dlbalr Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Montreal Canadiens (2-0-0) Projected Lineup Max Pacioretty - David Desharnais - Brendan Gallagher Alex Galchenyuk - Tomas Plekanec - Jiri Sekac Rene Bourque - Lars Eller - P-A Parenteau Brandon Prust - Manny Malhotra - Dale Weise Andrei Markov - P.K. Subban Nathan Beaulieu - Tom Gilbert Jarred Tinordi - Mike Weaver Carey Price Dustin Tokarski Injuries: Crisp, Fournier, Gregoire, McCarron, Nevins, Thrower (SOIR), Emelin (DTD) Scratches: Michael Bournival, Travis Moen Philadelphia Flyers (0-2-0) Projected Lineup Brayden Schenn - Claude Giroux - Jakub Voracek Matt Read - Sean Couturier - Wayne Simmonds Michael Raffl - Vincent Lecavalier - R.J. Umberger Zac Rinaldo - Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - Jason Akeson Andrew MacDonald - Nick Schultz Nicklas Grossman - Mark Streit Michael Del Zotto - Luke Schenn Ray Emery Steve Mason Injuries: Braydon Coburn, Chris Pronger, Kimmo Timonen, Ryan White Scratches: Blair Jones Team Leaders Montreal Philadelphia Game Notes Goals Plekanec (3) Simmonds (2) Puck Drop: 7:00 PM EST Assists 3 tied with (2) 3 tied with (2) National TV: City, TVA Sports Points Plekanec (3) Simmonds (3) Regional TV: N/A PIMS Prust (7) L. Schenn (7) English Radio: TSN 690 +/- 8 tied with (+2) MacDonald/Simmonds (+2) French Radio: FM 98.5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 Some notes: - It's the same referees as against Washington (Rob Martell and Chris Lee). - Dave Randorf/Garry Galley have the call for the HNIC on City broadcast. - The Bulldogs start their season tonight. You can find their GDT here (which includes line combos from practice for those curious as to who's playing where). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Well, Lee was fine last game, so hope is same again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbhatt Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Hopefully the powerplay starts to click tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 With Gallant gone, who runs the PP now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lammy Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 GO HABS GO!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine of Loving Grace Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Read/Couts/Simmonds is their second line. It just feels like a line with Lecavalier and Umberger would be a top six line because we're old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 Pacioretty isn't skating this morning and may not play tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 from Orpik hits maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Even just listening to the radio feed, it was pretty clear that Orpik was a real wrecking ball. He will not be able to continue at that pace, nor is his cap hit defensible, but holy cow, what a beast on opening night. Philly's an interesting roster, kind of a mish-mash of excellent young guys and on-the-decline geezers. A whole lot of reclamation projects going on there, right down to the netminding. They're not bad, but not scary either. Nice to see this most loathsome of organizations spinning its wheels in a bit of a morass of mediocrity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stogey24 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Even just listening to the radio feed, it was pretty clear that Orpik was a real wrecking ball. He will not be able to continue at that pace, nor is his cap hit defensible, but holy cow, what a beast on opening night. Philly's an interesting roster, kind of a mish-mash of excellent young guys and on-the-decline geezers. A whole lot of reclamation projects going on there, right down to the netminding. They're not bad, but not scary either. Nice to see this most loathsome of organizations spinning its wheels in a bit of a morass of mediocrity. Orpik is sooo over paid, but he was a wrecking ball out there for sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlbalr Posted October 11, 2014 Author Share Posted October 11, 2014 Now it sounds like Pacioretty is good to go. They haven't confirmed the lineups yet but it sounds like Weise is back in for Moen. Also, Ray Emery gets the nod instead of Steve Mason for the Flyers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zumpano21 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 The Flyers are hamstrung for the next few years as they still pay out 5M annually to Pronger. That kind of obligation would take the contender status out of a lot of teams. Speaking of Pronger - I guess it is possible to turn an arsonist into Smoky The Bear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoRP Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Was freaking out because I thought I wasn't going to get the game on TV, turns out I have the City channel afterall, lucky to have that particular channel on my cable package... didn't even know I had it until today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Tinordi is in for Emelin eh, hope he has a god one. Who will he play with? Weaver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 The Flyers are hamstrung for the next few years as they still pay out 5M annually to Pronger. That kind of obligation would take the contender status out of a lot of teams. Speaking of Pronger - I guess it is possible to turn an arsonist into Smoky The Bear. All I can say is, the NHL had better not find some cute way to get him off Philly's books just because they inexplicably want this head-hunter to be their boss of "player safety." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGC21 Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Watching the pregame, Strombo isn't bad. Love Messier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habscout Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Go Habs Go! Looking forward to watching the Habs beat the Flyers tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brobin Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Right now, Pronger doesn't count against their cap as he is on the injured reserve. If he retires, they get a cap hit. The cba prohibits a player working for the nhl while being on a teams roster, injured or not. The nhl just ignored this rule. Pronger should be forced to retire and Philly should have to take the cap hit for it. The original contract was a blatant circumvention of the cap as it was, now the league is in "league" with them again. Disgusting, imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Right now, Pronger doesn't count against their cap as he is on the injured reserve. If he retires, they get a cap hit. The cba prohibits a player working for the nhl while being on a teams roster, injured or not. The nhl just ignored this rule. Pronger should be forced to retire and Philly should have to take the cap hit for it. The original contract was a blatant circumvention of the cap as it was, now the league is in "league" with them again. Disgusting, imo 100%. But everyone is so used to the NHL being run as a bush-league old boy's club, with different rules for different owners/teams/players, that it's hardly worth bothering to be outraged about it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoRP Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Exactly Brobin! It certainly isn't fair to the rest of the teams, when teams were handing out the big contracts because they could afford it. Boston and Savard, same stuff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habscout Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Wow. What was Gilbert doing!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brobin Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Ugly.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
habscout Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 Double trouble. Down by 2 really quick. Price should have had that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brobin Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 And now a dumb penalty. The pk better come up big. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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