Player Discussion Arber Xhekaj: The Sheriff
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BenchBrawl
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- Jul 26, 2010
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So what? A game is just 2 pts unless in the playoffs. A jaw-breaking punch is forever.
Come to the NHL -> Break everyone’s jaw -> nobody wants to play against us anymore -> 82 wins season
True dat!
Long time since the Habs had a real tough guy who could really play.
Keeping the young guys like Slaf safe from chap shots will go a long way to helping us accelerate their development
MXD
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I like the Odelein parallel, with the difference that, during Odelein's stint in Montreal, there were much more Odeleins in the NHL than there are nowadays.
Redux91
I do Three bullets.
BozoTheClown
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We have to get his brother in the organization as well. It will be like the Diaz brothers of the NHL. Rock’em sock’em motherf***ers!!!!!
BenchBrawl
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BLONG7
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Will say it again, your talent has no limits.....
Looking forward once again to the GDT's that you, and many others on here, who make it all entertaining!
Habs Halifax
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Gotta love that big kid.
The Habs absolutely need to put over the top work in development with him to make sure he becomes a genuine NHL'er in a couple of years.
He's a rare breed. When's the last time you saw a good skater on the back end with such violence and confidence in our team? I think it's never.
Not saying he has the same talent, but I think he's more of a Chris Pronger type than an Odelein actually. The kind of guy that you really think twice before entering on his side.
So let's go Habs management, make sure this kid hits his ceiling.
The Habs absolutely need to put over the top work in development with him to make sure he becomes a genuine NHL'er in a couple of years.
He's a rare breed. When's the last time you saw a good skater on the back end with such violence and confidence in our team? I think it's never.
Not saying he has the same talent, but I think he's more of a Chris Pronger type than an Odelein actually. The kind of guy that you really think twice before entering on his side.
So let's go Habs management, make sure this kid hits his ceiling.
Could he be the first player to ever make the NHL while going undrafted in junior and undrafted by the NHL? I would think that has to be extremely rare. Even European free agents would've been drafted in junior at least.
MXD
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Gilles Thibodeau went straight from JrB to AHL. Mario Roberge wasn't drafted in the Q.
Paddyjack
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Someone up in the thread mentionned Craig Ludwig, and I think it could be a good comparable. I still remember when Ludwig destroyed that guy from Chicago with an open ice hit, elbow to face, my god this was mean.
HabsAddict
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Odelein comparison is close...but X is far bigger then him. Odeline was 5'11" and 200 vs 6'4" and 238.
It's been decades since we had a home grown beast with anger mismanagement issues. Way back to Brashear, Kordic and Nylan for heavy duty fighters. In fact, none of them were this big unless you count Laraque.
As for talent AND fightinng, way bsck to Furgeson.
Habs management has to pull put every trick they have to improve and get this kid into our top 6 defense.
Then enjoy a decade of nuclear deterence.
It's been decades since we had a home grown beast with anger mismanagement issues. Way back to Brashear, Kordic and Nylan for heavy duty fighters. In fact, none of them were this big unless you count Laraque.
As for talent AND fightinng, way bsck to Furgeson.
Habs management has to pull put every trick they have to improve and get this kid into our top 6 defense.
Then enjoy a decade of nuclear deterence.
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Walrus26
Wearing a Habs Toque in England.
All this talk of comparables with AX. All I can come up with is:
I remember that hit like it was yesterday. I genuinely thought he was dead. I remember blood spurting out of his mouth when he was lying on the ice. If I remember well, that player was Trent Yawney?
Paddyjack
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Yes, it was him. Couldn't remember the name, but I knew it started with an Y.
sheed36
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MXD
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Ludwig wasn't a great fighter though despite being amongst the strongest players in the NHL during his career, if not the strongest. I mean, he could fight, it's just that the likes of Nilan and Kordic, not Ludwig, who took care of the fisticuffs.
NewDef
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Fudge that was hard just to look at. That's an absolute light out that can end a career in 1/2 a second. Pfiew... I'm not sad these hits are now out of the game. I like a good fight when someone exagerate but that was just fn mean...
Pompeius Magnus
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Pavel Bure still has the all time record in my book with his elbow on Shane Churla back in the day. That was legit as hard as you could possibly hit a guy.
