GDT Game #40 - Vancouver @ Montreal - 7:30pm EST - Monday, January 6th, 2025

[Commandant]

Hutson

 

This team man.

 

[Butterface]

Dumb penalty. 

[Butterface]

Paid for it

[BCHabnut]

Selfish Caufield. 

[Butterface]

Another lost assist by Hutson. He sets them up, we can’t convert.

[Butterface]

Somebody needs to do a video tribute to the assists Hutson has lost this year because his team mates are spastic around the net.

[Commandant]

Hutson draws a penalty with a great shift.  He's so good.

 

[Butterface]

3 point night for Hutson.

 

Is he on top of rookie points ? 

[BCHabnut]

10 minutes ago, Commandant said:

Hutson draws a penalty with a great shift.  He's so good.

 

So good.

[Commandant]

Hutson leads all rookies in points.

 

Habs are in a playoff spot.

[IN THE HEARTS OF MEN]

26 minutes ago, Butterface said:

Somebody needs to do a video tribute to the assists Hutson has lost this year because his team mates are spastic around the net.

It's would be a long tribute 

[BCHabnut]

Smart challenge by Tocchet. No risk. You win, you play on. You lose it's game over either way.

[tomh009]

16 minutes ago, Commandant said:

Hutson leads all rookies in points.

 

Habs are in a playoff spot.

And still drafting 14th. 😊

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

The 2nd half of the game was so much fun to watch. Hutson is pure magic. 

[sbhatt]

That was a very entertaining game to watch.  Hutson is going to have the Calder locked down well before season's end if he keeps playing like this.

[alfredoh2009]

45 minutes ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

The 2nd half of the game was so much fun to watch. Hutson is pure magic. 

He was on fire, whatever reservations I had on Hutson are gone now; what a knuckle head I’ve been to not recognize how much star potential Hutson has

 

27 minutes ago, sbhatt said:

That was a very entertaining game to watch.  Hutson is going to have the Calder locked down well before season's end if he keeps playing like this.

Absolutely agree. He took the game by the horns and made things happen. Guhle set the tone, many others played great, but Hutson was at a higher level: what a treat to watch him play tonight 

[xXx..CK..xXx]

Tonight I attended my first game in Montreal since Michael Ryder scored against us in April of the 2011 playoffs, winning the game for Boston (coincidentally) 5-4 in overtime, and tying the series 2-2 after they hadn’t led all game. We lost the series and Boston won the cup. After suffering through losses every game I attended for years in Los Angeles and Anaheim in the 2010s, it was nice to finally be there for a win.

 

The Habs came out strong and then were a little quiet for a long stretch. With that being said, they didn’t play extremely poorly outside of a 1-2 minute stretch where Vancouver potted 2 quickly. There weren’t any passengers out there. Everyone has bought in. There is something that feels different and while nothing is written in stone, we can only hope the Habs can keep it up.
 

Guhle was physical out there, and Hutson and Matheson are an extremely mobile pair. Struble laid the body as well. Caufield was good, Anderson used his speed and our fourth line was solid. Dach is indeed getting there. Gally has no speed but still has heart and can find success around the net. Suzuki with the snipe in overtime 🚨.

 

[BCHabnut]

3 hours ago, alfredoh2009 said:

He was on fire, whatever reservations I had on Hutson are gone now; what a knuckle head I’ve been to not recognize how much star potential Hutson has

 

Absolutely agree. He took the game by the horns and made things happen. Guhle set the tone, many others played great, but Hutson was at a higher level: what a treat to watch him play tonight 

Ghule was strong all night. 

 

Suzuki is getting grumpy in his old age. He seems to be laying the body more lately.

[Prime Minister Koivu]

PLAYOFFS BABY

[Prime Minister Koivu]

Guhle and Carrier played a bunch of hard minutes and don’t deserve this stat card

 

 

[alfredoh2009]

4 hours ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Guhle and Carrier played a bunch of hard minutes and don’t deserve this stat card

 

 

One reason why stats don’t tell the whole story.

IMHO Newhook is playing well but (I have not checked) probably his stats are not very good 

[DON]

Game started boring; but was a fun game.

2/4 on the PP

Pezzetta 4 hits in 3:58

Armia 4 shots

Newhook 3 shots 3 hits at least.

Nice work by Slafkovski on Caufield's goal.

Will Caufield learn from the selfish penalty, we all guessed Canucks would score on that one.

 

10 Thoughts: Relentless Habs Keep Winning – HabsWorld.net

"...Another strong Suzuki performance pushes his totals to 41 points in 40 games this season. Did I mention this team is getting exciting again? 

Stats: 1 goal, 2 assists, -1, 4 shots, 23:03 T.O.I." 

 

Bottom Six Minutes: Lane Hutson is on the hunt for the Calder

 

[tomh009]

47 minutes ago, alfredoh2009 said:

One reason why stats don’t tell the whole story.

IMHO Newhook is playing well but (I have not checked) probably his stats are not very good 

Newhook and Dach were both solid last night; only one shot against while they were on the ice.

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

I loved the fact that the “Hughes vs Hutson” show was won so decisively by Hutson 😃 I mean, sure Hughes was playing hurt, but this was an attention-getting game by our fabulous rookie. We have the #1 D-man for our rebuild. 

[Dalhabs]

Happy that we got the best player in the 2022 draft considering we drafted 1st overall. Didnt expect him to be picked in the 2nd round though.