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Dominique Ducharme. Interim head coach of the Habs thread
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BehindTheTimes
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DD is worse in every way. With Julien you could question his roster decisions, handling of young players at times, etc, with DD he has no redeeming qualities. He’s terrible at everything, system is shit, lines are in a blender, kk and cc riding the pine, staal getting any number of mins still. He’s a train wreck.
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teamfirst
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Have to say.....i was wrong and you where right, probably why you're coaching in the NHL and i'm not
Staal rewarded him for sticking with him...
but Merrill/Kulak over Romanov remains a bad decision. And tatar didn't give us anything, while the PP was in desperate need of the kind of zone entry (JKO) and finishing (CC) that he chose to sit in the press box.
maybe his best coaching decision tonight, was to shelter Weber until the latter stages of the third period, but beyond that, relying on CP to bail out the team and counting on the Laffs buckling under pressure (and terrible luck), is not exactly coaching excellence.
game 2 adjustments will be a big test btw Keefe/DD.
but Merrill/Kulak over Romanov remains a bad decision. And tatar didn't give us anything, while the PP was in desperate need of the kind of zone entry (JKO) and finishing (CC) that he chose to sit in the press box.
maybe his best coaching decision tonight, was to shelter Weber until the latter stages of the third period, but beyond that, relying on CP to bail out the team and counting on the Laffs buckling under pressure (and terrible luck), is not exactly coaching excellence.
game 2 adjustments will be a big test btw Keefe/DD.
DramaticGloveSave
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DD clearly had a game plan to win a game 2-1 with extreme physicality from the Habs. Who’s complaining now???!
THAT was Dum Dom's plan...just like Julien's...just like Therrien's...just like Bargain Bin's...
DramaticGloveSave
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Did it work? Trying to out skill the leafs would have ended badly, no? We’re up 1-9 aren’t we?
First ever NHL playoff game as a head coach ..first career win..
DD 1-0
DD 1-0
...If the Habs can keep it up like tonight be interesting to see TO's response .
The Blue Jackets had success pounding physical on the Leafs.
I was happy to be sitting 1-1 after 2 periods on the road
WatchfulElm
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Carey Price was awesome, but he also didn't have to do miracles. The team played well defensively in front of him.
maybe you missed the save of the playoffs (thus far), which kept the game tied and broke the laffs spirit?
his first big stop of the game, while not quite as spectacular, was also a massive save on a great opportunity that changed the early complexion of the game.
thing about Price when he is playing this way, is that he makes a lot of difficult saves look easy. That, in itself, is the "miracle" work, and what so very few goalies in the league can do as well as he did tonight.
giving up 36 shots, many of them dangerous ones, in a game where the other team spent 10minutes in the penalty box, is not what I would call "playing well defensively".
WatchfulElm
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The Leafs are an offensive force. If you think any team can hold them to 20-25 shots per game in the playoffs, then I think you're wrong.
Price definitely made very important saves and was great at limiting rebounds. But the team also were able to limit high danger scoring opportunities to a few. Even in the 2nd period, when the Leafs were circling around the offensive zone most of the time, Habs were able to keep them on the outside and Price only got 8 shots.
No doubt in my mind it was a great defensive performance by the Habs.
Laffs averaged 31 shots/game (and 5min of penalties)...
36 shots is not 20-25.... a team holding them to under 30 shots in a game could indeed start talking about a "great defensive performance".
so yeah, not valid to say that it was a "great" defensive performance with the volume & quality of shots we gave up tonight, even less so when you consider they were on the PK for 1/6 of the game.
Price won that game for us. He has that ability and we are lucky to be able to rely on it.
WatchfulElm
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Leafs were limited to 13 scoring chances and 5 high danger scoring chances tonight.
Both are the lowest amount among all 8 teams playing tonight. And that's despite having 4 power plays, which pretty much counter the effect of the 5 PK.
EDIT : Actually I just checked, and 13/5 were the lowest amount of scoring chances by any team in any game so far in the playoffs. So yeah, great defensive game by the Habs.
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Tatar made a nice pass to spring Armia on his breakaway, but yeah he didn't look good otherwise.
He's been a good compliment to Gally. So when Gally's off, he's usually invisible.
begs the question, then, of whether he's a "good compliment" to gallagher, or simply the beneficiary of riding shotgun alongside a competitor that is quite productive when he's "on"...
i don't think we lose much of anything with Tatar in the press box. A healthy Danault and Gallagher last year saw us get 2 pts in 10 games from him. I think he's just not a player whose game translates well to the heightened competitive environment of the playoffs... time and space are in far shorter supply, and the willingness and ability to compete for every inch is a necessary attribute. that doesn't appear to be in his repertoire.
Just like Edmonton relies on McDavid, like Toronto relies on Matthews, like Washington relies on Ovechkin.......funny that those players really haven't arrived and their respective teams are all down in their series.
Your success goes through your best players, ours is Price
Washington - Backstrom, Carlson
Toronto - Tavares, Marner, ~Rielly
Edmonton - Draisatl, Nurse (they hope)
thing is, those teams all understood and appreciate that you need more than 1 elite player, and that if you find one, you damn well need to prioritize getting him additional elite support. Price has been on an island since we shipped PK away. No one has won a cup without at least 1 elite skater, arguably 2... plus a number of high caliber other skaters. Price has never had more than 1 elite skater in front of him. Toronto, Washington and Edmonton all realize that you need your best players to be elite, first, then you can worry about backfilling the depth.
teamfirst
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Nothing new there, goaltending has been the most inportant position in playoffs hockey for ages, habs are no different then others on that matter, Vasilevsky is the reason why Tampa won their 1st game against Flo , same for Minny with Talbot and Winnipeg with Helleybuck.
Price was amazing yesterday and need to be very good for us to win this serie, same thing for every other team with their goalie
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Did he, now? DD anticipated that Price would play like Price of old after a long layoff, that the Leafs would lose the contributions of a top asset in Tavares, that Byron would score an impossible goal during a PK late in the game? Or that the Leafs would be taking so many penalties?
You're on a vendetta tour in this thread and another. You're using the short sample size of the one game to create a narrative that is not supported.
How about just enjoying the win, minus the "I told you so, who's complaining now" crap? Or, if that's the tangent you want to embark on, how about we find out how much of an impact DD's approach might have after the series is done? I'm all for giving anyone credit where it's warranted but if we're going to say that DD was right in not playing the younger players, can we at least have a reasonable sample size?
aresknights
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The Habs played well defensively, no doubt. Limited chances. To suggest otherwise is just fans looking to complain in a Win.
They did what they to to beat a more talented team and still just barely did. It's how they have to play. Pack it in n if there is a breakdown Price has to step up.
If we get lots shots n lose same fans complain that we get no high scoring chances lol.
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