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His best Deal would be Domi. His ego tells him its Weber.

Need to start sitting players for dumb lazy penalties

BENNY "TOP 4 DMAN" CHIAROT SWING LOW SWEET CHIAROT

Taaatarrrrr

I'm not sure it's harder ... it's different kind of hard. To get a #1C, you need to do good drafting and have a high draft position, that's not easy, either. To get that #1D, draft position is less critical, but you need to again do excellent scouting, and then pile up the prospects because the probability of hitting the jackpot on any given individual prospect is quite low, and it usually takes a number of years before they mature. Kind of like goalie prospects. We have a fairly solid number of picks for the next few years now. And we have been picking up undrafted prospects, too. Whether one of them turns out to be #1D is an unknown, but as Commandant says, the more you have, the more likely it is that one of them develops into a #1D -- or at least a #2D.

I think he does but not in the same way as every other player that don't look like him but then again I never made it anywhere in hockey as a career 😕 (edit) some say he ain't got speed, but he seems to keep up all right some say he ain't got a shoot but he seems to rip it okay some say he not top 6 player but (young) man was in juniors last year not AHL 😕

Well crap... but a point is better then nothing. Penalties really killed them tonight.

A point on the road.. 4/6 on the three game trip. Positives for sure.. now get it together and smash Detroit in the home opener!

On the off-day between Montreal’s loss in Carolina and win in Toronto, head coach Claude Julien showed Jonathan Drouin the shift that led to the 2-2 tying goal against the Hurricanes: Julien wasn’t just talking about the rush up ice; he was thrilled with the winger’s puck recovery after the Canadiens lost it in the offensive zone. “If you play like that,” he told Drouin, “there will be no problems.”

my sentiment exactly... its ridiculous to think any team would actually be able to over come losing there best D man and one of the best goalies in the world...

While I still stand by my claim in another thread that Toronto has a significantly stronger line-up than ours, there are definitely thunder-clouds on TO's horizon this year. Spezza was benched for the home debut for ridiculous, petty reasons...Matthews is a #metoo embarrassment...Babcock has lost collective goodwill and there are rumours of him and Dubas being at odds...and the whole culture around the team is riven with anxiety that this stacked team has a horrible playoff record and may never make the jump to playoff success. Toronto is exactly like Montreal in that the fishbowl leads to exaggerated hysteria which can then throw an organization off track (as happened to the Habs in 2009 and 2012, say). The odds of a melt-down in the TO pressure-cooker are significant. Let's hope.

It was probably Byron The Pacs trade, if the habs arent in the playoffs should be able to get a first rounder for tatar as well as suzuki

I would add Lehkonen and Byron to Petry and Tatar. I would be happy with Weber being the big brother on the bottom 4 D once Alzner contract clears. If the defence prospects develop; cap hit would be ok.

I seriously miss Radulov.... with a pinch of Markov But we have Kotkamania now plus -Tatar -suzuki -struble As an "almost direct" result of leaving us

Apparently we read different forums, where nearly every topic devolves into a Bergevin hatefest. If there are any defenders, it's mainly because it's such a rehashed topic that it's really tiring to read. The only defense I generally see is that he didn't screw up by trading away picks/prospects lately.

Meh, I don't pay attention to upvotes/downvotes/likes. It's only a pissing contest once those start flying. But just hearing "Bergevin sucks" as a punctuation to a lot of posts is annoying. Stating your premise is fine, and then just stop before adding the obligatory Bergevin dig. For instance if your post above was simply: The Markov and Radulov situation was ridiculous. A top line winger, who absolutely brings it every shift. He was literally the only player to show up for the Habs, in the playoffs. without the added Bergevin comments, it wouldn't be as inflammatory.