Lane Hutson being the new and improved Subban


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Lane Hutson being the new and improved Subban
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30 comments
  1. After he fakes and goes around the first Flyers player, he fakes him again to gain distance. Then at their blue line, he baits two Flyers away for crispy pass that leads to a clean shot.

    God damn

  2. I love Hutson but let’s wait until he wins a Norris for the ‘improved’ Subban comments

  3. Aside from being offensive defensemen, I don’t think Subban and Hutson could be more different. Subban was a bull, Hutson is a knife.

  4. His game is so much different than pk in every-way other than they enter the zone. I wish pk had a coach like msl who lets players make reads. Im so damn excited.

  5. PK would have done the sequence a whole second faster most likely as athletically there is no comp between Hutson and PK, I don’t know who started that comparison but other than them both being offensively minded, there is nothing else similar to their game at all.

  6. Well, he sure is active, and likes to be even as the leading forward

    Let’s hope they keep someone like Savard as his pair, he clearly needs someone to back him up.

  7. Let Hutson be Hutson.

    He has a flamboyant and offensive style and we’re on the edge of our seats watching him as it was the case with Subban, but he plays a very different game in a different system at a different time…

    It looks to me that he’s impressive to other hockey players by his uniqueness and creativity, and we’ll have to celebrate that to show him respect

  8. Can we stop disrespecting Subban to prop up Hutson?

    Hutson looks great, but Subban is the most electrifying defenseman I’ve seen wear a Habs jersey, while also bringing a physical aspect that Hutson never will. Subban also has the misfortune of having to deal with some of the shittiest most braindead coaches I’ve ever seen behind Montreal’s bench.

  9. **Subban**:

    * Norris Trophy Winner
    * Two-time Norris Finalist
    * Two-time First Team All-Star
    * One Second Team All-Star
    * All-Rookie Team

    Improved? I doubt it.

  10. Hutson is his own player. I was a big Subban fan when he played, but these 2 are totally different players.

  11. I knew he was good, I read the same hype as everyone, and I also know it was “just” a preseason game, but I have very rarely seen a rookie be so dominant in a game, seemingly on every single shift.

    I loved watching him and the team last night.

  12. I don’t know man, Subban had a physical aspect to his game that Hutson could never dream to have, and Subban had a clapper for the ages, which I’ve not seen Hutson display at all in the last couple of years.

    I think they’re going to be very different kinds of Ds.

  13. Who else does this? I haven’t watched Hughes and Makar much, but creating grade-A scoring chances out of thin air is something I only see McDavid do regularly. Sounds silly to say something like this but it’s my honest impression.

  14. He didn’t even hesitate a second to blind pass it to the other end after he entered the zone.

    He knew in advance that someone would be there to pick it up.

    He has eyes all around his head.

  15. Subban always had a puck turnover cloud over him…Hutson does not look like this will be a problem?

  16. With Lane Hutson, what I’m expecting is that he’s going to sometimes look not great in exchange for him making opposite teams look like complete idiots many, many times.

  17. Nice clip but if the opponents are actual NHL players playing at NHL speed, I don’t think he even crosses the red line.

  18. This is the play that got my attention. The Habs PP has been awful for years in large part because they can’t reliably enter the zone. Granted Hutson was playing against Flyers scrubs, but I didn’t see anyone else out there able to enter the zone and produce a Grade-A scoring chance like he did on that play. Now imagine he’s doing that with people who can finish, like Laine, Caufield and Slafkovsky. This is gonna be a good year (and more).

  19. He’s the most exciting defenseman since Subban. There is no way anyone could objectively say he’s an improvement at this point, it’s coo-coo.

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