brobin Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Brobin, This team over the past years have never had leads to sit on. Therefore they vets have never learned the skill. teams like the devils and others are always a veteran club who have the experience to know how to play for 60 minutes. The habs youth are in the process of learning this skill. The few vets who are winners, Hamrlik know how to do it. This is a young team learning there way. Know matter where they finish for the playoff run that experience will help them in the future. Win or lose in the playoffs they will continue to get better, it's a process. Just imagine in a few years when the youth are young veterans how good they'll be. I agree, but this is their Achilles heel for this playoff year, imo. I don't think they have the skill set to be a NJ, so they should be the kind of team where if you open up in the 3rd to get back in it, they destroy you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 They will learnit time, they are still very young. Besides Hamrlik, Kovalev, Begin and sometimes Smoke, the 25 and over crowd is just taking up space until more youth takes there spot ovewr the next 2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneSharpMarble Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Brobin, This team over the past years have never had leads to sit on. Therefore they vets have never learned the skill. teams like the devils and others are always a veteran club who have the experience to know how to play for 60 minutes. The habs youth are in the process of learning this skill. The few vets who are winners, Hamrlik know how to do it. The Habs have been sitting on leads for years. Hence why we almost never won by more then one goal last year. There was usually only two habs teams that would show up... - One team that would show up for the first or second period, get very few shots but score on alot of their shots. They would then proceed to sit right back in the third and let their zone become a shooting gallery relying entirly on their goalie to drag them through the game. - The other team wouldn't show up for around the first 40 minutes then when they realized their paycheques were on the line they would come out strong and try and get back into it. Montreal was notorious for both of these styles of play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trizzak Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Neither happened, so statu quo? Probably kept on a short leash. I wouldn't be surprised to see another benching if he comes out slowly against Toronto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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