Quote (Farine @ May 7 2015 11:59am)
Subban still has room to grow, I wouldn't give up on him yet. Also, with that contract you'll be getting. Big contracts in return.
Need galchy to become a real #1 cuz plekanec is definitely not one. He's solid but he's not a star.
Unfortunately out of patches you can't really name anyone that you can count on to put up points nightly. Therrien's system due to a team of averages (no offense) relies on price WAY too much.
See I agree that Subban would require taking another big salary but that's where we'd be better off offering for another good playmaker/sniper to bolster a second line. We have the chips and expendable players to bolster and play a more defensive game but Therrien system is missing the most important component and that's offense.
I quote Drydens article a few nights ago about Price'
Montreal can be the best place to play for a goalie. It was for Jacques Plante. He had the two Richards, Maurice and Henri, in front of him, as well as Jean Béliveau, Boom Boom Geoffrion, Dickie Moore and Doug Harvey. He had coach Toe Blake behind the bench, and general manager Frank Selke running the front office. And year after year, they won.
It was the best for me, too. I had Guy Lafleur, Bob Gainey, Yvan Cournoyer, Steve Shutt; three great defensemen, Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe; and Scotty Bowman and Sam Pollock as coach and manager. Year after year, we won too.
He rescued them from the first round of the playoffs, shutting out the Ottawa Senators in Game 6. Now, he has a bigger task, and no matter how outstanding he is, he may not be good enough. He must make his teammates better.
Price makes every save look easy. On a shot to the top corner, even if a goalie’s catching glove is nearly in position, almost every goalie almost every time, at the puck’s impact, windmills his glove up and around to make sure that what is routine looks spectacular. Price barely moves. In not diving and flailing, he says to his opponents, You think that was a great save? It wasn’t. Not even close. I have so much more in me, you might as well give up.
He is also saying something to his teammates. By appearing spectacular, he would make himself look better, but make them look worse. He would make them feel they aren’t good enough to win. He needs them to feel confident of themselves, not just of him. He needs them to feel they are better than they are, to play better than they thought possible.
Price has done this all season. Now he needs his teammates to be better enough the next game so that he needs only to make the great saves, not the impossible ones. Then he needs to continue to make these saves, and to make them the same way. He needs to give his teammates back their strut. To make them forget about him, and believe. To make illusion real.
To make them good enough, perhaps, to win.
No matter how you slice it - Price should be hoisting a cup in these years and deserves it for sure - but as a team they can't chip in when they need it to be successful.
Link to article
http://www.wsj.com/articles/carey-price-cant-save-the-canadiens-alone-1430841614