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The Great Weal
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I really don't understand why we aren't going with Dobes. He wasn't great last game against Seattle but played 2 solid games before that. Monty needs a break again, he's not a goalie you can ride with.
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Meh.. 4th in games played, 8th in games started, but heavily skewed by the pre-xmas workload (twice he started 10 games in a row given Primeau's issues).
Since January, he's only once played more than 3 games in a row until tonight, which is a lot more rest than most #1 goalies typically see.
No issue and not surprised the team is choosing to lean on him a bit more down the stretch. Unless he falters badly, I'd bet Dobes only gets 1/2 of the back to back nights remaining and maybe one other start mixed in
Or an opportunity to let him battle against a top opponent on home ice down the stretch... can't forget how intense competitors these guys are, and how valuable playing in games with stakes and intensity like this are to their ongoing performance development.
Either way, team is leaning on their #1 and I'm sure he appreciated the opportunity. Up to him to reward their trust.
Monty is the #1 whether we like it or not and we are in a playoff race. We will play him in pretty much every game.
It will take more than 2 average performances for him to lose his spot.
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I don't think many will disagree that he's the #1 at the moment, but a tired Monty is a bad one.
We just have to accept that Monty is going to be overused and the Habs won't make the playoffs because the coaches don't get game management.
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Same coaches that took a concensus bottom 5 roster & youngest group in the league to a playoff spot with 3 weeks to go.
I guess if they had your level of hockey understanding we'd be the president cup winners and odds on cup favorites, eh
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Can't place a bet from Quebec province. I just lose money I guess ?
Edit: Never mind it work now.
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Even if a goalie is playing 3 games in a row, that still means they are starting 75% which would put you over 60 starts. That kind of workload is not at all common in the nhl anymore. 3 goalies did that last year.
Yes, his start rate has gone down since primeau. He was tied for the most at that time, but we are seeing a certain formula for Monty and how he was able to regroup after the 4 nations. The concern is for losing him for the stretch drive mentally, which was a real concern to me during the Habs slide prior to the 4 nations. This team is not getting in if that happens.
Regarding back to backs, luongo mentioned that it usually took him a week to recover from them fully, and that was a guy who was a legitimate workhorse. Meanwhile, Monty will tie his personal games played record tonight but you have to go back to his 2nd season in the Q for the last time he played this many.
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He's tired..........he has been just ok recently. He needs a game off, to reset himself. He is not going to lose his spot......
Dobes should start this gsme.........it's going to be a tough one................Monty will either win it or lose it for us.....I just hope he doesn't give up a quick one......because it usually means a couple of more right behind that one........
Go Habs Go !!
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Told you guys-
Thursday at 10:52 PM
You know he will be back Saturday, MSL will give him a chance to redeem himself, hope I'm wrong.
I recall MSL doing this before when Monty had a real bad game but was stellar the next game, maybe Monty will do it again
Although I would have preferred Dobes as well.
Yeah tonight would have been a good time to put dobes in vs a high powered offense. Monty hasnt been good last 2 games and can really lose confidence if avs blow out the habs tonight.
MSL said himself he doesn't understand game management at the start of this season and then went to prove it when he overplayed Monty when he lost confidence in Primeau in November/early December. Monty had to be replaced during games more often than Primeau was in the 1st half. A tired Monty is a shit goalie, we already seen that a few months ago.Same coaches that took a concensus bottom 5 roster & youngest group in the league to a playoff spot with 3 weeks to go.
I guess if they had your level of hockey understanding we'd be the president cup winners and odds on cup favorites, eh
And now MSL is doing it again. This should have been a "planned" lost with Dobes in net to maximize Monty's rest, because their won't be any rest in April. 9 games in 16 games and a single back-to-back.
Devils in the details... context matters, not all parts of the season are the same and teams manage their rosters accordingly.
Nucks - Lankinen 9 of 10 last games
Utah - Vejmelka 12 straight games
Sens - Ulmark 12 of 13
Rangers - Shesterkin 13 of 15
Islanders - Sorokin 16 of 17
Red Wings - Mrazek starting 5th straight since being acquired
Flames - Wolf 12 of 16
Habs- Monty 11 of 15
See the similarities?
If anything, Monty is getting solid rest relative to other wild card chasing teams with a #1
That's a very small sample size to be drawing any conclusions from.
Neither the habs (current coaches) nor Monty have played meaningful March hockey chasing a playoff spot. Nothing about today's decision is surprising imo.
Right... hence why you'd expect to see Dobes in the upcoming back to backs
Indeed...both he and the team are going to find out what he can handle.
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Monty is better than people give him credit for:
But there's a difference between trusting him and not overworking him
I'm not in disagreement, and I would've played Dobes - just providing you St Louis' actual answer
Monty will step up and play lights out like he did against Florida.
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