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Easy Ryder

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  1. Very good report on Grigo, i went ot the Remparts last night + 5 home games this year. Thingd about him to consider, he is still very young and raw. He does have the smarts yet and will grow into it. His lack of passion and competiveness would scare a lot of team away from him. Just to give an example he soon, lost something like 15 faceoffs last night. Forcing Roy to play others with more hunger. Not exactly what Habs need, he is Eller with a better shot. Thought one thing to consider, he makes his team win by his play reading.
  2. P So what, are they playing against each other ? DD has some chem with Paccioretty and Cole is best mentor we could have for Paccioretty. Could these wingers do more with any Plek, i don't think so, best scenario would have been for some other wingers to show up this year. It did not happen. Still Plek did fairly well in PK, got some lazy wingers draggin him down in +/-.
  3. First determine a role for him. He is lost, frustrated and is frustrating,i even called him names lately, sorry for that, undeserved he has been their band aid and never found a role and a line... Two-way hockey player, shut down center maybe, 1st offense line center no way Jose. Good linemates for him would be experienced defensive specialist. UFA that fits the bill Chris Kelly and aging Mikael Samuellson. Kelly is a center, he played wing before,4th line solution too. Both could find the net sometime and are very good in zone coverage Leaves Eller, Gionta and Gallager, 1 and two half men. Bourque, Geoffrion, White. .
  4. Markov , i didn't expect so soon. Enough to bring me back for a full game. I would play him and Gorges. PK with Emelin, emelin looked bad lately because of Weber. Plekanek had real wingers all year long. As long as he will play like a rat, 5-5, PP he stinks. I am not at all sold to the idea that Max PAC and Cole should play with a wuss.
  5. Desharnais at wing, come on man !. Why not Plekky on the wing ?
  6. Not such a disgrace, not a huge difference between losing and winning in the East. What if players sticked to JM style and played good defense, pass zone coverage, blocking shots and be very good in special teams . One big thing missed there, power play, Pearn was blamed for it, JM after. In fact nobody found the solution for the PP and then the team went down. If PP worked, this team would be near playoff contention and no one would talk about disgrace. I see some positive . - Price attitude has nearly been perfect, tough time he still stands tall and shows maturity. - Cole is the best power forward this team have seen yet. - Desharnais progression is steady will be a 70 pts guy shortly. - MaxPac came back from the wounded and will score 30. Best team scorer. - Gorges knee was questionnable. No question anymore and he plays very very good always against the other team top lines. - Emelin and Diaz, both very good adaptation to NA hockey. - Eller and Subban had a good learning year. Expectations we're too high on both of them. The disgrace goes to the players who we're highly paid like Cammalleri, Gomez, Plekanek, Gionta, AK46, Markov,to have a decent PP. Disgrace is not only on them but to the people who signed them as Habs players. And cheer up very decent prospects will turn pro next year, we'll have a top draft pick adding to what i consider a team that could fight a whole lot better next year. Could be worse, could be the leafs and not making the playoffs again.
  7. What is coming right around the corner is depth and Geoffrion brings that. Lots of quality juniors and hopefully US college will graduate to AHL next year. Brings up to 6 rookies to pro hockey next year. + One top 8, 1st rounder. And more to come, cool.
  8. I do not see much into this. White is all right. Schultz is called up for confidence. Moen is hurt, or he would play. Why would they trade him before ? For what use should they trade him ? Wait and see.
  9. I didn't watch the game but. Louis Leblanc if he played so geat... 9:08 TOI , 0 shots in goal. AK46 had 5 shots on net. Lars Eller was playing wing... Plek is not good,not bad , doesn't worth 1/2 of his paycheck. Budaj maybe the best trade bait out there.
  10. Fact is that he still doesn't produce with 3 different coach for him. Nobody else will take him and his contract. Calgary is still in the fight for playoffs but they use this " Winner" on the fourth line, he is not a positive factor in his team, neither he was in it's previous team. Do you really think that we could havbe more than Bourque and a second rounder next year for 13 ? Next year draft is gonna ne better than this year and with "13"in Calgary line up this is a top 35 choice..
  11. Last night Cammalleri was on the 4th line with Jones and Kolanos. He is -5.
  12. Commandant has good points for Habs to get back to a respectable franchise. I have some difference of opinion but the main idea is alike. However Pierre Lacroix has health issues and is no capacity or willing to come back as an active president. 1Best choice i have to admit is Pierre Boivin, why ?he didn't interfere with hockey operations or if he did he was doing it behind close doors. He had HUGE respect in the business community in Montreal, government contacts and as a $$ sense for marketing. 2 Roy, first days with the Remparts was GM and he is a much better GM than he is a coach. His good results as a coach are definetly linked to his GM abilities. Damphousse as vice-gm for contracts when Patrick will build a team in his style, competitive every year. And when ready he will go behind the bench. 3 Behind the bench it doesn't need to be changed, Randy C. should stay there, he is the best guy to pass the message that players won't have their ways anymore, exception of adding assistant coach with the Remparts, New Lappy who is a brilliant assistant. 4 Patrick is very good with russian. Radu and Grigo would jump in his boat. I am sure of that. It would consolidate Emelin position, and hopefully Markov for these guys. Adding these talented russians to big gritty wingers, Quebecers grinders and puck moving D's.
  13. Plekanek got it all wrong again he starts the year by fighting against a teammates. Yeah PK is annoying so what ? Plek should first start to work harder and be creative not as technical with no emotion.
  14. Stat wise this one is painful, Isles are closer to the habs 5pts than habs are to Leafs at 8th, 6 pts. Positive Diaz is really good out there, he is playing most of his time with Gill and still loooks good. Emelin booms St-Louis...cool. Negative Gorges is -8 in last 8 games. He is trying to do too much.
  15. No lazy play. Bolts may have a bad year, but they have the star players to make you regret any softie. Intense hockey, not much to ask.
  16. Wow this is not not a fan base, this is bandwagoners. Dec 27 Mtl against Sens, Mtl line up Kostitsyn-Plekanec-Moen Cole-Eller-Pacioretty Cammalleri-Desharnais-Leblanc Nokelainen-Darche-Blunden Subban-Gorges Emelin-Kaberle Diaz-Gill Campoli-Weber This means, stop the bleeding. This means, AK has to spark with Plekanek. This means no more lazy plays from PK. This means no stupid penalties by Eller. This means number 13 has to lead a line and contribute. This means Campoli off the line up. Did this tema ever won with him in the line up ? One win and the bad streak off and this board full. Come on, Go Habs Go.
  17. Smith-Pelly out for tournament with broken foot. Domino effect brings 12 forwards to step up. Bournival up with more ice time. He can surprise a lot of people. He never ever gives up on a play.
  18. A 75 points centermen with size and a Stanley Cup ring. Any time but not at the price tag up there. Canes regret their long term deal but they need bodies everywhere. No problem in giving away Subban when Beaulieu is on it's way. A high salary centermen all we could give is Plekanek, still for Staal return i would do it. Any first round pick this year is where i back off because we have a chance of having a top 5 this year. .
  19. Bring some emotion and get the bad seeds off the dressing room. What is bad in the dressing room, we see it on the ice. 2 players clearly went after JM, and they had both way too much rope and what they did with it is hang the coach. Another coach will take place and then some puss will sit on their contract. Causing 5-10 less goals and mostgames setttles with 1 goal difference this means 5-10 game loss. I really wish these stupid guaranteed contracst in the NHL will stop. NFL way is the way to go. I didn't like JM style, but i hate the players not performing and having 0 consequence.
  20. In that system, the shooters are the problem. Subban and Cammelleri for instance. Subban takes way too long to deliver, a high swing and shoots too high. Cammelleri is 10 feet too far and doesn't change position, the goalie knows exactly where the shot will come from. What would be a solution is what Kaberle is trying to do righ now. Install himself right in the middle and further in the zone, one player as to cover him, meanwhile players must play hard near the goaltender. Look for rebound and PK can rush in and surprise the defense with his fast skating. Forwards except Cammelleri will take the hits to go where it pays, this is the only way to score when overwhelming talent is not there.
  21. Kaberle best attribute is passing. We do not have that and it's not to Kaberle to give a life to what they call power play in Montreal and most of the players ahead will have a better confidence witk Kaberle at the point. So it's all to the forwards now to take responsability of creating chances near the net. Good move, in my opinion.
  22. I like the chances of winning when Carey Price is in the net. Give the guy a real defense and we're in the top 5.
  23. Woupss. Just the ponit that they are doing good for what was expected of them. And one word for football fans around quebec city GO ROUGE & OR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  24. Tempers high after an afternoon game...Thanksgiving feast was yesterday people and most of the players did get a night off yesterday. Probably the " rookie party". Good thing is that Price is still a freakin good goalie. Just off a two shutouts. With low drafted or free signings we dress 7 guys all defensemen. Highest rated was round 3, 3 of them have never been drafted. They do a very good job considering their paychecks and the rank they were picked. Meanwhile Timmins did draft Hainsey, Komisarek, Fisher, Mcdonough....Tinordi. I bring this and most of my comment is positive. I just want to defend the defense that is doing whatever they can, with Gorges rippin his heart and body as the heart and soul of this defense. Diaz has done good and misses grit, for all the skating and gane creative he can get i give him the spot over in Mara in the world. Emelin is lookin like he doens't know what to do with a stick ? Say to him that this a thing to crajj on numer 17 head of the big B team. Gill is Gill, Subban is all flashes but with no heat he cannot shine. St-Denis well he has under a street under his name.
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