Coaching is a serious problem.

[Habs]

We’ll see. I thought he was going to come close to 50 last year and was way wrong. So…

Having laine may draw some attention away too , but he’s missing so much time it may take a while for him to reappear

 

[le_sean]

Having laine may draw some attention away too , but he’s missing so much time it may take a while for him to reappear

Like Cole last year. Except Laine will have both a leg and shoulder to get back into game shape.

 

[Mrb1p]

Having laine may draw some attention away too , but he’s missing so much time it may take a while for him to reappear

Yes but Laine is a better player than Caufield, so let's hope he can catch up faster.

 

[le_sean]

He is he speaks creole, is that French enough?

Just imagining Babcock’s presser starting off "Wallah, c’est vraiment chill"

 

[Jaaanosik]

We are the Wish version of the Boudreau Capitals I guess.

They were good!
Halak was better.

 

[Tyson]

Just imagining Babcock’s presser starting off "Wallah, c’est vraiment chill"

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Yes but Laine is a better player than Caufield, so let's hope he can catch up faster.

I still say Laine looks like an old man.

 

[HabsAddict]

The problem is that it's not just one player, but the entire lot who are making mistakes.

I'm wasting far too much time trying to understand why players are making mistakes. The more I look, the broader the defensive lapses spread. A certain player may make a mistake but then I find that other players are not in position to mitigate said mistake. Worse of all, we have average (or worse) goaltending that doesn't bail us out.

If we go back to the other times we had a sub par team, we had Jesus Price in nets saving us. Now we have Primeau and Monty playing for converted touchdowns.

Best way to describe this team is "systemic defensive failures".

Will SmartyMarty change that? I doubt it. It's not a player or 3, it's most of the guys who are just not working hard enough and smart enough to understand how to play as a cohesive, defensive team. Never mind a "hybrid" system...just because Smartymarty saw someone else do it.

Lastly, when SmartyMarty opens his mouth and said that other teams have this or that system, they don't have the youngest team in the NHL that is still in NHL diapers. Nor the very high quality forwards or defenseman helping out. Hello Monahan!

Whatever....it's so frustrating that on principle I don't even want to pay 5 bucks to RDS to watch this clown show.