GDT: Montreal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres 10/5/17 7:00pm EST TSN2, RDS, TSN 690

[Maliki2]

I thought that 10 million was going to keep us in games? That contract is a massive mistake. I dont care what anyone says. You dont pay that much money and hope the goalie can keep you in the game when the defense is as horrible as it is.

Exactly...stupid contract.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Out of curiosity, if any time you make a mistake, it's in the net, is there a point to having a 10.5M goalie ?

You know very well that Price covers up waayyyy more of the team's mistakes than he doesn't.

 

[buddahsmoka1]

What the **** was Alzner doing?

Pominville snuck away to the side, but I don't know if I blame Alzner since there was Kane in front of the net.

It wasn't on Alzner. He was in front of the net. The winger/center is supposed to cover Pominville.

 

[groovejuice]

If:

Drouin becomes a #1 C

and

Mete turns out to be a better player than Sergachev


Does MB get some breathing room?

He'll always get credit for the good moves, and likewise criticism for bone graded ones.

 

[habergeon]

What the **** was Alzner doing?

Alzner had his man....Lekhonen didn't, cant cover 2 guys. It was a missed back -check.

 

[Whitesnake]

Not sure you can acknowledge what the game is all about and yet...sign long term a guy like Alzner. And people wonder why we are scared by Bergie improv....

 

[A Loyal Demidog]

I really like Mete. He's very smart.

 

[NobleSix]

Wow our defense really sucks.

Who would have thought

 

[Lycanthrope]

Sucks that pominville is back in the division. He has a history of burying goals against the habs.

No kidding. He and his line look like world beaters against us.

 

[Dagistitsyn]

Out of curiosity, if any time you make a mistake, it's in the net, is there a point to having a 10.5M goalie ?

No goalie should be making that much IMO. Unless they're so good they are putting up some significant amount of shutouts compared to other goalies. That contract blows.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

Out of curiosity, if any time you make a mistake, it's in the net, is there a point to having a 10.5M goalie ?

Defend Benn, but crap on our best player lol.

 

[CrAzYNiNe]

So clearing the puck is already a obvious MAJOR problem

Said it all summer. Game 1 isn't the best way to evaluate a ton of new players, but it was obvious this teams strength will not be puck moving from the D.

 

[The Great Weal]

That's because your hate for Beaulieu is strong.

It's equivalent to your hate of Benn.

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

Wow our defense really sucks.

Who would have thought

Not MB, that's for sure.

 

[Cole Caulifield]

Alzner had his man....Lekhonen didn't, cant cover 2 guys. It was a missed back -check.

Some people have heralded Benn and Alzner as the second coming of the anti-christ. So if they're on the ice for a goal, it's their fault 100%. I tried to fight it in the first but it's pointless. The propaganda machine is on. Can't fight it.

 

[Apoplectic Habs Fan]

Weber look lost there

 

[Pickles]

No, but I also don't think keeping Beaulieu makes us better.

Probably not but it's bad asset management. You trade a former first round pick for a 3rd round pick and protect a 3rd pairing d-man. Just doesn't make sense to me. Just another wasted first round pick in a long list of them.

 

[Whitesnake]

Passengers so far in the 2nd. Awful.

 

[didimentionlarseller]

Difficult for price to win in this league while carrying Bergevin career with him

 

[Uncle Gary]

Habs look awful

 

[Drakkar]

It's difficult for Mete tonight

 

[Cole Caulifield]

Defend Benn, but crap on our best player lol.

One is paid 10.5M and the other very little and hasn't actually made the mistakes you accuse him of making. I like to keep it real.

 

[A Loyal Demidog]

Mete is the only Habs defenseman with a +1. Everyone else 0 or -1.

 

[vokiel]

You don't think its a remote possibility that Drouin becomes a #1 C and Mete ends up better than Serg? Its not like I said if Paul Byron won the Hart.

I think the conditions you're giving us are subjective and prone to interminable arguments. You need to be more concrete and put up something that can't be argued about like:

If habs make it to the conference finals, would Berg get some breathing room?

I would say yes

 

[Whitesnake]

Bergie protected the guy he acquired and couldn't care less about the guy he didn't pick. As simple as that. As stupid as that.