2024 NHL Playoffs Thread
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GrandWazoo
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Some posters on this board might see it as an opportunity to put on a commentary on a trade that happened two years ago. Not you of course, but I just wanted to give a compliment on our former player without stirring a discussion about our management.
Simply put he was the wrong player for the Habs at the wrong time
shit team heading towards a rebuild paying him 4.5 is another bad contract joining the other handful of albatross deals on the cap.
Had to go , Swiss army knife is a better fit on a contender and he is soon to be 29
Sal_Butera
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But alas, there never seems to be an issue to put on a commentary on Sergachev for Drouin or McDonagh for Gomez or Chelios for Savard trades.
Sal_Butera
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You never trade an actual NHL pro for a Sunday night beer leaguer
GGpX
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Same. It's like the Price era here: if he's a .900 goalie throughout the series, they're as good as dead.
I'd like to believe he's going to turn it around, but he better start soon.
GGpX
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There's being disingenuous, and then there's this.
Another Rose night I see
CH1
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It’s true… a lot of negativity here, probably because if you look at the Habs of the last decades, very few players (Dano was the exception)have found a next gear well into their 20s (in fact many players did the opposite)…. But when u look at teams like Vegas, Panthers, Bolts, Avs, Bruins, their rosters feature players who seemingly came out of nowhere to become important core players
I have faith that the HuGo regime, with their growth mindset, will be able to develop and unearth these hidden gems.
Sal_Butera
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It’s not disingenuous, some players simply don't have it in them to compete at the NHL level.
Compete & Lekhonen was ALWAYS synonymous
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
I don't think the Barron story has been fully written yet....HuGo obviously see (or saw) something in the kid. Whether they are right (or you are) has not yet been determined.
Second in goals for a D on this team and only half a season
He isnt as bad as some think , all our D our turnstiles from time to time
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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Sergachev never became a superstar. He's good but not great. We needed scoring and Drouin showed flashes of being able to do that.
McDonaugh is another solid but unspectacular player. But trading anyone for Gomez would have been an epic fail.
Savard was still good enough to be in our top 3 in scoring every year he was a Hab. We won a Cup with him. Chicago didn't win jack shit with Chelios.
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We were never a Lehkonen away from anything and for most of his time in Montreal he was known as the Finn with no finish. No one was more happily surprised than I was when it was Lehkonen who didn't whiff on that 2-on-1 in overtime of Game 6 against Vegas in 2021. And then the next year he pots the Cup winning goal, just like Eller got the Cup winner with Washington. But like Eller, the Habs, in their position, didn't need to be hanging on to either of them.
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Hellebuyck is Hellabad come playoff time. We rolled him and the Jets like winos in the gutter back in 2021. The Jets are almost as big a playoff fraud as the Leafs. All that hype for the famous "White Out" but the record shows that the Jets lose home playoff games much more frequently than they win them. All time, they are 8-17 in home playoff games. That's putrid.
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Those were moronic moves , not this one
you dont put that shit on page 1 of the paper , fucken stupid journalism