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Une bonne volée hier soir, pas grand chose à dire sur ce match. Primeau l’a échappé, ça arrive. Montambeau signe pour 3 ans aujourd’hui, y a-t-il un lien entre les deux évènements? Montréal vont-ils soumettre Primeau au ballottage? Ou bien l’échanger, lui ou Allen, aux Oilers? J’ai la nette impression que ça va bientôt bouger de ce côté là. Le ménage à 3 a fait son temps.
Oui une bonne nouvelle pour SAM qui signe 3 ans/9,45M au total ......il obtient moins ce qu'espéré...preuve qu"il veut jouer ici.....BRAVO SAM...dossier réglé alors oui temps de mettre fin au ménage à trois....j'ai le feeling que ça ne va pas traîner....j'ai cru percevoir une certaine impatience du coach à ce sujer.....ça s,en vient...lol.
My guess is that they’ll try to trade Primeau this week & if they’re not satisfied with the return they’ll bite the bullet & put him on waivers to send him down to Laval. Look, he’s simply not an NHL-calibre goalie right now & who knows if he’ll ever be. He couldn’t stop a beach ball with that glove hand of his! Why would the Oilers or any other team want him?
It’s no coincidence that they finally re-signed Monty after seeing for themselves what they had in Primeau & for Primeau it ain’t pretty! No other NHL team would want him on their roster & he’d end up in the minors no matter which organization he’d play for. If i’m a rival GM the only goalie i’d want is Monty but now that he re-signed for three years the Habs have no intention of trading him away. This leaves Jake Allen but with another year left on his contract after this season plus the fact he hasn’t had a very good season so far i doubt any GM would want him. He’d be too much of a risk for any team looking for a veteran back-up goaltender in the cap world that we live in.
I expect that the three-goalie circus going on since the start of the season will soon be resolved. Not only are the goalies fed up with this merry-go-round but the coach is also!
Belle remontée mais ça aurait été beaucoup plus simple de se présenter dès le début. Encore des revirements à la pelle, et la plupart des joueurs se laissait glisser pendant les premières 30-40 minutes. Ils ont été très chanceux que Détroit se soit mis à cafouiller eux aussi, sinon c’était une autre bonne volé.
Ce qu’on voit sur la glace c’est zéro progression depuis le début de saison, les blessures n’expliquent pas tout, MSL semble de plus en plus à court de solutions. Peut être que l’effet Saint-Louis s’est évaporé et qu’il serait temps de lui donner un adjoint avec beaucoup d’expérience. Du côté des unitées spéciales tout à été dit, ça stagne depuis des années. Un grand coup de balai est plus que nécessaire.
Ce qu’on voit sur la glace c’est zéro progression depuis le début de saison, les blessures n’expliquent pas tout, MSL semble de plus en plus à court de solutions. Peut être que l’effet Saint-Louis s’est évaporé et qu’il serait temps de lui donner un adjoint avec beaucoup d’expérience. Du côté des unitées spéciales tout à été dit, ça stagne depuis des années. Un grand coup de balai est plus que nécessaire.
Tha highest paid players don't perform for what they are paid.
Suzuki, Caufield, Gallhager and Armia cost way too much.
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
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