Playoffs Positivity Thread .......... Re-Poll, option to change your vote is open as of Jan 7
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Grate n Colorful Oz
Pure Laine Hutson
expy
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I know "fan" is an abbreviation of "fanatic"... But some people take it way too seriously.
Mods: Do we know who or how many changed their votes from "No" to "Yes"?
An option to change a vote is a joke to begin with...I know "fan" is an abbreviation of "fanatic"... But some people take it way too seriously.
Mods: Do we know who or how many changed their votes from "No" to "Yes"?
Seriously I didn't mean to vote for TRUMP.
DAChampion
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As an all year tanker, I suggest we keep this thread. It works WAY better than the Tank thread.
It s more why did it appear during 15 games ? Luck can t last a whole season.
HabsCowboysOwn
Wak Prescott the 60M/yr scam artist, here we gooo!
I don t understand the Tank mentality at this stage it s been three years of being super bad, why would some people want more of this ?
Was just about to say its time to bring the tank thread back. But this jinx threas is working fine.
Changed votes don't appear onscreen, however all voters will get a visit from HF Security Enforcement after the poll closes, inquiring whether or not your vote was changed.
I strongly suggest answering honestly. A few people didn't. We miss them.
It's more "where is the defense?": 4 goals against in each of their last 4 games/losses, Habs defense let in way too many high danger chances again.
The oppositions has adapted to the Habs dzone play and a few too many vets are giving in a weaker effort or playing too much/are too tired. That impact both the Habs defense and offense.
And it seems that losing Heineman had a bigger impact than expected, but losing a guy playing 11-10 minutes shouldn't be... And now Guhle is injured, that one means more Matheson and Habs won't win anyting with more Matheson.
WeThreeKings
Demidov is a HAB
Our offense was firing when all 4 lines were able to contribute. Losing Heineman was the first step in things falling apart. Suddenly you have only 3 lines with the 2nd line that only shows up some nights and rarely with all 3 playing a good game at the same time.
Then the powerplays have started to dry up and when they got the PPs, two things happened:
1. MSL started taking the first unit off after 1 minute, which means you are only geting half a PP.
2. Teams are taking away Laine, and there isn't an answer so far for what they want to do without that shot being there. Slaf found Caufield in the bumper last night which is a good start, but Slaf also needs to shoot and take it to the net which he doesn't want to do.
DAChampion
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But shouldn't teams taking away Laine's space on the PP actually help by opening up space for the other players?
WeThreeKings
Demidov is a HAB
It should but it's in my message that they haven't adapted, they started with Caufield in the bumper but you can't only have two looks, and effectively 1 if they're gonna just take Laine away.
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Made a comparison of East teams at the 50 games mark, last year to this season.
Big time jump for the Caps, nice step forward for Columbus. Bruins & Rangers, ouch! Almost all of the teams who were in a playoff spot at this point last season went on to the post season (main exception was the Flyers although they were only 3 points up on the Caps).
- | Points after 50 games | Points after 50 games | +/- |
| Team | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | |
| Toronto | 60 | 62 | +2 |
| Florida | 66 | 61 | -5 |
| Tampa Bay | 59 | 57 | -2 |
| Ottawa | 46 | 56 | +10 |
| Boston | 71 | 54 | -17 |
| Detroit | 58 | 53 | -5 |
| Montreal | 50 | 53 | +3 |
| Buffalo | 48 | 43 | -5 |
Atlantic | 458 | 439 | -19 |
| Washington | 53 | 73 | +20 |
| Carolina | 63 | 64 | +1 |
| New Jersey | 54 | 60 | +6 |
| Columbus | 42 | 55 | +13 |
| NYI | 54 | 53 | -1 |
| NYR | 65 | 52 | -13 |
| Philadelphia | 56 | 50 | -6 |
| Pittsburgh | 53 | 48 | -5 |
Metro | 440 | 455 | +15 |
Big time jump for the Caps, nice step forward for Columbus. Bruins & Rangers, ouch! Almost all of the teams who were in a playoff spot at this point last season went on to the post season (main exception was the Flyers although they were only 3 points up on the Caps).
Habs lost to top tier team like Minnesota and Winnipeg. The next 3 teams should be ''easier'' for us with Anaheim, San Jose and LA King.
5 points behind Last wildcard spot and 5 points ahead of bottom 5. Team not showing real progress, looks like BUF material. To me this has nothing to do with Heineman and Guhle, they are just not good enough as a team.
You mean MIN without Kaprizov, Brodin who just lost 6 0 to OTT ? Yeah that was out of reach….
Did i said it has out of reach or do you have problem reading? Despise the injury Minnesota is still 4 pts above Colorado and 6pts above LA King. They are still top 5 ins the west. It would only take them 3 pts to be #2 in the west lol.
