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0:00 Show Start
1:27 Who Were The Canadiens’ Biggest Studs In The First 2 Pre-Season Games
9:27 Who Were The Worst Duds For The Habs?
16:13 The Xhekaj Boys Still Have Some Work To Do
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In every episode, Kosta Papoulias takes a deep dive into the latest Montreal Canadiens news involving Ivan Demidov, Patrik Laine, Juraj Slafkovsky, Josh Anderson, Cole Caufield, Nick Suzuki, Kirby Dach, Owen Beck, Sean Farrell, Filip Mesar, Habs Defencemen, Arber Xhekaj, Kaiden Guhle, Sam Montembeault, Lane Hutson, Jayden Struble, Adam Engstrom, David Reinbacher, Jakub Dobes, Jacob Fowler, Kent Hughes, Martin St Louis.
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Please list all those “duds” Coach there was more than 3 !
Maybe an Austrian D man!
A lot of people question Montembeault conditioning!
Kahkonen lived up to his reputation of bouncing between 4 teams last season !
Training camp fodder !
Strange how he has near identical warts to Montembeault; poor positioning, rebound machine, soft goals, lousy stats.
Was he signed on Raymond’s advice ?
Wouldn’t be surprised?
Love your comments. Fully agree that Slaf rebounded that from that skate in the face, and that Rohrer deserves another game. I'm disappointed that neither Roy or Kapanen didn't do better, but at least they weren't totally outplayed by Bolduc. The show continues!
A bit harsh on Roy, we do t know what conversations St Louis has had with Roy and what he is asking him to work on, he seems more engaged
Would put it all on Roy,
Newhook is not a play driving, play making center offense dies on his stick that line didn’t generate much of anything
Yeah Newhook is good faceoffs and Bolduc had a couple chances but I wouldn’t bet on that whole line a whole lot as a line to be taken seriously
You missed the reason Arber went after Rodrigo Abols it was not because Abois tripped him but because Abois a 29 year old career AHL player ran Rohrer into the end boards which was not called. Did read somewhere that Rohrer mentioned he thanked Arber for it after, if that part was true or not who knows. Arber got the extra 2 because well it was Arber, he is getting a message sent early from the refs. Never saw Abois taking runs at any players after Arber had a chat with him.
Need to watch the games closer to see what is going on not just separate plays. Your not alone One forum I follow a lot of people watching the game missed it but a lot also caught that hit. It happened right in the corner a few seconds before. Arber is not going after a player for tripping him this year but a big hit on a teammate is still going to be a no go.