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luin internetistä että sportsnet on lanseerannu semmosen hittisarjan jossa ryan kesler vetää pleksit ja pelaa videopelejä. jaksaisinpa tehdä jotain sen eteen että saisin sen pyörimään tuohon toiselle näytölle, varmasti 775 viihdettä. jos oikein käsitin niin joku jakso vedettiin jo pois archie cruz tyyliin

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paul byron, tuo montrealin jyri junnila karkaa läpiajoon ja peli on jo 3-0

ja pietrangelo sutaisee viivasta kavennuksen heti perään

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montrealilla oli homma hanskassa kunnes edmundson pistää jostain syystä pitkän kiekon ja vegas tekee alotuksesta 3-2. sen jälkeen on ollu aivan karmaiseva selviytymistaistelu ja pari minuuttia pitäs vielä jaksaa. huisin jännittävää.

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artturi lehkonen olisi varmasti 20 maalin pelaaja jos laukaus ei olisi sm-liiga tasoa

[Jane]

Montreal <3

oisko mahdollista saada tää juttu copypastena, kiitos:
https://theathletic.com/2657117/2021/06 ... o-deliver/

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Spoiler:

When you watch Joel Armia practice, it immediately becomes obvious why he was the Buffalo Sabres’ first-round draft pick in 2011.

He moves well for his size, yes, but it is his hands and his shot that immediately catch the eye, and it is not difficult to imagine any scout watching Armia in Finland that year and thinking the same thing. That combination of size, speed, hands and a shot is simply tantalizing, and everything he does in practice suggests Armia would have NHL star written all over him.

His NHL teammates see it as well. Ask any member of the Canadiens, and they will gush about Armia’s abilities, his unique skill set that sets him apart.

A few years ago, we were polling various members of the team about who had the best specific individual skills, and when it came time to discuss who had the best wrist shot on the team, I was talking to a player who was stumped. A player eavesdropping a couple of lockers down was incredulous. He could not believe this was a question that took more than one second to answer.

“Come on,” he said, “it’s definitely Army.”

The two of them talked about it for a bit, I really had nothing to do with it anymore, and then a third teammate chimed in. By the end of the discussion, all three of them agreed. It was Armia.

“Joel’s got a little bit of everything in his game,” Paul Byron said. “He can play the power play, penalty kill, he’s strong on pucks, he wins his battles. He plays a big, heavy game, and right now it’s really translating for our team.”

Even coach Dominique Ducharme sees it, and he has always seen it. When Armia was playing on a line with Nick Suzuki and Tyler Toffoli, and that line was going on a good run, Ducharme insisted a big reason for it was Armia, who has the ability to control play on the boards, handle the puck in tight quarters, do things with his hands that most players his size simply can’t do that allowed his two more heralded linemates to succeed.

And yet, despite the high level of respect his teammates and coaches have always had for his toolbox, Armia has never been able to use those tools in an effective way that consistently translated to the ice. You would see flashes, maybe stretches of a few games, but they would always be followed by stretches of games where you wouldn’t see Armia at all. He would disappear, and the fact everyone knew just how much talent he had makes that frustrating.

It is always, when it comes to Armia, about what he could be, and rarely about what he is.

Except right now, in the midst of this Canadiens playoff run that has them tied 1-1 with the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup semifinals after their 3-2 win Wednesday and heading back to the Bell Centre with home-ice advantage having been taken from their opponents in a third straight series they began on the road, Armia is impacting the Canadiens’ ability to win games in multiple ways.

And in that sense, he is indicative of what makes the Canadiens successful when they are at their best, a role player on the fourth line who kills penalties and scores big goals when his team needs them most.

Let’s think back to Game 5 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the overwhelming narrative that was surrounding the Canadiens.

It was that they could not score because they had not scored in Game 4 and scored only four goals in the three games prior to that one. No one was giving the Canadiens a chance to come back from 3-1 down in the series, particularly not with Game 5 in Toronto.

What does Armia do? Remember that discussion among those three Canadiens teammates about the best wrist shot on the team?

Then, to show the variety of his own tool kit, Armia scored again before the first period was over in Game 5 against Toronto by driving the net and burying a loose puck in a big scrum. He scored two goals in one period, or as many goals as the Canadiens had scored in their three previous games combined. The Canadiens had a 2-0 lead after one period, squandered it by the end of the third period and won in overtime.

Then they won the next two games.

Fast forward to Game 2 in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, and the overwhelming narrative was how the Canadiens had a great start in Game 1 but were unable to capitalize on it, leading to a 4-1 loss. The Canadiens came out just as hard in Game 2 as they did in Game 1, had multiple chances to score, but it wasn’t going in for them against Marc-André Fleury.

Again.

“I liked our start last game, we had chances to score and you’ve got to give credit, Fleury made some big saves early on in Game 1 and kept it even,” Corey Perry said. “But tonight, we got a bounce, and we rode that momentum.”

That bounce, wouldn’t you know it, went to Armia. But simply describing it as a bounce is not doing the goal justice, and Perry can be excused for saying so because he didn’t get a good look at it on the ice. It was a highly skilled play that Armia made, except it looked a lot easier than it was.

The whole thing begins with Armia being just how Byron described him, heavy behind the net on Alec Martinez to knock the puck loose for Perry to get it back to Joel Edmundson. Then came the bounce.

Except the way that puck deflected to Armia, and his position on the ice, did not make putting that puck into what looked like an empty net easy. That took loads of skill because as soon as that puck was on Armia’s stick, it was not only headed toward the net, but it was headed there elevated (deflected off the stick of Patrick Brown, but still, Armia lifted the initial shot to create that deflection), leaving no chance for Fleury to get to it.

But look at where Armia’s skates are pointed. Look at where his entire body is pointed.



For him to collect that puck and get rid of it so quickly and get air under it while facing the blue line was a remarkable play. It was the type of play Armia can make, the type of play that gets his teammates talking in superlatives about his skill set.

And if you think the Canadiens getting a lead isn’t important, just ask the Golden Knights.

“The last two periods I thought we played pretty well,” captain Mark Stone said. “But chasing the game is not an easy task against anybody, but these guys play a good team game when they get the lead, so we’ve got to do a better job with our starts. We’ve got to find our preparation.”

It took a lot more than Armia for the Canadiens to win this game. They got three goals from three separate lines, which is what they are all about. They got a return to the lineup from Jeff Petry, playing through an injury to two fingers on his right hand and doing so as if he didn’t miss a beat. And they’ve got Carey Price who, once again, did Carey Price things to allow the Canadiens to hold on to that lead by denying the Golden Knights on the multiple high-end scoring chances they created in the second period.

But Armia now leads the Canadiens in playoff goals with five, and all but one of them have been significant – his shorthanded goal just past the midpoint of Game 3 against the Winnipeg Jets made it 3-0 Canadiens, essentially putting away that game and ultimately the series for them.

We don’t often hear from Armia because he’s not much of a talker with cameras and microphones pointed at him, though he can be quite insightful when you talk to him alone. And in this time of Zoom media availabilities, we hear from him even less because it is not something he is comfortable doing, and the current format makes it even more uncomfortable.

But none of that matters because Armia is doing all of his talking on the ice. And the Canadiens would definitely prefer he use that platform to express himself in any case.

[Jane]

Spoiler:

When you watch Joel Armia practice, it immediately becomes obvious why he was the Buffalo Sabres’ first-round draft pick in 2011.

He moves well for his size, yes, but it is his hands and his shot that immediately catch the eye, and it is not difficult to imagine any scout watching Armia in Finland that year and thinking the same thing. That combination of size, speed, hands and a shot is simply tantalizing, and everything he does in practice suggests Armia would have NHL star written all over him.

His NHL teammates see it as well. Ask any member of the Canadiens, and they will gush about Armia’s abilities, his unique skill set that sets him apart.

A few years ago, we were polling various members of the team about who had the best specific individual skills, and when it came time to discuss who had the best wrist shot on the team, I was talking to a player who was stumped. A player eavesdropping a couple of lockers down was incredulous. He could not believe this was a question that took more than one second to answer.

“Come on,” he said, “it’s definitely Army.”

The two of them talked about it for a bit, I really had nothing to do with it anymore, and then a third teammate chimed in. By the end of the discussion, all three of them agreed. It was Armia.

“Joel’s got a little bit of everything in his game,” Paul Byron said. “He can play the power play, penalty kill, he’s strong on pucks, he wins his battles. He plays a big, heavy game, and right now it’s really translating for our team.”

Even coach Dominique Ducharme sees it, and he has always seen it. When Armia was playing on a line with Nick Suzuki and Tyler Toffoli, and that line was going on a good run, Ducharme insisted a big reason for it was Armia, who has the ability to control play on the boards, handle the puck in tight quarters, do things with his hands that most players his size simply can’t do that allowed his two more heralded linemates to succeed.

And yet, despite the high level of respect his teammates and coaches have always had for his toolbox, Armia has never been able to use those tools in an effective way that consistently translated to the ice. You would see flashes, maybe stretches of a few games, but they would always be followed by stretches of games where you wouldn’t see Armia at all. He would disappear, and the fact everyone knew just how much talent he had makes that frustrating.

It is always, when it comes to Armia, about what he could be, and rarely about what he is.

Except right now, in the midst of this Canadiens playoff run that has them tied 1-1 with the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup semifinals after their 3-2 win Wednesday and heading back to the Bell Centre with home-ice advantage having been taken from their opponents in a third straight series they began on the road, Armia is impacting the Canadiens’ ability to win games in multiple ways.

And in that sense, he is indicative of what makes the Canadiens successful when they are at their best, a role player on the fourth line who kills penalties and scores big goals when his team needs them most.

Let’s think back to Game 5 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the overwhelming narrative that was surrounding the Canadiens.

It was that they could not score because they had not scored in Game 4 and scored only four goals in the three games prior to that one. No one was giving the Canadiens a chance to come back from 3-1 down in the series, particularly not with Game 5 in Toronto.

What does Armia do? Remember that discussion among those three Canadiens teammates about the best wrist shot on the team?

Then, to show the variety of his own tool kit, Armia scored again before the first period was over in Game 5 against Toronto by driving the net and burying a loose puck in a big scrum. He scored two goals in one period, or as many goals as the Canadiens had scored in their three previous games combined. The Canadiens had a 2-0 lead after one period, squandered it by the end of the third period and won in overtime.

Then they won the next two games.

Fast forward to Game 2 in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, and the overwhelming narrative was how the Canadiens had a great start in Game 1 but were unable to capitalize on it, leading to a 4-1 loss. The Canadiens came out just as hard in Game 2 as they did in Game 1, had multiple chances to score, but it wasn’t going in for them against Marc-André Fleury.

Again.

“I liked our start last game, we had chances to score and you’ve got to give credit, Fleury made some big saves early on in Game 1 and kept it even,” Corey Perry said. “But tonight, we got a bounce, and we rode that momentum.”

That bounce, wouldn’t you know it, went to Armia. But simply describing it as a bounce is not doing the goal justice, and Perry can be excused for saying so because he didn’t get a good look at it on the ice. It was a highly skilled play that Armia made, except it looked a lot easier than it was.

The whole thing begins with Armia being just how Byron described him, heavy behind the net on Alec Martinez to knock the puck loose for Perry to get it back to Joel Edmundson. Then came the bounce.

Except the way that puck deflected to Armia, and his position on the ice, did not make putting that puck into what looked like an empty net easy. That took loads of skill because as soon as that puck was on Armia’s stick, it was not only headed toward the net, but it was headed there elevated (deflected off the stick of Patrick Brown, but still, Armia lifted the initial shot to create that deflection), leaving no chance for Fleury to get to it.

But look at where Armia’s skates are pointed. Look at where his entire body is pointed.



For him to collect that puck and get rid of it so quickly and get air under it while facing the blue line was a remarkable play. It was the type of play Armia can make, the type of play that gets his teammates talking in superlatives about his skill set.

And if you think the Canadiens getting a lead isn’t important, just ask the Golden Knights.

“The last two periods I thought we played pretty well,” captain Mark Stone said. “But chasing the game is not an easy task against anybody, but these guys play a good team game when they get the lead, so we’ve got to do a better job with our starts. We’ve got to find our preparation.”

It took a lot more than Armia for the Canadiens to win this game. They got three goals from three separate lines, which is what they are all about. They got a return to the lineup from Jeff Petry, playing through an injury to two fingers on his right hand and doing so as if he didn’t miss a beat. And they’ve got Carey Price who, once again, did Carey Price things to allow the Canadiens to hold on to that lead by denying the Golden Knights on the multiple high-end scoring chances they created in the second period.

But Armia now leads the Canadiens in playoff goals with five, and all but one of them have been significant – his shorthanded goal just past the midpoint of Game 3 against the Winnipeg Jets made it 3-0 Canadiens, essentially putting away that game and ultimately the series for them.

We don’t often hear from Armia because he’s not much of a talker with cameras and microphones pointed at him, though he can be quite insightful when you talk to him alone. And in this time of Zoom media availabilities, we hear from him even less because it is not something he is comfortable doing, and the current format makes it even more uncomfortable.

But none of that matters because Armia is doing all of his talking on the ice. And the Canadiens would definitely prefer he use that platform to express himself in any case.

kiitos! ps. alkoi toimimaan se minkä lähetit!! kiitos vielä siitäkin

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Spoiler:

When you watch Joel Armia practice, it immediately becomes obvious why he was the Buffalo Sabres’ first-round draft pick in 2011.

He moves well for his size, yes, but it is his hands and his shot that immediately catch the eye, and it is not difficult to imagine any scout watching Armia in Finland that year and thinking the same thing. That combination of size, speed, hands and a shot is simply tantalizing, and everything he does in practice suggests Armia would have NHL star written all over him.

His NHL teammates see it as well. Ask any member of the Canadiens, and they will gush about Armia’s abilities, his unique skill set that sets him apart.

A few years ago, we were polling various members of the team about who had the best specific individual skills, and when it came time to discuss who had the best wrist shot on the team, I was talking to a player who was stumped. A player eavesdropping a couple of lockers down was incredulous. He could not believe this was a question that took more than one second to answer.

“Come on,” he said, “it’s definitely Army.”

The two of them talked about it for a bit, I really had nothing to do with it anymore, and then a third teammate chimed in. By the end of the discussion, all three of them agreed. It was Armia.

“Joel’s got a little bit of everything in his game,” Paul Byron said. “He can play the power play, penalty kill, he’s strong on pucks, he wins his battles. He plays a big, heavy game, and right now it’s really translating for our team.”

Even coach Dominique Ducharme sees it, and he has always seen it. When Armia was playing on a line with Nick Suzuki and Tyler Toffoli, and that line was going on a good run, Ducharme insisted a big reason for it was Armia, who has the ability to control play on the boards, handle the puck in tight quarters, do things with his hands that most players his size simply can’t do that allowed his two more heralded linemates to succeed.

And yet, despite the high level of respect his teammates and coaches have always had for his toolbox, Armia has never been able to use those tools in an effective way that consistently translated to the ice. You would see flashes, maybe stretches of a few games, but they would always be followed by stretches of games where you wouldn’t see Armia at all. He would disappear, and the fact everyone knew just how much talent he had makes that frustrating.

It is always, when it comes to Armia, about what he could be, and rarely about what he is.

Except right now, in the midst of this Canadiens playoff run that has them tied 1-1 with the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup semifinals after their 3-2 win Wednesday and heading back to the Bell Centre with home-ice advantage having been taken from their opponents in a third straight series they began on the road, Armia is impacting the Canadiens’ ability to win games in multiple ways.

And in that sense, he is indicative of what makes the Canadiens successful when they are at their best, a role player on the fourth line who kills penalties and scores big goals when his team needs them most.

Let’s think back to Game 5 against the Toronto Maple Leafs and the overwhelming narrative that was surrounding the Canadiens.

It was that they could not score because they had not scored in Game 4 and scored only four goals in the three games prior to that one. No one was giving the Canadiens a chance to come back from 3-1 down in the series, particularly not with Game 5 in Toronto.

What does Armia do? Remember that discussion among those three Canadiens teammates about the best wrist shot on the team?

Then, to show the variety of his own tool kit, Armia scored again before the first period was over in Game 5 against Toronto by driving the net and burying a loose puck in a big scrum. He scored two goals in one period, or as many goals as the Canadiens had scored in their three previous games combined. The Canadiens had a 2-0 lead after one period, squandered it by the end of the third period and won in overtime.

Then they won the next two games.

Fast forward to Game 2 in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, and the overwhelming narrative was how the Canadiens had a great start in Game 1 but were unable to capitalize on it, leading to a 4-1 loss. The Canadiens came out just as hard in Game 2 as they did in Game 1, had multiple chances to score, but it wasn’t going in for them against Marc-André Fleury.

Again.

“I liked our start last game, we had chances to score and you’ve got to give credit, Fleury made some big saves early on in Game 1 and kept it even,” Corey Perry said. “But tonight, we got a bounce, and we rode that momentum.”

That bounce, wouldn’t you know it, went to Armia. But simply describing it as a bounce is not doing the goal justice, and Perry can be excused for saying so because he didn’t get a good look at it on the ice. It was a highly skilled play that Armia made, except it looked a lot easier than it was.

The whole thing begins with Armia being just how Byron described him, heavy behind the net on Alec Martinez to knock the puck loose for Perry to get it back to Joel Edmundson. Then came the bounce.

Except the way that puck deflected to Armia, and his position on the ice, did not make putting that puck into what looked like an empty net easy. That took loads of skill because as soon as that puck was on Armia’s stick, it was not only headed toward the net, but it was headed there elevated (deflected off the stick of Patrick Brown, but still, Armia lifted the initial shot to create that deflection), leaving no chance for Fleury to get to it.

But look at where Armia’s skates are pointed. Look at where his entire body is pointed.



For him to collect that puck and get rid of it so quickly and get air under it while facing the blue line was a remarkable play. It was the type of play Armia can make, the type of play that gets his teammates talking in superlatives about his skill set.

And if you think the Canadiens getting a lead isn’t important, just ask the Golden Knights.

“The last two periods I thought we played pretty well,” captain Mark Stone said. “But chasing the game is not an easy task against anybody, but these guys play a good team game when they get the lead, so we’ve got to do a better job with our starts. We’ve got to find our preparation.”

It took a lot more than Armia for the Canadiens to win this game. They got three goals from three separate lines, which is what they are all about. They got a return to the lineup from Jeff Petry, playing through an injury to two fingers on his right hand and doing so as if he didn’t miss a beat. And they’ve got Carey Price who, once again, did Carey Price things to allow the Canadiens to hold on to that lead by denying the Golden Knights on the multiple high-end scoring chances they created in the second period.

But Armia now leads the Canadiens in playoff goals with five, and all but one of them have been significant – his shorthanded goal just past the midpoint of Game 3 against the Winnipeg Jets made it 3-0 Canadiens, essentially putting away that game and ultimately the series for them.

We don’t often hear from Armia because he’s not much of a talker with cameras and microphones pointed at him, though he can be quite insightful when you talk to him alone. And in this time of Zoom media availabilities, we hear from him even less because it is not something he is comfortable doing, and the current format makes it even more uncomfortable.

But none of that matters because Armia is doing all of his talking on the ice. And the Canadiens would definitely prefer he use that platform to express himself in any case.

kiitos! ps. alkoi toimimaan se minkä lähetit!! kiitos vielä siitäkin

mukava kuulla!

[Damone]

Aleksander Barkoville odotetusti uran ensimmäinen Selke!!!

[silmät niinkuin mantelit]

Habsit jaksaa yllättää. Flower kyllä sekoili hienosti Andersonin tasoitusmaalissa.

Veikkaan edelleen että Vegas menee finaaliin, mutta kiva olisi nähdä miten Montreal sekoaisi finaalipaikasta.

[Duckulan Kreivi]

Aleksander Barkoville odotetusti uran ensimmäinen Selke!!!

Tämä on kyllä upea palkinto kauden päätteeksi. Kohta Bill Zito hakee vielä vuodem GM-pystin niin siinä sitä ollaan

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Barkov

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