Wanted: Puck Moving D

[LeHab]

After losing PK, Markov and Beaulieu Montreal transition game from D to O took a major hit. Petry is OK-ish but there is really no one else to take that puck and ride or make a beauty first pass. Can Mete be groomed into this position? What other solution do we have?

Click to read more...

 

[1909]

Maybe trading Patches for a good one would be ideal.

Not that many available around the league.

 

[The Great Weal]

Lol Beaulieu . While I don't see Reilly as the solution, I think he can be pretty solid.

 

[David Suzuki]

Alzner is going to remake his game.

 

[DramaticGloveSave]

I personally think this should be the target of a Patch trade. LDs generally have low value league wide so we should be able to get one.

 

[The Old Master]

After losing PK, Markov and Beaulieu Montreal transition game from D to O took a major hit. Petry is OK-ish but there is really no one else to take that puck and ride or make a beauty first pass. Can Mete be groomed into this position? What other solution do we have?

you already have a guy that was a good one. (before he made mush out of his brain) if he can comeback you'll be good. imo

 

[sandysan]

I personally think this should be the target of a Patch trade. LDs generally have low value league wide so we should be able to get one.

If LD's have low value league wide that's a match made in heaven for a continually depreciating asset like max.

 

[LeHab]

Lol Beaulieu . While I don't see Reilly as the solution, I think he can be pretty solid.

We know he had many flaws but could at least move that puck.

 

[LeHab]

Maybe trading Patches for a good one would be ideal.

Not that many available around the league.

Lack of PMD could be one of major reasons for Pacioretty goal scoring decline last season.

Analyze This: Habs' lack of puck-moving rearguards stifling Pacioretty

 

[NobleSix]

Maybe we'll draft one in the next 5 years during our rebuild.

 

[Goldenhands]

Beaulieu was a good skater but his passing was off so you cant really consider him a puckmover... Markov's passing was alright but couldnt skate with the puck anymore so his loss hurted the transition but you cant really consider him a puckmover as well since a puckmover by definition can carry the puck with speed and dynamism like Subban used to do and like a kid like Mete can do... Outside of Mete, I think Brook and Fleury have some potential at moving and carrying the puck well enough...

 

[The Great Weal]

We know he had many flaws but could at least move that puck.

Yeah and it always ended up on the other players stick for a breakaway goal against. Idk how you mention Beaulieu as a loss but call Petry ok.

 

[CauZuki]

Alzner is going to remake his game.

Does it comfort you to know that he understands he needs to be better?

 

[The Great Weal]

Beaulieu was a good skater but his passing was off

Along with everything else in his game.

 

[LeHab]

Yeah and it always ended up on the other players stick for a breakaway goal against. Idk how you mention Beaulieu as a loss but call Petry ok.

I'm talking about a specific function of a player and not claiming Beaulieu was Godlike in that aspect either. However he still filled a void as a lower D pairing. MAB used to be terrible on D yet could still be useful in a very specific PMD role.

 

[BehindTheTimes]

Beaulieu was a good skater but his passing was off so you cant really consider him a puckmover... Markov's passing was alright but couldnt skate with the puck anymore so his loss hurted the transition but you cant really consider him a puckmover as well since a puckmover by definition can carry the puck with speed and dynamism like Subban used to do and like a kid like Mete can do... Outside of Mete, I think Brook and Fleury have some potential at moving and carrying the puck well enough...

Markov was still an elite puck mover imo. He could get the Habs in transition much better than any dman currently on the team. Very composed with the puck.

 

[OldCraig71]

Puck moving D men are overrated, am I right Bergevin fans?

 

[Andrei79]

If only the team could draft guys like Subban and Sergachev.

 

[Goldenhands]

Markov was still an elite puck mover imo. He could get the Habs in transition much better than any dman currently on the team. Very composed with the puck.

thats the thing, Habs have none since Subban is gone... An elite puckmover should be able to skate with the puck and support the offense and while Markov had elite vision and passing game, he wasnt skating much with that little rubber on his stick...

 

[BehindTheTimes]

thats the thing, Habs have none since Subban is gone... An elite puckmover should be able to skate with the puck and support the offense and while Markov had elite vision and passing game, he wasnt skating much with that little rubber on his stick...

True, but this was never really his game. What matters was the puck was often travelling out of our zone quickly and into the offensive when Markov was on the ice. I'm less concerned with how he was doing it, ie skating or passing as long as he was doing it. I think he was first in d-zone exits his last year on the team, ahead of Weber and everyone else. Still highly effective at transitioning the puck.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Juulsen is a fine puck moving defenseman too.
We should trade Pacioretty for one that can play the left side

 

[Goldenhands]

True, but this was never really his game. What matters was the puck was often travelling out of our zone quickly and into the offensive when Markov was on the ice. I'm less concerned with how he was doing it, ie skating or passing as long as he was doing it. I think he was first in d-zone exits his last year on the team, ahead of Weber and everyone else. Still highly effective at transitioning the puck.

yeah he was incredibly smart but when talking about PMD, Im more thinking about the Karlsson, Krug, Gostibehere, Jones, Burns of this world to name few... guys that can skate with speed and dynamism through the neutral zone and can tape to tape passes at full speed...

 

[LeHab]

True, but this was never really his game. What matters was the puck was often travelling out of our zone quickly and into the offensive when Markov was on the ice. I'm less concerned with how he was doing it, ie skating or passing as long as he was doing it. I think he was first in d-zone exits his last year on the team, ahead of Weber and everyone else. Still highly effective at transitioning the puck.

This is also the way I see it. We are looking for puck moving D not necessarily puck carrying D. It is all about starting in our territory and making sure front guys get the puck for a scoring chance, there is more than one way to achieve this. While some of his skills were obviously declining, he was still very effective at anticipating movement and making that long range tape to tape pass resulting in scoring chances.

 

[Runner77]

Juulsen is a fine puck moving defenseman too.
We should trade Pacioretty for one that can play the left side

I believe there is a mistake in your avatar ...

 

[BLONG7]

Our GM has destroyed our D....................I still do not understand why this clown has a job...7 years in, and he now wants to build through the draft, and try to land a PMD...brilliant...only the Habs would keep a clown like this around.