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2 Biggest reasons for our current slump

Choose 2 factors to explain slump

  • Fatigue

    Votes: 30 38.0%

  • Defensive lapses at wrong moment

    Votes: 11 13.9%

  • Quality of opponent

    Votes: 4 5.1%

  • Opponent taking MTL seriously

    Votes: 16 20.3%

  • Lack of PP opportunities

    Votes: 5 6.3%

  • Lack of depth/injuries

    Votes: 30 38.0%

  • Secondary scoring drying up

    Votes: 26 32.9%

  • Offense barely generating offensive zone time

    Votes: 17 21.5%

  • Goaltending

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Other (please comment)

    Votes: 7 8.9%
  • Total voters
    79
eklund the clown said:
Pretty well whats being said.We have one line basically that the other team has to concentrate on and thats about it.Laine doesn't do much but score on the PP.We don't generate near enough quality scoring chances.Half of the games we have like 10 shots on goal after 2 periods.No chance of winning games.Goalies are no longer stealing games for us either
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If we expect goalies to steal games as the winnings should happen, we know nothing about hockey. Why not build an hockey team who shoot 40 shots a game and allow 22 shots on our goalie?
 
EXPOS123 said:
Simple...the clock has struck midnight for the scrubs that played over their head

Armia, Gallagher, Anderson, Evans all had nice spurts here and there but are all now reverting back to their useless means.

I would throw in DVO, but he’s been useless since the beginning so no difference.
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The good thing is they played well against the teams that are potential trade partners at the TDL
 
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Catanddogguitarrr said:
Every team have winning streaks. Mtl didn't have since last 4 years (pandemic year). Teams like Bruins, Canes, Bolts, Panthers, Golden K, LA Kings, Oilers, Avs, Stars, etc have winning streaks all the time or every year.
Habs fans need patience. Once our deadwood will be gone and replaced by better players we will be in da mix (as long as our coaching staff is competent). But our young players have the right stuff or not? How many years before Hage, Rein, Fowler, Tuch, Roy and Beck become regular roster and change the team? In the mean time, what our team will look like?
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I fear that it isn't our deadwood holding us back but our young players that we expected to be better, who may end up never taking that next jump. We really need Demidov to save us and one of Reinbacher or Hage to become an impact player.

Feels like 80% of the rebuild is now dependent on Demidov, 10% on our other prospects and 10% on the current roster.
 
Is all of the above not an option? Every one applies to a certain degree. But to me mostly team somehow allowed to come out flat and not play full 60 minutes with intensity. And PP. Man, it is god awful again. And even if Habs are going to sell all the dead weight this TDL, this isn't going to be a better team next season, because at best, Savard, Dvorak, et Co. will be replaced with green rookies who won't generate more wins. Habs need veteran help. In ALL positions. And that's Hughes' job.
 
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Catanddogguitarrr said:
If we expect goalies to steal games as the winnings should happen, we know nothing about hockey. Why not build an hockey team who shoot 40 shots a game and allow 22 shots on our goalie?
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I was sort of talking about the present team and the losing...not the future.The goalies were playing outstanding thus we were winning a few games strictly because of that.Now that they are back to mediocre certainly not helping the situation.
 
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The Official Tank Thread closed. The first biggest reason for our current slump.

The Playoffs Posivity Thread curse. The second biggest reason for our current slump.

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Kobe Armstrong said:
I fear that it isn't our deadwood holding us back but our young players that we expected to be better, who may end up never taking that next jump. We really need Demidov to save us and one of Reinbacher or Hage to become an impact player.

Feels like 80% of the rebuild is now dependent on Demidov, 10% on our other prospects and 10% on the current roster.
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I see what you mean but I am from the school of hockey is a team sport. Not like NBA with one major star and the rest of the team follows. If that was the case, Matthews with the Leafs would have won the Cup at least once. He was neutralised by skilled defensive players and more complete teams.

I still see lot of players who are anchors. They don't contribute in scoring, their stats are in the minus. It become so easy to check Suzuki Slaf and Caufield and not worrying on the other lines. I mean, who will worry with the DVO line, lol? Every hockey analyst will say winning teams are those with a 3rd or 4th line scoring big goals once in a while. Take example our winning streak : 2nd, 3rd and 4th line (Evans, Heineman, Dach) were scoring goals and tell me no joke look in my eyes that it didn't help winning game. If you expect only the first line (or only the big stars) will score goals and expect that team to win, I don't know what to say.
 
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We get little to no PPs anymore. Maybe it’s teams now extra careful, or maybe it’s the reffing. That means no goal or building momentum.

But unlike many top teams our 1st PP is capped at 1 minute. Could it be a deal made with MM and DAch to swallow a move to the2nd PP?

Our 1st PP is so good and our 2nd PP is the ugliest in NHL history. No talent, no direction, no structure.
 
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DAChampion said:
Losing a third line rookie should not have that much impact.

Depth should be able to compensate whenever a single bottom six forward is injured.
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It does though.

His line is completely invisible because of the space he creates with the forecheck. We also have a lot more pressure on us cause he's not wearing teams down and keeping the puck in the offensive zone. On top of that, it now allows other teams to focus solely on our top two lines (and more specifically line #1) which makes it harder for them.
 
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Kennerback said:
We get little to no PPs anymore. Maybe it’s teams now extra careful, or maybe it’s the reffing. That means no goal or building momentum.

But unlike many top teams our 1st PP is capped at 1 minute. Could it be a deal made with MM and DAch to swallow a move to the2nd PP?

Our 1st PP is so good and our 2nd PP is the ugliest in NHL history. No talent, no direction, no structure.
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When I see that Dvo is on our PP2, I just laught. When I think that 4 years ago people were crying and raging when Dano was on the ice on PP2 or 3 vs 3 on overtime. Now he's been raplaced by Dvo and look at the result. Pathetic. No hope, no nothing. Dead, dead, dead. Deadwood player. And how about Newhook 13 pts in 51 games?
Btw I loved the latest meme of Runner with Dvo. Great stuff, very appropriate.
 
We are back to losing the neutral zone. Continually forced to flip pucks as an out and are unable to play the connected breakouts that were allowing us to play fast. This is very reminiscent of our early play this season.
The GF/GA is getting ripped again.
 
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The team underperformed in the season's first two months, followed by an unsustainable hot streak. Injuries and performance will average it out.
 
From December 15 to Jan 15 our goalies had a combined Sv percentage of over .915 and a 10-2 record.

Before Dec 15th, our goalies had a combined sv% of .882

Since Jan 15, our goalies have a combined .898 sv%.

Goaltending is not the sole reason we went on the run and now that we are falling back, but I'm surprised I am the only person who voted for it as one of the top reasons with well over 100 votes.
 
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