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Habs 2008 - 2009 Centennial Season Official Thread. (pg. 23)
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spin Laden
^^ very good, thorough post. Keys to me are goaltending, a committment to team defence (ie forwards playing both ends), and players who won't wilt offensively when going gets tough (and goals are hard to come by).
Some Habs players became perimeter players (Plekanic?) against Boston and Philly. This can happen to even the most talented teams during the typically physical, tight-checking playoffs (see Ottawa, San Jose, Pittsburgh until 07-08, even Detroit from 2003-2007). Which is why some critics say the Habs may be lacking one or two players that can thrive under those conditions offensively. Having a Georges Laraque certainly allows those players to play "bigger".
In any case, you can expect Montreal to beat most teams rather easily during the regular season. This team is stacked offensively. |
it's really lame to be quoting oneself but I did it anyways :p
Against a bruising team like Boston, Laraque needs more backup, imo. Chara, Thorton, Lucic, those are some tough dudes and Laraque is lacks the intimidation/mean streak for that role, imo. Pittsburgh did better to replace him with Godard at only half the salary.
In any case, it's only at the quarter point of the season. Detroit is playing up and down as well, but both Habs and Wings are getting their points so that's a good thing. |
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| Kendo |
San Jose is sick. 40+ sog in 9 games this season.... yesterday they were at their 1SOG per minute pace before they slowed down in the second period up 5-0 already....
Sick. |
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| Kendo |
BTW I know 1SOG/min = 60 sog, I was referring to the pace they were at vs Nashville, even though they only finished with 57sog.
I think after 1.5 periods vs Calgary they had 29 sog. |
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| elFreak |
what lack of heart.
i am considering selling tickets to saturday's game.
i mean i want to go but:
1.they always ing lose when they retire a number.
2.if i see them ing play like pre madonna "i can't take a shot on goal i have to make the highlight reel and not skate" s i think i will have an aneurysm.
3.people are paying ridiculous amounts of money for these tickets that it is hard to resist.
ing .:mad: |
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| princesultan |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
what lack of heart.
i am considering selling tickets to saturday's game.
i mean i want to go but:
1.they always ing lose when they retire a number.
2.if i see them ing play like pre madonna "i can't take a shot on goal i have to make the highlight reel and not skate" s i think i will have an aneurysm.
3.people are paying ridiculous amounts of money for these tickets that it is hard to resist.
ing .:mad: |
the way they're playing right now, they'll be lucky to make the playoffs |
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| elFreak |
No, they will make the playoffs. They are 5 games above 500 and still have so much talent that even when they don't play great they can win, let's not go crazy here. The problem with them is if they keep having no heart they will be gone in the first round.
I would love to say Gainey has to do something, but heart is not something that you can trade for. Someone needs to ing step up and light a fire under all of them. Carbo can only throw fits so much, one of their own needs to get mad when they lose and step up. |
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| princesultan |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
No, they will make the playoffs. They are 5 games above 500 and still have so much talent that even when they don't play great they can win, let's not go crazy here. The problem with them is if they keep having no heart they will be gone in the first round.
I would love to say Gainey has to do something, but heart is not something that you can trade for. Someone needs to ing step up and light a fire under all of them. Carbo can only throw fits so much, one of their own needs to get mad when they lose and step up. |
i know they WILL make the playoffs.......i'm just saying, if they contonued to play like this, they'd be lucky to make them. |
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| Kendo |
| They won't win the Cup for sure... team is too soft. |
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| elFreak |
off to kanata in a few.
if they don't play well they won't make it back to montreal:whip:
ruutu better get hurt. |
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| Spin Laden |
| have fun in Wankersville. Sens *should* be easy prey, Fisher and Neil are out and this team is playing worse than the Habs. |
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| elFreak |
| the most interesting part about ottawa is leaving. |
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| Passskal |
Jay did you see this on RDS, another line change....:
Guillaume Latendresse sera de nouveau jumelé à Alex Tanguay et Saku Koivu. Pour sa part, Chris Higgins fera équipe avec Alex Kovalev et Tomas Plekanec. Andrei Kosyn sera aux côtés de Robert Lang et Tom Kostopoulos tandis que son frère Sergei se trouvera sur le quatrième trio avec Steve Bégin et Georges Laraque. |
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