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

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Just wait until they get nearly 13mil extra this offseason, might be a good idea to put an early bet on them for next year.

Last time they had that much money to spend on UFAs, it didn't turn out so well. Like Bergevin would say "it's a double sword"

 

[the valiant effort]

MARCHAND ANSWERING THE CRITICS TONIGHT

 

[red devil]

Iginla with hip surgery and out for the rest of the season

 

[red devil]

 

[Habs7631]

Watching the Stars-Kings game and this might be the worst NHL ice ever played on. Puck bouncing left and right, players having a hard time stringing together more than 3 passes without the puck bouncing over their stick. Get your shit together LA.

 

[McGees]

Lindstrom, Iggy, Zegras...all big injuries
I guess we lucked out with potential/no go future Habs

 

[morhilane]

Iginla with hip surgery and out for the rest of the season

The 2023 draftees have zero luck.

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

Iginla with hip surgery and out for the rest of the season

This really sucks for the young man, hips are a tricky sport injury to durably fix too I hope this won't derail his career too much, he seems like a solid all around person.

 

[Team_Spirit]

 

[Guy Larose]

Lindstrom, Iggy, Zegras...all big injuries
I guess we lucked out with potential/no go future Habs

That's not how that works. In Lindstrom's case, we knew. Tij, unless the team knew, it's something new? For Zegras, it doesn't mean it would have happened here and different circumstances. Always puzzling when people say we dodged a bullet when someone gets hurt under different circumstances than if they'd be with us.

 

[overlords]

Iginla with hip surgery and out for the rest of the season

alternate universe habs fans are having a really bad day right now

 

[Team_Spirit]

Jmold

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Jmold

Placeholder until Doughty comes back.

 

[McGees]

That's not how that works. In Lindstrom's case, we knew. Tij, unless the team knew, it's something new? For Zegras, it doesn't mean it would have happened here and different circumstances. Always puzzling when people say we dodged a bullet when someone gets hurt under different circumstances than if they'd be with us.

Lindstrom had a setback AFTER the draft.
Iggy is fresh.
You could make that argument for Zegras if you want...but Habs have worse injury luck so probably would have got injured here too lol.

 

[Guy Larose]

Lindstrom had a setback AFTER the draft.
Iggy is fresh.
You could make that argument for Zegras if you want...but Habs have worse injury luck so probably would have got injured here too lol.

So no, for 2 out of 3 the argument doesn't stand up. Doesn't mean they'd be injured if they were here.

 

[Koivu11]

 

[sheed36]

Not gonna happen but I'd send Robidas back to his island and bring back Richardson to coach the defense.

 

[salbutera]

Bedard stalling has put GM on the hot seat w ownership after publicly stating a top-10 pick this year would be considered failure

 

[dinodebino]

Bedard stalling has put GM on the hot seat w ownership after publicly stating a top-10 pick this year would be considered failure

Man, they are not very patient.

 

[Leto]

Bedard stalling has put GM on the hot seat w ownership

You'd think a GM who tore it down to the studs would understand that he was embarking on a 5+ years journey. They are barely in year 3 of the rebuild.

When Kane took the league by storm, there was already Seabrook (D+4), Keith (D+5), Crawford (D+4), Toews (D+2) in the pipeline. There was a core that was coalescing. Bedard is the first-born of this Hawks rebuild (EDIT: actually the second born, I guess Korchinski is the first born). They still have a long way to go before things get better.

 

[salbutera]

You'd think a GM who tore it down to the studs would understand that he was embarking on a 5+ years journey. They are barely in year 3 of the rebuild.

When Kane took the league by storm, there was already Seabrook (D+4), Keith (D+5), Crawford (D+4), Toews (D+2) in the pipeline. There was a core that was coalescing. Bedard is the first-born of this Hawks rebuild (EDIT: actually the second born, I guess Korchinski is the first born). They still have a long way to go before things get better.

GMs & hockey ops types don't run the business of hockey…

Also, re: Kane & Toews people forget Hawks tried to speed up the process prior coming out of the 2004 lockout by signing high priced UFAs Aucion & Khabibulin. Those signings bombed and Hawks ended up w Kane & Toews that was never part of their calculus to begin with though

 

[Tyson]

Luke Richardson deserves way more respect than this. WTF

 

[Ezpz]

Luke Richardson deserves way more respect than this. WTF

They think they put together a better roster this year which is laughable. They added several washed up players that were already trending down with their former teams.

What an awful summer they had.

 

[CharleyHorse]

Man, they are not very patient.

Pot, meet kettle - not directed at you, as I think you are making the same point I am, but at some of our fanbase.

 

[Redux91]

Get Luke Richardson back Marty
Get on it