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Post by Willie Dog on Aug 29, 2024 16:21:20 GMT -5
Looks like the Sens signed another dickhead... he'll fit in well with tkajerk, and kastelic and the flopper stitzle...
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Aug 29, 2024 17:11:18 GMT -5
Well, at least his chance of getting another ring just went to ZERO! Slimy weasel of a player. Still stuck in our division though.
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Post by folatre on Aug 29, 2024 18:24:11 GMT -5
Whatever, the jackazz is past his prime (not sure his 'prime' was all that special for that matter) and considering all he was looking for was a year at league minimum, it probably speaks volumes about his game and personality that the Panthers did not even want him as a league min vet on their fourth line.
As a funny aside, I remember when my 12 year old son first started playing organized hockey at age six, and one of the volunteer ladies at the association was running through the available numbers with him (all the cool numbers were already gone), so he says okay give me #21 at my urging because I quickly explained to him that Guy Carbonneau (Captain and Cup winner) was one of my five favorite Habs growing up. Then during that first season, he would be allowed to stay up late enough to watch the first period or two and he would hear me griping about Julien and I remember him saying Dad why is #21 so bad out there (lol, Cousins). Thankfully, this iteration of the Montreal Canadiens is gradually setting the world right; now a serious force (Guhle) is wearing that number.
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Post by Cranky on Aug 29, 2024 22:36:13 GMT -5
From what I gather Cousins is a 3rd rate player and a pest.
Habs just call up Little X and let the X bros go to work.
This isn't the Tele-Habbies of old...
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Post by seventeen on Aug 29, 2024 23:22:50 GMT -5
From what I gather Cousins is a 3rd rate player and a pest. Habs just call up Little X and let the X bros go to work. This isn't the Tele-Habbies of old... That is precisely my first thought. Cousins is one of those cowardly dickheads who goes head hunting like Sam Bennett. A thorough tune-up will dispel him of any such thoughts when the Sens play the Habs. |
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Post by Willie Dog on Aug 30, 2024 4:37:35 GMT -5
I'm sure Cousins will fit in with Travis Green style of coaching, play the vets first, play the trap... MTHead like...
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Sept 2, 2024 10:33:51 GMT -5
I love all the Sens fans who are praising all these dirty players and boasting about how their team will be “tougher to play against”. How about they try and make the playoffs? A never ending treadmill of a rebuild it seems. Getting a good goalie will help them, but still not sold on them making the next jump. They continue to underachieve.
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Post by seventeen on Sept 2, 2024 14:11:32 GMT -5
I love all the Sens fans who are praising all these dirty players and boasting about how their team will be “tougher to play against”. How about they try and make the playoffs? A never ending treadmill of a rebuild it seems. Getting a good goalie will help them, but still not sold on them making the next jump. They continue to underachieve. There's a new ownership group, though and one would have thought that Andlauer would have learned something around Molson. I get the feeling Staios is more of a buddy than a truly competent GM. An old school, stay at home defenseman type? |
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 2, 2024 15:35:13 GMT -5
I love all the Sens fans who are praising all these dirty players and boasting about how their team will be “tougher to play against”. How about they try and make the playoffs? A never ending treadmill of a rebuild it seems. Getting a good goalie will help them, but still not sold on them making the next jump. They continue to underachieve. There's a new ownership group, though and one would have thought that Andlauer would have learned something around Molson. I get the feeling Staios is more of a buddy than a truly competent GM. An old school, stay at home defenseman type? They also have old school Green as their coach |
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Post by seventeen on Sept 2, 2024 17:14:39 GMT -5
I guess we're going to have to dress Florian and Mailloux for Sens games.
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Post by Cranky on Sept 2, 2024 17:54:02 GMT -5
Really scared of Hens...
X Brothers, Mailman, Struble, Anderson, Tuch, Pizetta, Dach, Savard, Beck, yes Beck, he dropped them against Little X
...this isn't the TeleHabbies of old.
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Post by folatre on Sept 2, 2024 18:45:13 GMT -5
Cousins is greasy, so sure that counts. But I do not really see how the Sens are tougher than last season. Joseph was actually a fast, physical winger who hit and would also fight on occasion. He is gone. Kastelic was nothing but a fourth liner/13th forward tweener, but he often dropped the gloves. He is in Boston now.
Perron was a good hockey player (not sure he has anything left) and yes he can piss people off (same way the Greig does), but he is not a physical force of any kind. MacEwen was on their team last season, but he is more of an AHL player now than a NHL player and he was scratched more often than he played. That old Jensen dude for their d-corps is not tough. So I guess I am just not seeing how Ottawa got tougher. Just because a coach is a guy that always talks about toughness does not really change the guys who put on the sweater.
Tkachuk is still the principal pugilist for them. Montreal has the Sheriff. So that fight would never even happen. If MacEwen was dressed, he would volunteer, but Xhekaj would pound him. And frankly, the coaches should tell him not to bother much with 12/13th forwards because a d-man who can play 18 minutes a night is too valuable to waste his time on a 5 minute a night AHLer. Sanderson is tough in the way Guhle is tough. Neither club wants them in the penalty box. A long time ago Hamonic was actually a tough customer, but he has had so many upper body injuries, I am not sure nowadays that he is any tougher than Savard. Unlike that Lomberg dude who actually would fight some middle weight types like Pezzetta, Cousins is a weasel (turtled against Gudbranson and Mantha destroyed him), so I imagine after a lot of yapping Cousins would go hide on the bench before dropping with Pezzetta.
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Post by folatre on Sept 3, 2024 19:13:01 GMT -5
Ottawa is an interesting case this season. I know the daggers are not going out for Andlauer, Poulin, or Staois since they only arrived before last season. And Green is new too. However, for Ottawa fans (on a personal level, I actually do not know any) this may not seem fresh anymore because they have missed the playoffs seven consecutive seasons and a good portion of their core are now multiple seasons beyond their ELCs.
It seems Ottawa and Detroit are being forecast as more likely to grab a wild card spot than Buffalo or Montreal. And I can see why because the Senators, among the four trying to break through, arguably have the most talented top-six and the most established goalie (Ullmark won a Vezina did he not).
Yet a closer examination of the Sens roster raises some red flags. For me Ottawa has the least depth (both up front and on the blue line) of the four 'up and coming' teams. If one or two injuries strike, I really do not see easy plug and play solutions for them. Also, their core grew up in the NHL's version of pond hockey where a coach never taught them anything worthwhile, never held anyone accountable, and frankly they got their cookies and subsequently rich long-term contracts without showing any semblance that they understood how to play winning team hockey. How does management and the current coaches get them to unlearn all of the bad habits they developed?
Travis Green is intense and I know talks incessantly about toughness. And not to dump on him, but my recollection of his teams in Vancouver centers on the fact that they were not sound defensively as a team. I know he was coaching sub-optimal rosters there thanks to Jimmy Benning. But a coach that knows how to teach team defense gets more out of a group than he got of those editions of the Canucks. Heck, Lemaire with a shambolic roster on the expansion Wild made them a hard out virtually every night because the guys played the system. Is Green really a 'system' coach? I say no because nothing suggests that he is.
Hockey is debatable. But honestly I see Ottawa missing the playoffs for the 8th straight unless Green truly has remade himself as a coach, Ullmark is a Vezina finalist and they have one of the healthiest rosters in the league this season.
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Post by seventeen on Sept 4, 2024 2:10:49 GMT -5
I keep saying Montreal is going to make it. As Marinaro summarized on a recent show:
Horrible injury season with major number of games missed by Alex Newhook, David Savard, Kirby Dach,Jordan Harris, Arber Xhekaj and Christian Dvorak.
3 goalie system,
Integrating young defensemen
Terrible PP
Poor PK
With all that crap thrust on the team, and the Vegas oddsmakers actually pick them to garner one less point than last year?
They're making the playoffs. Book it.
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Post by franko on Sept 4, 2024 10:09:39 GMT -5
I keep saying Montreal is going to make it. They're making the playoffs. Book it.
But I'm not the only oneyou aren't alone in thinking they'll make it in this year |
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Post by Cranky on Sept 4, 2024 16:39:50 GMT -5
I'm convinced we are going to rise to the lofty height of...mediocrity.
To be clear, mediocrity to me is 90 point season, which is a stepping stone into the peromised land.
We need 3 things to occupy the Promised land
1...Demigod has to be a demigod. At least an point per game top 3.
2...We need a defensive system stitched into their DNA. Loosy goosy is not going to get us a cup.
3...The top 4 has to develop into the top 4. I'm not asking for Bobby Orr reincarnations, Guhle/Rein in McDonough minimums and Mailman/Hutson to be the real deal with at least 60-70 point defenseman.
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Post by seventeen on Sept 4, 2024 21:56:12 GMT -5
So much of the potential improvements this year have been based on the health of the team, goaltending, a better PP the addition of Laine, and potentially Hutson, Reinbacher or Mailloux.
As Cranky points out in point 2, I think how Marty now gets the guys to believe in the hard part of the equation, a disciplined, full of effort defensive system is as important as any of the other points. We've been willing to forgive that part of the game (at least I have to a larger extent than I'd like) because I convinced myself that confidence and development were more important at this stage of their careers. Recess has to be over, now. The fun part is that if you can build that strong structure, you'll score more goals at the other end. You'll have the puck more, you'll get out of your zone easier and faster and you'll frustrate the heck out of the other team. Can Martin St. Louis do that? We shall see.
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Post by Willie Dog on Sept 5, 2024 9:49:43 GMT -5
So much of the potential improvements this year have been based on the health of the team, goaltending, a better PP the addition of Laine, and potentially Hutson, Reinbacher or Mailloux. As Cranky points out in point 2, I think how Marty now gets the guys to believe in the hard part of the equation, a disciplined, full of effort defensive system is as important as any of the other points. We've been willing to forgive that part of the game (at least I have to a larger extent than I'd like) because I convinced myself that confidence and development were more important at this stage of their careers. Recess has to be over, now. The fun part is that if you can build that strong structure, you'll score more goals at the other end. You'll have the puck more, you'll get out of your zone easier and faster and you'll frustrate the heck out of the other team. Can Martin St. Louis do that? We shall see. The fact Marty has buy in from the top line is huge, they are his guys and they will own the room imo, ideally Guhle and X will join those 3 and be united as the leaders going forward. |
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