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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 %.
Oh he needs to be better, absolutely.
Good thing Dobes is playing incredibly well until Monty finds his game. It gives us time.
Still a frustrating loss and if anyone were an absolute disaster yesterday, it was the refs. Holy.
Who is the #1 goalie again?
What an absolute disaster.
Fall behind 3-1, come back to make it 5-3, then get blasted out of the water 6-5.
Dobes better get the next start.
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.
Could he have been better? Yes. Was he “an absolute disaster”? No.
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.
Bouchard with 1 pass in 7 games takes a bad penalty after losing his man on the goal. bravo champion!
He’s never been known as a smart man.
Nope.
I overruled..
The Newhook appreciation continues!!
Monsieur Emile with his 4th goal btw
It’s too bad we had to lose him, always appreciated his grit and his shot. But you had to give them something better than what Columbus was offering so… that’s what it took.
Hugo!
Pete! So glad you’re here buddy!
Hey guys! New blog should be up tonight and I’ll be staying up late watching our fun team try and get the win again!
Go Habs Go!
It’s great to finally have a management group that seems to know what they’re doing. Glad they’re both sticking around for a long time.
And I wish Daniel Brière was sick instead of kick!
Hey.
Got the worse day-after-turkey-farts.
Too bad I work from hone.
You’ve always been a sharer by nature.
can anyone help me find the reply button?
You think that big button is overcompensating for something?
I know a way to fix 3 problems in 1 move! like said a few weeks ago,
scratch Laine (1), move Dach to wing (2), and play Veleno at center bringing back Gally with Evans & Anderson (3)!It might come to that. Not right now, but at some point if things go badly… yes.
I did like what I’ve seen from Veleno at camp… He also could help with our faceoffs problem.
If Laine doesn’t play on the first powerplay wave, it’s easy to question his actual utility/role on this team.
I wrote before the season I wanted to believe in him. That he’d show more speed and more intensity…. I think he has…. but in a very small way.
Maybe he’s the kind of guy that gets traded with salary retained to a team that needs a powerplay specialist in return for whatever we feel we might need during the season.
good game for Mtl, happy for Bolduc and Kapanen, Dobes is ready, all is good.
great start for our top pairing Doboson and Matheson. won’t be easy to play againts them.
poor DET, they won’t win too many games this season.
now lets win in CHI.
GO HABS GO!LOVE that pairing so far. They are mobile, move the puck extremely well and are almost never in trouble.
It might be hard but I hope we can find a way to keep Matheson around…. Think he’d accept the same deal Edmonton gave Walman? 7×7? Term wouldn’t be great as it would bring him to 38 years old but I feel that’s what he’ll be able to get somewhere…
Why would he pick number 76?..
PETE! 😀 😀
great blog as usual, Hugo! 👍
I wasn’t so sure about the idea of basically having three third lines out there, which is a direct result of not having a bona fide 2nd line centre to round out the top six, and after watching that game… I’m still not entirely convinced.
while I don’t necessarily disagree with you, what different approach would you have? I guess they’ll manage to figure out which guys have the best potential chemistry playing with Demidov as the season goes, and that line will de facto become the official 2nd line…
Hi Pat,
I honestly don’t know what I would do. I think the idea of a balanced lineup works but some of these lines will also need an identity at some point. Last season Anderson-Dvorak-Gallagher was a very effective line that you would give defensive zone starts to (because Dvorak would win the faceoff) and their job was to get the puck deep and cycle it until they might get a scoring chance. That’s an identity.
Currently, the Suzuki line is a scoring (pretty dominating too) line.
The Demidov-Kapanen-Newhook line’s identity is speed and so far, it seems to work. Even if Demidov obviously needs to learn the defensive system as he tends to leave a guy completely open.
I don’t dislike the Bolduc-Dach-Gallagher line, even if they do seem a bit lost defensively… seems like Bolduc is carrying it more than anything at this point and I’m not sure they have an identity yet.
The Evans line right now, in my opinion, is a mess…. in huge part because of Laine that doesn’t really belong there… That’s a line that I don’t really feel has any real “role” on a team and might need to be changed at some point.
