Post-Game Talk: Drouins big return ends up in a Habs loss against Ottawa

[Ajhccwrs]

Excellent for the tank let's gooooo

 

[Pyrophorus]

Drouin may love the city and team, and everything that comes with it...but its not working out for him.
He should request a trade at the end of the season and go someplace where he can regain his confidence within the realm of his mental illness.

 

[SwiftyHab]

Drouin may love the city and team, and everything that comes with it...but its not working out for him.
He should request a trade at the end of the season and go someplace where he can regain his confidence within the realm of his mental illness.

It’s his contract year so He’ll definetly get to see some new scenery after this season.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Owe to have a PMD so we don’t have Drouin and Hoffman playing the point on PPs and with the ENs

 

[26Mats]

I just watched the highlights of the game.

Yeah, Evans has no offense because he hasn't been putting up big numbers playing on the 4th line with Pez, Dadonov, Armia, etc...

Speaking of Armia, he reminds me a lot of Kovalev when carrying the puck. Hope he can break out.

 

[Belial]

Drouin may love the city and team, and everything that comes with it...but its not working out for him.
He should request a trade at the end of the season and go someplace where he can regain his confidence within the realm of his mental illness.

He's UFA at the end of the season.

 

[26Mats]

Owe to have a PMD so we don’t have Drouin and Hoffman playing the point on PPs and with the ENs

owe(?) to have a pp coach that doesn't put Drouin and Hoffman on the point, but rather Xhekaj, Guhle, or Harris.

 

[themilosh]

Excellent for the tank let's gooooo

Im so happy the boys are back on track. Im targeting Fantilli as our next draft pick.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

owe(?) to have a pp coach that doesn't put Drouin and Hoffman on the point, but rather Xhekaj, Guhle, or Harris.

Burrows is a double agent helping the tank

 

[Team_Spirit]

1st period Habs were better but Talbot made the saves

2nd period half of it on the PK Sens took the lead

3rd Habs came back but too late

Another game easily won if the dead last PP was not a momentum-killing atrocity.

 

[admiralcadillac]

I thought he showed some speed and creativity tonight, including his missed breakaway. Problem is, the fan base has gone so sour no matter what Drouin does positively, the angry crowd will never be appeased. I've seen this sad story for more than sixty years: the need for a collective whipping boy.

Yup! Drouin played a good game. More speed tonight.

 

[Draft]

Yup! Drouin played a good game. More speed tonight.

I was way more confident with Drouin at the point than Matheson or Hoffman. He can definitely still move the puck.

 

[donghabs98]

Was at the game tonight and can definitely say the crowd was only truly electric when Habs fans were cheering and active. Otherwise the crowd was tame which if you're a Sens fan is not ideal considering its a home game. Another thing was the refing. It was just inconsistent and anytime the refs are a factor in the game, Id say they failed their job that game and tonight was that case. Dach should not have been given an extra 2 which considering the score was basically giving the Sens a chance to end the game. Then when late in the 3rd with the game on the line they make a soft call that basically finished the game there by eating away 2 minutes. Habs were flat in the 2nd and it cost them, but the refing added to the challenges they had.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

He does. Certain posters are obsessed with him.

I want names ! C'mon, give us names !

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

I was at work all night and didn't get a chance to know the score. After reading some poste here, I'm not interrested watching the game tomorrow. I think this team will tank for real. They were wrongfully good with the addition of Monahan. Now that the only good line is Su-CC-Da, it's too easy to check one line. Only one player, playing an important position of center #2 and the whole team change for a .500 team. Without him this team will drop dramaticly. Without Moneyhand, even Price in nets couldn't make the difference. I didn't watch the game but I'm sure the goalies were not the reason they lost.

 

[KevSkillz4]

Slafkovsky is on pace for 34 points in 82 games, rookie year of KK and he show already better tools than KK. That's a really good season so far by Slaf.

Dach on pace for 60 points, that's impressive too. If he put 50-60 points this year, i'm happy and if that's more than that... that's a bonus. I really like his game. 20 points in 29 games, it's solid production.

 

[ChesterNimitz]

Im so happy the boys are back on track. Im targeting Fantilli as our next draft pick.

Regrettably, so are a half dozen other teams who will probably finish lower in the standings than us.

 

[ChesterNimitz]

I just watched the highlights of the game.

Yeah, Evans has no offense because he hasn't been putting up big numbers playing on the 4th line with Pez, Dadonov, Armia, etc...

Speaking of Armia, he reminds me a lot of Kovalev when carrying the puck. Hope he can break out.

Actually, I thought Dadonov had his best game last night. He showed speed on the wing, drove the play at times, particularly circling the net with the puck, and created several scoring chances for himself and his linemates. Most importantly, his compete level was high. If he keeps it up, Dadonov’s marketability may well increase to the point that a competing team looking for experienced, secondary scoring may actually pay something for this, to date, disappointing player.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Developing a good group does take good young players I agree but instilling a winning culture is also good for this group of current young players.

A winning Culture okay , but to who there is like 5 players in this lineup worth keeping and 2 of them already have playoff success and carry the team by themselves.

What the kid needs is new bodies who can play hockey and not sit their fat ass on high salary not being able to do 5% of what they do.

When your coach sends Rem Pitlick in the Shootout instead of an actual shooter.
Send Wideman instead of Guhle.
Sends Matheson who was beyond putrid against Philly and still put Matheson who tripped like a pee-wee instead of Guhle who does anything better than him.

The play ''the kid narrative'' is pretty much out of the picture. MSL coaches like Ducharme and Julien. Play the vets and put the kids in stupid or lost situation so they don't ever get better.

We know the team is terrible but not sending ur kids on the PP or important moments and put instead Armia Dadonov or Savard is beyond dumb.

Thats my PoV they can lose against Anaheim tomorrow who have only 1 regular win in like 30 matches and I won't even care.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Lol... St Louis is pas d'bonne humeur.

Canadiens : « Vous avez regardé le match. C'est tout ce que j'ai à dire » (LNH)

Perhaps, he should start with his PP line choices? Sigh... I had a deja vu of listening to Therrien or Julien pressers. Ducharme, I couldn't tell, cause I could never understand what he was saying in either language.

dude never called a timeout in the second period to tell the team to wake up. His powerplay coach doesnt know how to play hockey. I really wonder how many games you need to realize that the powerplay cost games and playing the veterans instead of icing ur better players for 2min with an actual pp strategy would make them better.

But he coached pee-wee , hella of a pedigree

 

[MarioLeMoose]

dude never called a timeout in the second period to tell the team to wake up. His powerplay coach doesnt know how to play hockey. I really wonder how many games you need to realize that the powerplay cost games and playing the veterans instead of icing ur better players for 2min with an actual pp strategy would make them better.

But he coached pee-wee , hella of a pedigree

He also played over 1100 NHL games..
I understand coaching is a very different beast, but if you’re going to minimize his pedigree by saying he only coached peewee, I think it’s a relevant point to mention that it’s not like he is some nobody who hasn’t been around the league. Hate on him all you want, but let’s be real here.

 

[Demon Wolf]

Jesus the Drouin hate is getting so old. Who are you blaming in our other losses?

 

[BLONG7]

Stopping gliding pucks at blue line is not Drouin's thing. Come on, people.

Of all the guys who did not deserve to be on the ice at that moment.....................anyone on the bench could have helped instead of that twat.....
The Sens dominated one period and we lost........

I feel like I am in such a minority when I say Drouin seems like he gets a very disproportionate amount of hate.

Am I the only person who wouldn't be mad if he came back next year?

Great loss overall - 4 point night for a team lower than us in the standings. This is not a playoff team (it should be next year) and it would be very nice to draft top 5 this year - imagine getting Michkov or Sale

It's not hate..............he never earns anything, it's just gifted to him, and he does nothing with it, let alone deserves it.............it's very sad for sure.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Drouin was good slaf was good , armia and evans cant score a goal -.-

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

He also played over 1100 NHL games..
I understand coaching is a very different beast, but if you’re going to minimize his pedigree by saying he only coached peewee, I think it’s a relevant point to mention that it’s not like he is some nobody who hasn’t been around the league. Hate on him all you want, but let’s be real here.

He played 1100 games , yet can't see his powerplay needs a complete overhaul and new strategy but they keep using the same garbage as last years.

Played 1100 games but doesn't know when the need team a timeout to put them back in place.

Played 1100 games but he should know players like Dadonov or Wideman are not the future. If I was a Caufield , id rather grow with Guhle on the PP over all the veteran plugs they put in because he wants to please everyone.

Wayne Gretzky also tried to coach and was beyond horrendous. Being a player and coaching are 2 different things. Not because you played the game means you know how to prepare your team mentally everyday during training and gametime.

I find this excuse pretty easy and really non-effective.