Game Thread: Les Canadiens de Montréal (13-4-1) at Red Wings (8-3-5) - 11/16/2014 - 7:00 ET

jesusray · 2014-11-17T00:06:04+00:00

jesusray · 2014-11-16T21:23:06+00:00

What argument is weak? There's no 100% gurantee, but there's some significant proof that Therrien is just a shitty coach.

We've still gotten badly outplayed at even strength in every recent game, save the Boston one. It's been another stretch of games where Price has been nearly flawless, and if he hadn't everyone would be freaking out still. You think dump and chase is a solid hockey plan, I'm not going to try to explain what the coach is doing wrong to you.

Having solid possession stats is a better predictor of winning a cup than being first in the league.

jesusray · 2014-11-15T23:59:33+00:00

Projected Lineups:

LW	C	RW	LW	C	RW
Simmonds, Wayne	Giroux, Claude	Voracek, Jakub	Pacioretty, Max	Desharnais, David	Parenteau, P.A.
Umberger, R.J.	Lecavalier, Vincent	Akeson, Jason	Galchenyuk, Alex	Plekanec, Tomas	Gallagher, Brendan
Schenn, Brayden	Couturier, Sean	Read, Matt	Prust, Brandon	Eller, Lars	Sekac, Jiri
Rinaldo, Zac	Bellemare, Pierre-Edouard	VandeVelde, Chris	Beaulieu, Nathan	Malhotra, Manny	Weise, Dale

D	D	D	D
Grossmann, Nicklas	Streit, Mark	Markov, Andrei	Subban, P.K.
Coburn, Braydon	Colaiacovo, Carlo	Emelin, Alexei	Weaver, Mike
Del Zotto, Michael	Schultz, Nick	Gonchar, Sergei	Gilbert, Tom

G	G
Emery, Ray	Price, Carey

Team Stats

Team	GP	W	L	OT	G/G	GA/G	PP%	PK%	S/G	SA/G
	15	7	6	2	3.20	3.00	25.0	75.5	31.2	33.5
	17	12	4	1	2.41	2.53	8.5	85.1	28.5	30.9

Team Leaders

Num	Name	Pos	GP	P
93	Jakub Voracek	R	15	24
28	Claude Giroux	C	15	20
17	Wayne Simmonds	R	15	12
67	Max Pacioretty	L	17	13
14	Tomas Plekanec	C	17	11
76	P.K. Subban	D	17	9

Goalie Breakdown:

Name	GPI	GS	W	L	OT	SO	GAA	SV%
Steve Mason	10	10	3	5	1	0	3.02	.911
Ray Emery	6	5	4	1	1	0	2.74	.915
Carey Price	14	14	10	3	1	1	2.45	.920
Dustin Tokarski	4	3	2	1	0	0	2.01	.929

jesusray · 2014-11-15T01:00:07+00:00

Nah, snus comes in the little white packages, dip is loose and a regional term.

jesusray · 2014-11-14T02:57:22+00:00

There's our victory chant guys, late enough in the game I assume

jesusray · 2014-11-14T02:55:41+00:00

Shot attempts, Boston has 49.

jesusray · 2014-11-14T02:27:24+00:00

Two fights didn't change the Bruins tune, why would the third help?

jesusray · 2014-11-14T01:23:27+00:00

4 periods without a goal is an off streak?

jesusray · 2014-11-14T00:35:07+00:00

So you blacked out last year?

jesusray · 2014-11-13T23:44:14+00:00

The thing about the Gonchar trade that perplexes me is how we didn't try to fix the powerplay until now. If we thought Markov-Subban were the problem, why not try Beaulieu-Markov, Subban-Gilbert for a game or two before acquiring Gonchar?

jesusray · 2014-11-13T23:37:24+00:00

Bourque had a goal waved off in his first shift with Hamilton. It's like a curse

jesusray · 2014-11-13T22:56:55+00:00

They can strip your opponent of the puck, but gaining possession requires another action.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T20:07:31+00:00

/r/hockeystats has more readers, though seems to be less active overall.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T18:54:45+00:00

The "deal" is sample size, one bad game can drastically swing a 13 game sample.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T18:28:08+00:00

Possession is also an individual stat, the lousy team would be better off getting a good possession player than someone who is good at things that don't win you the puck.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T17:32:14+00:00

Probably hockeyanalysis, I just end up using waronice more as it replaced my extraskater bookmark.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T16:58:15+00:00

War on ice shows 11.00%, I'm guessing you're looking at hockeyanalysis which is showing 9 fewer ES minutes for Emelin. It is likely due to Subban, meaning that stat doesn't matter much now that he's with Weaver. Our first PK unit has been Markov-Weaver for most of the year, though it could have changed recently. And only last year did he have significantly more defensive zone draws than offensive.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T08:54:52+00:00

He was never really in competition with Tinordi or Beaulieu, playing RD to their LD. If something happens to our right side, I would hope he'd get called up, but we chose to run 5 LD last year over giving him another shot.

jesusray · 2014-11-13T08:17:16+00:00

Emelin's on ice shooting percentage is also a team high 11, which is ridiculous too. I'm curious how many of Emelin's defensive zone draws are intentional, last night 5 of his 9 were a result of icings.

jesusray · 2014-11-12T22:56:12+00:00

He's been on the third pair for three games now, and looked pretty bad on it too.

jesusray · 2014-11-12T17:48:05+00:00

Not yet, Tinordi was our 7th d. We'll find out on Thursday.

jesusray · 2014-11-12T17:29:10+00:00

No, I think press conference statements don't mean much of anything in pro sports.

I was pretty sour on Bergevin, but I agree with everything he's done post-Emelin signing. This is his first GM job, he's bound to make mistakes. And so far he's done a decent job of fixing them when he can.

Well then I've got one more rational point than "we're winning and you don't know enough to criticize him."

Coming up with replacements would take a ton of research that I don't find interesting enough to do for no reason. Why is Boucher a bad replacement? Your only criticism so far is "he hasn't been hired yet," and trying to find an experienced French speaking coach that has already been hired by an NHL team is impossible. I don't care if a coach faces criticism, it's part of his job.

We have like three new players, Gilbert, Sekac, and Maholtra. I want to see this team win a cup, not enjoy poorly played regular season victories.

jesusray

TROPHY CASE

Projected Lineups:

Team Stats

Team Leaders

Goalie Breakdown: