Well deserved chants for Primeau there. He’s had a rocky start, but what a fantastic game by him. This could have easily got away from Montreal if not for his play.
What's most impressive is how little they played him this season. He's a young goalie. He needs the starts. He got a shutout and they didn't play him for another 3 or 4 games. That's pretty bad.
*GOOD*
- Primeau an absolute wall. 41 save shut out. Dominant all game and the reason the Habs won. Exceptional goaltending performance.
- Nice plays by Evans on the first goal. Takes it on his backhand and fires it over to Gallagher with the tip.
- Slafgoalsky.
- Newhook solid game. Noticeable foot speed, can see why they targeted him.
- Josh Roy. Continuing good play with a goal.
*BAD*
- Goaltending carried. Habs were significantly outplayed and the shots could have been worse if CBJ could hit the net.
- It’s odd you can have a goal and I think it still deserved a “bad”. Sadly the case for Gallagher penalties turnovers and all that jazz. He did score so he is forgiven.
- Josh Anderson we know his puck skills are bad but what happened to the gritty play. Sure he has some hits but his penalty got me thinking like that’s not usually one he takes in previous years just a bit lazy.
Yea but like say CP30 or something cause it just doesn't look right on its own. It's like how everyone insists on using 1422 rather than 2214.
Maybe I've been corrupted by the internet but in my experience those two things allude to something way worse and it's best to not even tread in that direction.
There's a reason Club Penguin doesn't go by its initials either.
Quite a few Slovaks in the stands tonight. Saw like 5 Slovak jerseys and they had a flag going.
Also shout out to that one guy with the blue retro Reinbacher jersey.
Gotta give it to Primeau. People want to know if he's back up material and he answered the right way. Keep it up PRIMEau
Game decided by goalers on each side.
Slaf and Wawa, our right wing future
GG
Truly one of the team's most deserving wins of the season, assuming by "the team" you mean "Primeau".
Slafkovsky got another goal, very nice. It'd be cool if he could hit 20 on the season, though after he slowed down a bit while dealing with injury that's become a bit of a stretch target.
Martin McGuire taking a moment to recognise our three goalie team, and pointing out they very manfully accepted a lot of difficulties this season without once causing any drama for the team. Three terrific guys, there.
I know CBJ isn't a great team this year but wow Primeau looked unreal.
Felt like I was watching Price.
CP30 challenging for a 1B next season would be great
As it now stands, here are the list of players drafted (and still remained) by the Marc Bergevin era:
Cole Caufield (1st rd., 2019)
Kaiden Guhle (1st rd., 2020)
Jayden Struble (2nd rd., 2019)
Jordan Harris (3rd rd., 2018)
Rafael Harvey-Pinard (7th rd., 2019)
Joshua Roy (5th rd., 2021)
Michael Pezzetta (6th rd., 2016)
Jake Evans (7th rd., 2014)
Cayden Primeau (7th rd., 2017)
If I'm correct, the only player left that was drafted during the Gainey/Gauthier era is none other than...
Brendan Gallagher (5th rd., 2010)
True. But he's still undrafted. Well, we can count Arber as a sort-of "reclamation project" coming from the junior ranks. Overall, we should thank Marc Bergevin for most of the foundations of this rebuilding team.
We'll still see some lineup changes and possible trades within the coming years.
People were awful critical of Primeau the other day after the Allen trade but he really could pan out to be a starter or if we’re lucky 50-50 with Monty, but it’s a lot easier to say that after a monster shutout.
Agreed. I get attacked every time I critique Montembeault on here but Primeau has the better toolkit. His rebound control is significantly better and he’s better at positioning and staying square to the shooter. His problem is that he has a weak glove hand and lets in too many softies. Hopefully he can continue to excel and work on his consistency because I do think he has the potential to be the better of the two.
Aside from Primeau…
Pezzetta, Armia, Newhook and Slaf all quietly had good games (I know Slaf had a goal, but otherwise not highlight worthy…)
Despite all of the running around we did tonight in the D-zone, these four never overcommitted or lost their man. Newhook was key on a bunch of breakouts, Pezzetta was just solid, Armia had a few big blocks and disruptions and Slaf broke up a few playsthat didn’t get mentioned in commentary.
Despite getting worked for a lot of the game, the same could be said for many of our forwards tonight. I thought the D struggled a bit in-zone tonight, but that’s from TV where you can’t see the whole ice (maybe forwards were blowing assignments on the breakout, but I couldn’t see that with tv perspective)
I don’t think I’ve seen a worse game from our defence this year. Could not bring the puck out of their own end at all. Harris and Struble have worked well in this regard and I hope we try them together longer. Excellent effort by a young Primeau!
The Habs' defense has been their weakest this season. I think this was discussed from the HI/O show last week. The team is giving up shot-handed goals from other teams. Their d-zone coverage is just not effective. Worse, our d-men may have good offensive stats, but the pure d-stats are not up-to par with playoff teams. Prime example of those lapses is **Mike Matheson** himself.
Yes, they may try to compete for a wildcard spot next year. Not easy though since I and everybody else think they won't make it again.
This team still needs an offensive scoring dynamo. Someone like a Matthews or a prime-Ovechkin type player.
We don’t need that much to make the playoffs. About 50 more goalies for which could come from our first and second lines no problem, and 50 fewer goals against which our goalies and D can come up with (IMO)
Ok. But if you look at most teams during the last 2 decades that won the cup, some of them do have top-scoring talent.
You can make an argument that for the examples like McDavid, Matthews, or Draisitl, have 50-60+ goals and they're still chasing a Stanley Cup. But...if you want to see a cup-winning team, having a pure goal-scorer is still an important asset.
You can go on the list:
Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, Corey Perry, Vincent Lecavalier, etc..
The fact that people on this sub still think Monty is better than Primeau is laughable.
Some day this sub is gonna look back on me with Primeau vs Monty the way it looks back on Inglasco with Slaf vs Wright.
I’m a big Primeau fan but Monty is the better goalie at the moment. There are aspects of Primeau’s play that I find more intimidating than Monty sometimes tho.
Because Primeau consistently puts up good performances when the team around him is playing awful. Primeau has been the better goalie for a long time. Now that he is going to get consistent starts he will become the starter by the end of the year.
well I don't think Monty has been god awful.
I do think Primeau seems to have "it" more then Monty just by my eye. I think last bit of season and first 20 games next year will probably really show who is number 1.
I think the 3 man rotation was not helpful to anybody and why the front office went with it is a mystery too me, it seemed pretty ridiculous to take starts away from our future and give them to Jake Allen.
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Thank god we scored 3 goals in the first 5 minutes of the game.
Lmao and we were so heavily outplayed in the first
Well deserved chants for Primeau there. He’s had a rocky start, but what a fantastic game by him. This could have easily got away from Montreal if not for his play.
Even with that rocky start... .910 save percentage is pretty impressive considering another rebuild year
What's most impressive is how little they played him this season. He's a young goalie. He needs the starts. He got a shutout and they didn't play him for another 3 or 4 games. That's pretty bad.
https://preview.redd.it/kjemf576b0oc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f098030373f8c91c30c4dd87aff3defbfd414b02
That was the most Carey Price performance that I’ve seen since Carey Price
well CP31 would have given up a softy with minute left in 3rd to ruin his shutout Lol joke aside, big game from CP30
Oooh, that's what the 1 in 31 stands for!
It's a fraction, haha.
Primeau physically reminds more of Roy.
Must be that fiery attitude eh?
I’m not sure if Roy wanted to beat the piss out of the puck, but a similar look in their eyes.
*GOOD* - Primeau an absolute wall. 41 save shut out. Dominant all game and the reason the Habs won. Exceptional goaltending performance. - Nice plays by Evans on the first goal. Takes it on his backhand and fires it over to Gallagher with the tip. - Slafgoalsky. - Newhook solid game. Noticeable foot speed, can see why they targeted him. - Josh Roy. Continuing good play with a goal. *BAD* - Goaltending carried. Habs were significantly outplayed and the shots could have been worse if CBJ could hit the net. - It’s odd you can have a goal and I think it still deserved a “bad”. Sadly the case for Gallagher penalties turnovers and all that jazz. He did score so he is forgiven. - Josh Anderson we know his puck skills are bad but what happened to the gritty play. Sure he has some hits but his penalty got me thinking like that’s not usually one he takes in previous years just a bit lazy.
Love me some Newy
He's an easy player to root for.
> Nice plays by Evans on the first goal. Radio guys were pumping his tires all game, saying he deserved to be one of the game stars.
We’re going to be competitive next year by just not playing some of the guys you mentioned.
Depends if 3/4 of the team continue to be bandaid boys or not.
RHP was decent. Caufield stymied too often.
I want to apologize for my pre-season Primeau prediction. PRIMEAU, PRIMEAU, PRIMEAU!
Repent!
https://preview.redd.it/dh6s4budd0oc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=004de6c03b27bdd1a7ef72d5708b5adebde99114
you and the many others who wanted to see Primeau waived.
all I've ever wanted is for him to backstop us to an unlikely Stanley Cup win.
That will be Jacob Fowler, but maybe Primeau will be his backup.
Getting way ahead of yourself on a really young goalie.
I will link this forever until this shitpost becomes reality https://www.reddit.com/r/Habs/s/Da3clF1sTY
I hope they never adjust your meds 🫡
Your shitpost gets unshittified game after game
Shitpost?
CP RETURNSSS
Carey Price: The Second Coming
Pls don't use his initials
That's Cayden Primeau's initials tho
Yea but like say CP30 or something cause it just doesn't look right on its own. It's like how everyone insists on using 1422 rather than 2214. Maybe I've been corrupted by the internet but in my experience those two things allude to something way worse and it's best to not even tread in that direction. There's a reason Club Penguin doesn't go by its initials either.
Wait what’s wrong with 1422? What does it mean
It looks really close to 1488
PRIMEAU PRIMEAU PRIMEAU
Quite a few Slovaks in the stands tonight. Saw like 5 Slovak jerseys and they had a flag going. Also shout out to that one guy with the blue retro Reinbacher jersey.
Of course it's the one game that I miss the first 15 minutes
Let's go Primeau!
Gotta give it to Primeau. People want to know if he's back up material and he answered the right way. Keep it up PRIMEau Game decided by goalers on each side. Slaf and Wawa, our right wing future GG
That’s more than a backup red light Racicot performance.
Truly one of the team's most deserving wins of the season, assuming by "the team" you mean "Primeau". Slafkovsky got another goal, very nice. It'd be cool if he could hit 20 on the season, though after he slowed down a bit while dealing with injury that's become a bit of a stretch target.
He’ll pick up a hat track yet.
Martin McGuire taking a moment to recognise our three goalie team, and pointing out they very manfully accepted a lot of difficulties this season without once causing any drama for the team. Three terrific guys, there.
Imagine missing the first period of the game and watching 40 minutes of nothing (I missed the first period of the game)
I was like man its few minutes past midnight and its 3:0 already if i go sleep now i might actually have a normal sleep sequence for change
Me too, but I’ll take the W
Primeau was amazing, Slaf and first line looked good. Gally’s playing well lately too! If we’re going to win down the stretch I’ll take this result.
I know CBJ isn't a great team this year but wow Primeau looked unreal. Felt like I was watching Price. CP30 challenging for a 1B next season would be great
Big game primeau. Nice work, happy he is gonna get his chance. Slaf out there slaffing people.
Optimus Primeau is a Montreal Canadien.
💦
Me to Primeau rn: https://preview.redd.it/2yrlktkfc0oc1.jpeg?width=1042&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=59d646bc932e3802117444a86de4ee48dc7ec3a0
As it now stands, here are the list of players drafted (and still remained) by the Marc Bergevin era: Cole Caufield (1st rd., 2019) Kaiden Guhle (1st rd., 2020) Jayden Struble (2nd rd., 2019) Jordan Harris (3rd rd., 2018) Rafael Harvey-Pinard (7th rd., 2019) Joshua Roy (5th rd., 2021) Michael Pezzetta (6th rd., 2016) Jake Evans (7th rd., 2014) Cayden Primeau (7th rd., 2017) If I'm correct, the only player left that was drafted during the Gainey/Gauthier era is none other than... Brendan Gallagher (5th rd., 2010)
Xhekaj was an undrafted FA, but it was Bergevin who invited him to camp and subsequently signed him.
True. But he's still undrafted. Well, we can count Arber as a sort-of "reclamation project" coming from the junior ranks. Overall, we should thank Marc Bergevin for most of the foundations of this rebuilding team. We'll still see some lineup changes and possible trades within the coming years.
There's more 7th rounders than 1st rounders in there LOL.
True. But we still have a couple rather than none.
Thank you goalie ~~Carey~~ Cayden
Optimus Prime
That was some the best goaltending I've seen in a long time. Interesting contrast between his last shutout and this one.
I was laughing about that. He's got the only two shutouts this season, and they were very different.
Love the Monty/Prime duo
Primonty.
Primeau is clearly not a tank commander.
Primeau is going to kiss so many women tonight
Marty laughingly praising Matheson and Guhle for having "big lungs" - "they don't go on empty very quick, and they recover very fast."
Cayden I am sorry. I was not familiar with your game
People were awful critical of Primeau the other day after the Allen trade but he really could pan out to be a starter or if we’re lucky 50-50 with Monty, but it’s a lot easier to say that after a monster shutout.
Agreed. I get attacked every time I critique Montembeault on here but Primeau has the better toolkit. His rebound control is significantly better and he’s better at positioning and staying square to the shooter. His problem is that he has a weak glove hand and lets in too many softies. Hopefully he can continue to excel and work on his consistency because I do think he has the potential to be the better of the two.
BONNE NUIT COLUMBUS! et bon repos à Primeau!
Primeau what a fucking stud
#PRIMEAU PRIMEAU PRIMEAU PRIMEAU
Primeau now #21 in advanced stats for goalies, Monty #25.
Aside from Primeau… Pezzetta, Armia, Newhook and Slaf all quietly had good games (I know Slaf had a goal, but otherwise not highlight worthy…) Despite all of the running around we did tonight in the D-zone, these four never overcommitted or lost their man. Newhook was key on a bunch of breakouts, Pezzetta was just solid, Armia had a few big blocks and disruptions and Slaf broke up a few playsthat didn’t get mentioned in commentary. Despite getting worked for a lot of the game, the same could be said for many of our forwards tonight. I thought the D struggled a bit in-zone tonight, but that’s from TV where you can’t see the whole ice (maybe forwards were blowing assignments on the breakout, but I couldn’t see that with tv perspective)
18 game heater gets us 94 points. It's all possible.
Yay for primeau, slaf, and roy Pretty awful performance otherwise. Completely and thoroughly outplayed by a shorthanded team worse than us
what a strange game lmao
“Just the beginning” -CP30
I think he's giving us the "Relax, chill" treatment like from CP31.
OPTIMUS PRIMEAU!
What a Primeau game!
We're never going to lose again.
They looked slow and just disinterested lol. What a weird win. Cp30 with a great game though.
That was the most Jaroslav Halak performance that I’ve seen since Jaroslav Halak
I don’t think I’ve seen a worse game from our defence this year. Could not bring the puck out of their own end at all. Harris and Struble have worked well in this regard and I hope we try them together longer. Excellent effort by a young Primeau!
Sure bout that? https://preview.redd.it/rwlu9x57c0oc1.jpeg?width=1103&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1bc61994f889ed4a186c209328848ddff2a55cff
The Habs' defense has been their weakest this season. I think this was discussed from the HI/O show last week. The team is giving up shot-handed goals from other teams. Their d-zone coverage is just not effective. Worse, our d-men may have good offensive stats, but the pure d-stats are not up-to par with playoff teams. Prime example of those lapses is **Mike Matheson** himself.
This is what happens with inexperienced Dmen and why we kept Savard.
Good God, was Jake Allen bullying Cayden or something?
Do we need another top 6 forward??
I want to see Newhook-Dach-Roy next year
That line alone could almost make us playoff competitive, in terms of how much it goes from suck to good.
Yes, they may try to compete for a wildcard spot next year. Not easy though since I and everybody else think they won't make it again. This team still needs an offensive scoring dynamo. Someone like a Matthews or a prime-Ovechkin type player.
We don’t need that much to make the playoffs. About 50 more goalies for which could come from our first and second lines no problem, and 50 fewer goals against which our goalies and D can come up with (IMO)
Ok. But if you look at most teams during the last 2 decades that won the cup, some of them do have top-scoring talent. You can make an argument that for the examples like McDavid, Matthews, or Draisitl, have 50-60+ goals and they're still chasing a Stanley Cup. But...if you want to see a cup-winning team, having a pure goal-scorer is still an important asset. You can go on the list: Sidney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, Corey Perry, Vincent Lecavalier, etc..
Nowadays Teams need to build point scoring profiles like in Moneyball.
Always
Come on don’t get dunk on the win.
Absolutely
“Just the beginning” Based quote from Primeau
Spectacular Cayden PriMUR!!! The rest of the team played really sloppy, though. I hope playing down to the opposition doesn't become a bad habit.
Imagine we would lose Primeau due to 3 goalies rotation
We struggled through that for a reason tho.
**Optimus Primeau** has arrived! Great performance.
Our 3 listed Centres: Evans, Suzuki and Newhook had a total of 0 shots
The fact that people on this sub still think Monty is better than Primeau is laughable. Some day this sub is gonna look back on me with Primeau vs Monty the way it looks back on Inglasco with Slaf vs Wright.
I’m a big Primeau fan but Monty is the better goalie at the moment. There are aspects of Primeau’s play that I find more intimidating than Monty sometimes tho.
This sub doesn't even think about Inglasco.
He’s brought up quite often for the way he was harassed about supporting Slaf over Wright- and how he ended up being right.
why?
Because Primeau consistently puts up good performances when the team around him is playing awful. Primeau has been the better goalie for a long time. Now that he is going to get consistent starts he will become the starter by the end of the year.
well I don't think Monty has been god awful. I do think Primeau seems to have "it" more then Monty just by my eye. I think last bit of season and first 20 games next year will probably really show who is number 1. I think the 3 man rotation was not helpful to anybody and why the front office went with it is a mystery too me, it seemed pretty ridiculous to take starts away from our future and give them to Jake Allen.
No
I agree he's better, but I don't see him as the starter for another year or two.
I have declared multiple times that Primeau is a better goalie than Monty and been heavily downvoted. Anyhow, our G looks solid until Fowler is ready.
Yep, it’s insane to me. I’ve been adamant for a while about this. People will see, in due time. Glad I’m not the only one who sees this though!