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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.Kids are looking good again tonight… and a lot more “bad breaks” tonight already.
Something wrong with those sticks.
I bought a Bedard 65 flex stick this summer for 50% off.
It was light, it was magical, the snap was the best shot I ever did.
It broke in half after 3 games. T_T
i’m hoping the flyers will at least give us reason to believe they’re getting better this year.
They certainly would if you guys picked Buium when he fell on your lap instead of trading back one spot to take a future third line centre.
That was one weird draft…. that by some miracle allowed us to take Demidov so I won’t complain.
i’m excited that you guys are excited.
if my team has to stink i can at least r00t for my friends.
Yeah, I think the Habs will be fun to watch. As the eternal optimist that I am, I think they’ll challenge teams in the top 3 in the Atlantic.
As for the Flyers, I’m really curious what Trevor Zegras will look like away from Cronin’s allergic to offense system. If he and Michkov work well together, it could be fun to watch.
The team will most likely still suck as much as their GM though.
