OldCraig71
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I just want to see another strong effort from my boy AX, he needs to be on the first wave of the pp, no more Drouin or Dach at the point because they suck at it.
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Habs cup - its in the BAG
Dach is fine there, but better on the wall.
Drouin sucks at everything, but putting him out there with Dach makes no sense. Both aren't shooting and you can exist with one guy who's gonna make the passes and not shoot, but not 2. Penalty killers can literally play 4 on 3.
Xhekaj at the point (left handed shot)
Dach and Suzuki rotating between half-wall and the point.
Dvorak net front/bumper.
Caufield one-timer.
No idea why they haven't done this yet.
ChesterNimitz
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If we continue that inane static defensive posture on penalty kills Ovechkin will have an early New Year’s feast.
You can exist with one point man on the PP who won't shoot. Probably won't win the Cup though. See SJ and Joe Thornton. IMO he gets most of the blame for them not winning a Cup. Since he wouldn't shoot they didn't need to cover him so it might as well be 4 on 4.
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The Habs have given up 8 goals on 14 power play attempts in the last 4 games (12 goals in 31 power plays in their last 8 games). If Washington gets lots of power plays I expect Ovechkin to score at least a couple.
OldCraig71
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Scared it might actually work? Something has changed with this team. They got off to a surprising start with much of it being attributed to a weak schedule and Sean Monahan being much better than we expected. Now that we have inevitably crashed back to earth it seems weird that they wouldn't experiment with different options on a pp that is league-worst. We need two top 10 picks but we also need to find out what our young players are capable of. X is definitely the best option and not a 5 forward strategy.
6-1 drubbing for the Caps today. This won't be pretty.
That passive box guarantees great scoring chances. I don't understand that strategy
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The one good thing about the Habs league worst power play is they are somehow the only team who has yet to give up a short handed goal.
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ChesterNimitz
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Probably because we spend more than half of each powerplay in our zone or neutral ice drop passing the puck to one another. Its the perfect defensive power play.
OldCraig71
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If our players have any pride this won't be the outcome. Being outscored and embarrassed 11-3 in the last two games should light a fire under their asses and if not, we should be worried.
Today is my birthday and I am more focused on the Team Canada game.
I just want Caufield, Slaf or Xhekaj to score. All 3 would make make my NYE awesome.
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The Real Timo
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Happy Birthday! Hope Chris Wideman brings you a hat-trick.
Thanks Timo. I would rather lose 5-4 with Wideman getting zero points.
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Only when it matters like the playoffs.
The Real Timo
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You need a Halak for that.
MarkovsKnee
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That's because we can barely get the puck in, so we constantly have 5 guys in neutral zone. Pretty tough for other team to break free when you're clogging the neutral zone like that.
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Don't we also have games in hand? We are higher up on Columbus and Chicago though.
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So how many teams gets to participate in the Bedard lottery? Is it bottom 5 that get to draw a ball? Habs are 13 points out of the last spot so I think that isn't really possible to reach, given that Hawks suck even more than Habs, believe it or not. But, if they can get into top 5... well... as they say...
The fact that it is a lottery means we can still be in a great position.
Players like Dvorsky are not bad prizes.
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