Neal Pionk with a pretty nasty goal...GOTY Candidate?

[ijuka]

Nice goal, pretty overrated though. He didn't exactly need to do much.

 

[Nizdizzle]

Beautiful goal and great rush.

I hate it when people do this, but what kinda effort was that by Price? Just kinda rolled over and died.

 

[ijuka]

Beautiful goal and great rush.

I hate it when people do this, but what kinda effort was that by Price? Just kinda rolled over and died.

One of the reasons this goal isn't that impressive to me. You can't really cut in that close because it's a free poke check for the goalie. But he just didn't do anything. And also, the D just let him pass, it was like watching Griffin Reinhart during his Oilers stint.

No difficult bypass, impressive shot or hands displayed. Again, a nice goal but nowhere near GOTY.

 

[Whitesnake]

Everytime I see a goal like that I think of the wise people in here who see those moves in juniors and say...''I would NEVER happen in the pros''....lol

 

[Aspirine]

2/10 hockey name. Filthy goal, Habs defenders should be sent to north korea for this.

 

[1specter]

His name is worth a thread

Seriously that goal was phenomenal.

How do you even pronounce his name? Punk? Ponk? Pee-yonk? Pink?

 

[EpicDing]

How do you even pronounce his name? Punk? Ponk? Pee-yonk? Pink?

Pee-yonk.

 

[Fataldogg]

Beautiful goal and great rush.

I hate it when people do this, but what kinda effort was that by Price? Just kinda rolled over and died.

Yeah, I agree. Almost no effort by Price on the play. He was good in the game up until that point. But, I feel for Montreal fans. That guy in net isnt a good goaltender anymore and has the worst contract in the league.

 

[Mallard]

Unreal wow

 

[SML2]

That's 10.5 million dollars worth of goaltending?

 

[tradenashnow]

His defense is fine. Our fan base is clueless on this guy. Then again, it's no surprise. They have done nothing but complain about our defenseman for over 10 years and let the forwards off the hook all the time. Pionk has 40 games of NHL experience, is playing 25 minutes a night vs. other teams top lines. Yet, our fans complain.

 

[Cellee]

How do you even pronounce his name? Punk? Ponk? Pee-yonk? Pink?

I was wondering the same thing!

 

[Better Call Sal]

I've seen better defending in non-contact open roller hockey.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

His defense is fine. Our fan base is clueless on this guy. Then again, it's no surprise. They have done nothing but complain about our defenseman for over 10 years and let the forwards off the hook all the time. Pionk has 40 games of NHL experience, is playing 25 minutes a night vs. other teams top lines. Yet, our fans complain.

If he had 50% CF, they’d be saying he’s a 1D.

The guy takes the hardest assignments, all situations, he’s not even 50 games into his career, completely unheralded with no outside fanfare. Didn’t even get drafted, and has little name recognition, unlike many worse defensemen on our roster.

I think there’s some middle ground here. More likely a 3, potentially a 2, but the way some fans talk about him is very disrespectful and frankly out of touch with reality. Hockey is not played on a computer.

 

[Lays]

Unnecessary spin move to start was legit, but after that it looked like pretty bad play by every Hab on the ice. good goal, but not GOTY worthy.

The spin wasn’t unnecessary, Pionk faked going one way then spun to go the other which fooled Drouin

 

[Axel574]

I don't know about GOTY. It was pretty sweet yes but the defense was just sitting around watching him.. he didn't do anything too spectacular in my opinion.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Bobby Orr would be proud of that end-to-end rush

 

[boompuffboom]

carey just waffled on this. nice goal thou!

 

[JeremyTB]

That was brutal by Price. Pionk only had one option and that was to cut to the inside and yet Price barely reacts like he was expecting Pionk to shoot or something.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

That was a sweet goal, however I don't see how this would be GOTY. He went coast to coast, but he was hardly challenged. Drouin barely tracked him, 58 let him walk right around him and 28 let him cut straight to the net unchallenged. and he didn't exactly pull a jaw-dropping move.

 

[Grimm]

O/U on the guy posting “soft NHL players” being 50 years old?

e: fan of the red wings.. Wishes hockey would go back to 2000s, even 2010 lmao. That’s when the wings were good!

It has absolutely nothing to do with the Red Wings and everything to do with how you'd plan your night around a much anticipated game. I'd watch more games of NON DRW teams due to some of the heated games. That just doesn't exist anymore. We used to get excited about intense games. Now we get excited over an unimpeded rookie. Sad.

 

[snipes]

Looking like Bobby out there holy **** what a goal

 

[Son of Petter]

Good for this kid. Nice goal.

 

[Unpredictable1]

So much hate in here for a rookie that made a hot team get caught watching, including what many think, is an elite goaltender (definitely not saying he isn't), do a coast to coast goal that is seldom seen in this league...

Swap Ranger Blue wearing 44 for a number 76 in either Preds or Habs colors and this thread is 20+ pages.

 

[LyricalLyricist]

It was an impressive play and Montreal played it pathetically soft. Plenty of great end to end rushes have happened all throughout the history of the game, it's not some new phenomenon. Teams played joke defense for literally decades.

Nobody forced MTL to play that like white bread.

I'm a MTL fan and I agree. Habs played it soft and made it wayyy too easy for him.

It would be foolish to blame lack of physicality, there wasn't even a legit poke check.