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GDT: Around the League - 2021/22 PART IV

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St. Louis hiring is confusing to me. his name was never attached to anything habs. last i saw anything hockey related with him was that he was a special teams consultant during Tort's time with CBJ

this one is weird to me. love st louis but this is weird
 
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BertCorbeau said:
That’s a tough situation for St Louis to step into
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It definitely is fun when old star players are able to come back to the league in new roles, but as good as he was as a player, one would think they'd at least want him to have a single season of head coaching at a lower level....
 
Menzinger said:
Things are going off the deep end when ownership is letting fan service dictate decision.... Yikes.
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Montreal is weird with the french speaking requirements. It's not even like he's an MTL legend or fans were calling for him.

I think a couple of things are at play here. One, I heard that the new GM of the Canadiens is his former agent. Two, the pool of readily available pool of french speaking coaches to fill in is quite small. Finally, its a half season try-out, and if it doesn't work out in an already lost season they can maybe find a better pool of french speaking coaches who are currently assistants or working in the AHL.
 
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If Bergy is conkied and Marchand gets a big one here....Boston might fall on some super tough times.

Might even give the Isles a shot at the playoffs again. That would be a fun first round matchup.
 
I think we are all Habs fans for the rest of the season, amirite?
I want some winning (well just enough to lose out on #1 pick).

Go St. Louis!
 
Voodoo Child said:
Dropping Ducharme, who was bad, is a bandaid given to a guy who just got T-boned by a cement truck.

That Habs team though, wow.

There’s been some depressing stuff being a Leafs fan for 35 years, but there’s also been some nice stuff too.

Losing to the Habs last year obviously sucked, I didn’t post once between May and September, but at least I realized that the Leafs are still going to be a good team for the next 4-7 years and there will be more chances.

The Leafs have never, in my lifetime, been in the place Montreal currently is. The bad old days (05-15) Burke era Leafs were a .480-540 team - they were Vancouver or Winnipeg, probably Vancouver with how many picks were traded.

Their worst year? 2014-15, a .414 hockey team. Montreal would need to play .608 hockey the rest of the way to equal that team.

8(eight) wins in 45 games, zero two game winning streaks.

Injuries out the ass, Price and Weber alone are AWOL with almost a quarter of the cap.

Suzuki gets paid big ****money, looks more like a second line guy, he’s good but at best he’s a Willy and this is killing him.

Cauffield looking less MSL and more like Nathan Gerbe but not half as good.

They lost Kotkaniemi (I've written about how poorly his development was handled before), which while I think it's good they didn't match that number, what wasn't good was then taking that pick and trading it for a mid-upside 2nd line center you can easily draft or find in FA.

That pick is liquid cash to move up if they don't win the lottery, or package with another pick to get the guy you want if he falls to 18-23ed. There’s no way anybody anywhere looks at that Cup runner up Montreal team, then takes away Danault, Weber and Price and says ‘playoffs!’

Potential goalie of the future Primeau has his confidence completely obliterated.

The Gallagher extension, six more years at 6.5.

Anderson and Drouin overpaid by a combined three mil.

You have to speak French.

Nothing the Leafs have gone through has even come close to that.

I still hope the Leafs smoke them 8-1 on the 21st, the first game with more than 500 fans.
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I said last year while Habs fans were celebrating that miracle run and talking about being Cup contenders for years that that run might be the worst possible thing to happen to them. But now THEY'RE starting to realize it. But one mistake I made is that I said they were where the Leafs were after the first Boston loss (when they had Kessel). They may be even worse than that, though.
 
supermann_98 said:
I'm sure St Louis could walk into that dressing room, strap on the skates, and still be better than half the scrubs on that team
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Half?

His last season was the one before the McDavid draft, he had 52 points in 74 games.

He’s at least as good as Drouin.

And Vinny is only 41.

I hope they do well, not too well but they make Montreal great again, even though I still think ‘he’s good at playing hockey so he must know how to build and manage a hockey team’.
 
Marchand out for six and Bergeron out for one game, maybe more… it could be a problem for them.
 
There is a chance Leafs could face the Bruins in the first round. With his history now, wouldn't it just be juicy if they face each other, and Bunting gets under his skin so much he does something stupid and gets booted for the series? Not so far fetched actually...
 
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