Basu and Godin are back to break down how close they believe the Canadiens are to making the playoffs, what pieces they need to achieve that and if being playoff bound next season is a reasonable expectation.
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Recorded: April 15th, 2024
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Next year will be a big development year for the defence, they can't allow as many goals as they did this year and hope to get in. If they score 20-30 more goals and allow 20-30 less goals they should be in contention.
2 years away unless theyre super aggressive this offseason signing vets.
I can’t tell if I think next season Montreal will be like diet Vancouver or if the playoff ambitions are maybe being a little overblown. It’s so hard to say without knowing how healthy we’ll be. We don’t know what a year of Dach looks like, we don’t know who our D corps will be, how are Monty and Primeau next year, what’s our 2nd line gonna look like, is our pick this year gonna be in the roster, too many question marks to be too confident about predicting a spot right now for my money.
I think this team is ready next year provided we don’t see key injuries to our forward core. This team could be on par with what Nashville has done this year if dach isn’t hurt
Yes, it wouldn't have been easy, but this team has beaten the top teams this year, and they have a ton of 1 goal games which could have gone either way easily. That's the easily, the 50/50 games decided on 1 goal. What is said is this video makes sense, but just tad over pessimistic on how talented this team is turning into.
With Kirby and Arber back and healthy next season and a package of assets and picks to pick up a goal scorer to flesh out the second and third lines we could be pushing for a wildcard spot next season. And a lot depends on Hughes making a few smart moves again in the off season. GHG
Goaltending is far from settled, we gotta have a decent team in front of those goalkeepers to have a real view of their limitations or potential, right now the blame is too easily placed on the extremely young defense and lackluster forward group.
Obviously a lot of work needs to be done on the forward group before ever dreaming of a chance to make the playoffs, Caufield, Suzuki, Newhook, Slafkovsky and maybe an uninjured Dach isn’t enough, i know that Roy is otw, Evans is going nowhere, RHP had horrible luck in every department and that were stuck with Gally, Armia, Anderson and Dvorak, that’s already 12 forwards out of 12.
Trades, signings and or buyouts need to be made in the forward group for that team to go anywhere near the playoffs.
They'll win tomorrow.
Asking the question of Philly "was it worth"? Thats ridiculous, as if teams choose to finish in the bottom 5 or making the playoffs. Is it realistic to think teams go from a top 5 pick to making the playoffs? These guys make it sound so simple. I think its quite normal for teams to progress in a gradual manner. when a GM says a rebuild will take 5 years, I doubt theyre expecting to have 4 consecutive years of top 5 picks, then magically appear in the playoffs in year 5.
No competant goalie a second defensive pair needed that's nhl ready and a team depending on the same line at all times…plus coach with almost no nhl experience consistently losing on challenges and too more experienced coaching staff and too many men on the ice plus over all too very small player's as their best are u kidding me?
Nick did also go to the stanley cup finals
Suzuki isn't wrong.
Habs were apart of 44 one goal games. 27 of them they lost. 12 in regulation, 15 in OT or SO.
Had they won half of those games, it would have given them 19 more points on the season, 95 total. Good for the last wild card spot by 4pts (Washington got in with 91 points)
This team is close.