Some alarming quotes

[Lupien]

Did any of you read some of the quotes being spewed following last night's hockey game? Check it out:

www.habsrus.com/leafsathabs.htm

Pretty alarming isn't it?


Lupe

[clear observer]

Thanks for the promo Lupe!

Ya, a couple of them were kind of eye-opening. In particular I thought that MT's "We set the tempo in this game" was a bit odd. If sitting back on your heels and throwing the puck out off the glass is "temp-setting", well, as Dis would say, "gag me with a fork".

MT's on-the-job-training has and is going no-where.

Have a good one bud. Hope your hang-over is going well...hehe.


CO

[MPLABBE]

LOL! MT is killing me.Nice tempo to a game..

[Cranky]

"We were much better tonight than last night," said Montreal coach Michel Therrien, whose team was beaten in Buffalo on Friday, 3-0. "We battled with a real effort. We set the tempo in this game. Toronto's a tough team. It's not always easy, but I get a lot of satisfaction out of a game like this. We were in the battle all night."

I chose brown to highlite this. Don't ask why. Please.

[BadCompany]

HabsAddict said:

"We were much better tonight than last night," said Montreal coach Michel Therrien, whose team was beaten in Buffalo on Friday, 3-0. "We battled with a real effort. We set the tempo in this game. Toronto's a tough team. It's not always easy, but I get a lot of satisfaction out of a game like this. We were in the battle all night."

I chose brown to highlite this. Don't ask why. Please.

First of all, I only saw the 1st period, so take everything I say with that in mind.

However, is it not possible that Therrien's game plan, his "setting of the tempo" was indeed to slow the game down, turn it into a boring, dump-it-off-the-glass, neutral zone snoozer? I mean, lets face it, we aren't the greatest offensive team in the universe. The Leafs had what? 27 shots? Considering some of the other artillery barrages we have forced our goalies to endure (like Hackett's 39 shot shelling the other day), 27 has got to be considered some sort of moral victory, no?

We earned a tie with a team that is much better than us, even with all their current injuries. In fact, I would say that the Leafs, with all their injuries, look an awful lot like the Habs do. Each team has one superstar (Sundin and Theodore), each team has a suspect defence that plays better than the sum of its parts and each team has a collection of rejects, projects and 3rd liners for its forward corps (Juneau, Green, Tucker, Corson, Perrault, Gilmour, Hoglund, etc. etc..). In fact, there were what? 7 players who had played for both teams on the ice last night? (Gilmour, Perrault, Berezin, Tucker, Corson, Lumme, Hoglund)

No wonder the game was a tie.

One thing I did notice though, was that Arron Asham had a great first shift, threw some big hits, stole the puck and created a scoring chance all by himself. Still, he only got 5 minutes of ice time, by far the least amount of any player. Was he hurt?   (I already know the answer, I am being sarcastic)

[seventeen]

BC, I'd much rather have the Leafs defense than ours.  Kaberle is better than any our players.  Berg is big enough and skates well enough to take on big guys.  Our biggest guy, Quintal, is most adept at tripping over his own feet.  McCabe is another guy I'd probably take over any of ours.  So thats 2 for sure, maybe 3 that are better than any of our 8.  Add to that the fact their defense is allowed to carry the puck out of their zone and manages to do that when necessary and it's a slam dunk.  <br>
As far as Therrien's  "we set the tempo" routine, someone should plaster an EVERLAST label on his forehead so every morning when he looks in the mirror, he'll recognize just what he is.  

[Cranky]

BadCompany said:

First of all, I only saw the 1st period, so take everything I say with that in mind.

However, is it not possible that Therrien's game plan, his "setting of the tempo" was indeed to slow the game down, turn it into a boring, dump-it-off-the-glass, neutral zone snoozer? I mean, lets face it, we aren't the greatest offensive team in the universe. The Leafs had what? 27 shots? Considering some of the other artillery barrages we have forced our goalies to endure (like Hackett's 39 shot shelling the other day), 27 has got to be considered some sort of moral victory, no?

We earned a tie with a team that is much better than us, even with all their current injuries. In fact, I would say that the Leafs, with all their injuries, look an awful lot like the Habs do. Each team has one superstar (Sundin and Theodore), each team has a suspect defence that plays better than the sum of its parts and each team has a collection of rejects, projects and 3rd liners for its forward corps (Juneau, Green, Tucker, Corson, Perrault, Gilmour, Hoglund, etc. etc..). In fact, there were what? 7 players who had played for both teams on the ice last night? (Gilmour, Perrault, Berezin, Tucker, Corson, Lumme, Hoglund)

No wonder the game was a tie.

One thing I did notice though, was that Arron Asham had a great first shift, threw some big hits, stole the puck and created a scoring chance all by himself. Still, he only got 5 minutes of ice time, by far the least amount of any player. Was he hurt?   (I already know the answer, I am being sarcastic)

Glass half empty or half full?

They played off the glass all nightand I do understand why. I don't like it, but it was necessary for a tie.

However, this game higlites everything that is wrong with them:

Their lack of size, defenseman and forwards, and the inability to contain the other teams large forwards.

Their defencemans limitation in carrying the puck.

Their utterly confused transition game. See above for reason.

Their coaching decisions? Asham smacks some leafs around then he is benched? Is The Simple Man on drugs? Or was he afraid that the game would turn physical and we would loose for sure?

I suppose you are right in the sense that TSM should be happy that he got a tie.

"Yes" the Russian general said in '43, "we did lose 300,000 man, but we used up their ammunition".

Arggggg..........

[clear observer]

However, is it not possible that Therrien's game plan, his "setting of the tempo" was indeed to slow the game down, turn it into a boring, dump-it-off-the-glass, neutral zone snoozer?

When your team has NO other choice...it's not setting the tempo. Girly girl.

They were on their heels ALL NIGHT LONG. Thank God they shot wide all night, otherwise Theo would have been shell-shocked. As far as "puck possession" is concerned, we were blown away. The only game plan that was instilled was one of "hang on for your dear lives".

And that's the way I saw it. Hmmph!

;D

CO

[MPLABBE]

seventeen said:

BC, I'd much rather have the Leafs defense than ours.  Kaberle is better than any our players.  Berg is big enough and skates well enough to take on big guys.  Our biggest guy, Quintal, is most adept at tripping over his own feet.  McCabe is another guy I'd probably take over any of ours.  So thats 2 for sure, maybe 3 that are better than any of our 8.  Add to that the fact their defense is allowed to carry the puck out of their zone and manages to do that when necessary and it's a slam dunk.  <br>
As far as Therrien's  "we set the tempo" routine, someone should plaster an EVERLAST label on his forehead so every morning when he looks in the mirror, he'll recognize just what he is.  

I would also take their defence before the one we have NOW.That will change once Komi and Hainsey come up