Post-Game Talk: Wattanite at the Bell Centre, Habs can Cannots in OT!

[FerrisRox]

There was improvements, but still some weird decisions sometimes. Like why bother suiting Pezz if you play him sub 4 minutes, although that might be a message to HuGo...

Are you suggesting it would be better to dress 7 defenseman? To dress one less player than the roster allows?

Dvorak is not an nhler anymore

This is a ridiculous statement.

 

[morhilane]

Are you suggesting it would be better to dress 7 defenseman? To dress one less player than the roster allows?

More that there should be a better way to tell your boss that your 13th forward sucks and that you don't want to play him.

I'm pretty sure MSL would have played 7 Ds if he had another spare D available.

 

[FerrisRox]

Mailloux (it's just not looking good for Logan sadly)

Why isn't it looking good for Logan Mailloux? Based on what?

 

[Runner77]

Remember the quote from Hughes, that told us, that Matheson was a 5 Star Human being......we all kinda laughed a bit, because he was just pimping his old client, but here we are...............bottom line all the Boys want is To Win!!

Yeah but, maybe you’re a 5-Star poster and you don’t know it.

How about that? Winning cures all.

 

[BLONG7]

Yeah but, maybe you’re a 5-Star poster and you don’t know it.

How about that? Winning cures all.

Winning cures all !! Bang on bud!

 

[Gaud]

We only do hyperbolic here.

Slaf sucks. He's not a developing player... he sucks.
Dach is lazy. It has nothing to do with his injury, he has no heart.
Dobbes is the next Price. Montie was never really a starter anyway and this guy's the next one.

I'm being a little hyperbolic myself here but we see a lot of this. I mean that MSL thread was made after three games.

I remember Kovalev would infuriate the fans because he would go 4 games without a point. Next game he scores a goal with his helmet falling off and i still see highlights of him raising his arms in the air, his long hair swaying in the wind, as if he were some god. It doesnt take much to go zero to hero and back.

Just a side note, i think Dobes would be more of a Halak and Fowler more of a Price. I see a "energy and athleticism" vs. "pure technical skills" type of debate coming up between the two, sort of what happened with Halak and Price. Or Maverik and Ice Man

It's what we've said for years. Draft high for an extended period of time. Trade for picks and prospects. Weaponize cap space. Stockpile young talent...

Some won't pan out but some will. Is it luck that we got Hutson at 62? Let's say for the sake of argument that it is. But at the end of the day, when you're constantly getting extra picks, sooner or later some are going to pan out. When you have those extra picks you can take the homerun swings because you've already drafted what you needed.

Look at all of the rebuild teams over the decades. Several picks and many don't work out. But some do. And when you accumulate talent like that, you can then use those non-superstar picks as assets to address other needs. As you said, if RB doesn't work out it won't matter now. Why? Because we have so many assets to trade with that we can just go get what we need. Same with the center position.

Beck, Roy, RB, Mailloux, Demidov, Fowler... that's a hell of a lot of talent coming soon. Again, some may not make it but it doesn't matter. Somebody would trade for any of those prospects. Anyone who says it's luck doesn't know what they're talking about. Lucky to get Demidov at 5th? Okay. But we drafted 1st in a really weak draft... it all evens out. Hutson was a direct result of a trade. Forget 'sake of argument' here. That's not luck.

Pretty much.. we are either at or nearing a point that we have more assets than we can use. That's when the fun starts- when you have 2 contracts to give and 20 assets to fill them with and you can afford to combine them to either clear out space or to combine them and trade up.

 

[Redux91]

That shift by Armia on the Guhle goal
Just.. wow
Someone had brought it up in the thread so I took a look

One of the best shifts I've ever seen in my life lol
Wish I could post a Clip of it
When he plays like that man..