The signature slapper!

Gallagher and Niku out of COVID protocol, but will join the team later in the week
Dvorak is out indefinitely (that sounds ominous) with a LBI (lower body injury) and will be evaluated daily

Pour ceux qui en doutent sur mon fil Twitter...voici Joel Armia dans un rôle de défenseur #CH ⁦@RDSca⁩ pic.twitter.com/hkOmJJStOW

— Patrick Friolet (@PFrioletRDS) December 15, 2021

Armia at D? hahaha so meta

Only active NHLer I know that can do both role is Pysyk

only time i've seen armia playing D was in my NHL 22 franchise where i for some reason had 15 F

Brendan Smith too, Armia shouldn't be a D though

Lines at practice:

Hoffman - Suzuki - Evans
Drouin - Dauphin - Ylonen
Lehkonen - Poehling - Caufield
Pezzetta - Paquette - Perreault
Armia

Chiarot - Savard
Romanov - Petry
Kulak - Clague
Scheuneman

Allen
Montembeault


... i have a LOT of questions for ducharme.

why is evans on the first line over caufield or drouin
why is LAURENT DAUPHIN playing 2C over poehling
why is armia playing defense
why is paquette still in the lineup
why is ylonen on the second lin
why is ducharme still the coach, i could do better


Drouin - Suzuki - Caufield
Hoffman - Poehling - Lehkonen
Armia - Evans - Ylonen
Pezzetta - Perreault - Dauphin

Norlinder is going back to Sweden, Primeau to start vs the Flyers so he's been called up, I guess Ducharme finally decided to play Allen less after admitting he's being overworked

https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/2021/12/15/22836753/were-made-to-suffer-star-wars-night-montreal-canadiens-pittsburgh-penguins

@SevenLeg

Perreault isn't playing tonight due to injury, so a normal day, someone new gets injured

And in making the save to win the game Cayden Primeau gets injured. This team is cursed.

I think our goalies are cursed too, Price gets injured in half of his seasons, we don't have good backups and when we do, the whole team turns to sh*t and gets injured

With Lehkonen (Covid) Perreault Armia (Injured) what are the lines now lol

Hoffman-Suzuki-Caufield
Drouin-Dauphin-Ylönen
RHP(recall hopefully)-Poehling-Evans
Pezzetta-Paquette-Belzile(recall probably)

Player who played in the AHL this year : Caufield Dauphin Ylönen RHP Poehling Pezzetta Belzile lol

honestly at this point one hopes that gallagher is back soon

Can we just play 2 forward lines or something
Hoffman-Suzuki-Caufield
Drouin-Poehling-Evans
Maybe rotate Pezzetta and Ylonen in a bit, we don’t need to play Paquette, Dauphin or Belzile

Dang, the habs might actually have me watching a game to see RHP’s NHL debut.

Sucks to be Laval right now.

We've recalled Belzile, Vejdemo and RHP so these lines might be close to on point

I mean we’d probably want to play Harvey-Pinard - Vejdemo - Belzile together since they’ve been linemates for a large part of the last 2 seasons, and Paquette sucks.

Lines in practice:
Hoffman-Suzuki-Evans
Drouin-Dauphin-Ylonen
Belzile-Poehling-Caufield
Pezzetta-Vejdemo-Harvey-Pinard
Byron-Gallagher

Chiarot-Savard
Romanov-Petry
Kulak-Clague
Niku-Wideman

Uhhh..... This is brutal

i do not understand ducharmes choices at all

If they switched RHP and Belzile I’m fine with that

RHP-Poehling-Caufield isn't a great idea, that's 2 rookies with a sophomore, they're good players but I wouldn't put them together until they're more experienced players

I would like
Hoffman-Suzuki-Caufield
Drouin-Poehling-Ylönen
RHP-Evans-Gallagher(if good to go)
Dauphin-Vejdemo-Belzile

Scratch : Pezzetta Paquette

gallagher top line if he’s back imo

Dauphin in protocol too now