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I blame the organization more than i blame the players. Anderson okay. He’s regressed but it’s the previous regime that gave him that obscene contract. However supposedly they had teams willing to take him off their hands during the offseason & Hughes opted to keep him. So that’s on him. Gallagher‘s contract is even worse. No other team would dare touch that contract even if the habs add a first round pick unless they also agree to keep half the money owed him. That could work. Dvorak is Dvorak. Matheson is Matheson. You can’t fault them for being the player they’ve always been. That’s on the organization for mis evaluating them. If they were better than they are Arizona & Pittsburgh would have held on to them instead of trading them to the habs. But the habs figured they had nothing to lose since they didn’t want to match Kotkaniemi’s hostile offer by the Canes & were just happy to find a team willing to trade for Petry. Armia also. He is what he is & it’s not his fault Bergevin gave him, Gallagher & Anderson those big contracts.
Suzuki will bounce back & earn his contract. Caulfield will always have the big shot but teams have learned to defend against him plus he’s a very small, one-dimensional player. He got his big extension when he hadn’t even played 80 games in the league. So what do you expect? Life can be risky when you throw out big contracts at inexperienced, unproven players. Caulfield got paid for his potential. Anything can happen including injuries, slumps, life problems, etc.
As for Monahan who knows. I don’t remember the last time he’s played 70% of a season. Maybe he’s tired. Or maybe he’s playing with the wrong wingers. When you play with pluggers all the time it‘s hard to rack up points. Same with Suzuk. When Caulfield doesn’t score it also hurts Suzuki’s production. Now Newhook is out for three months! But Buffalo is also suffering from the same injury bug & there’s nothing they can do about it. Meanwhile they’re still stuck with three goaltenders & St-Louis‘ about to lose patience with Kent Hughes for not resolving the issue! Go Habs Go.
Suzuki will bounce back & earn his contract. Caulfield will always have the big shot but teams have learned to defend against him plus he’s a very small, one-dimensional player. He got his big extension when he hadn’t even played 80 games in the league. So what do you expect? Life can be risky when you throw out big contracts at inexperienced, unproven players. Caulfield got paid for his potential. Anything can happen including injuries, slumps, life problems, etc.
As for Monahan who knows. I don’t remember the last time he’s played 70% of a season. Maybe he’s tired. Or maybe he’s playing with the wrong wingers. When you play with pluggers all the time it‘s hard to rack up points. Same with Suzuk. When Caulfield doesn’t score it also hurts Suzuki’s production. Now Newhook is out for three months! But Buffalo is also suffering from the same injury bug & there’s nothing they can do about it. Meanwhile they’re still stuck with three goaltenders & St-Louis‘ about to lose patience with Kent Hughes for not resolving the issue! Go Habs Go.
@Doc Holliday
Sure, your observations are spot on but, the Habs were way better and structured in the first 10-12 games. Of course their opponents have since, adjusted and perfected their games, which is what professional teams do. But I don’t see such progress with Montreal, and that’s exactly where I am pointing at: management and coaching.
Watching the last 8-10 games revealed a lot of weaknesses in major aspects of their game: no more grit in the battles along the boards so the dump and chase became useless, even worse is the fact that they are always late for loose pucks which leads to taking a lot of penalties. No forechecking, no hits also makes it easier for the opponent to defend and transition to attacking. While pressured in their zone the amount of turnovers is ridiculous, you can see 4-5 of them happening in a single sequence, I really feel for their goalies, they never get any breaks.
And as I said, injuries don’t explain everything, we can still see some good flashes, even against top teams but too often, the momentum is killed by a bad play that end up getting scored and then they start taking more risks and everything spirals down.
Sure, your observations are spot on but, the Habs were way better and structured in the first 10-12 games. Of course their opponents have since, adjusted and perfected their games, which is what professional teams do. But I don’t see such progress with Montreal, and that’s exactly where I am pointing at: management and coaching.
Watching the last 8-10 games revealed a lot of weaknesses in major aspects of their game: no more grit in the battles along the boards so the dump and chase became useless, even worse is the fact that they are always late for loose pucks which leads to taking a lot of penalties. No forechecking, no hits also makes it easier for the opponent to defend and transition to attacking. While pressured in their zone the amount of turnovers is ridiculous, you can see 4-5 of them happening in a single sequence, I really feel for their goalies, they never get any breaks.
And as I said, injuries don’t explain everything, we can still see some good flashes, even against top teams but too often, the momentum is killed by a bad play that end up getting scored and then they start taking more risks and everything spirals down.
You’re spot on, Cappy.
Do you know what i think the big problem is? A tremendous lack of coaching experience at the professional level. This is the NHL and i can probably name you 90% of teams throughout the minors & even throughout the juniors that have more coaching experience than these guys. I love Martin St-Louis as a person & educator but come on! He had next to zero professional coaching experience when he was hired! And the bigger problem is that they didn’t surround him with an experienced professional coaching staff. Alex Burrows? Trevor Letowski? Steph Robidas? ITS A JOKE! At the very least when they hired a head with no NHL coaching experience they should have at the very least made his job easier by getting him some experienced coaching help like many other teams do with even experienced coaches! Want to know one reason why it didn’t happen? Because the GM is in the same boat! Hughes had never worked in professional hockey management prior to getting the job & within a couple of months or so he hired a buddy of his who had never coached in professional hockey! Any experienced GM in my opinion would have seen this & would have hired at least a former head coach as one of the assistants or any former assistant coach with years of experience at the NHL level! And we all know that the reasons for this omission were not financial!
Do you know what i think the big problem is? A tremendous lack of coaching experience at the professional level. This is the NHL and i can probably name you 90% of teams throughout the minors & even throughout the juniors that have more coaching experience than these guys. I love Martin St-Louis as a person & educator but come on! He had next to zero professional coaching experience when he was hired! And the bigger problem is that they didn’t surround him with an experienced professional coaching staff. Alex Burrows? Trevor Letowski? Steph Robidas? ITS A JOKE! At the very least when they hired a head with no NHL coaching experience they should have at the very least made his job easier by getting him some experienced coaching help like many other teams do with even experienced coaches! Want to know one reason why it didn’t happen? Because the GM is in the same boat! Hughes had never worked in professional hockey management prior to getting the job & within a couple of months or so he hired a buddy of his who had never coached in professional hockey! Any experienced GM in my opinion would have seen this & would have hired at least a former head coach as one of the assistants or any former assistant coach with years of experience at the NHL level! And we all know that the reasons for this omission were not financial!
I think we resumed the situation pretty well, I expect some changes happening after the holidays. Obviously Molson won’t fire Hughes and Gorton but he has to pressure them to get better results. So down the line it’s the coaching staff that will have to answer, and logically some changes are going to be made.
I went to the game last night. My first NHL game in 4 years. Paid $122 for my ticket. The view was not too bad!
Selon le DAILY FACEOFF et une analyse de statistiques avancées les chances des HABS de faire les séries sont déjà presque nulles. On parle d'une possibilité de 6,7% de chances. Et toujours selon les mêmes paramètres terminer la saison avec 80 pts-28ème
position.....soit exactement au même endroit que l'année dernière.
Aucune surprise là....on voit ça venir depuis un boutte.....loll.....alors on leur demande seulement de nous offrir un spectacle de qualité/compétitif.
position.....soit exactement au même endroit que l'année dernière.
Aucune surprise là....on voit ça venir depuis un boutte.....loll.....alors on leur demande seulement de nous offrir un spectacle de qualité/compétitif.
Ticketmaster, believe it or not.
They were offering "unique single seat offer" tickets
Après Dr.Shoot aura-t-on un Dr. Msog?
c’est la première fois que j’entends parler de ce type, et aussi la première fois que j’ai connaissance d’un tel exercice en pleine saison!
c’est la première fois que j’entends parler de ce type, et aussi la première fois que j’ai connaissance d’un tel exercice en pleine saison!
Tickets are cheaper for games involving teams no one is interested in. I was in Toronto a couple of weeks ago & someone offered me a good deal on a ticket but i had zero interest in the visiting team so i declined the offer. I don’t go much to the games now since i got tired of paying extreme prices to watch NHL games in Canada. I prefer attending games when they involve quality opponents or especially good teams i’ve never seen before. But the negative side is that these are considered prime games & thus overpriced. Therefore i’ve decided that the next NHL game i’ll attend will likely be somewhere in the US where ticket prices are reasonable. The last NHL game i attended was last March when the Oilers were in Toronto to face the Leafs. My ticket cost me around $680 (via Ticketmaster) but it was a fantastic game & i finally got to see McDavid & Draisatl play live. The previous games i had attended were first Pittsburgh & two nights later i decided to attend the Carolina game at the last minute since it wasn’t a team i had on my NHL games bucket list. But it turned out to be one of the most memorable games in NHL history: the infamous David Ayres game! So i first got to see the Leafs beat Crosby & Malkin & two nights later see them lose against the zamboni driver! Lol
$680!!! No way I’m paying these prices!
I attended a lot of games in the 80s 90s, always here in Montreal, sharing season tickets. The only time outside MTL was in 2002 in Raleigh, season opener, Habs vs Hurricane. Canes had eliminated Montreal in the former playoffs. Tickets were crazy cheap, I showed up at the tailgate with a Habs jersey, the fans were great I had a blast. By the time I reached my seat I was already drunk! Lol
2007-2008 I attended 3 games at Bell Center, I was lucky enough to get access to Bombardier’s corporate box, I admit I didn’t care much about the game, the food(amazing),the wine and the hostess had all my attention! Pierre Beaudoin definitely has great taste. Of course these were freebies.
I attended a lot of games in the 80s 90s, always here in Montreal, sharing season tickets. The only time outside MTL was in 2002 in Raleigh, season opener, Habs vs Hurricane. Canes had eliminated Montreal in the former playoffs. Tickets were crazy cheap, I showed up at the tailgate with a Habs jersey, the fans were great I had a blast. By the time I reached my seat I was already drunk! Lol
2007-2008 I attended 3 games at Bell Center, I was lucky enough to get access to Bombardier’s corporate box, I admit I didn’t care much about the game, the food(amazing),the wine and the hostess had all my attention! Pierre Beaudoin definitely has great taste. Of course these were freebies.
For nearly twenty years i rarely missed a game between the Leafs & Habs whether they played in Mtl or in Toronto. Often it was for the season opener or a regular season game. The last time i attended one of these was over a year ago in Mtl. The only time i ever sat in a private box was in 2013 or 2014 for a game between these same two teams. It was the Casino de Montreal’s corporate box & the beer was flowing & the food was great! But i felt it was harder to follow the game with everything going on in the box plus we were located high in a corner which wasn’t an ideal location to follow a game. Usually i prefer sitting somewhere between the blue lines & about ten rows or so above the ice level in the reds. I rarely sit in the ends or in the corners because i’ve never been able to get used to the protective nets at both ends of the rink. I find they interfere too much with the field of vision, especially the darker colored ones in Mtl. And although I’ve often sat in the double reds i now hate them because i find it’s harder to follow the game since you can’t see what going on at the farther end of the ice & in the corners on your side. I noticed that i’d spend half the game watching the game from the scoreboard!
Hum....on s'en doutait....lol.....comme aller chez le dentiste....lol.....
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