sampollock
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Slaf is so lost.. he is so young with a paycheck coming and now he sucks
How can they get this kid back to what was to be
How can they get this kid back to what was to be
Coaching is a serious problem.
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I think the main issue is the same with Andy last season: the coaching/training staff is trying to turn Slaf into something he's not. So he gets all confused/conflicted and lost.
They should have shown him videos of his 2nd half last season, especially post-All Stars, already. Actually, I haven't heard anyone talks about watching videos since the season started. It happened a lot last season.
sampollock
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that is it? what is he?
was a #1 pick
so is he a 2nd line or 3rd line guy?
he wont be pd like that
Jurivan Demidovsky
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Keep MSL for this season he's the perfect tank commander. Next season when Demidov comes in we should get a serious coach. So who's it gonna be? Té-Rien or Claude "dumb dumb" Julien? Lmao
The Gr8 Dane
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There's no such thing as getting a *serious* coaching hire for this organisation when you cut down the available pool by 75% + every time you need to make a hire lol
Habs
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MSL is a 'little guy' coach, if you aren't 5'7 - 5'9 your game is going to be trash by the looks of it.
MarkovsKnee
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Our veteran players mainly sucked. Both Lehkonen & Toffoli asked for trades. So did Petry, but we couldn't trade him due to how awful he was playing and his cap hit. We eventually traded him off-season, with retention, for Matheson, and eventually got a 2nd from that, too, which we get this year. Considering how bad Pens are, that's going to be a top 40 pick. Idc, what people say, that was a massive win, as was the Monahan trade.
The other thing with Lehks was he was RFA that year & we didn't really have the money to sign him. We still had Hoffman, Weber, Price, Edmundson, Byron, taking up important off-season cap space.
People underestimate how important it was to trade Weber's contract that summer. Yeah, we got nothing for him, but just moving it was massively important. We also had Alzner buyout on the books and we were getting a pretty big bonus overage penalty for the following year, too.
People forget because we're good now, but Bergevin left behind a massive cap issue that Hughes has spent 2 years fixing.
OldCraig71
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Thats bs and you know it. Hughes wanted to send Slafkovsky down last season but didn't do it because MSL said that he would work with him. Do you have a short memory? I thought I was the old senile one.
Slaf's problem is himself. He was given a big contract and came back this season and set the speed on cruise control and now some bad habits have crept in. He isn't showing the hustle he did for the last 40 games and is now in a funk. MSL is trying to wake him up without sitting his ass for a few games. That's all it is.
sampollock
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Habby4Life
First pick overall goes to the Montreal Canadiens
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salbutera
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Zero chance …
Laine will enter the lineup, players will start getting slotted in right chairs and everything will be on track towards bein an “in da mix” team…
Zero patience w Habs fanbase
Catanddogguitarrr
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And Bergevin started with an overpaid player named Gomez, also aging small player Gionta, pouting Cammalleri, Vodka Kostitsyn, Slow Spacek, Ryan useless White, Moen, etc. Bergevin herited a lot of crap. That team was far from turning the corner on a dime. And he drafted Galchy and we were all jumping about that genious pick.
sampollock
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MB was a joke
thus why the team is where it is
V13
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I like MSL but it's getting clear that the honeymoon is slowly but surely getting over. I believe he can become a good head coach in the league but he'll need some classes. I think he would benefit greatly from an assist coach position alongside a long time experienced head coach on a competitive team once he's done in MTL. His decision making need some polish
Anyway we should have snatched Montgomery last week when he was available. That was a great opportunity. Unfotunately the Blues did just that
Anyway we should have snatched Montgomery last week when he was available. That was a great opportunity. Unfotunately the Blues did just that
MarkovsKnee
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Bergevin inherited Price, Subban, Pacioretty, Plekanec, etc basically the team that went to 2 Final Fours in the teen's. Bergevin succeeded with Gainey's team. Once Bergevin tried to build his own team is when everything went to crap.
He left behind an immeasurably worse team than Gainey. He also got a compliance buyout on Gomez. Gionta was captain and good player til his last couple of years. He was always good defensively & an excellent pker.
Our drafting was way better under Gainey than Bergevin too. Bergevin sucked balls, dude.
Monty's wife is from St. Louis and they live there in the off-season. He was never coming here so don't make yourself sick over this, it's pointless. I agree w/Sal that MSL will get the chance to have a lineup w/Laine in it, like the plan was when the acquired him in August. But if things don't turn around with a more properly slotted line-up, then I think MSL will be in trouble.
Habs
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When all your core blows, you'd better be pointing the finger behind the bench. Stop defending the little turd. Demanding franchises fire coaches when they don't like what they see, they don't defend their choices till the end. You can't rebuild with this inexperience running the lines, and the plays, it's stupid. Look at how many good teams traded core players and made coaching changes when they saw things spiral. This franchise is a joke, you can't rebuild when your entire team has given up and stopped playing in all ends of the rink.
You think Slaf is the only problem here? lol
Lafleurs Guy
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I think he's hurt. There was talk of putting him on the DL a couple of weeks ago and they decided against it.
Also, the whole team is just bad right now. I have a hard time singling anyone out.
Last night was really the first time I was frustrated watching.
It felt like St Louis had lost the point of all of this...a rebuild.
Let's start with Dach. Anyone had major reconstructive knee surgery and have to play with a brace?
He's not there yet and he may not be there this season.
St Louis playing him and Slaf on the 4th line is so dumb.
It reeks of the ego, of a coach who has lost the plot-line of a rebuild and is trying to win at all costs - even though the team is shit, we all know it's shit and they won't beat quality teams on a regular basis.
An amateur like me is aware of this, why isn't the coach?
The in the mix comment was funny and the media chowed down on it, but we all kind of knew they'd be a bottom 5 team again.
I'm afraid St Louis actually believes he can win with this team - Montembeault is a no2 and Primeau may not even be an NHLer.
St Louis playing the shit out of vets instead of the development he was tasked with is egregious and a fireable offence.
Breaking up the slaf / suzuki/ cc line was idiotic.
The yo-yoing of young players has to stop and he has to stop playing the vets as much as he does.
ALL the young guys, for the most part are playing tentative because of his coaching and messaging.
Where is the coach from the 2nd half of last season?
I'm officially unconvinced this guy should be the coach beyond this season if he keeps playing games with most of the young guys.
It felt like St Louis had lost the point of all of this...a rebuild.
Let's start with Dach. Anyone had major reconstructive knee surgery and have to play with a brace?
He's not there yet and he may not be there this season.
St Louis playing him and Slaf on the 4th line is so dumb.
It reeks of the ego, of a coach who has lost the plot-line of a rebuild and is trying to win at all costs - even though the team is shit, we all know it's shit and they won't beat quality teams on a regular basis.
An amateur like me is aware of this, why isn't the coach?
The in the mix comment was funny and the media chowed down on it, but we all kind of knew they'd be a bottom 5 team again.
I'm afraid St Louis actually believes he can win with this team - Montembeault is a no2 and Primeau may not even be an NHLer.
St Louis playing the shit out of vets instead of the development he was tasked with is egregious and a fireable offence.
Breaking up the slaf / suzuki/ cc line was idiotic.
The yo-yoing of young players has to stop and he has to stop playing the vets as much as he does.
ALL the young guys, for the most part are playing tentative because of his coaching and messaging.
Where is the coach from the 2nd half of last season?
I'm officially unconvinced this guy should be the coach beyond this season if he keeps playing games with most of the young guys.
Max Lapierre knows exactly what has to happen,
Skate drive the net stop up back check get your stick in the lane stop up.
Start with simple plays master them and the rest will cone easy.
I'm not sure what his head is filled with but it ain't this.
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Catanddogguitarrr
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Agree on Bergevin but Gainey before him made huge mistakes, like to give McDonagh to get Gomez and the Ribs-Niniima trade, to name a few. Gainey failed to draft a good center who were available like Getzlaf or Carter, also missed Bergeron and Giroux. In a competion on who was the worst GM, Bergevin wins but that doesn't mean Gainey was a good GM.
