Out of Town Thread: Can Someone Spare Some Goals for Habs, please?

[G0bias]

Damn that second Sergachev goal was a laser.

 

[Milhouse40]

Sergachev may end up flourishing in Tampa. Drouin will end up flourishing in Montreal.

Let's face it, one as the weight of the world on his shoulders right now.....the other one is with a team that don't expect him to be the next Lidstrom.

 

[HTTP 400]

Sergachev scores his second of the night, now has more pts than Drouin.

It's a shocking fact, but it doesn't mean much. Here's another way to look at it :

Habs have 11 goals, Drouin has 5 pts (45% of his team production)
Lightning have 29 goals, Sergachev has 6 pts (21% of his team production)

Imagine how bad we'd be without Drouin!

 

[groovejuice]

Sportsnet in the 1st int of the Oilers/Hawks game just showed Sergachev's first 2 goals and Doug Maclean took a little shot at Hab fans saying finally something for Hab fans to cheer about. Not cool Doug Maclean.. Not cool.

I chuckled. I'll bet I'm not the only one. I figure we can gripe and laugh, or gripe and cry.

The cheering has diminished right along with our hopes.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Let's face it, one as the weight of the world on his shoulders right now.....the other one is with a team that don't expect him to be the next Lidstrom.

True. And as admirable as JD is doing, he also has the weight of carrying Max.

 

[Adam Michaels]

I chuckled. I'll bet I'm not the only one. I figure we can gripe and laugh, or gripe and cry.

The cheering has diminished right along with our hopes.

The way I see it, when they win, you celebrate. When they lose, find the humor. Either way, you keep your mindset positive.

 

[groovejuice]

The way I see it, when they win, you celebrate. When they lose, find the humor. Either way, you keep your mindset positive.

Not much else to do and maintain one's sanity.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Nasty hit from behind by Kassian.

 

[Milhouse40]

True. And as admirable as JD is doing, he also has the weight of carrying Max.

We both know he's a good player, but is he a good center?
Cause if we traded a maybe top 2 D for a good winger, then i don't think it's a good trade.

And right now, Drouin is as good as Galchenyuk was last year.
Same problem on the faceoff, same problems in his zone and same sparks offensively.

 

[LeHab]

Sportsnet in the 1st int of the Oilers/Hawks game just showed Sergachev's first 2 goals and Doug Maclean took a little shot at Hab fans saying finally something for Hab fans to cheer about. Not cool Doug Maclean.. Not cool.

Well if he sticks around nhl habs get a 2nd pick. Also happy for his success and at least he was drafted by mtl.

 

[Andy]

Imagine a D of Mete-Sergachev-Subban and Markov this year supported by Beaulieu and Petry.

 

[LaP]

We both know he's a good player, but is he a good center?
Cause if we traded a maybe top 2 D for a good winger, then i don't think it's a good trade.

If Drouin is not a center and Sergachev reaches his potential then it's not a good trade unless Drouin is the next St Louis which i highly doubt.

 

[Tyson]

Congrats to Sergachev who is going to be a truly great nhl Dman

 

[Wats]

Sergachev is lucky he didn't start his career with Habs. They already developed Drouin for us. There's little chance Habs could develop either as a rookie. Tampa knows how to make offensive players.

 

[Chili]

Rangers lose again, only win was over the Habs.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Rangers lose in the shootout. DD took the final shootout but was stopped by Halak.

 

[LaP]

Imagine a D of Mete-Sergachev-Subban and Markov this year supported by Beaulieu and Petry.

Even with Weber/Alzner in and Markov out it still looks very good if Sergachev becomes a solid 1st pairing guy..

Sergachev-Weber
Mete-Petry
Alzner-Juulsen

In 2 years max it looks definitely better than what we have right now. The defense would be pretty much set and we would need to improve the offense. Now we must improve both of them.

 

[mariolemieux66]

Sergachev is lucky he didn't start his career with Habs.

So lucky!

 

[Dagistitsyn]

I dont know whether to be happy or sad about Sergechev looking great in Tampa. He's gunna be a damn good defensemen.

 

[Habs Icing]

I always been okay with the Drouin - Sergachev trade....but Sergachev is starting to prove me wrong.
If this one blows up in Bergevin's face too, it will be the end of him.

I hated the trade the minute I heard about it. For two reasons.

1)Although I thought Drouin was a good player, I didn't think he was the phenom everyone was making him out to be and yes I'm looking at you Tony Marinaro.
2) We needed a top line center not a maybe top line winger converted to center. MB emptied a little more his prospect pool and never filled our biggest need. Now it's gonna take a miracle to fill those top two center spots.

The lack of top 6 centers is one of the reasons for this fabulous start the Habs are experiencing.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Devils tie it with less than 5 minutes left in the game after being down 4-2.

 

[Frank Drebin]

I hated the trade the minute I heard about it. For two reasons.

1)Although I thought Drouin was a good player, I didn't think he was the phenom everyone was making him out to be and yes I'm looking at you Tony Marinaro.
2) We needed a top line center not a maybe top line winger converted to center. MB emptied a little more his prospect pool and never filled our biggest need. Now it's gonna take a miracle to fill those top two center spots.

The lack of top 6 centers is one of the reasons for this fabulous start the Habs are experiencing.

I apparently underrated Sergachev severely. I didn't watch him a lot but I wasn't impressed with what I did see. Lawd if this trade haunts us in the future again!

 

[Uncle Gary]

I apparently underrated Sergachev severely. I didn't watch him a lot but I wasn't impressed with what I did see. Lawd if this trade haunts us in the future again!

At least we got a good piece back this time.

 

[Frank Drebin]

At least we got a good piece back this time.

I just never gave a thought to Sergachev succeeding. May turn out to be a win-win if Mete continues to impress.

 

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Bad news for the LA Kings, Jeff Carter will be out for awhile after Jeff Petry tore Jeff Carter’s achille tendon last game.