Commandant

Now lets see this PP get one.

That too many men was bullshit. He didn't try to play the puck, it hit him.

Half that time has been on the PK

These refs are a joke.

###### off Diaz has to pin the puck to the boards.

Gorges is not playing well.

GOD DAMNIT.... Horrid Giveaway.

AK46!!! Welcome to the game Gus.

Another good shift for Cole at the end of the period... maybe he's coming around?

We are paying for a guy who scored 22 goals at ES last season. Scoring goals at ES has been a weakness of this team for 2 years. PP has been a strength of this team for a long time, and it will be fine as soon as we get Markov back. Cole is the big forward we want to help us at ES, hopefully he has more plays like that last shift and the pass to Cammy.

Cole is BRUTAL on PPs... he was never acquired to play on the PP. He had 3 goals and 8 pts.on the PP last season, while playing over 225 minutes of PP time. Awful. For comparison Darche had 2 goals and 7 pts in 79 minutes. Cole was acquired to help 5 on 5. AND HOW THE HECK IS THAT NOT GOALIE INTERFERENCE?

You can't leave your stick on the ice as you are moving to your right to make the initial save, it would slow you down.

The penalty was Rosehill's own stick hitting him in the face, and the faceoff should have been outside the line after the puck hit someone in the montreal bench. Bullshit.

SHORTY FOR MOEN! THATS HOW YOU GO TO THE NET!!

I agree with that. Martin and Muller had a good cop/bad cop dynamic. Hopefully Cunneyworth can start to develop the good cop part of that.

The Riders problem was never coaching... its in the GM spot. Eric Tillman was a great GM. He assembled a lot of talent for the Riders. When he left that Talent remained, and they continued to win. Slowly though, the talent left, aged, or otherwise needed to be replaced. Their new management has been unable to find replacements for the guys who have been lost, or who have regressed. Just look how quickly Tillman is building a great team in Edmonton. He has an eye for this game.

Myth http://www.liam.ca/ed20040319.html

We have the lines from practice.... I'm not making a GDT as I made the last one and it as our worst game of the year. Cammy - Plek - Gio Patch - DD - Cole Moen - Eller - Kostitsyn Darche - Engqvist - Palushaj/Weber Gorges - Subban Gill - Diaz Spacek/Weber - Emelin

Christmas? Markov will be back in November. Its October 22 now.

Biggest issue with the team continues to be Forward Support in the defensive zone. If the forwards were better in their own end it would solve everything. If we backchecked better, we'd even end up scoring more goals. Seems counterintuitive? I agree... but hear me out. Think about the type of goals this Habs team has scored at Even Strength over the last 2 years. What do you see? Do you see a team cycling the puck in the offensive zone? Do you see a team winning board battles and then setting something up? Or do you see a team that creates through the use of odd man rushes? 2 on 1s, 3 on 2s, and other quick strike, counter attack style plays. I know what I see, and its the odd man rush that creates a huge part of our 5 on 5 offence. This is a team where 5 of our 9 most talented fwds are 5'10 or shorter, but are speedy. With such a lineup you can't count on a puck possession game. You can't count on playing a strong forecheck and cycle style of game. You just don't have enough big forwards to do it, when 2 guys on every line lack size. So how do you create offence? By using that speed in odd man rushes. So how do you create odd man rushes? Simple.... you need to force the other team to turn over the puck... either have a takeaway, or block a shot and pick up the loose puck, pick off a bad pass, win puck battle, etc.... So in this way better defence.... the forwards supporting our defencemen (what they haven't done at all this year), would help this team not only give up less goals, it would actually help us create more chances at the other end. This is how the 2001 New Jersey Devils were the highest scoring team in the NHL.... this is how Martin's Ottawa teams scored a lot of goals.... this was how we reached the final four to years ago.... this is how we took the first two games in Boston last year... and this is what we need to get back to doing if we want to be successful.

Kristo and Gallagher continue their hot starts Kristo 1 assist to bring his total to 8pts in 5 games. Gallagher 1g 1a so far in the first period as Vancouver is steamrolling Victoria... 6-0 in goals 17-1 in shots after 1 period.

I agree with most of that Lovett Things are early now, but if we are still looking like this in mid november/early december changes will be necessary.

Jodoin is just using the Martin system, which is called "confuse the hell out of the fans (and the other team)"

Who was left out of the pairings? Weber?