HF Habs: The official 2023-2024 tank thread

[HabzSauce]

Thank god for that loser point! Really needed that

 

[KevSkillz4]

Not great, but not bad. At least it's not 2 points !

 

[McGees]

I’m just stoked we got a point. LFG.

 

[Canadiens98]

Berkly Catton, welcome to the Montreal Canadiens

 

[habsfan891]

Berkly Catton, welcome to the Montreal Canadiens

Better than picking another defenseman at least he has a shot at being a 1st line forward

 

[Tuggy]

Berkly Catton, welcome to the Montreal Canadiens

Sounds good to me.

 

[McGees]

Weren’t we supposed to get 0 points against TB , FLA, NSH and BOS?
5 of 8 points.
That’s why I ignore strength of schedule.

lol the CBJ vs SENS games so shloppy.
This is the only way either of them can get points is when they play each other.
Shootout coming up.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Good tank day:

CBJ / Ott both get points. Will see who gets the bonus.
Coyotes get 2 pts
Devils & Pens get 2 pts and pull further ahead.

 

[McGees]

Haha Giroulx wins it with a bar down slapper from 8 feet out.

Disrespectful- somebody go cross check him in the head.

 

[rahad]

Thank god for that loser point! Really needed that

Gotta break the record for most useless Overtime point! Already 11 OT games played this season? What the record for Ot in a single season?

 

[HabsCowboysOwn]

Other teams doing their job tonight, too bad Habs decided to be their usual loser point getting clown selves.

 

[Ezpz]

Groan

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Well, Montreal got a surprising point out of the Bruins, but the good news is both Arizona & Ottawa picked up 2 pts. Senators just beat the Blue Jackets in a shootout.

Arizona is 2 pts back, albeit Montreal has a game in hand.

Ottawa is 3 pts back with 2 games in hand.

It also really looks like Montreal won't finish higher than they already are: 7th. Pens & Calgary are both 6 pts up for places 8 & 9.

Montreal now heads out on a tough 5 game road trip: Calgary (not so tough), Edmonton, Vancouver, Seattle (also not too tough) and Colorado.

Senators are @ NYI at 12:30 pm on Saturday.
Arizona hosts NJD at 5 pm Saturday.

 

[Junohockeyfan]

Montreal has a tough road trip coming up. Tankers delight!

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Gotta break the record for most useless Overtime point! Already 11 OT games played this season? What the record for Ot in a single season?

I mean Boston leads the league with 15. NYI's are second with 14, and LAKs have 12. We're not even #1 this year, so I wouldn't worry about any records for that.

 

[HabsCowboysOwn]

Montreal has a tough road trip coming up. Tankers delight!

Oh I'm sure they'll find a way to screw it up by getting 6 or 7 points out of this ''tough'' road trip, it's what they do.

 

[Goldenhands]

Thats a really hard calendar for the Habs till the end of the season, still a chance to end up bottom 5.

 

[Rozz]

I missed the game tonight due to work... and I see we lost in ot... ugh...

but everyone else we needed to get points today did! So, they all gained a point on us which is a positive.... and ill take it!

...man, we really need to lose big on this up coming stretch of games, though.. please.

 

[KevSkillz4]

So far I'm happy and no matters what happen, in my mind, we are lucky to talk about a bottom 7 finish at this point, because with Kirby Dach healthy, I don't think Habs finish in that position.

 

[Canadiens98]

One thing I have to add, Joel Armia looked fantastic at times tonight and has been having his best / most consistent season so far.

Really happy to see that from him.

 

[Rapala]

Gotta break the record for most useless Overtime point! Already 11 OT games played this season? What the record for Ot in a single season?

If you were paying attention Boston now have 24 OT games this season
The thing is I've always said they aren't loser points if you are in a playoff position they have like 15 of them.

 

[Rapala]

Thats a really hard calendar for the Habs till the end of the season, still a chance to end up bottom 5.

The problem is we play better against better opposition for whatever reason.
Looking at schedules this time of year is an exercise in futility IMO.
We will win some we shouldn't and lose some we should.
Theoretically we should end up bottom 5...
but then again theoretically there was no way in hell Florida should have made the postseason last year.

One thing I have to add, Joel Armia looked fantastic at times tonight and has been having his best / most consistent season so far.

Really happy to see that from him.

People are all set to dump him next year.
If he plays this way all season I'd consider a new contract at a reasonable Cap Hit and Term.
I'm not in favor of moving things that aren't broken.

 

[HabsCowboysOwn]

One thing I have to add, Joel Armia looked fantastic at times tonight and has been having his best / most consistent season so far.

Really happy to see that from him.

I'm happy too, it means he'll be easier to trade next year.

 

[HuGort]

Berkly Catton, welcome to the Montreal Canadiens

I doubt Catton there when we draft. Good chance we pass Pittsburgh, draft around 8th. Catton playing well. Looks like Ignila to me.

 

[slybel]

We are getting Lindstrom...