Player Discussion John Merrill: a.k.a. Joe Dirt, a.k.a. Letterkenny Extra Edition

[SpeedyPotato]

Ugh... Why?? This doesn't move the needle at all for us.

 

[Habs13]

If you don't think upgrading Kulak was a need, that means, unequivocally, you're satisfied with Kulak...

I'm fine with getting Romanov a steady non-puck mover. He's the puck mover on the bottom pair. Edmundson and Petry work well having one puck mover and one stay at home D.

I think you're missing the point though.

Yes, we need to upgrade on Mete and Kulak, no doubt about it. But the bigger need is the hole Bergervin created when he traded PK - and never filled. We have nobody that can get the puck up to the forwards. We badly badly need that. Morseo than an upgrade on the terrible duo of Mete and Kulak!

 

[sheed36]

Well there's MB's annual depth dman deadline deal. I know nothing about this player at all.

 

[Whitesnake]

Its tough to move the puck when you aren’t touch it. Seriously. When the opponent, dumped the puck in the end of the zone. Mete get it and was able to rush the opponen zone. But when the opponent decided to just attack the zone. Mete was stuck in his own zone and wasnt able to stop the cycling. That was hard to see.

Sure. Not saying Mete was the answer at all. Just saying that the Habs will have to add more funds for glasses replacement based on how many pucks will be flying all over the place...

 

[Shawnmtl]

Barginbin strikes again. What a clown.

 

[LastRide]

With all the assets, players and picks Berg has. You would think he would make a move or two that would "definitely" help this team out for a few years. He throws away picks and prospects at bargain berg specials that make hardly any difference at all.

 

[Zorba]

Is this considered another trade victory???

 

[26Mats]

There’s our big deadline acquisition

Well he wasn't done after Staal. No reason to conclude he's done now.

But of all the acquisitions MB has done this year (Anderson, Toffoli, Edmundson, Allen, Staal), as far as picks go, he's only given up 3rds and 5ths. In the Anderson deal he upgraded Domi. I guarantee you he'd love to upgrade Drouin. We'll see if he's willing to use more than a 3rd to make that happen.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

Who do they have on the right? We have Petry, Weber, Romanov.

We just knocked Kulak to the stands. Currently, our left side is our stay at home side and our right side has the talent.

Now MB needs to find Weber a puck mover, because Weber needs to be the stay at home on his pair. This trade may have fixed the bottom pair (the Romanov pair). Now MB needs to fix the 2nd pair (the Weber pair).

''our right has the talent''
Minus Weber is completely washed up
Petry seems to have cooled off and probably tired to carry the puck
Romanov is far from ready for that.

Left side is perhaps our stay at home d-squad but not of them are top 3 players and are players who struggle to move the pucks.
Chariot and Armia are coming back soon , this team is pretty much set in stone for the reason of the season.

This is awful , Vince Dunn is available why the f*** if we need to badly someone offensive who can move the puck and just let him go.

We let Devon Toews walk for nothing he has like 25 points in 40 games. Like what the f***

 

[Whitesnake]

Well there's MB's annual depth dman deadline deal. I know nothing about this player at all.

Jon Merrill is actually one of the few players that Timmins should have picked instead of being enamored with Tinordi. in that US team that we've scouted and came with the idea that Tinordi was the guy to get, others d-men played on the same team like Merrill but also Stephen Johns and more importantly...Justin Faulk.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

Insert Dunn on defence and Hoffman offence just a gut feeling

Is Dunn available though? He wanted to be traded earlier in the season, but the blues didnt. He seems to have been doing well since, so I dont see the blues trading him.

 

[Uber Coca]

You know, at the beginning of this season, I allowed myself to fantasize fooled that we had a big defence that would be mean and nasty and throw its weight around and intimidate the other teams forwards like the bruins used to do to us a few years back. But instead, we got a bunch of slow cream puffs.

Seriously, what is the point of having size if they're not playing tough? It lasted 10 games, then became a big defense with no mobility. No nastiness whatsoever.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

With all the assets, players and picks Berg has. You would think he would make a move or two that would "definitely" help this team out for a few years. He throws away picks and prospects at bargain berg specials that make hardly any difference at all.

This deal makes no sense whatsoever for that reason.

If he’s making this move, he obviously believes he has a chance. Why not spend a little more and get a player that will actually move the needle?

Once again BargainBin can’t pick a direction. God they need to fire this clown.

 

[26Mats]

Is this considered another trade victory???

yes. But, no, GM winning the majority or even all of their trades does not mean they're a good GM - as MB has proven to us.

 

[Le Tricolore]

Sounds an awful lot like what we said when they added Dwight King and Steve Ott and lost to a shitty Rangers team in the first round.

You're saying that as if King and Ott were the reason the team lost. If this is the only move and Bergevin expects to compete it obviously won't do it, but no one is saying it will.

 

[overlords]

Is this considered another trade victory???

In a vacuum, probably. Big picture? Kind of lateral move if not slightly backwards given that we need puckmoving on the backend. If Berg is done trading..he's just done..

 

[Archijerej]

We got a stay at home D because we are always stuck in our zone. Makes sense.

I think the stay at home D is necessary not to get caught up in Montreals' nightlife.

 

[Habs13]

You know what... I'm going to reserve judgement until the end of the day tomorrow. If there isn't another "good" incoming D though, well..

 

[EXPOS123]

You know, at the beginning of this season, I allowed myself to fantasize fooled that we had a big defence that would be mean and nasty and throw its weight around and intimidate the other teams forwards like the bruins used to do to us a few years back. But instead, we got a bunch of slow cream puffs.

Weren’t there posters here swallowing up and regurgitating the fake news spun by the Habs PR trolls at the beginning of the year that we had the top D in the division ?

Good times...

 

[mariolemieux66]

I wish this team miss the playoffs so that Bergevin gets canned.

He has no idea how to build a team.

 

[Draft]

Petry's most stable partner ever?!?

Hopefully, this is an indication that Bergevin is on his last legs and doesn't have clearance to make big moves.

Merrill is fine and looked pretty solid in New Jersey and Vegas. He doesn't put up points, but he's not terrible at moving the puck out of the defensive zone and can play both sides. He's better than Mete and could likely bump Kulak as well. At face value, this is a fine trade.

 

[Archijerej]

John Merril in Las Vegas:

John Merrill after 36 games in Detroit:

What the hell happened?

I think he finally felt free to express himself after leaving the conservative environment of Las Vegas.

 

[Simarino]

Yeah, he’s effectively horrible on both sides.

Not from what i read and i ear from almost everybody else outside of MTL

 

[26Mats]

''our right has the talent''
Minus Weber is completely washed up
Petry seems to have cooled off and probably tired to carry the puck
Romanov is far from ready for that.

Left side is perhaps our stay at home d-squad but not of them are top 3 players and are players who struggle to move the pucks.
Chariot and Armia are coming back soon , this team is pretty much set in stone for the reason of the season.

This is awful , Vince Dunn is available why the f*** if we need to badly someone offensive who can move the puck and just let him go.

We let Devon Toews walk for nothing he has like 25 points in 40 games. Like what the f***

Yep missing Toews was bad...

If this team is set as currently is after 3pm I'll agree with you on the rest. So to be continued at that time...

 

[del17]

I think this guy gives us extra depth can play both sides . If I am playing coach/gm I start resting Webber . Monday I still acquire a Dunn or a Murray type defenceman