Habs prospect camp features a pair of tryouts
by Kevin van Steendelaar on Jul 6, 2011 6:30 PM EDT
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A pair of additions made their way to the Montreal Canadiens development camp.
Forward Étienne Brodeur, who played last season with the now defunct Lewiston Maineiacs (QMJHL), and defenseman Josh McFadden, of the Sudbury Wolves (OHL) joined the small band of Canadiens draft picks Wednesday in Brossard.
Brodeur finished ninth in the Q in scoring (53 goals, 30 assists) but his size (5'9") may have left the now 20-year-old off the radar of NHL scouts
Josh McFadden, also 20 years of age, got word of the invite on Saturday. He spoke to the Sudbury Star on being invited to the camp.
Tom Pyatt has signed a one-year, two-way deal with, surprise, the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Georges Laraque spoke to Fan590's Eric Smith on his trip to Haiti, along with P.K. Subban.
Jeff Marek, has departed CBC/HNIC and jumped on with the Rogers Sportsnet crew. Marek will be working on Hockey Central. He talked to Prime Time Sports' Bob McCowan this afternoon about the new gig.
Guy Carbonneau will not coach the Chicoutimi Sagueneens next season. The announcement immediately spurred rumors that the former Habs captain would be the new bench boss with the New Jersey Devils. Greg Wyshynski puts in his two cents on the possibility.
Eric Engels on the free agent boil down
Abe Hefter ponders new Habs line combinations.
Earlier in the week, his Royal Highness Price William tried his luck at road hockey in Yellowknife. The Northwest Territories are considered by many to be one of the birthplaces of hockey, with documentation of the word dating back to 1825 and the first of two expeditions to the Northwest Passage by Sir John Franklin.
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I like McFadden, but Brodeur seems like he was riding off of Kabanov’s coattails. We’ll see.
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I heard McFadden finished the year at -31 or something, worst on his team…
by Simon Lamarche on Jul 7, 2011 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Yep. His coach did point out that he was +2 post-Christmas, though. Just a horrid start to the year.
Junior +/- stats can be horrendously deceiving. Generally if they have the worst +/- they are one of the team’s best players, oddly enough. Sudbury wasn’t particularly good, they weren’t Barrie bad, though.
He probably won’t be a Rod Langway if he makes the bigs, that’s for sure.
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Hefter was unfairly harsh to Kostitsyn there, but that’st the Montreal media for you, can’t expect more from them.
He had better point totals than three of the top-six wingers off teams that made the cup finals (Marchand, Recchi, Raymond) but he’s not good enough to play top-six in Montreal.
Carbonneau is rumoured to be the Devil’s next coach. If he’s like he was in Montreal, what a gift to the rest of the conference that would be.
Abe’s never really been on the Kostitsyn bandwagon. Kostitsyn just has to be consistent to stay top-six. It will fall to him of Pacioretty to fill that final slot.
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by Kevin van Steendelaar on Jul 6, 2011 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
AKost has always been as consistent as anyone. Every scorer is streaky; it’s just that when he’s not scoring he is perceived as lazy, rather than struggling. And he has a reputation as an offense-only player so he’s seen as useless if he doesn’t score, even though he has developped a relatively strong two-way game. He’s no Plekanec, but he can keep up with his comps, that’s no small thing.
AKost is a top-6 forward and a pretty good one too. The only reason he’s not considered to be, really, is the Russian mystique. And the typical Montreal overevaluation of league talent, where people don’t realize how rare 25 goal scorers really are.
Coach Carbo was the biggest disappointment to me as a Habs fan in the new millenium. My favourite player turned terrible coach. What a horrid turn of events that was. I laugh at Wysh calling Carbo a defensive-minded coach. No, he was a defensive-minded player. He was an absolutely clueless coach with no real philosophy that he could articulate.
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Carbo… I was so disappointed. I kept thinking that there must be something that eluded me, some hidden reason to do what he did, some method to his madness. It took the better part of his tenure for me to admit that no, there really was no method to the madness.
It took only ten games of Jacques Martin for me to really understand what a clueful coach was.
Somehow, I recall people questioning Martin for more than an entire season rather than touting his coaching vision shortly into his tenure. :)
Carbo will probably do fine in NJ.
Most coaches do.
He did, after all, somehow manage to get the Habs to finish in first in conference in 2008, good fortune with lack of injuries notwithstanding.
Did Lamoriello make a mistake in the Kovalchuk contract? Yes. Can they manage despite that? Yes.
Carbonneau the player was capable of learning from his mistakes. I’d say Carbo the coach is probably capable of the same.
Carbonneau the player was capable of learning from his mistakes. I’d say Carbo the coach is probably capable of the same.
That’s fair. Coaches on their first team often aren’t fully formed.
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I questioned Martin’s system because it seemed misadapted to modern hockey and he took a team with a lot of 5-on-5 talent and got utterly terrible, last-of-league type results.
Even then though, his personnel management was great, light-years ahead of Carbonneau. A bit prone to sending messages, though.
Minor moves
Ryan Russell sent to his twin bro’s organization in Ohio for tweener Michael Blunden. Brian Willsie also signed.
Habs up to 42 contracts with 4 RFA’s (Gorges, White, Carle, St. Denis). Not much out there on the UFA pile other than Madden or Zherdev. On D, even less.
We could very well be looking at this year’s team right now. Long time, still trades, arbitration walkaways, last minute depth signings and the like to consider. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Gauthier is making his own personal vacation plans.
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Seems like there’s a bit too much money left in the bank for that. I see one more addition besides depth. Probably on D.
It’d have to be via trade.
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I think depth is all we’re going to see. Next major additions will be mid-season.
by Stephan Cooper on Jul 7, 2011 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
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