Confirmed with Link: Slafkovsky, Guhle, Harris and Xhekaj made the team!!

[Andrei79]

Your expectations were perhaps unrealistic. Slaf showed plenty to prove he is among our top 6-8 wingers.

Agreed. His first two games weren't very good, but he took off after that.

 

[Kennerback]

Do you guys are really impressed by Slaf preseason? It was nothing special and this is expected.

Of course our team sucks and he could make the team , we are bottom 5 team in the nhl when healthy.

There’s this long-standing tradition in the NHL that the worst players sit and the best players play. And there’s a couple of players on the team that are a full notch below “nothing special”.

 

[BaseballCoach]

God-awful mistakes as we smash our faces against a wall over and over again, repeating the errors of the past. Slafkovsky is already well on his way down the path of Kotkaniemi and Galchenyuk, as I stated; in five years, he'll be despised and reframed as a talentless bust with a terrible work-ethic or other character issues by this fanbase.

What the freak?

What is your time horizon that Slaf could be "well on the path" to anything?

Didn't expect him to be McDavid unlike some posters on this board.

The team is not competing, so better send him down to improve.

The team is not competing so better leave him here to improve more.

 

[Goal Caufield50]

Barkin up the wrong tree bub.

Keep shovelling. Operating 6 D is a joke

 

[BaseballCoach]

Still not optimal. To optimize the cap space, we should call up Mesar and Barron and send down Guhle and Harris BEFORE putting Byron on LTIR.

The moves can be reversed before the first game.

 

[Hannibal]

Let’s go X!!

 

[Chili]

Arber could be back tomorrow as others said. Leafs pared down to 20 players to barely make the cap, looks like just a paper transaction.

 

[Runner77]

Arber temporarily demoted to forklift duties at isle 5 of his hometown Costco.

Adding yet another inspiring chapter in overcoming adversity to reach the NHL.

 

[HuGo Sham]

7th d-man ? OR alternate with Wideman OR Kovy on the right side.

no way he's the 7th man. they'll loan him to laval so he can play big minutes if that's the case

 

[Treb]

I think I read that the 7 days can be partially retroactive to when the injury occured.

Yes.

 

[HomaridII]

Canadiens Send Xhekaj To Laval To Maximize LTIR

The Montreal Canadiens sent down Arber Xhekaj to the Laval Rocket before the 5 pm deadline to maximize their cap space, or, better yet, their LTIR relief space. After having been told he had made the team, Xhekaj now finds himself with the Laval Rocket, on paper. The club is in the midst of...

montrealhockeynow.com

If you want to know exactly why Xhekaj was sent down today and why Byron wasn't put on ltir today.

 

[JoelWarlord]

I’m a little worried about these kids making the team in the sense of not repeating what we had done so many times in the past.
I would have probably sent Slaf and Arber down. Harris I think is ready and Guhle I think convinced me in his last 2 games. He played very well and consistently throughout all pre season.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, making the team from day one doesn't mean they're on the team the entire year. Whoever performs the worst of Xhekaj/Guhle/Harris will be sent down once Edmundson is healthy and there's still potentially more waiver stuff coming.

 

[Agalloch]

Too much rookies. I hope we don't burn them.

 

[Et le But]

Is this the least amount of Europeans the Habs have had on their squad in a while? Only two to make the team, one is a rental at best the other is a young rookie who will likely be demoted to the AHL at some point this season.

Not that it matters in the long run, just curious that this could be the first season I remember in a long time where the Habs may end the season with zero Europeans on their NHL squad.

 

[admiralcadillac]

To those asking Slaf to use his body - Jagr never hit.

I’d like to see the physicality but Slaf is going to be a skill guy. Not everyone is Ovechkin.

 

[expy]

No mistakes were made.

 

[jaffy27]

To those asking Slaf to use his body - Jagr never hit.

I’d like to see the physicality but Slaf is going to be a skill guy. Not everyone is Ovechkin.

Use his body as in protect the puck like Armia, skate like Ovechkin and shoot like Patches.

 

[admiralcadillac]

Use his body as in protect the puck like Armia, skate like Ovechkin and shoot like Patches.

Slaf clearly already does that and those are not the current criticisms outside of him falling.

 

[BaseballCoach]

His game when he got here last year was different to this preseason’s. Probably still recovering from his ankle injury

Not sure, but mainly Barron suffers from inconsistent play-reading, and a poor radar for danger, a lot like young Petry.

 

[Habs Icing]

With no NHL experience, Xhekaj, Harris and Guhle all make the team. How is that good for these players' development? Even Bergevin wouldn't start the season with 3 rookies on defense. If he had pulled this move this board would deservingly rip him a new one but it's the new guys and we're still on our honeymoon so it's honky dory.

 

[Agalloch]

With no NHL experience, Xhekaj, Harris and Guhle all make the team. How is that good for these players' development? Even Bergevin wouldn't start the season with 3 rookies on defense. If he had pulled this move this board would deservingly rip him a new one but it's the new guys and we're still on our honeymoon so it's honky dory.

I agree. I would have kept Guhle.

I hope we acquired a d man when we gain cap space with Byron on LTIR. At worst, we play 3 rookies for 1 game.

 

[Krett Bulak]

Its actually amazing to see competent management

 

[Habs Icing]

They should start scouting Costco staff. 6D chesss-sse. (Insert brilliant meme)

I was about to post something similar but I had it phrased differently. Watch Timmins try explaining to his new bosses they should scout Costco for hockey talent.

 

[ReimanSum1908]

What the freak?

What is your time horizon that Slaf could be "well on the path" to anything?


The team is not competing so better leave him here to improve more.

I am referring to the narrative that's already dominating fanbase discourse: tremendously overhyping a prospect who has manifest flaws in his game, and rushing a player who has shown little - less than his predecessors who blazed this path in the past decade - to give the fans red meat.

 

[japhi]

Gotta believe that when Harris signed they had a deal in place that he would start the season in MTL. He would have had to have been pretty bad to miss opening night - which he wasn't, thought he was pretty steady.