Speculation: Leafs or Habs! Who you picking to win??

[Burrowsaurus]

Pretty sure Montreal can score more than this

Against Vancouver sure

 

[JungleBeat]

Nylander is stepping up.

 

[playasRus]

All Pageau on that goal

 

[Alfie11]

All Pageau on that goal

Penguins look serious.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Petry was on fire at the beginning of the year.. pretty unnoticeable in this series. Montreal's D seems slow. Their Blue line play has been pretty bad at keeping pucks in as well. I think it would look better with Mete and Romonov in the lineup. We've watched lots of Sens games where they get dominated in their own end, and are one and done, if that going the other way.. Montreal's PP is ineffective .. We've seen lots of that too. Sens are on the up swing ..can't say the same for the Habs imo.

Habs pushing the pace a bit more here in the 3rd

 

[playasRus]

Montreal's D seems slow. Their Blue line play has been pretty bad at keeping pucks in as well. I think it would look better with Mete and Romonov in the lineup. We've watched lots of Sens games where they get dominated in their own end, and are one and done, if that going the other way.. Montreal's PP is ineffective .. We've seen lots of that too.

Habs pushing the pace a bit more here in the 3rd

Yup.
I'm also watching Sandin and seeing how he helps carry the play into the offensive zone for the forwards which Montreal struggles a lot to do. Fast, creative but diminuative defenseman. Sound familiar?

 

[Bileur]

Petry was on fire at the beginning of the year.. pretty unnoticeable in this series. Montreal's D seems slow. Their Blue line play has been pretty bad at keeping pucks in as well. I think it would look better with Mete and Romonov in the lineup. We've watched lots of Sens games where they get dominated in their own end, and are one and done, if that going the other way.. Montreal's PP is ineffective .. We've seen lots of that too. Sens are on the up swing ..can't say the same for the Habs imo.

Habs pushing the pace a bit more here in the 3rd

I can’t believe this team waived Mete. He and Romanov over say Kulak and Merrill would make their D look way better.

How do you bench a guy who can skate, hit and agitate like Romanov in the playoffs? It’s crazy.

 

[Senscore]

Ok Habs maybe now would be a good time to score

 

[Ouroboros]

Future Stanley Cup champion Jack Campbell holding the fort.

Leafs looking elite.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Habs coming close .. A lot more life than they've shown in the 1st 2 periods.

A little more O from the D would help a lot

 

[topshelf15]

Yeah Montreal, trying to do what we did to them with the huge physical blueline...They seemed to have forgotten about us having EK

 

[Tuna99]

Montreal is not a threatening hockey team. They’ve done very little this series to deserve to win. Price has been excellent but he can’t score goals

 

[Senscore]

Sigh

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Perry made a great play to Suzuki for a tap in and couldn't get it to go

 

[Burrowsaurus]

Chiarot edmundsson merrill no thanks

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Caufield was impressive imo.. should have been in the first 2. His speed has really improved this year..
He is quick .. great IQ ; awareness and probably the best shot per pound in the league

 

[Bileur]

Future Stanley Cup champion Jack Campbell holding the fort.

Leafs looking elite.

They’re looking good but I don’t know how much of it is what they’re doing and how much is how bad the habs are sucking. Many of their D are having a hard time making a good pass.

 

[MarkStone]

Leafs try the score effects prevent defence stuff for a whole period against a better team than Montreal and they aren't gonna make it too far. Even against a flawed team like the Jets and I see that game going to at least overtime.

 

[maclean]

I don't know what it was like live but the highlights made this feel like an exciting game of playoff hockey and I felt surprisingly engaged for a game where I want both teams to lose. Both goalies were pulling off insane saves

 

[Back in Black]

It was a much closer game than the previous 5-1 loss....

 

[Xspyrit]

Montreal is a good solid all-around team (particularly when Price is at the top of his game) but they're lacking talent, particularly against a team like Toronto

20 y/o rookie Caufield is their most skilled player by a good margin.

Outside of some very rare hits, that team can't draft to save their lives. Bergevin with our drafting prowess would be seen very differently.

Spezza looks like prime spezza compared to the pace simmonds and Thornton play at.

Michel Bergeron is lambasting thornton's use and says the Habs have a big advantage everytime he's on the ice.

Overrated player

Question is who do you take? Norris or Suzuki? One is a much bigger name because of hype and market.

I can’t believe this team waived Mete. He and Romanov over say Kulak and Merrill would make their D look way better.

How do you bench a guy who can skate, hit and agitate like Romanov in the playoffs? It’s crazy.

Their D is pretty strong along the boards and in front of the net but for the rest, it's lacking in many other facets

It's a team that got tired of getting physically dominated but now they're slow outside of Anderson, Danault and Byron

 

[Icelevel]

Yeah I’m ok with TO getting through this round to lose the next.

 

[Xspyrit]

One of the reasons I don't mind Montreal losing first is I am listening too much to their TV coverage, I really need to stop for my sanity lol

So JC Lajoie was talking with Phillipe Boucher (ex NHL D-man) and Lajoie was saying "we have a pure blood like Makar in Montreal (Romanov) and we don't even play him"

JiC, they are not in the same tier lol. It's like saying Brannstrom will be good like Quinn Hughes, just need to play him! Heck, I think Brannstrom = Hughes is much more likely than Romanov = Makar, with a 0.0001% chance

Then Boucher was talking that they not only have Makar but also Girard and Byram coming.

Lajoie then said "but maybe one could be coming to Montreal if we offer them Carey Price"

LOL you're not getting Makar, Girard or Byram for a soon-to-be 34 y/o goalie who has 5 years left at a 10.5 AAV

But the reason he said it wouldn't work is "because Carey is good right now and people don't want to trade him anymore" LOL, sure JiC, that's the reason WHY it wouldn't work

Boucher looked a bit embarassed and said "yeah but they also have a good goalie now in Grubauer"

No doubt in my mind the Avs wouldn't even have traded UFA-to-be Grubauer for Price.

I mean, you have been in the medias for so long and still don't understand the NHL market.

 

[Tuna99]

Marner is by far the best skater on the ice tonight.

 

[Tuna99]

Jason Spezza has more emotion then the entire Habs organization.