maybeitsian

maybeitsian

@grosmatchcesoir.com

Co-host of Locked on Canadiens. Subscribe wherever you find podcasts. Friend of the show. Relatively well informed. He/Him. https://grosmatchcesoir.com

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there are a lot of games out there and many of them are not worth the $60-$70 price tag. star wars galactic racer is worth it. beat the campaign in about 11 hours over the course of a week. it’s a blast.

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i keep staring at this graph like this can't be normal source: x.com/hockeyalchem...

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the habs are a top 10 team at 5v5 with an xGF% of 54.26. that would be nice if they spent a lot of time at 5v5. they don't. they have the 3rd fewest minutes played at 5v5. oh so they spend a lot of time on the powerplay? nah. they have the 4th most pk minutes and the 6th lowest pp minutes.

the habs are a top 10 team at 5v5 with an xGF% of 54.26. that would be nice if they spent a lot of time at 5v5. they don't. they have the 3rd fewest minutes played at 5v5. oh so they spend a lot of time on the powerplay? nah. they have the 4th most pk minutes and the 6th lowest pp minutes.

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i hate doing the refball shit. i am tired of it. i try to lay off of it some nights because it drives me nuts to think about every game, but the data is what it is.

the frustrating thing is there is no good way to have this conversation. you bring it up and no matter how well thought out the argument is, it sounds like a tantrum about how unfair the refs are being. i imagine this is why not a lot of complaints made with the league materialize in anything.

the habs are a top 10 team at 5v5 with an xGF% of 54.26. that would be nice if they spent a lot of time at 5v5. they don't. they have the 3rd fewest minutes played at 5v5. oh so they spend a lot of time on the powerplay? nah. they have the 4th most pk minutes and the 6th lowest pp minutes.

the habs spend 42.9% of their even strength minutes in the offensive zone (4th in nhl) and have the 6th fewest powerplay minutes. canes: 1st in o-zone time at 5v5, 3rd in pp time panthers: 2nd in o-zone time at 5v5, 1st in pp time mammoth: 3rd in o-zone time at 5v5, 11th in pp time

you can be critical of the play some nights for montreal, but the numbers bear out a team that plays pretty well and just cannot buy a call from the refs. the habs' whistle is terrible. (the habs powerplay is also terrible, i am not absolving them of that)

herculean effort from the penalty kill. the jets powerplay is one of the best in the league. habs pk was up to the task in a big way.

the habs still have paul byron on the payroll. get him on the ice at practice to talk about breakaways. they never score on their breakaways.

bummed for dobes that he isn’t getting the start, but it’s the right call. big moment like this probably isn’t the best place to try to get him right. st. louis on tuesday is a better spot for that.

there was a lot of white knuckling with the habs before this last game. then suzuki got hurt. the habs have picked up 9 of their last 12 available points. it hasn’t been a work of are, but the points are important and they’re picking them up.

that’s probably the right call but on a night where the canadiens have not shared the puck, power play opportunities being 5-2 for the hawks is part of a long history of this kind of shit.

the guy on the scooter gave a statement after hitting arber xhekaj

/r/Habs@habsonreddit.bsky.social

Arber Xhekaj is riding a Bixi bike at night on a bridge in Montreal while Habs players are dropping like flies 😭