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Great to hear a couple rookies stand out again. Game Thoughts: Strong Third Gives Laval the Series Lead – HabsWorld.net 2nd Star: Florian Xhekaj 3rd Star: David Reinbacher Rochester Americans @ Laval Rocket Wednesday, May 21, 2025 | TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League Roy/Beck/Xhekaj 3 shots. https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/laval-rocket-rochester-americans-2025-05-21-game-3-recap-score-highlights-florian-xhekajs-stunning-goal-cayden-primeau-reinbacher-mailloux-roy-dauphin-beck/

NHL Mock Draft 2025: Predicting all 64 picks of the first two rounds with Pronman and Wheeler - The Athletic

Leaf fan at work this morning made me chuckle; "You Hab fans would rather see the Leafs lose more than you would to see the Habs win... sad."

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Panthers eliminate Maple Leafs in Game 7 with dominant second period: Takeaways - The Athletic "Still, Maurice deserves immense credit for pushing all of the right buttons. With his team trailing 2-0 in this series, he replaced his entire fourth line for Game 3 and saw them score a big goal. He also flipped wingers on his top two forward lines and changed up the defensive matchups to slow down Toronto’s second line after a red-hot start from Nylander."

Maple Leafs Notes: Marner, Tavares, Berube, Game 7 Offense Letting Marner walk will, of course, free up all of his $10.9MM cap hit to spend elsewhere on the roster. Retaining him on a long-term deal would have likely cost them an additional $2MM per season, if not more – TSN’s Darren Dreger said last night that an eight-year, $13.5MM AAV offer was on the table at some point (via Nick Barden of The Hockey News). Former captain John Tavares, also a pending unrestricted free agent, had a much different tone last night. He made it clear in no uncertain terms that he wants to come to terms on an extension to continue his career in Toronto Toronto has now been limited to just one goal in a remarkable five straight Game 7s.

So is Marner or Tavares gonna play for the Habs next season?

Bury em!

Domi with goal 3-1, aint quite over yet. 4-1 thats better

Rocket prospect report: Mailloux, Reinbacher among best in Game 2 "Reinbacher showed that he could play a shutdown role in Game 2. His skating and IQ make him a formidable force defensively, and it seems that whenever he focuses on defence, offence follows..." "I do need to add a negative to this report because, as awesome as his game was, it wasn’t flawless. Mailloux was not excellent on the penalty kill at any time on Friday. He consistently over-committed to his man, leaving passing lanes open and creating odd-man attacks within the defensive zone. In my opinion, he was Laval’s fourth-best penalty-killing defenceman in Game 2." ".. I thought adding Beck to it may give it a nice spark. It looks like the theory was correct. Beck was the most noticeable player on that line on Friday. He drove play for the trio, and the three players looked effective." "Engström had another solid performance on Friday. I thought he was noticeable in the offensive zone, particularly in his skating and decision-making..."

Rohrer named player of the game for Austria | Montréal Canadiens Following his two-point performance, the Canadiens’ 2022 draft pick was named Austria’s player of the game. He ranked second in time on ice among Austrian forwards at 19:17 and registered four shots on goal and a plus-2 differential.

Game Thoughts: Late Penalty Proves Costly as Rochester Ties Series – HabsWorld.net Pascal Vincent made a pair of lineup changes for this one, one by choice and one by necessity. The choice was to go back to Jacob Fowler in goal after going with Cayden Primeau in the opener. Meanwhile, with Xavier Simoneau leaving Wednesday’s game early due to injury, Luke Tuch took his place in the lineup, being deployed in the fourth-line spot he spent a lot of the season in. Laval @ Rochester recap & highlights: Rocket fall short in game two You simply cannot charge an ounce of that loss to Jacob Fowler. The third Americans’ goal was perhaps one he’d like back, but outside of that he was excellent. Given Pascal Vincent’s willingness to run both of his goaltenders, it will be reasonable to see Cayden Primeau again in game three, but he should feel no less comfortable with Fowler moving forwards. Habs fans should as well feel no less comfortable with the possibility of this kid being the future of the franchise. He looks like the real deal.

Laval Rocket @ Rochester Americans Friday, May 16, 2025 | TheAHL.com | The American Hockey League Fowler 3g 22 shots after 2nd period Mailloux 2 shots Reinbacher/Kapanen 1 shot

Yes, never heard any reports of good or improved defensive play by Mailloux during the year. He might just not have the hockey IQ to defend at NHL speed, is a tough position to master and he missed a bunch of development time. But, lots of great offensive NHL d-men struggle in own end defending; but at least he can skate well, big shot, is good size & kinda physical. Start time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT In Canada: RDS2 (French) Streaming: FloHockey, RDS

Why is that important enough to cough up several picks?