Ben Chiarot is now tied for the team lead in goals with Hoffman, Jesus christ we suck

Zach Fucale just got a shutout in his NHL debut lol

and suzuki.

on another note suzuki has a 77 point pace lets gooooo

He’s also on pace for 22 goals. At this rate, we could probably get a 1st for him at the deadline, lol.

if he gets 22 goals we could get more

was doing a lil bit of research… wonder what it would take to pry justin barron from COL

They don’t have much in the way of RHD beyond Makar, so I don’t see why they’d be willing to move him.

So Allen left the game I think, Jesus Christ we can’t catch a break

i wonder who would be better for a start today...
montembeault or primeau
sigh
can the hockey gods please just fkn leave us alone

Not Primeau, shouldn’t have called him up, making him play for this team is a great way to stunt him, we’re kinda throwing him to the wolves here unless Price comes back soon or Allen isn’t out for long

Price had to battle to win the net over Halak and it worked out for him. He had his struggles and improved because of them. Goaltenders need to learn to overcome adversity and deal with NHL caliber play at some point. I'd be happy to commit to Primeau now while we are struggling, but first we need to acknowledge that we aren't in contention to take that pressure off.

Finally getting to see Anderson with Suzuki and a shooter tonight. I had hoped that shooter would be Caufield, but Toffoli is capable of taking advantage of the openings that line should create as well.

Chiarot is playing with Petry. So I expect Montembault to have to deal with a lot of traffic. Fingers crossed Petry doesn't cannonball another player into our goalie, then we'd be forced to give Primeau a little trial by fire.

three goalies out would be a very very big problem

Oh yeah, and I’d start McNiven over Primeau since I’m fine with ruining McNiven ( if Montembault somehow got injured )

Have to make a trade then. Even if we call up McNiven, not much in the cupboard for Laval (Vrbatic?). Scarier thing is trying to rush someone back.

if montembeault gets injured too then i say you just sign an AHL goalie tbh

Well they can just call up Kevin Bureau-Poulin, and Trois-Rivières can probably find a goalie in the meantime.

Felt bored so here's some random stats about the Habs

2021-22 Points Scored per Game

99 points in 17 games
translates to 5.82 points per game, or a 478 point pace

2020-21 Points Scored per Game

415 points in 56 games
translates to 7.41 points per game, or a 608 point pace

Last time MTL made it to the cup final - 1993-94

883 points in 84 games
translates to 10.51 points per game

i dunno why i made this, just thought i'd share ig
hmmmm

I was wondering who on the team is having their worst season (point-wise).

Josh Anderson - 1.44 P/60 (6th best out of 8)
Joel Armia - 0.74 P/60 (7th best out of 7)
Jonathan Drouin - 2.44 P/60 (2nd best out of 8)
Christian Dvorak - 0.91 P/60 (6th best out of 6)
Jake Evans - 0.93 P/60 (3rd best out of 3)
Brendan Gallagher - 1.72 P/60 (10th best out of 10)
Mike Hoffman - 1.84 P/60 (8th best out of 9)
Artturi Lehkonen - 1.31 P/60 (4th best out of 6)
Cédric Paquette - 0.00 P/60 (8th best out of 8)
Mathieu Perreault - 2.61 P/60 (2nd best out of 13)
Nick Suzuki - 2.55 P/60 (1st best out of 3)
Tyler Toffoli - 1.85 P/60 (9th best out of 10)

Ben Chiarot - 0.77 P/60 (5th best out of 8)
Brett Kulak - 0.86 P/60 (2nd best out of 7)
Sami Niku - 1.65 P/60 (1st best out of 4)
Jeff Petry - 0.29 P/60 (12th best out of 12)
David Savard - 0.55 P/60 (8th best out of 10)
Chris Wideman - 1.57 P/60 (2nd best out of 5)

cedric paquette 🤮

So pretty much everyone has been having down years except for a couple players

So I just watched the highlights from tonight’s game.

The “I can’t believe it didn’t go in shot” at the end of the 1st for Lehkonen is so on brand for poor Lehky. (I say this respectfully, with Lehkonen being the guy who scored the biggest goal in the last 28 years for this franchise.)

The Kreider goal assisted by Zibanejad on the cross-ice pass literally caused a pain in my chest, as it reminded me of this goal from 2017: (where it’s Zibanejad from Kreider)


Phenomenal goal by Julien Gauthier.

he got MTL into the SCF in 20/21, he got them into the first round in 19/20
i dont want to trade this guy

Lehky is great, however, he's sadly probably gone in 1-2 Years, with this many top 6 wingers signed to multiple-year deals, we don't have much bottom 6 wing space

He should be gone this offseason imo. They already committed so much money to Armia and Byron that a 2M+ Lehkonen becomes a luxury.

Byron's gone imo though, Buy-out or trade, 3.4 is too much for him on the 4th line