Post-Game Talk: Habs blow it against the Islanders in OT

[Balthazar]

That's the point. Monty was weak,bad read on the others.Yeah sure blame the rookie. Both Evans and Dvorak lost theirs faceoffs too. They should not be there.

Players don't lose faceoffs on purpose and goalies don't give up goals on purpose either. Hutson on the other hand chose to take shot, that's on him. His decision.

That doesn't mean he isn't good, there's no need to try to defend him there.

 

[zx81]

First line has cooled off a little bit. Thankfully secondary scoring got us 3 pts out of 4. Would be nice to have both at the same time though.

 

[River Meadow]

Monty was weak tonight, no question there

He usually lets in a few weak goals tbh, but will also make some amazing saves.

I think Dobes might be our darkhorse if we need a goalie to steal games in the PO.

 

[habamillions]

Rough game for monty. But not a terrible night. Gained a point on ottawa and the other ny team. Push with cbus as they also got a point. Happy for gally though.

 

[Final Baton]

Stellar goaltending on one end

and very mediocre tending on the other.


But it'd be great to have a bonafide 2C too... I like Roy and Beck and all, but they're not 2C caliber at the moment.

 

[Kennedys]

Last time the habs had 40+ SOG was 32 july 1807

 

[Forum93]

Monty can’t play against the Avs

You know he will be back Saturday, MSL will give him a chance to redeem himself, hope I'm wrong.

 

[The Great Weal]

Because he made like 10 incredible saves on top of that. Only reason the Isles were in that game was because of him. Monty didn’t make a difficult save all game.

He definitely did make some difficult saves. But let's say he didn't, there's been plenty of games where Monty makes a ton of saves but allows the same goals as the ones Sorokin allowed with Slaf/Gallagher, and people still dog on him nonstop. There's just zero consistency in his criticisms.

 

[Sookind]

Seriously.? 2 forwards,

Thank you

 

[Kennerback]

He usually lets in a few weak goals tbh, but will also make some amazing saves.

I think Dobes might be our darkhorse if we need a goalie to steal games in the PO.

He’s an OK goalie. He’ll usually keep you in the games if you play well. He didn’t tonight.

 

[expy]

MSL low-key confirming that the scoreboard wasn't representative of the game.

("They were beating us on the scoreboard, but I don't think they were beating us")

 

[Rapala]

But you gotta get a point every now and then to get there.

My philosophy has never waivered it's never a loser point when you are in a playoff position.

 

[CharleyHorse]

Getting one point on the road during our streak was still a good result.

This statement only holds true if they now win on Saturday

 

[VT]

I think Laine’s got 2 shift in OT in the past month. 2 goals against. Wtf is Marty thinking.

That goal wasn't Laine's fault, though. He was waiting for Hutson to let him have the puck so he could shoot a one timer. But Lane made a different decision. And wrong.

 

[BJCOLLINS]

Great to get the point.

Gally…..legend mode my man!

Monty needs a game off for rest. But if we’re gonna lose, that’s the fashion!
Good game boys, cheers.

ps ref’s???

 

[badfish]

It's disappointing but can't be mad. They've played awesome lately and they still battled back for one point. Saturday will be a big test. One of my favourite games ever by Suzuki was last year against Colorado, he went head to head against MacKinnon all night and was the better player. I think we get that version of Suzuki Saturday.

 

[durojean]

Loss is on Monty and Hutson. But I am proud of the fight in our team.

Loss is not on Hutson… he played a really good and dynamic game.

He made one mistake and took a chance. Monty did not save him and Laine was not at the good place on the ice.

Montembault is tired, he tends to do that after a lot of game. I feel like he need to sit against Colorado and come back strong next week.

I hope we get to the playoffs but I don’t think this year is the year.

 

[le_sean]

He definitely did make some difficult saves. But let's say he didn't, there's been plenty of games where Monty makes a ton of saves but allows the same goals as the ones Sorokin allowed with Slaf/Gallagher, and people still dog on him nonstop. There's just zero consistency in his criticisms.

Just like there’s zero consistency in his game. We were spoiled with Price.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Proud of this young team. Happy for our bald man, who scored for his mum.

Balding*

Not the same

 

[Saundies]

Now that I had time to cool off over the initial reaction, they did dominate most of the night. Two bad penalties (again) and two brutal goals by Monty sink us.

Gally scoring is what Sports dreams are made of.

I'm glad they counted Laine's goal -- Sorokin made 0 effort to actually try to make the save and every effort to get the call and it didn't pay off.

OT was just bad. All 3 'chances' we had were individual efforts with little chances of going in that just gave the puck away.

Can't win em' all, glad for the point.

 

[zx81]

Stellar goaltending on one end

and very mediocre tending on the other.


But it'd be great to have a bonafide 2C too... I like Roy and Beck and all, but they're not 2C caliber at the moment.

Roy is not a C

 

[mbz]

I feel like we were just watching the play unfold in our own end, need to be more proactive. It’s like they were letting them have free shots on Monty all night.. gotta be more aggresive. It kinda feels like the games are so important and they are thinking too much instead of playing off instincts. No one wants to be the one who makes the mistake.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

MSL always look like he about the punch someone in post game presser

 

[expy]

Imagine saying Hutson was at fault at all on that, and being completely blind to seeing Laine pinch in for nothing.

 

[JianYang]

My philosophy has never waivered it's never a loser point when you are in a playoff position.

I'm not overly disappointed in the result. I think it's a good thing to find ways to secure points when you are down like the Habs were.

I just don't want the otl slide to go further.Theres probably alot of tight games ahead for the Habs.

On to the next one. Hopefully the habs catch the avs with a bit of fatigue as they come in playing their 3rd game in 4 nights.

Mind you, the Habs won in colorado earlier on a 2nd half of a b2b in altitude (with dobes).