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Easy Ryder

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  1. Looks like a line shake up at this morning skate. Source CKAC. Max Pacioretty - Tomas Plekanec - Brian Gionta Andrei Kostitsyn - Scott Gomez - Lars Eller Benoit Pouliot - David Desharnais - Mathieu Darche Travis Moen - Jeff Halpern - Tom Pyatt If it's true i like this. Gionta needs to rack points.
  2. Wiz played over 30 minutes in that game. That is a lot of ice time. Ok for the PP but in the penalty killing he is losing a lot of energy there. Spacek and Weber didm't average 15 minutes, of course nobody wants to see Weber in PK but if he cannot hold is own there. then Picard alternate with him or Spacek who clearly lost JM confidence with his ups and downs. This would go on the rumors usually but i see a hole in the line up for 3th right D. Both Wiz and PK can hold on in PP. Weber role is blocked there. I would see à big 6.4 foot right D who can fight and stop that bump in Price game plan. Matt Carkner. Minor moves that could be a nice fit in. Yes he is slow, cannot pass so does Komisarek at 4-5 million hittung women in LA.
  3. You say you would rather meet Philly with all the Hamilton call ups, take it as an exhibition game. Relax, chill out, we have lots of time. We're not winning the Stanley Cup on the first exhibition game.
  4. The one that i am surprise to see as line up possibility to play tonight is MaxPac he looked like Wiz lethal shot went thought his foreharm,broke two ribs to go inside, perforate the spleen and went down his legs, leaving doctor Mulder no choice to open his leg to take the puck out. Far from a pain freak, Gorges, Ciccarelli or any rugby player. This is the POWER forward that you talk about ? Maybe tall, fast and average strong but in no way a tough nail.
  5. What's the need to worry about depth there must be plenty of depth the GM gave two NHL'ers this year for nothing. Losing a sniper who net 13 goals in half a season, ouf it hurts, and especially his shoulders the most useful part of his body with all the checks he made this year 13.
  6. Picard had a similar injury than MaxPac, there is absolutely no protection there. But i dunno his painmeter, he was shaking and had trouble walking to the lcoker room. Could be a fractured foreharm.. Cammelleri i feel was just a shove and he did not protect himself. PK inside foot will hurt tomorrow expect him back in the second. Halpern, probably the flu bug.
  7. One question, they said on RDS that Spacek was a last minute call or he would have sit tonight for Picard. Is he in JM dog pound ?? He only played 12 minutes against the Rags for one turnover. He had a monster first period and ended with less ice time than Gill who has way too much ice time. Meanwhile Hammer and Wiz were really bad out there.
  8. Something good for Eller, Desharnais is not doing good either. Auld is very good. Plekanek is at his best when wingers create presssure and keep the puck in, with his passing skills he finds the open men, unfornately for him neither AK46 or 13 cares to play that way. Talking of passing skills, Subban is at his worst i have seen.
  9. Cammalleri played when he should have called sick, he takes a lot of bad decisions when he doesn't score. Nothing new. Pouliot is looking like he could go on a scoring streak right now. It would not be giving him the spot he fought for it. But probably Moen will get the call. Anybody who missed Eller he should be there getting tripping penalties, not producing offensively.
  10. Brendon Nash, could somebody give a good idea of what this player looks like and potential ? If he was a 1st rounder his name would be there but only his stats talks. Points leader, 19, +11. 6.3 foot, 205 pounds.Shoots left. Played in Cornell 4 years.
  11. Finally the are able to come back in the third. But i didn't watch, didn't believe in them coming back. It has became so typical to see them lose when trailing behind that the remote control was changing to football. But what a game there too. I liked Desharnais play on Max Pac shot.
  12. Rookies can hold on for a while but when it's getting tough and close the team needs confidence for everyone to play their role and not trying to cover someone else. For me it's there that Gorges and Markov out of the ice for the whole year hurts the most.
  13. To develop talent there has to be some talent to develop. The core doesn't score. The youth, are average prospects. Pouliot, Weber, MaxPac, Eller are low end average prospects. Best the coaches could do is bringing them to the average NHL'er level. Except PK. JM can't score key goals, neither Price. I do not like JM but it's time to blame the players more than anything. Do your job, shoot, score.
  14. What's going on. Look at Points, players do not produce offensively. Top points D (Hammer) is at 34th, exclude Wiz points with Isles. Top scoring center(Plek) is 23th scoring center in the league. Top scoring LW (Cammalleri) is 16th in the league. Top scoring RW (Gionta) is 35th in the league. And i didn't mention Gomez and Kostitsyn production.
  15. Have to get credit to team Russia. They got the wheels when needed, Canada could not follow in the third. No pointing, no responsable, just emotion and a scoring drive. Players who shined and will be key players in the NHL. Washington's Evgeny Kuznetsov 1st rounder with Ovechkin. Columbus needs Ryan Johansen LA Brandon Schenn Anaheim Kyle Palmieri St Louis Vladimir Tarasenko Buffalo's Zach Kassian Minnesota Johan Larsson Tampa's Carter Ashton Detroit Teemu Pulkkinen habs's Leblanc well, he was very good but he is not there in the top prospects. I cannot tell what misses but it is certainly not work ethic, puck control and vision.
  16. The place in Canada where the interest for team Canada is at is lowest is in Montreal. Was there yesterday and nobody i talked to could name 5 players of U20 2010 Canadian team. Meanwhile 16 000 canadian fans take the road, fill an american building and root for the thrillest tournament of the year and watch the canadian team play a perfect game against last year gold medalist team USA at home. The big open ice hits are something we do not see often in the NHL. Even less in Montreal. I would take the tapes and show it to these pro's for what fans want in a hockey game. But that's just one fan in the habs nation where only habs deserves attention and where hockey is not a game but a system to feed fans who can take any crap on ice and people still love it.
  17. Look at Karri Ramo's number in the KHL 22 wins 6 loss 3 ties GAA 1.97 PCT .927
  18. Yep felt the same. Kassian suspension for a hit got into their head, Canada let Norway shoot way too many times, defense was backing and there was no grit into that game. One the postitive , Schenn appetite for goal crease and putting points. The Couturier- Leblanc- Foligno line took time to get cohesion but now they got it, Leblanc looks slow but he is not, he is the guy that always do something good, nothing outstanding, average speed, average shot but above average hockey sense, ice vision, puck control and passing. Leblanc with Kristo in a couple of years will be fun to watch.
  19. I tdon't mind his +/- stats on a poor defensive team. What i like is that he is a right handed D with experience and offensive abilities. the link to him is not beyond this year, if he fits he has a home. Gautier still has lot's of cap space. Spacek, Gorges can be moved to right. When Gorges is healthy again. Either Icard, Weber or Subban will go down to come back eventually.
  20. Brodeur said in the media thta he doesn't want to be traded. This would mean that Lou asked him and if Lou is ready to unload Brodeur, he is ready to unload anyone.
  21. The closest thing we'll get from reality tv will be the ad the staged Bell ad where Darche, his blondie and her kids get into a minivan. What !? can't be absolutely sure where kids come from. Back to " the crisis", to sum it, -Price has an average streak, in habsland if the goalie doesn't stand on his head on a habs bad streak it's over. -The D is wore down, the two tops old timers had way too much ice time, the clock reverse effect, Gill slow feett is hurting 5-5, Gorges has to make last second plays and get the hits, now Gorges hurt all the time, PK lost his game focus thanks to the press and JM, Picard is not Regehr or Bieksa. - Offense, big money players should get the goals, The support crew is at par with 27 goals ( Pouliot, Halpern, Darche, Lapierre, Moen) At his pace 64 goals for 5 million approx, 78 000$ the goal The big $$ crew has 47 goals (Plek, Cammalleri, Gionta, Andrei K, Gomez), nobody there will reach 30 goals at this pace and nobody been injured there. At the current pace together they will reach 100 goals for 28 millions approx , 280 000$ the goal. - JM is shuffling too much and the players loose focus on their D game the bread and butter of this team.
  22. It is with no pride that i say that i bet for the last minute goal lottery at the sports bar i was. I called 6 seconds. I won two pitcher and this morning my liver hates me befores the holidays. Back to the game, the bounces were absolutely against the habs in that third period. It was almost funny when JM sent 6 forwards in despare. He sured didn't want PK to wind a slapshot from the top of the building. Mile high cut the legs of our old timers defense. Did i see Halpern there in the last shift ? lol Side note : NHL unwritten book lesson to MaxPAc do not try to skate between Foote and the net...ouch this one must have hurt.
  23. Quintal was the last habs with the ability of both to play and not get pounded. This is a looong while. Komisarek was a puss compared to a p*ssed Zednik. This is a lomg while, this is why i have doubts between Regher and Bieksa. Bieksa would fight, Regher would bring fear to these low headers.
  24. From what we have seen in these two games Gomez needed a complement on his line for a pass option to the player not to kill the play. Gomez is different in his offensive play than Plekanek. Plek offense is pretty much a north south offense. A short accurate pass for a strong shooter. Gomez is more about puck control , skating with the puck, to create space for his wingers to make another play. There was and still will be two problems with that, 1st the two wingers have to create a play for the play to continue. 2nd Gomez has to put himself inside the play and not outside as soon as he makes the first pass. Unlike Pouliot and Moen, MaxPac can carry the puck and now, this is new, has enough vision to create a play. All that to say we have a second line , finally !
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