Go Habs Go!

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

When the building starts emptying out in Montreal…

I never seen this happening my entire life. Lol Some 10 years ago we thought it was happening but in the end it was just a change of guard for the season ticket buyers. The old traditional fans were fading out but a new generation of kids with lots of money to burn jumped in.

For this reason the Bell center created in 2020, a new high luxury season ticket bracket. Offering packages of 4 seats, starting at $76,000($19,000 per seat), price includes open bar and food. And yeah, you guessed it, all sold out, year after year. There’s a reason why The club is still among the most expensive in the league.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Le seul qui donne un show c'est HUTSON....au moins lui se donne à 100%...oui commet des erreurs....MAIS on lui pardonne en ta quand on le compare aux autres...lol.....c'est bien peu et ça explique beaucoup de choses.

Et encore là, les erreurs de Hutson ne sont rien comparé à celles de Matheson!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Only 2 teams in the NHL have given up 70 goals, Montreal and Pittsburgh. The Habs remain tied for last in the NHL in points and dead last in goal differential after their shutout loss last night. Something has to be done about the goal prevention. The Nylander goal in which he skated through the entire team, using them as pylons, highlighted what has become a severe problem.

The Habs are actually at the bottom or next to the bottom in most categories. This is really shameful. But i have a feeling that management won’t budge unless thousands of fans start avoiding the Bell Centre. Thousands of fans not spending a lot of money on overpriced beer & overpriced crappy junk food will hurt the bottom line & that’s when ownership will step in & start demanding results.

 

[Doc Holliday]

I never seen this happening my entire life. Lol Some 10 years ago we thought it was happening but in the end it was just a change of guard for the season ticket buyers. The old traditional fans were fading out but a new generation of kids with lots of money to burn jumped in.

For this reason the Bell center created in 2020, a new high luxury season ticket bracket. Offering packages of 4 seats, starting at $76,000($19,000 per seat), price includes open bar and food. And yeah, you guessed it, all sold out, year after year. There’s a reason why The club is still among the most expensive in the league.

I agree that it has never happened before (in a non-covid year) but i’ve been following the habs for half a century & i don’t remember them being so bad for so long. To be honest rebuild or not i never imagined this ever happening to this great franchise. I never imagined ownership accepting mediocrity for this long. I remember tough years in the early 80’s but never this bad or this long with no rainbow in sight. I’m not sure how long management can continue to hide behind the rebuilding excuse & bullshit fans into believing that remaining patient & the sacrifice will be all worth it a few years from now when they’ll win the Cup! I mean get real, people! The habs haven’t won a Cup in over thirty years, if you don’t count the covid years they would have missed the playoffs for about 7 seasons, there is now a hard salary cap to deal with & there are now 32 teams, not 6! How long will the die-hard fans continue to accept Geoff Molson/Gorton-Hughes bullshit? Go ask Sabres & Sens fans what they really think about their teams rebuilding! Year after year of mediocrity has led to many die-hards to get off the bandwagon for good!

 

[Doc Holliday]

Et encore là, les erreurs de Hutson ne sont rien comparé à celles de Matheson!

Le probleme avec Matheson c’est qu’il joue bien de trop. La fatigue mene a faire des erreurs. On devrait l’enlever du pk car c’est epuisant en plus. Notre genie d’entraineur devrait l’aider un peu et le reposer.

J’adore Hutson en passant! Il devrait jouer sur la 1ere unite du pp et en meme temps ca reposerait Matheson.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

You’ve said it, 32 teams aiming for the ultimate trophy. At the end of every season there’s only one winner. Even with the best team there is no guarantee of reaching that goal. We’ve seen it so often that all of a sudden, the underdogs start to win and gain momentum round after round. Hockey is certainly the most unpredictable sport ever.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Le probleme abec Matheson c’est qu’il joue bien de trop. La fatigue mene a faire des erreurs. On devrait l’enlever du pk car c’est epuisant en plus. Notre genie d’entraineur devrait l’aider un peu et le reposer.

J’adore Hutson en passant! Il devrait jouer sur la 1ere unite du pp et en meme temps ca reposerait Matheson.

C’est sûr qu’en ce moment Hutson devrait obtenir la première vague. Oui Matheson joue trop, mais il est trop facile de lui faire commettre une erreur à la ligne bleue. Un peu de pression et il perd la rondelle pour donner un revirement dangereux.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

En comparaison, Gallagher, était atroce l’an passé, soudainement cette année il est redevenu le joueur qu’on connaît. Il a simplement raccourci ses « shifts", maintenant il se contente de 40-45 secondes et il devient beaucoup plus efficace en plus d’avoir de l’énergie pour tout le match.

 

[jefmontreal]

You’ve said it, 32 teams aiming for the ultimate trophy. At the end of every season there’s only one winner. Even with the best team there is no guarantee of reaching that goal. We’ve seen it so often that all of a sudden, the underdogs start to win and gain momentum round after round. Hockey is certainly the most unpredictable sport ever.

From 2019 Wikipedia St-Louis Blues won the cup when being 32nd in January :

Season summary​

The Blues started the season sluggish, and head coach Mike Yeo was fired on November 19 with the team's record at 7–9–3.[5] Craig Berube, who had served as assistant coach with the Blues since 2017, was named the interim head coach.[5] St. Louis began the 2019 calendar year with the worst record in the league; 15–18–4 and 34 points recorded.[6] Soon after, rookie goaltender Jordan Binningtonjoined the team. On January 7, he won his first game in a shutout and took over as the team's starting goaltender. The Blues then went on a franchise-record 11-game winning streak and had a 30–10–5 run to finish the season. They clinched a playoff spot on March 29, 2019.[7][8]

So either Marty gets fired in 4 days, or he gets a great Assistant Coach soon... and we get back Mailloux, Roy from the AHL and maybe one goalie to replace Primeau... Patrick Laine comes back... well we still have chances for a 25th cup! ;-) ...

But I agree... All this needs to start with Hutson on 1st PP shift...!

 

[Doc Holliday]

You’ve said it, 32 teams aiming for the ultimate trophy. At the end of every season there’s only one winner. Even with the best team there is no guarantee of reaching that goal. We’ve seen it so often that all of a sudden, the underdogs start to win and gain momentum round after round. Hockey is certainly the most unpredictable sport ever.

In hockey the key to winning the Stanley Cup is to gain momentum, get hot at the right time, keep injuries to a minimum, get good goaltending, have the right matchups & have quite a bit of luck. And do not win the President’s Cup. It’s very rare that the best team during the regular season wins the Cup. Quite often they end up with a quick playoffs exit.

 

[Doc Holliday]

C’est sûr qu’en ce moment Hutson devrait obtenir la première vague. Oui Matheson joue trop, mais il est trop facile de lui faire commettre une erreur à la ligne bleue. Un peu de pression et il perd la rondelle pour donner un revirement dangereux.

Je suis d’accord mais dams le fond Matheson n’a jamais ete considere comme un candidat pour le Norris!

Serieusement je l’ai toujours considere comme un defenseur tres ordinaire dans le passe. L’an dernier avec le CH j’ai ete extremement surpris qu’il ait une si bonne saison.

 

[Doc Holliday]

En comparaison, Gallagher, était atroce l’an passé, soudainement cette année il est redevenu le joueur qu’on connaît. Il a simplement raccourci ses « shifts", maintenant il se contente de 40-45 secondes et il devient beaucoup plus efficace en plus d’avoir de l’énergie pour tout le match.

Je suis d’accord. L’an dernier il semblait toujours a bout de souffle. Je me disais qu’il devrait aller faire du cardio. Bien beau faire des poids et halteres mais dans le fond au hockey le cardio est aussi sinon plus important que la force physique.

 

[Doc Holliday]

From 2019 Wikipedia St-Louis Blues won the cup when being 32nd in January :

That was the fluke of flukes if you ask me. Those last 2-3 months of the regular season & their playoffs run were what made Binnington & Craig Berube’s reputation. Were it not for that one magical & totally unexpected season Binnington would likely not be a top candidate to play for Team Canada in the upcoming Four Nations Cup & i doubt Craig Berube would be coaching the Maple Leafs today.

 

[jefmontreal]

That was the fluke of flukes if you ask me. Those last 2-3 months of the regular season & their playoffs run were what made Binnington & Craig Berube’s reputation. Were it not for that one magical & totally unexpected season Binnington would likely not be a top candidate to play for Team Canada in the upcoming Four Nations Cup & i doubt Craig Berube would be coaching the Maple Leafs today.

Trust you on this... I was abroad at the time! So besides the fact that I was watching from afar, my point was just about how things can turn around... Hope!
Il y a des espoirs à toutes les positions... Gallagher en est un, il a appris à mieux gérer see shifts... Les espoirs sont là.... Laine va revenir...
Mon seul problème c'est Dach, qui court après la puck comme un poulet sans tête, et ensuite abandonne la course...

 

[Doc Holliday]

Trust you on this... I was abroad at the time! So besides the fact that I was watching from afar, my point was just about how things can turn around... Hope!
Il y a des espoirs à toutes les positions... Gallagher en est un, il a appris à mieux gérer see shifts... Les espoirs sont là.... Laine va revenir...
Mon seul problème c'est Dach, qui court après la puck comme un poulet sans tête, et ensuite abandonne la course...

I agree but management needs to be willing to act in order to want to turn things around but the Gorton-Hughes regime is likely to stay put. They appear to be totally satisfied with how things are going. The reason? Job security. Would they feel that their jobs are on the line depending on how the team performs i have no doubt that they’d start to make changes pronto were it by changing coaches, making trades or order the coach to start benching underperforming players & replace them with hungrier & grittier players from the farm. Sorry but there will be no quick turnaround in Mtl this season. The team is doomed to suck once again until at least next season. No wonder several of the veterans are starting to get exasperated.

You know, sometimes it’s not always a good thing to have an owner that’s too nice.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

You know, sometimes it’s not always a good thing to have an owner that’s too nice.

Can’t blame him for being so patient, in 2009 he paid $575M for the team and the Bell center. Today, the whole thing worth over $2.3B and earned him $263M last year.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Can’t blame him for being so patient, in 2009 he paid $575M for the team and the Bell center. Today, the whole thing worth over $2.3B and earned him $263M last year.

The Sapito family will fare even better once they sell CF Montreal for close to $1 billion after buying the team for $40 million.

 

[Chouin95]

I agree but management needs to be willing to act in order to want to turn things around but the Gorton-Hughes regime is likely to stay put. They appear to be totally satisfied with how things are going. The reason? Job security. Would they feel that their jobs are on the line depending on how the team performs i have no doubt that they’d start to make changes pronto were it by changing coaches, making trades or order the coach to start benching underperforming players & replace them with hungrier & grittier players from the farm. Sorry but there will be no quick turnaround in Mtl this season. The team is doomed to suck once again until at least next season. No wonder several of the veterans are starting to get exasperated.

You know, sometimes it’s not always a good thing to have an owner that’s too nice.

These are wild statements I’m seeing here, you clearly have no clue how to build a winning franchise in the world of sports. There is absolutely no point of having a trigger happy mentality and firing everybody or whatever after a losing streak in the middle of a rebuild.
It’s fine if you don’t care about the team and you just want chaos, however if you want to build a winning franchise job security is essential.

 

[gaby]

Ne boudons pas notre plaisir.....belle victoire d'équipe 5-1...des ailes gratis/ la Cage......lol.......tous ont contribué et bonne soirée pour Sam...bref.....on va bien dormir....relol.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

On ne peut rien leur reprocher ce soir, ils étaient prêts dès la première mise en jeu, ils ont été patients et ils ont ont joué 3 périodes sans ralentir. Colombus était prêt à cueillir comme un fruit mûr avec un troisième match en quatre soirs.

On peut espérer que ce match va les remettre sur les rails et les encourager à jouer avec plus de constance.

Je suis toujours heureux de voir Evans marquer, c’est notre meilleur forechecker, il prend tout les mises en jeu importantes dans notre zone et il se présente à chaque match. C’est un digne successeur de Danault.