Metallica
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FYI----vrbata career playoff points--42 games 18 points. High in goals 2.
Just to add fual to the fire?
Pacioretty playoff points----38 games 19 points. High in goals 5.
Plekenec playoff points---87 games 49 points.
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And then there was one..... I do believe that makes Benn the only member left from the trade deadline.
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Once again its playoffs we are talking about not Reg season. What has max or plek done in playoffs for us over the last 7 years??? Max played for team USA and did nothing for them. Is it still because of lack of talent as you say??? Price plays like a wall with less talent around him but when you put more talent around him like team Canada he becomes a wall.
Its not always about talent. But how hard you want to compete. Come playoffs we just have to many players that don't compete.
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18 minutes ago, xXx..CK..xXx said:
Byron battles, Lehkonen battles, Shaw battles, Weber battles, Benn battles, Schlemko battles, Alzner battles, Gallagher battles... Carr battles, Deslauriers would battle if he could...
As for never quit mentality, you could add Pacioretty, Galchenyuk, Danault, Mete, Hudon to that list... Pacioretty and Galchenyuk have scored numerous huge goals for us over their career. Galchenyuk had something like 6 overtime goals last season and Pacioretty has daggered the Bruins more than enough times. As much as people like to criticize, those things have not magically disappeared this season. People confuse Pacioretty's style of play with "effort level" and Galchenyuk does give effort most games lately.
Reg season is one thing, where are these forwards come playoffs??????? Our team is an easy team to put a game plan together for a 7 game series. There's a reason why this team gets shutdown in the playoffs.
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I keep thinking of that battle taraves had with couturier last week. When I look at what the habs need , I think its more of that never quite mentality. No one other than Gallagher battles that hard for the puck. Some of the guys on this team you just touch them and they turn the puck over.
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10 minutes ago, DON said:
But if go back and look at top 10 playoff scorers every year, they are the best players who can still produce vs stiffer competition. So I think is more important that the teams best players actually show up and lead, than count on inspired play from some underdog player to win 16 games and 4 series.
True but here is a question for you.... Is it our core group that just isn't good enough and needs to go??? Or is it the fact that our centers are to soft and easy to put a game plan together for a 7 game series?
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I don’t get why MB always adds lost of depth on D but never adds any upfront? When we get injuries to key players we become a AHL team.
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55 minutes ago, DON said:
Most of those are elite players who only slightly up their stats in playoffs...don't get Commandant started on "Clutch" players.
OH and welcome sir,
Thank you for the welcome
I Wouldn’t say elite players, most of the time it’s 4th or 3rd line players who step it up in the playoffs and score big goals.
for what ever reason it is we just can’t seem to buy a goal once playoffs come around.
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What we need are players that take there game to the next level once playoffs start.
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On 2017-11-29 at 1:15 AM, Trizzak said:
It's a question, not a statement.
The team also had an elite goalie signed til 25-26 (to a contract not easily tradeable), a #1 defensemen signed til 25-26 (to a contract not easily tradeable), and are currently 2 points out of a playoff spot...
"Playoffs!"
But the team has obvious holes and arguably bottom-5 prospect depth in dire need of top-end talent everywhere. The team is top 3 in average shots per game, but 2nd last in goals-for. Depth at center is non-existent. The defense can, at best, be described as a hot mess...
"Bust!"
And while I expect opinions to vary as often as a winning streak or a losing streak, the question remains... in 17-18 are you playoffs? or bust?
In today’s nhl those contracts can be tradable. If a team is trying to reach the floor minimum they can take a contact like that on. The thing that makes trading difficult is the no movement claws that get handed out like it’s candy. They should do something to fix that.
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I still say Kostitsyn, only because of who we past up in the draft to pick him . Man oh man did the organization drop the ball drafting that year in 2003.
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4 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:
Cammalleri, Moore, and I am starting to be fed up with Subban getting so much airtime
I was a big fan of Moore, though we should of kept him and not let him walk.
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What’s been going on here in Montreal is once our core group of players became our core group of players we stopped drafting and developing players. We are now seeing the results of that mistake. We have a very depleted farm system. There’s players on this team we probably should of traded 3 years ago but didn’t do to the fact we had no one that could replace them. So now we are just over paying them. MB finds it hard to make trades because he is holding on to this core group of players and doesn’t want to trade any of them , as a result we don’t have the prospects to pull off a trade for a top 6 player. This is why drafting and development of players is so important.
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Hi all whats up long time reader habs fan since 86’ thought I would sign up and start posting.
for me would have to be the Kostitsyn brothers.
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Wings at Habs 7:00 Dec.2 2017
in Habs & Hockey Talk
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Looks like we may finally have a forth line.