Very cool discussion about Laine at about 43 ish minute mark! I feel the same way! I hope Laine gets to enjoy his return, too! Good job boys! Good Vibes
Playing Anderson on the pk was a great idea, he kinda reminds me of Paul Byron in a way because of their straight speed going the other way if break up a pass or if they get after a loose puck quickly to skate the other way. The only difference is that Anderson is a bigger version of him.
Cause they have to answer to the Community. If they think you're taking Bribes , you'll have to move They'll shunn you in Public and talk shit about you until you leave. The Hockey Moms are particularly aggressive with Ref's Dad's threaten to kick their butt but never do cause it leads to a rink ban automatically. Point is people hold the Ref's accountable Whether its just a dumb call or they get caught cheating to help win Bets. The community deals with them
Worst call of the year was when Xhekaj got the only penalty when he was going to fight someone and another guy jumped Xhekaj and it was a 2 v 1.. The 3rd guy in got nothing. Only Xhekaj got a penalty....The league is against the Habs.
I wish Gordon would go public with his concerns around officiating, pay the fine… the players need to know that management has their back.. i find under the molson regime there is a fear to say anything
The refs simply don’t take Montreal or other ‘bottom dwelling’ teams seriously. The Habs organization has been in decline for decades - no elite players or coaching. The refs might treat Montreal differently if they had a Crosby or McDavid or other elite player. A NHL ref told me last year in the offseason that hockey players are “millionaire babies”, so there is a definite perspective refs bring onto the ice and who they feel more accountable to. There is simply no respect for the Habs who have allowed the franchise to decay.
I started watching the Montreal Canadians in the early 60s. Never thought they would fall from grace this far. The problem isn't what's on the people in the ivorepower. I've said it a million times I'll say it another million times Jeff Morrison is not a hockey man. He's a hot dog and beer. Salesman knows nothing about hockey. He's not his father. He's not his grandfather and he's not his great-grandfather. He didn't bring them this low. It took a lot of people, but he's the owner now and knows nothing about winning.
The refs are just crap I been saying it all year and last year.There is nobody critiquing the refs the way the most important objects in the game "the PLAYERS" are critiqued.The refs have a free pass to as good or as bad as they want nobody in the NHL brass seems to care.When players don't perform they are benched or sent to the minors when refs don't perform it's like good game keep it up we will reward you with a raise. It is kind of dumb for anyone to think MSL would talk about the refs he would be fined because like I said nobody cares about the refs competence all they care about is saving face so if MSL says anything he and the team will be fined.
How can MSL be the coach with no prior experience? The decisions being made are terrible, and the team is playing even worse than last year. This is unacceptable-they should be improving, not falling apart!
8 rookie coaches in the last 30 years.Einstein said doing the same experiment over and over again getting the same result and keep doing that experiment is totally insane..Eh?! Voila!. We present the montreal canadiens.We need experience behind the bench.stop making the same mistakes as the last 30+ years.we used to brag that the Stanley cup came around more often than Haileys comet..31 years and counting.
I want MSL to be gone. Habs are the 2nd youngest team with the most inexperienced NHL coaching staff. A recipe for disaster. Like I have said many times, if MSL was to be fired today, how long would it take for him to get another NHL coaching job? Even as an assistant? If he was not french the media would have been all over him!!
Tony, you are right that you are not a coach. But neither is MSL, at least an NHL one. My question for you: If MSL was to be fired today how long would it take before he would land another NHL coaching job? You are also right that Yzerman did not pick MSL to be on the 2014 Canada Olympic team but MSL whined himself onto that team after Stamkos got injured, had zero points in 5 games even though Canada won the gold and then was traded to the NYR.
The last 30 years all the Habs coaches were all inexperienced, French speaking and we all know what they accomplished , which was NOTHING, now they hired a French man who speaks better English than French but he is just another inecperienced Pee wee coach , who I think he is not the man for this team, and Habs big mistake was letting Luke Richardson get away .
Ive said it for years Put them in Press Conferences , its 100% needed! Ref's get to hide without accountability Imagine if the NHLPA was allowed to pull Players from Media Events? People need to believe in the League If they cant it'll fall like the WHA to someone else. You dont see it as often in Sports but it does happen that the long time standard begins to fall Despite WWE's size it was just bought and pieced out as they shuttered the WWE network They gave up long term independent income that was driving the WWE's net worth to record high's To cash out to Cable companies and Netflix for Billions up front. For this reason AEW with a Billion Dollar Private Owner is growing rapidly without selling out his vision. His Goal is to get to where WWE network was with his company which becomes easier now that WWE is officially shuttering it. Jan/1/2025 Because of the decline in quality since WWE has tapped all its developing talent for the main roster and they're all just sitting idle not being used while NXT struggles. Its 100% clear Vince isnt running it and they dont know how so they cashed out for as much as they could up front to buy them time while covering their investments. Issue becomes Tony the AEW Owner from a Real Billion Dollar Family not a made up one like Vince's was until like 5 years ago , well Tony has noticed this. Tony's Purged more Talent and sent toxic talent free knowing WWE would scoop them up Now Tony who's been crushing WWE's Minor League Show with only USA/Canadian Ratings with no global deal to compete Directly He changed that by signing with HBO Max i believe which has changed the game allowing AEW to compete with Global access to 61 Countries and 110 million viewers. This would be the only other time i can think of a Sports Company who's the long stablished Standard falling to the new League. I'd say Russian Super League to KHL but its the same league with the same teams run by the same people with a different name. Closest Example i had in context was WWE and thats the level on which NHL is blowing it right now.
Finally ! Someone admits it that that’s what really is going on here. Thank you eric. Habs are tanking ! They are not fixing a thing because they want to finish bottom 5. If by chance laine comes in and they play better well they just play Sir Tanksalot. That’s Primeau. Mr GL. Garenteed Loss that’s exactly why they are keeping him. There ace in the hole. Or more like joker in the hole That’s why the 16 teams not in playoffs should all go into the draft lottery. Not just bottom 5. Prevents all this manipulating the system crap and purposely tanking to rebuild.
David Savard is 8th in NHL Shots blocked this year might explain his "lack of mobility" . . . Engles was on point everywhere but anyone who hates on Savard has a bias against him He's a 3.5m playing like a 3.5m player Doesnt matter if he's the 2nd most experienced player, thats not his problem He was a #4 D in CBJ, #6 D on TBL who paid a 1st round pick for him (Engles shoulda realized this making his comment) Seriously Engles went out of his way to hate on a player, i never see that from him But it feels more like when a bad parent builds up one kid cause the other ones always in crap Tony goes at Matheson and Engles feels obligated to go at Savard
Seriously walk up to a guy who is clearly pissed and start asking questions, get real !!!!!!!!! All games are Managed to the Leagues Front Office desires. No question. !!!!! The On ice Officiating has only become brutal after Garry Bunghole took over and will not improve until he is Gone. Fact !!! David Savard gets 3rd round pic , Whaaaat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MSL and the coaching staff has no idea how to coach power forwards like slaf and dach , its such a waste for them being in mtl with this coaching staff and system
Dach isn’t a power forward he’s a soft waste of size who’s never had to earn anything. None of his stats would ever put him in the realm of being a 3rd overall pick he’s been overhyped because his god given height but he’s so soft
@jacobperez10 exactly , he plays soft cus of how they are coached same with slaf , its coaching , not the players , msl robidas and letowski were all small soft players how would any of them beable to coach these kids how to play with an edge and use their size..thays right they cant hence why only cauffield amd suzuki and hutson play well
About Slaf and Dach, “you can bring a horse to a lake but you can’t force him to drink”. At this point in the season, I think there is some more implication needed. In another way, the team is rebuilding and that might be exactly why complacency is setting in and there is not much accountability.
@Gagne87Fixxer not at all not when it comes to hockey , all they gotta do is hire a coach or an assistant that can teach them the tricks of the trade of playi g a power forward style of game ...todd bertuzzi , owen nolan come to mind
I am sure that Molson did hire Gorton on purpose basically to turn this team around quickly like he did in New-York. Gorton must be feeling a bit of heat so he is upset at what is happening; but rebuilds take a lot longer than 3 years to produce good results especially when there is no Panarin, Trouba nor a Fox wanting to join the team !!!
@@powers1500- Exactly. Definitely not an apples to apples comparison. Montreal has to build through the draft, because I don't see any elite or even top of the lineup players wanting to come to Montreal.
@@rgood1204 You are right...back in the old days before the salary cap, canadian teams had more money available for hiring free agents. Now with the salary cap, all those sunny, low stress, no state tax teams can easily attract players and families at a decent wage. The only way Montreal can ever win a cup again if the fans/media are patient enough to let this rebuild go on for a couple more years. Primeau being so bad is a blessing since he will help this team tank so they can draft high end players. New Jersey will likely win a cup in the next 3 to 5 years because they have been patient enough with their rebuild.
@@powers1500- An interesting fact I noticed since they were talking about Savard in some of the comments. Johnathan Kovacevic 27 years old 6'5 and 223 lbs is playing about 20 minutes a night and has the best plus/minus rating on New Jersey at +14. He also had the best plus minus rating on that horrible habs team of last year. Not sure why folks were so interested in giving him away for a box of rocks aka a 4th round pick in 2026. $775,000 salary and I don't get it.
My opinion as long as Gary Bettman is the commissioner there will never be a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup because Mr. Bettman uses the Cup to solidify the American teams and if American teams don't win the Cup the bleating will not stop in the US.
I love this show, I love Tony, I love Eric... Ben Chariot wasn't gonna get a 1st either, maybe a 4th or 5th!? Chariot got us a 1st, 4th and a prospect from Florida with Habs retaining50% salary. I refuse to believe that Hughes can't get more than a 3rd for Savard and only getting a 5th? I call BS
Engels if you take all of their bad games out then this is a decent team. Problem is every third game is a stinker. How do you get the team to play better more often.
Players I'd look to get rid of... Matheson; Newhook; Barron; Primeau; Divorak. A lot of this falls on Marty. Slafkovsky and our 1st line were deadly the last half of 2023. Instead of letting them build on that he demotes Slafkovsky and plugs in a plug- Dach. Slaf struggles and gets demoted further and his confidense turns to confusion. Arber is another one Marty rides into second guessing every move instead of playing his game. With all of our smallish players we need and Arber to keep the opposing team honest. As for Primeau ; they brought him up in that idiotic 3 goalie rotation just to sit on the bench which screwed his development. RHP shouldn't even be in the conversation. An AHL player at best but he gets the francophone free pass. They are young and are going to make mistakes and you can't forcefeed them hybrid plays like they are veterans. Officiating? Yes it sucks and that's on Bettman. And in the end...we are in a rebuild so as hard as it is; lets be patient !
I mean "who's paying more for savard to play 3rd pair" Well TBL, they already did once with a 1st round pick cause his cap was just over 1m Savard at 50% RS today is 1.75m and we can pay someone to RS like CBJ did DET He'd still be TBL 6th D behind Hedman,McDounugh and Cernak the only thing that changed in front of him is Sergachev is gone But he makes the statement anyways despite him making less then he did in TBL while producing move in 3+ seasons then he did there in his last 3 + season. Everything on Savard he spewed is easily disproven leading me to believe he threw Savard under the bus to get the topic off pointing out Mathesons many mistakes
NHL officiating is probably the worst in all professional sports. Owners are the main part of the problem . Betman follows instructions they get from the OWNERS. Hockey is failing in many cities. Pittsburgh will be on a respirator once Crosby and his buddies call it a night. They are grasping for air presently and will be sucking for air in 12-18 months. Was in Florida last month for 2 games . Booths games had 3-4000 no shows. The salary cap is the worst thing that ever happened to this amazing game. The league is levelling by the bottom. 16 teams are playing for .500 hockey. Time to move Betman to the pasture . Bring in some young blood.
Stop crying about the stupid refs. They didn't tell Matheson to throw the puck in the stands or for Dach to high stick and cut someone. They also didn't tell the Habs to get outshot 9-1 immediately by a team that played the day before while they were resting. The Habs suck not complicated.
@ ... you cannot be injured for two years and expect the Hockey IQ to be at the max. Dach was a damages player when he came in from Chicago. That is why he was traded. Is Dach caracter an issue? May be, but he can turn around his mind if he wants to developp new habits. The same thinking applies to Patrick Laine. The new management has traded draft picks for skilled players. Newhook is another example. Would the Habs be better with (A) veterans they traded, with (B) new traded players or (C) the draft picks they let go to other teams? What is your answer?
Its intentional He defends Matheson while spitting venom on Savard But if it was Savard Struggling he's throw Matheson under the bus He in his mind cant cheer for a team So i think in his mind this is how he ensures he doesnt get carried away He buries people quicker then Vince Mcmahaon in the 1990s
Very cool discussion about Laine at about 43 ish minute mark! I feel the same way! I hope Laine gets to enjoy his return, too! Good job boys! Good Vibes
I thought the title meant that Gorton was pissed at the team!
Playing Anderson on the pk was a great idea, he kinda reminds me of Paul Byron in a way because of their straight speed going the other way if break up a pass or if they get after a loose puck quickly to skate the other way. The only difference is that Anderson is a bigger version of him.
Junior hockey has much better officiating than Bettman's circus.
Cause they have to answer to the Community.
If they think you're taking Bribes , you'll have to move
They'll shunn you in Public and talk shit about you until you leave.
The Hockey Moms are particularly aggressive with Ref's
Dad's threaten to kick their butt but never do cause it leads to a rink ban automatically.
Point is people hold the Ref's accountable
Whether its just a dumb call or they get caught cheating to help win Bets.
The community deals with them
Worst call of the year was when Xhekaj got the only penalty when he was going to fight someone and another guy jumped Xhekaj and it was a 2 v 1.. The 3rd guy in got nothing. Only Xhekaj got a penalty....The league is against the Habs.
I didn’t see it but Xhekaj has a reputation with referees, so that might be why he’s the only one who paid the price..
I swear Engels has signed a contract with the habs to never say anything negative
I wish Gordon would go public with his concerns around officiating, pay the fine… the players need to know that management has their back.. i find under the molson regime there is a fear to say anything
The refs simply don’t take Montreal or other ‘bottom dwelling’ teams seriously. The Habs organization has been in decline for decades - no elite players or coaching. The refs might treat Montreal differently if they had a Crosby or McDavid or other elite player. A NHL ref told me last year in the offseason that hockey players are “millionaire babies”, so there is a definite perspective refs bring onto the ice and who they feel more accountable to. There is simply no respect for the Habs who have allowed the franchise to decay.
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I started watching the Montreal Canadians in the early 60s. Never thought they would fall from grace this far. The problem isn't what's on the people in the ivorepower. I've said it a million times I'll say it another million times Jeff Morrison is not a hockey man. He's a hot dog and beer. Salesman knows nothing about hockey. He's not his father. He's not his grandfather and he's not his great-grandfather. He didn't bring them this low. It took a lot of people, but he's the owner now and knows nothing about winning.
Exactly. Molson hired Gorton...Gorton brings in KH...Gorton and KH bring in MSL. All buddies. All of them suck. Complete freaking shitshow.
Omg tony, 18 minutes 4 commercials here on RUclips
Fix it
Xhekaj plays with Struble, Barron, Savard, hard to develop a pairing. imo
the bigger problem is they are all 6/7 dmen
The refs are just crap I been saying it all year and last year.There is nobody critiquing the refs the way the most important objects in the game "the PLAYERS" are critiqued.The refs have a free pass to as good or as bad as they want nobody in the NHL brass seems to care.When players don't perform they are benched or sent to the minors when refs don't perform it's like good game keep it up we will reward you with a raise.
It is kind of dumb for anyone to think MSL would talk about the refs he would be fined because like I said nobody cares about the refs competence all they care about is saving face so if MSL says anything he and the team will be fined.
How can MSL be the coach with no prior experience? The decisions being made are terrible, and the team is playing even worse than last year. This is unacceptable-they should be improving, not falling apart!
8 rookie coaches in the last 30 years.Einstein said doing the same experiment over and over again getting the same result and keep doing that experiment is totally insane..Eh?! Voila!. We present the montreal canadiens.We need experience behind the bench.stop making the same mistakes as the last 30+ years.we used to brag that the Stanley cup came around more often than Haileys comet..31 years and counting.
After 3 years of Marty st louis, we still don’t know what kind of system they are trying to play
I want MSL to be gone. Habs are the 2nd youngest team with the most inexperienced NHL coaching staff. A recipe for disaster. Like I have said many times, if MSL was to be fired today, how long would it take for him to get another NHL coaching job? Even as an assistant? If he was not french the media would have been all over him!!
@@zeya1363 u guys have no idea what youre talking about lol sit down youre out of your league
How can you guess who the coach should be, when you have no prior experience?
Tony, you are right that you are not a coach. But neither is MSL, at least an NHL one. My question for you: If MSL was to be fired today how long would it take before he would land another NHL coaching job? You are also right that Yzerman did not pick MSL to be on the 2014 Canada Olympic team but MSL whined himself onto that team after Stamkos got injured, had zero points in 5 games even though Canada won the gold and then was traded to the NYR.
Bingo. I've been saying that right from day one, Marty will never coach a competitive NHL team.
No pezzetta no fun
The last 30 years all the Habs coaches were all inexperienced, French speaking and we all know what they accomplished , which was NOTHING, now they hired a French man who speaks better English than French but he is just another inecperienced Pee wee coach , who I think he is not the man for this team, and Habs big mistake was letting Luke Richardson get away .
Who could fix the problem with the official it's getting out of hand 🖐
Ive said it for years
Put them in Press Conferences , its 100% needed!
Ref's get to hide without accountability
Imagine if the NHLPA was allowed to pull Players from Media Events?
People need to believe in the League
If they cant it'll fall like the WHA to someone else.
You dont see it as often in Sports but it does happen that the long time standard begins to fall
Despite WWE's size it was just bought and pieced out as they shuttered the WWE network
They gave up long term independent income that was driving the WWE's net worth to record high's
To cash out to Cable companies and Netflix for Billions up front.
For this reason AEW with a Billion Dollar Private Owner is growing rapidly without selling out his vision.
His Goal is to get to where WWE network was with his company which becomes easier now that WWE is officially shuttering it. Jan/1/2025
Because of the decline in quality since WWE has tapped all its developing talent for the main roster and they're all just sitting idle not being used while NXT struggles.
Its 100% clear Vince isnt running it and they dont know how so they cashed out for as much as they could up front to buy them time while covering their investments.
Issue becomes Tony the AEW Owner from a Real Billion Dollar Family not a made up one like Vince's was until like 5 years ago , well Tony has noticed this.
Tony's Purged more Talent and sent toxic talent free knowing WWE would scoop them up
Now Tony who's been crushing WWE's Minor League Show with only USA/Canadian Ratings with no global deal to compete Directly
He changed that by signing with HBO Max i believe which has changed the game allowing AEW to compete with Global access to 61 Countries and 110 million viewers.
This would be the only other time i can think of a Sports Company who's the long stablished Standard falling to the new League.
I'd say Russian Super League to KHL but its the same league with the same teams run by the same people with a different name.
Closest Example i had in context was WWE and thats the level on which NHL is blowing it right now.
Finally ! Someone admits it that that’s what really is going on here. Thank you eric. Habs are tanking ! They are not fixing a thing because they want to finish bottom 5. If by chance laine comes in and they play better well they just play Sir Tanksalot. That’s Primeau. Mr GL. Garenteed Loss that’s exactly why they are keeping him. There ace in the hole. Or more like joker in the hole
That’s why the 16 teams not in playoffs should all go into the draft lottery. Not just bottom 5. Prevents all this manipulating the system crap and purposely tanking to rebuild.
To me I'm not surprise at all Savard is struggling and that is because he's not playing in the right chair, so that means too much is asked from him.
David Savard is 8th in NHL Shots blocked this year might explain his "lack of mobility" . . .
Engles was on point everywhere but anyone who hates on Savard has a bias against him
He's a 3.5m playing like a 3.5m player
Doesnt matter if he's the 2nd most experienced player, thats not his problem
He was a #4 D in CBJ, #6 D on TBL who paid a 1st round pick for him (Engles shoulda realized this making his comment)
Seriously Engles went out of his way to hate on a player, i never see that from him
But it feels more like when a bad parent builds up one kid cause the other ones always in crap
Tony goes at Matheson and Engles feels obligated to go at Savard
Seriously walk up to a guy who is clearly pissed and start asking questions, get real !!!!!!!!! All games are Managed to the Leagues Front Office desires. No question. !!!!! The On ice Officiating has only become brutal after Garry Bunghole took over and will not improve until he is Gone. Fact !!!
David Savard gets 3rd round pic , Whaaaat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MSL and the coaching staff has no idea how to coach power forwards like slaf and dach , its such a waste for them being in mtl with this coaching staff and system
Dach isn’t a power forward he’s a soft waste of size who’s never had to earn anything. None of his stats would ever put him in the realm of being a 3rd overall pick he’s been overhyped because his god given height but he’s so soft
@jacobperez10 exactly , he plays soft cus of how they are coached same with slaf , its coaching , not the players , msl robidas and letowski were all small soft players how would any of them beable to coach these kids how to play with an edge and use their size..thays right they cant hence why only cauffield amd suzuki and hutson play well
About Slaf and Dach, “you can bring a horse to a lake but you can’t force him to drink”. At this point in the season, I think there is some more implication needed. In another way, the team is rebuilding and that might be exactly why complacency is setting in and there is not much accountability.
@Gagne87Fixxer not at all not when it comes to hockey , all they gotta do is hire a coach or an assistant that can teach them the tricks of the trade of playi g a power forward style of game ...todd bertuzzi , owen nolan come to mind
The only thing Gorton should be pissed at is his own poor decisions.
I am sure that Molson did hire Gorton on purpose basically to turn this team around quickly like he did in New-York. Gorton must be feeling a bit of heat so he is upset at what is happening; but rebuilds take a lot longer than 3 years to produce good results especially when there is no Panarin, Trouba nor a Fox wanting to join the team !!!
@@powers1500- Exactly. Definitely not an apples to apples comparison. Montreal has to build through the draft, because I don't see any elite or even top of the lineup players wanting to come to Montreal.
@@rgood1204 You are right...back in the old days before the salary cap, canadian teams had more money available for hiring free agents. Now with the salary cap, all those sunny, low stress, no state tax teams can easily attract players and families at a decent wage. The only way Montreal can ever win a cup again if the fans/media are patient enough to let this rebuild go on for a couple more years. Primeau being so bad is a blessing since he will help this team tank so they can draft high end players. New Jersey will likely win a cup in the next 3 to 5 years because they have been patient enough with their rebuild.
@@powers1500- An interesting fact I noticed since they were talking about Savard in some of the comments. Johnathan Kovacevic 27 years old 6'5 and 223 lbs is playing about 20 minutes a night and has the best plus/minus rating on New Jersey at +14. He also had the best plus minus rating on that horrible habs team of last year. Not sure why folks were so interested in giving him away for a box of rocks aka a 4th round pick in 2026. $775,000 salary and I don't get it.
We easily get a 3rd for Savard. a 2nd is definitely a possibility
I really hope so but I am not sure of that...Indeed, years have caught up to him. Savard looks slow and somewhat out of shape at 6'1", 235lbs
My opinion as long as Gary Bettman is the commissioner there will never be a Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup because Mr. Bettman uses the Cup to solidify the American teams and if American teams don't win the Cup the bleating will not stop in the US.
I love this show, I love Tony, I love Eric...
Ben Chariot wasn't gonna get a 1st either, maybe a 4th or 5th!? Chariot got us a 1st, 4th and a prospect from Florida with Habs retaining50% salary.
I refuse to believe that Hughes can't get more than a 3rd for Savard and only getting a 5th?
I call BS
Chariot was 30 when Montreal traded him. Savard is 34. That is a massive difference in age and mileage on the body of a NHL defenseman.
Connor Bedard should not be on the team. Celebrities has show he's just a better all around player.
Engels if you take all of their bad games out then this is a decent team. Problem is every third game is a stinker. How do you get the team to play better more often.
Players I'd look to get rid of... Matheson; Newhook; Barron; Primeau; Divorak. A lot of this falls on Marty. Slafkovsky and our 1st line were deadly the last half of 2023. Instead of letting them build on that he demotes Slafkovsky and plugs in a plug- Dach. Slaf struggles and gets demoted further and his confidense turns to confusion. Arber is another one Marty rides into second guessing every move instead of playing his game. With all of our smallish players we need and Arber to keep the opposing team honest. As for Primeau ; they brought him up in that idiotic 3 goalie rotation just to sit on the bench which screwed his development. RHP shouldn't even be in the conversation. An AHL player at best but he gets the francophone free pass. They are young and are going to make mistakes and you can't forcefeed them hybrid plays like they are veterans. Officiating? Yes it sucks and that's on Bettman. And in the end...we are in a rebuild so as hard as it is; lets be patient !
Engels. Smart reporter. A joy to hear his thoughtful opinions.
I mean "who's paying more for savard to play 3rd pair"
Well TBL, they already did once with a 1st round pick cause his cap was just over 1m
Savard at 50% RS today is 1.75m and we can pay someone to RS like CBJ did DET
He'd still be TBL 6th D behind Hedman,McDounugh and Cernak the only thing that changed in front of him is Sergachev is gone
But he makes the statement anyways despite him making less then he did in TBL while producing move in 3+ seasons then he did there in his last 3 + season.
Everything on Savard he spewed is easily disproven leading me to believe he threw Savard under the bus to get the topic off pointing out Mathesons many mistakes
This guy thought Weber was better than Hedman. He's a homer.
NHL officiating is probably the worst in all professional sports. Owners are the main part of the problem . Betman follows instructions they get from the OWNERS. Hockey is failing in many cities. Pittsburgh will be on a respirator once Crosby and his buddies call it a night. They are grasping for air presently and will be sucking for air in 12-18 months. Was in Florida last month for 2 games . Booths games had 3-4000 no shows. The salary cap is the worst thing that ever happened to this amazing game. The league is levelling by the bottom. 16 teams are playing for .500 hockey. Time to move Betman to the pasture . Bring in some young blood.
Stop crying about the stupid refs. They didn't tell Matheson to throw the puck in the stands or for Dach to high stick and cut someone. They also didn't tell the Habs to get outshot 9-1 immediately by a team that played the day before while they were resting. The Habs suck not complicated.
Wow not sure what games Eric is watching but when DS is not noticible that is a good thing when has he made a mistake.. Guele has made more mistakes
Dach should play more minutes. Laine should play more minutes. Soon they will play there best hockey. It may takes 15 to 20 games.
It’s been 15-20 games for Dach!
@ ... you cannot be injured for two years and expect the Hockey IQ to be at the max. Dach was a damages player when he came in from Chicago. That is why he was traded. Is Dach caracter an issue? May be, but he can turn around his mind if he wants to developp new habits. The same thinking applies to Patrick Laine. The new management has traded draft picks for skilled players. Newhook is another example. Would the Habs be better with (A) veterans they traded, with (B) new traded players or (C) the draft picks they let go to other teams? What is your answer?
Do you think the Canadians of montréal can be worse than they already are?
As always in sports, its not as bas as it seems, and its not as good as it seems. Steady as she goes.
Defensively with Laine in the lineup it's possible. But they're historically bad already so who knows.
With Marty st louis confused system, yeah
MSL - I loved our game but, thats his favorite line. Man he likes shitty teams.
He will get a 2026 first, or 2025 second for Savard
Love the show… you are the goat of hockey podcasts , used to be dangle, Tony, but what makes you better are the guests like Eric
Savard might get you a 5th to 7th if you're lucky.
Eric Engels hates Xhekaj
Why
Matheson has been horrible this year....need to trade him asap before he wants 7m per season and you pull another petry contract mistake
He is still their best defenseman...who else can replace him. He plays over 25 mins/game ???
Anderson's game has been better, but he's still getting 5.5 and on pace for 14 goals and 35 points haha...need 20G+25A out of him
Marty is a dad, not a coach. Seriously, listen to him talk about the team, anytime. What do you hear? Not a coach, that's for sure.
Anybody who thinks what MSL did mocking the refs is good is clueless. It never works and just makes things worse. He's an amateur.
So we aren’t going to make the playoffs??😱🤣
looking good eric
Must have gotten laid in NYC😆😆.. he’s happier than usual
I like Eric, but it's really sad the things he's taking positives from...
Its intentional
He defends Matheson while spitting venom on Savard
But if it was Savard Struggling he's throw Matheson under the bus
He in his mind cant cheer for a team
So i think in his mind this is how he ensures he doesnt get carried away
He buries people quicker then Vince Mcmahaon in the 1990s
The problem with Eric is that it has gone to his head how close he is to the Habs. He is just a fanboy for them. I don't find him to be that great.