10 games before trade deadline

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

There is nothing to do except a miracle. Paccioretty is among the 5th best goal scorer of the league last 5 years. If he is traded, I doubt we can get equal value. We will be even more boring to watch and it will take somehow 5 years to have another natural goal scorer.

Price is just intradable. Too much money, NMC, with the salary cap he will end his career in Montreal in a boring losing team.

Even if Bergevin tank with many draft picks with trades, do you want Timmins to draft another Scherbak, another Chipchura, another McCarron, another Fisher, another Tinordi? We want Timmins to draft more of this?

There is no miracle solution, Canadiens Team is entering into a decade of misery like Edmonton and Buffalo.

Most of the players you named were drafted after 15th. The way we're going, we'll be drafting much higher. More in the Drouin, Price & Chucky territory.

 

[llamateizer]

Last year the wild card was won at 95 points. This year it's pacing for 90 points. 66 points likely put us in WC position 10 games from now

So
49 pts in 31 games?

So in order to get 95 pts. Montreal have to play for .790% in order to hope for a playoffs spot.
FYI. top team in the league is playing for .715%

 

[Habs Halifax]

I will be very upset. Time to move on.

I agree it's time to move on.... even if we have to encounter headaches and growing pains.

 

[Habs Halifax]

So
49 pts in 31 games?

So in order to get 95 pts. Montreal have to play for .790% in order to hope for a playoffs spot.
FYI. top team in the league is playing for .715%

This is reality. Good post.

 

[sandviper]

I don't get the stress. All we need to do is score 1 more goal than is scored against us and we win. They score 1, we score 2. Opponents score 6? We just need to score 7.

I mean, it's simple math.

In all seriousness, other than having to go like .790, don't forget the teams we are chasing have to play below .500 at the same time.

 

[Darz]

Sat. Feb 3rd: Anaheim - Home - LOSS
Sun. Feb 4th: Ottawa - Home - LOSS
Thu. Feb 8th: Philadelphia - Away - LOSS
Sat. Feb 10th: Nashville - Home - WIN
Wed. Feb 14th: Colorado - Away - LOSS
Thu. Feb 15th: Arizona - Away - LOSS
Sat. Feb 17th: Vegas - Away - WIN
Tue. Feb 20th: Philadelphia - Away - LOSS
Thu. Feb 22th: NYR - Home - LOSS
Sat. Feb 24th: Tampa Bay - Home - WIN

we go 3-7 but somehow beat Tampa, Vegas and Nashville.

 

[habsgirl5000]

So
49 pts in 31 games?

So in order to get 95 pts. Montreal have to play for .790% in order to hope for a playoffs spot.
FYI. top team in the league is playing for .715%

we would need to go something like 23-5-3

 

[Habs Icing]

Isnt our longest winning streak like 4 this season?

Periods or games?

 

[sandviper]

we would need to go something like 23-5-3

That's it? No problem!

#ChillOut

 

[bobholly39]

So
49 pts in 31 games?

So in order to get 95 pts. Montreal have to play for .790% in order to hope for a playoffs spot.
FYI. top team in the league is playing for .715%

Technically your math is off. Wildcard is pacing for 90 points this year, not 95.

for 90 points we need to get 44 points in 31 games.

If we win 10 in a row - it's down to having to get 24 points in the last 21 games.

 

[JSR 56]

Technically your math is off. Wildcard is pacing for 90 points this year, not 95.

for 90 points we need to get 44 points in 31 games.

If we win 10 in a row - it's down to having to get 24 points in the last 21 games.

seems reasonable enough. i think it would be easier if we win 15 in a row though. would allow the team to recover the last few games

 

[bobholly39]

seems reasonable enough. i think it would be easier if we win 15 in a row though. would allow the team to recover the last few games

If we win 15 games in a row.

that puts us at 66 games, 76 points. Hey if that happens we might yet stand a chance to win division, if Boston or Tampa slows down a bit.

 

[llamateizer]

Technically your math is off. Wildcard is pacing for 90 points this year, not 95.

for 90 points we need to get 44 points in 31 games.

If we win 10 in a row - it's down to having to get 24 points in the last 21 games.

I can't wait to see you turning in the dark side .
Did you know that the wild made the playoffs by having 87 points

If we win 15 games in a row.

that puts us at 66 games, 76 points. Hey if that happens we might yet stand a chance to win division, if Boston or Tampa slows down a bit.

Lol wut... TBL goes 4-8-3 and BOS goes 5-9-3 (2 games in hand)

TBL 84 pts
BOS 81 pts
MTL 76 pts

Montreal are 27 points behind TBL

 

[bobholly39]

I can't wait to see you turning in the dark side .
Did you know that the wild made the playoffs by having 87 points

Good catch. Philly, NYI, NYR...all slumping. Carolina never makes it. Whose to say instead of 90 points, the bar doesn't fall to 87 points or so? To hit 87 points all we need is 41 points in 31 games.

On a more serious note - I acknowledged in the other thread it's over. I said they needed to go on a win streak and if they did there's still time to turn it around - this was 1-2 weeks ago. And I also said that if instead they lost 5 or so games in row, it'd be over. Well they did just that, lost 3 in a row.

If they had won those 3 games (3, not 10 or 15, just 3!). We'd be 4 points back, with same # of games played as everyone else in the wildcard race. We were still in it.

 

[Ozmodiar]

The only reason we will win games in the next few months will be because other teams will come here expecting an easy night.

That, and goaltending.

Price vs league back-ups.

Habs win that match-up, but lose virtually every other one.

 

[NobleSix]

Guys, all we really have to do is invent time travel, go back in time to 1967, form a radical anti-expansion group, stop the first NHL expansion, then get back in the time machine to also stop the 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978-1979, 1991-1993, 1998-1999, 2000, and 2016 expansions, then travel back to the present day, and once back in 2018 we should only be in a 6 team league again, where we could possibly, just possibly, squeak into the playoffs and go on a magical run! Anything can happen once you get in...

Guys, its that simple! Don't give up hope yet!

 

[pepperMonkey]

Ugg...Bergevin is still here. And will be here for the TDL. We are screwed. End of story.

 

[pepperMonkey]

Guys, all we really have to do is invent time travel, go back in time to 1967, form a radical anti-expansion group, stop the first NHL expansion, then get back in the time machine to also stop the 1970, 1972, 1974, 1978-1979, 1991-1993, 1998-1999, 2000, and 2016 expansions, then travel back to the present day, and once back in 2018 we should only be in a 6 team league again, where we could possibly, just possibly, squeak into the playoffs and go on a magical run! Anything can happen once you get in...

Guys, its that simple! Don't give up hope yet!

Too depressing...already gave up hope as Bergevin is still here...no hope till he's gone...and seems he's not going anywhere... Would predict Habs suckage for years to come but that's not a prediction, just sad fact at this point...I think I'll go watch some Leafs games for a while (note: I live in Toronto so...)

 

[pepperMonkey]

That, and goaltending.

Price vs league back-ups.

Habs win that match-up, but lose virtually every other one.

At this point, the Habs will make those backups into stars...(at least for one night...)

 

[mitchmagic]

Let's just trade bergevin.

 

[widowmaker]

Ducks - win SO\OT 2-1
Sens - win 5-3
Flyers - lose 5-1
Preds - lose 6-0
Avs - lose OT\SO 3-2
Coyotes lose 5--3
Vegas - lose 3-1
Flyers - lose 2-1
Rangers - win 3-2 SO\OT
TB - lose 4-0

3W-6L -1OTL

 

[Montrealer]

Sat. Feb 3rd: Anaheim - Home (OTL)
Sun. Feb 4th: Ottawa - Home (W)
Thu. Feb 8th: Philadelphia - Away (L)
Sat. Feb 10th: Nashville - Home (L)
Wed. Feb 14th: Colorado - Away (OTL)
Thu. Feb 15th: Arizona - Away (W)
Sat. Feb 17th: Vegas - Away (L)
Tue. Feb 20th: Philadelphia - Away (L)
Thu. Feb 22th: NYR - Home (W)
Sat. Feb 24th: Tampa Bay - Home (OTL)

3-4-3. Sounds about right.

 

[BLONG7]

Ugg...Bergevin is still here. And will be here for the TDL. We are screwed. End of story.

This pretty much sums up, how I feel also..................what a sad sack of a season, becuae of a clown GM and his brain dead thinking, this past summer.................................................fire this clown!!!

 

[BLONG7]

Let's just trade bergevin.

For a pair, of purple pants!!

 

[Rapala]

Periods or games?

Good one.

Consecutive Periods when we scored at least 1 goal.