Yeah if you trade Matheson you don't trade him for picks or prospects you trade him for a roster player (top 4 defensive RHD) to make room for Guhle and Hutson on the left and to not put too much pressure on Reinbacher. But that's not selling it's just adressing an issue with the roster.
Players need to learn the art and science of projectile vomiting.
Many of us said that it would take 5 years for the new GM to undo the mess that MB made and it was right. I don't want to see the young guys ruined because the current situation isn't ideal for their development.
Late response but I see terrible team play. Multiple times a game I see great individual efforts that end up nowhere because teammates are either mispositioned to receive any possible puck movement, usually in the defensive zone, or are changing in the offensive zone. Leaving the zone to cheat defensively or, most importantly, offensively is also an issue doubly compounded when there is no coherent system in place. Sometime I can't even count, because I run out of fingers and toes, how many times a forward wins a puck puck battle but all four of his teammates are already outside the zone to 'defend'. Still get blasted 8-2 or 6-3 somehow.
Absolutely agree.
Would have been on point if he made them skate to the point of puking
Players need to learn the art and science of projectile vomiting.
PreachLate response but I see terrible team play. Multiple times a game I see great individual efforts that end up nowhere because teammates are either mispositioned to receive any possible puck movement, usually in the defensive zone, or are changing in the offensive zone. Leaving the zone to cheat defensively or, most importantly, offensively is also an issue doubly compounded when there is no coherent system in place. Sometime I can't even count, because I run out of fingers and toes, how many times a forward wins a puck puck battle but all four of his teammates are already outside the zone to 'defend'. Still get blasted 8-2 or 6-3 somehow.
So properly onto the three things you mentioned, I see compete from a decent amount of players, almost all young. DVO and a few other vets can be fired from a canon though. (Small note: Caufield barely competes but is turning into our version of Ovi so he makes up for it+ elsewhere. Dach.....) Individual decision-making is sorta addressed as best it can be in the first paragraph without going into each individual. Team cohesion would naturally be a consequence of good individual decision-making if a proper system were in place that the players could reference during their sometimes literal split-second decision making.
TL;DR The coach sucks.
Yeah MSL is FOS if he really thinks the Habs played well in the 1st 2 periods.
I Wasn't aware that you hired coaches so they could learn on the job. The messyou
Correct, yet they let they play too high, (sometimes too low) get caught puck watching and let the opponents get seperation. Terrible.
It's not about the losses for me but rather the way they are doing it. Last season we had 27 one goal losses and we always felt like the team was "in" games till the final buzzer. It was promising to see such a competitive spirit coming from such a young group.
Players need to learn the art and science of projectile vomiting.
