Go Habs Go!

[Doc Holliday]

N’importe quelle equipe de la LNH peut vaincre n’importe lequelle autre equipe meme une des meilleures. J’inclu meme les mauvaises equipes. Ce qui separe les mauvaises et les bonnes c’est que les mauvaises sont souvent trop inconsistantes. Un soir elle parait bien contre n’importe autre equipes et pour les 2-3 prochains matchs elle va paraitre comme la pire equipe du hockey. Et dans le prochain match elle aura l’air comme une des meilleures de la ligue!

 

[Womaniser]

Du « déjà vu ». Une défaite contre une équipe confiante et bien structurée .
Sont pas loin mais cette coche est la plus difficile à trouver.

The Caps have a very good team, even without Oveshkin they are in the top teams.

 

[bodick7]

The Caps have a very good team, even without Oveshkin they are in the top teams.

Faudrait pas qu’ils perdent ce soir contre les Ducks parce que la ce serait vraiment déprimant…

 

[gaby]

Faut être prêt à tout....lol....2 équipes qui ont la même fiche ...MAIS jouant à la maison disons avantage HABS.......enjoy.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Monday night hockey sur Prime!
Le Best, on a toute la période d’échauffement sans commentaires, juste le son du centre Bell! J’en prendrais plus.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Ce soir c’est le combo Trouba-Gudas, ça va prendre des yeux tout le tour de la tête!!!

 

[TheBlob]

Monday night hockey sur Prime!
Le Best, on a toute la période d’échauffement sans commentaires, juste le son du centre Bell! J’en prendrais plus.

Nice, comme dans l'temps de la grève à Radio-Canada. Pas de commentateurs.

 

[TheBlob]

3e victoire en 4 matchs.

Patrik Laine 3 buts en 4 matchs.

Sam goale bien.

Ça commence bien la semaine.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Monty stole the game again for the Habs! Well done! I hope he gets the #1 goalie job for Canada at the upcoming 4 Nations Cup! Ole, ole, ole!

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Victoire à l’arraché mais victoire quand même.

 

[gaby]

.....oui....importante quand même du genre tu ne peux pas la perdre vs une équipe aussi prenable...lolll.....et oui LAINE nous comble encore...et que dire de SAM qui prend de plus en plus confiance et semble de plus en plus dans sa COMFORT ZONE....
et pourquoi ne pas terminer ça en beauté JEUDI avec les PENS....très faisable....et ce serait tellement bon pour le moral des troupes...et du coach......en attendant relaxer bien les boys....encore de la grosse besogne devant....

 

[EagerBeaver]

Laine is a main man player- let's not forget there was extreme debate as to whether he or Auston Matthews should be picked overall #1 the year they both came out. Laine ended up being picked #2, but I watched that draft and many of the experts said Laine should be picked first. Laine is now showing signs of rewarding that confidence.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

J’avoue que je ne connaissais pas vraiment Laine à part ses statistiques qui, à ses 2 premières années, étaient très impressionnantes mais, la suite était plutôt nébuleuse.

Je ne m’emballe pas avec son début avec le Canadiens mais, la facilité avec laquelle il enfile l’aiguille est vraiment déconcertante. Il est certainement un des tireurs les plus précis de la LNH. Pour la suite on verra ce que ça donne à long terme.

 

[gaby]

Oui en effet un très bon tireur/ snipper....MAIS peut jouer aussi de façon nonchalante et tomber dans des léthargies douloureuses ..lolll....l'ai pris souvent dans mes pools dans le passé....et me suis dit plus jamais.....à lui de regagner notre confiance...on ne demande
que ça.....lolllll

 

[Doc Holliday]

Laine is a main man player- let's not forget there was extreme debate as to whether he or Auston Matthews should be picked overall #1 the year they both came out. Laine ended up being picked #2, but I watched that draft and many of the experts said Laine should be picked first. Laine is now showing signs of rewarding that confidence.

There was zero debate at whom would get picked #1 that year. Zero. It was always going to be Matthews whom scouts had been scouting since he was 15 years old. When he was 16 i remembered reading that Matthews was projected to be a generational player. Laine was regarded as a franchise player & often compared to Ovechkin necause of his big shot & the fact he played the wing. Matthews was a centre & you always go with the centre since there is a big shortage of top-end centres around the league. My NHL contact told me a few years ago that the word going around at the time was that the Jets were the ones who started the rumor about Toronto possibly picking Laine instead of Matthews in order to try to plant a seed & try to come up with a way to get Matthews. A trade with Toronto which would have involved a swap of picks was also considered. But a couple of months prior to the draft Leafs coach Mike Babcock even met with Matthews in Europe to get to know him & even told him the Leafs would 100% be drafting him. The Leafs never bothered to meet with Laine.

 

[EagerBeaver]

There was zero debate at whom would get picked #1 that year. Zero.

Not true/Revisionist history. I watched that draft and they to spoke to various ESPN experts who had different opinions on it and argued about it. There was vivid and robust debate. Laine was coming off being voted MVP of the World Championships at that time. Matthews had not accomplished as much internationally. Sports Illustrated's 2016 Draft preview alluded to the debate:

2. Patrik Laine, Tappara Tampere (Finland)​

As good as Matthews is, there are scouts who believe Laine could end up being the better player. “He's like a faster version of Brett Hull,” offered one scout. “He gets the puck off his stick almost before you realize he has it.” That innate scoring touch helped Laine earn MVP honors in the Finnish playoffs and at the World Championship, a remarkable achievement for any player, let alone a draft-eligible one. "He wants to be a difference-maker every time he's on the ice," another scout said. "He's got that drive that allows him to make the most of his tools." The expectation is that he'll showcase that drive next season in the NHL.

NHL draft: Scouts size up the top 10 forwards

Scouts say there's plenty of talented forwards behind Auston Matthews in the 2016 NHL Draft. Here are the best.

www.si.com

As both players embark on the second part of their careers, some people still believe that Laine, if he could stay healthy, will have a better second half of his career than Matthews will. If so Laine would be making good on the prediction of the scouts SI spoke to back in 2016.

 

[Doc Holliday]

It is true that some scouts believed that Laine may have turned out to be the better player over time. I know one of them who did. But the large majority of scouts felt differently & no matter what Matthews was the unanimous consensus to be the first overall pick & this had already been pre-determined two years prior to the actual draft. One member of the media i spoke with told me that some members of the media started that rumor (that Laine could go first) in order to stir up some interest towards the draft. However truth behold once the lottery was completed & Toronto had won the lottery it was 100% assured that Matthews would get picked first. 100% of scouts, GMs & media were well aware that Toronto’s only intention was to draft atthews with their first overall pick. They had no interest in Laine. Laine wasn’t even #2 on their list. They wanted & needed a center & that’s why they gave away Phil Kessel & Dion Phaneuf: in order to draft the big centre who was the only generational player in the draft.

 

[Doc Holliday]

My prediction: If Patrick Laine continues to play well & score goals (and stay healthy) the Habs will trade him this season prior to the trade deadline. Reason? His trade value will mever be higher than it will be by then & they have no intention of re-signing him in 2026.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Doc,

You are forgetting that days or weeks before the 2016 NHL Draft, Laine had a HUGE World Championships and won MVP. Many scouts interviewed at that time said he turned heads and had given everyone pause about who the #1 pick really should be. Prior to that performance Laine was seen as a distant second choice to Matthews, but the Laine performance had stunned the hockey community. I specifically remember the Laine supporting scouts saying that Matthews had not distinguished himself on the world stage as Laine had just done at the Worlds. I think Toronto had already made up their minds to take Mathews, but once that happened Winnipeg pounced on Laine.

 

[gaby]

....and now MATTHEWS still playing with the LEAFS and is the captain....a true leader.....PATRICK had some tough years lately with CBJ and of course injuries that did not help his cause....value for value there is no possible comparaison between those 2.