Montreal @ Arizona Monday Dec 19 @ 10 PM ET

[Willie Dog]

Dec 21, 2022 15:28:34 GMT -5 seventeen said:

Dec 21, 2022 12:46:52 GMT -5 folatre said:

My sense is management wants to have a critical mass of players with size and physicality. And for me it is a good thing to have a couple of them be guys who are a little edgy and unpredictable.

Well, we have Drouin and Dadanov and Hoffman for that, do we not?

And Wideman

[Skilly]

I'm not buying the clean hit angle. Cause I'll bet you the farm, when Montreal hits someone clean they'll have to answer the bell. The problem now is that everyone knows no one on Montreal will make anyone pay for hitting a player. This isn't Pezetta, or Armia that is getting hit ....it's Slafkovsky and Caufield and Suzuki. You don't let that go.

Xhekaj is a nice surprise to see him playing so well. But he didn't make this team to pretend to be Scott Niedermayer. Proof of that was his first game, when EVERYONE in the league was talking about him rag dolling a player and saying Montreal is not soft anymore. Well, they look pretty soft to me when they aren't standing up for the future stars. Clean hits or not you don't want them subject to that continual abuse

[jkr]

Ideally a player like a Tom Wilson type is an answer. He's a deterrent that can play. I dont know the league rosters as well as a lot of you here but that kind of guy is hard to find IMO.

I'm not a fan of guys like Reaves but I saw him run roughshod against Detroit about a week ago and the Wings had no real answer even after he ran over Hronek & sent him to the dressing room. His type is an extreme solution but I'm tired of seeing the skill guys get run over & I dont want their careers derailed by concussions etc.

[Willie Dog]

Dec 21, 2022 17:09:35 GMT -5 Skilly said:

I'm not buying the clean hit angle. Cause I'll bet you the farm, when Montreal hits someone clean they'll have to answer the bell. The problem now is that everyone knows no one on Montreal will make anyone pay for hitting a player. This isn't Pezetta, or Armia that is getting hit ....it's Slafkovsky and Caufield and Suzuki. You don't let that go.

Xhekaj is a nice surprise to see him playing so well. But he didn't make this team to pretend to be Scott Niedermayer. Proof of that was his first game, when EVERYONE in the league was talking about him rag dolling a player and saying Montreal is not soft anymore. Well, they look pretty soft to me when they aren't standing up for the future stars. Clean hits or not you don't want them subject to that continual abuse

Other teams come after us when we lay a good body check.... screw it, nail them