First, this is mostly BS. Secondly in the case where it's true (Eller) it's because our coach if a freaking moron.
wow...compelling argument here. I guess there's nothing left for me to say.
He's a solid two way guy with passing skills.
Agreed...doesn't change what I wrote (although i'm not sure I agree he's that great of a passer).
Not sure I understand the point...Markov's in a steep decline and he's #2 on our depth chart. That shows how rotten the core of this team is. There's too much deadwood and again, i'm saying that with all due respect to Markov who i'm a big fan of, but he's got no business being the #2 dman on a team with any aspirations for success - and by success, I mean championship success.Declining or not, the transition game is gone. Even Subban looks lost lately.
BS on this. Both Gallagher and Galchenyuk are great players and were producing very well with Eller. Gallagher in particular creates a lot more offense than his points would suggest.
Galchenyuk & Gallagher are GREAT players? Hmmmm...not sure I want to get into a semantics debate with you, I think Galchenyuk & Gallagher are two excellent young up and coming players, but they're not exactly 'great' at this point in their career. Another example of Habs fans overrating their team. In a couple of years, I expect them to be considered great players (more so Galchenyuk than Gallagher who I think is going to be an excellent complimentary player), but not now.
He can be a solid number 2 center with the right linemates. He's not good enough to put up numbers with Prust, Parros, Bourque, White or whatever other grinder MT wants to put with him.
That's great, Eller CAN be a solid number 2 center with the right linemates...but i'm not talking about fantasy world here, reality is he's a #3 center on this team with his current linemates. Evaluate this team as it is, not as you hope it will be in a not-too-distant future
The coaching staff has done an atrocious job with this roster. At the start of the year we had a couple of hot lines with Max out. Then we decided (for no reason) to be a grinding team and switched everything aroudn to get DD (who shouldn't be on the roster) going. We shelter lesser players like Murray, Bouillion and DD and then wonder why were at the bottom of Goals For and slip in the standings.
The coaching staff has done an atrocious job...yet last year they won the division, the year after finishing last and this year they're sitting in a playoff spot. The coaching staff has it's fault, but saying they've done an atrocious job just makes no sense at all.
If Murray is a defensive blueliner for example, why do we keep giving him offensive zone starts? Makes zero sense. Why did we keep putting Bouillion on the PP? Why the **** do we have DD with Max?
I don't think Murray is a defensive blueliner...his role isn't to shut down opposing players. His role to to provide a physical element to our very meek blueline, clear the crease, defend his teamates and goalies and put an element of doubt into opposing forwards - now does he do all of this effectively, absolutely not, but why don't we evaluate him for what he's supposed to be doing, not providing dumb *** heat map charts which show what anyone who watches hockey regularly already knows - that Douglas Murray is not a very good hockey player. This however, doesn't mean he can't be useful in certain and specific situations
Lines should be something like:
Max Plek Gionta
EGG
Bournival Briere Prust
Grinder line
Instead everything is inside out...
Let me know when you're done playing "shuffle the deck chairs on the Titanic" and let me know how all of that works out.
People thinking line compositions, is the reason why we can't score more than 1 or 2 goals per game are simply clueless to what's going on.
He's the epitome of what's wrong with this team. There's nothing wrong with this roster that couldn't be fixed with a new coach. Ridiculous to bench (and then trade) Diaz when we've got Murray out there....
YES we have big holes on this team. But our coaching staff is making things worse not better
a guy who barely plays is the epitome of what's wrong with this team...
Man...I don't know what to say anymore. lol this has got to be a joke
Talk about 'missing the forrest for the trees'