Habs News & Notes: 2019 Offseason

CaptainBolduke said:

It's harder at some things - but the things Chuck struggles with are more unique to a winger (board battles, etc).

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GrandWazoo said:

He struggles on board battles but it's mainly his lack of situational awareness at center that prevents him from having the coach confidence in that role.

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GrandWazoo said:

It was pretty eloquent, wasn't it?

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Krustchev said:

“Lack of situational awareness” is a nice euphemism for saying he’s a dope on the ice, which he is unfortunately is.

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GrandWazoo said:

He's not great defensively by any means at center but I still prefer him there because the offensive production is there. Drouin has been a huge disappointment so far.

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Habsy said:

Lawyerly?

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Krustchev said:

Grammatical rules do not apply on hockey message boards, are you not aware?

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Habsy said:

Hmmm, I'll have to check with my attorney on that one.

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worm said:

It is frustrating that the habs (and largely the NHL) focus sooo much on defense.

Chuck is not great at D. But...

a) put players in a position to succeed
b) the habs have Price to make up for chuck sucking defensively
c) the habs have Weber to make up for chuck sucking defensively
d) put a more defensively strong winger on the line
e) the habs cant score so the focus should be on developing offense
f) we have nothing else even close to a first line centre so deal with it

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Habs-25 said:

I seriously believe there is not a good evaluation of talents in this team. It is part of it due to lots of media attention that players get, after few good performance they make god of player and few bad performance is enough to destroy the same player.
Everyone thought Chucky will be a star, which he will never be one, same as Drouin, this is wrong evaluation by management, i mean it is ok, and it happens to lots of team, but great or good teams manage to repair these kind of errors, Habs continue doing same kind of mistakes.

Same applies to Hudon(not sure if the guy could still bd in line-up if he wasn't a local boy), he is not a top 6, and we have too many small players for our bottom 6 anyway who give way more production than him. Lehkonen, BigMac, JDLR are other examples and the list goes on and on.

I remember the day of BigMac draft, Timmins and some others said, we are hoping to get another Lucici in BigMac lol.

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GrandWazoo said:

I thought Hudon has been one of our best forward this year, and it has nothing to do with him being local. Ideally he's a 3rd line guy though but he does a little bit of everything.

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GrandWazoo said:

I thought Hudon has been one of our best forward this year, and it has nothing to do with him being local. Ideally he's a 3rd line guy though but he does a little bit of everything.

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Altair said:

It too obvious, one must think outside of the box. DLR as a first line center kind of out of the box.

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lecoqsportif said:

Yeah, the kind of box ya stick in the ground.

Jumpin’ Geezus on a pogo stick.

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