Eagerly anticipating the "Welcome Back Paul Byron" montage.
I heard they were going to feature all of his missed breakaways from last season, but had to scrap it because the Habs have to finish the game and fly out of Calgary before tomorrow afternoon.
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I was watching to see what happened after that Methot hit on JG. Bennett immediately skated over and threw a hit on him, and as the play transitioned a few seconds later gave him a bit of a slash. Methot shrugged it off, because of the size difference. I'm sure even he was expecting more of a response.
Good for Bennett for doing more than the rest of the team.
I think it was Cowan, not Methot. They do kind of look similar though.
I was watching to see what happened after that Methot hit on JG. Bennett immediately skated over and threw a hit on him, and as the play transitioned a few seconds later gave him a bit of a slash. Methot shrugged it off, because of the size difference. I'm sure even he was expecting more of a response.
Good for Bennett for doing more than the rest of the team.
Neat. Methot wasn't the one who hit Gaudreau though.
Eagerly anticipating the "Welcome Back Paul Byron" montage.
I heard they were going to feature all of his missed breakaways from last season, but had to scrap it because the Habs have to finish the game and fly out of Calgary before tomorrow afternoon.
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Why though? The Habs are first in the league in Goals For by a fair margin.
Habs are better at scoring goals than the Oilers. (and keeping them out too)
I just think a guy like McDavid has a lot of potential to light a goalie like Ramo up. I'm aware of the stats, I just have a bad feeling about Ramo vs McDavid.
I love Sam Bennett, "19 years old" and he's surrounded by Ottawa grinders and still lays the hit. Ottawa should've been penalized for going at Bennett. Neil and Smith went at him post-hit.
Note to Ortio: If Byron get's a breakway and doesn't immediately shoot from the upper slot, play to the left.
Aside from the times he shot (which weren't always a real breakaway) Poor old Paul tried one backhand deke and the rest were all the same exact move. Little fake right (to the backhand), then a medium shift left (forehand) and a shot along the ice (into the pads).
In the Ottawa game you could see bits and pieces of last years team throughout that game. We win that one if we didn't have ECHL quality goaltending and a few bad defensive gaffes. Just need solid D from the top 4 and at least average goaltending from Ortio and we'll have a good chance. Still love the top 6 and would love the 3rd line if Ferland was in and Raymond was out. If you're reading this Raymond, please make me look like an a-hole tonight.
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Not going to get W's until the consistency is better. The Flames are trending the right way. Need a much better effort tonight than against Ottawa.
Things I hope to see tonight: Bennett breaking out, Monahan-Colborne-Hudler improving on last games effort which was really good.
Hamilton getting more comfortable and playing smarter hockey, seems like he is starting to get it.
Ortio keeping the goals against to around 2. Earning a start tomorrow. Don't need to worry about lack of energy, he's already well rested.
I'm hoping the 2 points for Bennett was the start of it. I'd like to see Stajan get off the schneid - he has played pretty well. Also a big response game from Backlund after the criticism lately would be nice.
The FO% (aside from Stajan) really needs to improve from last game where they absolutely sucked.
More hitting would be good. Colborne had 7 last game and Jones and Bennett had 4. That's over half of all the hits from only 3 guys. And more shots. Hamilton had 7 which is great, but the next guy should not be Engelland at 5. (Frolik also had 5). 3 from Johnny, Sam, Raymond and Monahan is OK, I guess. But Wideman had none on net! Brodie also had none which I'll forgive - he's just back and was never a great shooter anyway. And no shots for Jooris, Bollig (not really complaining) and only 1 each for Hudler, Stajan, Backlund, Colborne, Russell. You can't get secondary scoring if the secondary scoring guys don't shoot.
Yeah. And if they replicate the effort of last game tonight I'd say they have a decent chance of coming out on top, being that they aren't facing Price.
If you didn't have Hiller's two minute implosion in the third you were probably walking out of Ottawa with a well deserved win.
That two minute implosion where the Flames all stood around watching the Sens instead of clearing the puck?
I'm not sure changing goalies is going to make the Flames players start playing defense.
I like to see Ortio in net but I don't think it does enough to get the win Montreal wins 3-1.
I think Montreal is finally coming back to earth. I just don't see them as elite IMO. I believe we could beat em. Watching them last night against the greasers, I just didn't see a potent dangerous team.
I think Montreal is finally coming back to earth. I just don't see them as elite IMO. I believe we could beat em. Watching them last night against the greasers, I just didn't see a potent dangerous team.
They play fast and very, very aggressive. The defence were pinching in the neutral zone all night and their forwards were all deep in the offensive zone no matter what the score was. They're used to having the best goalie in the league so they seem unconcerned about odd man rushes. This could work to the flames' advantage with their style of stretch passes and guys like gaudreau/hudler/Monahan/Bennett being deadly on the odd-man rush.
