Pre-Game Talk: MTL @ EDM Saturday 21 Dec, 7 pm EST

[Roadhouse]

Some pressure on the Oilers for them to win tonight... lost 5-2 in front of the home crowd last night, last home game tonight before the holidays. Calgary is on their tail in the standings.

 

[PaulD]

AHL team won some games latelly, go away with that

So have the Sens.

 

[PaulD]

Some pressure on the Oilers for them to win tonight... lost 5-2 in front of the home crowd last night, last home game tonight before the holidays. Calgary is on their tail in the standings.

Calgary is going nowhere. Its there off year for play offs. This year they miss.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Stay out of the box and we will win this one

 

[Big Lurk]

Really hope Kulak and Mete can get it together and hold down the 2nd and 3rd pairs. I don't want to mortgage the future while we await Romanov, Norlinder, Struble and Harris.

Hopefully we get another Chiarot this summer (unlikely). In the meantime it's up to Mete and Kulak. Reilly is not able to do the job.

At this point its time to experiment with making him a RW

 

[domiwroze]

Are you guys ready to see Kulak and Reilly defending against McDavid and Draisailt ?

 

[Roadhouse]

Are you guys ready to see Kulak and Reilly defending against McDavid and Draisailt ?

Take a shot every time McDavid 1-on-1's one of our guys badly. Either skates by with the puck or completes a laser-quick takeaway to fly off with the puck.

Sounds fun..?

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Doubt I'll be able to watch this got a Christmas thing today. Hoping for another win, but not expecting it.

Go Gabs Go!!

 

[peate]

Forget Connor and Leon, it's Kassian we have to worry about. Remember him? Was a Hab once. Now has 13 goals on the season.

 

[domiwroze]

Take a shot every time McDavid 1-on-1's one of our guys badly. Either skates by with the puck or completes a laser-quick takeaway to fly off with the puck.

Sounds fun..?

We gon be sick by the 2nd period

 

[26Mats]

At this point its time to experiment with making him a RW

Who are you referring to?

 

[The Real Timo]

I am not worried. Jordan Weal and Nick Cousins baby. McDavid got nothing on them.

 

[Roadhouse]

Who are you referring to?

Reilly probably. I mean the guy already loves to go way down behind the opposing net anyways.

 

[WeThreeKings]

There's so many mediocre teams in the NHL that if the Habs play non pants shitting defense and Price plays well, they can win games even though they're not a competitive team for the Cup.

 

[Runner77]

Forget Connor and Leon, it's Kassian we have to worry about. Remember him? Was a Hab once. Now has 13 goals on the season.

Good for him. However, he was mostly a Hab on paper:

He never played a regular season game with the Canadiens. Instead, he was placed on waivers before the Canadiens managed to trade him to the Edmonton Oilers on Dec. 28, 2015, for goaltender Ben Scrivens.

Woman charged with crashing NHL player's truck while impaired learns fate today

Brings back memories of a dark time in Montreal. And that's just the idea of Scrivens as a Hab.

 

[26Mats]

There's so many mediocre teams in the NHL that if the Habs play non pants ****ting defense and Price plays well, they can win games even though they're not a competitive team for the Cup.

What do you mean by mediocre?

In the cap NhL, it's hard to build an sll star team full of big salary players. As ll teams will have a balance and any team can best any other team on any night.

Boston creamed us 8-1 one night. But it's far from impossible for us to tske them out in the playoffs next if we were to squeak in. Look what happened to Tampa, Pittsburgh and Washington last year in the playoffs.

 

[Roadhouse]

What do you mean by mediocre?

In the cap NhL, it's hard to build an sll star team full of big salary players. As ll teams will have a balance and any team can best any other team on any night.

Boston creamed us 8-1 one night. But it's far from impossible for us to tske them out in the playoffs next if we were to squeak in. Look what happened to Tampa, Pittsburgh and Washington last year in the playoffs.

He means "average". Not mediocre in the French sense.

That's the challenge with the new NHL - you need to either have a super solid base of a roster with great timing to contend for years, OR you commit to a window. We're doing neither.

 

[Big Lurk]

Who are you referring to?

Mike Rielly

i mean he cant defend...

 

[Roadhouse]

Mike Rielly

i mean he cant defend...

And, to your point, the man can skate.

 

[Habs10025]

Phil Danault:

"McDavid, c'est.. c'est un autre level, là."

"On a joué un bon 40 minutes hier. Si on peut jouer 60 min..."

https://www.rds.ca/videos/hockey/ln...l-c-est-un-monstre-a-2-tetes-hockey-3.1353561

Discuss.

Edmonton are easily the most overrated team in the league . McDavid , Draisaitl , Two players who have never won anything . All they've proven over the years is they are beatable .

 

[1909]

Are you guys ready to see Kulak and Reilly defending against McDavid and Draisailt ?

CJ will take care of that and put Chiarot and Weber on the ice vs these guys.

 

[1909]

Edmonton are easily the most overrated team in the league . McDavid , Draisaitl , Two players who have never won anything . All they've proven over the years is they are beatable .

Their defensive game is weak as well as their goaltending. They have to fix that before thinking they can contend for a Cup.

 

[Roadhouse]

CJ will take care of that and put Chiarot and Weber on the ice vs these guys.

Very fast movable objects vs. very slow immovable objects.

 

[1909]

Very fast movable objects vs. very slow immovable objects.

This Chiarot-Weber combo can handle them anyway IF the forwards backcheck properly.

 

[Monsieur Miz]

Edmonton are easily the most overrated team in the league . McDavid , Draisaitl , Two players who have never won anything . All they've proven over the years is they are beatable .

How are they overrated, everybody agree that without McDavid they'd be dead last.

They're a shit team with no depth whatsoever.