HF Habs: Montreal Canadiens Hockey Ops - Part 3

[hvac412]

Curiously, I don't think our offense if that bad. Our top 6 gonna be Laine, Suzuki, Caufield, Demidov, Slaf down the road and I think those 5 are sure lock

Our defensive needs to be better. I mean, Matheson is a 3rd:4rd dman on a contender. Same for Guhle. Hutson is maybe a first pairing dman but will need to be pairing with a stud defensively to keep a positive ratio. There is Reinbacher still young.
And Montembault is a 2nd goalie.

Hugues will need to adress our goalie situation and Defensive.

Hughes is proving to be as inexperianced as his coaching staff,were now regressing just about at every level boring bipolar hockey is pretty much what we can expect for the rest of the year, Again, glad i am not a season sucker/ticket holder.

 

[Hins77]

Hutson is not a first pairing d-man. Jeeze, how many times do I have to hear this crap?

Bot right now, This is his first year. Tough to say what we should expect from him in the future. However, if he is able to get 50 pts and to keep a positive ratio, playing 25/26 minutes. This is first pairing material.

 

[Habs]

Jeff is mad

https://dailyhive.com/montreal/canadiens-jeff-gorton-punch-wall

 

[Deebs]

Bot right now, This is his first year. Tough to say what we should expect from him in the future. However, if he is able to get 50 pts and to keep a positive ratio, playing 25/26 minutes. This is first pairing material.

I think it would depend solely on who he'd be partnered with. Personally, I like how he's being utilized now, which is maximizing his strengths (offensive zone and power play).

 

[dcyhabs]

Bot right now, This is his first year. Tough to say what we should expect from him in the future. However, if he is able to get 50 pts and to keep a positive ratio, playing 25/26 minutes. This is first pairing material.

The big question with Hutson is how he will do in the playoffs. He has overcome every obstacle so far, and he is playing well, but in a seven game series other teams may be able to wear him down and he is not going wear down other players.

Most of Hughes' acquisitions have a visible point, a nice contrast to some recent GMs who seemed to view trades in terms of value in and value out. It doesn't matter if you win all your trades if you only ever trade for scoring left wingers and you end up with twelve of them. Taking Slaf was pretty clearly aimed at getting some size in the forward group, Wright, Caufield Suzuki, and Gallagher, plus possibly Mesar and Roy, makes a pretty small group. Dach was a stab at a big second line center for the same reason. Newhook is less clear, but they are short on speed, so that could be it.

It's not so much that the habs can't succeed with Caufield and Hutson playing regularly, it is that they will have to balance them with others who are more physical and who can occupy more than one opposing player to counterbalance the opposition being able to push Montreal's little guys around. The rest of the team will always have to play a little harder on D to compensate.

They will need Guhle to put on some muscle and play more physically and Xhekaj to impose himself with hits more than fists. They already need to get some more righties, and they are going to need more big defensive specialists and fewer offensive guys. Quite the change from when they had mostly big guys on D who didn't handle the puck really well just a few years back. They are so lacking in defensive D that they can't afford to sit Savard. That's a major weakness.

 

[Hins77]

The big question with Hutson is how he will do in the playoffs. He has overcome every obstacle so far, and he is playing well, but in a seven game series other teams may be able to wear him down and he is not going wear down other players.

Most of Hughes' acquisitions have a visible point, a nice contrast to some recent GMs who seemed to view trades in terms of value in and value out. It doesn't matter if you win all your trades if you only ever trade for scoring left wingers and you end up with twelve of them. Taking Slaf was pretty clearly aimed at getting some size in the forward group, Wright, Caufield Suzuki, and Gallagher, plus possibly Mesar and Roy, makes a pretty small group. Dach was a stab at a big second line center for the same reason. Newhook is less clear, but they are short on speed, so that could be it.

It's not so much that the habs can't succeed with Caufield and Hutson playing regularly, it is that they will have to balance them with others who are more physical and who can occupy more than one opposing player to counterbalance the opposition being able to push Montreal's little guys around. The rest of the team will always have to play a little harder on D to compensate.

They will need Guhle to put on some muscle and play more physically and Xhekaj to impose himself with hits more than fists. They already need to get some more righties, and they are going to need more big defensive specialists and fewer offensive guys. Quite the change from when they had mostly big guys on D who didn't handle the puck really well just a few years back. They are so lacking in defensive D that they can't afford to sit Savard. That's a major weakness.

I agree with all you said. Talking avout Hutson, I would like tonsee him pairing with a stud defensively. A kind of Eric Cernak or Brandon Carlo. Like Savard back in the days... he is too old anymore.