Coaching is a serious problem.

Habano

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The problem that keeps cropping up is Marty's real time game management sucks.
There are no two ways to look at this.

I'd like to know in how many post game interviews has Marty said "I have to look at the video"
What exactly are you looking at during the game?

Regardless of the fact that we are rebuilding I haven't seen our fan base this irate about bench management in a long long time.
The back of players' helmets, needs a step stool to be able to watch the game :sarcasm:
 
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Catanddogguitarrr

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We had our chance with Montgomery.

I have a hard time seeing any other opportunities to improve coaching bigger than the one we just passed up on. Looks like management is ready to ride and die with MSL
I was thinking MSL is a stobborn coach, not wanting anyone to suggest/tell him/help him with the coaching stuff. Now I think Hugo decided it's MSL whatever happen, for the best or the worst. Well, from outside, this it how it looks.

Last year the team looked better with MoneyHands, he was like an older brother with the kids, releaving pressure from Suzuki. Now Suzuki is alone because Dach doesn't do the job. MSL still doesn't know some basic of coaching like time out or implement a system that works. Habs have the worst centerline of the NHL, Dvo who is an experienced nhler doesn't help developp the kids. By chance Heineman produce a little bit, despite that shitty team. Gally, Evans and even Anderson are doing relativly fine. Gally is the forward that works the hardest. But overall the team regress, it doesn't look good for the future.

We are still expecting some kind of miracle, a wake-up of Dach and Slaf. Or a trade that brings a center as good/or better than MoneyHand. A new player that can act as another leader in the locker room. And we need a true 1D, better than Matheson. And Savard is very slow, it's a disgrace. He was slow last year but acceptable, now he's slower.
 

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How do you know? He’s lived year round in the US for the better part of last 30yrs, his wife is American and now teenage kids all have grown up there.

I’m not going to pretend to know, but I’m guessing if multiple options presented themselves, he’d prefer US destination
Are you talking about MSL ? Because that’s exactly what his previous life was. And his wife and kids are still living in US.

I was thinking MSL is a stobborn coach, not wanting anyone to suggest/tell him/help him with the coaching stuff. Now I think Hugo decided it's MSL whatever happen, for the best or the worst. Well, from outside, this it how it looks.

Last year the team looked better with MoneyHands, he was like an older brother with the kids, releaving pressure from Suzuki. Now Suzuki is alone because Dach doesn't do the job. MSL still doesn't know some basic of coaching like time out or implement a system that works. Habs have the worst centerline of the NHL, Dvo who is an experienced nhler doesn't help developp the kids. By chance Heineman produce a little bit, despite that shitty team. Gally, Evans and even Anderson are doing relativly fine. Gally is the forward that works the hardest. But overall the team regress, it doesn't look good for the future.

We are still expecting some kind of miracle, a wake-up of Dach and Slaf. Or a trade that brings a center as good/or better than MoneyHand. A new player that can act as another leader in the locker room. And we need a true 1D, better than Matheson. And Savard is very slow, it's a disgrace. He was slow last year but acceptable, now he's slower.
You can get a top-two centerman and a #1 D… But be prepared to lose many of some of our best assets.
 

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You can get a top-two centerman and a #1 D… But be prepared to lose many of some of our best assets.
A gm have to take that kind of decision. We say sometimes the best trade are the one you don't make but when the Kings traded to get Carter I think it paid for them, they won 2 SC. We can be patient another year, or 2 or 3. Or HuGo can use some of his best assets to make a major trade. I trust him and I think he have some cards in his hands. We'll see.
 

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A gm have to take that kind of decision. We say sometimes the best trade are the one you don't make but when the Kings traded to get Carter I think it paid for them, they won 2 SC. We can be patient another year, or 2 or 3. Or HuGo can use some of his best assets to make a major trade. I trust him and I think he have some cards in his hands. We'll see.
I would like to trust him…. But he is the one who hired MSL and traded Lehkonen, Toffoli, Monahan, and Kovacevic… and did not draft Michkov:sarcasm:
 

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Not really - the infinitely small minority that makeup the hardcore fans like to tell themselves that because it makes them feel important…. but we matter the least.

Only corporate customers matter, and almost 0% of them live & die with their teams outcomes
The Sheep don't matter and the corporate Pigs and Dogs don't care a lick.
Believe it or not people see through the bullshit and want some entertainment value.
I'm sure the corporate assholes heard the booing don't you?

"Ha Ha Charade you are"
 

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Animals is one of my favourite albums of all time! Love me some Floyd.
Saw them at the Big Owe for the Animals tour.
What a complete mind blast and I was sober.
The Pig didn't inflate all the way but no one seemed to care.

I think it was the second concert in the Stadium ELP being the first if I recall correctly.
The gate crashing was a spectacle in itself as mad fans used the cement garbage receptacles as battering rams to breach the huge plexi-glass type windows.
I think the one thing that struck me most was the age diversity of the crowd running from 12-13 year olds to fifty year old biker types.

One of the best concerts ever that and Queen were by far my favorites.
 

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I would like to trust him…. But he is the one who hired MSL and traded Lehkonen, Toffoli, Monahan, and Kovacevic… and did not draft Michkov:sarcasm:
What was the return for Lehkonen, Toffoli, Monahan, and Kovacevic? I don't ask for a complete detailed answer but overall did he reveived something "substantial"?
And for Michkov, many fans will never forgive him. And the badluck of Reinbacher's injury doesn't help, especially now.
 

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The remixed version that came out in 2018 is really good. Might be controversial to say, but it feels like it could be my favourite Pink Floyd album.
Pink Floyd had 4 excellent albums in a row, starting with Meddle (still very underated), followed by the massive hit album DSOTM, Wish You Were Here (my favorite) and Animals. I hated The Wall.
I've read that Animal was some kind of home recording, away from the big studio. The album might suffer of a lower quality of recording, not having the depth of the others. But this what I've read, I find the album have a very good mixing in the final.
 

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What was the return for Lehkonen, Toffoli, Monahan, and Kovacevic? I don't ask for a complete detailed answer but overall did he reveived something "substantial"?
And for Michkov, many fans will never forgive him. And the badluck of Reinbacher's injury doesn't help, especially now.
Monahan trade let to Michael Hage, so did Lehkonen. What about Kulak for Hutson? Is that good enough trade? Petry trade was excellent as well.
 

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