Canadiens @ Leafs - Sept. 29th, 7:00pm - SN

[Bill_Berg]

Simpson is really annoying. Habs had a couple lucky ones and the Leafs looked to have more high damage chances. Sucks they still lost.

 

[Nik]

My Take

The Good:

- It is easy to see Marchenko is a very good player who plays with notable dynamism
- I was impressed by Roslovic's ability/willingness to be the gritty guy on a top 6 line
- I thought the 3/4th lines looked like appropriately scrappy/energetic fellas

The Bad:

- Boy, if Raddysh does anything worthy of being a top pairing guy, I didn't see it
- If you had told me that #34 was one of the top 10 or 15 players in the league I would probably not believe you based on tonight
- Mckenna scored 4 fewer goals then I am accustomed to from #1 picks in their debut

The Ricci:

- These Training Camp-Ass Numbers they're wearing
- The helmet ads look just awful

 

[herman]

L2 popped every time they put 53 on the wing. I don’t mind them alternating 92 off here and there.

 

[Bender]

My Take

The Good:

- It is easy to see Marchenko is a very good player who plays with notable dynamism
- I was impressed by Roslovic's ability/willingness to be the gritty guy on a top 6 line
- I thought the 3/4th lines looked like appropriately scrappy/energetic fellas

The Bad:

- Boy, if Raddysh does anything worthy of being a top pairing guy, I didn't see it
- If you had told me that #34 was one of the top 10 or 15 players in the league I would probably not believe you based on tonight
- Mckenna scored 4 fewer goals then I am accustomed to from #1 picks in their debut

The Ricci:

- These Training Camp-Ass Numbers they're wearing
- The helmet ads look just awful

Re: the ads. You really have been away a while!

 

[Bender]

L2 popped every time they put 53 on the wing. I don’t mind them alternating 92 off here and there.

But then you kind of wonder... Where does he play? L3? Seems like a waste no?

 

[Nik]

Re: the ads. You really have been away a while!

I'm sure I'll learn to live with it, especially after they call up Fraser Minten.

 

[cw]

My Take

The Good:

- It is easy to see Marchenko is a very good player who plays with notable dynamism
- I was impressed by Roslovic's ability/willingness to be the gritty guy on a top 6 line
- I thought the 3/4th lines looked like appropriately scrappy/energetic fellas

The Bad:

- Boy, if Raddysh does anything worthy of being a top pairing guy, I didn't see it
- If you had told me that #34 was one of the top 10 or 15 players in the league I would probably not believe you based on tonight
- Mckenna scored 4 fewer goals then I am accustomed to from #1 picks in their debut

The Ricci:

- These Training Camp-Ass Numbers they're wearing
- The helmet ads look just awful

"- Boy, if Raddysh does anything worthy of being a top pairing guy, I didn't see it"

Neither did Tampa Bay really. He was a late bloomer 4/5 dman starting at age 27 for two seasons until last season when Hedman went down
He's arguably paid like a top pairing guy because of his Cinderella offensive season and the UFA bidding.
To me, he's typically been a 3/4 dman in his good years who has a great point shot on the PP and not the outlier from last season.
I think they would be wise to start him out playing that way and let him work his way into more ice time if it gets justified by his play.
Because he isn't as strong or gritty defensively, pairing him with a dman who is would probably be a better combination.

Tonight, that couldn't occur because McCabe got hurt and played 11+ mins and so they had to juggle.
It is also a little unfair to be too critical because there are so many new skaters and a new system.

EDIT: The 3/4 lines were getting clobbered in the faceoffs but I think some of that had to do with the new linemates (as did much of the teams sloppy play)

 

[ZBBM]

Yeah, they got their timepieces cleansed in faceoffs.

 

[Bender]

"- Boy, if Raddysh does anything worthy of being a top pairing guy, I didn't see it"

Neither did Tampa Bay really. He was a late bloomer 4/5 dman starting at age 27 for two seasons until last season when Hedman went down
He's arguably paid like a top pairing guy because of his Cinderella offensive season and the UFA bidding.
To me, he's typically been a 3/4 dman in his good years who has a great point shot on the PP and not the outlier from last season.
I think they would be wise to start him out playing that way and let him work his way into more ice time if it gets justified by his play.
Because he isn't as strong or gritty defensively, pairing him with a dman who is would probably be a better combination.

Tonight, that couldn't occur because McCabe got hurt and played 11+ mins and so they had to juggle.
It is also a little unfair to be too critical because there are so many new skaters and a new system.

EDIT: The 3/4 lines were getting clobbered in the faceoffs but I think some of that had to do with the new linemates (as did much of the teams sloppy play)

To play devil's advocate, it's game 1. I didn't think any of Montreal's top guys looked that effective either. And by today's metric McKenna is a bust, so I'd rather wait before making any sweeping takeaways. Except other than maybe that Marchenko is really fun to watch.