Last night was mostly just an effort improvement to retrieve puck and pressure puck carriers. The execution was still very sloppy, even on the offense without the D activating.
Anderson has been part of the solution in making the PK top-3 in the NHL so far. Evans/Anderson/Gallagher line has showed up and outperformed their competition in almost all of their games
Yeah we still have a team that has to out work it's opponents or bust.
How long has Brind’Amour been part of that coaching staff 13-yrs? 6-yrs as head coach? He was also responsible for roster player development as assistant coach when hired in 2011… it took Canes players years to cultivate that culture of understanding Rod the Bod’s system and then there’s the time it took to incorporate their drafted talent ..
That's all most of us want. The wins and losses are not at the top of my list but I do want to see them competitive and learning how to play a solid NHL game.
I agree the special teams improvement is appreciated but the falloff 5v5 was totally unacceptable.
It's like they can't win with some fans. The past few weeks it was all about the D zone coverage, they do well in that regard and the improvement is dismissed as if it wasn't the system working as intended and then you change the goal posts and bring up something different.
I don’t disagree with the notion - but Ron Francis brought on Brind’Amour in 2011 to be an assistant coach responsible for player development of their NHL roster including implementing a system which both Kirk Muller & Bill Peters were responsible for using & growing the team but neither were able to fully have success with
I hope they succeed I really do. As a proud Habs fan I always want them to win! They showed up last night...let's see if they show up tonight. Veterans generally are pretty consistent.
Hopefully hometown boy Primeau steps up, that will be key. One thing you can always count on is that Torterella will have his team ready. Good thing is that both teams played yesterday.
Agreed. Anderson has been a surprising (good surprising) revelation on PK
If I ever give anyone a laugh here it makes me feel good to know that I might have brightened an otherwise miserable day. Cheers.
I think the Habs were at -5.xx on the last one, big improvement over a single game.
I wouldn’t say they did well in front of the net at all last night. The goals that were scored against were ugly and there were plenty more of ugly scrambles that we got bailed out on. Too many point blank opportunities close in the slot. I expect some of that with such a green team but still a lot to be desired.
Being hard to play against would mean the team is fundamentally a decent team. A bottom-tier team is not a decent team. We aren't there yet so to expect them to be a decent team is asking a little too much.
So first I would mention, that by narrowing it down to "in front of the net" it's already moving the goal posts from the complaints (Not necessarily yours in particular) over the past couple weeks about coaching, systems, etc...
