Post-Game Talk: Habs lose to Skej Parée & Assorted Jerks

[Rapala]

90 shot attempts in 60 minutes

 

[HabbyGuy]

90 shot attempts in 60 minutes

All by Suzuki, unless you meant the Canes, lol then nevermind.

 

[The Real Timo]

Pretty sure he has been ever since he signed that ridiculous contract.

I don't miss him a bit.

How can you miss him when we got Dvorak?

 

[teamfirst]

I can’t be the only one wondering how much longer we are going to play that Bantam level D coverage…

No you're not, but we are in the minority it seems

 

[HabbyGuy]

How can you miss him when we got Dvorak?

Right?

 

[Sam de Mtl]

Welp. Tankers will be happy we got a mostly good game out of it too. Roy is taking big strides.

KK has no pulse.

 

[Scintillating10]

Good first 2 periods. After Roy's goal was called back early in 3rd Montreal kind of deflated. They lost their legs in 3rd period.

Roy is looking good to be a top 6 player for us next year. Newhook-Dach-Roy seems like it could be a good 2nd line.

Just need to build the other 2 lines. Slafkovsky looks likes he starting to tire. He didn't play a full season last year. Not a great game by Caufield or Suzuki for that matter. It happens.

Our best line was the Newhook line with Armia & Roy. 4th line got stuck in our end for long, long shifts. At least twice of 2 minutes or more.

D was ok. Montembeault was pretty solid.

Saturday we play the Leafs (who are losing 4-1 to Bruins). We'll see how different our lineup is by then. TDL is tomorrow at 3 pm.

So, you saying Habs not in top 6 forward market this summer?

 

[teamfirst]

It's gonna be a little longer..

They'll start tightening screws when most of the parts are finally assembled.

You seem so sure of that, would love to have your optimism

 

[HabbyGuy]

You seem so sure of that, would love to have your optimism

Yes. I am confident we have the right people in place driving this ship, and they're following their sound gameplan.

Better days ahead.

It just hard to digest in the meantime.

A true rebuild for a hab fan is a completely foreign exercise.

 

[Rapala]

I can’t be the only one wondering how much longer we are going to play that Bantam level D coverage…

I'm fairly certain its going to be a point of interrogation in the season end debrief. The media aren't letting up on it.
Marty will be coaching for his new contract and HuGo won't be able to continue to overlook the warts.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

So, you saying Habs not in top 6 forward market this summer?

I would still sign one or trade for one. We need scoring depth throughout lineup. I like Roy and Newhook, but if one of them is on 3rd line to start next year, that's actually good news for us.

We don't get anything from bottom 6, and that needs to change.

I don't see our 1st round draft pick being in NHL next year unless we get Celebrini.

 

[HabbyGuy]

I'm fairly certain its going to be a point of interrogation in the season end debrief. The media aren't letting up on it.
Marty will be coaching for his new contract and HuGo won't be able to continue to overlook the warts.

Meh, I think Marty and Kent are in sympatico on this and are completely fine with the direction the team is headed.

I'd even surmise Hughes is very pleased with MSL's work. (as he should be)

Media, and hockey fan forums be damned.

They have a plan and are determined to see it through, and thank goodness for that.

We've desperately needed a proper direction for decades, no changing course now.

Some are just having trouble seeing the forest through the trees.

Another important offseason approaches, the picture will become a little clearer. I'm intrigued to see what Kent will do.

 

[The Real Timo]

I'm fairly certain its going to be a point of interrogation in the season end debrief. The media aren't letting up on it.
Marty will be coaching for his new contract and HuGo won't be able to continue to overlook the warts.

Where / who exactly in the media even asking about it? Habs media are a bunch of lazy bloated brown-nosers. All questions must toe the line.

 

[teamfirst]

I'm fairly certain its going to be a point of interrogation in the season end debrief. The media aren't letting up on it.
Marty will be coaching for his new contract and HuGo won't be able to continue to overlook the warts.

Exactly what i think too

 

[Rapala]

So, you saying Habs not in top 6 forward market this summer?

They will always be in the top 6 market but the reality is it's far more likely the improvements will have to come in our bottom 6 first.
I'm sure they'd love to see where our top 6 is with Dach in the line up first.
If however something falls in their laps they obviously won't say no.

 

[CharleyHorse]

Mr $20 signing bonus must drive home after games laughing his ass off that he's getting paid 4.82m to play 11 minutes a night and do f all out there.

Yeah, we certainly dodged that bullet. Way to "learn" us a lesson,for offersheeting your boy, Dundon. Thank goodness for small mercies.

 

[Rapala]

Where / who exactly in the media even asking about it? Habs media are a bunch of lazy bloated brown-nosers. All questions must toe the line.

RDS bring it up every game on l'Antichambre.
A debrief is an internal exercise and has nothing to do with the press.
But they do pay attention to what is being said.

 

[salbutera]

I'm fairly certain its going to be a point of interrogation in the season end debrief. The media aren't letting up on it.
Marty will be coaching for his new contract and HuGo won't be able to continue to overlook the warts.

There were rumors a longterm extension for MSL is done and waiting to be announced at the appropriate time - I read it some 4-6 weeks ago

 

[Rapala]

There were rumors a longterm extension for MSL is done and waiting to be announced at the appropriate time - I read it some 4-6 weeks ago

It wouldn't surprise me.

 

[BJCOLLINS]

what a weird feeling I had watching the disallowed goal?
I was like shit we have to stop banking points. I hate to lose but when you’re out of the PO race play well but stay away from loser pts.
Our young (& injured) team is playing well &….the future (?) got’a wear shades, lol.
Cheers.

 

[calder candidate]

I like to see Roy or Armia on the PP1 vs. Neehook… we have Suzuki and Matheson to carry the puck.

 

[The Real Timo]

That would be a disaster. MSL is a wrong coach going forward, not to mention his assistants. That whole crew has got to go if Habs have any aspiration to start moving forward.

 

[montreal]

It shouldn't be surprising that MSL would be back, he's for sure the right coach for now as the job he's done with Caufield, Slaf, plus Suzuki has hit an elite level. They are going to have a lot of youth incoming like Roy, Struble, Xhekaj have done this year so with a big influx next season of Hutson, Reinbacher, Engstrom, Mesar, Beck, Tuch, plus whatever they opt to do with Xhekaj and Kapanen.

I don't know how the blueliners are progressing or not as I haven't seen more then 5 minutes here or there at a time but I haven't been overly impressed with any of them but at the same time it's asking a ton of them to have so many young blueliners at the same time so mistakes are going to happen and often.

So I don't know who on his staff needs to go or should stay.

 

[Mrb1p]

It shouldn't be surprising that MSL would be back, he's for sure the right coach for now as the job he's done with Caufield, Slaf, plus Suzuki has hit an elite level. They are going to have a lot of youth incoming like Roy, Struble, Xhekaj have done this year so with a big influx next season of Hutson, Reinbacher, Engstrom, Mesar, Beck, Tuch, plus whatever they opt to do with Xhekaj and Kapanen.

I don't know how the blueliners are progressing or not as I haven't seen more then 5 minutes here or there at a time but I haven't been overly impressed with any of them but at the same time it's asking a ton of them to have so many young blueliners at the same time so mistakes are going to happen and often.

So I don't know who on his staff needs to go or should stay.

How do you know Cole, Slaf and the forwards are progressing then? Hint: cole isnt, he clearly regressed. Hope its the shoulder.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Exactly what i think too

The media are irrelevant and in cast they will never question a french coach.