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I still expect us to be much improved.
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The state of the Habs Rebuild - The Next step
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It will give more room for other players. More Armia ice time, Anderson, Dvo, Newhook, Dach. At the end Suzuki will have 25 min a game. But also maybe give room for Roy, Kapanen, Beck, ABB, Tuch.
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I don't think this is going anywhere now. At best Habs will end up with first round playoffs exit team IF they manage to stay healthy enough to squeeze in. Given that they are softer than butter cream, and are always on the receiving end of hits and physical play, I don't see anything promising. A major change in mentality about physicality is needed.
New head coach definitely. Probably a new GM at this point too.
New head coach definitely. Probably a new GM at this point too.
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2 more years of tanking hopefully. And picking the RIGHT players through BPA NOT NEEDS!
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Looks like Beck and Tuch are cut.
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Habs Headlines: Canadiens make first round of cuts
In today’s links, Owen Beck among first round of cuts, reactions to the hit that took Patrik Laine out, Juraj Slafkovský’s potential to be a star, the woeful power play, and Jacob Markstrom hopes to…
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Not sure why some are still so opposed to a long and smart rebuild , you'd think they wouldn't be so scared of it after 10 years of DD Pacio Therrien Bergevin , Danault at 1C , no ppg players , yuck
Whitesnake
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Do people not see that without acquring Laine, Dach plays with Newhook and Anderson or Roy? 2 totally unproven wingers? And people think we are in the mix? That's not our 4th line....it's our 2nd line! Oh and that's disregarding the fact that we still have no idea what Dach can give us....
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People are acting like the team lack a top 6 player to be competitive, but in reality it lack good depth above all else who can replace injuries.
Anderson shouldn't be anywhere near the 2nd line, but here we are one injury into the season.
The Gr8 Dane
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Yeah just like every single team that ever rebuilt lol. Like let's be honnest do people think the cup will be won with Suzuki Caufield Slaf as a first line... let's be realistic. Demidov looks good so I think we are still on a great path here
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I don't. The PP still looks dreadful and now we lost our only acquisition, probably for the year. What a nightmare of a team this decade. It doesn't stop.
In the mix for what?
Before addressing secondary scoring/depth up front, which the Laine trade did on paper, I'd have put us in the WC race IF we had a relatively healthy season... The Laine addition probably pushed that up a bit, his injury -if it is worst case- leaves us back in the same spot.
If this is the start of another injury-ravaged season, then we'll end up selling before the deadline and firmly back in that bottom tier group, loading up our already stacked prospect pool with even more high end talent.
Win-win really.
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Spring in Fialta
A malign star kept him
We need to stop losing at some point. Ending up in the basement again would be a disaster.
Ditto.
We're basically back where we started, minus Harris & some cap flex, + a 2nd.
Sucks because a healthy Laine having a great season would've pushed us a notch higher, but if we can stay relatively healthy (how much sh*t luck can one team have??) our U25 heavy roster should absolutely be performing at a higher level than last season.
Future is (still) bright
I don't know about disaster... But I do agree that the player's & coaches will be in tough to keep a positive mindset if we are out of the playoffs by January again.
Losing long term definitely wears on people.
I do think that in Slaf, Guhle, Suzuki, Caufield, Dach we appear to have a core group with pretty strong mental toughness & resilience... No prima Donna's or me-first guys in the mix helps a lot with this kind of challenge
The Gr8 Dane
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Yeah and Suzuki might be the 1C , don't have a problem with that , we just need some more time , some more homegrown top 6ers , and for our D to grow , it's gonna take some patience
Before the Laine trade, I thought, like many I think, that we were bottom-10 bound, after the trade, thought if healthy he could actually push us on the brink of a playoffs spot... now, well, sdter yesterday, I kind of hope we manage to get in the Martone range...
We all knew Laine was acquired to give the fans something to cheer about this yr. They probably would have flipped him if he panned out in MTL.
And a better bottom 6. I've been complaining about that bottom 6 for 3 years now. It's not depth, it's flawed players who are failling at finding a role/chair except for Evans and Armia.
Roy is a rookie (only 20ish game played), so he gets a bit of pass, but he's going to have to show more if he want to stick around long term too.
The Gr8 Dane
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Yeah but that's the whole thing with the rebuild too , we are carrying corpses of Josh Anderson Brendan Gallagher and Christian Dvorak in the bottom 6 , that's an entire line doing nothing , they have become very vanilla players
Except this guy doesn't even need to be hurt to do nothing when the going gets tough. The leafs ever winning anything is the least of our worries lol
