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All the hillbillies keep booing Trudeau when he touches the puck. Lol
Laval Rocket: Laval @ Abbotsford Dec.1 10PM ET
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Toene
Y'en aura pas de facile
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Canadian politics starting to look like American politics.
Habs
It's going to be a long year
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Vancouver is Trudeaus stomping ground during his tainted teaching years at West Point. People don’t forget lol
dackelljuneaubulis02
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that's a shame that William has to bear the brunt of that though
Brutal last ten minutes of that period by Laval.
How many breakaways does Legare need to score a goal?
This team reminds me of the Habs when I watch them play that can't be good.
How many breakaways does Legare need to score a goal?
This team reminds me of the Habs when I watch them play that can't be good.
ChesterNimitz
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The Rockets are being completely outplayed and outclassed by the Abbotsford team. The score is not indicative of the play as the Rockets' goalie is keeping his team in the game. The only comforting thing is the knowledge that Montreal's best prospects ( Hutson, Reinbacher, etc.) are not playing (yet) for Laval. Other than a few players , there is little to be excited by for the future watching this game. We need to draft well this year and next or the Canadiens will continue to be mired in irrelevance.
The Real Timo
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Rocket is nothing without Yoel. That's all I have to say about that.
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Reinbacher, Engstrom and likely Hutson will help the farm alot next year. Up front, Mesar will add skills but Im not sure he will have an impact right off the bat. Beck will be a nice add too.
Habs top 6 is pretty young with Dach, Slaf, Suzu, Caufield, Newhook, but I agree that Habs need to target fowards with their early picks next drafts, the D is set.
Edit: Other fowards who might join Laval next year: Guindon, Rohrer, Kapanen, Tuch, Xhekaj.
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I refer you to the year before this one. And the one before that.. and the one before that...
le_sean
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I knew he would never keep up that torrid pace but that’s now a 5 game pointless streak for Roy. How does he actually look out there?
ChesterNimitz
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Though the team was outclassed, they played better in the second half of the third period.
On a positive note, we were able to see Mailloux's elite passing skills on numerous occasions during the game. His 100 foot pass to a breaking Roy in the third period was one of the nicer plays effected by the Rockets. Somehow, the play was ruled off-sides. There’s a chemistry between Mailloux and Roy as Mailloux found him open for an accurate pass several times when they were both playing on a power play at the same time. Or perhaps its simply because these two young players have the best offensive vision on the team. Kidney showed the flashy hand skills that made him a second round pick. He needs to get stronger and faster. Much stronger and faster. I thought Mysak was one of Laval's stronger forwards in the first two periods but faded in the third. Though he was senselessly booed by the Abbotsford rabble (the type of folks that still think knock, knock jokes are cutting edge comedy/satire) Trudeau played one of his better games that I have seen from him this year. Being his first game back after a long absence, Heineman had limited playing time. It was obvious from the little he did play that he is player who has a skill level that is a cut above most of his teammates. Roy was largely invisible in the first two periods but came on a bit as the third period progressed. His hand skills, vision and anticipation are already NHL level. But it remains to be seen if this talented player has the skating ability to effectively use those offensive skills at the NHL level. I have my doubts. And those doubts were not lessened watching Roy's game tonight. No other prospect stood out to me and this talent challenged team really missed the speed and dash Farrell would have provided at forward and the stability that Struble would have offered on defence.
The team was simply outclassed.
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I stopped watching after 2 periods. I felt we were done.
Ezpz
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I mean more than half of our top 20 are in the NHL or still in juniors/Europe/NCAA. You could say Mailloux or Farrell were overrated but I don't see how Laval being poor reflects on Reinbacher, hutson, beck, Barron, etc. heinemen was the other guy pushing for a spot and hes missed most of the season.
Most doubted kidney would be able to handle a mens league physically as a rookie.
If you look at the roster that played last night you will find there are a lot of vets and ECHL players in the lineup and only a few notable prospects. Mailloux is the only significant dman prospect playing. Trudeau was always a long shot.
True but every team has half of their top prospects (if not more) not in the AHL so I wouldn't use that as argument.
Currently, both the Habs and Rockets are bad and not improving. That tells me our prospects are not good enough yet.
Obviously, Reinbacher and Hutson look interesting but will only see how good they are until they make the jump to the pros (NA pros in Reinbacher's case)
ChesterNimitz
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Yes. Reality is often a bitch. Based on what we have seen so far of our prospects in Laval, the best of them are at least a year away and some may not be the first line forwards or first pairing defencemen that many here confidently ( wishfully?) projected.
Ezpz
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Who are the worst players in Montreal though? Are Armia, Allen, Anderson, Gallagher, lindstrom and Pearson young players? Likewise it's the AHL vets like Maillet who haven't stepped up.
We also graduated six rookies last year in Harris, Guhle, Xhekaj, Slaf, rhp, and Ylonen.
Obviously there is still a long way to go but Guhle is transforming into a #1 D and a lot of the others are progressing. Nick and Cole's production is going up for the third year in a row.
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Going back tonight for more punishment.
Honestly, just happy to focus on the key players’ games as I didn’t have them in my backyard all year like those of you in and around Montreal.
Honestly, just happy to focus on the key players’ games as I didn’t have them in my backyard all year like those of you in and around Montreal.
Out of the 6 rookies, only Guhle and Slaf could have a bigger impact. The rest are role players.
Guhle still has a long way to go before he is a #1 D. My minimum is 60 pts with great defensive play.
Also Nick seems to have stabilize into 60-65 pts center. He is pacing for just that yet again. His production is definitely not up from last year. Caufield is not even pacing for 30 goals so his production is actually down. But he is a couple of years younger than Nick so has time to improve still.
Ezpz
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So your minimum is that there are less than five #1 d in the league? NHL scoring was ridiculously high last year and only 12 guys cleared 60 and most of them are awful defensively. Morrissey, makar, heiskanen and fox are the only #1 in the league?
