GDT Round #1: Stanley Cup Playoffs - Game #5 - Montreal Canadiens @ Washington Capitals - Wednesday, April 30th @ 7:00PM EST

[DON]

32 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Can’t wait for the draft and to see what kind of second line centre Hughes gets us this summer 

What draft spot are they sitting, 17th?

What is the Flame pick?

[Commandant]

5 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

Absolutely! I didn’t mean to imply otherwise

 

I wasnt responding, just posting in general. 

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

5 minutes ago, DON said:

What draft spot are they sitting, 17th?

What is the Flame pick?

 

The Habs pick is 17, Flames pick will be 16 unless they win the lottery then we get Florida's pick. 

[Prime Minister Koivu]

6 hours ago, DON said:

What draft spot are they sitting, 17th?

What is the Flame pick?

 

5 hours ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

 

The Habs pick is 17, Flames pick will be 16 unless they win the lottery then we get Florida's pick. 

Picking 16 and 17 back to back is kind of exciting but I wonder if we traded both of those picks for a centre

[bar]

The season as a whole was great. Playoff experience great.

 

It sucks so much to know the team was ain all games except this one. That third goal meant the game was over. Too many players in roles they arent designed for, no real second line became evident.

[brobin]

Unreal.. Wilson claimed the Habs were cheap shot artists.. holy bullshit..

[huzer]

28 minutes ago, brobin said:

Unreal.. Wilson claimed the Habs were cheap shot artists.. holy bullshit..

 

I mean, from this spot in the interview, he was pretty positive about the Habs. He had one sentence earlier where he said "they're going to play kind of cheap" and I think any player on any team could easily say the same about their opponent. Nowhere does he refer to the Habs as cheap shot artists.

 

 

[bar]

Wilson is a piece of shit, turtled whenever called to the fight by Anderson. I'm disappointed MSL didnt release Xherkaj on him, take the instigator penalty, I dont care. 

 

I hated the reffing in this series, it was carte blanche, release the tigers in games 1-3, then call everything in 4 and 5. That's on the league and they should be ashamed. You can't just let a team be dirty, and then reel both teams back in. The cross checks to the face, going unpunished in and out of game. The biggest offender was Ovie, how he never got a major penalty for a hit similar to what Scott Steves would do is beyond me. The commentators love spouting the NHL refs are best in the business, thats laughable,

[Commandant]

Remember when we unleashed Georges Laraque to stop Lucic.

 

Lucic just skated away from him and scored a goal.

 

Thats why Anderson is better to go after Wilson than Xhekaj.  Wilson is a 30 goal scorer on one of the Caps top lines.  Xhekaj is a liability matching that line.

 

So its easy to say just take the instigator but weve all see the goals when Xhekaj gets out of position chasing hits 

[Prime Minister Koivu]

The refs also screwed the Capitals and every other team in the playoffs. Brutally inconsistent calls across all games. 

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

21 minutes ago, huzer said:

 

I mean, from this spot in the interview, he was pretty positive about the Habs. He had one sentence earlier where he said "they're going to play kind of cheap" and I think any player on any team could easily say the same about their opponent. Nowhere does he refer to the Habs as cheap shot artists.

 

 

 

He handled the question with some class, I would take Tom Wilson on my team any day of the week. 

[DON]

1 minute ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

The refs also screwed the Capitals and every other team in the playoffs. Brutally inconsistent calls across all games. 

This is not news and i bet will be exact same in the 26, 27, 28... playoffs.

Had to be 15 or 20 non-calls in the 5 games that seemed so obvious 'infractions', going both ways. 

Have to assume the owners tell them to "Let them play."

But more PPs adds to scoring, so wouldnt that be worth it?

 

But Habs lost mostly due to inexperience and a weaker lineup overall, not reffing.

 

Go Laval!

 

 

[The Chicoutimi Cucumber]

7 minutes ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

 

He handled the question with some class, I would take Tom Wilson on my team any day of the week. 

 

Yes. This is a lot better than Kucherov insulting the team after beating it in the Cup Finals. Gracious, old-school comments by Wilson.

 

Anderson matched Wilson stride for stride for most of this series and I suspect Caps fans hate him almost as much as Habs fans hate Wilson. At the end of the day, though, a 30-goal battering ram is a unicorn for which the Habs had no real answer. The hit on Carrier and the third goal were big statements from him, just what the Caps needed to seal the series. 

 

Not fighting was smart hockey by him too. He delivered (mostly) clean, crushing physicality and significant skill. 

 

I would take him on my team in one second flat.

 

 

 

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

3 hours ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

Yes. This is a lot better than Kucherov insulting the team after beating it in the Cup Finals. Gracious, old-school comments by Wilson.

 

 

 

Absolutely, or Lucic acting like a crybaby when shaking hands.  It should be easy to have some class when you win but Kucherov took the low road, he can play golf now. 

 

I loved the interaction between Wilson and Anderson when shaking hands. Two warriors with great respect for each other. 

[Habs Fan in Edmonton]

4 hours ago, DON said:

But Habs lost mostly due to inexperience and a weaker lineup overall, not reffing.

 

 

 

 

 

Agree 100%

[tomh009]

A few random thoughts, 24 hours after the Habs closed the season.

 

Hutson was arguably the best player in a Habs uniform last night. His 87th game of the season, 47 more than he has ever played in his career, and, still, in the final game he was still strong enough to play over 27 minutes--and to undress Ovechkin and turn a Washington break into a Montreal counterattack. We clearly have not yet seen everything Hutson can do.

 

At the opposite end of the roster, Armia may have just played his final game wearing the sacred flannel, but his performance was vintage Armia at his best. A perfect lob pass to Heineman for the sole goal of the evening, setting up a short-handed three-on-one with Evans and Guhle, and a sparkling 0.09 xGA at even strength. This is the Armia we will miss if he leaves town as a free agent this summer.

 

Behind the bench, St-Louis is also clearly continuing to learn about coaching, and especially about coaching to win. It surprises me not at all, given his long history of analytical thought and self-development. He's not the best coach in the league--at least not yet. But he has overcome bigger challenges in the past ...

[Dalhabs]

Its scary reading in facebook that habsfans want St.louis fired for not playing Xhekaj more.

[GHT120]

3 minutes ago, Dalhabs said:

Its scary reading in facebook that habsfans want St.louis fired for not playing Xhekaj more.

No ... Xhekaj fans want MSL fired ... if you place a player above the good of the team you are not a true fan of that team.