GDT: Game 46: Colorado Avalanche vs Montreal Canadiens 7:00pm EST SN, TVA, TSN 690

[Tyson]

I predict COL: 3, MTL: 5

I can see the score being 5-3 Colorado.
Habs do not have the horses to contain Mackinnon and Rantanen

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

It'll be interesting to see what happens. Go Habs!

 

[Milhouse40]

I can see the score being 5-3 Colorado.
Habs do not have the horses to contain Mackinnon and Rantanen

The team came out flat in about every games since they came back from that good December road trip.
New lines, Return home for a terrible game.....they should at least come out stronger.

Islanders lost their game this Afternoon and are playing Tampa tomorrow....and Tampa is facing Buffalo tonight.
Could be a huge 2 points for the Habs...but i agree with you, we don't have the D to stop that big line....forwards will need to score.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Danault is our first center tonight

Shake my freaking head

He's been our first center pretty much all year.

 

[sandysan]

Danault is our first center tonight

Shake my freaking head

I do not like the looks of that first line, having gallagher and drouin together will make drouin look even lazier by comparison. he's sooo lazy its for sure his lazieness will rub off on gallagher before gallagher's work ethic rubs off on Drouin,

 

[sandysan]

I can see the score being 5-3 Colorado.
Habs do not have the horses to contain Mackinnon and Rantanen

but if they do, the one trick pony will be broken.

 

[sandysan]

I would have loved this top 9

Drouin-Kk-Tatar
Lehkonen-Domi-Gallagher
Byron-Danault-Armia

yeah giving our budding young center the responsibility of shutting down the best line in the league probably isn't the greatest idea. Saddling him with drouin makes it even worse.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

He's been our first center pretty much all year.

which is sad

 

[sandysan]

I just wanna see goals, regardless of the result. And a powerplay that actually functions.

Some dreams are impossible though

with our pk, I'm sure the avs scratch that itch

 

[sandysan]

Not saying i would take Ghetto ahead of any of the players i mentioned, but demonizing him like he's a scrub is a bit much considering he is not any worst than many of our players.

objectively ? perhaps. but if he doesnt fit in, having him rot in the pressbox isnt a panacea either. He's another DLR, a guy with some upside that simply never could find and hold his spot on a team with pretty weak comparables.

are we gonna lament losing barberio as well ? I'm ecstatic he's gone.

 

[Whitesnake]

So, when I asked at the start of the thread if there was anyone still pining for Sven I now have an answer. Yes, desperately so.

So you get that because I disagree with your way of seeing this deal? So YOU bring Ghetto....we respond to you, and WE are the ones pining for Sven? You don't think that the people you had to be looking for are the ones who would bring him without being asked to? If so....are you looking for....yourself?

 

[Runner77]

Danault is our first center tonight

Shake my freaking head

He'll need a place that offers sanctuary, if this keeps up.

 

[Heffyhoof]

objectively ? perhaps. but if he doesnt fit in, having him rot in the pressbox isnt a panacea either. He's another DLR, a guy with some upside that simply never could find and hold his spot on a team with pretty weak comparables.

are we gonna lament losing barberio as well ? I'm ecstatic he's gone.

Personally I'm neither ecstatic nor saddened when these types of players come and go. Usually just hope the next one's better and finally works out.

 

[Runner77]

So you get that because I disagree with your way of seeing this deal? So YOU bring Ghetto....we respond to you, and WE are the ones pining for Sven? You don't think that the people you had to be looking for are the ones who would bring him without being asked to? If so....are you looking for....yourself?

It's on our pro scouting people. Same who concurrently with Martinsen, recommended Ott and King and later, Lolzner and Streit. And they're still here.

 

[sandysan]

Personally I'm neither ecstatic nor saddened when these types of players come and go. Usually just hope the next one's better and finally works out.

after watching barberio be possibly the softest player in the nhl night after night, when he and the team parted ways I might have danced a jig if I remember right. other players I can see as us taking a flyer on them and if it doesnt work out, it doesnt work out.

barberio was not one of them

 

[Runner77]

I saw that MacKinnon apologized.

When he reviewed the video and saw that he fell backwards like a dork, he figured there is no way it'll ever have the intended impact so he bailed.

 

[Edgy]

So are people still pining for Sven or have they stopped pretending we traded away someone special?

So I assume the whole purpose of this one liner with no substance or thought behind it is an attempt to ruffle some feathers and start a pointless argument?

 

[Tyson]

It's on our pro scouting people. Same who concurrently with Martinsen, recommended Ott and King and later, Lolzner and Streit. And they're still here.

Therein lies the biggest problem with this current management team, nepotism

 

[Le Tricolore]

Would be sweet if we had another scoring winger. Playing Armia in the top six is no bueno.

Go Habs.

 

[sandysan]

Would be sweet if we had another scoring winger. Playing Armia in the top six is no bueno.

Go Habs.

or one scoring center

 

[Le Tricolore]

or one scoring center

We at least have a couple of those coming up through the farm (and Kotkaniemi).

 

[sandysan]

We at least have a couple of those coming up through the farm (and Kotkaniemi).

i think we will get there. but likely not tonight

 

[Le Tricolore]

i think we will get there. but likely not tonight

We haven't scored 10 goals in a while. Maybe we can do it against the Avs again.

 

[lou4gehrig]

KK not ready AT ALL for first line duties. And Tatar is not a RW.

So when you say this, what's the downside if we did play KK there?

We'd lose? Give up tons of goals? Not score any goals? Are we already doing those three things?

It's easy to say "he's not ready", but we as a franchise have been way too conservative for a very, very long time always waiting for everything to be "just right". Maybe it's time to try something different?

We should just assume we're not going to be a cup contending team this year and focus on developing chemistry with the forwards who we've identified as our core moving forward namely Drouin, Domi and Kotkaniemi. IMHO those three should be playing together in as much as possible in whatever line combinations.

 

[lou4gehrig]

Finally some line changes.

Yes, however Domi, Drouin and KK are on three separate lines, which makes no sense.