Last Preseason Game - Habs B squad vs Sens Goons - 7pm EST
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Yeah, a mix of the two. We can't have high expectations with a team like that.
Putting the onus on the coaching staff is a bit ridiculous. The progression the team has had so far since MSL's hiring should be enough to give them the benefit of doubt.
Ducharme was 8-30-7 on the season when MSL came in. That's about 42 points prorated for 82 games. The 76 points last season, while also leading in games lossed by 1 goal is much progression for a club that still has so many holes on the roster.
I agree. When I do satyre here I'm not totally serious. The context of the joke as a good punch line.
MS has us playing well as a 5 on 5 team....................we are losing games all the time because of the brutal play by the not so special teams...............tired of it.
This............is on the coaching. We can all see it.
The PP issues really are baffling to me. It's been like 10 years now that the PP stinks. We've changed coaches multiple times, new GM, almost all the players have chnaged, and yet it's the same issues year after year.
Because we didn't have a true QB on the PP. There's nothing baffling about that.
Let's see how Hutson will do before sounding the alarm.
Try 7 years ago, when we let our last true bonafide PP QB just walk away.
I'm talking of sounding the alarm on MSL who has never had one to start with.
You would think that someone would have emerged in all this time. It's been almost 10 years. It's not like we didn't have anybody. This team may not have had offensive superstars but we have and have had talent.
Over the last 10 years almost all the players have changed over multiple times.
A big guy in front of the goalie, hard to move, good on deflections, a new Perry. I think that works in PP.
It's kind of a classic case of "you get what you pay for".
The attempts to replace Markov as PPQB were all ridiculous:
1. Washed up 40y/o Mark Streit (played 2 games)
2. Gustafsson, 5 games + some POs
3. Wideman
4. Matheson, he's the best of the bunch by a fair margin... and he's not even good in that role.
the system never changes, because we've never had a stud #1 C or D to control the PP. All this team knows how to do is cycle , shoot from the point, and hope for a goal. We will continue to stink on the PP until they get a generational C to control the play. Suzuki is a fine C, but he's not elite in the NHL.
But.. draft 15-30 and we won't get better any time soon. If they could just finish bad enough to go top 3 in this years draft, there are solutions available. Throw in Demidov, Hutson, the rest of the crew (maybe Laine returns to 30+ goals) and the PP is something to watch again. We agree the NHL is all special teams these days, so they need a legit generational player to bring back the glory days to Montreal.
I posted recently that cumulatively over that time period 2011-2024 they are 32/32 with 17.0% effectiveness
Things will have to fail for a while before the coach replaces the vet with the rookie on PP1 unfortunately
The other classic is lotsa people around the net (sides, back) but not in FRONT of the net.
Yup. In the lockout season we had nice size down low with Perry, Staal etc, and Weber/Petry booming from the point. That was a big gritty team with some nice components and they stood in front of the net. Dach/Laine could prove to be the answer at some point to help dish the puck around down low and also get in front.
We abandoned size for speed for decades, and it has never worked. I do believe Kent will fill these voids at some point
Have you ever seen Matheson walk the blueline during the PP instead of planting himself straight in the middle of the zone and passing left right without creating anything?
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