Peter Puck

Yeah that second goal is a joke. The icing rule is supposed to prevent that. The linesmen just screwed up and cost us a goal.

But pretty much every time a goalie is actively involved in the play is a scoring chance. Most other players go long stretches game without being involved in a scoring chance. A goalie can expect to face 30 shots. Any other player can expect to be involved in about 10 shots a game (counting both ends).

a) 36-36-5-5 (82 points) b) 6th in the Atlantic c) 21 overall d) 5 x 20 goal scores e) Suzuki: 82 points f) Hutson: 41 points

Whoops. Thanks. Fixed.

The 19th Annual HabsWorld Regular Season prediction contest. Hall of Fame: 2006-2007 Jean won with a prediction of 92 points when the Habs finished the year with 90 pts. If only we could have won that last game. 2007-2008 Adirondack Bud exactly predicted our final total of 104 pts. 2008-2009 Zowpeb won by predicting a strong start followed by a slower 2nd half ending with 99 points. The Habs finished the season in 8th place with 93 points. On September 22, 2008 Zowpeb predicted "I think we'll see a rough patch just past the mid-year point..." Wow! 2009-2010 Joelassister correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 88 points. Honourable mention to kaos who predicted a season record of 39-34-9 (87 pts) while the Habs finished 39-33-10. 2010-2011 Chips produced the all time best prediction. His preseason prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts 6th in the East, 14th in the NHL was exactly correct in every aspect. That amazing feat will be hard to duplicate. Honourable mentions went to Seb whose excellent prediction of 44-30-8 for 96 pts. 5th in east, 13th in NHL came up just short; and to Peter Puck who also correctly predicted the Habs would finish with 96 points. 2011-2012 sakiqc Our fearless leader won with his prediction of 37-34-11 for 85 points. The Habs record was 31-35-16 for 78 points. Honourable mention went to Habsfan who correctly predicted that the Habs would score 212 goals. 2012-2013 illWill won by predicting the Habs would finish with a record of 27-16-5 for 59 points. The Habs finished 29-14-5 for 63 points. Honourable mention to PMAC and to former champion Chips who both predicted the Habs to finish with 58 points. 2013-2014 Meller93 exactly predicted the Habs final record 46-28-5-3. Honourable mention to thehabbit who correctly predicted the Habs final point total and just missed getting their record exactly right. 2013-2014 nihliz predicted 50-23-5-4 for 109 points. In fact the Habs finished the season 50-22-5-5 for 110 points. Honourable mentions went to nhfarberwho predicted 49-23-4-6 for 108 points and to sakiqc who predicted 51-26-1-4 for 107 points 2015-2016 Chris predicted 40-30-8-4 for 92 points. The injury ridden Habs finished the season 38-38-3-3 for 82 points. 2016-2017 The Habs finished the regular season 47-26-7-2 for 103 points. Using tie breakers: thehabbit had the winning prediction when he predicted 47-25-5-5 = 104 pts and Honourable mentions to kaos and Bluecross. kaos predicted 46-26-6-4 = 102 pts BlueKross predicted 46-24-6-4 =102 pts. 2017-2018 The Habs finished the regular season 29-40-7-6 for 71 points. All the predictions were bad but the least bad was by Dalhabs who won by predicting 42-30-6-4 = 94 pts. 2018-2019 The Habs finished the regular season 44-30-8 for 96 points and 246 goals. The prediction contest came down to the last game of the season, indeed down to the number of goals scored in that game. The winner was BCHabnut predicted 42-27-6-7 (97 points) and crucially 248 goals. Honourable mentions go to: Dalhabs 42-30-6-4 (94 points) and illWill 42-29-7-4 (95 points) 243 goals. 2019-2020 The Habs finished the pandemic season 31-31-9 for 71 points in 71 games. The winner was illWill predicted 39-36-2-5 (85 points). Honourable mention to: tomh009 who predicted 0-0-0-82. Unfortunately for posterity tomh009 also predicted 40-32-10 2021 Season The Habs finished the season 24-21-8-3 for 59 points in the North Division in 56 games. Habsfan84 won by predicting 27-22-3-4 for 61 points. Like every entry his prediction overestimated the Habs final points. Habsfan84 also correctly predicted the Habs would get to the 2nd round but thought they would lose there instead of making the Stanley Cup final. 2022 Season The Montreal Canadiens compiled a regular season record 22-49-7-4 for 55 points. Almost duplicating the points from their cup final year of 2021 but finishing 32nd in the league. DalHabs predicted 31-39-7-5 for a total of 74 points. For the second year in a row all contestants over estimated the Habs performance. --------------------------------------------- 2023 Season Montreal finish the 2022-2023 Regular Season with 68 points leading to a 4 way tie in Habsworld predictions: DalHabs 27-42-6-7 = 67 points 8th, 29th, 31 goals by Caufield DutchHabsFan 25-40-10-7 = 67 points 6th, 27th, 25 goals hab29RETIRED 28-43-8-3 = 67 points 8th, 2th, 39 goals alfredoh2009 29-44-5-4 = 67 points 7th, 29th, 29 goals The tiebreaker was predicting the number of goals scored by Cole Caufield. Caufield scored 26 regular season goals plus 2 shoot out goals for a total of 28 goals. alfredoh2009 won the tiebreaker with his prediction of 29 goals. ------------------------------------------------------- 2023-24 Contest The 2023-24 Habs finished the season 30-36-8-8 for 76 points. They were 8th in the Atlantic Division, 15th in the East, and 28th in the league. @xXx..CK..xXx won the 2023-2024 contest predicting the exact total of 76 points. --------------------------------------------------------- DalHabs and illWill are the two repeat winners!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2024-2025 edition Predict the Habs regular season performance during the upcoming 2024-2025 NHL season. Rules for this season. Predict a) what the Habs regular season record will be: wins-losses-OTL-SOL b) in what place in the Atlantic Division the Habs will finish c) in what place in the league the Habs will finish d) Tiebreaker: How many 20 goal scorers will the Habs have this season. e) Tiebreaker: How many points will Suzuki finish the season with. f) Tiebreaker: How many points will Hutson finish the season with. The winner will be based upon the most accurate prediction of the Habs final points. In the event of a tie bonus points will be awarded for getting the number of wins, number of losses, number of OTL's or number of SOL's correct or nearly correct. The tie breakers will be combined in some crazy way to break ties if required. The decision of Peter Puck is final. Contest is void where prohibited. Don't forget to separate overtime losses and shootout losses. Entries due before puck drop on Wednesday October 9 at 7:07pm EST. Good luck.

I agree with your assessment of the game. But I thought both Mailloux and Beck and Cowan were better than Hutson.

Many people considered Saku the best player in the world, not in the NHL during his final year before joining the habs. Safe to say no one feels that way about Aatos.

This is not as significant as the other examples but I always liked the trade with Toronto: to Habs: Doug Jarvis to the Leafs: Greg Hubick Hubick played the 74-75 season with Toronto and 5 games with the Canucks in 79-80. The leafs drafted (#24 overall) Jarvis June 3, 1975 and traded him June 26th. Montreal wanted a player who was good on draws.

I heard an interview with Roy about 5 years ago in which he said he was willing to rescind his trade demand but that Houle didn't ask him.

This my interpretation. With Price and RHP on LTIR we are 2 million over the cap. We just paper Xhekaj and someone else down the day the season opening rosters are due to get under the cap without using LTIR. It seems to me that we probably forced CBJ to take Harris for a 2nd round pick in order to allow this to happen. Unless some irresistible deal becomes available, I expect Hughes to stand pat until after opening day.

And this complicates Edmonton's position even more. If they match they can't trade either player until mid August next year. This time of year is not a good time to try to put together a trade. I guess they could try to agree to a trade in early July and consummate it in August.

Not if the pick comes from another team.

Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that the factor weighted heaviest in the rankings was current NHL goaltenders. For example Calgary was ahead of us in both cap and prospects but behind us in the overall rankings. For sure our prospects were important in the rankings but so was the evaluation of our current goalies.

Although Fowler and Dobes were important factors, the performance of Montembeault and Primeau was also very important.

First of all going 0-10 when each chance is 1/8 is not good evidence. It is pretty close to average. Secondly, the data posted by GHT120 shows the Habs going 1 for 10 (Reeway was the best pick in his range). Thus the record is as close to average as possible with 10 data points.