Playoffs Positivity Thread

[Frankenheimer]

Anything North of 82 pts will be a good progress. Right now, we see what we get with a full lineup but it's still a fragile team when everything goes wrong.

Yes that has been a key to our recent success. We're finally a healthy club. Last two years have been nightmares.

 

[sampollock]

Using our own pick alone it will be hard to get to that lower range, but packaging it with our Flames1stR, it makes it perhaps possible, idk.

I think KH would keep his pick in the 10th range

 

[Rapala]

I see us finishing either No Man’s Land or In Da Mix if this team stays the same. Between 8 and 14. No Barron and no Primeau virtually guarantees that. They would now need to deliberately torpedo the club to get to the bottom of the standings.

No Man's land for me is picking 12 to 15.
Making the playoffs and getting dumped 4 straight is probably a better outcome.
I believe a team won't quit on you if you don't quit on it.

Not sure what happened with the Rangers though.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Bro…I worry about your mental health if you start doing these points/games breakdowns already

It's in a positivity thread. More fun doing these than calculating the tank, which I'm aware could still be a real possibility at some point this season.

 

[Jurivan Demidovsky]

 

[Picaroon]

F it. Putting a bet on them winning the cup.

 

[NobleSix]

 

[DAChampion]

 

[Tuggy]

Keep on truckin'!

 

[Jurivan Demidovsky]

Habs are staying in Vegas tonight, gonna be a good party! Happy New-Year to all!!

 

[Seb]

I still believe

 

[HuGort]

This thread keeps popping up after a win like the undertaker rising from the canvas.

Never count this team out

 

[Boyon90]

F it. Putting a bet on them winning the cup.

good idea

F it. Putting a bet on them winning the cup.

good idea

 

[Habs13]

25 in '25!

 

[HuGort]

Ottawa holding last playoff spot you know it is up for grabs

 

[morhilane]

Since the Habs were dead last in goal differential on December 16th at -31 and bottom 5 in the standings:
- the Habs have the best record in the league 6-1-0 (Colorado is 5-0-0 thought)
- their goal differential is +17! The best in the league over that period
- and that goal differential is mostly thanks to having scored the most goals (31 in 7 games ~ 4.429 per game).

 

[SwiftyHab]

Since the Habs were dead last in goal differential on December 16th at -31 and bottom 5 in the standings:
- the Habs have the best record in the league 6-1-0 (Colorado is 5-0-0 thought)
- their goal differential is +17! The best in the league over that period
- and that goal differential is mostly thanks to having scored the most goals (31 in 7 games ~ 4.429 per game).

Smells like the cup

 

[Lshap]

Another unusual December stat: Five of the hottest teams the past month are Canadian.

 

[BLONG7]

In The Mix!!

 

[morhilane]

Smells like the cup

It's not sustainable.

Well the goal scoring isn't, should drop back a bit, but at the same times it's weird, most of that goal scoring has been the bottom lines. Dach (3), Armia (3), Evans (5) and Heineman (3) scored more goals than anyone on the 1st like - Suzuki (0), CC (2), Slaf (2) - over those last 7 games.

Suzuki haven't had a goal in 8 games!

And Matheson's offense has dried up since he lost his PP1. He had 9 pts in October, 5 in November and 4 in December...last off-season was the time to move him.

But defensively, I think that's more sustainable baring injuries, so the Habs should still win more than they lose going forward.

 

[schwang26]

Some people are forgetting that this will be a very different team the day after the deadline and that’s going to have a significant impact on the standings. They could very well trade 3 veteran forwards and one veteran defender. Two ufas from one of the best 4th lines in the league, their best faceoff man (Dvorak) and at least one veteran defenceman (I don’t see both Savard and Matheson going). It’s unlikely that they’ll get players who will have immediate impacts in return, and please don’t try to tell me that guys from Laval are ready to replace any of these players because they aren’t.
They might climb high enough to compete for a spot, but they won’t hang onto it when they lose all these guys.

 

[Goalfield13]

Honestly, while this isn't the perfect team, the east is pretty wide open. The teams around us are pretty mediocre, and two teams in front of us (BOS and OTT) are pretty fragile. OTT is making good progress in their rebuild, though. I think we stack up pretty well, and there is a lot of hockey left to play.

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

Habs should claim Puljujarvi. Then just wave Pazetta.

Only because I was a big fan at the draft. Boy I was wrong

 

[Benstheman]

Some people are forgetting that this will be a very different team the day after the deadline and that’s going to have a significant impact on the standings. They could very well trade 3 veteran forwards and one veteran defender. Two ufas from one of the best 4th lines in the league, their best faceoff man (Dvorak) and at least one veteran defenceman (I don’t see both Savard and Matheson going). It’s unlikely that they’ll get players who will have immediate impacts in return, and please don’t try to tell me that guys from Laval are ready to replace any of these players because they aren’t.
They might climb high enough to compete for a spot, but they won’t hang onto it when they lose all these guys.

Realistically, it will depends on what they could get for these players.

From the start, I will take Evans out of the equation because I'm positive they will want to extend him.

Dvorak they will get a 3rd or a 4th round pick at best.

Savard at his full cap hit will probably get you a 3rd.

Armia is the one with the most value at the deadline. Maybe we can get a late 1st if we use the last retaining spot on him.

So imo, if you are in the mix for a playoffs spot, you don't mess with this by trading Savard and Dvorak for meh picks that we already have a lot of. So I think the only player that may be traded is Armia if we can get a 1st at the deadline.

 

[Jurivan Demidovsky]

Realistically, it will depends on what they could get for these players.

From the start, I will take Evans out of the equation because I'm positive they will want to extend him.

Dvorak they will get a 3rd or a 4th round pick at best.

Savard at his full cap hit will probably get you a 3rd.

Armia is the one with the most value at the deadline. Maybe we can get a late 1st if we use the last retaining spot on him.

So imo, if you are in the mix for a playoffs spot, you don't mess with this by trading Savard and Dvorak for meh picks that we already have a lot of. So I think the only player that may be traded is Armia if we can get a 1st at the deadline.

And even then, we're better off holding on to armia, we don't need another 1st in this draft. I think the only player we should trade is Matheson.