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

[Skip Bayless]

"It's the team that Lou gave me"



Get ready to learn Chinese buddy.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Wow, Ottawa out shot 39-11, but beat SJS 4-3. 4 goals on 11 shots.

 

[salbutera]

 

[Paddyjack]

This is the worst own goal I've seen in hockey. Charlie Lindgren should be investigated for gambling.

Ryan O'Byrne enters the chat room

 

[Pompeius Magnus]

"It's the team that Lou gave me"



Get ready to learn Chinese buddy.

Yup, this is how it starts. I'm willing to bet he knows it too and it's part of his exit strategy.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

This is the worst own goal I've seen in hockey. Charlie Lindgren should be investigated for gambling.

 

[LaP]

I got a theory that contending teams don'T care too much about winning games early on they just focus on getting back and then they fire it up somewhere in january. I dunno where i got this theory maybe from actually watching hockey in the last 30 years instead of watching the boxscores ...

 

[sampollock]

NYR yaks of trading. But will want the world for the 2 guys that have been named

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

For people saying we should move on from the Michkov talk even in the out of town thread, and posters who bring up his success should become Flyers fans, did you move on from every mistake/potential mistake from the MB era? Did you immediately move on from Sergachev the second we traded him?

It's going to be interesting looking back on this one. It could prove to be a big mistake as Michkov looks great. But again, it's about building a team and RB has a profile that we don't have anywhere in our system. Big strong steady RD... there's a premium for that. Even if he's not as good as Mich individually, it still may work out for us in terms of building the team.

Habs made a calculation on positional scarcity. They figured getting the RD would be harder than getting a winger. Very next draft proved them right. Drafting RB makes us a lot better on the back end if he pans out as he's supposed to. Even if he does though, should we have just taken Michkov? I suspect we'll debate that for years.

I hope for RB's sake that Demidov pans out. If he does then that pick looks a lot better. But there's no doubt Michkov is producing and we might be looking back on that draft as a huge miss.

Way too soon to say though. I wanted Michkov at the time but I understand the rationale. We'll see how it all works out.

 

[sampollock]

Wow the little Russian talk won't end

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Wow the little Russian talk won't end

It's the OOT thread. Don't be that guy.

 

[Andrei79]

Patrick Roy being an optimist, lmao. Is that in between the wife beating and intimidating teens ?

 

[Chili]

The Atlantic has been arguably the strongest division in the league for the last few seasons, including the Florida teams winning three cups. That could be changing though based on the early records:

Atl 87-76-13-2 for 189 pts 538 goals for 561 against
Met 93-68-14-6 for 206 pts 595 goals for 565 against
Cen 93-73-12-2 for 200 pts 541 goals for 533 against
Pac 87-70-16-8 for 198 pts 534 goals for 549 against

The surprise team for me is the Caps tied for the most goals with the Jets with 90 so far. They finished 27th in goals last season and last in the conference. Impressive comeback win last night in Tampa.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

The Atlantic has been arguably the strongest division in the league for the last few seasons, including the Florida teams winning three cups. That could be changing though based on the early records:

Atl 87-76-13-2 for 189 pts 538 goals for 561 against
Met 93-68-14-6 for 206 pts 595 goals for 565 against
Cen 93-73-12-2 for 200 pts 541 goals for 533 against
Pac 87-70-16-8 for 198 pts 534 goals for 549 against

The surprise team for me is the Caps tied for the most goals with the Jets with 90 so far. They finished 27th in goals last season and last in the conference. Impressive comeback win last night in Tampa.

The Atlantic really sucks now

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

The Atlantic really sucks now

Pacific is absolute garbage. Don't know how they could have that record.

 

[Zam Boni]

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I'll see your Bergevin and raise Steve Smith.
Context matters.

 

[sampollock]

It's the OOT thread. Don't be that guy.

I wont OZ, just stated my thought like the rest of you do

 

[morhilane]

Pacific is absolute garbage. Don't know how they could have that record.

Central/Pacific/Metro have the top teams in the league right now, but also the worst ones.

Cross-division record would be way more interesting to pin-point division strength. The Atlantic always eat each others.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

It's the OOT thread. Don't be that guy.

He can be whoever he wants. Lol

Like wth?

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

He can be whoever he wants. Lol

Like wth?

It's a figure of speech

 

[sampollock]

He can be whoever he wants. Lol

Like wth?

Thanks. I try to be me!! lol

 

[Rapala]

I got a theory that contending teams don'T care too much about winning games early on they just focus on getting back and then they fire it up somewhere in january. I dunno where i got this theory maybe from actually watching hockey in the last 30 years instead of watching the boxscores ...

Very few teams have been able to push from day 1 and come up on top in the post season in the New NHL.
I can only think of Chicago who led from start to finish and that was the shortened 2012 -13 season.