Originally Posted by
ross10019
thanks Eric, I was going to re-post here once I got home, I posted on the other thread from my blackberry hence the horrid grammatical errors ("so far so goof"!)
Habs looked ok. Interesting that they paired Emelin with Kaberle, makes sense, the big hitter with the puckmoving guy who is known for being a tad soft. Seemed to work well.
Another angle to this whole Kaberle thing that I have not seen mentioned anywhere in this forum is the relationship between Kaberle and Plekanec. They became very close after the 2010 Olympics and other world tourneys and as far as I recall Plekanec may have lobbied for the Habs to trade for him back when he was still with the Leafs.
A good sign vis-a-vis Kaberle is that he took lots of shot towards the net (only registered 1SOG but had 3 attempts blocked). Many of the shots were wristers from the point, he's not a big point blast guy obviously, but it is not a coincidence that he shot when he had the chance, the team must have made it very clear that we need him to shoot to keep the opposing team's PK guessing, otherwise it's too easy to just overload on PK's side waiting for the pass from Kaberle. It is critical that Kaberle shoot as much as possible. Of course, that was a constant criticism when he was a Leaf, and even onto the Bruins last year, that pass-first mentality.
No 22, I guess we haven't retired good ol' little Stevey Shutt's number, yet.
I also heard that Plecks was friendly with Spacek. And Spacek was great in the room. I'm glad to see him gone for one. I don't think he could see straight. SOrta like me right now.
Contract Fantrax 14 teams, 8 keepers. 4 max lifers +/-
3C, 3LW, 3RW, 1F. 5D,2G....5Reserves.
Goal heavy. G=3.5 A=2 Add 0.5pts for D.
Goalies:W=3,SO=4,start=2,Save=.1
Assist +4, OF loss +1 loss= -1 Goal against -1
C:MACKINNON,Kadri,Rossi,Thompson
LW: KANE,HUBERDEAU,Marchand,kotkaniemi,Colton,N.Robert son
RW:KUCHEROV,RANTANEN,Kessel,Bjorkstrand
FOX,BURNS,Jones,Girard,lundkist,Hanafin
G:CAMPBELL,Swayman
Minors:Mctavish,Johnson