Kk back on wing...Caufield on 4th...I dont get how panicky coaches get, and make changes for the sake of doing something different.
Caufield with Evans and Lehkonen at practice.. unreal.
Dear Ducharme, please try the following:
Caulfield-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Toffoli-Suzuki-Armia
Tatar-Danault-Staal
Lehkonen-Evans-Perry
Edmundson-Petry
Weber-Romanov
Gustafson-Chiarot
Dear Ducharme, please try the following:
Caulfield-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Toffoli-Suzuki-Armia
Tatar-Danault-Staal
Lehkonen-Evans-Perry
Edmundson-Petry
Weber-Romanov
Gustafson-Chiarot
I think that's fine honestly. Evans has more speed then our other centres and Lehkonen can go to the net and create space for Caufield, something he hasn't had.
Fans get upset when lines are not changed and get upset when they are. LOL
Caufield hasn't impressed a whole lot. Caufield with Lehks and Evans may not be that bad. And the lines in a blender can't be much worse than what has been out there lately. Can't fault the coach for at least trying.
Kk back on wing...Caufield on 4th...I dont get how panicky coaches get, and make changes for the sake of doing something different.
Dear Ducharme, please try the following:
Caulfield-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Toffoli-Suzuki-Armia
Tatar-Danault-Staal
Lehkonen-Evans-Perry
Edmundson-Petry
Weber-Romanov
Gustafson-Chiarot
And if Tatar is still hurt:
Caufield-Kotkaniemi-Anderson
Toffoli-Suzuki-Armia
Lehkonen-Danault-Staal
Frolik-Evans-Perry
I'm not sure why that hasn't been considered.
I hate to say it, but it's because Danault is the new Desharnais.
Or both.Poor Dom is out of ideas. He's lost and doesn't know how to get his message through.
Either a bad coach or the team has already checked out!
Danault is not the new Desharnais. He's a fantistic defensive center and Montreal is very conservative when it comes to putting young players up against top competition.
I think they might also want Danault back and want to make sure he plays with offensive wingers. Not a major issue when you have a healthy group, but with Tatar, Gallagher and Drouin out, its different.
All of this is correct, although I though the opponents have figured out our breakouts when Julien was still the coach. It actually improved for a stretch under Ducharme. But yeah, he does not look good.Outside of finding a way to break our breakouts by putting too much responsibility on the D and giving them no down low support, and those 3-5 games where it seemed the Habs figured out how to use the soft ice in the offensive zone (before going 100% back to point shots), what has Ducharme done to earn the full-time coaching job of this team?
The forecheck has become extremely passive and it's clear the forwards are not on the same page with the "reads" and "options" they have for applying pressure. The neutral zone has become easy ice for opponents to skate through and gain possession of the offensive zone. I'm not sure the changes Dom made are going to bring this team success.
Bring in some more experience, make Dom an associate coach playing the old Muller role. Put Burrows back in Laval if you need the space behind the bench.
WTF?Poor Dom is out of ideas. He's lost and doesn't know how to get his message through.
Either a bad coach or the team has already checked out!
Julien: Never changed his lines even when things got stale.
Ducharme: Changes the lines so much no one has any idea who they're playing with, in the next game.
Trying to change a wrong with a wrong is still pretty wrong.
Poor Dom is out of ideas. He's lost and doesn't know how to get his message through.
Either a bad coach or the team has already checked out!