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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Nov 18, 2024 12:18:02 GMT -5
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Post by Cranky on Nov 18, 2024 14:56:10 GMT -5
The odds of winning this one is about the same as me birthing triplets. But...ya never know fer sure.
I fully support X smiling at McJesus and asking how are his knees. Ya'know, in a friendly, concerned wolfy kind'a way. Nicholson smile optional...
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Post by seventeen on Nov 18, 2024 15:10:35 GMT -5
The odds of winning this one is about the same as me birthing triplets. But...ya never know fer sure. So....have you picked out names yet? |
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Post by Cranky on Nov 18, 2024 15:29:00 GMT -5
Rover, Boxer and Skippy...
(My father named his hunting dog...Lemaire)
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Post by folatre on Nov 18, 2024 19:08:40 GMT -5
Oddly, Montreal's special teams are outperforming Edmonton's in this still early season. However, something tells me the Habs would do well to stay out of the box tonight. The Oilers are running a rag tag d-corps (look at some of these names: Stecher, Emberson, Josh Brown, Dermott), so it would behoove Montreal to step on the accelerator at even strength and see which of those guys fumble and buckle.
By the way, I cannot believe it is almost the quarter mark of the season and neither Dach or Newhook is playing down the middle.
I am also surprised Barron is coming out. I thought he played a simple, quiet game against Columbus.
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Post by IamCanadiens on Nov 18, 2024 19:53:06 GMT -5
Oddly, Montreal's special teams are outperforming Edmonton's in this still early season. However, something tells me the Habs would do well to stay out of the box tonight. The Oilers are running a rag tag d-corps (look at some of these names: Stecher, Emberson, Josh Brown, Dermott), so it would behoove Montreal to step on the accelerator at even strength and see which of those guys fumble and buckle. I thought both pp units moved the puck very well against cbus. That said when the Oil have their pp going their puck movement is incredible. |
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Post by folatre on Nov 18, 2024 20:08:11 GMT -5
McDavid's line is dominating possession thus far. However, I think the penalty was a hey let's just give the superstar a call type thing. McDavid did not have the puck and Anderson did not impede his path to the net, so it was a lot of meh in my book.
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Post by Andrew on Nov 18, 2024 20:09:57 GMT -5
Sigh. Guhle can't stay healthy. If he's out for 6+ weeks with a broken hand then we're finishing bottom 3 for sure this year.
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Nov 18, 2024 20:23:36 GMT -5
The boys back on the heels a bit.
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Post by IamCanadiens on Nov 18, 2024 20:28:44 GMT -5
They're going to get burnt if they keep taking penalties
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Post by folatre on Nov 18, 2024 20:30:20 GMT -5
Hyman was being cagey. He just moved the puck a second before the Sheriff blew him up and he stands up and acts like the puck was never part of the play.
Montreal is struggling. The Oilers are fast (they are actually not overall a fast team) but they are because then they constantly possess the puck and sling it around, it makes the Habs look incredibly slow and disorganized. In reality, the Habs are not one of the slowest teams in the league, but when the d-system is a mystery to most of the guys trying to execute it, things get ugly rather easily and to the nth power against elite talents like McDavid and Draisaitl.
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Post by CentreHice on Nov 18, 2024 20:36:29 GMT -5
Hyman was being cagey. He just moved the puck a second before the Sheriff blew him up and he stands up and acts like the puck was never part of the play. Montreal is struggling. The Oilers are fast (they are actually not overall a fast team) but they are because then they constantly possess the puck and sling it around, it makes the Habs look incredibly slow and disorganized. In reality, the Habs are not one of the slowest teams in the league, but when the d-system is a mystery to most of the guys trying to execute it, things get ugly rather easily and to the nth power against elite talents like McDavid and Draisaitl. MSL has had enough of a sample to realize that their defensive zone coverage--be it fully zone, fully man-to-man, or hybrid man-to-man down low/zone up high--ain't working. What systems are SUCCESSFUL teams using? How difficult can that process of elimination be? |
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 20:43:18 GMT -5
Hyman was being cagey. He just moved the puck a second before the Sheriff blew him up and he stands up and acts like the puck was never part of the play. Montreal is struggling. The Oilers are fast (they are actually not overall a fast team) but they are because then they constantly possess the puck and sling it around, it makes the Habs look incredibly slow and disorganized. In reality, the Habs are not one of the slowest teams in the league, but when the d-system is a mystery to most of the guys trying to execute it, things get ugly rather easily and to the nth power against elite talents like McDavid and Draisaitl. MSL has had enough of a sample to realize that their defensive zone coverage--be it fully zone, fully man-to-man, or hybrid man-to-man down low/zone up high--ain't working. What systems are SUCCESSFUL teams using? How difficult can that process of elimination be? MSL is like a RUSH song... Conform or be cast out... he ain't changing the system... |
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Post by folatre on Nov 18, 2024 20:44:21 GMT -5
Good questions, CH. Look, I do not doubt that Paul Maurice and Laviolette make the hybrid system work nicely with the excellent, veteran groups that they has coached over the last decade. And the cherry on top is that those gentlemen have been coaching it for years so young guys get taught by a master.
As far as I know, St. Louis never played in this system and he has simply grown fond of it by watching teams like the Panthers and the Rangers. So Montreal is in a tough spot. The team is very young. The coach is very inexperienced and never served on the staff of a sage old coach who showed him how to teach it.
In my mind, there is no question Montreal would be far better off playing a zone system.
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 20:48:14 GMT -5
Guhle back
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Post by Cranky on Nov 18, 2024 20:56:07 GMT -5
I'm not 100% certain but it looks like they can play zone better then man/man.
In one sequence they played man/man and the oily ones were running them raggad. Looked like ring around the roses.
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Post by folatre on Nov 18, 2024 20:57:33 GMT -5
Dach just chipped the puck in the neutral zone and two seconds later got checked by an Oiler, he should have taken a page of the Hymen thespian playbook and fallen down and looked at the ref like hey man that's interference help me out here.
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 20:58:20 GMT -5
We have 8 penalties... jeebus, that's almost a whole period shorthanded
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Post by Skilly on Nov 18, 2024 20:59:28 GMT -5
What has happened with Jake Evans. He gets sprung on a rush at the end of a PK. He could have drove the net or fired a shot (no one was really on him), but instead he puts on the breaks as he crosses the blueline and makes a pass into traffic ... the team really has lost its heart
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:00:33 GMT -5
What has happened with Jake Evans. He gets sprung on a rush at the end of a PK. He could have drove the net or fired a shot (no one was really on him), but instead he puts on the breaks as he crosses the blueline and makes a pass into traffic ... the team really has lost its heart They're always looking to pass... |
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:02:58 GMT -5
I guess hugo have put the word out, there's a fire sale on vets because there are a bunch of GMs in the building
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:08:37 GMT -5
Slaf and Cole with Evans... are you Saperlipopettetin me?
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Nov 18, 2024 21:11:59 GMT -5
2 shots in the second. Hmmm
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:12:16 GMT -5
Why when they have the puck and can skate it into the O zone, they instead shoot it in and lose possession?
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Post by Skilly on Nov 18, 2024 21:13:41 GMT -5
Are they all allergic to shooting?
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Post by NWTHabsFan on Nov 18, 2024 21:18:20 GMT -5
Gally!!
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:19:16 GMT -5
Bgal baaaby
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Post by Willie Dog on Nov 18, 2024 21:19:51 GMT -5
Trade Matheson Now!!!
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Post by Skilly on Nov 18, 2024 21:26:30 GMT -5
Brendan Gallagher's goal is his 226th career goal
Moves him past Stephane Richer (225) and into a tie with Max Pacioretty for 18th on the Habs all time list
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Post by Skilly on Nov 18, 2024 21:30:41 GMT -5
Matheson's assist is his 109th point as a Hab. Ties him with Mark Streit for 34th on the Habs all time defense scoring list
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