tomh009
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14 hours ago, sbhatt said:
I like this idea...a lot. Sit him down and tell him you have no intentions of actually playing him again, so if he'd like to be spared having to do the practices and workouts and the travel, only to sit in the pressbox every single night until the end of the season, he has to go along with LTIR.
If Drouin wants to be able to sign a contract for next year (anywhere, in any league), spending half the season on LTIR would not make that any easier.
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With 32 teams in the league now, winning the cup may be too high a bar. But, as you say, need to show something else, then, in order to get your number retired. Caufield scoring 50 or 60 in a season, for example? That's nice, but unless he does that consistently over the longer term, that still doesn't merit the retirement of a number.
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6 hours ago, Plutarch said:
I really just don't want to have lost sergachev for nothing haha. At least a 4th round pick next year will give hope of a future hahaha.
Water under the bridge. I really couldn't care less about the Sergachev trade at this point.
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19 hours ago, dlbalr said:
First start, second appearance (he got mop up duty in one of the Abbotsford games).
How did he look, apart from the goals allowed? It's really hard for me to judge his performance based on ECHL play.
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Was that Vrbetic’s first AHL game?
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Martin didn’t make a single save on a high-danger or medium-danger shot. With average goaltending, the Habs should have scored two goals, but they actually scored four.
These numbers support Martin having had a bad game and a brutal first period.
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16 hours ago, Peter Puck said:
I don't think you can really blame Martin Jones. The first 3 goals came on gold-plated chances. Even the 4th goal wasn't a bad goal to give up.
I looked at Natural Stat Trick after the first period. I think Martin was 0/2 on high-danger shots, 0/1 on medium danger ones and 4/5 on low-danger ones. And for the game overall, the Habs were roughly 2xG but 4 actual goals scored ...
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7 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:
Allen was great but I think we got lucky tonight
xG was 3.03 to 1.75 for the Kraken, according to Natural Stat Trick. Allen saved one goal more than expected but the Habs scored 2.25 more than expected, which is all the difference.
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Looks like Allen in net again. Redemption or not?
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I wasn't referring to the fourth line so much as noting that at the moment the Habs' roster is short of penalty-killing-capable forwards. Yes, you could call up Pitlick (who played in that role last season) but that's about it.
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6 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said:
I was looking at that scenario, because Evans cap hit is fairly low and would be a great addition to a team that has fire power on the top lines but needs a PK specialist
I think that describes the Habs spot-on, especially if they trade Evans. So if were to trade Evans and (gasp!) Armia, where would that leave our PK?
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4 hours ago, Commandant said:
I still think Harris has been better than Xhekaj. He's more solid though less noticeable as he doesn't get in fights or throw big hits.
What really impresses me about Xhekaj is not so much his absolute skill level, but the speed at which he adapted his game from the OHL style (where he was the big guy and could throw his weight around) to the NHL (where he is not all THAT big). I thought (and some others did, too) that he might struggle in the AHL for a while before getting to the NHL.
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The Athletic's story today talked about three hires that Gorton has made, picking people without conventional experience in the same job, and potentially finding people with fresh ideas and points of view: Hughes, St-Louis and Gordie Clark (now on the professional scouting team).
Interestingly, Gorton tried to hire Hughes in NY already, and also tried to hire St-Louis to coach their AHL team. Neither was willing to take the offer back then, which is probably a good thing for the Habs.
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4.0 GPA quite impressive, as was the effort to finish his degree. Let's hope his engineering IQ meshes well with the hockey IQ that the Canadiens are trying to develop in all the young players.
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And Dvorak is fine as a 2C/3C -- at this point certainly a better choice than Kotkaniemi. Whether the latter can transform himself into a 2C remains to be seen. (Carolina likely should have signed Trocheck and traded Kotkaniemi for whatever they could get for him, but I think that would have been admitting defeat/stupidity in the offer sheet drama.)
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I care much more about the Habs' success in the next five years than the depth of the Leafs' playoff run next spring (as happy as I am to see them fail). So, if the deal is right, I have no problem with it.
In any case, I expect that neither Hughes or Gorton has that deeply-held disgust for the Leafs.
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20 minutes ago, DON said:
Of course he was on the bench, Laval's season is just going so well.
It has some resemblance to the Habs' last season ...
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On the bench! 😢
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1 hour ago, DON said:
Primeau hurt and not returning.
down 2-1 after 2nd.
As far as I can tell, Poulin started the game. Was Primeau hurt in the warmup?
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40 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:
I do not believe MSL knows how to get the most out of any 4th liner or struggling forward.
I do not believe Evans, Pezzetta or even Armia will be able to show their worth this season
It’s not just St-Louis though, the Habs now have credible player/skills development people, too.
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That is so hard to read ... white test on light blue? Ugh.
But Barron 2g+1a, Ylonen 1g+3a and Harvey-Pinard 1g+2a?
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Either way, we are better off now ...
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1 hour ago, Commandant said:
Its been less than 10 games. Montembault looked good for stretches last year too but then reverted to a pumpkin.
Ride the streak as long as it lasts but im not thinking hes a long term solution til he does this for a lot more than 8 games. Its very premature to even speculate on him as an NHL starter.
Quite. it's possible that he may have found a new level, but eight games is not enough to confirm that. if he keeps it up, the first conversation is about whether he should be part of the Habs' longer-term picture, being a future starter should need at least a couple of seasons of solid performance.
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38 minutes ago, dlbalr said:
We're starting to see some movement on the 5 on 4 PP which is starting to move a little sharper. It's clear the 4 on 3 PP isn't anywhere close to that point; I wonder how much time they spend working on it?
Probably not a whole lot -- you really don't get very many of those in games ...
2022-23 NHL Discussion Thread
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As fun as it is to beat up on Drouin, putting him on the PP (in the last few games) really did not make the PP appreciably worse.