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Habs Season Thread: 2024-25 Regular Season

TheCountofMonteCristo said:
I chuckle when I remember fans wanting a salary cap as they believed ticket prices would come down,,,,
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But in retrospect I love the cap because it permanently screwed the Leafs. Prior to the cap, they were getting uncomfortably close to winning as they kept throwing money at all their shortcomings. The cap arrived just in time and ever since they've been the biggest playoff flops in all of Christendom.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
But in retrospect I love the cap because it permanently screwed the Leafs. Prior to the cap, they were getting uncomfortably close to winning as they kept throwing money at all their shortcomings. The cap arrived just in time and ever since they've been the biggest playoff flops in all of Christendom.
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while true, one can also argue the cap didn't help us in the least, although we did at least make the SF 2x and the Finals 1 and of course won rounds in 2008, 2015, which is significantly more than Canada's English team.
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
while true, one can also argue the cap didn't help us in the least, although we did at least make the SF 2x and the Finals 1 and of course won rounds in 2008, 2015, which is significantly more than Canada's English team.
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Every other Canadian team has managed to make the finals at least once since the cap was instituted. Only the Leafs have failed so miserably. One measly playoff round in 2 decades.
 
Of course I knew it, but it struck me directly when I was just looking over the potential roster. Its kind of amazing really that we have two round 7 forwards (Evans, Harvey-Pinard) and a round 6 forward (Pezzetta) drafted in the last 10 years who have all played multiple years with the team. Not sure if that says anything, other than we have not been very good as a team, have not had much depth, and have done really well for some reason with drafting forwards at the tail end of the draft.

Neither may be around much longer, but you also have to credit the players. These guys made the show.
 
east coast said:
Of course I knew it, but it struck me directly when I was just looking over the potential roster. Its kind of amazing really that we have two round 7 forwards (Evans, Harvey-Pinard) and a round 6 forward (Pezzetta) drafted in the last 10 years who have all played multiple years with the team. Not sure if that says anything, other than we have not been very good as a team, have not had much depth, and have done really well for some reason with drafting forwards at the tail end of the draft.

Neither may be around much longer, but you also have to credit the players. These guys made the show.
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Being a 7th round pick for a crap team isn't a lost cause like it would be if you were taken in the 7th round by a perennial contender.
 
east coast said:
Of course I knew it, but it struck me directly when I was just looking over the potential roster. Its kind of amazing really that we have two round 7 forwards (Evans, Harvey-Pinard) and a round 6 forward (Pezzetta) drafted in the last 10 years who have all played multiple years with the team. Not sure if that says anything, other than we have not been very good as a team, have not had much depth, and have done really well for some reason with drafting forwards at the tail end of the draft.

Neither may be around much longer, but you also have to credit the players. These guys made the show.
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It would stand out a lot more if those three players were all playing minutes on a perennial contender, or even a team that's in the mix every year.

Pezzetta's not an NHLer on a team with any hope of being good. Evans I like as a fourth line center that can fill in the third line if necessary and RHP, we'll see. I liked RHP in his first year in the NHL, but he got an opportunity because he was a terrible team.

When this team starts to turn the corner, all three of them will be on another roster somewhere.
 
I feel badly for Harvey-Pinard as he busted his bag to get to the NHL with all cards stacked against him likely is done at the HL level, while the 5 who all had more ability, size and opportunity literally fucked away their careers.
 
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