Habopotamus
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Riely is a #7 d-man. Him with Weber is a joke
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3 hours ago, Commandant said:
Sergachev would be tier 3 in this draft. Right there with the likes of tkachuk and wahlstrom and co
I'd like to see Tkachuk in a habs jersey
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Bergies' BFF
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9 minutes ago, BCHabnut said:
I don't find it that similar to Therrien. Therrien demanded speed and passing with dump and chase into the offensive zone. Julien likes to skate the puck out and hang onto it if there is no play. Finding a pass when players are open. I do agree that this team is not necessarily built for his system though. Over all, I like CJ. I really believe he gives the team a chance to win every game. I think next year will be different with a couple of adjustments and healthy price and weber. Definitely don't subscribe to the idea that he is a terrible coach When the team on the ice had this many holes.
Strategically, there is Definetly differences. I just think the past 6 years have brought some boring hockey to watch.
Both coach a safe game. As machine said, all pucks get funneled to the net in the offensive zone with Julien. It makes for a ton of one and done plays.
It's basically the exact opposite of how players like Drouin and Galchenyuk play the game. Which I think is part of the reason we've seen them struggle this season.
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5 minutes ago, Commandant said:
Carlo is a two way player, who had 6 goals and 16 points as a 20 year old rookie defenceman. He is doing less offensively under the new coach than he did under Julien.
Galchenyuk last season was an example where he didn't use the player. This year he is giving him plenty of ice-time, just not at centre.
You missed my point though, which isn't that Julien always uses young players well, or always doesn't. My point is that there are examples of both types. For every Spooner, there is a Marchand who scored 20 as a rookie playing in the Bruins top 6, and developed well under Julien. For every Heinan, there is a krug. The idea that we can always predict what he will or won't do is just false. Sometimes he favors vets, sometimes he uses a 19 year old rookie defenceman with junior eligibility on the top pairing, as he did at the start of this season, or he gives a rookie like Lehkonen PK responsibility as a rookie, as he did last season.
Things are more complex in analyzing his player usage than you want to admit.
As for the reason he was fired, he was in Boston for a decade. After that length of time, a coach and his message goes stale. It doesn't have to be anything more than that.
I just honestly think it was a mistake bringing him back.
The brand of hockey is similar to Therrien's, it makes me sick
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8 minutes ago, Commandant said:
So you are a mind reader, and know what he would have chosen?
Or do we ignore how he handled Carlo, Krug and Mete?
Sometimes he's choosen vets, sometimes he's choosen rookies, even very young and inexperienced ones.
I know that he got fired because sweeney saw this team heading towards a retool and he knew that the organization needed a "players coach" and one that wasn't afraid to allow young players to make mistakes.
Carlo is a stay at home d-man, krug is solid at both ends of the rink, and as for mete he was seeing around 9min a night for a solid stretch and also time in the pressbox, while star players like Benn were getting 20.
How about Galchenyuk playing fourth line to start the season or last year in the play offs.
He Is a safe coach and most young players aren't that. He's not a coach to rebuild a team with, but I guess thats just my opinion.
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6 minutes ago, Commandant said:
He never even had the opportunity to choose McAvoy.
He was a college player, never went to Bruins training camp. By the time he signed his contract, Julien was gone.
It would be like criticizing Therrien for not playing Jake Evans. He never had the opportunity to play him.
Read what I said again. If he was given the opportunity to play Mcavoy, he would have chosen a vet over him. The safer player is Julien' s fave.
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1 minute ago, xXx..CK..xXx said:
Gosh lehkonen is lining up and I’m already starting to write this. Why not Galchenyuk?
Because Lehkonen can back check...
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21 minutes ago, Commandant said:
And there are other kids he took and made them into better players too.
Bergeron, Kreijci, Krug, Carlo, marchand, horton... those are all guys he developed into much better players than they were when he got them.
Also the "kids this year"... 1) McAvoy was still in college, he wasn't signed and was never at training camp even. Julien not using him was not Julien's decision. 2) Debrusk developped a lot in his time in the AHL last year and is a better player this year.
Who was the kid Julien held back and was widely criticized for last season? Ryan Spooner. Where is spooner now? Oh yeah, the new coach soured on him too, and now he's been traded.
Spooner was part of it. Heinen too, to a lesser extent.
The reason Boston canned Julien was because he would chose a guy like mcquaid over a player like Mcavoy, given the opportunity. Or chose a two way forward over a pure offensive player. Therrien 2.0.
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Julien got the job done in the past with a team that was built around his style of coaching. Habs aren't the 2011 Bruins.
Look at the kids in Boston that Julien was reluctant to play last year...This year those kids are playing a huge part in the team's success
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Scherbak scratched. I cant remember the last time Byron Froese sat a game.
This the type of shit that Julien is renowned for.
Rebuilding a team with a coach that will choose a mucker over a young talented player 9 out of 10 times... great recipe.
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1 hour ago, xXx..CK..xXx said:
One thing led to another for me.
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Probably have to get a C stitches on there next year
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1 hour ago, illWill said:
I'll be attending the game tonight. I packed my Habs Jersey in my suitcase but I'm not sure if I'll wear it or not. Perhaps if I can find a brown paper bag to put over my head I will
Is it Subban's jersey?
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12 hours ago, Commandant said:
The Crisp pick was always garbage, a second-year draft eligible who wasn't scoring at the time of his draft. He was taken way too high.
We can say its just a third rounder, but these little things of going character over skill when guys like Duclair, and Buchnevich were on the board, are warning signs to the biggest problems in Bergevin's regime
Character trumps skill, man. Where have you been the past 6 years...
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1 hour ago, Metallica said:
No because our development and player evaluation are bad. I am ok with trading a player like Subban, but I am not ok with the return we got for him. We could and should of gotten a number 1 center for him. I have nothing against Weber, but to get only him and his contract and nothing else for Subban is just unacceptable. Also the fact that Bergevin has a hard time firing people around him that should be fired just because there his buddy's.
Things will never change until Bergevin is gone
It's disgusting that he's coming back next season.
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10 minutes ago, hab29RETIRED said:
The sad part is that unlike the sabres during the McDavid and leafs during the Mathews drafts, we weren’t TRYING to ice an AHL team.
We're a contender, man. Get your shit together
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Is that puddy?
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Point per game player in the AHL players when called up.
Puts up 12pts in 23 games this year playing 4th line minutes... someone doesn't like this kid
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15 hours ago, dlbalr said:
Rough timing for him - he was one game away from hitting the next threshold of his games played bonus.
What's that bonus worth?
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Just looking at Habs line up for tonight. Carr No where to be found.
This organization has shafted him since day one. Froese.. Logan Shaw. I don't get how these guys have leap frogged him
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Tank you very much
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I would love to watch some of those games
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Shit team or not. I miss watching them by the time July hits.