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hab29RETIRED

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  1. It was a painful night. First ever game live for my son. Stupid flames had an 80’s theme night where they had old players and kept showing highlights during the intermission of their one and only 89’ cup win. anyways, it was close until the second period, than the flames pulled ahead, habs battled back and than idiotic refereeing put it way. some thoughts at seeing most of the young players live for the first time and being able to just follow them: -top line is going to be something special, but they have to stop trying to setup the perfect pass all the time and shoot more. -Slafkovsky is a big dude and I’m hoping he can be a Leclair type force - but I think he can also become a much more skilled player that generates more offence on his own than Leclair did. -Caufield’s shot is still off. I know he scored of a deaflybshot tonight. But his One timer isn’t there. Too many times tonight, he just didn’t have enough zip on his shot. Hopefully he is fully recovered by next training camp. -Harris just isn’t physical enough and doesn’t bring the offence you’d want from a non-physical dman. May be a bad night, but was really disappointed in him and how easily he was pushed around. -Suzuki can really slow down the game. There were times the Habs were running around like chickens with their heads off, and Suzuki got the puck ragged it around until everyone settled down. He will score 80+ points next year. -as with the top line, this team needs to shoot more - way too many cute passes and too many cross ice pass attempts - particularly too Caufield. Can’t keep doing that when you have to make those passes through traffic. -Evans effort level surprised me. He is an also a very good stick handler. He’s also being wasted between the two Bergevin two worst remaining long term deals. Anderson and Gallagher are useless. Garbage play by both. Anderson hit a post, but otherwise was useless. Can we just buy them out this year??? I know it’s going to cost a lot, but may as well get them out of the lineup and reduce their cap hit two years from now, when we hope to be competitive. -Roy is a smart player. Hoped to se more offensively. But you could see the high hockey IQ Jennie was on the ice - with and without the puck. -we need someone from the young D to step up. Wasn’t really impressed by anyone tonight. Was hoping to see more and better from Guhle, wifi and Struble, and like I said earlier, was surprised how disappointed I was in Harris.. And the young D also need to start shooting more. Savard was shooting, but the young guys during the first half were just not getting the puck on the net hen there was traffic in front. I wish this game was a few w escalate and maybe I could have seen Hutson live. -Premieau flops around and is out of position. A LOT!! He.needs to work on his positioning and not take himself out of the play as much. anyways, this was really the only game I wanted them to win for the rest of the years hopefully they lose the rest, but the young guys get a ton of points.
  2. I think a big difference than earlier this year, is that Matheson is finally passing to Slafkovsky. Before he would be defaulting to Caufield and Suzuki, and seemed to be avoiding Slafkovsky.
  3. If we don’t get Celebrini, I think my two two choices regardless of where we draft are Dadinov and Parakh. Both look like players that can totally take over a game. That’s something we lacked outside of the goal position since Lafleur. Incidentally, I will be in the lower bowl with my son wearing my Lafleur jersey at the Montreal-Calgary game on Saterday😁. It’s been a long time since I’ve been to a Montreal game!
  4. Umm, why wouldn’t just wait until August instead and retain control of his destiny??
  5. 100% agree. Why the hell would we want to take a chance at him coming back right now!! Dvorak - who cares. Hopefully we can dump him in the offseason anyways - although I won’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
  6. When is the earliest Hutson and Reinbacher can come over? Can either also be loaned to Laval?
  7. 100% agree! Will Ali be rooting for the panthers to suck next year!
  8. We may also need one of Caufield/Slafkovsky to play with Dach.
  9. Well, I did pick Suzuki to get 87 points in our annual prediction contest, so I’m high on him. Having said that, I still think that if he can stay healthy and find consistency, Dach may become our #1 centre. It would really be something to have to 85 point+ centres.
  10. My order of preference is as follows: 1)Celebrini 2)Demidov 3)Lindstrom 4)Parekh 5)Silayev We aren’t getting the top three unless we win the draft. And we we are picking late for Levshhnov. Is take BPA, rather than position and Paekh looks like a Coffey or dman that will be real special. Man already screwed the pooch not taking Hughes (or at least Tkachuk), wouldn’t want to pass on Parekh if he is available. This is a D heavy draft, and last year was a forward heavy draft. I really wished we had taken Michkov or Leonard last year!
  11. If we don’t get lottery luck to get that three top forwards, I want Parekh.
  12. IMO it’s not the point difference as much as an ability to take over a game. There were some season in the 80’s, Bernie Federko had more points than Trottier, but who would you rather have? Bossy typically only had 10-15 more points than Federko. But he was much more of a game breaker than Federko ever was. There’s a difference between a guy who will get his points and a guy who can win it on his own. Pattersson is among the latter.
  13. Apple “auto-correct” for friggin. Reggie was put in a job that was over his head. That decision was Corey. Tremblay though is the ass wipe who chased Roy and Turgeon out of town. If it was up to me, Neither of those two, or MB/MT should be allowed in the bell centre. four guys who out their egos above the team.
  14. Patterson is a guy that can take over a game. I’d say his a notch below McDavid and McKinnon. It say Suzuki is two below Pattersson. Nothing wrong with that though - Suzuk is the best centre we’ve had since Koivu. If Dach can be the 1a or 1b with Suzuki we should be good at centre with Beck hopefully as a solid #3. That’s the best we’ve been at the position since the unholy trio of Corey-Tremblay-Houle turned us into the geiggon Harrold Ballard leafs.
  15. Given what Calgary got for Taney, I don’t see us getting a first.
  16. Patersson is not signed. I’m not giving up Suzuki for guy that is a RFA for 1 more yr before being a UFA, and you have to sign, and are unsure how much that would be. $10m, $11m, $12m, $13m? He wants to win now. Why would he sign with us? like the player, don’t see him wanting to be here to take that type of risk.
  17. Unless MB takes at least one of his bad contracts of our hands - Gallagher, Armia or Anderson, I hope that SOB never gets another GM job again - ditto for Therrien!
  18. I think I had picked Suzuki to get around 87 points - despite his dry spell, he may still be able to do that. It would be nice to have a hab close to 90 points and finally pass Kovolev’s point total from over 15 years ago!
  19. Unless we get another that totally knocks our socks off - an offer we can’t refuse that doesn’t involve waking up next to a dead order head - I think we need to wait until next year. See what we have in the kids and if they can push Matheson down in the lineup. Savard on the other hand, I would move now. He’s a guy that will decline and will be susceptible to injury.
  20. I don’t think Anderson is seeing as a bruising winger - mentally bruised and crushed winger sure. Bruising, not so much.the knuckleheads can do better than Anderson in pretty much any other similar player available. Anderson at 50% is still 100% of wasted cap space.
  21. a team with Markov, as QB should have no issues scoring. The team had Pleks, the squid, Gionta, the two Kostitsyn brothers - and the count was on ragging Sergei from the first practice with the team. Maxpac wanted to stay in the minors rather than play in the plugging line when the count was the coach. Benoit chicken legs was also in the doghouse for the entire duration under the count. Basically, all of the young players we had were being held to a MUCH higher standard than the veteran - particularly the Gomez who was being paid $7m+ but couldn’t even put up 60 points. There were a LOT of better options then metro!
  22. I don’t like him, because die some idiotic reason he was in the PP. good in the draw, but should be about the last choice for the PP!!!
  23. Maybe that was his strategy to get out of Arizona!!😁😆
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