Pre-Game Talk: Countdown thread to 24-25 Season (T - 6 hours)

[Pazucha]

So many reporters where is the footage? Cmon guys

And ofc they are streaming the post game interviews.. Who cares what they have to say? all of them were interviewed one day ago what new can they possible have to say after one day?

 

[Richard Bolton]

"Oh Slafkovsky so great!" "Matheson seems in great shape!" "blabla is blalabla!". Well, prove it you goofs. We want footage!

Only in Montreal would we want a training camp scrimmage to be televised.

 

[red devil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836808322684531045

 

[Rapala]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836808322684531045

And that my friends is why we should avoid playing Arber on his weak side.

 

[Canadienna]

And that my friends is why we should avoid playing Arber on his weak side.

In Arber's defense, I always feel like these intrasquad games are tough on guys like him.

I'm hoping he'd be playing the body a bit more on that play if it wasn't intrasquad.

 

[Redux91]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836808322684531045

There it is

 

[sansabri]

i know we're all starved for hockey but these are just scrimmages

 

[26Mats]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836808322684531045

Xhekaj playing with Savard...

And .... Newhook with Dach (and Mesar)...

i know we're all starved for hockey but these are just scrimmages

I'm still trying to figure out who MSL will play with who, lol

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

i know we're all starved for hockey but these are just scrimmages

Demidov just had an assist on another thread btw, not a scrimmage

 

[Rapala]

Guhle going to be one of those guys that just can’t stay on the ice.

Yeah he could only get 80 some games under his belt last season.
Terrible.

 

[Whitesnake]

Kapanen...en route to make me eat crow. Don't stop Oliver.

 

[26Mats]

Yeah he could only get 80 some games under his belt last season.
Terrible.

*70

 

[Rapala]

*70

Oh so the Worlds don't count? WTF

 

[26Mats]

Oh so the Worlds don't count? WTF

?

 

[Rapala]

?

exactly...

 

[Kennerback]

Demidov just had an assist on another thread btw, not a scrimmage

2 primary and 1 secondary that didn't register and more on the way.

 

[Bombshell11]

2 primary and 1 secondary that didn't register and more on the way.

Generational

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

I am absolutely stoked for this season. Since 2015-2016, there was only one or two bright spots on the club that you'd actually tune into to watch and root for.

This year, I'm just so friggin excited to watch Suzuki, Laine, Caufield, Slaf, Dach, Newhook, Guhle, Hutson, Beck, Reinbacher develop and try to take the next step. I don't remember the last time we had such a long list of young players that we interesting to follow. 2007 is probably the last time we had a similar list with Higgins, Komisarek, Plekanec, Kostitsyn x2, O'byrne, Grabovski, Latendresse, Price, Halak, Lapierre, Streit, D'agostini.

Yeah, 2007 was exciting. But we didn't have a whack of top five picks like we do now. That group should've been better than it was but I think we have more top prospects now than we did then. One other big difference is that we have so much talent up front now. Slaf, CC, Nick, Demidov, Dach... I mean any one of those guys could turn out to be as good or better than Max. And Max was the ony forward who panned out.

Sidenote: Latendresse probably should've been much better, same with Chipchura. Both had injuries that ruined their careers.

 

[26Mats]

So the lines today at main camp:

Caufiled - Suzuki - Slaf
Newhook - Dach - Laine
Roy - Dvo - Anderson
Armia - Evans - Gallagher

I would have thought after the way Armia finished last year, that he would have been a better linemate for Dvo and Roy. But maybe that Dvo line is actually the 4th line.

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

So the lines today at main camp:

Caufiled - Suzuki - Slaf
Newhook - Dach - Laine
Roy - Dvo - Anderson
Armia - Evans - Gallagher

I would have thought after the way Armia finished last year, that he would have been a better linemate for Dvo and Roy. But maybe that Dvo line is actually the 4th line.

I think those 2 bottom lines will have similar ice time

 

[Rapala]

So I really hope we get our top six in the game at home against the Leafs and then the last game on the road against Ottawa.

 

[G0bias]

Dach getting a high stick in the face

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836795737184600079

Kapanen 2nd goal

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836796927188353435

*sees a #91 jersey on the ice*

 

[Vachon23]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1836822358511800765

 

[Rapala]

High Stick aside it's Interesting they are playing Struble on that right side which I suggested would be a great fit last season.
I think we absolutely want our 7 to be able to play both sides.
I can see why Kovacevic was never going to beat out Jayden Struble.

 

[OldCraig71]

I feel that it isn't okay to lose games this year and just call it part of the players' development. This year they want more from the players.