PLAYOFF GDT: Series 4 / Game 2: @ Tampa Bay, Wednesday, June 30th, 8:00EST (TB Leads 1-0)

[Habsy]

Stop panicking people...

Their first goal was luck, shots were close for half the game....we were all over them at 2-1 but couldn't finish.

Still a long series, and Vasili didn't look all-world yesterday....very shaky at times with puck control.

My concern are their set tip plays. They're bloody good at it.

 

[Habs4ever]

Stop panicking people...

Their first goal was luck, shots were close for half the game....we were all over them at 2-1 but couldn't finish.

Still a long series, and Vasili didn't look all-world yesterday....very shaky at times with puck control.

He had lots of rebounds.

 

[Sal_Butera]

My concern are their set tip plays. They're bloody good at it.

My concern is whether Habs can develop sustained pressure on Vasilevsky / TBay Ozone

 

[Rolex]

My concern are their set tip plays. They're bloody good at it.

My concern was guys like Suzuki making stupid plays when they had time and space....

Tampa allowed us to gain zone entry pretty easily yesterday, but then we tried to do fancy dangles/dekes, instead of sticking to what worked before.

Tampa defense is nice and big, but they're not as amazing as everyone makes them to be....Sergachev needs to be attacked more, even McDonaugh-Hedman....they coughed up puck the moment they got hit in previous series

 

[Sal_Butera]

TBay Dman gave up the puck an awful lot..was that an anomaly or the norm?

 

[Rolex]

TBay Dman gave up the puck an awful lot..was that an anomaly or the norm?

I told you, they are not as legendary as people make them out to be....over-hyped....it helps when you have 4 awesome lines that come back to help.

Sure Hedman is all-world, but he's got a lot fo mileage, and often plays with injuries.

I feared Avs dmen more than Tampa....but Vegas took care of them for us.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

And when healthy he will

You are often unreasonable, These guys are human.

Then let them get paid like humans instead of superheroes. If they want the big bucks they will have to give more than the average human. This is the same fundamental truth that Drouin never seemed to grasp. You don't just get to take the money. There are strings attached.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

We’ll see. The last three Cup winners lost game 1 and the the last three Habs’ Cups have all included game 1 losses.

And the last Habs finals loss in 89 too, don't forget.

 

[Habsy]

Then let them get paid like humans instead of superheroes. If they want the big bucks they will have to give more than the average human. This is the same fundamental truth that Drouin never seemed to grasp. You don't just get to take the money. There are strings attached.

You don't understand micro-economies either I guess.

 

[Habsy]

And the last Habs finals loss in 89 too, don't forget.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

he's being asked to do much more than score.

Yep.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

You don't understand micro-economies either I guess.

What I understand after 9 years of Bergevin is that there are "NO EXCUSES", "ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING" and "THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE ROOM".

 

[Habs4ever]

Vegas D was better than Bolts, but then Vasil is much better than both Fleury and Lehner.

 

[Habsy]

What I understand after 9 years of Bergevin is that there are "NO EXCUSES", "ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING" and "THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE ROOM".

*checks out window, sees Tampa.*

Guess the answers were in the room.

 

[worm]

Pleks was soft, Dano is not

style over substance

 

[GEEMAN]

Stop panicking people...

Their first goal was luck, shots were close for half the game....we were all over them at 2-1 but couldn't finish.

Still a long series, and Vasili didn't look all-world yesterday....very shaky at times with puck control.

panick ......... WTF

This is paradise , Habs in the finals

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

Except he's integral in transition when on the ice. Look at the numbers. He's not scoring but he is doing everything else. Danault is not shutting down three guys on his own.

Even last night he was everywhere. The guy isn't cheating, he's hurt.

yeah his hand isn't healed

 

[TheCountofMonteCristo]

you there for game 2?

were you amongst the large sea of red I saw on the bench side down in the corner where we shot 2x?

 

[Rolex]

The elephant in the room question:

Armia is back….do they sit Staal ? Who is too slow vs Tampa….Evans is better

of course not….either Evans or KK will sit

Same for Merrill-Gustafsson….someone needs to sit…one of Kulak-Romanov needs to be back into lineup

Also, we need some better in-game coaching…please DD come back

 

[habs25th]

The main issue is a

The previous three coaches also didn’t care about getting their top line away from Danault matchup - Cooper seemingly does

There’s only so much a road team can do without last change, towards matching lines.

ctually not putting Danault against their best line. You need to try to have that match up.

Danault played most game against Yanni Gourde, that's not normal and is on the coach. He actually wasn't on the ice for any goal against at 5-5, again.

What we need to do is sit CC and put Evans or Lehkonen with Suzuki, so that Cooper doesn't have such a clear target to exploit.

Put CC back in for game 3 and 4 and get the matchup you want.