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GDT | Game 47 | vs Tampa Bay | Tuesday, January 21st | 7:00 PM EST

CH1 said:
If you zoom out even further, to a large 32 game sample, Habs are 20-10-2, with a .656 points percentage, third-best in the NHL over that span.
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You could almost write 32 thoughts on the last 32 games…
 
Krustchev said:
It's clearly more than just a hot streak. The additions of Laine (17 pts. in 19 games . . . not bad, eh), Carrier (and its ripple effects on the d-man pairings) and Dobes, moving Hutson to PP1, Dach and Slaf waking up, etc.
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Yeah, much to my surprise Marty is also entering the Jack Adams conversation. I would have never guessed that at the beginning of the year.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Very stoppable if you can predict that Kucherov would miss on his shot. But he made his move to stop the shot and didn’t have time to readjust when he realized the miffed shot. There is a reason goalies look silly on missed shots all the time, they’re very very hard to stop as goalies at that level relies heavily on anticipation.
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He was out of position. Am I being hard on him? Yes. After Saturday I'm going to be until he stops letting in weak goals.

If you recall I was tough on Price for weak ones every game.
 
GrandWazoo said:
That’s ok, and I’ll be hard on you for being hard on him for weak goals that really aren’t.
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The first Tampa goal yesterday was about the same as the first goal that Dobes gave up on Sunday, in the sense that the goalie in each instance was not expecting a shot. One was from a fluky bounce off the boards and the other was Guhle's flub.
 
Krustchev said:
The first Tampa goal yesterday was about the same as the first goal that Dobes gave up on Sunday, in the sense that the goalie in each instance was not expecting a shot. One was from a fluky bounce off the boards and the other was Guhle's flub.
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And I called it weak when Dobes let it in too
 
Habsy said:
Yeah, much to my surprise Marty is also entering the Jack Adams conversation. I would have never guessed that at the beginning of the year.
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Good on him. I was very hard on him through the first 30 games. The issues were always a performance issue versus a roster composition issue.

Now the performance improves and talk of roster composition reduces.
 
AH$$$ said:
Good on him. I was very hard on him through the first 30 games. The issues were always a performance issue versus a roster composition issue.

Now the performance improves and talk of roster composition reduces.
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Yeah I was ripping him pretty good as well. He managed to get them to buy in so good on him.
 
when the Habs were in last place, I wondered out loud if MSL’s system would ever work as it assumed hockey IQ could be taught…I believe that if a system is not easy to play, it can never work. The best tactics are relatively easy to implement but hard to defend.

Credit to MSL for simplifying his system just enough (according to beat writers) that his players are able to execute it a high speed. There are still some laggards like Slaf who appear hesitant and over thinking but in his case, he’s surrounded by 14 and 13 who are playing the game super fast
 
Yeah a lot of the same elements are still there but the execution has been better, less bad high risks decisions and more chip in/out which have reduced turnovers and increased time spent in the other zone.
 
GrandWazoo said:
Yeah a lot of the same elements are still there but the execution has been better, less bad high risks decisions and more chip in/out which have reduced turnovers and increased time spent in the other zone.
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Lightning players saying the Habs system is simplified also. All but Hedman and Kucherov called the Habs a good team.

I had the game on in the background this morning on the lightning broadcast. I like to hear what the opponents say too.
 
Habsy said:
Lightning players saying the Habs system is simplified also. All but Hedman and Kucherov called the Habs a good team.

I had the game on in the background this morning on the lightning broadcast. I like to hear what the opponents say too.
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I’m just saying most of the same elements are still in place, but I’m seeing a lot more chipping at both sides of the ice, which is simplifying the play.
 
He had to dumb it down, only Suzuki and maybe Hutson would get what he was trying to do. Definitely not Anderson or Slafkovsky
 
CH1 said:
Credit to MSL for simplifying his system just enough (according to beat writers) that his players are able to execute it a high speed. There are still some laggards like Slaf who appear hesitant and over thinking but in his case, he’s surrounded by 14 and 13 who are playing the game super fast
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I am not 100% sure on this but Pascal Vincent may have had something to do either adjustments.

The rocket were already playing an adjusted system (comments from November when Mailloux was sent down).
 
I think it's more of the fact that it just wasn't working and Marty realized that.
 
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