Pre-Game Talk: Flames @ Canadiens Nov 5 7pm ET

[OldCraig71]

Kent Hughes masterclass

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Under par in more ways than one.

 

[Tyson]

Another Tuesday night massacre on home ice? Seems to be the norm.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Tomorrow should be a fun day between this trainwreck of a team and the US elections.

meme day and habs hockey

gonna be a funny one

 

[overlords]

Another Tuesday night massacre on home ice? Seems to be the norm.

it gives a whole new meaning to Méchant Mardi Molson-Ex

 

[Tyson]

it gives a whole new meaning to Méchant Mardi Molson-Ex

 

[Team_Spirit]

I suspect Lomberg and Pospicil to act like total tards out there, lets hope MSL can slide in Pez somehow. Even just for a better forecheck, dude deserves a some icetime over some of these other idiots.

Game preview;

 

[The Great Weal]

Still no Roy call up is pretty crazy to me. Newhook has been a complete disaster this year yet he's given unlimited chances in the top 6.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Still no Roy call up is pretty crazy to me. Newhook has been a complete disaster this year yet he's given unlimited chances in the top 6.

Maybe Roy isn't in the teams plan due to work ethic/attitude concern (just a theory). He isn't a HuGo pick after all, no strings attached.

 

[The Great Weal]

Maybe Roy isn't in the teams plan due to work ethic/attitude concern (just a theory). He isn't a HuGo pick after all, no strings attached.

Not directed at you, but I am beyond fed up with this work ethic excuse. Most of the guys on the team are mailing it in consistently. If they care so much about work ethic, they would have sent a message by waiving the likes of Dvorak/Armia and scratching Newhook. Hell even Slaf despite his production looks extremely disengaged so far this season.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Not directed at you, but I am beyond fed up with this work ethic excuse. Most of the guys on the team are mailing it in consistently. If they care so much about work ethic, they would have sent a message by waiving the likes of Dvorak/Armia and scratching Newhook. Hell even Slaf despite his production looks extremely disengaged so far this season.

Yes I don't disagree, just going from what I read on the board (maybe these are false rumors). But I have read he had a really bad attitude, not just lazy but un-coachable and self centered. Might be just BS.

 

[The Real Timo]

Yes I don't disagree, just going from what I read on the board (maybe these are false rumors). But I have read he had a really bad attitude, not just lazy but un-coachable and self centered. Might be just BS.

He seems to be producing and working hard just fine in Laval. I agree though... work ethic excuse IS a BS, because 1/2 the team now or more consistently doesn't show up. And besides, don't we have the greatest motivator as our coach?

Sit Newhook, sit Dvorak - get Wawa and Tuch over here. Put Pezz in. Unleash Xhakaj. Let's kick some ass for once!

 

[Trenbohabs]

I really hope Hutson will take Dach's spot on PP1 tonight. Dach is simply not ready for that kind of role yet and MSL keeps sending him. He's hurting the already fragile team.

 

[Goalfield13]

Slaf-Evans-Gally would be a better line, and I can't believe I am saying this.

 

[The Real Timo]

So is Marc Bureau is there only for a day or did Habs have him engaged over a certain period of time?

 

[Kennerback]

Maybe Roy isn't in the teams plan due to work ethic/attitude concern (just a theory). He isn't a HuGo pick after all, no strings attached.

Work ethic/attitude is trumped by scoring goals. What’s good for Michkov, is good for Roy. Unless he’s doing something illegal our second PP needs help.

 

[Habs]

So what was wrong with more or less 2 lines working fine? Suzuki, Slaf, CC and Evans, Gally and Anderson?

MSL is going down the blender route now. And people say he can't adapt

Looks like Struble will sit this one out?

Did he show too much emotion. ? Must scratch him

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Kent Hughes masterclass

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Yoooooooo first in something!

 

[morhilane]

Slaf-Evans-Gally would be a better line, and I can't believe I am saying this.

Gally can't keep up with the 2nd line workload anymore. He would have taken Newhook's spot there a long time ago if he was, might even play on the 1st line by now.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Sadly the forward lineup in the OP is our best possible combo right now - what a sad season this is going to be

 

[Andrei79]

Jake Evans being the best option at 2C is on Hughes and Gorton, not MSL. While the coaching staff shares some of the blame, you can't put out the message that you want to be in the mix yet provide no depth to your staff.

 

[holy]

I'm voting Habs baby.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Slaf-Evans-Gally would be a better line, and I can't believe I am saying this.

Yup, they'd be a good cycle unit. You have a speedy, defensive conscious center with a playmaker (Slafkovsky) & a net front guy in Gallagher. It would be our best defensive line by far & probably add offense in the way Tatar-Danault-Gallagher did.

Newhook - Dvorak - Anderson is a pretty ugly 3rd line, but oh well. Armia on the 4th is where he should be. Kapanen needs to be sent back to SHL.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Jake Evans being the best option at 2C is on Hughes and Gorton, not MSL. While the coaching staff shares some of the blame, you can't put out the message that you want to be in the mix yet provide no depth to your staff.

The expectation was Dach would be 2nd line center. He was pretty decent before his knee injury, but he's been absolutely shit. -14 is just f***ing laughable.

In hindsight, we should have signed or traded for a mid-roster center, though, because Dvorak has completely lost his ability to win face-offs, which is like the only thing he was ever really good at.

Dach & Dvorak are both playing severely below expectations. I mean Dvo had low expectations coming into the season, and he still can't manage to be even a little bit helpful.

Almost everyone on this board was excited about Dach coming back & providing us depth. Suzuki, Dach, Evans & Dvorak isn't a bad center unit - theoretically, but D & D have choked the f***ing optimism out of everyone. They've both been atrocious at center leaving us Suzuki & Evans and a not-yet-ready Kapanen as our centers.