tomh009
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So often people say that teams won't trade within a division--and yet, here we are, the two teams are very much in the same division.
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1 hour ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:
How is Slafkovsky doing this season? His stat card matches the eye test - Slafkovsky needs to shoot the puck more, much more.
How recent is that?
Here is another JFresh summary but from December, before he really picked up steam--and Cooley's card by comparison.
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2 hours ago, Neech said:
My complaint was more about the general anti-Russian bias of this era, where Russians have been passed over and excluded. Demidov doesn't seem to be on our radar based on the previous posts in this thread. Michkov would have gone before Will Smith fifteen years ago.
Fifteen years ago Putin wasn't really a factor, and the draft-age Russians were not signing long-term contracts with KHL teams.
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2 hours ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:
Yeah, if an Armia/Ylonen is all that he is, then forget it.
I think he's better than Armia, but is he a LOT better? I think Ylonen is/will be better than Armia as well, and he's cheaper--and doesn't cost us any assets. So, it doesn't make a lot of sense to get another player at the Armia/Ylonen level, I think.
Or can St-Louis get Kakko to the next level? I'm not sure ...
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For comparison, here is Armia, a player we have now, on a roughly similar contract--and who attracts lots of complaints from the Habs fans. His PK is 59% (I don't know how the percentile is determined for PP and PK since not all players play on special teams). Data is from three years ago, though, I can't find a current one.
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The trade could happen at any time. As soon as someone makes the right offer to Hughes ...
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2 hours ago, huzer said:
Habs after 49 games last year:
20-25-4 - 48pts, GF: 130, GA: 179 GD: -49
After 49 games this year:
20-21-8 - 48pts, GF: 136, GA: 175, GD: -39
Just thought it was interesting comparison. Will the Habs bomb the rest of the year like they did last season?
20-25-4 would be 44 points, not 48, would it not? Which would mean that the Habs are on pact to finish with 7-8 more points than last year.
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9 hours ago, DON said:
Parekh at 6, a RHD-man on Becks memorial cup bound team.
A good team but ... they are playing in the Memorial Cup because they are the host city, not because they qualified for it.
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1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:
It seems stupid for two teams to refuse to deal with each other out of personal animus. But I’m not naive enough to deny that this is likely a factor that will muck up a deal between two teams that seem very well-suited to help each other out. Ego, thy name is hockey executive.
Quite. happens in other kinds of businesses, too, and it's far from rare. And some exec egos go far enough that they need to send rockets into space ...
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25 minutes ago, JoeLassister said:
In a perfect world, in 3 years from now, I think WiFi should be our #6-#7 who gets dressed for 30-35 games (barring injuries), the games that involve more physical teams and/or "goons".
I think Hughes sees more potential in Xhekaj than that; otherwise he would have accepted a trade for a young top-6 forward that was apparently offered to the Habs.
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2 minutes ago, GHT120 said:
There was, after all, a reason he was available to sign.
Four excellent games, one very bad one. If he can bounce back, he is still a very good signing. Let's see what happens in his next few starts.
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1 hour ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:
The other thing about long shifts, of course, is that when your team sucks, you tend to get trapped in your own zone for extended periods, thus bloating your shift length.
That's a really good point: longer average shift length can also be a symptom rather than the cause of the problems. It would probably be more instructive to look at the median shift length rather than the average, but I don't think anyone is providing such analysis at the moment.
This is the best I have, the shift report from naturalstattrick.com. Note the highlighted ones, for players who had the most long or extra-long shifts:
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And Flyers sure could use a goaltender, although I don't have any good ideas about how to make the cap work. Is there a contract on the Flyers that the Habs could (and would be willing to) take back? Neither Ersson or Petersen (at a $5M cap hit) seems to be the solution to their goaltending puzzle.
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10 minutes ago, Commandant said:
They were better this game than against the Isles and they were still bad tonight. Anderson doesn't work there
100% agreed on that.
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Yeah, trading Slafkovsky for Anderson is not going to improve things. But Suzuki and Caufield were also playing against Crosby and Malkin, and that would have contributed to their crappy xGF% stats as well.
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7 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:
Suzuki seems unusually “off” tonight…I wonder if he’s looking ahead to the all-star break.
I suspect he needs some downtime to get his energy levels back up.
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Holu cr@p, I had not seen them before, but the Jets' baby blue sweaters are even worse than the Habs'! 😮
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So, if the Rangers really need a C, what would Hughes be able to extract for Monahan?
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Philly dropped a 6-2 game to Boston this afternoon in spite of outshooting them 37-28. Ersson 10 saves on 14 shots, Peterson 12 on 14. They might be looking for goaltending sooner rather than later.
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21 minutes ago, GHT120 said:
So while I expect Crosby wants to finish his career in Pittsburgh, if they approach him and ask him to help jump-start a rebuild then perhaps he agrees to be trade
Or he takes a pay cut and stays, to finish his career in Pittsburgh. Much less likely, but possible. And it would still help start the rebuild.
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In a single game, anything can happen, but unfortunately fans expect it to be repeatable. Just as with Poehling, too.
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Taking a contract back is another option, though ... might work for some teams, not for others.
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19 minutes ago, DON said:
Dvorak 59.9% on faceoffs, i didnt know he was doing that well.
Based on naturalstattrick:
- Dvorak 57.9% (52.5% last season)
- Stephens 56.2%
- Monahan 55.5% (54.0%)
- Evans 54.2% (54.1%)
- Suzuki 54.0% (47.0%)
- Dach 37.5% (38.2%)
- Newhook 33.0%
I don't know who is giving our centres face-off training, but it's working. Dvorak, Evans and especially Suzuki are far better at this than they used to be--and the Habs are now sixth-best in the league for face-offs, up from 25th last season.
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49 minutes ago, Commandant said:
On Xhekaj, In two games since being back he has taken 3 minors. St. Louis was asked about this in his presser last night and he wasnt happy with that either. He cant be taking minors every game.
Agree that he can't be taking penalties every night. However, two games is an awfully small sample.
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Brzustewicz has been outstanding for Kitchener in the OHL this year.
With Lindholm off the market ... it may also mean that the trade will happen sooner rather than later.