But the Canadiens looked MUCH better than they did against Dallas.
And this was against a Buffalo team that brought most of its NHLers to the Bell Centre.
A lot to like in a kid-studded lineup.
And Max-Pac is back!
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I do believe the Habs will fear some teams this year, most teams in the eastern conference improved their team, the Habs brought in one scorer and let go two of their good defencemen, I don’t think unless yemelin and Diaz can pull it off the Habs will be as good as last year, hope I’m wrong and they win the Eastern Conference….
I think a healthy Habs team competes for top spot in the league. Injuries, for all teams is always the unknown factor.
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Don’t worry, you don’t have to hope you are wrong. You are wrong.
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Hahaha, someone said on RDS that DD was -3, boy did they get into an UPROAR!…
But Gomez’s +- is conclusive…
Duno what koolaid some people are drinking… DD is still a rookie, he has not hit his full potential yet.
Since on ice practices and scrimmages started Saturday, the most common description I’ve read about Nathan Beaulieu has been ‘meh’. Well this kid’s not getting a ‘meh’ from me. Playing against a Buffalo squad that iced over 3/4 of their opening night line-up, he may of made a couple of small mistakes in the first period, but he easily corrected them. He started on the 2nd pp unit with Gorges, but by the 2nd period, he was on the 1st unit with PK. It seemed like he was on the ice every 2nd shift in the 3rd, and when you are getting that much ice time in a preseason game, it’s because the coaching staff wants to get a good look at you. Great pass to set up PK’s goal, the kid far from looked out of place out there. He’s not a 3 or 4 year project IMHO, I think he’ll be with the big boys within 2 years.
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I don’t believe it could happen, but maybe the good look was to determine “do we keep him or return him to Saint John”
Yesterday I believed they where showcasing Weber (a hunch) due to his ice time.
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I’m from there, so it’s Saint John ( no biggie ). It was obvious to me that Weber goat all that ice time last night to see if he’s a legitimate top 6 DMan. Some of the other guys fighting for the 6th and 7th spots got a lot of time last night too. Same reason Palushaj and Enqvist got another start tonight, coming in to camp, they were favored to fight for our 13th forward spot. Don’t know if things are working out for them too well tho.
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Fixed, thanks for not flaming me for the typo.
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Ah I didn’t realize it was the Saint John seadogs.
Anyways I don’t think Weber was being showcased, I think maybe Martin doesn’t want to experiment during the regular season, but liked what he saw late last year from the guy so now is the perfect chance to see what he can do given more responsibility.
The Habs will fear NO team this season …
We will be great !
It is all for nothing if we don’t win the Stanley Cup!
I hope they try Avtsin with DD once
Meanwhile, the last forward spot is looking like Trotter’s to lose. Both Engqvist and Palushaj have not stepped it up. I’m rooting for Blunden to be the darkhorse.
So using our 4th line center as our first line center we were actually competitive against a mostly complete Buffalo roster.
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It certainly looks that way. I was really impressed with the two rookies,
Beaulieu and Gallagher, just like everyone else. Gallagher was a late round draft, and WOW, he’s got moves.
Pouliot took two penalties tonight.
How many PouPlanks did he manage ?
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bah ya beat me to it..
But but but… how many times did he fall down?
Aside from the obvious ravings about Beaulieu and Gallagher, Subban and Patches, I thought Avstin and Dumont had some pretty solid moments, in particular I thought Avstin could have benefited with a few shifts on the 1st line, but who am I to argue. Looks like he also got dinged by a puck in the 2nd which I think hurt his ice time in the 2nd half of the game.
I’m completely underwhelmed by Palushaj and to a lesser degree Enqvist and Bishop (yes Kassian is a beast, and perhaps it was just bad luck, but when you take a run at a guy, bounce off him and get yourself hurt, its a bit dissapointing. I think he also spent a lot of the previous season hurt in Hamilton).
I’ve been saying for 2 years now that Beaulieu will be the best Pro to come out of the stacked Saint John Seadogs. He will be better than Simon Depres or Jonathon Huberdeau in 3-4 years. He just has so much patience with the puck and is making fewer and fewer bad decisions with the puck as he gets older. I’m glad he’ll be back here in SJ this year for another Mem Cup run.
Don’t know about THAT, Huberdeau is a pretty special player.
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Are you as sure that Huberdeau will be back in Saint John for the same run? He’s an important piece of that Memorial Cup run and only has to make a weak Panthers team.
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Hi all you good folks in Habsland,just wanted to say that I loved the effort put forth by the boys tonight…some real highlight reel plays. Just think,that was basically the Sabres starting roster and we played so strong against them. Hopefully the enthusiasm is infectious and it rolls right into the regular season.Here’s to hoping for a big season…go Habs go!!!!
Kid Gallagher is gonna be sweet. Montreal’s version of St Louis.
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More like Cammy IMO, even sorta looks like him. Even trains much like Cammy.
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He’s gonna be as good as Cammy.
More aggressive maybe?
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Very likely, which may make him better then Cammy in the long run.
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it’s only preseason, but this Buffalo team is gonna move up in the standings this year…gonna be a pretty good scoring team.
It’s only pre-season and they’re going to be facing teams that actually come at them with centre depth and more than 1 scoring line.
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It’s buffalo’s defense and goaltending that scares me if anything.
ur right miller is crazy good
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Entertaining game. Can anyone point me to a preseason roster with player numbers? Google isn’t helping and I need a program. Thanks in advance.
If you look under news in this story you will find the numbers. Some of the guys have been cut but the rest are good I think.
Habs camp teams formed
Hopefully, no one on this projected pairing in 4 yrs will be sent away:
Subban – Beaulieu
Diaz – Yemelin
Tinordi – ???
Did Asvtin get injured? Why was he pretty much benched?
Beaulieu looked better as game progressed. Tonight was the PK show though, he was more effective than the 1st line together.
the difference between 1st two games? easy, D…
yesterday there was 1 somewhat regular WEbber, as Gill was worse than most of the rookies and clearly asleep.
Tonight, PK, easily our best Dman and probably 2nd best player after Price. Gorges, what a shutdown guy, Yemelin can learn a lot from him. Spacek, looks like he got authentic tiger blood unlike charlie sheen. He played well, I was impressed.
Beaulieu played better as game went on. St-denis and the other dude were AWFULLLLLL
- Beaulieu’s skating was very impressive tonight. Kept pace with NHL players very well.
- You can see why I’m constantly in Gallagher’s camp
- Liked the flashes from Alex Avtsin, a proper season as a 20-year old in the AHL will do him a lot of good.
- Dumont had some solid moments.
- Pacioretty is back in to old form, doesn’t seem to be thinking about his injury, The Man Without Fear.
- Liked Budaj
- That Subban kid is pretty good no?
- Gionta was in pretty good drive mode for pre-season, what the team needs from the captain.
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You absolutely have to be impressed with Gallagher. I didn’t know he was that good in the WHL either?
Beaulieu should join Gallagher in Hamilton this year.
Galagher and Beaulieu can only play in CHL or NHL, no AHL … Too young.
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Really? I thought Gallager would have been of age for sure? And I honestly never thought of the minimum age in the AHL now that u mention it.
Amazing that they’re both that good that young though!
Both are going back to junior and will be playing in the WJC.
If he hadn’t been a Vancouver Giant last year, they would never have made the playoffs.
Both have a final year of CHL commitments to fill out first.
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Beaulieu should definitely go AHL. For at least 1 full year, but definitely should. Why play 1 more year in a league he excels at…
Pacioretty is a trooper. He don’t expect a medal just because the scene got rough.
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How many minutes did Beaulieu play tonight? Seems like he was on the ice all night.
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Probably 27 or so. He was at over 17 after two.
Around 25 mins.
He played 27:15, which is astounding.
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Hey, the Sens beat the Bs. So does this mean their season is over?
***Subbang Baby!!!***
Actually it means they legally have to buff their names off the cup, AND their season is over.
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Beaulieu is only 18 folks. The kid’s only going to get better.
Bergie is being an old fart about this tonight
I am going to sit back, have a nice quiet herbal tea and watch the fireworks.
Looks like we’re in for a night of I told you so’s.
I told you so!
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No kidding eh! What a troll…
No kidding…
fun game! REAL excited for beaulieu, he’s like subban 2.0…too soon for that?
Yemelin is Subban 2.0
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Freakin’ open net….can’t stop a beachball…
Gallagher, Beaulieu, PK, DD, the kids are alright
Got to see Gallagher play a couple of times for the giants, would love to see this kid playing for the Habs.
Moen has no business playing above the fourth line this year.
Bit early to judge him IMO
Much better game tonight.
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By a much different team. Can’t wait till the starting lineup gets going
Gallagher can dangle something fierce.
Lovin Gallagher. Slick, but drives the net and wins battles despite his size.
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Mayer plays like Hasek but 5 feet outside of his net.
good game
PK and Beaulieu, the future looks nice
And Yemelin and Tinordi…
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I’m positive Beaulieu and Yemelin will make an impact but Tinordi is still very young and hopefully he packs on a lot more pounds and improves his skating over the next couple years.
Well said
Tough to compete when you can’t score. Same problem over past 5 years we just can’t finish. Not impressed, or exited with what I have seen in these 2 games.
You talk as if people here really care about what you think.
Truth hurt plowjockey?
Wow,what a tough guy. Name calling on the internet. The calling card of a PC coward. Does that truth hurt?
Solid effort by Spacek tonight. I worry that he won’t be able to keep it up for an 82-game-season and playoff run though.
He was gassed long before the playoffs even started last season.
He looked gassed and only played 59 games. He should be behind yemelin,weber and even diaz in the defenceman chart.
#40 is a bank heist
I saw Beaulieu play against Gatineau a couple of games and he was quite obviously the best D-man out there. I wonder if he’ll go back to dominate Juniors or if they’ll bring him to Hamilton? The Seadogs will likely have a great team again this year.
40 and 76 — some pretty stuff out there
Beaulieu’s gotten much better as the game has progressed. Must have had some nerves to work through. Understandable.
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at least JM finally got spacek away from subban on the PP
To his credit, Moen went over to say something to Kassian.
The real reason we’re not scoring enough is the players don’t want to hear the damn goal song.
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No kidding. Enough is enough of that garbage.
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They really should consider changin’ it.
Any suggestions?
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something voivod
honestly ready to start by arcade fire would be awesome. or a broken social scene tune. im trying to pick bands from montreal
Yes, but to what?
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a simple plan? oh no they did that already
we need montreal written all over it
Gino Vanelli?
Vanelli?
Luba?
How about Coldplay?
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Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, of course.
How about Michael Bolton covering Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah?
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Arcade Fire?
Corey Hart?
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The only Michael Bolton tune I would accept is that SNL short he did with Andy Samberg.
You’re on a roll tonight. That SNL thing is excellent.
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From the Things That Should Have Already Happened file:
Engqvist needs a power skating coach.
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Not sure a coach could help.
Really liking DiSimone too. We haven’t seen much of him though.
wow crazy dangle by ennis. or is it ellis. i’m confused.
also:
beaulieu looks amazing, i’ll say it again
Yeah agreed. In a few years, this D corps will be the best in the league. In Timmins we trust.
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Commence under bus throwing….
Hey, it’s pre season for fans too ya know, some of the AWE’s and CI’s need to get back in shape.
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Yep, gotta shake off the rust I guess
Are the rookie refs out too? Dumont took a high stick 4 feet away from the puck… right in front of the net.
then the sabres score like a minute later when we should have been on the PP
Not a good goal to give up.. that’s a softie, folks
And Mayer isn’t NHL calibre.
I would suggest he’s not AHL calibre either….
You might very well be right.
Beaulieu is looking better and better as the game goes on.
Seems like we got our first cut. A game to forget for Bishop
Mayer was sooooooooooooooo far out of his net.
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Nice choice, lol.
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Patch messed up there