Maybe some more experienced guys than Glass and Ortmeyer for one of the richest teams in the league? Where did these two hone their craft? Tanner Glass was still playing hockey in 2019. The joke of this is that they could have anyone they wanted because money isnt an option and they got the least experienced guys they could find.
I used the comparison between panarins point blank chance and caufields point blank chance. Hell I’ll also compare seguins from two nights ago. We aren’t burying those chances
Quinn wasn't a very good coach. Gallant is not a very good coach. Not mutually exclusive. I do think there are deeper organizational issues, such as the need to make the playoffs every year at any cost and the lack of vision beyond that point.
Assistants are also extremely underrated, especially tactically and in-terms of shaping skills.
Hey man, we haven't exactly had the best luck with draft picks either and now we have your former guy in charge of rebuilding our team. Slafkovsky is struggling just as Kotkaniemi and Galchenyuk before him, Caufield fell into our lap thanks to Philadelphia passing on him, kid is a sniper but was nearly ruined by Ducharme last year, Marty came in and he's been on fire ever since. The draft is often a crapshoot but it's not like the rest of the teams in the league wouldn't have taken Laff and Kaako where you guys did.
He needs to start carrying the puck and trying to actually make plays. Because right now he’s playing hot potato where he’s so scared to turn the puck over that he just tries to move it the second it touches his stick. And he still turns the puck over playing like that too.
Maybe we need to make a chance too. MSL seems to be doing good things.
Every other team in the league probably had him going first overall so it is definitely disappointing to see him struggle. The majority of the french media want the habs to trade for him because they want the next french superstar in Montreal so the pressure would be even greater here. Maybe he needs some time in the AHL?
He has to move it right away because he has severe trouble creating any time and space for himself with his feet. He's a poor skater in all four directions. It limits whatever skillset he does have. Another thing I've noticed is he doesn't have particularly quick hands either. Seeing a guy like caufield and how lightning quick his hands are, it's stark watching Lafreniere in comparison.
That's because you need a pulse to have/do cardio. Amirite?
I don't know about if he's even doing that, he stops skating and coasts everywhere lol
It’s not the coach but that’s the easy and lazy thing fans go to.
Marty is lost at times, he seems intent on using 5 forwards on the pp which hasn't worked at all and he has some favs on the team, guys that are useless, Wideman, Hoffman, Drouin and others. He is learning on the fly though with no pressure to win.
To be fair so does Krav and Kakko. The only one that moves their ass constantly of the younger group is Chytil.
