GDT: GAME 9: HABS @ VEGAS | Vegas, baby! | Mon. Oct. 30, 2023, 10PM -- RDS, TSN2, TSN690, 98.5FM

[Cournoyer12]

Vegas 8-0-1, Habs will have to play a disciplined, close to perfect game and goaltending will need to be on point.

One more important observation- is it me or does Mark Stone have a punchable face?

Right on brother! Stone, Matthews,Nylander= Mount Rushmore of punchable faces! Feel free to add to the list!

 

[Cournoyer12]

The Arpon article about “Positionless Hockey” and the way the “modern game” is played irks me a bit in that some people think these are novel concepts. Oops there’s MSL’s favourite word

The Soviets crafted zone entries that led to defensemen driving the puck into an empty slot for a shot on net. I don’t think anyone needs reminding of the style many NHL teams used in the 80s and early 90s.

It reminds me of the one of advanced stats nerds, probably Dom, that once said Babcock’s Leafs are the first team to ever consistently use “4” players to maintain possession in the O zone. WHAT?

Plain old recency bias my friend, seems like no one remembers anything before 2000….. except us old geezers!

 

[FrankMTL]

Right on brother! Stone, Matthews,Nylander= Mount Rushmore of punchable faces! Feel free to add to the list!

Tkachuk is right up there.....either one, take your pick.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

I've often wondered how Ottawa has managed to draft or trade for so many punchable faces. It started happening after they were so good and couldn't win it all. The funny thing is it isn't limited to players with coaches like DJ Smith and the Walrus we'd all like to wale on.

Yes he was the Walrus, goo goo j'joob.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

MSL is a sucker for punishment for these for these lines

Caufield/Suzuki/Harvey-Pinard Slafkovsky-Newhook-Anderson Pearson-Monahan-Gallagher Pezzetta-Evans-Armia

Put all these names in a bag and randomly make the lines. It will give the same results as a hockey genious makes the lines.

 

[Bushero]

So we're gonna scratch Ylonen again to accommodate for our young future cornerstone piece Joel Armia again right?

If anything Armia should be given a chance in the first line after last game. Especially because of the other options that totally sucks. And what's the obsession with below mediocre Ylönen ? There's a billion players like him out there. Absolutely nothing special or ever will be.

 

[AlexGretzchenvid]

If anything Armia should be given a chance in the first line after last game. Especially because of the other options that totally sucks. And what's the obsession with below mediocre Ylönen ? There's a billion players like him out there. Absolutely nothing special or ever will be.

I don’t think this is true, he skates very well, has a hell of a one timer It’s just his positioning IQ which is lacking but I also think that with more ice time it COULD get better creating a lethal PP guy / 3rd line scorer.

 

[The Great Weal]

If anything Armia should be given a chance in the first line after last game. Especially because of the other options that totally sucks. And what's the obsession with below mediocre Ylönen ? There's a billion players like him out there. Absolutely nothing special or ever will be.

Ya you’re right, there’s no player like Armia in the league which is why he’s so special. He’s clearly a hot commodity when he just cleared waivers.

 

[Runner77]

we are gonna get worked hard.

Which leads me to believe that our trusted Forum Oracle, is not optimistic even though he seems to be smitten with Yoelle’s aura.

 

[Bushero]

I don’t think this is true, he skates very well, has a hell of a one timer It’s just his positioning IQ which is lacking but I also think that with more ice time it COULD get better creating a lethal PP guy / 3rd line scorer.

He skates very well and that's about it. Far from "hell of a one timer" at NHL level. I can't stand how the guy handles, passes and shoots the puck. Like punching a punching bag with an open palm.

 

[Skip Bayless]

The Arpon article about “Positionless Hockey” and the way the “modern game” is played irks me a bit in that some people think these are novel concepts. Oops there’s MSL’s favourite word

The Soviets crafted zone entries that led to defensemen driving the puck into an empty slot for a shot on net. I don’t think anyone needs reminding of the style many NHL teams used in the 80s and early 90s.

It reminds me of the one of advanced stats nerds, probably Dom, that once said Babcock’s Leafs are the first team to ever consistently use “4” players to maintain possession in the O zone. WHAT?

I think people get it wrong with the MSL concepts thing. He is teaching nothing new, it's in the manner in which it is taught that is different. It is also less rigid than a system, but it's mostly the players themselves that develop the structure through following certain habits in all possible phases of the game.

It's not the strategies that are new, it's how they're implemented that is new.

 

[Bushero]

Ya you’re right, there’s no player like Armia in the league which is why he’s so special. He’s clearly a hot commodity when he just cleared waivers.

Yup. That's what i said. Child much?

 

[The Great Weal]

Yup. That's what i said. Child much?

Armia dogs it in 95% of games but apparently deserves another chance because of a good game. Ylonen doesn't get a chance whenever he has a good game. The guy plays 12 minutes a game with Evans and Pezzetta, how can you even properly evaluate him?

 

[Team_Spirit]

Nice dress Bruce

The moobs on display for us all

 

[The Real Timo]

Which leads me to believe that our trusted Forum Oracle, is not optimistic even though he seems to be smitten with Yoelle’s aura.

Well... if Yoelle is the only one constantly carrying the team on his shoulders, however broad, it doesn't bode well for the team. I am not optimistic. My feeling is bad.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

If anything Armia should be given a chance in the first line after last game. Especially because of the other options that totally sucks. And what's the obsession with below mediocre Ylönen ? There's a billion players like him out there. Absolutely nothing special or ever will be.

So true, Armia has just never been given a chance before


Put him on the first line and watch him turn into prime Sergei Fedorov

 

[Runner77]

Wow I had no ideas the Knights added the Mumbletaker to their coaching staff.

It was an afterthought for most here as they were probably trying to forget the disaster that he was.

Reminded me about how at the time when he took over from Julien, he turned out to be so similar to him rather than the innovative, modern-thinking breath of fresh air that many in here thought he might be.

Reigning veterans in to institute a meritocracy? Nahhhhh.

A departure from Julien’s archaic methods? Nope.

He couldn’t even dress for the part without causing disturbing fashion faux pas:

Even @overlords couldn’t take him anymore!

He was largely considered to be a puppet of Bergevin as he acted with no mind of his own …

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

It was an afterthought for most here as they were probably trying to forget the disaster that he was.

Reminded me about how at the time when he took over from Julien, he turned out to be so similar to him rather than the innovative, modern-thinking breath of fresh air that many in here thought he might be.

Reigning veterans in to institute a meritocracy? Nahhhhh.

A departure from Julien’s archaic methods? Nope.

He couldn’t even dress for the part without causing disturbing fashion faux pas:

Even @overlords couldn’t take him anymore!

He was largely considered to be a puppet of Bergevin as he acted with no mind of his own …

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Fenwick McCorsi]

It was an afterthought for most here as they were probably trying to forget the disaster that he was.

Reminded me about how at the time when he took over from Julien, he turned out to be so similar to him rather than the innovative, modern-thinking breath of fresh air that many in here thought he might be.

Reigning veterans in to institute a meritocracy? Nahhhhh.

A departure from Julien’s archaic methods? Nope.

He couldn’t even dress for the part without causing disturbing fashion faux pas:

Even @overlords couldn’t take him anymore!

He was largely considered to be a puppet of Bergevin as he acted with no mind of his own …

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The Circle of Claude's around serial-killer face Ducharme is something I never needed to see, yet I can't look away.

 

[Redux91]

By far
The funniest most incredible part of the whole Ducharme thing?

Him trying to tell HIS SIDE on why it didn't work out for him after
LMAO oh God, my cheeks hurt

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Harris with an honorable mention to RHP

I don't count Gallagher hate, it's lazy at this point

Where I'm from Dominique is a woman's name, Dominic is for men

 

[Habs]

The expansion team showing some of oldest franchises in the league how to build a team lol.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Also prepare for our young guys to suck tonight, I'll be surprised if this isn't Slaf's worst game yet

They don't know how to control themselves in Vegas, especially with all the Halloween fun, Monahan and Allen will have to carry

 

[dinodebino]

on va en manger une tabarnac.

 

[Justin11]

on va en manger une tabarnac.

That’s our pregame notion, then postgame after the upset “ Ça sent la coupe”