Montreal Canadiens

[evans334]

My playoffs start today, Evansville Icemen in the sig, and if Pacioretty isn't on IR by puck drop tonight I think I'm going to drop him.

But just to be sure I'm not doing something foolish here, would you keep Pacioretty over any of these players?

Backstrom, Nicklas
Monahan, Sean
Duchene, Matt
Stone, Mark
Karlsson, Erik
Klingberg, John
Kuznetsov, Evgeny
Hellebuyck, Connor
Price, Carey

[Zorro]

My playoffs start today, Evansville Icemen in the sig, and if Pacioretty isn't on IR by puck drop tonight I think I'm going to drop him.

But just to be sure I'm not doing something foolish here, would you keep Pacioretty over any of these players?

Backstrom, Nicklas
Monahan, Sean
Duchene, Matt
Stone, Mark
Karlsson, Erik
Klingberg, John
Kuznetsov, Evgeny
Hellebuyck, Connor
Price, Carey

Gosh no.. Drop him before any of those guys..

[evans334]

Sorry, should have been clearer, I wouldn't drop any of those other players, I mean't more so right now those are my 9 keepers, would you keep Patches over any of those guys.

[ericdaoust]

Niemi took a therapy day today but Fucale was recalled so there might be more to this.

[ericdaoust]

Practice lines:

Galchenyuk - Drouin - Gallagher
Scherbak/Hudon - Danault - Lehkonen
Byron - de la Rose - L. Shaw
Deslauriers/Carr - Froese - A. Shaw

Alzner - Juulsen
Benn - Petry
Reilly - Valiev

Lindgren

[HabsBlood]

I keep waiting for Reilly to make one of his signature gaffes that everyone talks about. So far he's been a steal - and Berg upgraded a pick in acquiring him. Bit of a breath of fresh air having some mobility back there

[HabsBlood]

Serious question: would this team be in a playoff spot if they still had Subban and Radulov?? Where else have they gone wrong here??

Everything aside, if Price was Price this year, they'd be a bubble team

[Zorro]

How has Juulsen played?? I've heard good things about him..

[ericdaoust]

He's been very good but I always caution when the games mean nothing. Like I said earlier there's no real expectations right now. There's no real uproar if he coughs up the puck and the team loses 2-1. The signs are good but we have to keep things in perspective.

[rufio.85]

Practice lines:

Galchenyuk - Drouin - Gallagher
Scherbak/Hudon - Danault - Lehkonen
Byron - de la Rose - L. Shaw
Deslauriers/Carr - Froese - A. Shaw

Alzner - Juulsen
Benn - Petry
Reilly - Valiev

Lindgren

Wow, apart from a few players this could really be an AHL squad!

[ericdaoust]

Danault is out with neck/headache problems. Likely a re-occurrence of the injury he had earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he's done for the rest of the season.

[ericdaoust]

For those in deep leagues de la Rose is showing a bit of potential as a physical #3C. He's played well of late, I just question whether or not he will produce enough in the long haul to be anything more than a PK specialist. So far so good after the Plekanec trade.

[evans334]

For those in deep leagues de la Rose is showing a bit of potential as a physical #3C. He's played well of late, I just question whether or not he will produce enough in the long haul to be anything more than a PK specialist. So far so good after the Plekanec trade.

Scooped him up right after the Pleks deal.

It's easy to forget he's only 22.

[ericdaoust]

Short-term he's a fine addition and he's helping cover for one of my team's injuries heading into H2H playoffs. Like most other young guys on the team I just question how he handles 82 games with actual expectations.

[ericdaoust]

Danault is out with neck/headache problems. Likely a re-occurrence of the injury he had earlier this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he's done for the rest of the season.

Was wrong about this, he's back.