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Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

Should Damon Duval worry that Carey Price is as strong a kicker as he is a goalie? 

After the Sabres put the boots to the 21-year old for back-to-back goals on shootouts preventing the Canadiens from winning the opener of their 100th season, Price put the boots to the railing at the tunnel back to the Canadiens dressing room.  It appeared to be a rare moment of wearing his heart on his goalie skate, but Price had nothing to be upset about and his seemingly rare display of emotion could only have been an indicator that his emotional fire is burning strong this season.   Price will be the least of the Canadiens' concerns this season and he kept them in the game to force overtime in the first place.

Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

If you've been betting OPPOSITE MY PICKS, can you afford to save the Montreal race?

NFL WEEKLY PICKS:  I'M FINALLY HITTING MY STRIDE....

RAIDERS, COLTS, JETS, PANTHERS, LIONS, FALCONS, DOLPHINS, RAMS, BRONCOS, 49ERS, COWBOYS, PACKERS, CHARGERS, GIANTS.

After going 7-1 the previous two weeks on CFL picks, I slumped to 1-3 while my NFL picks soared.   So here goes for CFL:

Toronto, BC, Montreal and Calgary.

Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

Has Montreal done more to revitalize Hamilton than any Prime Minister or any election promise?  By losing to the Tiger-Cats Saturday the Als actually set up Hamilton players for a Coach-dunking celebration--Marcel Bellefeuille's first win as a head coach---on a day when the Als were debating whether they should dunk Marc Trestman if they clinched the East Division title with a victory.  

Just hours after the Cats halted a 14-game winstreak led by Anthony Calvillo against his former club, Bob Gainey and the Canadiens confirmed Max Pacioretty and Yannick Weber will start the season as a Hamilton Bulldog not a Hab.  

Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

Did you watch the leaders' debates last nite? How come none of them talked about Disaster Planning and Emergency bailouts for Hamilton Tiger Cat fans?!

Is Velcro Hands secret identity "Captain Modesty"? Ben Cahoon can set a milestone becoming Number 1 alltime in the CFL among Canadian receivers. That's pretty good for a guy born in Utah (lol) but raised in Alberta and Montreal, and told his whole life he's too small and too slow for the NFL.  But Ben tells me about a striking lesson in arrogance and humility.

Even before Ben played his first game in Canada...he had a weird encounter with the wacko whose record he's poised to break! His name's Ray Elgaard, and he was a prairie plow of a tight-end-style slotback from the late 80's and well into the 90's for Saskatchewan....Ben's graudating from Brigham Young University and gets a call from a tele-marketer trying to get his hands into the wallets of US college football prospects. He says "Hi, this is Ray Elgaard.."...and Ben says "what do you do..." and Ray says "I've just set all kinds of passcatching records in the cfl...." and Ben innocently replies "I'm headed to the CFL"....Elgaard: "What position do you play?"  Ben now ticked this stranger who looked him up doesn't even know they've got great hands in common: "I'm a receiver too."  Elgaard's fired up now: "Well, you'll never touch any of my ___%#@!##$#records, kid!"  Ben says tall these seasons later:  "Maybe I owe him a call one of these days."

Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

You weren't taking my NFL picks seriously were you?  My CFL picks against the spread the last two weeks are 7-1, but 4-down football?  I think I'm getting tips from the Lehman Brothers.

ANOTHER WEEK OF DOGS FROM MOFF:
Colts, Titans, Chargers, Panthers, Redskins, Bears, Falcons, Giants, Broncos, Patriots, Bills, Bengals, Steelers, Saints.

CFL PICKS OF THE WEEK:
Take all the favorites this weekend:  BC will make The Don wish he were retired again, Calgary crushes the Riders who refuse to pull Michael Bishop who has all the talent in the world but in the words of one former teammate is "defective", Als clinch against the Tiger-Cats who are still looking for a new head coach for '09, and Edmonton gets payback on the Blue Bombers.

Rick Moffat's Stupid Question of the Day

Now that the Alouettes have gone Green and teamed up with Dr. David Suzuki, shouldn't they be putting those opposing defenses they shred in the recycle bin?  The D-line of Bowman-Stewart-Claybrooks-Williams and Company should be dumping bodies of quarterbacks in the nearest compost heap don't you think?

I'm not suprised one bit that Ben Maxwell survives the first deep cuts of Bell Centre Training camp while PK Subban is headed back to junior.  Maxwell has looked smooth and smart though he's only prolonged his demotion.  The kid must play.   Subban is fun to watch every shift---unless you're his coach.   "He's got the energy of a puppy," one close follower in the Canadiens organization tells me.  Hey, the Moffat's just adopted a new puppy from Animatch---that means wiping some mistakes off the floors and rugs, and Belleville will have to PK's crate for the next year.