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Round 1 - Game 1 - Canadiens @ Lightning - April 19 - 5:30 p.m. (5:45 Puck Drop)


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4 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

 

YUP ... 😄 ... first playoff hat trick for Habs since Rene Bourque in 2013

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Slafzilla was the man!

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3 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Get Josh Anderson more ice in game 2.
 

The guy is a menace and very dangerous when he plays like this

 

I guarantee you his opponents hate him.

 

Great win by les boys. The commentariat has been kind of sleeping on Slaf this season, with all the (rightful) hooplah around CC, Suzuki, and Hutson, but this playoff could be his coming out party as a bona fide elite NHLer.

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TVA 3 Stars

 

1. Slaf

2. Hagel

3. Carrier

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Watching live, I was pretty sure the zone entry was offside so I wasn't too excited when Slafkovsky scored thinking it was going to be called back.  Glad to be wrong on that one.  Big win when it wasn't their best effort.

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A reminder of the worst NHL Draft take of all time.

 

Slaf is not bad for the 42nd best player of the 2022 Draft 

 

This is what happens when your model ignores about 20 games of hockey when Slaf was 17, playing against European pros at the Olympics amd Europeans and NHLers at the Worlds.

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Prime Minister Koivu said:

Stat cards show a good game by Montreal and and excellent job of Suzuki line shutting down Kucherov - Matheson Carrier too

 

 

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Glad to see this - it aligns with my general impression that we mostly played a strong game, despite all the gloom in this thread

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Slafzilla is THE MAN. Outside of him though 5v5 the first line looked kind of stale, they were catering to tb’s game too much. Hopefully that doesnt pose an issue later. I agree that the second line looked a little off, a stickhandle or two away from a couple goals. Texier I thought especially looked a little rattled, he was handling the puck when he should have shot, and vise versa. Although the rest of the lines looked decent, liked what I saw from the Bolduc, Kappy, Dach trio tonight, very strong forecheck, just what we need against Tampa. Therefore if I was MSL I would roll these lines again game two (at the very least) and hope the second line clicks. Though in the playoffs you dont often have a game or two to adjust your lines to playoff hockey.

Posted
21 minutes ago, GHT120 said:

TVA 3 Stars

 

1. Slaf

2. Hagel

3. Carrier

Carrière???

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16 minutes ago, Commandant said:

A reminder of the worst NHL Draft take of all time.

 

Slaf is not bad for the 42nd best player of the 2022 Draft 

 

This is what happens when your model ignores about 20 games of hockey when Slaf was 17, playing against European pros at the Olympics amd Europeans and NHLers at the Worlds.

 

 

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It was a ballsy pick by HuGo, and they are now being rewarded in spades. 

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8 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

It was a ballsy pick by HuGo, and they are now being rewarded in spades. 

 

I don't think it was that ballsy a pick.  A lot of scouts had him rated #1   They did their homework. 

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Slafkovsky said last year that he wants be a Brady Tkachuk (or something to that effect).

 

He's two years younger, but I think he's already surpassing Tkachuk. He will need some loftier targets.

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38 minutes ago, brobin said:

Not sure I can handle Kevin bieksa for the rest of the games… 

 

I may be alone in this, but I like Jennifer Botterill, who is enthusiastic about these Habs and put Bieksa in his place nicely when he was chriping her tonight.

 

I don't really mind Bieksa, but, like Ron MacLean in a different way, he can be much too 'clubby' for my liking (inside jokes, calling players by their first name, all that old boy shit I can't stand).

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39 minutes ago, Habs Fan in Edmonton said:

 

I think Commandant is OK with the pick now. Slaf has turned into an absolute beast. 

 

I can say i was wrong.  I had Slaf at 4th 

 

But that guy who had him 42nd was INSANE.

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31 minutes ago, The Chicoutimi Cucumber said:

 

It was a ballsy pick by HuGo, and they are now being rewarded in spades. 

 

It was ballsy in that he was clearly in the top 4 that should have been considered but not a clear #1.

 

Just that Bacon guy having him 42nd is the worst draft list ever.

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