dlbalr Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 So why reward him with clicks from here then? We already know Hughes said the options are Montreal and Laval for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Hadnt watched much on him before, but some tantalizing plays for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Slafkovsky gets #20 ... Wideman switches to #6 (which he actually has worn for most of his pro career). Dach is #77 Dadonov #63 Matheson #8 (in Florida he was #19 but obviously not here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXx..CK..xXx Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Looks like I’ll have to replace my Weber name tag with Wideman on my Habs jersey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 12 minutes ago, xXx..CK..xXx said: Looks like I’ll have to replace my Weber name tag with Wideman on my Habs jersey. Or just strip it down to "W" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Weber is a cool forever sweater Price Weber Markov Kovalev Koivu Those are all sweaters I would wear 20 years from now. Besides the obvious hall of farmers from the 70s and roy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Boagalott Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Wow, thats awesome. Yesterday, the Habs tweeted a video from 2014 that this pic is from: Its 10 year old Slaf at a development camp. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, xXx..CK..xXx said: Looks like I’ll have to replace my Weber name tag with Wideman on my Habs jersey. Yeah, don’t do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said: Yeah, don’t do that Agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalhabs Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 5 hours ago, Sir_Boagalott said: Wow, thats awesome. Yesterday, the Habs tweeted a video from 2014 that this pic is from: Its 10 year old Slaf at a development camp. Almost as tall as DD at ton years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXx..CK..xXx Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 It was a joke 🙂 Also, not sure about Juraj’s choice when it comes to the ominous history surrounding the #20 and Habs players. The Habs have now had 16 players wear that number since 2006, and it is 2022. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 hour ago, xXx..CK..xXx said: ... Also, not sure about Juraj’s choice when it comes to the ominous history surrounding the #20 and Habs players. The Habs have now had 16 players wear that number since 2006, and it is 2022. For the curious: Mike Johnson 2007 Bryan Smolinski 2008 Robert Lang 2009 Jay Leach 2010 Ryan O'Byrne 2010-2011 James Wisniewski 2011 Colby Armstrong 2013 Thomas Vanek 2014 Manny Malhotra 2015 Victor Bartley 2016 Christian Thomas 2016 Zach Redmond 2017 Nicolas Deslauriers 2018-2019 Cale Fleury 2020-2021 Chris Wideman 2022 Expect the choice relates to the last player to wear the number before 2007 ... Richard Zednik, who wore it from his acquisition in 2001/01 through 2005/06 ... a fellow Slovakian ... Juraj has a CHANCE to become the best player to ever wear #20 as his regular number (Beliveau wore it for one year, Pete Mahovlich IMO the best "regular"). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chicoutimi Cucumber Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 57 minutes ago, GHT120 said: For the curious: Mike Johnson 2007 Bryan Smolinski 2008 Robert Lang 2009 Jay Leach 2010 Ryan O'Byrne 2010-2011 James Wisniewski 2011 Colby Armstrong 2013 Thomas Vanek 2014 Manny Malhotra 2015 Victor Bartley 2016 Christian Thomas 2016 Zach Redmond 2017 Nicolas Deslauriers 2018-2019 Cale Fleury 2020-2021 Chris Wideman 2022 Expect the choice relates to the last player to wear the number before 2007 ... Richard Zednik, who wore it from his acquisition in 2001/01 through 2005/06 ... a fellow Slovakian ... Juraj has a CHANCE to become the best player to ever wear #20 as his regular number (Beliveau wore it for one year, Pete Mahovlich IMO the best "regular"). Wow - quite a trip down memory lane, thanks! I liked some of those players - Johnson, Smoke, Vanek, Wiz - but especially Lang, whose devastating injury mid-season triggered the disastrous collapse of the 100th anniversary team in 2009 and ultimately led to Gainey blowing up the entire team. Slaf the Giraffe is unlikely to be as good as Pete Mahovlich, but if he is, that will be great for us. It’s hard to pick cool numbers on the Habs. 14 of them have already been taken… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IN THE HEARTS OF MEN Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Read that Jagr compared him to himself and wanted to recruit him for his team until realizing his young age... (that would be an absolute dream as Jagr is easily top5 GOATs for me that I've been able to watch... The more I think about it... barring a multi player trade he might need to start in Laval as habs currently have 5 players to many knocking on the door (providing everyone starts season healthy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 6 minutes ago, IN THE HEARTS OF MEN said: ... The more I think about it... barring a multi player trade he might need to start in Laval as habs currently have 5 players to many knocking on the door (providing everyone starts season healthy) I expect that ***IF*** Slafkovsky merits being the NHL HuGo will move/dump somebody, somehow to make room in the Top 9 ... exactly where will likely be fluid early in the season to find what best suits Juraj's development. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCHabnut Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 6 hours ago, GHT120 said: For the curious: Mike Johnson 2007 Bryan Smolinski 2008 Robert Lang 2009 Jay Leach 2010 Ryan O'Byrne 2010-2011 James Wisniewski 2011 Colby Armstrong 2013 Thomas Vanek 2014 Manny Malhotra 2015 Victor Bartley 2016 Christian Thomas 2016 Zach Redmond 2017 Nicolas Deslauriers 2018-2019 Cale Fleury 2020-2021 Chris Wideman 2022 Expect the choice relates to the last player to wear the number before 2007 ... Richard Zednik, who wore it from his acquisition in 2001/01 through 2005/06 ... a fellow Slovakian ... Juraj has a CHANCE to become the best player to ever wear #20 as his regular number (Beliveau wore it for one year, Pete Mahovlich IMO the best "regular"). Forgot all about obyrne. Drunken purse thief that he is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 99.9% chance he is in opening game lineup...is my guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IN THE HEARTS OF MEN Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 3 hours ago, GHT120 said: I expect that ***IF*** Slafkovsky merits being the NHL HuGo will move/dump somebody, somehow to make room in the Top 9 ... exactly where will likely be fluid early in the season to find what best suits Juraj's Yes we would need to move/ waive multiple players to make room for him in the lineup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 hour ago, IN THE HEARTS OF MEN said: Yes we would need to move/ waive multiple players to make room for him in the lineup Currently, one player needs to be moved/waived to meet the 23 player limit (counting Slafkovsky) ... almost certainly a forward (they have 15 on the current CapFriendly listing) ... another forward is also likely to be moved to make room for a 7th defenceman ... but since they want/need to reduce caphit to give HuGo flexibility (i.e., room to make other deals if they arise) during the season, my perception is that those moves are needed for roster/cap reasons and not so much directly to "make room" for Juraj ... I expect they would want to make them regardless of where Slafkovsky is playing. Based on "talk" that Byron may not be able to play, Paul going on LTIR may end up being the 23-man roster solution ... but that doesn't give HuGo the desired/needed cap flexibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 https://theathletic.com/3437079/2022/07/21/juraj-slafkovsky-canadiens-draft-process/?source=weeklyemail&campaign=602288 “When Rick Nash went first overall as a winger, when the Ovechkin-Malkin debate happened — and it was not a slam dunk for Ovi to go first — but occasionally, you have a winger that outweighs a centre by that much, because that type of winger is virtually impossible to find or buy, impossible to trade for,” Bobrov said. “Obviously, analytics were very kind to other players. Analytics were great to Shane and great to Cooley, and great to a lot of other kids; (Simon) Nemec, (Denton) Mateychuk, Lane (Hutson)… But you don’t just base your decision purely on analytics. It’s helpful to see where apples to apples fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GHT120 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 24 minutes ago, DON said: https://theathletic.com/3437079/2022/07/21/juraj-slafkovsky-canadiens-draft-process/?source=weeklyemail&campaign=602288 “When Rick Nash went first overall as a winger, when the Ovechkin-Malkin debate happened — and it was not a slam dunk for Ovi to go first — but occasionally, you have a winger that outweighs a centre by that much, because that type of winger is virtually impossible to find or buy, impossible to trade for,” Bobrov said. “Obviously, analytics were very kind to other players. Analytics were great to Shane and great to Cooley, and great to a lot of other kids; (Simon) Nemec, (Denton) Mateychuk, Lane (Hutson)… But you don’t just base your decision purely on analytics. It’s helpful to see where apples to apples fit. I thought this was the most interesting bit: “The Liiga is a conservative league,” Bobrov said that night. “It’s a very conservative league, a very defensive league. He learned how to defend in that league. And then he showed on the world stage what he can do when he can show some offence, shall we say. We haven’t talked about it yet, but he may have learned what Liiga had to teach.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DON Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/habsent-minded/2022/7/24/23275554/montreal-canadiens-podcast-habsent-minded-5-02-what-to-expect-from-juraj-slafkovsky-and-filip-mesar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeLassister Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Read something about Slaf this weekend. He'd have worked closely with Glen Tucker, aka Dr. Shot. Tucker is known from working with such names as Pastrnak, Bergeron, Eichel, etc. Article said that Pasta didn' have that good of a shot/release when he started in the NHL. Just like Slaf it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Minister Koivu Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 JFresh posted these stat cards today for Kotkaniemi and Slafkovsky Go Slafkovsky Go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Habs Fan in Edmonton Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 Interesting to read the posts after they drafted Juraj. It's obviously not an exact science when you are drafting 17/18 year olds. I think they got it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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