Post-Game Talk: Habs lose to Detroit in embarrassing fashion.

[26Mats]

W

Its really actually a tough call

Goal 1 was just a little flick of
A shot he wasnt ready for

Goal 2 he just guess all wrong. Like usual

Goal 4 well, what can you say

Goal 4 Matheson went down allowing Larking to walk right in. Monty made the initial save and Larkin made a nifty play to sneak the rebound under Monty's arm. I don't really blame Monty on the rebound. You can't leave Larkin all alone in the crease. He may get a good bounce.

 

[Subban signed e5]

This might have been mostly avoided if he didn’t take PP1 off after 50 seconds in the 1st period. It’s a 1-0 game and the team had no momentum. Spark them with their go-to offensive players, don’t insist on sending out your favourite veteran plugs.

Cant wait for Emil to get back he was actually pretty good on the second unit.

 

[Natey]

Team had no chance of winning this game with the goals the goalie let in.

Yes the team sucked, but you aren't coming back from 2 down constantly when you're letting in ECHL shots.

Shitty shots go in sometimes, especially when you're getting outshot so severely.

And that's still false. We could have easily won this game even still. We had plenty of chances.

You've just clearly got your scapegoats. I get it.

 

[expy]

The team we saw tonight is the norm, not the team we saw in the past month and a half.

Shitty shots go in sometimes, especially when you're getting outshot so severely.

And that's still false. We could have easily won this game even still. We had plenty of chances.

You've just clearly got your scapegoats. I get it.

Letting in 4 shitty goals deflates everyone, sorry.

Shitty shots go in TOO often on this AHL goalie.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Make no mistake, the top line and Hutson lost us the game

Not really. They can't be good every game. The problem is they have to because the bottom 2 lines are shit offensively 95% of the time.

 

[Natey]

Him and Matheson

Matheson was bad too, no doubt. But still on another planet compared to Hutson.

I'm interested to see how Hutson bounces back. Never seen him play this poorly, so hopefully he's got something to prove next game.

 

[SlafySZN]

All the recent wins road trips emotions etc. caught up with our top players.
Hutson and Suzuki were terrible Matheson was terrible Caufield not burying his chances lately.
Slaf was okay but he still needs polishing. Armia Dach Laine Newhook were very good.
Evans gave the puck away far too often trying to find the point men and the lads were not jumping into open areas we got leaned on and it showed. Seider Larkin Raymond controlled the game from start to finish. No way to pull points from that game unless Montembault was perfect they really could have had 6 or 7 in this one.

Pretty good assessment.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

W

Goal 4 Matheson went down allowing Larking to walk right in. Monty made the initial save and Larkin made a nifty play to sneak the rebound under Monty's arm. I don't really blame Monty on the rebound. You can't leave Larkin all alone in the crease. He may get a good bounce.

Yes goalies face shots

More news at 11am

It should have been stopped. Simple

 

[Tyson]

Well you know they can't win them all and I will say this...Dobes gets the next start and if he wins....

Monty has to be better and has become entirely too inconsistent. Habs need 12 competent forwards.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Whole team shat the bed, but Monty was Swiss cheese. The net belongs to Dobes.

Dobes should start on Saturday but Monty IS the starter until he has a string of bad games.

 

[zx81]

I looked at the goals and Monty looked bad on the 4th goal but man conceding 45 shots to the Wings is ridiculous D.

I guess they need me to watch all the games. When I skip one they pretty much always lose badly.

 

[Rapala]

No one played that good of a game, although the Dach line showed some life in 2nd period.

Team had no legs. Detroit attacked the net well and defended well.

Montembeault was under a constant barrage of shots & traffic.

We didn't deserve this one. For Detroit, this was a must win game. If they went back 7 pts, they're basically out.

We need to get back to playing the tight checking game that won us games against the best in the league. This was not it.

It starts with the skating when we don't have that we are cooked. A tired team bad passing hard to generate speed. We got out boarded out skated out hit and out scored. PP1 was pure shit and lost us momentum at key times.

 

[expy]

Well you know they can't win them all and I will say this...Dobes gets the next start and if he wins....

Monty has to be better and has become entirely too inconsistent. Habs need 12 competent forwards.

Naw, we just need to move him.

 

[Schooner Guy]

Try ripping on the actual shit players tonight like Lane Hutson.

That was drunk pond hockey from him tonight.

Go easy on him. Monty beat him up in the schoolyard many years ago and then made out with his grade 5 crush.

 

[HuGo Sham]

Didn't look like a playoff team tonight.
1st time since oct 22, we gave up 40+ shots.
Monty needed to steal a game again, but the team was very lacklustre.
Flipping between, all three eastern playoff games and the habs size still worries me.
There's a reason Dach thrived tonight while Caufield and Suzuki were invisible getting checked to death by a bigger Detroit forward group and certainly Dcorps.
That's why it would've been key if Slafkovsky wasn't invisible; he's essential in games like this.
Also can't wait to get Matheson away from Hutson.
He's one of a few habs in the D-zone who completely panics vs an aggressive forecheck.
They've been playing well but Carrier and hutson, imo, need to be insulated by a very big group - xhekaj, reinbacher, mailloux, guhle - is big enough to give these two room.
Savard is cooked and matheson, just ooof.
Anyway can't win 'em all. Team needs to amp up their desire more if they want to win.
I get why St Louis was using the bottom 6 in offensive moments, the top guys were doing very little to score dirty goals as Detroit collapsed in front of Talbot.
Boston was doing the same and won a very, very ugly game 2-0

 

[Subban signed e5]

Well you know they can't win them all and I will say this...Dobes gets the next start and if he wins....

Monty has to be better and has become entirely too inconsistent. Habs need 12 competent forwards.

The Pez experiment is just stupid, playing a guy under 5 minutes makes zero sense. They need to call up someone that they can trust that plays a regular shift while Emil is out.

 

[OnTheRun]

I'm sure there is an alternate universe where the Habs won this one, but for our universe the Wings deserved to win 100% and they did.

 

[expy]

Didn't look like a playoff team tonight.

We aren't.

 

[the valiant effort]

I thought Hutson looked worse for a stretch a month ago. Not worried

 

[zx81]

In good news, Ottawa and Columbus also shit the bed. In bad news, Boston and NYR won.

All things considered it was a decent night to lose one. On the other hand, what a missed opportunity to jump to 3rd in the Atlantic

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Cant wait for Emil to get back he was actually pretty good on the second unit.

Yeah, he gives us a shooter on that 2nd unit. Dach can hit him for the one-timer, too.

Dach, Matheson, Heineman are OK on 2nd unit. It's Dvorak & Gallagher that are the problems. With Heiney out, there's no one on that unit with a shot.

 

[Tyson]

Naw, we just need to move him.

Not yet...solid stop gap

Yeah, he gives us a shooter on that 2nd unit. Dach can hit him for the one-timer, too.

Dach, Matheson, Heineman are OK on 2nd unit. It's Dvorak & Gallagher that are the problems. With Heiney out, there's no one on that unit with a shot.

Heineman is missed more than many think

 

[ReimanSum1908]

The team we saw tonight is the norm, not the team we saw in the past month and a half.


Letting in 4 shitty goals deflates everyone, sorry.

Shitty shots go in TOO often on this AHL goalie.

Your assessment of players is wholly detached from reality.

 

[Schooner Guy]

All things considered it was a decent night to lose one. On the other hand, what a missed opportunity to jump to 3rd in the Atlantic

Agreed. Zero points in a game vs the Red Wings is also a missed opportunity. Lousy effort

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Naw, we just need to move him.

Another ridiculous post. He is here at least until Fowler is ready to play.