HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024 Playoff Edition

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Does that mean McDavid is a cake-eater?

Probably lol

Skinner is Goldberg level

 

[The Real Timo]

Empty net situation and your 9M dollar defenseman is not even on the ice.

Does that mean McDavid is a cake-eater?

I could eat some cake now

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Canucks are either the team of destiny like the 93 Canadiens or they crash and burn next round

Riding a 3rd string goalie, facing goalies that give up shit, barely generating offense but still winning

 

[The Real Timo]

Canucks are either the team of destiny like the 93 Canadiens or they crash and burn next round

Riding a 3rd string goalie, facing goalies that give up shit, barely generating offense but still winning

I hope they crash and burn.

Oilers don't even have a second line. Lol... they bring Skinner back to give top line a breather.

 

[The Great Weal]

Oilers would be up 3-0 in the series if they swapped goalies. Skinner getting badly outplayed by a 3rd string goalie.

 

[Runner77]

McDavid getting nailed at the boards behind the Nucks’ net after time ran out, cross checked both front and back — that looked ugly.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

30 minutes for McDrai

Just unheard of for forwards in a non OT game

Man if Holland isnt fired. Call up the Condors and its the same team

 

[The Great Weal]

30 minutes for McDrai

Just unheard of for forwards in a non OT game

Man if Holland isnt fired. Call up the Condors and its the same team

Part of me thinks McDavid is a dirty player with all his antics, but the other part of me gets why he does it considering how much he’s relied on.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Part of me thinks McDavid is a dirty player with all his antics, but the other part of me gets why he does it considering how much he’s relied on.

At this point, i think its his competitiveness and frustration.

 

[Miller Time]

McDavid getting nailed at the boards behind the Nucks’ net after time ran out, cross checked both front and back — that looked ugly.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

.793 save perentage in round 2

Im gonna train a little, break out my skates from 98, and you will all see me as starting goalie for the Edmonton Oilers

Im very confident i can give .825 goaltending

 

[red devil]

McDavid getting nailed at the boards behind the Nucks’ net after time ran out, cross checked both front and back — that looked ugly.

 

[Scintillating10]

Seems like you can't build a dynasty or cup team around a super star. Matthews of McDavid type. Days of dynasties around an Orr, Gretzky or Beliveau are gone. So much team structure now and cap is limiting depth.

 

[Habano]

The bruins will be tanking for the first round pick in the next few years.

Agreed, and they won't be tanking intentionally. Barring any major changes, I really believe they won't make the playoffs next year.

 

[MontrealCanuck]

That's horseshit.

Suspend both of them. No place for that post whistle. Play is over and McDavid is not initiating contact... Chicken sh*t by both nucks. Let's see them do that to an X or Wilson or Reaves.

I wish the NHL would send clear signals that intentional violence with no bearing on the play is zero tolerance. Just don't do it. Between whistles can have more room for error, but post whistle & not in self defense should be met with hard sanctions.

I want to see the game of hockey played at its finest execution. Controlled aggression with big impacts and out of this world skill. NFL does it. Rugby does it. Hockey does it outside the NHL.

Throw the book at these guys.

You should watch the whole clip, that one has been deceptively edited. McDavid started it with a lumberjack swing on Soucy after the whistle, which really isn't something you should do when the other team is looking for any excuse to rough you up.

 

[McGees]

Oilers were dirty AF last game so if refs and league didn't call that, then they can't complain.
Also serves Holland and the other similar GMs right if they wanna cheap out on a goalie, they don't deserve to win imo.
Should have given us Holloway and a 1st for Allen!

 

[Shred]

JT Miller's career progression looks quite unique.

peaking at age 31, in your 13th year in the NHL? or can he go even higher than 103 pts?

He was a big Joe Pavelski fan growing up

 

[Runner77]

Fuddu?



The Punjabi word "Fuddu" is commonly used to describe a person who is considered stupid, naive, or gullible. It refers to someone who is easily fooled or deceived.

 

[ReHabs]

Fuddu?



The Punjabi word "Fuddu" is commonly used to describe a person who is considered stupid, naive, or gullible. It refers to someone who is easily fooled or deceived.

You couldn’t pay me to sit next to the guys recording this video. Gross losers.

 

[Zam Boni]

That's a tough point to argue imo given what we know about how brutal he was handled from draft to leaving Montreal.

Character is more fluid than it appears at the surface. Especially in the formative kate teen years.

Draft profiles about the player suggested a determined, hard working, end to end committed athlete.

The habits and behaviors that got him to his draft year may well have shifted for the worse in the years following... While easy to frame that as evidence of avoidable or predictable character flaw, I think the reality is that environment plays a huge role in dialing up, or dialing down many of those traits.

It's ultimately on him, , as he's accountable to his actions & attitude. But it may well be that he was displaying high character traits pre-draft, and "something" (in this case, a few years in the BargainBin karacter building club) enabled or encouraged the development of worse traits that became the habits we see today.

Either way, the guy is not making the most of his potential and is running out of time to get his career back on track

To add to that, one of the key components that will define your life - not just your hockey career - is how you deal with adversities.
I'm no expert on Kotkaniemi's early career, but maybe he just had'nt had to deal with setbacks, being benched or sent down, dealing with the Bergevins and Therriens of the world.

And yes, it is 100% on him to figure it out.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Seems like you can't build a dynasty or cup team around a super star. Matthews of McDavid type. Days of dynasties around an Orr, Gretzky or Beliveau are gone. So much team structure now and cap is limiting depth.

Pay nurse 7.25 instead of 9.25

Jack Campbell making 5.0 m

James Neal 1.9 buyout hit

Connor brown 4.0 m



That's 13m wasted cap hit.

 

[windycity]

Agreed, and they won't be tanking intentionally. Barring any major changes, I really believe they won't make the playoffs next year.

Hmmmm, their Cup window has closed and they'll slide next year imo but very doubtful they go from 6th overall/Presidents trophy contender to out of the playoffs in 1 year. The year after? Sure

 

[Saundies]

Part of me thinks McDavid is a dirty player with all his antics, but the other part of me gets why he does it considering how much he’s relied on.

Star players get absolutely abused the whole way up minor hockey and have to figure out how to fend for themselves a lot of the time. I played with a guy when we were super young who ended up going to Shattuck (never made it much past that) but even when we were like 9-10 he was getting hooked, hacked, interfered with etc an excessive amount for being a kid that young.

It's why McDavid and Crosby do sneaky dirty things sometimes, because they've had to.

 

[sandviper]

Just a couple observations…

Edmonton’s depth isn’t doing much scoring but Skinner is singlehandedly costing them the series. I get some goals were good goals but you need your goalie to sometimes make those game savers. At the minimum, goalie has to save what they should be saving.

Boston, F*** them but while I think Florida is a far superior team and this series is going how I expected, I really am stunned this Boston team beat the Leafs. I mean, F*** the Leafs also, but if Toronto had any heart and a coach that can fire up their boys, Boston should had been cooked.

 

[Deebs]

You couldn’t pay me to sit next to the guys recording this video. Gross losers.

No doubt....bunch of losers.