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Post by Polarice on Jul 13, 2015 9:04:20 GMT -5
Sheldon Souray has announced his retirement, I thought he already did. He was a warrior for the Habs, had one hell of a shot!! Wish him the best!!
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Post by Willie Dog on Jul 13, 2015 10:13:52 GMT -5
How true Reap... best of luck in retirement Sheldon.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Jul 13, 2015 11:00:05 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 13, 2015 11:36:12 GMT -5
He did a lot for the organization ... I remember him jumping on Colby Armstrong when he took out Saku Koivu ... big shot from the point ... went back to wooden sticks when he couldn't stop breaking the composite ones ... good luck to him ...
Cheers.
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Post by frozone on Jul 13, 2015 12:31:38 GMT -5
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Post by blny on Jul 13, 2015 13:09:23 GMT -5
He's been one of those LTIR players. It's unfortunate that his wrist was so fragile towards the end (though I'm not sure that was what ultimately ended things for him).
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Post by Dschens on Jul 13, 2015 16:27:08 GMT -5
Thanks for the links, guys. Best of luck for Sheldon, he was a warrior for us indeed.
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Post by seventeen on Jul 13, 2015 17:54:04 GMT -5
He could probably improve our PP even today. What a rocket....and heavy. I think the combo of he and Markov was our best point pairing.
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Post by Willie Dog on Jul 13, 2015 18:11:32 GMT -5
How long was Souray in MTLbecause he didn't mention them once.
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Post by blny on Jul 13, 2015 18:22:28 GMT -5
He could probably improve our PP even today. What a rocket....and heavy. I think the combo of he and Markov was our best point pairing. Lethal. Combined with quick puck movement from Koivu, Kovalev, and whoever played with them and you had a dynamite pp.
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Post by seventeen on Jul 13, 2015 19:59:40 GMT -5
That memory gave me an idea of one thing Therrien should try this year on the PP. One of the keys to the Markov/Souray pairing was that Souray played high on the point, mid way along the blue line and because he was a left handed shot, Markov could easily feed him for a one timer. I'd try two different combos at the points....Markov with Beaulieu and Petry with PK. Because of their left/left and right/right combinations, they'd have that same ability to get point shots off fast. Beaulieu's shot may not be the equivalent of Sourays, but it's pretty good and he can work on it. Petry can feed PK.
Because of the speed at which they can get off that point shot, it should stretch the defenders a bit, making the cross ice pass that much easier to execute as well.
There ya go. Just hire me Berg.
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Post by blny on Jul 13, 2015 20:26:30 GMT -5
A good idea 17. Can't hurt to try.
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Post by habsorbed on Jul 13, 2015 21:18:51 GMT -5
How long was Souray in MTLbecause he didn't mention them once. His therapist told him to block out all thoughts that may trigger memories of running into Kovy and coughing up the puck for the Bruins OT winner As I recall we did go on to win the series though
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Post by blny on Jul 13, 2015 21:44:05 GMT -5
How long was Souray in MTLbecause he didn't mention them once. He did, but only to say that he'd been traded to them.
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Post by seventeen on Jul 14, 2015 1:59:21 GMT -5
That Spezza highlight gave him PTSD.
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Post by Skilly on Jul 14, 2015 5:21:20 GMT -5
That memory gave me an idea of one thing Therrien should try this year on the PP. One of the keys to the Markov/Souray pairing was that Souray played high on the point, mid way along the blue line and because he was a left handed shot, Markov could easily feed him for a one timer. I'd try two different combos at the points....Markov with Beaulieu and Petry with PK. Because of their left/left and right/right combinations, they'd have that same ability to get point shots off fast. Beaulieu's shot may not be the equivalent of Sourays, but it's pretty good and he can work on it. Petry can feed PK. Because of the speed at which they can get off that point shot, it should stretch the defenders a bit, making the cross ice pass that much easier to execute as well. There ya go. Just hire me Berg. Speed at which they get off that point shot?? Now I know PK can fire it when he wants, the problem is he prefers to play with the puck, go back in forth with Markov, and then only boom it when the whole world knows that's the play. An entire philosophical change on running the PP is needed. Subban needs to change it up. Fire it after only one pass sometimes, work it down low to open the points more, etc ... We've went into this ad nauseum in previous threads. Another thing I believe needs to be done, is shorten Subban's PP shifts. But that's just me.
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Post by franko on Jul 14, 2015 5:51:01 GMT -5
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Jul 14, 2015 7:12:56 GMT -5
That Spezza highlight gave him PTSD. Was at that game, 7 rows up from the ice ... if I recall correctly, Mike Ryder may have opened the scoring and Mike Ribeiro scored two goals ... I remember Jason Spezza turning around Sheldon Souray then faking Jose Theodore out for the game-winner ... it was around the time Souray was going through a marriage breakup and RDS had broke the story that he was a wife-beater ... over that time the jersey just seemed to hang off of him and he was always looked haggard ... all came out in the wash, though ... Cheers.
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Post by seventeen on Jul 14, 2015 12:29:28 GMT -5
Speed at which they get off that point shot?? Now I know PK can fire it when he wants, the problem is he prefers to play with the puck, go back in forth with Markov, and then only boom it when the whole world knows that's the play. An entire philosophical change on running the PP is needed. Subban needs to change it up. Fire it after only one pass sometimes, work it down low to open the points more, etc ... We've went into this ad nauseum in previous threads. Another thing I believe needs to be done, is shorten Subban's PP shifts. But that's just me. Splitting up the Markov/PK combo works to split up the PP time, too I'd think. If the Markov/Beaulieu pairing shows up to be more effective, won't that be a much better incentive for PK to adjust his game than any amount of coaching? No one likes their pride to be bruised.
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