HF Habs: Out of Town Thread: 2024-2025 season

[MarkovsKnee]

This is why Habs need a strong week, to stay within 5 pts of wild card… NHL parity has kicked in

Montreal's Post-Christmas/January schedule is pretty brutal, though. I expect more kick in the teeth nights. We have 4 sets of back-to-backs before the 4 Nations break. Florida/Tampa and Washington/Dallas is going to be really problematic with Primeau playing so poorly.

Then there's Chicago/Colorado and SJS/LAK. I assume Primeau will get the weaker club.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Montreal's Post-Christmas/January schedule is pretty brutal, though. I expect more kick in the teeth nights. We have 4 sets of back-to-backs before the 4 Nations break. Florida/Tampa and Washington/Dallas is going to be really problematic with Primeau playing so poorly.

Then there's Chicago/Colorado and SJS/LAK. I assume Primeau will get the weaker club.

Primeau to me isn’t something to really be worried about. It’s a lost season anyway and he’s disposable.

Dach and the RD is a different story. We need help there and it’s going to take some work. I’d be more than fine with moving on from Matheson. It’s past due on that front.

 

[JianYang]

Laviolette has a track record of 2-3 season shelf life w every team he’s coached - he’s a flaming as*hole, this generation of player especially will not tolerate it & simply tune him out

Yes. Peter has a history of crashing down hard but this tenure is a bit strange because he only got hired in 2023. He typically still gets mileage out of his teams at this point.

 

[morhilane]

Yes. Peter has a history of crashing down hard but this tenure is a bit strange because he only got hired in 2023. He typically still gets mileage out of his teams at this point.

The Rangers started the season very well, so I think it's more Drury then the coach. Drury turned on his players after a few bumps. Then started to use threats to force a trade and went to the media to say everyone was available.

Laviolette will probably end up the scapegoat or will get sweep along if Drury gets fired...but Drury is 100% acting like a guy on the ejection seat with his boss having his hand over the red button.

 

[Leto]

The Rangers started the season very well, so I think it's more Drury then the coach. Drury turned on his players after a few bumps. Then started to use threats to force a trade and went to the media to say everyone was available.

Laviolette will probably end up the scapegoat or will get sweep along if Drury gets fired...but Drury is 100% acting like a guy on the ejection seat with his boss having his hand over the red button.

I mean, he should. He is in his 4th year as a head honcho of the hockey ops with a team that was already rebuilt when he succeeded Gorton/Davidson. The team has been treading water for years and is now in a tail spin.

I won't be surprised if James Dolan nuke Drury+Laviolette by the end of the season.

 

[salbutera]

Montreal's Post-Christmas/January schedule is pretty brutal, though. I expect more kick in the teeth nights. We have 4 sets of back-to-backs before the 4 Nations break. Florida/Tampa and Washington/Dallas is going to be really problematic with Primeau playing so poorly.

Then there's Chicago/Colorado and SJS/LAK. I assume Primeau will get the weaker club.

If we take off our Habs fan glasses for a minute and look at how the teams performed since Nov 11; IMO there’s a positive trend being formed, so I’m not as concerned with the Jan schedule because I don’t think many of those teams are dominant powerhouses as they’ve been in years past.

However, I agree lack of NHL level backup G will crush the positive momentum that’s been built over last 5-weeks.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Will Smith down bad

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

If we take off our Habs fan glasses for a minute and look at how the teams performed since Nov 11; IMO there’s a positive trend being formed, so I’m not as concerned with the Jan schedule because I don’t think many of those teams are dominant powerhouses as they’ve been in years past.

However, I agree lack of NHL level backup G will crush the positive momentum that’s been built over last 5-weeks.

From now unto Jan 31st habs will play 21 games:

- 10 of which will be against 10 teams we've already faced (Buf, Clb, Vgs, Was, Uta, Tor, NYR, NJ, Min, Win) and our record so far Is 4-9-1 (,321) against them as a whole (including 2 wins vs Columbus). Also to note, we've lossed those games both before and after nov 10th

- the other 11 games will be versus 7 teams we haven't faced so far and will go like this:
(Records from last season)
Det x3 (1-0-3)
Dal x2 (1-1-0)
TB x2 (0-3-1)
Flo x1 (1-2-1)
Col x1 (2-0-0)
Van x1 (0-2-0)
Chi x1 (2-0-0)

I don't see the Habs get more than 8 wins in those 21 games.