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They got Rantanen back a few days ago. But we got Sarah back a few days ago.

+/- is a terrible stat, and we will all be better off when people don't use it to compare players. I'm going to not compare Olofsson because we already looked at his stats and he's garbage. Let's deep dive look at the defencemen you mentionned. Reilly has a 61.01% offensive zone start percentage Kulak has a 63.46 Fleury has a 67.07 Petry has a 49.6% So.... Reilly, Kulak and Fleury are being sheltered about the same amount in terms of O-Zone starts, with Reilly's small sample size, the difference in Ozone starts is negligible. We see that all three are being used as third pairing guys when they play, and that Julien is sheltering his third pair (as he probably should). For comparison, Weber is at 48, Chiarot at 51 and Mete our lowest at 41 (meaning least sheltered). Reilly has a PDO of 1.006 (close to expected, but a slight touch on the "lucky" side) Kulak's PDO is 0.938 (very unlucky) Petry PDO is 0.973 (moderately unlucky) Fleury PDO is 0.977 (moderately unlucky) The PDO explains almost entirely the differences in plus/minus. In the small sample sizes, Habs goalies have come up with a higher save percentage than the opponent for Reilly, but haven't for the other three defenders. Kulak looks so bad because really goalies have been bad when they are on the ice. But we still can look farther... is there something any of these d are doing to create more scoring chances against their goalie than against the other team? Is that why the PDO is down? Let's look Reilly has a High Danger Chance of 45.59% (ie the other team gets more high danger chances when Reilly is on the ice than the Habs do) Kulak has a high Danger Chance 52.5% (habs get more high danger chances when he is on the ice then the other team does). Fleury has a high Danger chance of 38.84 (this surprises me and is a lot concerning) Petry 57.69 (no surprise, he is the best of these defencemen in this stat... cause Petry is Damn good, and he's doing this against tougher opposition and with shittier zone starts). Conclusions 1) Petry is a stud and shouldn't be in this comparison. he's head and shoulders above the other D. This shouldn't be a surprise, anyone with a good eye test could have told you that before I looked at that stats. The fact that the eye test and the stats are confirming each other, gives credence to the value of the stats. 2) Fleury might be being overused as a rookie and third pair RD could also use some improvement. This isn't solely a LD problem. This surprised me a little bit. That said, he's a rookie who should get better, and his only competition is Folin right now, and he's better than Folin. We've seen the Kulak-Reilly pair where one of them was on the right side, and that was very bad, and so playing them out of position is not the answer. Fleury is still probably our best bet on the right. 3) Kulak is better than Reilly despite the plus/minus differences. The Habs control the scoring chances much better when Kulak is on the ice vs Reilly. That said Reilly is better than Olofsson, so while Mete is injured, Reilly should be considered. However the team seems to want to give Leskinen a chance. Given that Reilly is a replacement level #7 D, this isn't a bad strategy as maybe a rookie can be better than replacement level. That said if Leskinen doesn't work, you can always go back to Reilly on the third pair. PS I didn't write down Chiarot's stats, but his stats show that he's been good. Not great, but good. (51% zone starts, 1.003 PDO, 58% HDCF)

This is not about hard work or being spoiled. It's about treating people with respect. People deserve to be treated with respect. That's the way society should be period.

Evans 😪

Happy for Leskinen

Makes sense. He has played well and has earned a chance.

Ok boomer.

Yeah damn those athletes for not wanting to be called a racial slur or punched or kicked by coaches. So entitled. Jesus christ man... delete your post cause its the dumbest thing ever said on this site.

Trash people get to pay the price for trash actions. These things were more like 10 years ago, not 20. 10 years ago people were well aware that the N-word is a racial slur and a coach can't say that to a player. People were also well aware that coaches shouldn't be punching and kicking their players. These aren't acceptable actions anywhere in society. I am a lawyer, if i punch one of the junior lawyers, i'm gonna get fired. If i kick an assistant, I'm gonna get fired. This shouldn't have been acceptable for coaches or GMs either, and if these pieces of shit have to pay the price today... good... too bad it didn't happen sooner.

It wasn't 20 years ago. Players were likely afraid of speaking out earlier because they would get blackballed. There is nothing wrong with a coach being tough and demanding however there is no place anywhere for a coach or anyone to demean other people or make racist remarks. I would lose my job if i did it, why should it be any different for a coach?

There is also the whole bertuzzi-moore thing which seems to be forgotten.

Yow! I liked Crawford based on his media hits when he was out of the league, and also based on the fact that he always played an up-tempo style and seemed to have adapted to the modernization of the game upon his return in Dallas. He was my preferred choice over Therrien back in the day. I guess we dodged a bullet in not hiring him! (I'll refrain from asking who *wouldn't* want to strangle and kick Sean Avery...the point is that being someone's boss doesn't entitle you to physically abuse them).

Blackhawks assistant Marc Crawford “placed on leave” after recent allegations about his “conduct with a previous team”, the LA Kings. Supposedly incidents involving Sean Avery in LA and Brent Sopel in Vancouver have been mentioned.