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

[JianYang]

4 minutes in Wings already lead 2 nothing.

Is it me or the western conf. sucks ?

Wings are riding the coach bump right now. The bruins went on a run as well after canning Monty and now they are back to where they were before.

It will be interesting to see where the wings settle once the bump fades.

 

[Miller Time]

Detroit’s plan was always interesting to me — they had a long rebuild ahead of them but also didn’t want to bottom out and risk losing fans (income) and losing their culture. The compromise was to keep a respectable team by any means necessary — which involves signing UFAs to medium term deals.

I’m most interested to see how Yzerman swings for more “core” pieces. I mean, that’s the whole thing.

The Habs nailing it with Hutson was a game changer — the Red Wings need some luck like that and they’re doing well.

Or, perhaps they need a management team with a better approach, one who gets that there are tangible things you can do to increase your odds at "getting lucky"

 

[Goalfield13]

Detroit’s plan was always interesting to me — they had a long rebuild ahead of them but also didn’t want to bottom out and risk losing fans (income) and losing their culture. The compromise was to keep a respectable team by any means necessary — which involves signing UFAs to medium term deals.

I’m most interested to see how Yzerman swings for more “core” pieces. I mean, that’s the whole thing.

The Habs nailing it with Hutson was a game changer — the Red Wings need some luck like that and they’re doing well.

I find their D and G situation pretty suspect. They could be the real deal, but I just can't see it lasting. If we were at game 70, maybe, but we have half a season to go.

 

[ahmedou]

 

[EveryDay]

Stars playing like shit in the 2nd after playing incredibly yesterday....

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Stars playing like shit in the 2nd after playing incredibly yesterday....

I was worried we softened them up for the Sens. We hit them hard (32 hits) and played a fast game.

It's a back-to-back for Stars & their 3rd game in 4 days.

Sens are also facing DeSmith while we got Oettinger.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Stars playing like shit in the 2nd after playing incredibly yesterday....

2nd game in less than 24 hours and Montreal gave them a very hard test.

Dallas and their fans might be looking at this like the East is pretty good if they're getting battled evenly, or better by two teams out of the playoffs.

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

Oof. If there's one team that badly needs to win the draft lottery, it's the Kraken.

They already won it with Kakko. What a ripoff trade that was.

 

[zx81]

Sens will win and TB-PiT will end in OT.
What a surprise.

 

[Tyson]

Sens will win and TB-PiT will end in OT.
What a surprise.

40 games to go...get use to these frustrating game nights

 

[zx81]

40 games to go...get use to these frustrating game nights

I know. It's just that right now pretty much all the teams in the mix win or get a point. Pretty crazy stuff.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Sens will win and TB-PiT will end in OT.
What a surprise.

Look at it this way.

The Habs make the playoffs.

The Habs battle hard and make it so the players can smell it AND the Habs get a decent pick.

Winning is nice, but they're in a win-win situation.

 

[the valiant effort]

The Pens hilariously turned the puck over to Kuch at the blue line and he made them pay to make it 3-2. 4-2 after an EN

 

[zx81]

TB wins in regulation.
A Pens win in regulation may have been better even if they would have passed us because we have games in hand but it beats any ot result.

I think the current race is kinda like playoffs. Even if we don't make the real ones we play meaningful games and it's a lot more fun than a race for better lottery odds.

 

[Redux91]

f***ing Ottawa beat Dallas of course

 

[Team_Spirit]

Cutter picked the wrong game to show up