3 14,619 81.7 7 18,587 95.9
2 Detroit 3 60,198 20,066 100.4 3 17,872 98.7 6 18,969 99.6
3 Toronto 5 97,213 19,442 103.3 3 12,946 66.6 8 17,006 89.3
4 Calgary 4 77,156 19,289 100.0 3 19,944 101.0 7 19,569 100.4
5 St. Louis 3 57,450 19,150 100.0 5 15,555 85.6 8 16,903 91.2
6 Tampa Bay 3 56,589 18,863 95.5 5 16,572 92.1 8 17,431 93.4
7 Vancouver 4 75,440 18,860 102.4 4 16,431 88.3 8 17,645 95.3
8 Ottawa 5 93,539 18,707 97.7 3 19,298 101.4 8 18,929 99.1
9 Washington 5 92,530 18,506 101.3 2 19,085 101.6 7 18,671 101.3
10 Pittsburgh 5 92,515 18,503 102.3 5 17,457 120.2 10 17,980 110.3
11 Colorado 2 35,530 17,765 98.7 6 17,958 93.3 8 17,910 94.6
12 Carolina 2 35,163 17,581 94.1 6 16,835 110.6 8 17,021 105.8
13 San Jose 3 52,686 17,562 100.0 3 16,369 93.8 6 16,965 96.9
14 Boston 6 105,370 17,561 100.0 2 19,278 98.4 8 17,990 99.6
15 Minnesota 4 69,319 17,329 95.9 4 16,608 94.0 8 16,968 95.0
16 Nashville 2 34,226 17,113 100.0 5 18,477 100.6 7 18,087 100.4
17 Montreal 5 85,092 17,018 80.0 3 17,671 102.1 8 17,263 87.3
18 Edmonton 5 84,195 16,839 100.0 2 17,583 94.1 7 17,051 98.2
19 Florida 3 48,574 16,191 84.3 5 14,489 77.4 8 15,127 80.0
20 Los Angeles 4 64,336 16,084 88.8 3 13,009 71.9 7 14,766 81.6
21 Buffalo 2 32,039 16,019 85.7 5 17,630 91.4 7 17,169 89.8
22 Philadelphia 5 78,527 15,705 80.5 3 17,749 98.0 8 16,472 86.8
23 Winnipeg 4 60,016 15,004 100.0 4 18,935 100.2 8 16,969 100.1
24 New Jersey 4 56,296 14,074 79.9 2 17,824 101.3 6 15,324 87.0
25 NY Islanders 4 53,505 13,376 82.4 2 9,090 46.7 6 11,947 69.0
26 Phoenix 3 35,311 11,770 68.7 4 10,245 58.2 7 10,898 62.7
27 Anaheim 5 58,517 11,703 68.1 2 15,455 85.3 7 12,775 73.2
28 Columbus 4 45,578 11,394 62.8 4 16,569 87.5 8 13,982 75.4
29 Dallas 4 37,845 9,461 51.1 4 15,467 83.7 8 12,464 67.3
30 NY Rangers 0 0 0 — 3 14,611 99.6 3 14,611 99.6

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5 COMMENTS

  1. You might want to do some research or proof-reading before you publish something.
    Habs’ attendance is 21,273 for every home game. How do you come up with a 17,018 average????

    • Research done. ✓ Proof-reading done. ✓ Responding to an ignorant commenter – in progress.
      The NHL attendance numbers were compiled by ESPN. At time of publishing here, they were accurate. Since then there has been some dispute about the tabulations and the type of numbers that are reported — ESPN has adjusted their numbers. In the case of the Canadiens, 21,273 tickets have been sold for each of the first six home games. But find someone who has attended a game, or disappointed scalpers, and you know that there have been thousands of no-shows. The point of the inclusion of the ESPN chart in our headlines was to highlight that performance on the ice was affecting the number of fans in the building. That point still stands.

    • Psycho, the original #s posted by ESPN were incorrect. Montreal sells out every game. If you look at the numbers above, you will see they listed Montreal at 5 games, for a total of 85,092.

      If you do the math, 21,273 x “4 Games” (Not 5) = Exactly 85,092. They simply made a mistake of listing Montreal at 5 games, when it should have read 4.

  2. The poster isn’t ignorant. He or she is right. The attendance figures on ESPN have nothing to do with the number of people showing up at games. All NHL teams report attendance as tickets sold.

    There is clearly a glitch in the ESPN number – they seem to have added in a phantom home game, which incorrectly lowered the average.

    Check out the site now. The figures have been remedied. There was never any point to be made based on that number.

    • When promoted to supreme deity you may rule what is and what isn’t rude behaviour, and decide for all what is a valid point. Until then…

      It has been acknowledged that ESPN published incorrect data. At time of publishing the GameDay set of links, the error had not been detected by ESPN. We post links for the interest and convenience of our readers, and take no responsibility for the accuracy of the information published at another site. Telling us “to do some research or proof-reading” was clearly rude.

      To provide additional interest for our readers, we offer a few lines of commentary. This is much different than websites who provide a list of links — we find that lazy, readers find it boring. In this case the comments were about no-shows at the Bell Centre which corresponded in-arena observations and discussions with ticket resellers. No-shows are important because they affect concession sales, merchandise and impact businesses near the Bell Centre. Fans reported staying away because of the on-ice performance of the team. You may not think that is a valid point, but I assure you that Geoff Molson does.

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