HabsWin-nipeg - (Vic Geddert)

Member since July 3, 2012

Winnipeg

Habs fan since: as long as I can remember (1970)
Favorite current player: Hard to choose
All-time favorite player: Lafleur

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• Comment on Canadiens sign two Swedish draft picks; Emelin has surgery
  More likely Vigneault if the Canucks fire him.
• Comment on Canadiens sign two Swedish draft picks; Emelin has surgery
  One of the things that impressed me was when he beat goalies clean with no traffic in front - picks the corners nicely.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Reality is that the ref's call the game differently in the playoffs. You can complain about it, or you can build your team to succeed in that context. The Habs have a team that can succeed/excell in the regular season when they call obstruction etc. In the playoffs they were mugged and abused at every turn. Their strength in the regular season was negated to a large extent by the way the game is called in the playoffs. MB's challenge is to build a team that can make noise in the post-season, not just the regular one.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  I don't think that MT had much to work with in the end. Markov was spent. The defence overall was too small to clear people out of high percentage scoring areas. Price, by his own admission, was not great. MT has gotten everything that he could out of the group all year, and my belief is that they could not sustain the level of play that they evidenced over the first 30 games forever. Throw in a couple key injuries, combined with the way they call the games in the playoffs, and the Habs couldn't compete. Now it's MB's job to mold the team into one that can compete in the alternate universe we call the playoffs - where the players are the same but rules and reality are significantly altered.
• Comment on Habs' Therrien not among Jack Adams Award finalists
  Or, the Habs slumped because MT got the maximum amount of production out of personnel that he had, which was unsustainable. As the season (abbrevaited though it was) wore down, so did the Habs. That MT identified what he had in the players, and developed a system that maximized that potential as long as he did, is quite amazing. Did he deserve a Jack Adams nomination - yes, but so did the other three. There's only so many nom's to go around - MT will have to settle for respect from his players and the GM, as well as a majority of the fans.
• Comment on Subban skates with Team Canada in Sweden
  I was actually hoping for a "none" option. I'd prefer two from the west vs. any of the remaining teams from the east. San Jose and Chicago would be my choice.
• Comment on Size isn't a problem with Habs, Plekanec says
  I've often wondered if Pleks could add more muscle and be more effective physically