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okay yeah, these are nice hats.
nice clean designs. big fan!
i have owned a few BH hawks, never a red one. couldn’t beat the price. the 2nd is a replacement for one i had that was similar. both are snapbacks which i like. they fit better than other styles.
As a kid, I had a Hawks touque that my grandmother gave me…. she saw I needed one and went to get whatever one was in the discount bin. She knew I liked hockey, so she got me that.
I wore it cause she got it for me (and would make me wear it if I went outside anyways).
I was a 5-6 year old going to school with a Hawks logo on my forehead in the Montreal area.
It was my own personal version of the “Hockey Sweater”.
Traumatized til this day.
Also, still kinda miss that that itchy rough wool knitted touque.
yeah, you told Fido not to use personal insults but I see you aren’t doing a whole lot better.
have a good one dude
Was not meant as an insult, was meant to clarify/better explain my position so as not to get hung up on a word.
He is just not a dependable #1 goalie.
But whatever.
*sigh*
if a player’s performances are below average more often than not, then overall he won’t be average now, will he?
I think we should move on to another topic, it’s Friday lol.
Because when he is good, he is really good.
His bad games are just really bad.
Instead of average, think middle of the pack if that stops your brain from exploding.
I am sure you can keep making up excuses… but the numbers and the stats show differently.
last season if not for him Habs don’t make the playoffs. as simple as that, like it or not.
only 4 goalies were better than him regarding goals saved above expected. WPG, TB, WASh and TOR. Monty was 5th.
not sure how you can say stats show differently.29 games in Dec / March / April
– Won 18, Lost 11, save % about .910, GAA about 2.60
31 games in Oct / Nov / Jan / Feb
– Won 13, lost 18, save % about .887 , GAA about 3.00
Over 65% of his goals saved above expected occurred in the last 20 games he played of the season.
So last season, if he has played better in Oct, Nov, Jan or Feb – we would not have needed barely make the playoffs.
Like I said, when he is on, he is really good. But he is too inconsistent to be a dependable #1 goalie.
I said he is an average goalie because he is inconsistent.
His performances / number clearly show he is inconsistent and often below average.
again, is he an average goalie, or is he not?
😉
Do you not understand the word “often”?
yeah, I find this perfectly illustrates the issue here, you’re contradicting yourself.
he wouldn’t be a decent/average NHL goalie if he was so extremely inconsistent as you’re saying.
we won’t agree on this, it’s fine 👍
I said he is an average goalie because he is inconsistent.
His performances / number clearly show he is inconsistent and often below average.
Not a hard concept to understand.
lol
stfu idiotWhere am I wrong?
Look at the splits:
https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/players/2275417/sam-montembeault/splits/2024/
Other than a hot December and the last few weeks of the season, you can generally state he was maybe average (but the save % number would state otherwise).
He is not a great goalie.
Also, when insults are your only response, you just cannot come up with any valid response to show otherwise.
Monty played 62 games last season.
only 2 goalies played more games than that, Hellebuyck and Vasilevskiy.
his team made the playoffs, and he was a big reason behind that.
bygones I guess
👍I am sure you can keep making up excuses… but the numbers and the stats show differently.
He is average and extremely inconsistent.
Like I said, you never know what you are gonna get when he plays.
Not a goalie you can depend on to have a good game.
That is all I am saying.
you say you consider him as an average goalie yet you talk about him like they made the playoffs last year despite having him in net for a majority of games.
I’m not saying Monty is among the most elite goalies of the league, but I find you definitely have a bias against him, it is what it is
He just lets in a lot of bad goals, gives up lots of leads, and is really inconsistent (game to game and throughout the season).
When he is on, he delivers. 100%
But for most of last year, he was not that great.
Last year he has a hot December and April, somewhat OK/Average Feb and March (not good numbers, but won more than lost), and terrible Oct / Nov / Jan.
You just never know what you are gonna get when he starts a game.
Now is all this 100% on him? No, of course not.
Bottom line, if you had to win a game, is he the goalie you want?
Unlikely.
that was kind of my point, the numbers are inflated (or deflated, depending on how you look at it) with a game like last night since the opposing team was more aggressive and scored goals with fewer shots than on the night before.
but at this point I don’t think it’s worth even talking about it, you clearly aren’t a fan of Monty and never will be, and that’s fine.
Last 3 games.
EDM Loss 29 shots / 23 saves / 6 goals against / .793 save % – Gave up 2 goal lead (Trice)
NYR Loss 22 shots / 18 saves / 4 goals against / .818 save % – Gave up 2 goal lead
SEA Win 22 shots / 18 saves / 4 goals against / .818 save % – gave up the lead 3 timesNot just last night.
Look at what Wolfe did against the Habs – Habs clearly a superior team, that guy kept them in it all night.
Monty does not have to win every game, he just has to give his team a chance to win every time…. his number suggest he is not even close to doing that this year.
As I have said, he is a middle-of-the-pack goalie, not someone who will win it when it counts.
Refs gave the Oilers that game on a silver platter but Montreal needed to at least find a way to get a point there imho.
Refs are not something they can control, and something that pretty much evens out thought-out the season.
Seems like a weak excuse to me, but the refs did not give up a 2 goal lead twice last night.
End of the day, the numbers speak for themselves.
5 games, 2 wins, 3.82GAA, 0.842 Save %.
sure but objectively speaking the contrast in performances between Dobes and Monty was accentuated by the fact Dobes faced a Calgary team that is struggling to score goals, while Monty faced a much more offensively aggressive Oilers team, and it was the second night of a back-to-back for the team in front of him.
Dobes deserves the start on Saturday but both goalies aren’t necessarily worlds apart like you think they are.
I guess if you want to be a #1 goalie, you got to win those types of games.
If he was losing, but his numbers were much better, this would be a very different conversation.
While I agree (as written in the blog) that Dobes needs to be the guy until proven otherwise at this point, I can’t think of one bad goal Montembeault allowed against the Oilers.
Won’t blame him for the tips, but goals 5 and 6 looked weak.
He is not good positionally at times and playing too far back in his net, like he is too worried to let a goal in / trying to play it safe.
I did not watch past the 1st period, but from the highlights, he did not look confident at all.
End of the day, the numbers speak for themselves.
5 games, 2 wins, 3.82GAA, 0.842 Save %.
