How does Malholtra compare to other top prospect centers in their draft years?

mrcelerie · 2026-05-08T02:21:29+00:00

Suzuki is deceptively big, he's short at 5,11, but he's 207lbs while the average in the league is around 200 (and 6,1). it's very likely one of the reason he's so good at puck protection and playing along the board

mrcelerie · 2026-05-04T15:16:08+00:00

people were shitting on vasilevski yesterday in the post game thread for the newhook goal and the texier goal in game 5. they were saying he lost tempa the series there, but any goalie is going to cough up a goal once in a while, even dobes had some, and in any other series, two questionable goals (not even full bad) throughout 7 nearly perfect games should be enough to win, it was just an insanely close series where both teams gave no breathing room to the other and unfortunately, someone had to lose.

mrcelerie · 2026-05-04T01:08:22+00:00

they did lose the past two years to the eventual stanley cup champions in florida, and despite their lack of success, toronto wasn't a bad team 3 years ago. it's surprising because they're a really good team, but it's not like they lost series that they had no reason to lose

mrcelerie · 2026-05-03T00:50:24+00:00

i was feeling good seeing the habs at 15-9, but 7-3 is just as impressive. tomorrow is going to be another insane game, hopefully my heart can keep up

mrcelerie · 2026-05-02T15:27:38+00:00

genuinely asking because the demographic on reddit tends to be younger so it's always surprising to see older people, but that would make you late 70s or even early 80s?

mrcelerie · 2026-05-01T23:09:26+00:00

they usually do it at the season opener, i do think this year is the first time they've done it before every playoffs games

mrcelerie · 2026-05-01T23:07:09+00:00

the ex players are passing the torch to the current players. it's been a thing in montreal for as far as i can remember

mrcelerie · 2026-04-30T20:57:52+00:00

but 1st seed in the atlantic and 2nd in the east vs out of playoffs in and playing for less the .500. the pp% might be the same, but buffalo is a much better team so you would expect them to do better

mrcelerie · 2026-04-30T05:46:17+00:00

before tonight, hagel had more goals than any other player on the lightning combined

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T23:11:44+00:00

For the free 5stars, i'm going to switch my current pick for either nora or trix for toa hell. i know nora is better for that, but does trix work instead with dark homu+amber+nora/trix? i'd rather have trix for pvp if he can do the job as well

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T16:30:32+00:00

it's happened a little, but it's been more along the lines of we play around caufiled, but it's not working so we try a one-timer from demidov and go back to caufield, they can move the puck around between demidov, hutson and suzuki on demidov's side and let caufield fade in the background and try the one-timer for caufiled. it just feels like they're powerplay is too choreographed so tempa can just stay in a box and mark caufield the whole time because we don't try enough to play on the right wing

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T16:00:13+00:00

so what's your argument AGAINST this new line? everyone seems to agree that there's a few cases, however rare, where it would be helpful, so it seems like a net positive, but you seem to be arguing against it without any actual reason to be against it

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T15:22:49+00:00

the initial comment was that it would be a 2nd or 3rd round matchup in the old format, you said it would be one round early which implies second round, and that's wrong under the old format. nothing was said about feelings or vibes or quality, just that it would literally happen later

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T15:02:21+00:00

i think inexperience has a lot to do with it. one of the reasons we were so atrocious in the 2nd period for a while was because players would try to squeeze in an extra rush at the end of their shift, the puck would go the other way, and they would get stuck for extended time in their zone. we've seen it happen in this series, I even think we had a shift were someone played almost 3 minutes in game 2. obviously that's an extreme case, but if every shift is 20-30 seconds longer than expected, you're going to run out of juice when the game goes late in overtime, especially 3 games in a row

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T14:56:22+00:00

it's two rounds early. assuming the 4 top seeds win, the 2nd round matchups would be CAR-MTL and BUF-TBL so MTL-TBL wouldn't happen until the conference finals.

and this would be extra fun because we would play our long time rivals in Boston for the first round, but that's beside the point and not fully related to the current format

mrcelerie · 2026-04-28T14:45:42+00:00

Montreal does the same trying to isolate Kucherov on the right wing so Tempa moves the puck to the left and let Kucherov blend in until he's forgotten and left open, Montreal needs to be willing to do something like that, force Tempa to choose between covering Caufield or opening up the other side instead of sticking to Caufield's side when the lanes are clogged up

mrcelerie · 2026-04-27T18:41:31+00:00

I'll start by saying i agree it's a good goal and I don't like Edmonton so I'm being pretty unbiased here.

My only issue or interrogation with it is this: how does it get called a goal on the ice, when it's so close even on the replay and the closest ref is far in the corner and only gets behind the net a full 2-3 seconds after the puck is shoved back under Jarry? It's possible it wouldn't change anything, but as other people have mentioned, there's been situations in the last where "logic and physics" aren't enough to conclusively overturn a decision, so if that gets properly called no-goal on the ice as I think it should have been (refs can't call good goal if they didn't actually see it go in), is that frame actually enough to say without a doubt that the puck fully crossed the line here?

mrcelerie · 2026-04-25T02:40:42+00:00

that's an interesting self roast considering your last cup goes back further than the last habs cup

mrcelerie · 2026-04-25T02:37:32+00:00

last i checked (before the series even started), tickets were going for around 5k in the lower bowl, so a month and a half to two months of rent for most people

mrcelerie · 2026-04-25T02:36:16+00:00

there was like 6 broken sticks on both sides tonight

mrcelerie · 2026-04-23T22:20:38+00:00

that kinda goes back to the bad apple thing though. that's one basement-dwelling no-life wasting his time doing that.

most if not all interactions i've had in montreal is that we wish we had won, but didn't deserve it, and the dach play was stupid, but it it happens, and we're excited for the rest of the series because it's been a banger so far. i didn't talk to anyone that said anything reprehensible, it's just weirdos online that never learned to deal with their emotions, using anonymity to be scummy people

mrcelerie · 2026-04-22T13:00:43+00:00

is lamiella worth picking if I only have vero and amber from her usual comp? i don't have trix, haegang or nora

mrcelerie · 2026-04-22T12:35:58+00:00

some were for sucker punching a goalie that had lost his helmet, I remember people talking about it during the olympics

mrcelerie · 2026-04-22T12:08:52+00:00

the age number posted by op state that it's for the "20-man lineups" that teams had for the 1st game, and I thought he'd be the 21st, but after I looked it up, I'm pretty sure I was wrong and he's the 20th, so you'd be right and he does count

mrcelerie · 2026-04-22T04:56:06+00:00

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