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Post by Willie Dog on Aug 19, 2020 7:47:42 GMT -5
A change or two or three for tomorrow night would certainly not be out of line. I hope Muller has common sense as well as the authority to exercise common sense if he has it. A change or two or three for next season among the winger group on this roster is entirely warranted. Bergevin needs to be honest about everyone he is evaluating, even those guys that he probably to some extent feels connected and bound to. This organization needs a lot of things, sentimentality in decision making is not one of them. Good luck with that... I expect a lineup of vets... I expect no Evans, no Poehling, no Fleury... only KK and Suze...
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Post by The Habitual Fan on Aug 19, 2020 9:25:08 GMT -5
It's hard for me to blame the players ... they hung with the Flyers in Game 1 and took it to them in Game 2 ... now, they're out there busting their butts off, but it hasn't been good enough for the past two games ... I don't have a crystal ball, but I suspect the Flyers would have shutout the Habs, anyway, even if Carey Price had not let in a stinker on the 2nd goal ... like I said, I don't know that for a fact, it's just a hunch given the way the Flyers played ... they're that good ... all that said, I'll take the Habs tomorrow night ... no option but to score some goals ... Cheers. Agreed. The Canadiens were the better team in the first 3 games but as someone on Twitter put it, the 2020 Flyers have turned into the 1995 Devils and they are very good at it. If Montreal can get the first goal then Flyers can't play the trap system all game. The past two games Philly scored first and simply smothered the Habs in the neutral zone. Rightly or wrongly the Habs are built on speed and skill but if you can't get room to skate then you nullify the skill.
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Post by seventeen on Aug 19, 2020 15:00:54 GMT -5
A change or two or three for tomorrow night would certainly not be out of line. I hope Muller has common sense as well as the authority to exercise common sense if he has it. A change or two or three for next season among the winger group on this roster is entirely warranted. Bergevin needs to be honest about everyone he is evaluating, even those guys that he probably to some extent feels connected and bound to. This organization needs a lot of things, sentimentality in decision making is not one of them. Good luck with that. OOps. Didn't see Willie's post above. Consider this an echo.
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Post by seventeen on Aug 19, 2020 15:10:24 GMT -5
Agreed. The Canadiens were the better team in the first 3 games but as someone on Twitter put it, the 2020 Flyers have turned into the 1995 Devils and they are very good at it. If Montreal can get the first goal then Flyers can't play the trap system all game. The past two games Philly scored first and simply smothered the Habs in the neutral zone. Rightly or wrongly the Habs are built on speed and skill but if you can't get room to skate then you nullify the skill. I think this is the teasing part of the team. Over 71 games they weren't very good. They aren't very good. But they tease you for short periods into thinking they are something other than what they are....a team that likely won't make the playoffs next year either. They will be closer, because KK and Suzuki have added a lot of talent to that centre core and Romanov will improve the pairing that he's on. But there are large holes in the line-up. Everything has to go perfectly for them to make the playoffs. Danault-Tatar-Gallagher have to duplicate the year they had, Kulak has to play great. Price has to play great (perhaps the least of the team's worries), Byron has to stay healthy, Drouin needs a desire transplant, etc, etc. The following year, they will definitely be competitive. Juulsen, Fleury, Brook and Norlinder will improve the defense. Primeau will be taking on a bigger role. KK and Suze will be terrors. The new wave will be taking over. But a number of existing veterans will not be as good and we'll be wondering what could have been if some of those guys had been moved earlier and we'd moved up 7 slots in each round in that good 2020 draft. Sigh.
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Post by Willie Dog on Aug 19, 2020 18:24:31 GMT -5
Agreed. The Canadiens were the better team in the first 3 games but as someone on Twitter put it, the 2020 Flyers have turned into the 1995 Devils and they are very good at it. If Montreal can get the first goal then Flyers can't play the trap system all game. The past two games Philly scored first and simply smothered the Habs in the neutral zone. Rightly or wrongly the Habs are built on speed and skill but if you can't get room to skate then you nullify the skill. I think this is the teasing part of the team. Over 71 games they weren't very good. They aren't very good. But they tease you for short periods into thinking they are something other than what they are....a team that likely won't make the playoffs next year either. They will be closer, because KK and Suzuki have added a lot of talent to that centre core and Romanov will improve the pairing that he's on. But there are large holes in the line-up. Everything has to go perfectly for them to make the playoffs. Danault-Tatar-Gallagher have to duplicate the year they had, Kulak has to play great. Price has to play great (perhaps the least of the team's worries), Byron has to stay healthy, Drouin needs a desire transplant, etc, etc. The following year, they will definitely be competitive. Juulsen, Fleury, Brook and Norlinder will improve the defense. Primeau will be taking on a bigger role. KK and Suze will be terrors. The new wave will be taking over. But a number of existing veterans will not be as good and we'll be wondering what could have been if some of those guys had been moved earlier and we'd moved up 7 slots in each round in that good 2020 draft. Sigh. Or MB will trade youth for veteran character because we made the playoffs and anything can happen
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Post by Skilly on Aug 20, 2020 13:13:56 GMT -5
Agreed. The Canadiens were the better team in the first 3 games but as someone on Twitter put it, the 2020 Flyers have turned into the 1995 Devils and they are very good at it. If Montreal can get the first goal then Flyers can't play the trap system all game. The past two games Philly scored first and simply smothered the Habs in the neutral zone. Rightly or wrongly the Habs are built on speed and skill but if you can't get room to skate then you nullify the skill. I think this is the teasing part of the team. Over 71 games they weren't very good. They aren't very good. But they tease you for short periods into thinking they are something other than what they are....a team that likely won't make the playoffs next year either. They will be closer, because KK and Suzuki have added a lot of talent to that centre core and Romanov will improve the pairing that he's on. But there are large holes in the line-up. Everything has to go perfectly for them to make the playoffs. Danault-Tatar-Gallagher have to duplicate the year they had, Kulak has to play great. Price has to play great (perhaps the least of the team's worries), Byron has to stay healthy, Drouin needs a desire transplant, etc, etc. The following year, they will definitely be competitive. Juulsen, Fleury, Brook and Norlinder will improve the defense. Primeau will be taking on a bigger role. KK and Suze will be terrors. The new wave will be taking over. But a number of existing veterans will not be as good and we'll be wondering what could have been if some of those guys had been moved earlier and we'd moved up 7 slots in each round in that good 2020 draft. Sigh. I haven't said it for awhile … this is as good a place as any … development is not linear. Most of those players will regress
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