Aggressively meh

Just practice out there now

They’re sure galaxy braining the damn powerplay!

I think there was an NBA ref too

Hope it’s just ebbs and flows of an 82 game season

As soon as it’s impacting players, definitely.

1000%. Habs are their own worst enemies tonight.

The first 10 games or so they were clinical defending passing lanes in all three zones. Right now they’re beyond porous.

Yup. Killer.

Soft as butter call.

It’s a very weird decision.

It’s not him personally that’s the issue, it’s redundancy, IMO. Although he’s fighting the puck tonight.

Any time! Also, Slaf’s size and speed makes him a grade A chaos inducer when he drives the net.

Keeping puck movement down low is much more stressful for defenders. Low to high passes are also very tough for goalies and shot blockers. At the point, you. Don’t have high quality shooting or passing options. You can go high to low for a one-timer from the half wall, but that’s less effective.

From a pure positional perspective, you’re ceding ground from close to the net to add someone at the point. Really hard to justify.