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Post by Cranky on Sept 3, 2024 20:13:23 GMT -5
BTW...I was reading The Hockey News Yearbook. X had the 3rd fastest shot in the NHL at 102.23 mph. It must of been during the game.
He won't be his strongest self until mid and
late 20s so he may have the hardest shot in the NHL before long.
Now try to imagine Mailman breaking in and passing back to X, who proceeds to blast it through the goalie.
How about them apples!
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 3, 2024 20:58:17 GMT -5
BTW...I was reading The Hockey News Yearbook. X had the 3rd fastest shot in the NHL at 102.23 mph. It must of been during the game. He won't be his strongest self until mid and late 20s so he may have the hardest shot in the NHL before long. Now try to imagine Mailman breaking in and passing back to X, who proceeds to blast it through the goalie. How about them apples! X hit 107 at the Habs skills competition |
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Post by Cranky on Sept 3, 2024 22:45:24 GMT -5
X hit 107 at the Habs skills competition That's Weber territory. Now I'm really excited to see Mailman and X together. We may have something spectacular in the making. Imagine Weber getting fed by Josi...and blasting 107mph canon shots. |
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Post by habsorbed on Sept 4, 2024 9:58:48 GMT -5
X hit 107 at the Habs skills competition That's Weber territory. Now I'm really excited to see Mailman and X together. We may have something spectacular in the making. Imagine Weber getting fed by Josi...and blasting 107mph canon shots. Wow! I didn't think Cranky people were allowed to dream, or even imagine positive outcomes  |
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 4, 2024 10:32:40 GMT -5
That's Weber territory. Now I'm really excited to see Mailman and X together. We may have something spectacular in the making. Imagine Weber getting fed by Josi...and blasting 107mph canon shots. Wow! I didn't think Cranky people were allowed to dream, or even imagine positive outcomes If X and Mailloux are put together I see a name change coming... I should start a thread where we guess what Crankys name will become if they are put together... I would say a good new name would be "amicable"... lol |
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Post by Cranky on Sept 4, 2024 12:43:43 GMT -5
If X and Mailloux are put together I see a name change coming... I should start a thread where we guess what Crankys name will become if they are put together... I would say a good new name would be "amicable"... lol Wow! I didn't think Cranky people were allowed to dream, or even imagine positive outcomes I'm telling my mom that I'm getting picked on... Oh c'mon, tell me that you don't want to see a prime BigBird and Savard or prime Weber and Scott Stevens wreaking teams. X and Mailman have the size and meaness to do that. |
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 4, 2024 12:56:54 GMT -5
If X and Mailloux are put together I see a name change coming... I should start a thread where we guess what Crankys name will become if they are put together... I would say a good new name would be "amicable"... lol Wow! I didn't think Cranky people were allowed to dream, or even imagine positive outcomes I'm telling my mom that I'm getting picked on... Oh c'mon, tell me that you don't want to see a prime BigBird and Savard or prime Weber and Scott Stevens wreaking teams. X and Mailman have the size and meaness to do that. You won't get any disagreement from me, but the UberCranky awakening has been a wonderful sight... lol |
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Post by Habs_fan_in_LA on Sept 4, 2024 16:47:41 GMT -5
I'm telling my mom that I'm getting picked on... Oh c'mon, tell me that you don't want to see a prime BigBird and Savard or prime Weber and Scott Stevens wreaking teams. X and Mailman have the size and meaness to do that. You won't get any disagreement from me, but the UberCranky awakening has been a wonderful sight... lol It’s difficult to build a team based upon Uber talent. The broad street bullies and a Cashman, Hodge Espo built cup teams by intimidating as well as banging and scoring. We have the big strong guys who play regular shifts and are on the ice making room for our speedy snipers. Good job HuGo. |
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Post by Tankdriver on Sept 4, 2024 22:07:06 GMT -5
A little under the radar but Mailloux changed his number to #24. I'd take a Chelios on this team with Xhekaj
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 5, 2024 8:25:56 GMT -5
A little under the radar but Mailloux changed his number to #24. I'd take a Chelios on this team with Xhekaj A great number for him, chelios took no Saperlipopette |
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Post by habsorbed on Sept 5, 2024 9:53:57 GMT -5
A little under the radar but Mailloux changed his number to #24. I'd take a Chelios on this team with Xhekaj A great number for him, chelios took no Saperlipopette One of the all-time great NHL hi-lites is the Hextall meltdown. Hard to believe the guy became a gm - not a good one but that was a little more than throwing a water bottle. |
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Post by jkr on Sept 5, 2024 10:43:41 GMT -5
A little under the radar but Mailloux changed his number to #24. I'd take a Chelios on this team with Xhekaj Yay. I'm a "hockey" number traditionalist. Pretty sure that was his number in London. Not sure what he wore in Laval. |
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Post by jkr on Sept 5, 2024 10:47:51 GMT -5
A great number for him, chelios took no Saperlipopette One of the all-time great NHL hi-lites is the Hextall meltdown. Hard to believe the guy became a gm - not a good one but that was a little more than throwing a water bottle. I think that was supposed to be payback for a hit Chelios put on Propp earlier in the series. Chelios had the last laugh as Hextall ended up with a suspension to start the next season. |
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 5, 2024 20:29:23 GMT -5
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Post by Cranky on Sept 5, 2024 23:20:08 GMT -5
A little under the radar but Mailloux changed his number to #24. I'd take a Chelios on this team with Xhekaj If Màilman said that he took 24 to honour and surpass Chelios, upon reading that, I would need a defibrillator hooked up to high voltage power lines... |
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 8, 2024 17:17:07 GMT -5
Arber beating up a Sens ahl player... he's good at that!
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Post by habsgoalie27 on Sept 8, 2024 18:23:57 GMT -5
love it, we need protection for our smaller players
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Oct 1, 2024 20:38:34 GMT -5
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Post by Skilly on Oct 1, 2024 22:03:01 GMT -5
This is the fallacy of the "deterrent" model. Xhekaj can't be a deterrent if he is off the ice or in the press box What we need is pack mentality, not a player always in the penalty box or ejected from games. Did Xhekaj's jumping Pare stop Grieg? No. Did taking out Stutzle and Tkachuk stop them? Yep. You need to target the right players to stop them from taking liberties. But to do that, we also need a strong PK. |
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Post by seventeen on Oct 1, 2024 23:50:46 GMT -5
This is the fallacy of the "deterrent" model. Xhekaj can't be a deterrent if he is off the ice or in the press box What we need is pack mentality, not a player always in the penalty box or ejected from games. Did Xhekaj's jumping Pare stop Grieg? No. Did taking out Stutzle and Tkachuk stop them? Yep. You need to target the right players to stop them from taking liberties. But to do that, we also need a strong PK. The strategy is right, but as you say, Arber can't be the only guy doing it. It's easy for the refs to target him, but if the whole team is doing it... Just imagine if Caufield had nailed Stutzle like that. Refs would go,"Caufield? must be a hockey play or at worst 2 minutes". |
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Post by Polarice on Oct 2, 2024 5:28:27 GMT -5
The reason why the refs keep kicking him out of games, is that they are not doing their jobs properly. If they made the right calls in both games he wouldn't have taken it upon himself to seek justice. When the league hands out discipline they should be looking at the refs asking themselves themselves what they could have done to prevent vigilantly justice from taking place. You can't always put the blame on players for taking justice when the refs ignore the rules. |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Oct 2, 2024 9:30:47 GMT -5
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Post by habsorbed on Oct 2, 2024 9:55:36 GMT -5
Does look like there is no head contact until after Arber's body/shoulder is past Stutz head, and then we see Stutz's hands and stick come up. Sure hope the league sees it that way. Kepp in mind the call was interference not hit to the head so lots of ways this could play out. |
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Post by frozone on Oct 2, 2024 10:58:22 GMT -5
This is the fallacy of the "deterrent" model. Xhekaj can't be a deterrent if he is off the ice or in the press box What we need is pack mentality, not a player always in the penalty box or ejected from games. Did Xhekaj's jumping Pare stop Grieg? No. Did taking out Stutzle and Tkachuk stop them? Yep. You need to target the right players to stop them from taking liberties. But to do that, we also need a strong PK. I agree 100% on needing the pack mentality. I’ll add that even the teams who bring that mentality often have a top dog. For us, that’s Xhekaj. And in that role I think he could use a bit of coaching. Don’t get me wrong, his instincts are great. He was right that Pare needed a tune up. He was right to send a message to the Sens that Stutzle isn’t safe. But he’ll need to learn how to execute better so that he’s not always getting the boot. Ie, continue to beat the snot out of people but also learn to manage the penalty situation. For example, he could have just pinned Pare to the boards and told him that he wouldn’t let him take another stride until he dropped his gloves. |
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Post by jkr on Oct 2, 2024 11:27:07 GMT -5
Your right that refs play a part. If Pare had been given 5 and a game the beatdown doesnt happen.
And as Skilly pointed out last night, where is the consistancy? Xhekaj jumps Pare and gets 2, 5 & a game misconduct. Tkachuk jumps Xhekaj and gets a minor. Same offence ; a slap on the wrist.
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Post by seventeen on Oct 2, 2024 11:33:34 GMT -5
I haven't seen the presser myself but I understand that today, MSL described Arber's hit as 'just making a hockey play' and that because of his size he hits harder. Marty said he'll have a talk with him about how to use his size.
The way I read that is that Marty is thrilled Arber sent the message but that he simply needs to be smarter about how to intimidate.
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Post by Polarice on Oct 2, 2024 12:30:30 GMT -5
I haven't seen the presser myself but I understand that today, MSL described Arber's hit as 'just making a hockey play' and that because of his size he hits harder. Marty said he'll have a talk with him about how to use his size. The way I read that is that Marty is thrilled Arber sent the message but that he simply needs to be smarter about how to intimidate. This is the time of year Wifi needs to send a message. The games mean nothing, no one care the Habs gave up 3 goals on the 5 minute PP, what they care about is that Ottawa was running around taking cheap shots at our players and Arber sent a very powerful message. I bet a toonie it won't happen next game. |
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Post by seventeen on Oct 2, 2024 12:50:36 GMT -5
I haven't seen the presser myself but I understand that today, MSL described Arber's hit as 'just making a hockey play' and that because of his size he hits harder. Marty said he'll have a talk with him about how to use his size. The way I read that is that Marty is thrilled Arber sent the message but that he simply needs to be smarter about how to intimidate. This is the time of year Wifi needs to send a message. The games mean nothing, no one care the Habs gave up 3 goals on the 5 minute PP, what they care about is that Ottawa was running around taking cheap shots at our players and Arber sent a very powerful message. I bet a toonie it won't happen next game. I was speculating myself not just on next game, but how our injury situation will be this whole season. The shenanigans with TO and Ottawa won't go unnoticed around the league. |
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Post by Cranky on Oct 2, 2024 13:36:26 GMT -5
The problem is not X doing what he is suppose to do. The problems is DIRECTLY with Condotta and Tuch no dealing with it with nastiness, then Pizza, Mailman and Barron stepping up physically. So what if Mailman is pulled out of position to deliver a crushing blow, it's preseason...UNLESS players feel Marty will mark it against them.
This is where coaching plays an enormous part of what happens on the ice. Players NEVER feared that Bowman/Blake/Burns would hold the rough stuff against players. The mid 70's team would go to war to the man and THAT would not happen by accident or without consent from Bowman.
Team toughness starts at the top...
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Post by Willie Dog on Oct 2, 2024 14:44:33 GMT -5
Greig has the nerve to call the hit on Stutzle dirty, what a D-bag. Looks like the Diving Stutz, tkajerk and Chabot got injured in the game, tkajerk has an upper body injury when Arber drove him to the ice.
Love it
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