Palushaj Recalled and Other Habs Links
by Kevin van Steendelaar on Feb 8, 2012 7:05 PM EST
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With Mike Blunden on IR, for the next four to six weeks, and Yannick Weber now out with a lower body injury, the Montreal Canadiens have again recalled Aaron Palushaj from the Hamilton Bulldogs.
The 22-year old forward just registered his first NHL point, an assist Sunday against the Winnipeg Jets, before being sent back to the Bulldogs. Palushaj has played 17 games for the Canadiens this season, on an on-call basis, and leads the Bulldogs on scoring with 28 points (13 goals) in 30 games.
More after the jump
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Pierre Gauthier's visit to Indianapolis Colts Owner Jim Irsay.
Carey price on the Habs season, following last night's win over the Penguins.
Alexander Ovechkin meets the kid he snow jobbed in the 2010 playoffs.
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Fleury more elite than Price.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Could that guy possibly be more biased?
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 7:40 PM EST reply actions
Well it is a Pens blog after all.
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by Kevin van Steendelaar on Feb 8, 2012 8:06 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t think that’s an excuse. We don’t go around saying Pacioretty is better than Ovechkin. You’ve gotta be rational if you want credibility.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 8:12 PM EST up reply actions
Some people still think a ring is proof of greatness.
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Chris Osgood was SO elite. This is my canned response to ring = greatness.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 8:59 PM EST up reply actions
From the group of fools keeping Pat Burns out, I’m not surprised.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
I think his skill is there, but he gets himself into such horrible position by overplaying his angles.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:00 PM EST up reply actions
He has great quickness and lateral ability but he over pursues plays because of that quickness and footwork. Price is more in control than Fleury when he moves laterally, which is why he is the best IMO.
When he panics he chases the puck instead of chasing the position.
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I also find his overall positioning inferior to Price’s.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:38 PM EST up reply actions
Calling an arrogant dirty player (dirtiest in the league™!) is kind of old at this point, but I give her originality points for the “dangerous predator” line. Beating Carey Price typically isn’t hard? yeah, right he’s having a bad season yet he still posts better numbers than Fleury.
My favorite Price-to-Fleury comparison is from two years ago, when Price was having his horrible, godawful, get-this-guy-out-of-here .905 SV% season. At the time this was Fleury’s career number.
Fleury’s career average is still just .909!
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
I give him some leeway because he was rushed to the NHL, but his best full season is still essentially equal to Price’s career average.
For some reason I thought his best season was better than .918, wow.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
I’m actually not sure you can make the argument he was rushed into the NHL any more than Price was. He only played 21 NHL games before he was 20 years old and therefore the same age as Price was when he broke in.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:17 PM EST up reply actions
He wasn’t so much rushed as brought to play behind an AHL lineup to start.
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by Stephan Cooper on Feb 8, 2012 9:26 PM EST up reply actions
Yes this is true.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:29 PM EST up reply actions
Even if you removed his first two seasons, his career SV% is .912.
Price has one season during his career with a SV% less than .912. If you toss out Price’s worst season then we get better numbers.
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Without Price’s down season he becomes essentially a .919 career goalie.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:35 PM EST up reply actions
You’re right, they’re a lot closer that I thought. Fleury probably shouldn’t have played at 19 and he struggled in the NHL,but was very good in limited AHL action at 21.
Funny thing is, he only put up elite numbers in the NHL for the first time at age 22, when Price did the exact same at 20 in his rookie season the same year.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:31 PM EST up reply actions
It’s amazing how Price went from junior hockey to elite NHL starter in months with only an AHL playoff run in between.
It’s pretty fantastic. Everyone thought Mason would do the same but that didn’t exactly work out.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:44 PM EST up reply actions
Subban the dirtiest player in the league? Hmmm… okay.
Especially considering the Penguins have Matt Cooke. Oh, but that’s right, he’s turned a new leaf.
A lot of Pens fans have had a burr up their ass about Subban ever since he schooled their superstars as an AHL callup in the 2nd round.
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by Stephan Cooper on Feb 8, 2012 8:50 PM EST up reply actions
Letang bouncing on Subban from behind was totally OK I guess.
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by Kevin van Steendelaar on Feb 8, 2012 8:59 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously I was worried that Subban could be seriously hurt. That looked like a horse collar.
But feet slide a weeeeeee bit more on ice than turf.
It did look like he hurt his back a little after the play, but seems he’s fine.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:04 PM EST up reply actions
The best part of Pens fans being so mad is if you watch the video, Subban doesn’t once get gloves into Malkin’s face. They’re all hits to the shoulder and chest and they’re calling that dirty. Combine this with the callous ignoring of Kunitz laying a predatory hip check on a player without the puck and injuring him and you have the most pathetically biased garbage out there.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:03 PM EST reply actions
Kunitz is the most under the radar dirty player in the league. No one talks about him, but you could easily put a highlight reel together of the cheap stuff that he’s done.
I agree. He’s a chronic hitter from behind.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
I didn’t see this before because his salary is too low to show up as an important UFA on capgeek but Jay Garrison is a UFA this season.
If he goes to free agency he’s probably the biggest defensive pick up out there that isn’t Suter and almost no one is talking about him because he plays in obscurity in Florida.
If Tallon doesn’t manage to keep him some clever GM is going to make a huge move by getting him this summer.
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some clever GM
Meaning NOT Pierre Gauthier
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by Kevin van Steendelaar on Feb 8, 2012 9:49 PM EST up reply actions
Well, on one hand, if we give him credit for his role under Gainey, Gauthier had a hand in acquiring Moen and Gill, he traded for Moore and picked up Halpern. On the other hand he also traded for Nokelainen and Sopel and kept Gill at the expense of Hamrlik.
I guess it could go either way with Gauthier and defensive players.
Looking at Hamrlik, I’m very glad we didn’t sign him for 2 years at that money.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
I agree letting Hamirlk walk at that price wasn’t a big mistake. I wish we could have had him for the year, though.
Would it have actually helped enough to make this season worth it though?
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 9, 2012 12:35 AM EST up reply actions
Hard to say. Would 2-3 more close wins have prevented management from killing the season by firing Martin and his winning record? Maybe, who knows what the hell they were thinking.
Good point,
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 9, 2012 2:34 AM EST up reply actions
I have a feeling people will be talking about him. Not because his underlyings are actually really damn good, but because he’s scoring at will this year. He’s probably more of a 6-8 goal per year defenseman but he would be a solid 2nd pairing guy.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 9:55 PM EST up reply actions
With how he’s playing the last two years, solid number 2 should start creeping into the conversation about Garrison.
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by Stephan Cooper on Feb 8, 2012 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
I can see him fetching 3.5-4M this offseason.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 8, 2012 10:11 PM EST up reply actions
Relative to other UFA’s, he’s a steal at 4.
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by Stephan Cooper on Feb 9, 2012 12:59 AM EST up reply actions
I’d have to agree.
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 9, 2012 2:34 AM EST up reply actions
This is only Palushaj’s 5th recall of the year. I thought for sure it was more.
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Feels like the 50th!
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by Andrew Berkshire on Feb 9, 2012 12:35 AM EST up reply actions
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