MONTREAL CANADIENS 3 VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS 2 (MTL 4-2) – OT

The Captain, Mark Stone had ZERO points, Karlsson had around 14 and was the leading scorer. Why no love for Wild Bill. He’s my Captain, not Mr. No Show Stone.

Posted a few times before so no repeating all
of it.

Going to be a rough year next year and probably beyond. 13 m in goalie salaries and only trade bait is Theodore. No one on the prospect list that can help. Suzuki would be great. Wonderful moves.

Gm and coach need to go.
FO moves are bad. Coach had nothing when it counted.

Watched whitecloud and Theodore get worse and worse as playoffs went on.

Players have no spirit. They don’t. Stones stupid rage celebrations wouldn’t motivate a 3 year old.

Players aren’t finishers. Miss the net constantly or shoot it into goalies stomach.

Until they make some intelligent moves I can’t see this team being worth the time to follow and invest serious time in. They just don’t have it and I suggest we are further away from winning cup than any of you polyannas will post after this.

There now the purge is complete…. like their season.

There’s a couple of posters tonight who are generally fucked up. Crazy comments from mommies basement. Do you get off making outlandish comments you should try a blowup doll next time.

Patch was going to get his revenge on Montreal how’d that work out.
Stone held scoreless that was a killer.
O – 15 on the PP can’t get any worse.
Theadore it’s time for him to move on
Fleury a luxury we can’t afford anymore.
More cuts coming stay tuned.

VGK finally began to work out the issues in the 3rd period. One being the reversal pass when challenged at ozone entry – good. The bad that never changed – too many point shots from way too far out. low % shots = wasted possessions. This was the number one issue here that lead to most of Habs scoring chances – odd man rushes.

It’s PDB’s system, and he will not change it. While his structure is very good in terms of players buying into it, it’s not a structure that was won, or will win a cup IMO.

When you continue to pinch up dmen like this, you are asking your forwards to play far in, which a lot of times will leave your F1, 2 and 3 up ice. With Dmen constantly pinching in and doing most of the ‘heavy lifting’ in the ozone, you are going to give up odd man rushes.

VGK made a lot of mistakes in this regard. Now, this system can work provided dmen are MORE SELECTIVE in their pinches and point shots. However, VGK just kept firing low % on goal, rushed fast shots that again, lead to odd man rushes, open stretches passes, and more.

Possession does matter, but it depends what you do with it. VGK sorely lacks CENTERING, a vertical game ice to ice. Refer to Tampa when at full strength (with Kutcherov). They play ice to ice, so they generate better quality chances.

In The NHL, out of the 4 major sports, the talent level is the closest. The difference between winning and losing in playoffs is VERY NARROW. Ken says we were the better team than The AVS, I absolutely disagree with his view – we were at best the equal team, but AVS BEAT THEMSELVES in the same manner we did in this series – MISTAKES.

Islanders and Bolts make the least amount of mistakes. I clearly said before this series that Habs had a chance and that this could go 7 and likely would have if not for that MAF bungle in game 3.

I can now tell you that Habs will get destroyed by either Tampa or NYI, I mean slaughtered badly because neither of those teams rely on their dmen over pinching and point shots to score. Habs won’t get transition on either of those teams,

Game 5 was the biggest killer. VGK at home were clearly OVER AMPED, and HABS took advantage of it. Again, in the 3rd period here, VGK was starting to “figure it out” but ran out of luck and time notwithstanding, Patches bungled a very easy scoring chance – have to bury that one.

VGK is a very good team, but not won’t win a cup until when and if this team;

1. trades Theodore – he’s an offensive dman and redundant with Petro in the fold – other teams will value him highly – get a quality center for him so Chandler and Karlsson can move down a line each.

2. Must trade one of the goalies, My source says Pens wanted MAF back, but did not offer VGK what they wanted and there were some cap issues for The Pens. After Jarry’s bed shitting this postseason, I think Pens will make it work.

3. If Deboer is going to stay, he needs to do a better of job of making adjustments IN THE SEASON before we get to the postseason, make adjustments faster, and convey those better to his team.

Forget about trading Patches, no one will give us any return for him, and he’s a cap nightmare – we are stuck with him, a one dimensional player.

Concerning Stone, he needs to deal with adversity better and stop forcing stuff, same with Marshy.

Huge major changes don’t need to happen here, but a few big important ones can and will happen here.

This team was slightly better than last year’s team because of Petro, Without his play, AVS would have won that series. He did most everything correctly. I say slightly better because we missed another center in Stansty.

If we make the changes I think we should, we can be a true Cup contender.

DISAPPOINTING !

I knew this would be my, last chance, to see the Knights raise the cup.

I gave everything I had to root them on to victory. And I was ridiculed for that. But, that’s what our country has turned into” Chaos, conspiracy theories, racism, HATE!

So no surprise I was attacked for my honest, open, positive views.

The Knights did not have “a championship attitude”. In the playoffs you must play like a sports car, peddle to the metal, not like an 18 wheeler, that grinds slowly only picking up speed when it’s to late.

The Habs deserved it. They out played us .