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Post by NWTHabsFan on Mar 21, 2024 23:33:34 GMT -5
What has happened to RHP since last year? He’s useless this year. Yeah, I think the flash is out and the pan will get replaced with other guys coming up and/or added over the next few seasons. Great story, but he should get passed over at some point. |
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Post by habsorbed on Mar 22, 2024 0:58:35 GMT -5
It is getting harder and harder to watch. The first line is fun as is the PP, mosty of the time. But it is the same old problems over and over. Math on the PP is simply too slow thinking to be a QB. How long can we put up with gally and Josh? The 4th line is so ugly as they are AHLers and will not be part of the team in a few months, better not be! Wouldn't be so bad if Sens could just win a game!  |
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Post by jkr on Mar 22, 2024 5:31:33 GMT -5
how did these morons miss the Blueger elbow on Guhle. The puck was right there. What were they looking at. They dont make the blatant call & it leads to another Vancover goal. Ferraro on Sportsnet PACIFIC was quick to claim that it wasn't penalty because Guhle was making a play on Blueger nit the other way around. Like what??? So, just because you engage with another player, that guy is allowed to elbow you? Since when? Elbowing is a penalty Ferrerro, always has been. |
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Post by Cranky on Mar 22, 2024 6:20:23 GMT -5
It is getting harder and harder to watch. The first line is fun as is the PP, mosty of the time. But it is the same old problems over and over. Math on the PP is simply too slow thinking to be a QB. How long can we put up with gally and Josh? The 4th line is so ugly as they are AHLers and will not be part of the team in a few months, better not be! Wouldn't be so bad if Sens could just win a game! It started with deleting games we lost badly. Then any game we lost. Then watching 10 minute youtubes of games we won. Now, other then visiting here, I don't bother. I still record games in case of an event. How much worse can it get? That is why I'm impatient with perpetual rebuilds. All this is bothering me because I grew up with Habs being "part of my life". |
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Post by Tankdriver on Mar 22, 2024 7:56:52 GMT -5
Well Rome wasn't built in a day? Look at the bad contracts Bergevin left us with and that gives you an idea of how much longer we have of suffering.
I hate buyouts and we are hamstrung with retained salary at the moment. So unless someone has some magic elixir to convince another GM to trade for Gallagher or Anderson, we will just have to be patient a little bit longer.
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Post by habsorbed on Mar 22, 2024 9:37:41 GMT -5
Well Rome wasn't built in a day? Look at the bad contracts Bergevin left us with and that gives you an idea of how much longer we have of suffering. I hate buyouts and we are hamstrung with retained salary at the moment. So unless someone has some magic elixir to convince another GM to trade for Gallagher or Anderson, we will just have to be patient a little bit longer. I'm not blaming HuGo, just saying it's tough to watch and until Josh, Gally and Armia are gone I don't see it getting much better. One of the reasons you don't want your farm team in Laval. You want it in some remote town where player don't want to be to finsh out their career. Right now Gally and Josh are living the good life with millions to spend in La Grande Ville. Some humiliation in some small town may entice them, particularly Gally, to hang 'em up. |
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Post by PTH on Mar 22, 2024 9:49:21 GMT -5
Well Rome wasn't built in a day? Look at the bad contracts Bergevin left us with and that gives you an idea of how much longer we have of suffering. I hate buyouts and we are hamstrung with retained salary at the moment. So unless someone has some magic elixir to convince another GM to trade for Gallagher or Anderson, we will just have to be patient a little bit longer. I'm not blaming HuGo, just saying it's tough to watch and until Josh, Gally and Armia are gone I don't see it getting much better. One of the reasons you don't want your farm team in Laval. You want it in some remote town where player don't want to be to finsh out their career. Right now Gally and Josh are living the good life with millions to spend in La Grande Ville. Some humiliation in some small town may entice them, particularly Gally, to hang 'em up. Gallagher and Anderson wouldn't be so bad on a 4th line... once Ylonen, White and Pearson are gone, those two anchor contracts and Evans can make a nice 4th line. The problem is really getting lines 2 and 3 as well as getting a D-corps that's a tad less green out there, and one that isn't build around Matheson since he is too error-prone to deliver offense on a winning team. |
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Post by Willie Dog on Mar 22, 2024 10:29:54 GMT -5
I'm not blaming HuGo, just saying it's tough to watch and until Josh, Gally and Armia are gone I don't see it getting much better. One of the reasons you don't want your farm team in Laval. You want it in some remote town where player don't want to be to finsh out their career. Right now Gally and Josh are living the good life with millions to spend in La Grande Ville. Some humiliation in some small town may entice them, particularly Gally, to hang 'em up. Gallagher and Anderson wouldn't be so bad on a 4th line... once Ylonen, White and Pearson are gone, those two anchor contracts and Evans can make a nice 4th line. The problem is really getting lines 2 and 3 as well as getting a D-corps that's a tad less green out there, and one that isn't build around Matheson since he is too error-prone to deliver offense on a winning team. Matheson is getting worse as the season wears on, the guy doesn't get physically tired the more you play him but he does get mentally tired, the friggin mistakes he makes are rookie level... and others teams have learned if you pressure him on the PP he's done... please try Arber on PP1 please, better shot, better vision... if they want to keep Matheson on, then go with CC-SUZE-SLAF Math-X Put Newhook on PP2, they usually get only 20 seconds |
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Post by seventeen on Mar 22, 2024 13:43:09 GMT -5
Matheson has been overplayed and is, I believe, 3rd on the list of matchups vs the toughest opposition, in the entire league. So he and Guhle are always up against the top lines of each team, which means they may be overmatched at times and they're playing more than they should. Each of those leads to poor results. You could certainly see it last night. Guhle was manhandled by Nils Hoglander on one play. That doesn't happen if Guhle is at 100%. Worse, he took some beatings and didn't get up angry and wallop someone.
These, and other signals, tell me the team sees the finish line and just wants to run out the string. It's been a trying season and some progress has been made. Newhook looks like he'll be a good scoring winger where he'll be able to use that speed. Suzuki has proven to everyone that he's a #1 centre. Caufield is slowly working through the rehab on his shoulder and though his goal scoring is down, his overall scoring is up. Slaf has shown he can dominate at times and in the 21 games since Jan 25th, has put up .9 ppg, an outstanding figure for a 19 year old. Xhekaj has toned down some of his mistake-ness and has become more disciplined. Struble has moved up. Harris has shown himself to be a stable, dependable dman. The situation in goal has been resolved and Primeau has leapt a rung, IMO. So, if you take a step back, a lot of good things have happened.
On the minus side, the Dach injury and now the Roy injury are extremely disappointing, repeating the bad luck from last year. Our depth has been sorely tested and it's been proven we need more than 1 1/2 lines. $12MM being eaten up by Anderson and Gallagher isn't going to be resolved soon. As PTH says, we have to put them on the 4th line and suffer through it. I think Gallagher could be ok there, but have no such faith in Anderson. The usual teats on a bull. The bottom line on him will have to be a demotion to Laval or a buyout in a year or two when the pain will be lessened.
The next two drafts will be important both for improving the depth and hopefully, getting one more top 6 forward. The improvement in guys like Kapanen (see the Prospects page) and Filip Eriksson can boost the depth quickly. Beck will be great on the 3rd line and there's still hope for Luke Tuch as well. Patience is really important. These things aren't all going to come together until the 2025/26 season at the earliest and it might be the season after that. But at that point, this team is going to be seriously dangerous. There will be a lot of talent, grit, enough size and plenty of character and team togetherness, all factors that create champions.
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Post by folatre on Mar 23, 2024 17:40:39 GMT -5
Well, the game started bright enough. The boys were strong over the initial 7-8 minutes -- skating, getting on pucks, transitioning decently. Then, as good teams on home ice generally do, the Canucks woke up and started taking away time and space.
It was a lack of attention to detail (coaching staff shuffle?) that gave Vancouver the long 5v3, which the Habs killed off masterfully. It was too bad that Gallagher blew the partial breakaway coming out of the box. It was a Canuck-Hab double screen that left Montembeault blind in the crease on the first goal. The bogus interference call on Guhle made no sense; Miller did not have anything like a scoring chance. And what to say about the non-call on the elbow to Guhle's face. I jumped up and started yelling (jeje regular occurrence watching Habs games in my youth) and my wife appeared seconds later with a disapproving look. I was really miffed that neither Gallagher (closest mate to the greasy hit) nor the other trio (Anderson, Evans, Matheson) on the ice did not jump on Blueger.
I get it that later, after the fact, Blueger and other rats like Garland and Lafferty had multiple invitations to dance with Pezzetta and Xhekaj, but hey the Canucks were comfortably in the lead and obviously dudes are subconsciously at least thinking meh I am not risking my health with the playoffs less than a month away. Anyway, memo to Hughes and St. Louis, Montreal needs more (not less) team toughness as part of the culture you are building.
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Post by Cranky on Mar 23, 2024 18:00:01 GMT -5
Well, the game started bright enough. The boys were strong over the initial 7-8 minutes -- skating, getting on pucks, transitioning decently. Then, as good teams on home ice generally do, the Canucks woke up and started taking away time and space. It was a lack of attention to detail (coaching staff shuffle?) that gave Vancouver the long 5v3, which the Habs killed off masterfully. It was too bad that Gallagher blew the partial breakaway coming out of the box. It was a Canuck-Hab double screen that left Montembeault blind in the crease on the first goal. The bogus interference call on Guhle made no sense; Miller did not have anything like a scoring chance. And what to say about the non-call on the elbow to Guhle's face. I jumped up and started yelling (jeje regular occurrence watching Habs games in my youth) and my wife appeared seconds later with a disapproving look. I was really miffed that neither Gallagher (closest mate to the greasy hit) nor the other trio (Anderson, Evans, Matheson) on the ice did not jump on Blueger. I get it that later, after the fact, Blueger and other rats like Garland and Lafferty had multiple invitations to dance with Pezzetta and Xhekaj, but hey the Canucks were comfortably in the lead and obviously dudes are subconsciously at least thinking meh I am not risking my health with the playoffs less than a month away. Anyway, memo to Hughes and St. Louis, Montreal needs more (not less) team toughness as part of the culture you are building.Man hug?  I like Pezzetta but I'm hoping X Junior surpasses him and I hope that with Mailman in the mix, plus maybe another nasty forward, there will be a lot of guys ready, willing and able to take care of business. We better have because Hutson and CC WILL be targets unless we get a reputation for spilling a bit of blood. |
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