Pre-Game Talk: Canadiens, Saturday night in Boston.

[peate]

Looking forward to the first meeting with our rivals, both teams with 3 wins. Will be fun to watch our new guys rattle the Bruins a bit. I wonder if Sergachev gets to play in this one or will MT put Pateryn in instead? I liked his game yesterday against the Coyotes, he's getting better every time out.

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[dkd]

I'd rather Pateryn play against the Bruins honestly.

 

[Hackett]

Looking forward to the first meeting with our rivals, both teams with 3 wins. Will be fun to watch our new guys rattle the Bruins a bit. I wonder if Sergachev gets to play in this one or will MT put Pateryn in instead? I liked his game yesterday against the Coyotes, he's getting better every time out.

Pateryn didn't play himself out of the lineup imo, so to have him out for a couple games already must be frustrating to him. That's an interesting situation. Working with sergachev's upside at the expense of a guy who was playing pretty well and has "paid his dues". Honestly, I'd be pretty pissed off if I was pateryn.

As fun as it is to beat Boston, it feels like the habs have owned them so much in the last few years that you are due for some bad luck. I never get tired of beating them though.

 

[Tuggy]

I'd rather Pateryn play against the Bruins honestly.

That would be my choice too.

 

[Team_Spirit]

edit : thanks!!!

 

[CHaracter79]

I would let Sergachev play the next 10 of 12-13 games and then decide what to do. its ok to make mistakes.. d men often do. PK led the league in unforced errors or turnovers a year or two ago.

doesnt matter. let them learn he is ahead of his age group proven by his season last year. id rather he play and travel with the team and play in 65-75% of the games and learn by playign alongside Weber Markov and Petry. For me there is not better way to learn then by the best.

he will more by playign against the best instead of dominating against the inferior category players and then coming up next year ang going through the same growing pains again.

of course this is all relative to playing at least 60 70 games

mind you in spite of this they will stull send him down i think in 5 games or so

 

[TheAntiPrice]

I would let Sergachev play the next 10 of 12-13 games and then decide what to do.

That would be incredibly stupid.

 

[eFFeRR]

Haven't seen much at all from Sergachev so far. He gave a nice one to his buddy Chychrun yesterday too. I guess we let him play his 9 games and see him back next season. I'd start Pateryn for sure on Saturday night.

 

[FloJack]

Pateryn didn't play himself out of the lineup imo, so to have him out for a couple games already must be frustrating to him. That's an interesting situation. Working with sergachev's upside at the expense of a guy who was playing pretty well and has "paid his dues". Honestly, I'd be pretty pissed off if I was pateryn.

I like Pateryn but he did stink against Ottawa. He paid his dues and has a one way contract, while practicing and getting all the perks of being on an NHL roster. Nothing to really feel sorry for him about.

I'd rather Pateryn play against the Bruins honestly.

Why?

 

[Le Tricolore]

Go Habs!

 

[Teufelsdreck]

Posts 1 to 9 baffle me. Will someone restart the thread?

 

[LaP]

I like Pateryn but he did stink against Ottawa. He paid his dues and has a one way contract, while practicing and getting all the perks of being on an NHL roster. Nothing to really feel sorry for him about.

This. The hardest part about reaching the NHL is to have one foot in. Once it's done you can surf on that for a while.

I like Pateryn and i think we should have played him in front of some of the scrubs we iced in the last 4 years. But he's nothing that much special.

We offered him a one way 3 years contract. A chance to have one foot in the league and have the reputation to be a NHLer. For this alone he should be happy.

If it doesn't work here he'll have his chance elsewhere.

 

[Agalloch]

That would be my choice too.

Same. It would be the wiser move since we don't have control on matchups. Pateryn would be motivated too.

 

[peate]

Posts 1 to 9 baffle me. Will someone restart the thread?

Talk about baffling, what exactly do you mean?

 

[Kraken Jokes]

Not that I'm really proposing this forward line-up but it would be interesting:

Lehkonen - Galchenyuk - Gallagher
Pacioretty - Plekanec - Shaw
Carr - Desharnais - Radulov
Danault - Mitchell - Byron

Three lines balanced with a good 4th line.

 

[G0bias]

Boston really isn't the physical threat anymore so I don't know why people are slotting in Pateryn for that reason.

They're actually a pretty fast forward group. If anything Habs should look to expose their slow defence with a quick transition. Excluding the occasional hiccup, Sergachev showed some improvement in this regard against two very fast units in Pitts and Arizona, while Pateryn really struggled against Ottawa's quick forwards.
Keep Sergy for now.

 

[the]

I hope Radulov becomes a Bruins killer for us.

 

[Habssince89]

If it were up to me:
1)Put Carr back in. I think this is the kind of game where he'd be best. Take out Flynn.
2)Sergachev out/Pateryn in. Can't shelter Sergachev against a faster, new look Bruins team.

I think we can take advantage of the Bruins diminished size and toughness through our many crease disturber players, without sacrificing our speed. I can't wait to see old man Chara get burned by Radulov. I have a gut feeling he'll be a Bruins killer.

GHG!

 

[Teufelsdreck]

Talk about baffling, what exactly do you mean?

I'm unable to decipher random noise.

 

[Tyson]

I watched Boston play the other day. Man have they ever changed their roster from a year ago.

Not the gritty, tough in your face Bruins from years past.

Will be a good road test.

They found a late first round gem in Pastrnak

 

[Redux91]

I watched Boston play the other day. Man have they ever changed their roster from a year ago.

Not the gritty, tough in your face Bruins from years past.

Will be a good road test.

They found a late first round gem in Pastrnak

Drafted RIGHt before Scherbak..

 

[PaulD]

Not that I'm really proposing this forward line-up but it would be interesting:

Lehkonen - Galchenyuk - Gallagher
Pacioretty - Plekanec - Shaw
Carr - Desharnais - Radulov
Danault - Mitchell - Byron

Three lines balanced with a good 4th line.

Interesting. Like that third line ! Rad would like DD much more than Pleks .

 

[donghabs98]

I watched Boston play the other day. Man have they ever changed their roster from a year ago.

Not the gritty, tough in your face Bruins from years past.

Will be a good road test.

They found a late first round gem in Pastrnak

Gone are Lucic,Thornton,Ference and now Marchand is more reformed. This is definitely not the Bruins team that we had a lot of success in past years so this should be a good test. Tomorrow night will probably be the toughness game so far.

 

[deandebean]

Don't poke the bear!

 

[Stoneburg]

The Bruins, like us, are having early season success, it will be a good test.