Skinnyfish, PPP, and I are staying at the Delta Centre-ville hotel (777 University Street, Montréal, Quebec H3C 3Z7). We got the room on Hotwire which is like Priceline sort of. The room was $79 a night and 3.5 stars if you want to try and swindle your way in there. We’ll be there Friday and Saturday night.

SkinnyFish and I need tickets to the draft. Anyone have any ideas?

Meet your favourite Chief Blogging Officers that write for this site in Montreal!

This is getting more and more tempting.

StubHub GA WOW for $99.

Well, Me and a friend of mine(and a friend of his, more on why I make this distinction below) are busing in on Friday.

We will be in Downtown MTL around 1:30-2PM on Friday afternoon. The bus terminal is only 1.79 miles(Mapquest) from the Bell Centre.

Neither of them are staying overnight and are busing back home just after Midnight(my friend is playing in that CBC ball hockey Tournament in Ottawa on Saturday.)

If I am having a really good time (drunk) I will probably look for last minute plans to crash somewhere… if I can’t I’m busing back that night as well.

Now the reason I made the above distinction is my buddy is an Oiler fan, but I seem to remember that the guy he is bringing is a Habs fan.

Wrap is looking to get a track on tickets and wants to know who is going for sure. Not sure if they assign specific seats, so the plan is try to get a block of tickets so we aren’t isolated all over the arena.

Friday Afternoon we all need to meet up somewhere before marching into the Bell Centre.

That’s all for now

PS I believe the tickets are supposed to be free and have not been released yet, don’t bother looking at those bullshit sites.

Eyebeleaf, Wrap, Jared, Archimedes

Might go

DGB, Leafboy(if he gets back to me)

Air Horns… buying them in MTL or bringing our own?

Couldn’t find too much locally, except for the standard ones(small)

damn…I wish I could effing go!

Party Hard!

Planning for serious? Where have you been?

Ok so the tickets;

This is the deal. There is no fucking information. And I am not even kidding. The Bell Center hasn’t even figured out distribution or whatever. A contact of mine even emailed and this is what he got back;

Dear Fan,

Thank you for taking the time to write and express your interest in the Montreal Canadiens.

We don’t have any information concerning the way the public will be admitted for Entry Draft 2009 in Montreal. We invite you to visit frequently the website of the Montreal Canadiens at www.canadiens.com . As soon as details are being made available it will be posted on the website of the Montreal Canadiens. You can also check the www.nhl.com

Have a nice day.

And I even talked to HF29, and seriously, it’s utter chaos. And apparently they are bit behind getting out press cred stuff out. I am still waiting to hear if I have the go ahead.

feel free to email me: doogie04@hotmail.com

I can answer things like good food, good drinks, good titty bars.

I am so bummed I wont be making it out.
Take many pictures, and I expect to hear you guys when Burke makes that selection!

Still there is a whole ton of non information regarding getting draft tickets. I am losing my mind. Latest email a contact of mine got;

Good day XXXXXX,

In response to your previous e-mail, the NHL is managing all tickets for the Draft.

There will be some tickets available to the public (free), but the NHL has not unveiled any information on distribution and availability at the moment.

Regards,

Dominick Saillant
Directeur des relations de presse
Director of Media Relations
Canadiens de Montréal
(514) 989-2760
dsaillant@canadiens.com

Other than to say that I’m going to be there, I’m terrible at making/following plans, and am going to have an absolute blast the whole time.

Bring your handsome pants, it’s going to be gorgeous out.

So who’s taking care of the cardboard pope’s hats?

Who’s got two thumbs and was denied press creds?!

This little lady right here!

For those of you interested:

There is sort of two downtowns in Montreal, separated by a few blocks. My guess is you guys will be staying around Crescent/Bishop, since that’s the more common bar strip and will be near the Delta (great hotel by the way).

Bars on Crescent:
Brutopia: My personal favourite, it’s a microbrewery, cheap prices by Montreal standards. Their raspberry blond is my favourite beer here, reminds me of KLB’s raspberry. For cing a sept (their happy hour, typically 5 to 7), beer is $5, add 50 cents for normal prices.

Hurley’s: beside Brutopia, great bar, great live music, beer usually runs $6 a pint for Quebec brands (i.e. St Ambroise, Belle Gueule, Unibroue, etc), while typical draughts run for $7 and imports will be $8.

Thursday’s: similar to Hurley’s

Winston Churchill’s (or Winnie’s). Great patio that gets the most sun, prices similar to Hurley’s.

Les 3 Brasseurs: another microbrewery that has real good, affordable food.

Mad Hatter: more of a younger crowd, drunken time kinda place, it’s moved locations 3 times now and I have yet to visit the new one to be able to give you a good enough description, it’s across the street from Brutopia.

Bars on Bishop (one block west of Crescent)

McKibbons: one of my friend’s favourite, has a good dance floor for the ladies. Prices are again identical to Hurley’s. Has a nice size patio.

Irish Embassy: another good Irish pub, these prices are a little bit more expensive (about 50c – $1 more per pint), but has a nice size patio).

Le Social: newish pub that a friend’s relative used to own, so I used to visit it a lot when it was starting up. Have not been since he sold it, and when I was going didn’t get much business.

Other notable bars:

Peel pub (obviously on Peel, a few blocks east of Crescent). I’m sure you all know this place.

McLean’s – couple down from Peel, real good place, I like it a lot. Great food, good prices.

St. Elizabeth: in a dumpier part of town, near St. Laurent, this place has the most awesomest patio in the world, you really have to see it to believe it.

St. Sulpice: on St. Denis, this place has the biggest patio I’ve seen outside of the Docks. Great prices too (typically the St. Denis/St. Laurent area has cheaper prices than Crescent/Bishop).

Foufounes: off St. Laurent, is a shady bar but dirt cheap with decent heavy music.

That’s all I can think of for now, if anyone has specific questions or wants to know about food or something, let me know.

Hope you all have fun, I’m upset I’m going to miss it.

I don’t know if Jared remembers me talking about my friend.

The one who owns the comic/card shop and doctored a card holder to show Nash in a Leaf’s uniform…

Well I convinced him to come to the draft! He told me he will be logging on PPP tonight and introing himself here.

Sweet!

Logged in. Bag packed. What time do we arrive.

THIS MESSAGE WILL BE IN CAPS LOCK BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT.

CLAIM TICKETS AT 9 AM TOMORROW ON THE HABS WEBSITE. CLAIM 2. HAVE OTHERS CLAIM TOO BECAUSE WE MIGHT NEED EXTRAS SO ALIX AND I HAVE OUR TICKETS. SRSLY. I WILL PUNCH OUT YOUR BLOOD IF YOU DON’T CLAIM TICKETS.

I won’t be punching out Archi’s blood because he already explained to me why he can’t claim tickets. But everyone else do it. I am getting up at 6 am to do it.

9 AM

if I hug Jammies when I meet him?

I got up at 5:50 am and signed up for my tickets. It wouldnt let me choose my state. Which means they only want to send the tickets to Canada. Whatevs.

While my attendance to Montreal is likely a no go, I registered for tickets in any case. If I do receive them and someone else is in dire need of them, give me a buzz.

I registered for tickets, and am not likely going to Montreal, I will let pass them on to any of you if you end up short.

I sad, I missed the deadline. Stupid life. If anyone has a ticket that they can’t use, I could sure make use of it.

Great. Though most are torn apart in a comedic rage that is impervious to polypropolene, I’ll see how many Carnival de Quebec big plastic horns I can round up that were confiscated from children stupid enough to blow them in my house.

I got 2 tickets for the draft

I am not going!!
I just found out Eklund is doing a tweet up in Montreal
HUGE respect for anyone who tells him off
BETTER IDEA!! Say you work for the Leafs and say the Leafs are working on a deal to send Schenn to Montreal for Price and see how fast it goes up on his site!

I hope y’all are bringing me birthday presents that you forgot about…

Five emails=0 tickets

Have 3 more prospects left and I’ll find out tomorrow if they got tickets or not.

ps. furcifer, you should know I’m a cuddler.

I ran this by the wife last night. “Hey, since we’re not doing anything that night, what if I just kind of drove off to Montreal and came back the next day…”

It didn’t go well. My status has been downgraded from “doubtful” to “doghouse”.

did you all buy air horns…?

I’m expecting to hear them when the Leafs pick…

Cutbacks… they even have Groundskeeper Willie teaching French class

“Bonjour…. you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!”

Classic