I will watch and I will hate myself for itFor the first time this season I will purposely not watch.
Why waste time watching them get outclassed....
Habs have 5 games against a Calgary team that they can't beat. Habs may not make the playoffs
Shocking! Only had to get obvious to the point where the TSN commentators were pointing it out for the coach to realize.
Shocking! Only had to get obvious to the point where the TSN commentators were pointing it out for the coach to realize.
Seems Ducharme has corrected the two glaring mistakes he had made with the lineup.
1. Splitting up Petry and Edmondson.
2. trying KK at wing.
No coach can succeed with a group of players who don't compliment each other like this.
Red Fisher use to say "show me the players"
Either too young and not quite ready, too old and slowing down, waiver pickups, throw ins from trades.
I feel for the few new players who are now mired in this colossal disaster that never seems to end.
Ya I understand the logic of both moves, but I think it’s quite clear both were ultimately mistakes. The Petry-Edmonton split was evident for a while so do wish he realized that mistake earlier. KK mistake he at least has recognized quickly.While I didn't like KK at the wing, at least it was only very brief. He got a new player in Staal and gave him a shot for a few games. It felt like an eternity. But it was just a few games...
I understand why he broke up Eddy-Petry: he had to find a solution for Weber with what we have, and Kulak-Petry had worked in spurts in the past. But glad he's now going to try to find a different solution for the Weber pairing problem, now that Kulak-Petry are failing.
I'm disappointed Staal played so long at C and many other things took so long. But I guess because we had Julien for so long, I like that at least Ducharme acts much, much more quickly than Julien - and it's not even close.
the lines today:
Tatar/Armia - Danault - Byron
Toffoli - Suzuki - Evans
Drouin - Kotkaniemi - Anderson
Lehkonen - Staal - Perry
Kulak - Weber
Edmundson - Petry
Romanov - Leskinen
Frolik - Mete
Allen
Primeau
I like that KK is back at C.
I like that Staal is on the 4th line (though I think he should be on the wing)
I like that Evans is getting a shot on the wing. I think he might do well there. So hopefully Staal at 4c doesn't cost us the game. If Staal is brutal, Evans will have to go back to 4c.
As for the D, Weber has struggled mightily. Kulak-Weber could be really ugly. I still think Romanov-Weber was the solution until a trade. Kulak-Petry had been good in the past, so I don't really blame Ducharme for trying to spread things out, have Eddy help Weber, with the limited personnel he has...
Not all is perfect, but at least changes, and some positive ones.
We will see tomorrow how many top4 LD are actually traded.I hope by tomorrow's deadline, MB proves us wrong and he brings someone of significance on D. But we should prepare ourselves for a depth D acquisition.