Post-Game Talk: Habs lose to the Blues. Fail to come back from another large deficit.

[HabbyGuy]

Oh no we lost, 8-2-4 in our last 14. Whatever will we do!?

That STL team is firing on all cylinders, wouldn't want to face them in the 1st round of the playoffs, western teams beware.

Boy's just didn't have it tonight. Sucks because every game is so important, but it happens.

Get back on the horse for the next one.

 

[Whitesnake]

So knowing full well your goalie was tired...you keep using him......he's destroyed...confidence surely low...and replace him with 10 minutes to go.

That was some pee-wee coaching. Team was flat. So was MSL.

having said that...seeing STL play, they are a candidate to go so far this year again. Same type of STL team that won it all.

 

[Habano]

Everyone shitting on Savard and I get it, I'm not his biggest fan but, he was far from the reason we lost tonight...

 

[WeThreeKings]

To a man they played terribly. Good thing it was on a night that Marty made sure they weren't gonna get goaltending.

No one winning a game with their goalie letting every shot from distance be a problem like Monty has lately.

 

[HabsMD97]

MSL will probably spin this and say Monty deserves our trust and needs to play both Thursday and Friday

he's gonna petition the league to play 83 games this season so he can give Monty an extra game.

 

[BullLund]

So knowing full well your goalie was tired...you keep using him......he's destroyed...confidence surely low...and replace him with 10 minutes to go.

That was some pee-wee coaching. Team was flat. So was MSL.

This should definitely have been a Dobes game. Fresh Monty for Philly and then Dobes on the back-to-back.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

The Rocky Horror St-Louis Blues Show.

 

[TheBuriedHab]

They got spanked tonight. Honestly pretty demoralizing to watch but they haven't had a stinker like this in a while.

My only concern is that the last time they looked this tired was in Detroit before they went 1-7-1 heading into the 4 nations break. Hopefully they don't go into the tank again but it wouldn't surprise me if they are out of juice.

 

[expy]

is this a joke? We were outshot like 12-0 before we even generated anything.

Montie may have given up a softy later but by then it didn’t matter. We played like shit.

None of those shots were great, half of the 12 were from center ice or flubs from the side.

People seriously need to stop just looking at the shot count. They count anything that has the puck moving in between the posts, no matter how slow or how far it came from.

And it's not a joke. Team has bailed out his consistent bad-goal allowing self by scoring 3-4-5-6 goals in the previous 6 games.

 

[LesCactus]

Evans played Hughes like a fiddle. If that's the real Evans we're seeing, he's gonna regret it when he gets traded a year into his contract

Wasn’t he generating a first round pick?

 

[Miller Time]

A team that has David Savard averaging 17:27 of ice time is not making the playoffs.

A coaching staff that has to play Savard 17+ min a game and yet is sitting in a playoff spot with 12 games to go is doing a pretty damn good job

 

[McGees]

Evans played Hughes like a fiddle. If that's the real Evans we're seeing, he's gonna regret it when he gets traded a year into his contract

He learned it from Armia...
It is called 'only show up for contract year' technique.
60% of the time, it works every time.

 

[TRG]

They beat us fair and square.

Put this one behind and on to the next one.

Jim Montgomery is going to coach in Montreal someday.

Yes, next time the Blues visit the Bell Centre

 

[Karma Police]

Montemblow

Caufield has been invisible for the past 3 games

Matheson as more brainfarts in a game than Hutson had the whole year

 

[Riddick412]

Coaching.

 

[HabbyGuy]

None of those shots were great, half of the 12 were from center ice or flubs from the side.

People seriously need to stop just looking at the shot count. They count anything that has the puck moving in between the posts, no matter how slow or how far it came from.

And it's not a joke. Team has bailed out his consistent bad-goal allowing self by scoring 3-4-5-6 goals in the previous 6 games.

You think Dobes would have made a difference tonight against that blues team and with how lethargic we were?

 

[BullLund]

A coaching staff that has to play Savard 17+ min a game and yet is sitting in a playoff spot with 12 games to go is doing a pretty damn good job

Savard does his job vs slower teams. He just can't be matched up against fast players.

 

[Saundies]

They were due for a stinker and this one stunk . Yuck.

No time to wallow. Get ready for the next game.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

None of those shots were great, half of the 12 were from center ice or flubs from the side.

Even if that were true (it's not) I don't give a shit.

They beat the tar out of us from the very beginning.

People seriously need to stop just looking at the shot count. They count anything that has the puck moving in between the posts, no matter how slow or how far it came from.

People seriously need to stop blaming goalies when the team plays like horseshit.

And it's not a joke. Team has bailed out his consistent bad-goal allowing self by scoring 3-4-5 goals in the previous 6 games.

Welcome to having an average goalie. Montembault's numbers have been pretty good since four nations. He's NEVER going to be an all star goalie. He's going to let in soft goals. He's 'good enough' to win if you've got a good club.

But if you don't show up, you don't blame him for the team playing like crap. He's nowhere near the reason we lost tonight. St Louis beat the shit out of us up and down the ice.

 

[LesCactus]

Game in gif form. It’s easy to put all the blame on Monty, but the whole team for the most part was ass cheeks.

 

[HabbyGuy]

Savard does his job vs slower teams. He just can't be matched up against fast players.

If only we had more NHL D depth. We'll see what happens when Guhle retuns.

 

[HabSgt]

Positives from this game: Slick Nick, the St Louis Blues cheerleaders

That is all

 

[vokiel]

They looked sloppy in the first. Could be fatigue settling in at this point. We'll see how they respond on Thursday against a team that is practically eliminated.

 

[GrandmaCookie]

Theory from a non hockey head shooting shit at the wall: the system MSL has them play makes them punch above their weight but it ask the players to go full throttle all the time. Thus they get out of juice after a while. Hence the rebound post 4 nations break. But the team is over performing. I might be way off on that one.

 

[Runner77]

You think Dobes would have made a difference tonight against that blues team and with how lethargic we were?

Maybe Monty needed a mental/ playing time break? It’s not so much what Dobes might have done but what could have been done for Monty’s load management.