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[Willie Dog]

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[drkcloud]

To me, they're punishing the wrong player but whatever. Ar least he'll be around an actual coach in Vincent.

Hopefully this means Guhle is back but more likely vanilla ( does nothing particularly well) Justin Barron.

Another top 10 pick coming

[Willie Dog]

Oct 30, 2024 13:41:35 GMT -5 drkcloud said:

To me, they're punishing the wrong player but whatever. Ar least he'll be around an actual coach in Vincent.

Hopefully this means Guhle is back but more likely vanilla ( does nothing particularly well) Justin Barron.

Another top 10 pick coming

The hype around Barron was just that... Hype

[Cranky]

You can't put Mailman and X together. It's like putting a one eyed man with a one eyed man and expecting stereo vision.

Both of them make mistakes coming out of their wazoo. Both need to play with a Savard or Guhle, neiher is going to develop any time soon at this rate.

We just can't ignore Maiman lost 3 years of development and X wasn't even drafted.

Last night they both proved stupidity level that needs erasing. X passed the puck and it was intercepted, IF Mailman was much further back along the backboards, X would of had more room to flip it to him instead of a low trajectory pass that was intercepted. Dummy 1 and Dummy 2. My big question is, are they getting coached about the devil of the details? This kind of thinking and a million other details isn't slapping them in the face and they need to learn it, which will take time.

This is the kind of in game stuff that a veteran like Weber or Markov could communicate...instead of those two trying to see the game with...one eye each.

Lastly, as a package, neither Struble or Barron can match Mailmans overall ability, but Mailman gets the boot. Because they can.

[folatre]

Mailloux was picking up points here and there. But, yeah, overall he was struggling defensively -- issues with spacing for D-to-D passes as Cranky pointed out, issues with chasing the puck out high and not managing to kill the play which leaves a big hole underneath, the misreads on some pinches.

Struble has nowhere near the ceiling of Mailloux (and by the way Struble is still waiver exempt), but the decision-makers see him as a safer play right now.

Xhekaj was bad against the Kraken, but he was coming off a positive weekend and management probably thinks (I certainly do) that a tough guy on the roster is a requisite for a young team. So he is not going down at this point.

I actually do not have a big problem with the way Barron has played. He has offensive flair on occasion. He has shown better timing in terms of how to dish out some physical pain. But he is still slow to read and react when the opponent gets the cycle going. I am not suggesting that he is an undisputed lock; sure, he could sit in the press box some nights. And Hughes will be getting a better sense of whether Barron is a keeper or just a young RHD to trade. Liljegren (with a much bigger cap hit that depressed his market value) got traded today for a 3rd and a 6th, so I would think that is the absolute floor of a return that Montreal could get for Barron.

The young d-corps is a work in progress, and the growing pains seem to be aggravated by the coach insisting on a hybrid marking system where guys have to think too much to execute.