Player Discussion Kirby Dach: Welcome to Montreal

[Schooner Guy]

Dach's looking great tonight! It was so stupid of the Blackhawks to trade a 21-year old center with his tools for a mid-1st. They're so hard to acquire. Terrific asset management by HuGo.

 

[Rob Sense]

We should just nickname him "Softness" in honor of the posters who never saw him play.

 

[Captain97]

While he isn't some overly physical player he definitely isn't afraid to lay out some big hits

 

[Redux91]

He's good
All I can ask for for a 1st preseason game on a new team at the BELL center to boot
Flashed some wheels, Size and passing

 

[Noble]

I thought he looked really good tonight.

 

[FF de Mars]

I hope Dach doesn't play with Pitlick anymore because the latter can't finish Dach's hard passes.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Really impressed with Dach's game tonight. He would have had 6 goals if not for sore wrists!

 

[tooji]

Hate to compare but this guy is a tier above KK

 

[SlafySZN]

I hope Dach doesn't play with Pitlick anymore because the latter can't finish Dach's hard passes.

That’s what i said this morning when i saw the lineup, i wanted to see caufield on his wing.

 

[waitin425]

Dach with Anderson and Gally?

They'd create hell for opposing teams. Shit loads of dirty goals.

 

[WeThreeKings]

Put him with Caufield.

 

[SlafySZN]

Put him with Caufield.

It was painful to see Dach having so many zone entries and not having anyone to really pass to, to put it in the net lol. I thought they would be on the same PP at least but nope…

 

[26Mats]

Put him with Caufield.

I said with Caufield and Dadonov this summer - not because I knew Dach's game, but because I wanted him to have good offensive wingers. Now that I see his game, I think it should tried even more.

Suzuki can be used to get the numbers and trade values up of a couple vets that we need to move out, or to get Slaf going if he makes the team..

 

[MasterD]

Hate to compare but this guy is a tier above KK

Definitely. He was a #3 pick in a good draft, probably would have been #1 pick in this year’s. I’m not sure how he’ll develop obviously but he’s a good player. I can easily see him be a 2nd line C if we can just hire Yannick Perreault to teach him how to win a faceoff. Similar offensive output potential as Suzuki’s but they’ll get to their numbers in different ways

 

[Bacchus1]

I can see why he doesn’t win that many faceoffs (even though he did ok tonight). He doesn’t get that low and looks like he isn’t that active. It wouldn’t surprise me if he feels that it is just easier to win the puck back aftet a faceoff loss, which he did a couple of times tonight.

 

[Bacchus1]

A lot of posts in this thread implying posters who are a little worried about Dach’s wrist are clueless..

I find it weird that some think there’s no risk with his injury recovery.

I don’t think you are understanding the situation. It isn’t that ppl think that there is no risk of re-injury, rather that there is no strong reason at this point to think that it it is inevitable. Every time you drive a car there is a risk of an accident, that doesn’t mean that you should expect an accident, or constantly live in fear of one.

Ppl were afraid that Crosby’s career was over when he had that concussion/neck injury. But he recovered very well. At the same time similar injuries have ended careers. You never know what will happen and you just have to make educated guesses and hope for the best.

 

[Kaiden Ghoul]

Dach and Money on the same line please they can alternate on the dot also

 

[Xirik]

Shouldn't worry to much about Dach's skill at faceoffs, He can always let one of his linemates take them. You really don't need to be great at it to be a good center/hockey player.

 

[Belial]

Shouldn't worry to much about Dach's skill at faceoffs, He can always let one of his linemates take them. You really don't need to be great at it to be a good center/hockey player.

Malkin is a career 40 something percent in the dot...

 

[HuGort]

If Montreal gets the Dach people were expecting at his draft be real good #2 center. Locked up reasonable 4 more years

 

[Vachon23]

He did show yesterday that he is a really good playmaker. If Pitlick was a better goal scorer, Dach could had at least 2 A

I'm really not the biggest Hoffman fan, but I would be curious to see him on the wing of Dach. At least, he could finish Dach plays

 

[26Mats]

He did show yesterday that he is a really good playmaker. If Pitlick was a better goal scorer, Dach could had at least 2 A

I like what I saw. But still will be patient to see him in full NHL roster games.

Gomez was elite at carrying the puck through the neutral zone. Drouin remains a good player. But their overall games were severely lacking.

 

[Vachon23]

I like what I saw. But still will be patient to see him in full NHL roster games.

Gomez was elite at carrying the puck through the neutral zone. Drouin remains a good player. But their overall games were severely lacking.

Gomez was a really good player though before his 2nd year with the Habs where he hit a wall. If Dach can become a 6'4 Scott Gomez, I would be really happy with that

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

He did show yesterday that he is a really good playmaker. If Pitlick was a better goal scorer, Dach could had at least 2 A

I'm really not the biggest Hoffman fan, but I would be curious to see him on the wing of Dach. At least, he could finish Dach plays

I think they are planning to have Anderson on Dach's line. He's a goalscorer, so it could work well

 

[Vachon23]

I think they are planning to have Anderson on Dach's line. He's a goalscorer, so it could work well

I do think they want to have Monahan-Dach-Anderson

Monahan can take some face-off to help Dach and he's known as a finisher. Anderson could be the F1 and he would make them space. Just don't think he's the finisher Dach need