Those 70s clubs could never be kept together today. Look at other team’s 4ths now. A lot are going to look like Jake Evans. Some might be a little better and some will be worse. He’s fine for what he does.
I have no memory of Dave Balon except I've heard his name. At the time I knew Béliveau, Henri Richard and Terry Harper. And little after I recall John Ferguson, Mickey Redmond and Phil Roberto. Young Serge Savard was quite something to watch, his spinorama, that was before his knee injury.
I don’t think it’s incompatible to get better everywhere (and not hard when talking about such a horrible team), or black and white like that.
Our team will improve in the coming years. Beck on the third line. Then we’ll have guys like Florian Xehjak coming up on the 4th.
Not Roy but whoever he plays with. It can be Ylonen. Did he improved the last 2 years? Evans is not that bad as a 4th C. The real problem is Dvorak at 3C and his 4,5 salary. I see a total bottom 6 forwards very bad compared with the rest of the league.
Those guys will be moved along in time. Dvorak, Anderson, Gallagher… all gone soon.
He is a solid 4C that penalty kills and is good on the dot.
Evans is a good player on the 4th line. Drafted 207th overall he is the only Hab drafted in 2014 that developed into an NHL player.
Man..............Timmins and MB really made a mess of some of our drafts....
That is for sure. Drafting was one thing but then having Sylvain Lefebvre in charge of developing them was another major issue. They drafted some good young prospects but totally mishandled them.
I will maintain forever that at least some of those drafts should've been better than they were. Our development was God awful.
I don’t feel ranking 27th and 28th on the pk last 2 years is something I would write on my resume; I absolutely care about toughness and team identity. I thought Byron could play center but converted to wing you may be right. Pk may be on goaltending I guess, but I see no offense (like none at all…) and hab pk being one of the worse in the nhl I don’t understand your criteria. 51% fo% is not good if that’s his only claim to fame. Other than a bunch of hf veterans seem to like him.
You bring good points in the debate, so I'm not alone, wink. The 27th and 28th ranking in pk should speak by itself as a mediocre result. Saying let's concentrate on our 2 first line is not taking consideration of the complete team. Teams have 4 lines. There are room everywhere to improve. The bottom lines plays minutes, Dvo who will be traded tdl (or just let him walk worst case), everybody agree with that quote but not with Evans. Because he does few good things but not enough for my eye seeing, and yours Naslundforever, so we both conclude it would be better not signing again and try someone better.
Hockey's a team sport and our D is pretty brutal. I wouldn't lay the problems with our PK at Evans' feet. Suzuki played a fair bit on the PK as well, should we blame him for that as well?
They did. I do think think there was a bigger problem with our Development system
Gally will be bought out after this season. Anderson is definitely gone by 25-26 unless he proves he can be a solid 3rd liner.
Risebrough was the fourth center.
A 4th line who had such pts?
Dvorak has a decent salary compared to Gally and Anderson...................I think the habs will probably have the highest paid bottom 6 in the league..............and maybe the least productive....
Some think Hutson will start the year, in Laval.................not many habs fans would agree.
I like Evans and would be happy to keep him until he gets bumped one day. Problem I see is Evans has just gotten married, is UFA for the 1st time and he should be looking at scoring the biggest contract he can, because given his age he will be leaving his prime in a few years, And we know that bloated bottom 6 contracts is death by a thousand cuts. Hopefully we can work out a decent deal for both.
