Evans has improved too imho. Strubble came in a welcoming environnement and thrived. Ylonen also plays better than last year, not that he'll be a fixture but he did improve. Armia is playing worth his contract lately too. But yeah, it's clearly not the coaching eh?
Post-Game Talk: Habs defeat Roy and the Isles
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That’s fair, you’re entitled to that opinion. At the very least it should be proof that giving a player a contract based on what he did rather than what he will likely do going forward is likely never going to end up being good.
I'm pretty sure Savard could be traded for a 2nd with a handshake deal to come back next year to a similar 2 year contract to keep helping the kids. Even if he's on the 3rd pair in the second year and sometimes sat, still worth it.
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People are pretty fickle. The guy gave his heart and soul here. And he was actually pretty good in the first half before dropping off.
I get it though, too long a deal for too much. But honestly he’s not hurting us now anyway so people should ease up.
That hit tonight though? Terrible. Deserves a suspension for that without question. He knows better.
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He’s one guy I wouldn’t trade. We need some veteran presence back there.
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Gallagher’s really taking his live long enough to see yourself become the villain role seriously.
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Thing is, he paid the wrong players for past performance and loyalty. Gives Gallagher and Alzner big deals, yet stiff armed Markov and Radulov. It was clear at the end how Bergy wasnt signing or assessing players based off any logic or metric, it became more about how he felt about players.
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I think the injury that finally put an end to his effectiveness was in that covid year with the canadian division. He missed alot of time and then came back for the playoffs, but he's never really been the same.
Hated this game honestly Montreal was lucky that they managed to score 3 quick goals with 8 shoots on the goalie.
After that Montembault was saving their asses for the rest of the game.
After that Montembault was saving their asses for the rest of the game.
JianYang
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I think Evans game took a dive after that Scheifele hit.
There were a few other players than just price and Weber who I think were never quite the same coming out of that covid run.
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Well, this is what they do. The habs have not won any game comfortably this year. Even when they get out to a lead, they blow it, or it gets very close at least.
This game had the exact same story.
I certainly get annoyed by it, but I also recognize that the team is in a major Flux state right now. As the roster starts to introduce more of their pipeline guys, you hope they eventually start understanding how to play with a lead, how to play when you're tired etc..... these are a couple things this Flux roster has struggled with mightily.
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Couldn’t find an announcement for Arber getting loaned to Laval (several Twitter users speculated it might happen) but MSL continuing to harp on him publicly can’t be good.
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Xhekaj was benched for the rest of the game after his second penalty and was replaced by Struble:
MarkovsKnee
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He hasn't been loaned yet. Canadiens last game is Saturday then they're off for 9 days. I don't expect Xhekaj to be given a break. He'll be loaned back to Laval after the game in Pittsburgh.
Will they recall him after the break? Don't know.
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I know he hasn’t but no one is confirming that he will be — they’re just speculating that he might, is all I was able to find. I guess it’s a where there’s smoke situation.
Despite Hughes saying no to offers for Xhekaj, not confident he’ll ever be trusted by MSL.
MarkovsKnee
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We're 7-1-1 against Metro teams. We like to beat them. Lol
We're 3-6-2 against Atlantic Division teams.
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Yeah, it's just speculation, but I'm 100% sure it will happen. Xhekaj needs to play.
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Yeah, that makes sense. Like you indicated earlier, who knows if he’d be called up again post AS break.
Don’t like to see the coach continuing to call out the player at post-game pressers. He should be handling that privately.
Flagrant elbow to the head of an isles player . 5 and game and allowed isles to get back in game . He suspended for sure
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Doesn't matter how many offenses....Give him a minimum of 8 games. Minimum. That play has to be eradicated. Period.
Gally has been a fine player. Hearts out. Every night. But it comes a time when you know that it's time to move on. And while he could be on any team in a bottom 6 capacity....that amount of money was insane to begin with..imagine now. Idiot move by a guy who is just being in way over his head right now.
Gally has been a fine player. Hearts out. Every night. But it comes a time when you know that it's time to move on. And while he could be on any team in a bottom 6 capacity....that amount of money was insane to begin with..imagine now. Idiot move by a guy who is just being in way over his head right now.
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They better not do this. f*** them.
Can’t wait to have a real coach and not a wannabe cheerleader behind the bench.
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They're not going to trade Xhekaj. It's clear his indiscipline at the NHL level is a focus of his development and when you come back up from an AHL stint and three bad penalties in 3 periods, you are going to see the pine.
Message sending happens and yeah it sucks when it happens to your favorite player, but Xhekaj earned his demotion, he earned his promotion and he earned his benching. Y'all need to accept all three of those things are true.
Now on to Brendan Gallagher.
This guy f***ing sucks - especially his piss baby search Twitter for his ego then block anyone who said something bad about him.
Especially his jealousy of PK Subban and dog whistling when the subject came out.
Especially his terrible contract that Bergevin gave him.
If you're going to be a piece of shit, at least don't throw disgusting terrible hits.. but now he's doing that.
The sooner this clown goes on LTIR and stops embarrassing the sweater he wears, the better.
Message sending happens and yeah it sucks when it happens to your favorite player, but Xhekaj earned his demotion, he earned his promotion and he earned his benching. Y'all need to accept all three of those things are true.
Now on to Brendan Gallagher.
This guy f***ing sucks - especially his piss baby search Twitter for his ego then block anyone who said something bad about him.
Especially his jealousy of PK Subban and dog whistling when the subject came out.
Especially his terrible contract that Bergevin gave him.
If you're going to be a piece of shit, at least don't throw disgusting terrible hits.. but now he's doing that.
The sooner this clown goes on LTIR and stops embarrassing the sweater he wears, the better.
