hockeyrealist

Romy / Kulak have been decent as well. Norlinder skated well, smooth stride and comfortable with puck.

CC at least showing life, one of the only players showing som life. 15-5 shots after 1, ugh.

Indeed, let him get some rest and rehab.

One would expect that to lead to more odd man rushes in Habs favour???? Doesn’t seem to be happening, seems a result of collapsing back, giving up perimeter. So I suppose there is rarely the opportunity to head man the puck and counter attack….

Not sure what Petry was doing on that third goal by Pens, he’s the third man back and decided to attack the puck carrier, who is clearly covered by Drouin who is playing dman…?? Meanwhile two open Pens go unchecked and one of them score. Just boneheaded back checking there, not to mention the stupid route he chose to get out of offensive zone once Habs lost possession. Hard to fathom all of the repeated brain farts he has been making.

I definitely see the points above and reason to question the timing. Hopefully he is put in a spot to succeed, which I believe is with a talented centre (Suzuki) and PP time (no Hoffman creates big hole). Hope he comes out shooting.

Curious to see where CC lines up, hopefully see him with Suzuki, in my opinion.

Haha, yeah I can see that. He made Reaves’ night, Reaves didn’t even let him get off with a turtle, uppercut city.

Had to double check that Habs weren’t killing a penalty there

Terrible Time to fight, and was no real cause. He took a harmless, legal check…. bonehead play from a fourth liner when the whole line has looked bad tonight.

I counted 7 landed punches for Reaves, 0 for Chucklehead

What was Pezetta thinking, Habs just get some momentum and be decides to play punching bag and give the home crowd something to cheat for??? Seems like a dumb time to fight, and lose badly.

Hustle by Gally and nice hands by Dvorak!

yup, hard to blame him for the multiple complete défensive breakdowns. He bailed them out a few times at least.

Positives from first: Primeau looked good overall. Romanov continues to look good, especially his foray into offensive zone and net drive. Dvorak’s line looked decent, Jo was noticeable and looking quick, Anderson is moving well. Negatives: Fourth line was scary all period. Looked like amateurs vs pros. Petry continues to look suspect.

P Indeed, he was slow to react to an attempted wrap around a couple minutes before. Wonder if his legs are burning?

Re. Gally, he fires from anywhere and everywhere. It’s how he gets over 200 shots/season and often leads the team in sog, over half from low chances and rest from crease.

Wow, that was some novice level hockey right there leading to rags first goal. This is gonna be a tough one.

Indeed, probably a correlation between the lack of guys running around these days chasing hits/fights (like Pezetta most times) and the overall higher level of play/better coverages across the league. Guys like Czikias, Clutterbuck, B Tanev who’ve made a career in the bottom 6 did so by NOT being a liability, occasionally contributing but always bringing energy. Some vets have adapted to this role and prolonged their careers as well like Simmonds, Lucic, Maroon… Pezetta (like his haircut, although I love it) is a bit of a caveman in a modern NHL. The Habs have placed an impetus on four lines for years now and makes it that much harder to do that when injuries hit / fw depth get tested, so we are paying a lot of attention to minor league call ups, b/c we are used to seeing four decent lines (Habs were a deep team at start of season, how quickly that changes). Given the results are not supporting Habs strategy, at some point gotta try another tactic. Seems to support the idea of stacking your top 9 and barely playing a fourth line (top nine all get 18-20 min/game)….

Noticed Anderson/Gallagher both out with Poehling for a couple brief shifts, seems a good sign for Poehling. But I do believe it is not good for Anderson and Gallagher to be playing with AHL’ers. They’re being paid a premium to score, not help minor leaguers adjust. Scary state of affairs for centre depth since there aren’t many better choices, Dvorak has been so underwhelming lately after a strong start to preseason/season. Basically if you are an offensive winger on the Habs and not playing with Suzuki you are ####ed and going to look like a bad contract.

Yeah, he stepped it up in third period and was more visible, assertive. and as per stats he did great in draws so kudos to him for a decent showing.

Any news on Caufield’s play as of late? Has he scored a goal yet in Laval? saw some stats but they were a couple games old, even if not scoring anyone know how he’s playing?

Not worth mentioning much about former hab Mike McCarron , but the wicked upper cut he feeds this guy. worth the watch if you like scraps. https://www.hockeyfights.com/fights/n263055