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Around the NHL — Episode XLXVII

NHL refs suck at game management and growing the game. If you want to grow the game, make it harder for teams like MTL that will always have sell outs to get in and tell the refs to look the other way when CBJ does anything dirty lol
 
Let's GO .. playoff hockey every night. Have to love the 1st round
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Micklebot said:
A bunch of MTL fans tuning in to watch their team get crushed by Washington doesn't make the playoffs more interesting though. Washington vs Clb is the more compelling story, and would have likely resulted in better hockey, it just wouldn't have brought in as much money.
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I don’t really see the argument that Columbus making it would result in better hockey than Montreal. Both teams are major underdogs against Washington. Both teams are young and have young guns who are making their mark this season. Both teams have their flaws and their strenghts. The hockey wouldn’t be better. I think there’s no chance of that.

For me the difference is the coverage that Montreal will get both in the US and Canada and Montreal is the best rink in the league by a mile. If you’ve been there for a playoff game (I.E. not against Ottawa) it’s probably one of the top hockey experiences in the world.

Best rink to play in according to countless past and current players. Loudest crowd in the league in the playoffs. To me that’s way better (even if they lose in 4) than watching the Jackets lose in 4.

Going to Montreal during a game night in the playoffs even if you’re not attending the game is an experience and having travelled to a few markets there’s really nothing like it other than maybe Boston.

I don’t disagree about the storyline being interesting from the Jackets side. I’m a sucker for a good story but Montreal is a pretty damn good story as well. They had no shot at making the playoffs this season. Went from last to making it. Hutson coming in and playing a calder caliber season. Suzuki playing the way that he’s been. Demidov coming in last second. It’s a great story. It’s one of the best stories in the league this season. It’s much better than NYR, Detroit, NYI or pretty much any other team making it. I’m a Sens fan and have no issues admitting that.
 
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Columbus made easy work of the islanders beating them 6-1.

What could have been. What a shame.
 
BonHoonLayneCornell said:
If the Lakers win any chips with Doncic, that trade goes down as the worst trade in NBA history. Maybe even without. Unbelievable really.

Dorion was more a death by a million cuts kind of GM even though he had a few bigger doozies.
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I agree on Dorion being a death by a million cuts kind of GM, but I meant he was similar to Nico in their personalities and stupidity.

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Boud said:
I don’t really see the argument that Columbus making it would result in better hockey than Montreal. Both teams are major underdogs against Washington. Both teams are young and have young guns who are making their mark this season. Both teams have their flaws and their strenghts. The hockey wouldn’t be better. I think there’s no chance of that.

For me the difference is the coverage that Montreal will get both in the US and Canada and Montreal is the best rink in the league by a mile. If you’ve been there for a playoff game (I.E. not against Ottawa) it’s probably one of the top hockey experiences in the world.

Best rink to play in according to countless past and current players. Loudest crowd in the league in the playoffs. To me that’s way better (even if they lose in 4) than watching the Jackets lose in 4.

Going to Montreal during a game night in the playoffs even if you’re not attending the game is an experience and having travelled to a few markets there’s really nothing like it other than maybe Boston.

I don’t disagree about the storyline being interesting from the Jackets side. I’m a sucker for a good story but Montreal is a pretty damn good story as well. They had no shot at making the playoffs this season. Went from last to making it. Hutson coming in and playing a calder caliber season. Suzuki playing the way that he’s been. Demidov coming in last second. It’s a great story. It’s one of the best stories in the league this season. It’s much better than NYR, Detroit, NYI or pretty much any other team making it. I’m a Sens fan and have no issues admitting that.
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Well I guess we can agree to disagree, Clb has a plus 5 goal differential, MTL is -20, underlying numbers also favour Clb, to me, watching them, Clb seems like the better team as well pretty easily.

Clb also played really well against Wsh this year, going 2-1-1 and out shooting them, while MTL went 1-2-0 and got outplayed

Not sure what the game day experience in MTL has to do with anything,
 
Branny with 292 NHL GP and he still isn’t a full timer. Might not play again in the NHL.
 
Tuna99 said:
Branny with 292 NHL GP and he still isn’t a full timer. Might not play again in the NHL.
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The only reason he has those GP numbers is because he was in Ottawa the entirity of it's rebuild. We are seeing it now, he's been in 4 organizations outside Ottawa this season and none will put him in their lineup more than an injury replacement.

He was never a full time NHLer after watching him in the league, was always likely to be a guy headed back to Europe by the time he hit his mid 20's and wasn't getting a spot in lineups.

Isn't good offensively
Isn't physical
Needs to be sheltered, is bad defensively
Doesn't play PK or PP

There is no role for him in the league fulltime

5/6 years of an NHL salary and 3.65 years of an NHL pension isn't anything to sniff at
 
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Boud said:
I don’t really see the argument that Columbus making it would result in better hockey than Montreal. Both teams are major underdogs against Washington. Both teams are young and have young guns who are making their mark this season. Both teams have their flaws and their strenghts. The hockey wouldn’t be better. I think there’s no chance of that.
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Who cares? I don't know about Columbus and how good they could become in the future but they are in the Metro so it doesn't affect us as directly. Montreal might have 3 elite talents as soon as next year (Suzuki, Hutson, Demidov) plus many good young supporting pieces (Caufield, Slaf, Guhle, etc) and many good prospects. They could become one hell of a problem for us in the very near future. I don't know about you but I want to be THE rising team in the Atlantic, I don't want to share this with another team or come in second place, not after a scorched earth 8 years rebuild.

Boud said:
For me the difference is the coverage that Montreal will get both in the US and Canada and Montreal is the best rink in the league by a mile. If you’ve been there for a playoff game (I.E. not against Ottawa) it’s probably one of the top hockey experiences in the world.
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I thought I was the only Habs fan here? lol of course it's joke perpetuated by a few clowns but you realize that the coverage Montreal will get in these playoffs will put a giant shade over the Sens? We already have to deal with Toronto but at least we're facing them so we are in the story. If MTL beats Washington, they'll get all the accolades, even if we beat the Leafs.

BonHoonLayneCornell said:
Dorion was more a death by a million cuts kind of GM even though he had a few bigger doozies.
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Million cuts yeah but it was not papercuts, more like multiple decapitations
 
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The highest first that was traded this year is going to be 16th OA, the one from the Flames. Weird but it seems teams are cautious about not trading Top-12 picks. Too bad our genius ex GM didn't get the memo.

Tuna99 said:
Branny with 292 NHL GP and he still isn’t a full timer. Might not play again in the NHL.
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Damn, I think I would have paid his salary if I could if it meant no Hamonic this season. Kleven - Brannstrom would have been perfect. Matinpalo would have been a much better option to cover for Zub/Jensen injuries than Hamonic. It's probably going to cost Sanderson any chance at getting Norris votes.

The size bias is still very real, so many teams employing D-men that just can't get out of their own zone just because they're "big and tough". Canucks also were doing the same with Soucy that we've been doing with Hamonic as Soucy was horrible over there this season.
 
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