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red devil said:
Reaves wasn't even jumped, Xhekaj gives him time to stand up and accept the fight and Reaves throws the 1st punch .

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Looks like a wrestling match to me. Neither player won.

Both got 1 punch to the sweater before Reaves is pushed into the net. I guess you could argue they both got 2 punches if you want to be generous.

I don't think it was worth Xhekaj taking the instigator penalty. He should have just asked Reaves to fight instead of taking the instigator unless his intention was to wrestle Reaves to the ground before he can gain footing, which he did. It seems that push into the net was intentional to end the fight. Skating into a player to push him back is not usually what you see in hockey fights.
 
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He's a throwback and a real character off the ice. Teammates clearly love the guy and he already garners respect throughout the league. He's one of the toughest player I've seen on the Habs in 3 decades and probably the craziest of them all. I wish we could have a younger Perry and Weber as well.
 
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swiftwin said:
He drove us crazy in the prospects tournament because he took cheap shots at our 17-18yr old kids as a 20-21yr old overager two seasons in a row.

He was ineffective and did nothing during pre-season against men. He was even more useless against us during the regular season (he was a -5 against us last season).
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Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete! Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!

For the record, he was around the same age of all players at that prospects camp, he was just a man among boys.

Funny that all the sens posters feel he is overrated, I sense something more.
 
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BarracudaMtl said:
Dear All,

If I may I would like to open this discussion about one of the most beloved players of the Montreal Fans.
Arber A.K.A WIFI Xhekaj
The vast majority here in Montreal think that Wifi fears no one and we believe that he will soon be in the TOP fighters in the league.
My question is, what do fans of the other teams think? If we compare Xhekaj to other tough guys ; Ryan Reaves, Nicolas Deslauriers, Milan Lucic, Tom Wilson, etcc.
Where do you think WIFI ranks?



To my dear fans of our rivals, I am very aware that not everyone likes to see post created in the general forum about players of my team.

This post is not to measure who pisses the farthest, I am aware that this season our division is tougher than ever and as we have already seen in the first game VS Toronto.... Arber is going to have to fight hard.



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Love the way he took on reeves. Is he also good at hockey?
 
JeffreyLFC said:
Strike me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete! Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you!

For the record, he was around the same age of all players at that prospects camp, he was just a man among boys.

Funny that all the sens posters feel he is overrated, I sense something more.
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They know the axe is coming for their captains head.

Kudo Shinichi said:
Pretty good



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I dont know how people can watch this and have the claim they have. Bias in insane.
 
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Andrei79 said:
He's a throwback and a real character off the ice. Teammates clearly love the guy and he already garners respect throughout the league. He's one of the toughest player I've seen on the Habs in 3 decades and probably the craziest of them all. I wish we could have a younger Perry and Weber as well.
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Probably the toughest since Aaron Asham.
 
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Junohockeyfan said:
I used to think Xhekaj was a goon that could play hockey. I am now a firm believer that Xhekaj is a young physically strong and skilled dman who happens to be a good fighter.

Emphasis this season should be on his defensive game and his transition game. Arber can legitimately skate, defend and move the puck. Below is a nice sequence from Wed when he defended Knies - who is surprisingly hard to knock off the puck - then transitioned up ice (unfortunately you don't see the play develop further).

Too much emphasis is made on Xhekaj's fighting / toughness and not enough on his legitimate hockey skills. Its unfortunate that he has to fight Reeves / Looch every time they play.

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This is beautiful. Knocks over 2 guys and takes an extra maple leaf out of the play because of it.

I don’t say this often but timmins and bergevins last drafts and signings were beautifully done.
 
lomiller1 said:
I get that people love a great story, but that's all he is so far. He was arguably one of the worst D-men in the NHL last year. In spite of being super heavily sheltered he was near the bottom of the NHL for xGA/60 xGF/60 and xGF%. Nearly everyone he was on the ice with was significantly better defensively they didn't have to play with him.


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Interesting. Brutal at dzone retrivals but good at dzone exits with possession. Dzone retrieval is pretty important if you're more of a physical dman since we count on them to be able to wistand a physical forecheck. Exit with possession % tells me he really wants to skate it out, but can he make the stretch passes. He seems to fail a lot of dzone exits, which tells me his passes arent great.
 
GirardSpinorama said:
Interesting. Brutal at dzone retrivals but good at dzone exits with possession. Dzone retrieval is pretty important if you're more of a physical dman since we count on them to be able to wistand a physical forecheck. Exit with possession % tells me he really wants to skate it out, but can he make the stretch passes. He seems to fail a lot of dzone exits, which tells me his passes arent great.
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That's how I see him too. He's not exactly sound defensively, there's a lot of areas for improvement in his game. His numbers, advanced or not, defensively, are definitely affected by playing with d-men that are not really compatible with his style (Wideman is terrible defensively too and was his main teammate...) besides maybe Kovacevic, who is a #6 guy who is pretty vanilla by himself.

He's great at transition and decent offensively. He's notably really good at getting shots on nets. If he works on his weaknesses he could definitely be a #4, but as of now I see him mostly as a physical offensive d-man.
 
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