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Habs on the 3rd game of their west coast swing, facing the Canucks in a late affair.
The Oilers prevailed in OT on Tuesday. Even more painful was the loss of Joshua Roy who is out indefinitely.
Trevor Letowski has been acting as interim head coach in MSL's indefinite absence and tonight will be his 3rd game flying solo behind the bench.
We have been mostly wondering what Letowski had been doing while MSL was here, now we get to see him in a role with greater responsibilities. Evenso, some of us can't seem to shake off the association with his tablet device, that he is so fond of during games, as often noted by @Apoplectic Habs Fan in GDTs.
Letowski may be acting as a head coach right now but to some, he'll always embody this ...
Not too much of a stretch to imagine what he's like when conducting practices ...
Legend has it that he's logged into the game for so many hours, that the makers of Angry Birds decided to turn him into one of their characters.
Kidding aside, if the Edmonton game is any indication, the players showed a lot of guts and effort with Letowski behind the bench -- which means either Letowski is highly respected by the players or ... he's doing a good job taking instructions from MSL, who continues to monitor the team and make decisions from a distance.
One of this season's contentious points has been the high number of minutes that Mike Matheson logs in. He seems to be used for 27-28 mins + quite regularly, even when the Habs have not been playing meaningful games for quite some time.
MSL has created a season-long blueprint for deploying Matheson, for reasons that are difficult to fathom other than by adapting the analytical model introduced by this forum's @Skip Bayless recently ...
Looking like "Billy" has latitude to do as he pleases.
There are bright spots with the likes of Suzuki and Armia finally making good use of his assets in the last 2 months or so.
And Slaf of course, has remained productive in what has looked like a breakout for him. He had an assist on Suzuki's goal vs. the Oil, sustaining a 5-game point streak. He continues to be en fuego with 30 points in his last 39 games.
But not so for Josh Anderson, who keeps acting like one of the most frustrating players to watch -- he's not offensively productive but neither does he use his physicality to impact the game. His efforts just seem to be going nowhere. And so, here he is, under his current identity.
Finally, when you spend time on the main forum of this site, posters are so quick to brag and posture about reject players on their favorite team that they like to offer up in fake trades. However, when you look closely at the posting history of said posters pimping their rejects, it should come as no surprise, that ...
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The Oilers prevailed in OT on Tuesday. Even more painful was the loss of Joshua Roy who is out indefinitely.
Trevor Letowski has been acting as interim head coach in MSL's indefinite absence and tonight will be his 3rd game flying solo behind the bench.
We have been mostly wondering what Letowski had been doing while MSL was here, now we get to see him in a role with greater responsibilities. Evenso, some of us can't seem to shake off the association with his tablet device, that he is so fond of during games, as often noted by @Apoplectic Habs Fan in GDTs.
Letowski may be acting as a head coach right now but to some, he'll always embody this ...
Not too much of a stretch to imagine what he's like when conducting practices ...
Legend has it that he's logged into the game for so many hours, that the makers of Angry Birds decided to turn him into one of their characters.
Kidding aside, if the Edmonton game is any indication, the players showed a lot of guts and effort with Letowski behind the bench -- which means either Letowski is highly respected by the players or ... he's doing a good job taking instructions from MSL, who continues to monitor the team and make decisions from a distance.
One of this season's contentious points has been the high number of minutes that Mike Matheson logs in. He seems to be used for 27-28 mins + quite regularly, even when the Habs have not been playing meaningful games for quite some time.
MSL has created a season-long blueprint for deploying Matheson, for reasons that are difficult to fathom other than by adapting the analytical model introduced by this forum's @Skip Bayless recently ...
Looking like "Billy" has latitude to do as he pleases.
There are bright spots with the likes of Suzuki and Armia finally making good use of his assets in the last 2 months or so.
And Slaf of course, has remained productive in what has looked like a breakout for him. He had an assist on Suzuki's goal vs. the Oil, sustaining a 5-game point streak. He continues to be en fuego with 30 points in his last 39 games.
But not so for Josh Anderson, who keeps acting like one of the most frustrating players to watch -- he's not offensively productive but neither does he use his physicality to impact the game. His efforts just seem to be going nowhere. And so, here he is, under his current identity.
Finally, when you spend time on the main forum of this site, posters are so quick to brag and posture about reject players on their favorite team that they like to offer up in fake trades. However, when you look closely at the posting history of said posters pimping their rejects, it should come as no surprise, that ...
LINEUPS
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