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  1. The Habs beat the Caps? I thought my GDT career would be a 'One and Done'r. Ah well, a winning streak is highly unlikely, I think I got one more GDT in me. Habs forward lines are a collection of regret and denial. Habs defence pairings are what doctor's prescribe to stop erections that have lasted for more than 4 hours. Dlbalr, dude, stop expecting so much from me. This is all I can get out of my Motorola Krave.
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  2. I share that view too. BCHabnut
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  3. Do you really think that letter matters that much? He is one of the elite goal scorers in the league. He plays in all situations pp, pk, top line and succeeds every year. This year he has nobody to set up plays. This year's negative results have nothing to do with Mac pacioretty and everything to do with terrible top 4 defense and lack of top 6 balance. People in wrong positions due to no top 6 centre. Unless the return is very good, I want pacioretty on the team next year.
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  4. Oh hey, a game tonight! Niemi is in, L. Shaw is in. Forward lines are a variation of trios, and some of them even include a centre! Defense pairings are mostly just sadness. Sorry dlbalr. This is the best I can do on mobile.
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  5. I agree, it's not his fault. And if the GM was better, he'd still have Markov/Subban/Radulov to push him down the depth chart so the weaknesses of his game wouldn't be so glaring. But as of how this team is built today, he's given the role of offensive driver and captain and leader of the team's offence with less than 30 points in 46 games, when every other team in the league has at least one player with 30 points. I don't blame Martin Rucinsky for 1999-00 either, but keeping him around was pointless too.
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  6. I agree, he is one of the best wingers in the league. But making him your best forward is like when Vanek was the best forward in Buffalo, or Gaborik in Minnesota, or even Kessel in Toronto. He shouldn't be the best forward on any club. He's the best forward in Montreal. That's the problem. And we had several years to change that and didn't. He's now coming up to his free agency in the summer of 2018. You don't keep him. You trade him and get a package back that will improve this club for the future.
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  7. Sure. It's great to just write it off as a problem every player has, but many of those players can still drive play when they can't score. Pacioretty goes limp. He becomes absolutely useless on offence, and does little to help his linemates. We've watched game after game of "Oh Pacioretty made a good drive or two!" and then he's invisible for the rest of the game. That's why he gets the Casperetty nickname. Other players might not be scoring, but Pacioretty stops playing (offensively). And without a Subban or Radulov to kickstart him, he's having the worst healthy season of his career.
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  8. I can't recall who Pacioretty played with in 2010-2011 (Gomez? Desharnais? Plekanec?) but he has played well with Desharnais, Plekanec, Galchenyuk, and Danault. The Galchenyuk time was interesting because Pacioretty started developing more of a passing game with Galchenyuk finishing. The thing with Pacioretty, and let me stress this, is that he should be the definition of "enigma" but he isn't Russian so nobody gives him the title. He's a high level goal scorer but not really a sniper. He pots in a lot of goals but really isn't a powerplay specialist. He can score at any period, can pot in game winners, pot in empty net goals, but struggles in the playoffs. He's completely dependent on whether he's on a hot streak or cold streak. He's also good defensively and on the penalty kill so he isn't completely useless without the puck, but he has a tendency to be passionless in games regardless if the puck is on his stick or not. I don't think the centre matters. I've seen him in international competition and he's the same player. The only question is whether he's hot or cold. That's a really good hockey player, but not a hockey player you rely on. That's a guy who is your third or fourth best forward on a deep team. It's obvious that Subban was his engine for years, followed by Radulov. They drove the truck and he parked it.
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  9. Well, he couldn't work with Pleks in his prime either...
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  10. It's funny how Patches seems to work best with guys who are anything but legitimate top-6 talents at C. He's had the best chemistry with DD and Danault. Indeed, that chemistry deludes some of us into thinking that those guys are acceptable #2 C. But give Patches a guy with skill like Drouin and disaster ensues.
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  11. Keeping Patches is dumb. He likely only has 3-4 years left of elite production - and that may be an optimistic estimate. This team will probably not contend until the end of that window (assuming all goes well). So flip him for a younger core piece. Failing to look ahead like this has been part of the Habs' problem. Enough's enough. In terms of the 'fandom' experience of cheering for a POS non-playoff team, lately I've had trouble motivating myself to watch the games at all. It's not just that we suck, but that we are currently lacking any clear sense of organizational direction. Are we retooling? Rebuilding? Firing the GM? What moves will we make? Until we have some answers, I find it hard to take much interest in a club futilely playing out the string. We don't even have any exciting prospects to focus on. Bleh.
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  12. It's tough to swallow when you're a Pacioretty fan, I'm sure, but it's time to create a core that can win together. A player of Max's "calibre", with a contract as cap friendly as his, doesn't come on the market very often. So it creates an opportunity for even a cap strickened team get in on a bidding war. There's an opportunity here to acquire some major pieces, that this team desperately needs to move forward and become a legitimate contender. It makes zero sense to keep Pacioretty when this team is in the state it's in. Trade your assets that will garner young talent and start building your core again. Accept defeat and move on. Unless of course you want to keep watching mediocre hockey and let your best assets wither away on a team that has too many holes to fill through free agency.
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  13. I see absolutely no reasonable argument for keeping Pacioretty. Team is going nowhere, no leadership, plenty of left handed shots, needs elsewhere, he still has more value in a trade than on the roster, he's going to command more money soon, having him long term is asking for trouble, he's having his worst year but people still want him (which won't be true if we keep him, sign him to some 8x7 deal and he doesn't keep up his usual score 30 and ghost routine) and to top it off he's a guy who was always supposed to be a passenger but he's thrust into a driver role he can never really fill so having him around honestly costs the team from properly building to something. Pacioretty is a very good player but he isn't leading this team to anything. He shouldn't be a Montreal Canadien in 2019, let alone the fall of 2018.
    1 point
  14. It just me or is all this Pacioretty trade talk just a really bad idea? Unless of course you can get a massive return but seems doubtful.
    1 point
  15. With the lottery... tanking isn't as important as it was. Niemi with a couple of big saves
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  16. Logically losses are better in the long term lol, chances are slim to none they make the playoffs. But I’m happy to find I’ve not once found myself rooting for a loss. Always cele when they score always happy to see them succeed. That being said, Rasmus Dahlin. When they lose at this point I’m not that unhappy either haha.
    1 point
  17. Every time the Habs are making a game out of it I’m reminded of how unequivocally my fandom is too them. No matter how tough the season, there’s nothing better than a solid game. By no means are they dominating but this game has been fun. Sometime me I have to remind myself not to get too down. It’s all for fun, might as well enjoy it while we can haha
    1 point
  18. A very interesting article, It really just sucks the thoughts right out of my head on most points, most notably who should be traded and who should be kept until the offer you can't refuse comes along. Plekanec is, imo, the easy chip on the table, it is almost written in stone that he is going to be moved for assets this deadline. While Jerabek and Deslaurier are UFA's I am not sure they are worth moving unless they are asking for ridiculous salaries, they are part of an age group that we should be comfortable moving forward with in a retool scenario. Signed assets like Pacioretty and Byron and where things get tricky, they have fantastic contracts that would be a bonus for any team who has them, they carry with them great value for trade or great value to keep on the team. The return really is the key here, the team is in DIRE need of a top 6 Center and a top 4 PMD, trading either of those assets for anything less than something that includes one of those needs would be ridiculous. If we don't have the chance to properly draft players suited for these positions, the players who carry great value on this team must only be used as trading chips to that end. I don't mind some very solid prospects who can blossom into those roles effectively any less than young players beginning to establish themselves at the NHL level who are under 26. We are, as the article suggests, in no rush to trade assets like Pacioretty or Byron, if we stand firm on our needs, and make a deal only when the right package containing the right type of players presents itself, we can only come out of it winners. If we enter the situation in fire sale mode, acting like if we don't hurl everything and anything not nailed down to the ship overboard we are failing, then that is exactly when we will fail. There is no greater mistake in the coming situation, then not getting the proper and needed return for our valuable assets, that mistake would be more detrimental to the plan to retool than anything else we could do at this point, not getting a great return for a rental would pale in comparison. Overall a very good piece that follows very closely with my own train of thought
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  19. Same effort level as the Habs on Wednesday. Can't blame you for that.
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  20. If you want to win, you don't make David Desharnais your top six centre between 2012 and 2015.
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  21. Just wait til my next one, the whole post will be "GDT" written 30 times.
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  22. Do we REALLY want to be the team who traded away 2 franchise goalies in their prime during the last 25 years? That worked out so well last time, I am sure it won't sting as bad as the first time to watch Price go have success elsewhere while we turn into a filthy pit of despair and embarrassment, right guys? ....guys?
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  23. I think based on the fact that this will be the 3rd meeting in 3 weeks, the Habs got a good shot for redemption as the underdog at home tonight. Predicting a 5-3 win over the poo bears. Anything can happen when rivalry teams meet, and Carey Price's Saturday night record is pretty stellar despite the downtick in performance.
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  24. After spending hours writing a 2000 word article on the topic. I'd appreciate an intelligent response and debate, instead of one word repeated over and over again. I'd hope for an actual intelligent, thought out comment and debate on the subject, or at least one of the things i mentioned, as I actually put a lot of work into that.
    -1 points
  25. its not about words, its about putting actual thought into a response, instead of just snark.
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  26. With MB that $8m in cap space will be wasted on more Alzner and Shaw contracts.
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  27. I think he's cast as a leader on the team and the C is the affirmation of that. And he's a terrible leader. I doubt he inspires a lick of confidence in anyone in the locker, and pushes them to rely on other players like Price (the actual leader) and Weber. Is he one of the best regular season scorers in the league? No question. He doesn't need the powerplay and can score in any period. But he also needs a driver. He had Markov, Subban, and Radulov. He doesn't have them now, and his play has dropped hard because of it. Why keep him? This team isn't acquiring a play driver anytime soon. So he's going to be a diminishing product until he's a free agent. Wonderful. What a great thing to keep. There is no salvaging this club. It's dead. Time to start fresh.
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