Confirmed with Link: Habs claim Chris Tierney

[Milhouse40]

Laval is already in Montreal need some bodies.....but me that have that strong feeling Dvorak is being showcased and might be traded, this just reinforced those thought but hey, I'm wrong on those things

 

[Habs Halifax]

exactly. They don't have enough warm bodies. I don't think this has anything to do with an imminent trade

Agreed.

 

[morhilane]

Bad news for Dach, Monahan, or Dvorak is wanted?

Dach has a lower body injury.
Armia won't play tomorrow due to illness but since Dach's illness was actually a lower body injury.

Habs only have 11 "healthy" forwards for tomorrow's game and barely 6 healthy dmen...and the AHL roster is like depleted already.

Also, lower cap hit than Pitlick/Ylonen so once IR people comes back, they can save some cap space by keeping him up over them.

 

[Treb]

Desperate would not be the word I would choose in a waivers claim. It's not different than claiming Monty, Pitlick, or Kova.

But yes, we have issues up the middle after Suzuki. I called out our center depth heading into this year. Laval does not have NHL ready centers. If we did have it, it's very possible Slaf would have played AHL this season.

Suzuki is the 5th or 6th most used forward in the entire NHL. We need to mange that better. Tierney will help

At this point, Tierney is a 4th line C/13th fwd, not sure how much he would help Suzuki's usage.

 

[red devil]

With the Armia injury they only have 11 healthy forwards and they only have 6 healthy defenseman. To have a full line up they needed to add a fresh body.

 

[Habs Halifax]

At this point, Tierney is a 4th line C/13th fwd, not sure how much he would help Suzuki's usage.

It's better than Drouin at center. We can't predict how MSL will use him IMO. Not sure if Tierney can play PK but if he can, that alone can reduce Suzuki's usage slightly.

 

[Runner77]

He’s not small so @Habs will be happy. But … can he fight?

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Hopefully this means we're shipping someone out soon. Florida had to waive him to activate Duclair off LTIR.
Tierney sucks though.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Hopefully this means we're shipping someone out soon. Florida had to waive him to activate Duclair off LTIR.
Tierney sucks though.

Is he worse than Evans?

 

[Tuggy]

They need NHL forwards.

Can only call up so many players from Laval.

It's crazy how many injuries they have right now...

 

[beowulf]

The injured list is at a point of requiring this I gues

Out right now, Price, Monahan, Byron, Gallagher, Evans, Slafkovsky, Caufield, Guhle and Xhekaj ouch

 

[salbutera]

Yet posters whine Habs are not doing what it takes to tank…

 

[Rapala]

More meat for the grinder.

 

[Habs Halifax]

From age 24-27, he played 1:33 min/game on the PK for the Sens. 31.7% of his time on ice. Right now, Suzuki is at 1:38 min/game on the PK. Maybe Tierney can lighten that load a bit.

Blocks/60, Hits/60, Giveaways/60, and Takeaways/60 is nothing to brag about. Actually not better or worse than what Evans provided this year.

 

[Tyson]

Tierney was pretty good when he first arrived to Ottawa.
He is just a warm body at this point.
Another player our medical staff can screw up.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Is he worse than Evans?

Way worse. He's spent the majority of the year in AHL. He cleared opening season waivers.

 

[Habs Halifax]

With the Armia injury they only have 11 healthy forwards and they only have 6 healthy defenseman. To have a full line up they needed to add a fresh body.

It's more about center depth than forward depth. This prevents us from being forced to play Drouin at center.

Right now, our center depth is Suzuki, Dvorak, Drouin, Belzile. Think about it

 

[morhilane]

The injured list is at a point of requiring this I gues

Out right now, Price, Monahan, Byron, Gallagher, Evans, Slafkovsky, Caufield, Guhle and Xhekaj ouch

You are a few short, Wideman and Eddy are injured too. And Armia is a big maybe for tomorrow.

 

[sandviper]

Question is, does he know how to drive a tank?

 

[Wats]

How close are Habs to 50 contacts? Maybe Dach out longer than we think.

Edit: just saw that he is indeed out for a while... Damn

 

[Habs Halifax]

Way worse. He's spent the majority of the year in AHL. He cleared opening season waivers.

Not sure about that. If Evans was on the Panthers, he might have been put on waivers and played AHL as well. I like Evans but he's not better than Tierney. I expected Evans to take a step forward this year but he didn't. Lets look at both their last full seasons.... Evans put up a bit more points but after that, I see similar value when I look at block/hits/takeaways/giveaways per 60 min's.

I think we get similar value to what Evans provided us this year before he got injured. The gap is not massive.

 

[red devil]

You are a few short, Wideman and Eddy are injured too. And Armia is a big maybe for tomorrow.

Dach isn't on the road trip

 

[Captain Mountain]

How close are Habs to 50 contacts? Maybe Dach out longer than we think.

I'm pretty sure they're at 47.

 

[morhilane]

How close are Habs to 50 contacts? Maybe Dach out longer than we think.

47 contracts (including Tierney)

 

[Habaneros]

Question is, does he know how to drive a tank?