It’s December the fourth, and we needed to get out our shovels once we left house this morning. In brief, it’s regular life in Quebec, local weather change or not…
Though I do have a thought for these with out electrical energy this morning – there are roughly 100,000 of you, based on Hydro-Québec’s web site – and for the kids whose faculty (which wasn’t already on strike) was closed. Now that’s not so regular…
Again to sport…
December started as November ended for the Canadiens: the membership misplaced in entrance of its followers on Saturday evening on the Bell Centre. And it had all types of difficulties on the facility play…
Our energy play is particular. It doesn’t work for a dozen video games, then appears to be like like a Renaissance masterpiece for the subsequent 10…
After which it appears to be like like a pee-wee B energy play once more for one more ten video games. Exhausting to love and belief him, let’s say…
However what bothers me much more concerning the Habs this morning? No, it’s not the Youppi! rental at $195 for a couple of minutes or Jake Walman’s celebration final Saturday evening on the Bell Centre.
And but, Martin St-Louis – on the advice of Éric Raymond and/or Kent Hughes – continues to make use of his three goaltenders in good rotation. A-B-C-A-B-C-A-B-C…
It simply doesn’t make sense!
We’re in one of the best league on the earth… a league that’s not about improvement, however slightly about getting outcomes.
A league the place each head coach – except your crew is tanking – should attempt to subject the line-up that provides him one of the best probability of successful each evening.
Kent Hughes and Martin St-Louis stated earlier than the beginning of the season that their membership needed to take the subsequent step(from child to child, if reminiscence serves), however the coach refuses to provide the web extra usually to one of the best goalie of the three. Tonight would be the twenty first recreation in a row the place the beginning goalie received’t be the identical because the earlier recreation. I’m repeating myself, however it doesn’t make sense.
Montembeault is best than Allen (who hasn’t received since late October) and Primeau; why don’t we give him extra of the web? We need to put an end to the ménage à trois, even if it means handing Jake Allen over to the waivers and then to Laval.
The crew’s greatest goaltender ought to play 60-70% of video games, and his back-up, 30-40%. Perhaps even rather less if he’s actually inferior to #1…
However proper now, it’s roughly 40-40-20. In brief, the coach solely maximizes his probabilities of successful 4 nights out of ten. The opposite six, he’s defending a theoretical idea and/or being instructed what to take action as to not displease sure gamers’ brokers. Not an ideal instance of a meritocratic system, let’s say…
On Friday, the Habs introduced that they’d prolonged Montembeault’s contract for 3 years ($9.45 million complete)… and on Saturday, Montembeault was on the catwalk as a result of Allen and Primeau have been dressed. Did I point out that none of this is sensible?
Extension
The Canadiens’ promotion of a brand new service (renting Youppi! for a couple of minutes at your Bell Centre seat for $195) was the talk of the weekend. Charging younger households to spend a couple of minutes with the Habs mascot doesn’t make sense to me.
However now the Habs have added an vital paragraph to their web site this morning, which wasn’t there till 9:59 a.m. right now. Right here it’s:
9:59am: the Habs have simply added the next assertion to their website (Folie Fourrure):
“All profits go to support the Canadiens Children’s Foundation”.
You may suppose this was an oversight.
I feel it was 1 choice made since then. #CrisisManagement https://t.co/6WzdhYWZGs pic.twitter.com/92uZgakknb
– Maxime Truman (@MaximeTruman) December 4, 2023
Let’s simply say it goes down just a little higher…
Nonetheless, I don’t suppose it was created to complement the coffers of the Canadiens Youngsters’s Basis within the first place. Somewhat, I feel the CH noticed simply how a lot this new promo wasn’t getting via – and rightly so – on social networks. Youppi! shouldn’t be a $200 service, however just a little one thing for younger followers, that’s it.
I’ve tried to purchase the Folie Fourrure expertise on a number of events, and by no means as soon as was it talked about to me that I might (or wouldn’t) obtain a tax assertion in trade for my donation, as is the case with the 50-50 draw, donations to the Basis when buying tickets, or purchases on the annual golf event. And the opposite groups throughout the NHL who provide their followers a go to from their mascot don’t report doing so in partnership with any basis, both.
No matter. If the $195 a go to brings in goes to assist sick children ultimately, I’ve rather a lot fewer issues with the idea. Don’t you?
Nonetheless, I’m fairly satisfied that, at first, income have been supposed to enter the pockets of shareholders, not sick children. I don’t suppose we might have purchased numerous advertisements on Fb for a charity initiative.
In the long run, we’ll have served as a modern-day Robin Hood on DLC.
