Habs Icing
Formerly Onice
Where have all his defenders gone?
I spent 3 of 4 years going up against legions of them in this very thread. Every tenedency I pointed out throughout those years have finally come home to roost. None of it had anything at all to do with scoring goals. It was all geared towards what he wasn't doing some 95% of the time out there. All except the one year he spent playing a good chunck of the season with Plek. His best year by far in terms implication. I never won an argument against the guys who focused on the G column.
I was complaining about Patches from the get-go and there are quite a few posters ragging on him now but the irony is the minute he starts scoring (during the regular season) all will be forgotten.
The problem with Patches is that if he doesn't score the rest of his game isn't even AHL level. Pleks doesn't score but he brings other things to the table. The question with Pleks is not whether he's a NHL player but rather if he is 5 million or 2.5 million NHL player. When Patches doesn't score he brings nothing to the table. AND when he was scoring it was never when the team needed him: playoffs and international tournaments.
MB should see if he could get a Duchene return and trade him. I never liked this player even when he was hitting his 35 goals a year.