GDT: Pre-season Game #6 vs. Ottawa Senators (7PM ET on RDS, TSN2, TSN5, TSN690 & 98.5 FM)

[dinodebino]

Armia is sofffffffffffttt

He probably caught Covid again.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

I read an article a few days ago where it said that MSL wants to make his players unconformable. I guess it's a way to make them realize they have something to work on.

Young players usually play worse when tired until they get used to NHL pace play. It's a marathon not a track meet, but rookies try to go all out, all the time to impress.

He just looked tired to me.

Thought overall he was involved, wanted the puck & tried to be creative. He didn't really have chemistry with Suzuki/Caufield. He deferred to them too much.

He & Dach seemed to be developing some chemistry, and a top 9 position is better for him right now. Suzuki attracts a lot of attention and the best defensive players.

 

[Runner77]

Marty wants to get the f*** out of there.


There will be a rematch.

I’d like to see him slap out a few of those picosseurs.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Enough F'ing around with the lineup. I still have no clue who can play with Suzuki and Caufield. Slaf won't be able to handle the minutes/matchups. Anderson has zero puck possession skills. Hoffman doesn't execute very many good hockey plays and his shot is over-rated. Drouin doesn't have the compete necessary to merit 1st line duties and when he has shown some jam, he ends up injured. I would use Evans if we keep Dach and Monahan at C.
I get we want to see what lies down the road but most of those guys are nothing more than warm bodies.

I'd try Monahan on their wing. Overall, I agree. Evans brings speed, net drive & defensive play, but Monahan has better hands.

 

[Vachon23]

Enough F'ing around with the lineup. I still have no clue who can play with Suzuki and Caufield. Slaf won't be able to handle the minutes/matchups. Anderson has zero puck possession skills. Hoffman doesn't execute very many good hockey plays and his shot is over-rated. Drouin doesn't have the compete necessary to merit 1st line duties and when he has shown some jam, he ends up injured. I would use Evans if we keep Dach and Monahan at C.
I get we want to see what lies down the road but most of those guys are nothing more than warm bodies.

Maybe Monahan ?

 

[Habs]

for sure not renewing my NHL package this year, don't need the ptsd

 

[Rapala]

I'd try Monahan on their wing. Overall, I agree. Evans brings speed, net drive & defensive play, but Monahan has better hands.

I'd prefer Monahan also, but I have no clue where they want him to play. He took a number of shifts at C against the Leafs.

 

[Adam Michaels]

TOI:

Suzuki - 22:15
Slafkovsky - 22:24
Caufield - 22:10
Beck - 13:01
Ylonen - 12:47
RHP - 15:24

Guhle - 19:28
Harris - 19:46
Xhekaj - 16:22

 

[Tyson]

Marty had millions living a quiet life in Connecticut with his lovely wife and he signed up for this?
Kent? Same thing.

 

[durojean]

St-Louis looked sad…

 

[Rapala]

I loved Marty sending Guhle right back out there after his monumental F Up. He'd be in Laval already if it was Therrien behind the bench.

 

[Runner77]

Marty had millions living a quiet life in Connecticut with his lovely wife and he signed up for this?
Kent? Same thing.

The gravitational pull of a prestigious NHL job.

There may have also been a personal angle that played a part, with both Kent and Marty reconnecting with close relatives. Marty glows whenever he mentions his dad.

 

[dinodebino]

St-Louis looked sad…

yeah, that was bizarre.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

I'd prefer Monahan also, but I have no clue where they want him to play. He took a number of shifts at C against the Leafs.

Well, he's always played as a center, but I believe he played some wing in Calgary with Gaudreau/Lindholm if they wanted Tkachuk on another line.

With Suzuki, Dach, Dvorak & Evans, center position is one of the strengths of the team.

Which is ironic because when we were good, center was a weakness. When we suck, all the sudden we have depth.

 

[Runner77]

I loved Marty sending Guhle right back out there after his monumental F Up. He'd be in Laval already if it was Therrien behind the bench.

Michou is an abysmal excuse for a human being. Nuff said.

 

[dinodebino]

François Gagnon m'énarve. Ostie qu'il parle trop.

OK, they are cutting tonight?

 

[Banjo Cat]

St-Louis looked sad…

It's gonna be a tough year for these guys. I mean we all know it's a rebuild, but losing isn't fun and losing a lot is really not fun.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

TOI:

Suzuki - 22:15
Slafkovsky - 22:24
Caufield - 22:10
Beck - 13:01
Ylonen - 12:47
RHP - 15:24

Guhle - 19:28
Harris - 19:46
Xhekaj - 16:22

Both Armia & Heineman left the game, so probably why top line got so much time.

 

[Tyson]

yeah, that was bizarre.

He is starting to realize that his antics may simply be overhyped BS.

 

[Rapala]

François Gagnon m'énarve. Ostie qu'il parle trop.

Remember his shiner after a visit to Philly? We have a clue

 

[Runner77]

François Gagnon m'énarve. Ostie qu'il parle trop.

OK, they are cutting tonight?

Gagnon is incapable of expressing the most basic of concepts with a modicum of words.

He fuels on excess, only outdone by the excess room in his drooping, homeless shelter suits.

 

[dinodebino]

Both Armia & Heineman left the game, so probably why top line got so much time.

That's what MSL said.

 

[HostileCapSpace]

I loved Marty sending Guhle right back out there after his monumental F Up. He'd be in Laval already if it was Therrien behind the bench.

Don't want to defend previous coaches (especially Therrien) and GMs but none of them were ever given a green light for a rebuild like Hughes and MSL have.

 

[1909]

I loved Marty sending Guhle right back out there after his monumental F Up. He'd be in Laval already if it was Therrien behind the bench.

MSL has not many other options but to play Guhle anyway.

 

[Rapala]

Both Armia & Heineman left the game, so probably why top line got so much time.

Heineman was not very good in this one. he's going back to Sweden.