GDT: Leafs at Habs (Now, Saturday)

[BaseballCoach]

Agreed. But this remains one of the weakest groups of forwards in the NHL. Way, way too much dead weight. We will struggle to score. The silver lining is there is a lot of top offensive talent available in the 2024 Draft. And we will have an opportunity to draft one.

Not sure they are as weak as you say, at least not if Dach plays like a real Top-6 C, Caufield scores 35+ and Slaf is a more consistent threat.

I don't think there are many teams with a 3C better than Monahan, and that have a 20 goal scoring winger to play with him.

Harvey-Pinard may not seem like a strong middle-6 winger, but he played like one last year. There is a chance he can get 18-21 goals in a full season even if his SHP drops a bit.

Newhook-Suzuki-Caufield (all top-16 1st rd picks)
Slafkovsky-Dach-RHP (two top-3OA picks)
Pearson-Monahan-Anderson (2 1st rounders, all have scored 20++)
Ylonen/Dvo-Evans-Gallagher (better than most 4th lines)
spare: Pezzetta

I truly think our green D is more of an issue than our forwards, for this season.

I don't get the decision to put Barron with Norlinder. Both are shaky in their own end, Barron clearly has some confidence issues so why not,

Guhle Barron
Norlinder Reinbacher

Why has Struble not played a single game when Beaudin hjaws, and we have had some very longshot forwards play too?

Is he hurt? Bad attitude (not that I heard anything)?

 

[StCaufield]

Maybe. but he's better than Gallagher and Armia on a 4th line with Evans.

But yes, he hasn't shown he can be better than a 4th liner yet.

I still think our best 4th line is Gallagher - Evans - Ylonen.

Caufield - Suzuki - Monahan
Slaf - Dach - RHP
Pearson - Newhook - Anderson
Gallagher - Evans - Ylonen
Pez, Armia

Gallagher is better because he actually tries to get involved but he still sucks

 

[Runner77]

I don't get the decision to put Barron with Norlinder. Both are shaky in their own end, Barron clearly has some confidence issues so why not,

Guhle Barron
Norlinder Reinbacher

Barron seemed highly reticent at the idea of playing for the Rocket last season as he felt that he had done his classes when he played for the AVS’ AHL team in 2021-22.

And yet if he doesn’t improve his game, the AHL is exactly where he ends up yet again.

 

[habsfan891]

Kind of have a feeling Reinbacher is going to make the opening night roster. Barron sucking and Matheson hurt is setting it up, now weve got him paired with Guhle and they would probably like to show him off a bit to justify the pick before sending him off to Europe.

I hope he doesn't let him improve some more in Europe instead of treading water like every other rushed prospect

 

[le_sean]

Excited to see the Lavallagher-King Kong-Big Sexy line in action again

 

[26Mats]

Gallagher is better because he actually tries to get involved but he still sucks

Ylonen has some warts that he may be able to iron out over time, and be a part of the future.

 

[FrankMTL]

Excited to see the Lavallagher-King Kong-Big Sexy line in action again

 

[morhilane]

Why has Struble not played a single game when Beaudin hjaws, and we have had some very longshot forwards play too?

Struble has a small injury, MSL thinks he should be fine to play one of the last two games of the pre-season.

 

[Antiillafire]

At least toronto is icing some decent defenseman, should be a better test than what Ottawa put out there on the backend.

 

[Mudz]

Struble has a small injury, MSL thinks he should be fine to play one of the last two games of the pre-season.

Struble and Matheson are both day to day with lower body injuries, but the comment about playing a game before the end of preseason was related to Matheson and not Strubble

 

[Team_Spirit]

Things like this would not happen if they had a goon like Ryan Reaves on the bench.

Oh wait

 

[morhilane]

Struble and Matheson are both day to day with lower body injuries, but the comment about playing a game before the end of preseason was related to Matheson and not Strubble

Martineau's tweet I saw this morning was only about Struble and it mentioned MSL hoped to see him play before the end of the camp.

 

[Walrus26]

It's interesting though that Reinbacher is playing with Guhle and not Barron. I suppose on a back to back after a tough night it may be better to have Barron less in the spot light right away.

But heading into the season, given Savard and Guhle weren't good in the analytics department, I was thinking Barron or Kovacevic would be leading candidates to start the season next to Guhle. So this would be a good time to try Guhle-Barron from that standpoint.


The pp was bad last year and even worse last night.

But I'm at least looking forward to the personnel this year on the top 2 units:

Dach
Caufield RHP Suzuki
Matheson

Monahnan
Newhook Anderson/Ylonen Slaf
Guhle/Barron/Xhekaj/Harris/Mailloux

Guhle - Reinbacher is our top pairing in the not too distant future. I can see why management is giving them as many reps as possible togther.

 

[SnapVirus]

Barron will play in the ahl. He isnt a nhler.

 

[Mudz]

Martineau's tweet I saw this morning was only about Struble and it mentioned MSL hoped to see him play before the end of the camp.

See by yourself

Edit: Can't share with a timing tag. Struble Q is at 1:51, the next one is on Matheson

 

[BaseballCoach]

Struble has a small injury, MSL thinks he should be fine to play one of the last two games of the pre-season.

Mercy buckets.

 

[ChesterNimitz]

Barron will play in the ahl. He isnt a nhler.

Yet.

 

[the]

https://www.tvasports.ca/2023/09/30/critiques-envers-brendan-gallagher-martin-st-louis-commente

 

[Team_Spirit]

https://www.tvasports.ca/2023/09/30/critiques-envers-brendan-gallagher-martin-st-louis-commente

TLDR: Marty is not concerned with Gallys performances.

 

[morhilane]

TLDR: Marty is not concerned with Gallys performances.

Which is a problem because Gally's cardio can't even sustain a 30 seconds shift now...

 

[montreal]

Barron seemed highly reticent at the idea of playing for the Rocket last season as he felt that he had done his classes when he played for the AVS’ AHL team in 2021-22.

And yet if he doesn’t improve his game, the AHL is exactly where he ends up yet again.

ego can get in the way, he'll either figure it out or he won't. I was never a big fan and with so many incoming options hopefully, some bodies will have to be moved at some point. For now just have to hope he can get on track and progress as last year when he got sent down he looked like shit but then he turned it around and was one of our best D.

Guhle - Reinbacher is our top pairing in the not too distant future. I can see why management is giving them as many reps as possible togther.

I hope not, as we will likely need a lot more offense from the top pairing. But I think they got him with Hutson in mind.

 

[Runner77]

[MSL presser video]

See by yourself

Yeah but … what if he wants to see it while someone else is present in the room?

 

[YukonCornelius 5thOA]

Yeah but … what if he wants to see it while someone else is present in the room?

Hi-yoooooooooooooooo!!!!

 

[the valiant effort]

Is this a Sportsnet game? Saturday night, you'd figure it would be a national game of SN is involved.

It is on TSN2 and TSN4. And RDS

 

[Mudz]

Yeah but … what if he wants to see it while someone else is present in the room?

No kink shaming!