Post-Game Talk: HorriBad Habs lose 6-2 to Knights

Miller Time

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They had a couple of good shifts. I guess that's good enough now.
Agree. For now. Not indefinitely.
Good teams place value in abiding to the details even when they face adversity. If no one holds one another to those values, no amount of talent saves a team. They play like shit and no one really cares.
I think that's what we saw in the third, and most of the first. Consistency is what great teams do. We are far from that right now. There's a lot of give a shit visible in the group despite what is not a fun stretch of hockey... and not much reason for belief it will get much better anytime soon except what they believe in each other & the process they're on.

If we start seeing tuning out or consistent low compete play, then we're off track. I don't see that.
As in reminding the team there is a hockey game to be played even if you're losing 2-0. How many times they gotten scored on and then stopped playing because it's not fun anymore?
Shell shock happens with young teams.

Deers in the headlights...

bieksa spoke to it. Bad tesms have deep lows in play & consistency. The process of getting good then great is raising that floor... that it looks ugly when your in thise dips is not lost on anyone, least of all MSL
And they've responded like what exactly after bad periods? They haven't won one game after conceding first.
yup. Not much push back right now, not much performance resilience.

It's when effort resilience falls off that big concern lives. Haven't seen that, and, that's not enough to compete with the big boys with any consistency
A lack of talent win now talent, I can accept. However, a lack of accountability not. We are not talking about losing close games, or not winnig. We are talking about getting destroyed on the regular.
I don't see the accountability lack you do.
 

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It was time like 15 games ago. Back up your words instead of gliding everywhere and turning the puck over.
you're right but at least these guys care. there are number of guys who need to pick up their game, but there were also many who weren't bad. It just happens that the second group was mostly our depth guys.

Laine can't come soon enough. Just put him and CC with Suzuki and let Dach and Slaf work on things on the second line. Throw Newhook, Gallagher, Anderson, and Heineman into the mix and MSL can withhold icetime if needed (either as punishment or insulation).
 

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Pez job IS to sit, so everything is fine on that front. Dach needs to start doing his job by not sucking.
Dach sucks, totally useless.

Guy is lazy and soft. If he isn’t going to work hard, he should watch. I’d rather see someone try than watch some guy float around.
 
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you're right but at least these guys care. there are number of guys who need to pick up their game, but there were also many who weren't bad. It just happens that the second group was mostly our depth guys.

Laine can't come soon enough. Just put him and CC with Suzuki and let Dach and Slaf work on things on the second line. Throw Newhook, Gallagher, Anderson, and Heineman into the mix and MSL can withhold icetime if needed (either as punishment or insulation).
They don’t play like they care. Their words mean nothing if they can’t back it up. Suzuki said he sucked then backed it up immediately.
 

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Good for Anderson to realize right away that the child wouldn't be able to walk on the ice without falling



Call me negative or whatever, but the whole situation should not happen in the first place. They need to put a carpet, one of the kids almost fell like 3 times and last year it was even much worse. Falling backwards on the ice isn't great, as we all know. And yeah good move from Anderson, but bad for the management team in my book. With all that being said I hope they still had a very nice evening even though we lost.
 
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Cassidy livid at this team for giving up a goal to cut their lead down to 5-2 late in the 3rd.

Our coach down 5-0, sits on his hands and doesn’t give a flying f***. Thinking of his next proverb for the media. "Well losing is like getting lost in the woods. Sometimes you just don’t get out and die"
🤣 Sean you made me spit water

Yeah another one of those we look good when a team playing three in four take their foot off the gas. :skeptic:
Hey your breaking the morale of the mood -MSL
 

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On a bright note, Guhle looked very good tonight. Everyone talks about who Hutson's partner going to be, but I'm curious who we can pair with Guhle to make an additional top pairing

Ghule look good cuz he is playing on his strong side, took them 3 seasons to figure that out
 

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On a bright note, Guhle looked very good tonight. Everyone talks about who Hutson's partner going to be, but I'm curious who we can pair with Guhle to make an additional top pairing

With luck, by this time next year we'll have reason to be bullish on RB filling one of those RD spits long term... rather than more questions like Dach's play has at immediate future top 6 C.

On the flip side, no one had Hutson penciled on this early or this clearly 12 months ago... RB could give us another big boost if he recovers well and builds on his strong AHL & camp start.
 

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