Post-Game Talk: Habs lose to the Felines from Florida

[Rapala]

Tough to win when 6 of your forwards don't even register a shot on goal (Caufield, Slafkovsky, Newhook, Anderson, Armia, Dvorak) and two forwards have only 1 (Suzuki, Gallagher).

Having said that, this was pretty much a guaranteed loss before the puck was even dropped, so can't say that I'm surprised.

Not to mention most of those shots had no velocity including Kovacevic's goal.
We were boxed out by the bigger stronger team (go figure).

 

[Ozmodiar]

Tough to win when 6 of your forwards don't even register a shot on goal (Caufield, Slafkovsky, Newhook, Anderson, Armia, Dvorak) and two forwards have only 1 (Suzuki, Gallagher).

Having said that, this was pretty much a guaranteed loss before the puck was even dropped, so can't say that I'm surprised.

That’s crazy.

I picked a good game to miss.

 

[Rapala]

They should keep Armia with Monahan & Anderson. Both Mony & Anderson just played their best games this season, and Armia really helped them out defensively and had his forecheck game going.

Pearson looks a lot better on 4th line. Evans & Ylonen's speed really helps him out. He can be F3.

I expect they put CC back with Suzuki.

Caufield-Suzuki-Gallagher
Ylonen-Dvorak-Slafkovsky
Armia-Monahan-Anderson
Pearson-Evans-Pezzetta

No reason to call anyone up yet, especially with us playing 6 of our next 7 games at home, with our only away game in Buffalo.

I don't know man I've got a problem with Gallagher Suzuki already. It just isn't working.
I'd prefer Ylonen Suzuki Anderson at this point.
Armia Monahan Gallagher could work as a shutdown line.
We don't have many options and every injury up front only brings home the reality of how little depth we have in our forward group.

The only positve I took from last night was watching just how much Struble gets it.
His edges and mobility are far better than I expected and he's just SMART.
He rarely misses the obvious high percentage play.

 

[26Mats]

If newhook is out (god please no) then we need to keep anderson away from slaf

Caufield-Suzuki-Slafkovsky
Ylonen-Monahan-Gallagher
Pearson-Dvorak-Anderson
Pezzetta-Evans-Armia

I would like to see those line combos.

 

[the valiant effort]

Even with Newhook out Ylonen will still be the least used forward while posting 3 SOG, 3 hits, and two blocked shots

 

[Cournoyer12]

Whatever happened to the free-wheeling high octane offense we were all looking forward to? They look very pensive against elite teams.

 

[Kennerback]

Tough to win when 6 of your forwards don't even register a shot on goal (Caufield, Slafkovsky, Newhook, Anderson, Armia, Dvorak) and two forwards have only 1 (Suzuki, Gallagher).

Having said that, this was pretty much a guaranteed loss before the puck was even dropped, so can't say that I'm surprised.

Beating a dead horse, but Slafkovsky was involved In a couple of 2 on 1s or had the puck on his stick in the slot a couple of times. How he managed to not even register a single shot on net is just mind-boggling.

 

[bcv]

Whatever happened to the free-wheeling high octane offense we were all looking forward to? They look very pensive against elite teams.

maybe your expectations needs to be adjusted if you were looking forward to a high octane offense this year.

 

[Cournoyer12]

When I watch this team, I hear relish, cola fizz coagulating with cheeseburgers, but I don’t hear no heart Randy!

maybe your expectations needs to be adjusted if you were looking forward to a high octane offense this year.

Point taken!

 

[WeThreeKings]

Whatever happened to the free-wheeling high octane offense we were all looking forward to? They look very pensive against elite teams.

We are rebuilding...

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Suprise suprise , concepts and systems don't work when you have absolute scrub chitters with no hands all over the roster

 

[Natey]

Anderson gets almost 20 every year, this year has been bad but the team is mostly awful. Trade him and you are just trying to find someone like him to come back, the Anderson that has been pretty reliable his time here.

I wish they could break him out of the slump because he was a pretty solid guy for us, he really has been up till this year.

 

[Habs]

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Lets be honest, its easy to make him the whipping boy, but his goal totals have increased every year prior to this one. This team is a dumpster fire, you don't just give him the boot because of his awful start, and give that ice time to the god awful, soft losers like Armia, Ylonen and the other misfits we have roaming around. There are so many players have bad years, it seems we are overlooking how many bad statistical players we have.

 

[Natey]

Lets be honest, its easy to make him the whipping boy, but his goal totals have increased every year prior to this one. This team is a dumpster fire, you don't just give him the boot because of his awful start, and give that ice time to the god awful, soft losers like Armia, Ylonen and the other misfits we have roaming around. There are so many players have bad years, it seems we are overlooking how many bad statistical players we have.

He's been a dumpster fire his entire tenure. If he doesn't bring goals, he usually brings nothing.

Defensively and even offensively, his decision making is peewee level. He is definitely responsible for the Gionta special frequently where he'll pay no attention to what's happening on the ice, wire a shot 30 feet wide and send the opposition on an odd man rush the other way.

So yeah, if he's not bringing goals (and I'd argue that it's nowhere near enough considering his contract), he's putrid. If he is bringing some goals, he's.... tolerable at best.

The playoffs, where a player like him should excel, he's even worse somehow.

At this point, he's bringing less to this team than Michael Pezzetta.

 

[JRichard]

Lets be honest, its easy to make him the whipping boy, but his goal totals have increased every year prior to this one. This team is a dumpster fire, you don't just give him the boot because of his awful start, and give that ice time to the god awful, soft losers like Armia, Ylonen and the other misfits we have roaming around. There are so many players have bad years, it seems we are overlooking how many bad statistical players we have.

Yeah they increased before restarting at the bottom. Look at the goals scored:
0- 1-17-19-27 and then
1-17-19-21-0

20 goals is fine, too bad assists stay in the low teens.

 

[Habs]

He's been a dumpster fire his entire tenure. If he doesn't bring goals, he usually brings nothing.

Defensively and even offensively, his decision making is peewee level. He is definitely responsible for the Gionta special frequently where he'll pay no attention to what's happening on the ice, wire a shot 30 feet wide and send the opposition on an odd man rush the other way.

So yeah, if he's not bringing goals (and I'd argue that it's nowhere near enough considering his contract), he's putrid. If he is bringing some goals, he's.... tolerable at best.

The playoffs, where a player like him should excel, he's even worse somehow.

At this point, he's bringing less to this team than Michael Pezzetta.

sometimes players just go through horrific slumps, my guess is he's injured. Kent will probably move him for a total smurf anyways so I'm sure a ton of people will be happy, more fast smurfs to get pounded on.

 

[salbutera]

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[cphabs]

Did we really go 0/6 on our power plays?

 

[Runner77]

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What is it with your references to Mr. Congeniality? Do you not know by now that he’s persona non grata around these parts?

 

[salbutera]

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[ReHabs]

Not to mention most of those shots had no velocity including Kovacevic's goal.
We were boxed out by the bigger stronger team (go figure).

Jeff Gorton’s fingerprints all over this team

 

[ReHabs]

, my guess is he's injured

This is such a BS excuse trotted out to defend all manners of bad performance from all players

If they’re injured they shouldn’t play

If they’re playing they’re meant to perform and produce. Pointe finale. It’s a tank season, there is no way players are struggling through secret injury this year.

Suzuki goes in a slump? Oh he must be injred
Caufield stops scoring? Oh his injury must be acting up
Anderson? Secret injury
Gallagher? Secret injury, he needs a third full summer before getting back to full force
Newhook? Secret Injury

Etc. Franchement ça suffit.

 

[Catanddogguitarrr]

This is such a BS excuse trotted out to defend all manners of bad performance from all players

If they’re injured they shouldn’t play

If they’re playing they’re meant to perform and produce. Pointe finale. It’s a tank season, there is no way players are struggling through secret injury this year.

Suzuki goes in a slump? Oh he must be injred
Caufield stops scoring? Oh his injury must be acting up
Anderson? Secret injury
Gallagher? Secret injury, he needs a third full summer before getting back to full force
Newhook? Secret Injury

Etc. Franchement ça suffit.

We are still in the lowest level of tanking this year. But we don't tank completely aka we don't suck enough. Therefore, there is no garanty tanking is the solution, look at Buffalo, Phoenix and Edmondton. Habs try to built a team with nice offensive talent, like smallish players who will beat bigger teams, even in the format of playoffs where a team have to beat the other one 4 games, all this without a defensive system (no Danault, no Lehkonen).

But we always have an excuse ; players are injured, refs favorise teams who physicly take advantage of our small players, etc. Habs makes everything to avoid building a team such as Panthers or LA Kings. Except for players like Dach, Reinbaker, Slaf and very few others (X-Eye).

I think we need a lot of patience and we need to watch teams win the SC like Golden K, Kings, Panthers and Bolts.

 

[DAChampion]

This is such a BS excuse trotted out to defend all manners of bad performance from all players

If they’re injured they shouldn’t play

If they’re playing they’re meant to perform and produce. Pointe finale. It’s a tank season, there is no way players are struggling through secret injury this year.

Suzuki goes in a slump? Oh he must be injred
Caufield stops scoring? Oh his injury must be acting up
Anderson? Secret injury
Gallagher? Secret injury, he needs a third full summer before getting back to full force
Newhook? Secret Injury

Etc. Franchement ça suffit.

It seems that if they're Habs players, they're injured.

 

[ReHabs]

We are still in the lowest level of tanking this year. But we don't tank completely aka we don't suck enough. Therefore, there is no garanty tanking is the solution, look at Buffalo, Phoenix and Edmondton. Habs try to built a team with nice offensive talent, like smallish players who will beat bigger teams, even in the format of playoffs where a team have to beat the other one 4 games, all this without a defensive system (no Danault, no Lehkonen).

But we always have an excuse ; players are injured, refs favorise teams who physicly take advantage of our small players, etc. Habs makes everything to avoid building a team such as Panthers or LA Kings. Except for players like Dach, Reinbaker, Slaf and very few others (X-Eye).

I think we need a lot of patience and we need to watch teams win the SC like Golden K, Kings, Panthers and Bolts.

Golden Knights made major swings. The LA Kings made major swings. The Panthers made major swings. These three teams weren’t patient, they were proactive. They made mistakes but their gambles have paid off generally.

The big swings these teams made would never be initially supported by the Habs or Habs fans. We have a far too conservative (cowardly) attitude to competition and tankophiles don’t help.

It seems that if they're Habs players, they're injured.

If they’re injured, they’re injured. If they’re playing and playing poorly, Habs fans will take it upon themselves to insulate the players by speculating about mysterious, unannounced injuries. It’s pa-the-tic.

We can’t comment any critique Kent Hughes because it’s “too early”.

We can’t comment any critique of MSL because “we’re not focussed on winning”

We can’t comment any critique of any of the player in case they have a mysterious, unannounced injury.

So basically we cannot comment any criticism of any Habs figure at all. That’s how it is now.