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He can't keep that pace, only a few demi-gods can. But he's on for one hell of a season, for sure.
He’ll likely end up scoring between 30-40 goals as the season goes along. Anyways what good is he when he causes as many goals as he scores? He’s one of the league’s smallest players, he’s an average skater, he doesn’t backckeck, he doesn’t hit, he doesn’t block shots, makes bad decisions, he’s not a playmaker…but does have a wicked shot.
You didn't mention that he is a pure goal scorer who needs to be fed, meaning he needs Suzuki to stay healthy and keep feeding him.
Small players like him usually run out of gas halfway into a season & often end up getting injured. They are boys playing among big men. Considering all he pretty much does is stand on the left side of the net waiting to be fed of course Suzuki needs to stay healthy & keep feeding him. But i believe his biggest ‘feeder’ will end up Lane Hutson, who may actually be the most skilled player on that team. Anyways this team is still a disaster & not progressing as it should. There is no depth on that team & that’s on the GM. But coaching is a major problem. The only reason Sr-Louis may end up keeping his job until the end of the season is because he’s a french-speaking Quebecer. That’s why most of the fans & the french media still support him. If he’d be an anglophone things would likely be different. Even if he’d be a french-speaking francophone from outside Quebec things would likely be different. People say calm down, they’re still rebuilding. But losing every night & getting scored on by 5 or 6 goals every game isn’t good! If 10 years from now the team still sucks & misses the playoffs will fans still accept failure & tell the detractors to relax? Buffalo hasn’t done anything in 15 years since they started rebuilding & the fans are fed up!
By the way the biggest pure goal scorer in the world is Auston Matthews & he doesn’t wait to be fed. He creates many of his own chances & has also become one of the top defensive players in the game. He now plays on the #1 penalty killing unit, blocks shots, wins faceoffs, plays both sides of the ice & is always a massive scoring threat whenever he has the puck in the offensive zone. Cole Caufield plays on one of the worse teams in hockey & may not even have a spot on Team USA in the upcoming 4 Nations tournament.
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This should not matter but sadly, coaches who speak French are given a pass when things go bad on them. St. Louis lives in Connecticut just like I do, but I don't think I would get the same pass he does.
Yes & no. Habs fans & french sports media have also been tough on some french-speaking coaches in the past. Mario Tremblay, Jacques Martin, Claude Julien & even Michel Therrien didn’t have it easy. Pat Burns was well-liked. Guy Carbonneau & Jacques Lemaire had their moments. Martin St-Louis seems to be getting a pass because he literally came out of nowhere, he speaks extremely well & the fact they were expected to lose for a few years surely helped. The gact he was a french-speaking NHL superstar from Quebec of course is a huge reason why the other guys i mentioned didn’t get the same red carpet treatmemt. But now people are starting to wonder if the organization isn’t taking advantage of their patience. Fans are finally realizing that a rebuild doesn’t automatically mean that you’ll be a contending team in a few years. As i mentioned the Sabres are a dozen years into their rebuild & are still a bad team. The Sens look promising but past results haven’t turned out as successful as fans expected. Maybe this is finally the year they’ll return to the playoffs but if they do it will likely be in the final playoffs spot ajead of either the Islanders or the Bruins, who have equally been surprisingly awful. Will Pittsburgh make the playoffs with its aging lineup of past superstars? Goaltending seems to be a big problem there. The Oilers finally made a good playoffs run last season after a dozen or more years of sucking but lucky for them the likely best hockey player to ever play hockey was on their team. And his linemate Leon Draisaitl is a likely top 5 player in the league.
Indeed rebuilds can work. Chicago & Pittsburgh have shown you can win a Cup by rebuilding. Toronto & the Rangers have shown you can contend for a Cup for a few years after rebuilding. But often there are no guarantees. A team must draft properly & a lot of luck is also needed such as being able to draft high (top 3) and draft a generational player (Mario Lemieux,, Sidney Crosby, Connor Mcdavid, Alex Ovechkin, Auston Matthews, etc). Adding franchise players like Patrick Kane, Evgeni Malkin, Leon Draisatl, Steven Stamkos & Nikita Kucherov also is a key to success. Finding a great franchise goaltender is often a key: M-A Fleury, Vasilevski, Shesterkin, Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, etc.
Anyways i’m off to watch my favorite AHL team (Laval Rocket) who are facing Providence (Bruins AHL team) tonight at the beautiful Place Bell which is in my opinion the top arena in the AHL. The Rocket is playing great under a real NHL-calibre coach like Pascal Vincent, the top coach in the entire Habs organization. The Rocket is an extremely well-coached team & have a strong goaltending tandem. Go Rocket!
Well, that’s not very accurate, do you really believe Ruel, Tremblay, Lemaire, Therrien, Julien and Ducharme got a special treatment? When their time came to an end, were all getting crucified by the medias during their last year.
Therrien and Julien were both hired and fired twice by Montreal. What other teams do this? If their crucifixions were so bad, why did they come back for more? No other professional sports team I can think of hires back coaches who were unceremoniously fired. The Yankees did with Billy Martin, but he was fired the first time for personally insulting the owner, and not losing. I believe Therrien and Julien were hired back because they were French guys who were viewed as being able to handle the things that need to be handled- French media, fans etc. That they were losers who were unceremoniously fired in their prior stints was a lesser concern. When it turned out that they couldn't overachieve with the teams they were handed, they were shown the door, again. Julien replaced Therrien not once but twice, only to follow Therrien out the door. each time, repeating the disgrace of his prior tenure as Therrien had. Again, what North American professional team has done this even once let alone twice in the last 20 years. Answer; nobody.
Maybe they should try hiring a talented Anglophone young coach. It might help. You don't need to speak French to know how to coach hockey or lead young men.
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It's done my buddy and I got tickets to see Rangers - Habs November 30 in Madison Square Garden!!!! Tickets were $378.88 (USD) each. Looking forward to seeing this game!!!!!
I agree with you but i did state there were exceptions like some of the people you mentioned. Maybe i didn’t explain myself better. As for Martin St-Louis as of now he’s been getting a free pass from the fans & most of the media strictly because he’s a former french-speaking NHL All-Star from Quebec who has seduced the fans & the media with his words. Of course the fact the fans & media were made aware that he was coming as part of a rebuild that would last a few years made things easier for him as opposed to him coming in when the habs were expected to contend every season. But now nearly three years later the fact only a few players have improved is worrisome & the team is as bad as ever.
Habs vs Penguins tonight. I expect more of the same but who knows the habs could surprise us by putting in an effort & maybe will improve their defensive game or Montembault saves the day like he did in game 1. Pittsburgh will be ready of course since they absolutely must best bad teams like Montreal in order to have a chance at the playoffs. It won’t be an easy one for this aging veteran team with questionable goaltending.
If they keep on losing yes. But a couple of wins next week may get people back on his side. But he needs to start changing his coaching strategy, which obviously isn’t working. He’s a stubborn person & he needs to recognize this & start to listen to others.
They did it...lol....avec CROSBY qui a mené le bal.....Les HABS ont montré un peu de vie en 3ème...MAIS trop peu trop tard et autre défaite....SAM a été ok et a gardé son équipe dans le match.....mais sans résultat again.....3ème défaite consécutive et 7 défaites dans leurs 9 dernières games....pas fort....lol.
Et on enchaine les défaites......
Puis Cole n'a pas scoré......
Techniquement il ne s'agirait que de 2 défaites des Leafs accompagnées de 2 victoires de Mtl pour se retrouver au 3e rang de notre division (sans tenir compte des autres équipes)......Si j'essaie d'être positif lol.....
Let the sun shine, let the sun shine in.
Puis Cole n'a pas scoré......
Techniquement il ne s'agirait que de 2 défaites des Leafs accompagnées de 2 victoires de Mtl pour se retrouver au 3e rang de notre division (sans tenir compte des autres équipes)......Si j'essaie d'être positif lol.....
Let the sun shine, let the sun shine in.
Je crois que plus que la saison va aller de moins en moins on ba voir ‘Cole’ scorer. Raison: il est pas mal le seul qui compte et les equipes vont mettre plus d’imphase a le surveiller de plus pres. On commence a connaitre ses habitudes de plus en plus: s’installer a la droite du gardier dans le cercle et c’est presque toujours de la qu’il degage son tir.
Anyways souvent ils ont l’air perdus sur la patinoire. Ils jouent probablement un systeme trop complique pour ce genre de talent. Ils faudrait aussi jouer plus defensif. Les equipes moins talentueuses jouent d’habitude un style tres defensif.
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