Post-Game Talk: Habs can't stop a puck or stay healthy. Rags wipe out Habs in Montreal.

[MasterD]

"Josh andersson is doing good things, we want him to get going". Maybe he has rocks for brains guys and he was never gonna be good. Anderson getting so much slack while Arber gets scratched twice already is mind boggling.

There is (was) a lot more depth at D than F, it's why Xhekaj and Struble got benched... not enough spots.

And too many LD, Mailloux plays cause he's RD. We need a trade. Many trades.

 

[vokiel]

No. we need 3G playing at the same time

Lets just hire a Sumo wrestler and pad him up good.

 

[red devil]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848915317398847833

 

[Habs Icing]

A couple of posters commented on the defense. There are two points I want to make.

1) Over the summer management made two trades. They unloaded Harris and Kovacecic. They were not top pairing d-men but they did an admirable job. HuGo must have thought that Barron and Hutson were ready to step up. Obviously, they are not ready.

2) In one of the training camp pressers MSL mentioned that he and Robidas came up with another scheme (or to use Marty's jargon) concept when in our defensive zone. Maybe they should go back to the old one.

When management decides that a Hutson with all his flaws on defense is NHL ready, that tells me they don't really care about defense. After all, what did Hughes say to Dach after trading for him? It wasn't are you ready to come to a winning team? No it was are you ready to play offensive hockey. (Or are you ready to score goals, I don't remember the exact words.) Now I'm not blaming Hutson for what is happening to the defense but the decision to play such a defensively flawed d-man in the NHL is symptomatic of management's thinking. We're gonna outscore the opposition. LOL!

 

[Tyson]

This is year 3 of the rebuild, not year one...seems like major regression. What's the plan?

 

[the]

Yeah as bad as that game was I just dunno what the long term takeaway is supposed to be from a game without Slaf/Laine/Guhle where our top pair was Matheson-Barron, Mailloux/Struble each played 20 minutes, and our 2nd line was Newhook - Kapanen - Armia. Would like to see the team stop being so soft as a group but similarly it's hard to get too wound up about that when there were at most 6 forwards dressed tonight who will be around 2-3 years from now.

I figured we'd be better (somewhere in the 20-24th range) but I also didn't expect to lose so many important players so quickly or for literally every single vet other than Gallagher to be absolutely terrible. Not that I thought the veteran guys would be particularly good but Savard/Armia/Dvorak should at least be OK depth NHLers and they're playing like absolute dogwater right now. Anderson too but I can't pretend I'm remotely surprised by how bad he's been.

He’s freaking awful also.

 

[Tyson]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848915317398847833

You had nothing to do with that right Marty?

 

[MasterD]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848915317398847833

If we had real journalist, that's a wide open garage door! "Why is the team giving so many scoring chances, so many shots and so many goals? What are you planning to do to stop that from happening?"

 

[Beaker]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848915317398847833

Someone remind him he has timeouts he can use

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

There is no magical solution here.

You either clench your teeth and wait for the growing pain to pass or you add vets with enough abilities to stabilize the play and insulate the pups.

No, but they can add a vet RD. That'd be a nice start.

 

[JoelWarlord]

He’s freaking awful also.

Yeah not gonna stick my neck out for him by any means but I just meant that at least Gallagher has looked like a basically competent third liner at points this year.

 

[Shred]

This is year 3 of the rebuild, not year one...seems like major regression. What's the plan?

Bring in Demidov next year, pick top 5 again this year, and get less injuries...

 

[TheYardMachine]

Listening to MSL and its not encouraging at all

He looks out of answer and feels like its small mistakes there and there that cost the game but the team looks terrible

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Someone remind him he has timeouts he can use

We should've kicked the puck through the goal posts. That would've tied things up.

 

[Tyson]

No, but they can add a vet RD. That'd be a nice start.

Kovasevic was adequate and looks solid in NJ.

 

[Adriatic]

It's so fun reading the craziness of some posters lol

 

[MasterD]

Bring in Demidov next year, pick top 5 again this year, and get less injuries...

What's the plan?

It's been 3 or 4 horrible years. They've changed the whole medical staff. What's the plan now?

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Just like my girlfriend's nails, the Habs got shallacked!

 

[FLHabs]

MSL sounds like he's checked out lol

 

[dinodebino]

i mean it's a delicate situation again, and now the injuries are piling up. Two, top 6 wingers, Guhle, Barron..who am I missing?
goaltending has been bad.
losing every puck battle with a combo of bergevin leftovers who are bad or don't give a crap.
Bad in defensive zone with a lot of inexperienced guys and an overplayed Matheson and savard who's great in the room but should've been traded already.
And too small and soft (see puck battles) Newhook, Hutson, Gallagher, Caufield etc...
yeah I get some of them are talented but the team is too small with no defined 4th line.
They're not waiving gally or anderson. Maybe Armia or Dvorak get waived as they're UFA's to be - but it's way too early in the year.

I'd still love to see them bring up Tuch and Condotta and play them with Pezz.
Stop sitting Arber too

Not sure I would bring more kiddos. Let them learn the ropes in Laval, who seems to have a good team this season. Let’s find some Crash Davises (baseball analogy) lying around.

 

[Ozmodiar]

Barron Struble Hutson Mailloux - didn’t really look like NHL regulars.

Tough to beat a top team with that mess.

You can fake it with a ragtag forward group but not so with the defense.

(Hope Barron is okay tho)

 

[Tyson]

MSL sounds like he's checked out lol

Yeah this ain't peewee hockey.

Not sure I would bring more kiddos. Let them learn the ropes in Laval, who seems to have a good team this season. Let’s find some Crash Davises (baseball analogy) lying around.

The kids in Laval are in good hands with Pascal Vincent.

 

[dinodebino]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1848915317398847833

Ouch. Dobes up soon?

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Kovasevic was adequate and looks solid in NJ.

We need a steady presence there. I'd also look to move Matheson and that would allow Guhle to go back to his natural side. At a minimum it would calm things down in our own end. The blueline is inexeprienced and we knew it would be an issue. But Dach's just as big a problem right now. That second line is horrible and he was bad filling in on the first today. I'm all for giving him the reps - we need to be patient - but in the meantime it's gonna be rough. And if you don't have Dach on the second, then a guy like Roy would be limited in what he can do if we bring him up. Unless Dach finds his game... it's gonna be ugly this year.

 

[dinodebino]

MSL sounds like he's checked out lol

What did he say of interest?