Really hope we get to see Slafkovsky with different linemates soon - and give him 15 minutes per game while you're at it. If we're going to send him down I would prefer if it was after 4-5 games so he can get another stint later in the season, so it's kind of urgent in that case to try something else and see if he can benefit from a more favorable situation. Don't see any downside in giving him 1 game with Suzuki and Caufield, 1 game with Dach and Monahan, and wouldn't even hate to see him with Evans and Pitlick (he had chemistry with RHP in preseason). Just gotta get him away from Gallagher, Hoffman, Dadonov types.Not really surprised with the loss more that they were shutout. I got used to seeing Caufield score every game. Slaf should be playing with Dach and Monahan imo. The line he's on is more of a grinder line and it's not clicking at all right now.
Sorry, I would have saved you some of my melba toast if I had known.
It's the same in the real world sadly. No one wants to work to improve the person, who will eventually take your job.
As much as I respect MSL I am perplexed as what went behind the strategy to play our most prized forward prospect with 2 guys who clearly have very little passing skills or creativity.
Here it begins. Rushing a prospect that wasn’t rdy and blaming everyone else on the team for that prospect not being rdy. No one could see this coming.
They need someone on D who can move the puck and generate offense. Haven’t had that in a long time. Petry on occasion, before that it goes back to Markov and Subban unless I’ve forgotten someone.
I chuckled when Pierre Houde described a perfect pass through the slot on the rush with “Et Hoffman, lui, était parti ailleurs!” (Hoffman was gone elsewhere). He needs to sit with Drouin.
Didn't know that was possible on 2 empty net goals. Thought a pulled goalie does not count as a minus? Or one would think.
Great and accurate post. I agree with everything in it.
On a funnier note: Dach is Seider's daddy
10 mins, for a whopping 20 minutes in his nhl career. Habs did not have the puck and he plays possession. If anything he needs to play on a better team, maybe that’s Laval.
5 more years at the gym and some good adversity like scoreless streaks, elbows to the face, his gf leaving him for his uncle or something and pretty soon he’ll be chasing down Darcy Tucker to flatten the little f***er while dangling through the attacking zone… Oop, sorry I got worked up there.
Well, you never know; sometimes the goalie will get hot and… oh wait…
Detroit played it like a perfect boring road game, grind low and then trap the middle. Clearly a sign of a team missing firepower but still wanting to make the playoffs.
