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Nov. 16, Devils vs Habs, 7 PM


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17 hours ago, Commandant said:

I dont like domi on the wing.  Less creative.

I know, but it has to be tried at some point. I am glad it happened this early in the season

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14 hours ago, tomh009 said:

% of scoring chances vs opposition for the Habs:

1st period: 47%
2nd period: 50%
3rd period: 56%

 

% of even-strength scoring chances vs opposition for the Habs' forward lines:

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher: 71%

Domi-Suzuki-Armia: 14%

Weal-Kotkaniemi-Lehkonen: 29%
Hudon-Thompson-Cousins: 71%

 

 

Honest question: how come the top to bottom totals do not ad up to 100% ?

 

first group is 153% and second is 185% ...?! *confused* 

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13 hours ago, Trizzak said:

Suzuki is better at centre than he is on the wing.

Domi is better at centre than he is on the wing.

 

Suzuki is better at wing than Domi is on the wing.

 

I hope Claude makes the adjustment for next game. 

I am probably in the minority here, but I would like to see this line for a few games; to see if they adjust and find chemistry 

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2 hours ago, tomh009 said:

So not a great game by any stretch of the imagination, but hopefully a learning experience. It seems that everyone in the room recognized that they could and should have won the game.

 

Still, we're at 26 points from 20 games, second in the division (thanks Leafs!) and fourth in the east. A very reasonable start for a fight for the playoffs. So I went to look at where we were last year this time, and I stumbled onto Don's very handy post:

 

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More or less we are matching last year so far. That's in spite of having Weber from day 1, although arguably he was only "half a Weber" until maybe a few weeks ago.

 

We lost Juulsen (effectively for the season) just a few days later. Hopefully Drouin's injury is minor and he'll be back soon.

 

But as last year's experience shows, being in second place (in division) a quarter of the way in is no guarantee of a playoff spot. We're still very much a bubble team, and there is little margin for error (or lack of discipline).

great posting and good find of Don's comment! 🌡️ good measurement of team reaching a plateau = expecting close to 100 points

 

I hope that Juulsen finds his game in Laval

 

We do not seem to be missing Shaw with the emergence of Suzuki and the improvement of Droun. Armia is cold again, and Byron is concerning.

 

But at least the defensive seem to be less of a concern than last year at this point. 

 

 

 

 

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26 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

Honest question: how come the top to bottom totals do not ad up to 100% ?

 

first group is 153% and second is 185% ...?! *confused* 

 

It's vs opposition ... for example, 60% means that while this line was on the ice, the Habs had 60% of the scoring chances while the Devils had 40%. So higher is is better. (Of course the top lines tend to play against the opposing team's top lines, so the numbers are not totally comparable between the lines.)

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15 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

We do not seem to be missing Shaw with the emergence of Suzuki and the improvement of Droun. Armia is cold again, and Byron is concerning

 

Armia and Drouin were playing really well together but they have been broken up recently -- and Domi didn't really seem to fit with them. Drouin-Suzuki-Armia could be interesting.

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2 minutes ago, tomh009 said:

 

Armia and Drouin were playing really well together but they have been broken up recently -- and Domi didn't really seem to fit with them. Drouin-Suzuki-Armia could be interesting.

That would mean:
Domi-Danault-Gallagher

Drouin-Suzuki-Armia

Tatar-Kotkaniemi-Lehkonen

 

I know Commandant likes Domi better at centre. I would prefer:

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher

Drouin-Suzuki-Domi

Lehkonen-Kotkaniemi-Armia

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Ah ... a different rule from the kicking motion rule (49.2 of the rule book). The rule book really is overdue for a rationalization and clean-up.

 

But there is no arguing that this particular rule invalidates the Danault goal.

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16 minutes ago, Trizzak said:

Just to clear up the non-goal ruling.

 

Very helpful. Thanks. Sounds as though we should all stop talking about "kicking" and just focus on intentional deflections by anything other than a player's stick.

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7 hours ago, IN THE HEARTS OF MEN said:

Man I miss that song... we use to sing that song always in the forum... even in the first period before we had even scored. How intimidating it must of been to be serinated like that so early. Somehow though it got replaced by soccers Ole chant and is now only sung at the end of playoff series.

Again, I miss that sheer cockiness in our home

Agree.  I hate the Ole ole song and loved the Na Na Na song. Was watching the bloodbath game against the Nords from the 80’s that was included in the 10 greatest games box set a few months back and was thinking the same thing. Don’t know why we had to go with the stupid ole ole song.

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17 hours ago, Trizzak said:

Hudon was sent back to Laval after the game, so presumably Byron will be good to go for Tuesday's game.

 

No word on if Julien personally drove Hudon back to Laval or just loudly sang "NA NA NA NA HEY HEY-EH GOODBYE" as Charles walked out the door. 

Hudon recalled. 


Apparently Julien got word that sitting Hudon for the entire 3rd period didn't completely break his spirit, and wants another shot at leaving a husk of a hockey player after Tuesday's game.

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7 hours ago, hab29RETIRED said:

Agree.  I hate the Ole ole song and loved the Na Na Na song. Was watching the bloodbath game against the Nords from the 80’s that was included in the 10 greatest games box set a few months back and was thinking the same thing. Don’t know why we had to go with the stupid ole ole song.

I also hate Ole. The Habs are not a soccer team 🤢 

 

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Middle of the night thought: Domi's first 3 penalties of the season (2 of them selfish) all happen in the first game he's told to move to the wing so a rookie can play centre. 

 

Possible he took the assignment with a bit of spite?

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37 minutes ago, Trizzak said:

Middle of the night thought: Domi's first 3 penalties of the season (2 of them selfish) all happen in the first game he's told to move to the wing so a rookie can play centre. 

 

Possible he took the assignment with a bit of spite?


Quite possibly. 
 

Might just be what he needed to snap out of his funk. 
 

 

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