Habs fans are LIVID at this…

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1. MSL has proven the doesn't like Xhekaj. I think Arber should ask for a trade and give the team 2 weeks to do it. Let them know if he's not traded within 2 weeks, he'll make his trade request public taking away any leverage the Habs have. Enough is enough!

2. Absolutely pathethic msl shouldnt be a coach he takes out our tm8 protector look what fkg happened.. AGAIN FOR FUCK SAKES

3. From what I say from the replays, it looked like a headshot. Barron didn't turtle or drop his head enough to justify the head contact.
   Cheers guys

4. Pre-season there was talk of a surplus of D so WTF has happened??

5. Guys you guys are as clueless as the coaching is Habs are a very badly coached team bottom 3 is where they will finish they coach nothing to help the team play defense and help shelter there weekness and they are way to easy to play against

6. I agree, play Xhekaj.

7. That's a clean hit plan and simple keep your head up

8. Thanks guys.

9. Wifi should be moved to forward

10. If that's a suspension that just shows how much this league has gone downhill it's a contact sport

11. this game is y i always say marty st louie isn’t going to be a coach for the long term .. habs always get outshot & out hit.. we start off slow almost every game.. on a nite when they were playing infront of all those legends & came out flat maybe only one or two good shifts. WHAT IS OUR IDENTITY??? skating ? checking? scoring? defensive? we r a sit back keep everyone on the outside of the perimeter . trying to block shots loosing team!!!

12. How did the rangers end up on the pp after that hit, refs need to be held accountable.

13. If MSL isn't going to play Arber, package the Xhekaj bros. for a Marty type player. lol

14. Like the Sheriff said we arent gonna be pushed around anymore. But the Sheriff was watching from the seats and could do nothing. Enough is enough. Unleash the beast ffs.

15. Habs are too soft and play scared without Arber there to protect them. They have other guys who can play physical like Anderson and Pezz, but they don't seem at all engaged! Dump Anderson, Edmonton wanted him last year.

16. Sometimes I think there's a deep seated hatred for the Habs amongst the NHL big-wigs….It almost seems like there was a memo that went out to the rest of the league to tear down on them in any way possible. Afterall, there is such a thing as humiliation rituals. I fully understand that there is no version of this reality where the Habs compete with the Rangers, but this just feels like a head hunting, beat down. Maybe that former NFLer was legit when he admitted that all major sports are rigged & scripted. But, hey, at least it was cool to see all those legends again…I watched all those guys win their cups,,,sigh…where has the time gone???

17. We need one more experience dman and 2 heavy 4th liners.
    And who cares what George says anyways !!

18. PLEASE to stop talking about Laraque's stupid comments. He's an immature guy who needs attention.
    Nothing he said is serious.
    Sincerely and respectfully, a YouTube channel should not relay Laraque's hallucinations. Please!

19. What the fuck was Barron doing. He deserved that. The whole team deserves to be hit like that. The channel is dumb. You’re way too optimistic and too hyped about this team. You’re not realistic at all. This team is shit. Absolute shit. They’re going backwards not forwards. St. Louis is a crappy coach. This team needs some kind of direction. It needs the X and O’s St. Louis doesn’t do. In short they need structure.

20. If they stayed healthy, this team was supposed to battle for a playoff spot at best. Now they're missing Ghule, Slafkovski, and Laine. Expectations should be very low at this point.

21. We need a coach and good goaltending sorry to speak the truth 😮

22. Hits on Barron is illegal direct contact to the head is unacceptable. First point of contact is the head. Where is the shoulder to shoulder hit ? Or shoulder to the chest why targeting the head ? Trouba ur an a#!$$hole !!!😡

23. The habs will have to size up and get a battler the small pplayers are being abused???

24. We have sub nhl goaltending full stop if the sherif is in the lineup trouba has to answer for the hit they need him it’s not all about skill Barron does not bring what wifi does we played scared without him

25. Hutson had some great offensive chances, maybe he should try playing defense.

26. TRuba will have to answer to that dangerous hit it is not the first time.

27. I'm not the biggest Barron fan, if they have to trade a D, Barron would be the one I trade away.
    Also it may be too early to say this but so far Habs are looking worse than last season

28. Sick of what? dude bowls in head down with no respect for the hit being thrown, you were expecting Trouba to let him by? Or maby come in on his knees? Trouba couldn't have gotten any lower. Its unfortunate he got his bell rung but you have nothing to bitch about with this one.

29. According to the rulebook (and the precedent of how the league has determined over the past decade or so if a hit to head is illegal or not), a hit to the head is legal as long as the player throwing the hit "attempted to hit squarely through the opponent's body and the head was not "picked"". Now the only point in favor of calling this hit illegal is the next line that says "as a result of … unnecessary extension of the body upward or outward". However, the league determined in the playoffs last year that his exaggerated forearm/elbow extension to the head of Rodrigues was not illegal. So that kind of does away with calling his upward posture in this hit "unnecessary extension".

30. We don’t have solid substitute for Slaf. Kirby, however he’s a good player, Slaf’s level is far away. But what the hell is that defence? Shame on them!!!

31. This HAB fan is livid that after 3 years of rebuilding the team still sucks! 4 loss in a row!

32. i said it a the begining of the season we need a strong man up front to help arbor xjahai !the f@#$#$$ veterans who are no way good for this team have to go devorak / anderson / armia / enough with these players get real good veterans and a strong man who want to win cause these guys dont !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not enough skill !! or heart !!

33. "head shot" LOL ok bud.

34. How the habs came out of this with an extra 2, only Gary Bettman knows.

35. I got pissed off, another one of our players getting recked… But rewatching it… Barron had the Puck from our own dots almost all the way to the Ranger blue line… Being in Trouba's shoes I'd have done the literal same thing he did… That was on Barron, he was to busy looking away from what was literally right infront of him… I hope he's okay but ouff it's hard to blame Trouba… If the Habs did it to another player skating up like that I'd have defended the Habs… You gotta keep your head up and know what's going on the ice. Once you hit the red line like that you can't just look cross ice you know the defense is going to be up on you…

36. I get a feeling that the whole spiel about patience that the management keeps on spouting about is just to keep the fanbase docile. Im not buying the rebuild anymore this team is not that different 3 years ago despite all the additions.

37. It’s time to bring the goons out. Florian; Arber; Thorpe and get rid of the softies Anderson, Armia, Matheson, Savard!

38. And some idiots out there do not think we need wifi and please trade for oliver if they don't we will pay the price😢😢😢

39. L take by Laraque, just says stuff to rile people up, I wouldn't pay too much attention to what he says. Xhexaj is the first to know he's been playing bad and deserved to be benched, he'll come back fired up, just look at when he was called up from Laval last year. He's young, he'll be fine, let him cook.

40. Goes to show how much the missing players mean for the team.

41. Play arber

42. Man, our goaltending stinks, our coaching stinks. Sawft af to boot.

43. Man, another horrible season..we are really paying for this shitty cup run Final we had in the covid sucky time

44. Too many terrible trades by HuGo have completely short-circuited this so-called rebuild. Get them out now before they bury us so deep we'll never get out.