Player Discussion Arber Xhekaj: The Sheriff

[Mrb1p]

You think they do it cause they're Facebook friends? Lol

There's tons of examples of people who hire people they know and have success.

Yes, and is this one an example of that?

 

[417]

Yes, and is this one an example of that?

not currently, no obviously, but this was never going to be an over night success.

You're a smart guy, pretty sure you knew that coming into this season.

 

[CHwest]

Habs have longed for a player like this and he obviously needs more time to develop but the coaches and alot of fans are clearly not in his corner. We deserve to lose him.

Send to Laval and away from this coach

Just because fans are not as rabid about him sitting out doesn't mean they are not in his corner.

 

[CHwest]

I do and it's such a low bar. Why do you lower the bar ? The Habs have some of the most money in sports. 500 billion investment that quadrupled in what, 15 years ? Deep, deep pockets.

Theres money to hire the absolute best coaches, best managers, best scouts, best everything. Yet were fine with a crazy fox hole with people that hire old friends because what, they're super competent ? Or because theyre throwing their friends a bone ?

Appeal to tradition at best.

Lowering the bar is insisting coaches and GMs speak the language, limiting yourself to 5% of the pool so to speak. Most advocate for that.

 

[Twisted Sinister]

Precisely why he's rotating in and out with Barron/Struble.

Barron brings literally nothing to the table ATM. Struble is... Ok at best.

Yet I kept hearing about how they were going to intimidate and pound them into dust.

Teams have pounded us into dust when Xhekaj wasn't in the lineup this year in addition to beating us on the scoreboard. That's the point.

Well they kinda did, just not in a way Xhekaj was going to be able to prevent.

The team plays bigger and other teams take fewer liberties when he's around IMO.

Its not a strawman, the only thing you talked about in the post I quoted was about the Habs getting run and intimidated.

You brought up the notion of them losing games, so I commented on it. I don't actually mind them losing. I'm patient with the rebuild and they don't currently have the horses to be good.

Speaking of strawmen...

It isn't a strawman. Our team is soft AF and all people ever do about it when we get run is whine. We get one guy on the team that actually acts as a deterrent sometimes and people whine and bitch because some other Johnny 6th Defenseman that also sucks defensively (when EVERYONE sucks defensively) isn't getting playing time. It's tiresome.

Hockey is results-based. They need to play Arber or add toughness to this team some other way. I can stand them losing. Watching them lose and get humiliated physically is not acceptable.

 

[HabsAddict]

I hate the word "systemic" because how a certain political group uses it...but we have systemic defensive issues.

The 4th Kraken goal...

X was trying to pass to Mailman (24)...but Mailman was nowhere near where he needed to be to receive the pass. Mailman should of gone to the boards but was afraid of moving away because 22 was in the slot.

For Mailman to move into position on the boards, Dvo (28 ) has to move back and cover 22.

While X screwed up the pass, 60% on him, two other also failed to properly execute their positions. 40% was on Dvo for failing to cover the man closest to him, 22, who came into the slot and scored.

This is what I call systemic defensive failure.