Author: Dose

Categories
Dans les coulisses

Jean Perron expects Martin St-Louis to resign before Christmas

When things aren’t going well for the Canadiens, many fans and public figures take the liberty of strongly criticizing everything that’s going on in the organization. After the Canadiens’ poor start to the season, it’s now Martin St-Louis who’s getting all the negative attention.

Appearing on Radio X on Monday, former Canadiens head coach Jean Perron had a few words to say about St-Louis.

Perron had to decide whether Patrick Roy or Martin St-Louis would lose his job first. His immediate answer was St-Louis, without hesitation, but he believes that the Canadiens’ head coach will not be fired.

He thinks St-Louis will resign by Christmas.

He’s convinced that St-Louis will tell Kent Hughes that Pascal Vincent would do a better job than him and that he’ll leave. We agree that would be surprising.

Listening to Perron, you’d think St-Louis was the worst head coach in NHL history. It’s one criticism after another.

Perron believes that the Canadiens are far from heading for the mix, but rather that the team is headed for the NHL’s four worst teams. However, he didn’t mention whether he thinks this is just for this season, or whether he believes this is a situation the Habs will find themselves in for a long time to come.

According to the former coach, St-Louis’s idea of punitive practice wasn’t a good one. “In his day, he made his players do two practices a day to punish them.

However, Perron is not alone in believing that Martin St-Louis may soon resign. Towards the end of October, Jean-Charles Lajoie also expressed the idea that the Canadiens’ head coach might resign.

Except that according to JiC, St-Louis would resign because Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton wouldn’t fire him. Now that’s something Perron didn’t address when talking about the Canadiens’ head coach.

Another point to address is the fact that Perron thinks St-Louis should punish big players who perform poorly.

A struggling Kirby Dach, even if he’s coming back from injury, might get the message with a few sanctions, for example.

Despite all this negative attention, let’s not forget what Elliotte Friedman explained in the last episode of his 32 Thoughts podcast. According to him, St-Louis is a combative person who performs extremely well when faced with combativeness.

It remains to be seen who will be right, but St-Louis does need to make some changes to get the Canadiens back on track.

Overtime

– Right now, yes.

– We need to find a way to better train young people here.

– Good news for BPM Sports.

– It’s an idea.

This content was created with the help of AI.

.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

David Pastrnak benched for third period

A fine evening of hockey last Sunday.

14 teams were in action.

Here are the highlights and results:

1. David Pastrnak benched in third

The Bruins defeated the Kraken 2-0 last night.

A happy evening for all Bruins players, then? Not for David Pastrnak. For reasons unknown (Jim Montgomery was very vague in his post-game comments), Pasta was benched in the third period.

Is it for that missed zone entry early in the game?

Did he arrive late for a meeting or practice this week?

The Czech still finished the game with seven shots on goal and 14:21 of playing time.

No points, however.

In the win, Jeremy Swayman recorded a 23-save shutout.

It’s a second consecutive shutout for Boston.

2. Fourth straight game with a goal for Alexander Ovechkin

Alex Ovechkin’s net alert!

The Russian scored in a fourth consecutive game yesterday for his seventh goal of the season, his 860th career goal.

He’s now just 34 goals away from catching Wayne Gretzky and 35 away from surpassing him.

Ovi is on track to score 52 goals this season.

I was one of those who didn’t believe who was going to break the record this season, but I have to admit, he’s well on his way. It will be an incredible moment when he scores his 895th career goal.

Despite the captain’s brilliance, the Caps lost to a team on fire. The Hurricanes, with a 4-2 victory, have won their last six games.

3. 12 straight one-point games for Kyle Connor

In 12 games this season, the Winnipeg Jets have lost just once.

Yesterday, they won again, this time by a score of 7-4 against the Lightning.

In the win, Kyle Connor picked up another point to extend his streak of games with at least one point to 12. He is four games away from breaking Patrik Laine’s record.

Connor isn’t the only one having a good season.

With 17 points in 12 games, Nikolaj Ehlers is playing very well. Yesterday, he became the Dane with the most points in NHL history.

Winnipeg is on a pretty exceptional roll… even if a goal that should never have been accepted was. And Jets fans were angry.

4. Goalkeepers headline in New York

Yesterday afternoon (1pm), the two New York teams faced off at Madison Square Garden.

In the end, it was the Rangers who came out on top, 5-2.

Both goalkeepers shone in this match. First, Ilya Sorokin made a great save in the first period.

Then, Anders Lee was robbed of a goal by Igor Shesterkin.

What a save!

Shesterkin finally finished the match with 35 saves.

In the win, Vincent Trocheck scored the 200th goal of his career.

5. Oilers win the battle of Alberta

Late in the evening, the Oilers and Flames faced off in the ever-popular Battle of Alberta.

In the end, it was the Oilers who came out on top, 4-2.

Calgary is now 1-5-0 in its last six games. Good for the Habs!

Calgary threatened in the dying moments of the game, but Edmonton took advantage of a deserted cage to nail their opponents’ coffin shut.

The match had started very well for the visitors.

As early as the 20th second, Leon Draisaitl broke the ice.

Midway through the third period, Zach Hyman scored the winning goal.

His second of the season. He scored 54 the previous year.

Extension

– That’s what I call going for the net.

– Jack Edwards honored.

– PLD and Dmitry Orlov have had it out for each other.

– Victory for the Wild.

– Strong games for four forwards.

(Credit: NHL.com )

– Two games on the bill tonight.

(Credit: Google)

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

It’s worrying to hear that there seems to be a lack of understanding of the system by the Habs player

In Montreal, things aren’t going well for the Canadiens.

But in Laval, just the opposite is true: the Rocket has dominated since the start of the season, winning eight of its first nine games.

How do you explain this? Vincent Demuy, the Rocket’s game analyst (BPM Sports), may have put his finger on the problem…

Demuy was on the Montreal sports station this morning to talk about the Rocket’s weekend, and he shared an interesting observation.

His impression, lately, is that the players who have been demoted to Laval since the start of the season have arrived downstairs a bit mixed up.

There seems to be a lack of understanding of the system at the Canadiens… But that’s not the case at the Rocket:

On the bright side, it allows the young players to swim like fish in water in Laval.

They feel comfortable with the system and with the coach’s strategies (which are the same as in Montreal, according to Pascal Vincent) and it shows in the club’s results.

But on the other hand… Hearing this is worrying when you think about what’s going on with the Habs.

If the guys can’t understand what Martin St-Louis wants, it’s not going to work on the ice. Or maybe some of the Habs players just aren’t interested in applying said system… But if that’s the case, there’s a real problem with the way the guys upstairs are taught.

After all, everyone has to be on the same page to move forward, and clearly, that’s not the case right now.

Then again, it’s illogical that Mailloux is talking about a different system in Laval, while the Rocket coach is saying it’s the same as in Montreal.

And that’s a clear indication of confusion between what’s taught in Laval and what’s taught in Montreal.

While we’re on the subject of the Rocket…

The Habs need to score more goals, and in Laval, there’s one guy in particular who’s been rolling well lately: Joshua Roy.

The Québécois scored a hat trick over the weekend and now has 10 points in nine games this season with the Rocket.

For Tony Marinaro, it’s simple…

Roy deserves the chance to be recalled because he could help the Habs on the club’s top-6 :

It’s true that Joshua Roy is racking up points at an interesting pace, and that it comes at an interesting time when you look at what’s going on with the Canadiens.

But ultimately, even if the Habs call him back, it’s not going to change the way players understand Martin St-Louis’ system.

That’s the biggest problem… and it needs to be corrected quickly, or the Habs will continue to regress.

Overtime

– Nice.

– Back already?

– Good news for the Avalanche.

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

Friedman: “Martin St-Louis is more motivated when there are doubts about him”.

The honeymoon between fans and Martin St-Louis is over.

The Habs head coach is at the heart of a lot of criticism at the moment, because his club is struggling on the ice.

And what’s happening is that there are starting to be a lot of doubts about him, since he doesn’t have much experience behind the bench of a National League club.

But according to Elliotte Friedman, the fact that there are doubts about the coach right now may not be a bad thing.

The tipster explains in the recent episode of his podcast that St-Louis is more motivated when people doubt him, and that this could help him find solutions to remedy the situation.

When people question him, he never forgets it. I think he’ll be even more determined to find solutions to help his club. That will motivate him. – Elliotte Friedman

Friedman recounts how, back in the day, when St-Louis went to the Olympics in 2014 after making the club due to injury (he wasn’t one of the original players), he asked Steve Yzerman for a deal when he returned to Tampa Bay.

Yzerman, who was his GM with the Lightning, was also GM with Team Canada.

St-Louis hadn’t liked the fact that his own GM hadn’t selected him to play in the tournament, and he still had it in for him when the Olympics ended, even though Canada had won the gold medal.

Motivated or not, Martin St-Louis needs to look to other coaches for inspiration.

For example?

Patrick Roy benched Samuel Bolduc because he didn’t like his performance… As for Jim Montgomery, he didn’t hesitate to bench his star player, David Pastrnak, because he wasn’t satisfied with what he brought to the rink…

Calvary, even Roman Rotenberg reserves this treatment for Ivan Demidov, who doesn’t deserve it…

What we need to understand here is that the Habs head coach needs to start sending messages to his guys who aren’t performing. That said, how is it that Christian Dvorak got 5-on-3 playing time last week against the Capitals, when he’s been doing nothing (and I’m being polite) on the ice since the start of the season?

How come there aren’t any players getting bailed out (other than Arber Xhekaj, like) despite the fact that we don’t see many of them on the ice?

It just doesn’t make sense…

There are many reasons to have doubts about Martin St-Louis’ work right now, because it seems like he’s having trouble adapting to what’s happening on the ice during games.

If that can motivate him to find solutions, so much the better… But there’s work to be done, because right now, not much is working for his team.

Overtime

– Especially at this time of year.

– He’s so underrated.

– Nice contest.

– Really?

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

Ivan Demidov benched again

SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - 2024/09/23: Ivan Demidov (91) SKA Hockey Club seen in action during the Hockey match, Kontinental Hockey League 2024/2025 between SKA Saint Petersburg and Avangard Omsk at the Ice Sports Palace. (Final score; SKA Saint Petersburg 4:1 Avangard Omsk). (Photo by Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Roman Rotenberg isn’t exactly a Québécois favorite these days.

Ivan Demidov’s KHL coach is always one mistake away from benching the Canadiens’ prospect. And now, after a few weeks when things were going well for the prospect, “normal” has returned.

Demidov, against the Beijing club, played for only 8:27. He played for 2:53 in the second… and he didn’t touch the ice in the third AND overtime, even though he’d started the game on the top-9.

What did Demidov do that was so bad? Who knows. At this point, his coach is benching him for anything and everything.

But when you consider that Demidov had 11 points in his last eight games before today, that he’s one of the KHL’s best rookies and that he scored four points the last time SKA played the Beijing club, it’s hard to understand.

Want more?

The club lost 2-1 in overtime and never led during the match. Why, under such conditions, let Demidov rot on the bench when the club is looking for a forward?

It’s obviously beyond comprehension.

Let’s not forget that Kent Hughes is supposed to visit Russia in the near future to have a chat with his top prospects.

Will he only be chatting to Demidov? After all, you’d think he’d want to chat to his coach, too, to find out why the Habs’ top pick in 2024 is playing so little.

As long as it lifts the Russian prospect’s spirits a little, that’s something.

Overtime

– To watch.

– Vladimir Guerrero Jr. a finalist for a Silver Stick.[MLB Passion]

– Guys to watch in Laval.

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

Injured on Saturday, Juraj Slafkovsky was back in practice this morning

Things are hopping in Brossard this morning.

After seeing four defensemen jump on the ice (along with Adam Nicholas) 90 minutes before regular practice, the club’s six centers had a summit meeting with face-off specialist Marc Bureau.

Nick Suzuki, Jake Evans, Christian Dvorak, Oliver Kapanen, Kirby Dach and Alex Newhook were all there.

So, before practice began, there were two groups working with specialists to correct some of the club’s major shortcomings at the start of the season.

And when I say two, I mean three. Samuel Montembeault was on the second ice of the CN Complex in Brossard to practice his shots with traffic in front of the net.

Among the aspects worth noting from the practice itself, it’s important to note that Rafaël Harvey-Pinard (non-contact) trained with the group again.

And in the short term, it’s also worth noting that Juraj Slafkovsky was present. Good news for the man who didn’t finish Saturday’s game.

Details to come…

Overtime

– Please note.

– Also worth watching.

– Of course.

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

St. Vincent in Laval, St. Louis in Montreal: it makes management look bad

Pascal Vincent is much more qualified than Martin St-Louis.

The Canadiens had started the season well: two wins in three games against your three biggest rivals.

Since then, things have gone from bad to worse: seven losses in nine games.

And it’s worse than worse right now, as the Habs have lost their last three games by a cumulative score of 17-6.

Only the Sharks have a worse record than the Canadiens so far this season in the NHL. And they’re only one point behind the Montrealers…

The Habs don’t score enough goals… they score too many… they give unacceptable performances in front of their fans… their leaders, veterans and head coach are constantly challenged…

It’s obvious to me that Geoff Molson, Kent Hughes, Jeff Gorton and the players set expectations a little too high before the season started. How on earth could anyone have thought that the team we’ve been seeing on the ice for the past month could fight for a playoff spot?

The Habs are once again a bottom 5 – or even bottom 3 – club that is more involved in a lottery race than a playoff race. It’s been that way for the last three or four years. Nothing changes.

No, the Canadiens haven’t progressed in the last year; they’ve actually regressed…

The problem – or the joy, call it what you will – is that just a few miles north, in Laval, the opposite is true. The Rocket sits atop the North Division with an 8-1-0 record. Only the Calgary Wranglers have a better record than Laval (9-1-0).

While the Canadiens are losing, the Rocket are winning. The Habs’ training club has won its last seven games. The Rocket is off to the best start in its history, no less!

All this despite injuries to David Reinbacher, Alex Barré-Boulet, Filip Mesar and Jakub Dobes, among others!

Please don’t tell me that the habs are doing so well this fall because of injuries. The Rocket is managing to get by despite several key players being sidelined.

Joshua Roy, Logan Mailloux (who was out for several games due to a recall with the big club), Connor Hughes, Owen Beck, Luke Tuch… many players have stepped up in Laval.

But why?

How to explain this?

I think a (large) part of the answer lies behind each team’s bench.

It’s often said that the NHL is not a development league, but a results league. Yet the Canadiens’ coach is a developmental coach whose coaching experience prior to arriving in Montreal consisted of coaching pee-wees and advising John Tortorella as a power play consultant for a year.

In Laval, one level below, they put in place a 53-year-old guy (only four years older than St-Louis) whose track record is already VERY long.

(Credit: HockeyDB)

Think about it: Martin St-Louis is currently making his mistakes as a rookie NHL coach. He’s learning the job, with no real mentor by his side…

Whereas below him, there’s an ultra-prepared coach who knows how to coach and who, both collectively and individually, knows how to bring out the best in his players. The coach below is far more qualified and experienced than the coach above him…

While there’s crying, panic and/or attitude in the Bell Centre dressing room, there’s laughter, fun and performance in the Place Bell dressing room.

Still, it’s special that the coach who’s supposed to be coaching to develop and not necessarily to win, is winning…

Whereas the first-team coach doesn’t win… and seems to be making his players regress! If this continues, it’s going to get embarrassing…

Pascal Vincent is much more qualified than Martin St-Louis.
(Credit: Getty Images)

Yes, the Habs are rebuilding, and no, we shouldn’t expect them to win 70% of their games, but there are limits. When you watch the Rocket games, you see that the coach is able to teach and demand clear, concrete concepts from his players (who apply them). When you watch the Canadiens, you always wonder how they manage to be so disorganized on the ice.

Kent Hughes and Jeff Gorton will have to ask themselves one thing: what works in Laval that could be brought to Montreal?

In the short term, we can’t bring Pascal Vincent.

But we can bring Joshua Roy, Alex Barré-Boulet (once he’s healed), Jakub Dobes (once he’s recovered), Logan Mailloux (and coach him well), Luke Tuch or who knows which player dominates down below.

And frankly, why not ask Pascal Vincent to mentor Martin St-Louis?

No, it doesn’t make sense to ask the AHL coach to mentor the NHL coach; it should be the other way around.

But it doesn’t make sense to have St-Louis in Montreal and Vincent in Laval. The fact that Martin St-Louis had a great NHL career doesn’t justify everything…

At this point…

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

4 habs defensemen on the ice 90 minutes before practice

Right now, there are four defensemen who seem assured of playing every night for the Canadiens. We’re talking about David Savard, Kaiden Guhle, Mike Matheson and Lane Hutson.

That leaves Jayden Struble, Arber Xhekaj and Justin Barron in a two-position rotation.

Well, the three defensemen in question decided to jump on the ice no less than 90 minutes before the start of the Canadiens’ regular practice in Brossard. That’s what Eric Engels reported.

Although Struble hasn’t really skipped a beat since his return to uniform, he knows he can jump any time.

Arber Xhekaj has often been left out over the past two weeks, and Justin Barron didn’t play in Saturday’s game. Both men are not indispensable at the moment.

Remember that Xhekaj and Struble can go to the AHL without going through the waivers. They know that internal competition is important and that a Logan Mailloux can be recalled at any time.

And let’s also mention that Lane Hutson got the message (even if he’s playing well), as within minutes of seeing his three young teammates jump on the ice, he chose to join them.

Adam Nicholas was there, too.

We’ll see if this translates into concrete results on the ice, but it’s clear that the four players who skated an hour and a half before the others know they have something to be ashamed of when it comes to the Habs’ biggest problem: defensive coverage.

Overtime

– Who else?

– Third line again for Ivan Demidov.

– For those who want to support Michael Pezzetta. #Movember

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

This season, it’s Juraj Slafkovsky who gets his McDonald’s ad

For several years now, Canadiens players have been teaming up with McDonald’s to do commercials. This year, it’s Juraj Slafkovsky’s turn.

Instead of a burger, this year it’s poutine. As long as Slaf doesn’t eat too much of it before his games, the Canadiens should be okay, I guess.

Slaf and Simon-Olivier Fecteau collaborated on the concept of “En audition avec Simon”, which became “En audition avec McDo”, to present the smoked BBQ poutine with chicken.

Simon-Olivier Fecteau, seen in his director’s chair in the McDo ad, is at the heart of the concept with his ideas for greatness in advertising with McDo.

What you need to know is that the ad is divided into several parts. The video above is the final result.

Basically, we see Fecteau auditioning Slaf to see if he’d be the best man to play the role of Juraj Slafkovsky in the ad. And Slaf tells him, in French, that he’s Juraj Slafkovsky.

But despite everything, Fecteau is skeptical. And one of his sentences was still funny.

Je le sais-tu, moi, who’s the best actor for the part. Claude Legault gave me a great Juraj in the morning. – Simon-Olivier Fecteau to his sidekick Étienne de Passillé

In the following ads, the director asks Slaf to raise his poutine as if it were the Stanley Cup, to throw himself through a flaming hoop for the sake of the ad, and to set himself on fire for added drama.

And throughout the ads, the Slovak always speaks in French (except when he’s talking to his agent on the phone to complain), tossing in short phrases. It’s a nice touch.

Last year, Cole Caufield was there with Claude Legault. There was also a Québécois touch, since the burger at the heart of the ad was maple-based.

Over the years, the likes of Max Pacioretty, Alex Galchenyuk, Marc Bergevin, Brendan Gallagher, Tyler Toffoli and Shea Weber, to name but a few, have done ads with McDo.

Overtime

– Where is the club going?

– A Golden Glove for Daulton Varsho, Blue Jays. [MLB Passion]

– Normal.

– Wow.

This content was created with the help of AI.

Categories
Dans les coulisses

Angela Price criticized for voting for Trump

Tomorrow is an important day in the United States. After all, Americans will have an important choice to make: Donald Trump or Kamala Harris.

Obviously, you know as well as I do that this is a divisive issue.

Angela, Carey Price’s wife who has never shied away from her ideas, recently confessed publicly that she has chosen to vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

And as TVA Sports reports, via a text by Jessica Lapinski, she’s received plenty of criticism for it. In particular, she was suggested to go to hell as a result of her comments.

What you need to know is that publicly posting your political choices always leads to comments like this. And I’m not saying it’s acceptable, obviously, but it’s the norm.

Angela, a social network specialist, must have known this before she answered a question on the subject.

That didn’t stop her from saying that, in her opinion, Kamala Harris doesn’t have what it takes to become the first female president in history. And that’s probably where she came in for some criticism.

On the other hand, she believes Donald Trump is a “strong leader” for the country.

Overtime

– The Athletic in the green recently.

– Connor McDavid in practice. [RDS]

– The NHL is not an easy league.

This content was created with the help of AI.