Post-Game Talk: Habs in the SENS Den, Saturday Night 7pm on TSN

[Ice-Tray]

Poulin seems to hold DJ in very high regard as a coach, interesting.

Also explained from personal experience why vets didn’t play and agreed with the line up, (only wanted to play 4 games max in preseason as a player) also interesting.

Good game tonight, fast paced, Kelly and Grieg were the best players out there, Bran had some solid moments as well. Ostapchuk was invisible, as was jar Soks, and virtually everyone else save for Smegal and Kasty who were also clear NHLers

Goaltending was bad, MTL was pretty bad, for an NHL team. I enjoyed watching the game.

 

[PatrickEaves]

What is injury to Fizer?

Lower Body.

 

[Ouroboros]

 

[Bileur]

Surprised to see Imama go down in light of the MacEwen injury. Maybe it’s not serious.

 

[Flamingo]

Greig staying with Ottawa this week? Good.

 

[Psycroptic86]

Didn't watch this one but safe to say Bailey was bad?

No he's just too slow.

 

[PatrickEaves]

Surprised to see Imama go down in light of the MacEwen injury. Maybe it’s not serious.

He was sent down because he's ass. The guy isn't even AHL quality.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Greig staying with Ottawa this week? Good.

With Norris heading for LTIR and Pinto having missed all of camp, I don't think we can afford to send Greig down.

 

[DrEasy]

There goes Jar Jar's dream of starting the season as the #3 C with the Sens. Lost the position to Greig.

 

[dpw]

Z MacEwen. What a uselASS signing. 6 preseason games and not one face punch throwen. PD needs to go ASAP. Seriously, 3 year contract for this tool? WTF!

 

[PatrickEaves]

There goes Jar Jar's dream of starting the season as the #3 C with the Sens. Lost the position to Greig.

I miss him already.

 

[RAFI BOMB]

Sokolov showed some good things in this game IMO. He was a bit flat footed in the first, but did a lot of good things as the game went on.

He reminds me a lot of Nick Paul. Different kinds of players, but both took a while to finally make the jump to the NHL and both were written off by a lot of people. Paul had to be waived 3 times before he finally cracked the NHL.

I think Sokolov will crack the NHL fulltime this year.

He has two things working against him and work against people believing in him. First is his skating. It is much better and his top speed is good, but he still doesn't have great agility and turning. His skating flaws were always going to be more noticeable with a weaker roster and in particular a weaker d lineup. In the majority of preseason games he has got into there has been the weak roster and d which created more chaotic play and as a consequence highlighted his weaknesses in skating. With a full lineup and strong d corp, he would perform much better.

Second, he has a tendency to get in his head and think the game too much instead of just playing. It has been a common challenge for him starting the season's in Belleville, where the coaching staff would point out his slower start and the fact that he is thinking too much. When he thinks the game too much and is caught up in his head, he doesn't move his feet as much and can get flat footed. His skating issues become more apparent when that happens. He can also squeeze the stick too tight which causes him to be less effective with the puck.

I am sure lots of people on here will disagree with me, but I think he showed a lot of good signs in training camp and isn't far off from being a fulltime NHL player. I think the fact that he cleared waivers helped him in some ways as he could use a bit more grooming at the AHL level. I won't be surprised if he has a strong start to the year in the AHL, gets a call up at some point and then sticks with the big club for the rest of the year after that.

 

[KingAlfie11]

No he's just too slow.

Bailey has been pretty good

 

[starling]

Bailey not released, so I guess they are signing him. It better be league minimum.

 

[JackieDaytona]

Bailey not released, so I guess they are signing him. It better be league minimum.

Pure f***ing idiocy.
Edit: not you.

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Is Bailey thirteenth forward?

 

[redbrick98]

Is Bailey thirteenth forward?

They have no room, they need to sign Pinto

 

[DylanSensFan]

Merilainen is better than both.

I disagree. But I guess we'll see.

 

[milkbag]

Bailey not released, so I guess they are signing him. It better be league minimum.

You were supposed to bring balance to roster decisions Staios, not destroy them!

 

[SensHulk]

What more could Jarventie do to make the team? I admittedly didn’t watch much of the preseason but seeing him show up on the stats sheet almost every game felt like a shoe in

 

[Icelevel]

What more could Jarventie do to make the team? I admittedly didn’t watch much of the preseason but seeing him show up on the stats sheet almost every game felt like a shoe in

I think he’s still just 21 right? Lots of time for him to develop further. Next year is a good time for him to come up full time.

 

[JD1]

Random thoughts

The Brannstrom to Kubalik goal was a thing of beauty

Soogard wasn't Soogood. A few softies.

At times I get Parker Kelly and at times I don't. He's a shit disturber and if he can draw more penalties than he takes, he can be ok. But that might be a tall ask.

Sokolov can't skate at an NHL level. Neither can Bailey who turned a potential 2 on 1 into nothing

Jarventie is going to be a player

My god the Habs are awful. They had their hands full playing a team without a single top 6/4 player and at that won because a young goalie let in some softies

 

[Burrowsaurus]

What more could Jarventie do to make the team? I admittedly didn’t watch much of the preseason but seeing him show up on the stats sheet almost every game felt like a shoe in

Dj spoke about him post game. Sung his praises and said he’s close very close. Ideally neither him nor Grieg are here. They both need some more seasoning

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Remember last year when some people really liked heatherington

 

[Masterplan]

They have no room, they need to sign Pinto

They can sign him to a two-way contract and bury him in Belleville once Pinto signs/Norris returns.