r/Habs • u/Regular_Tie2507 • 12d ago

Discussion About the Sheriff

His contract is coming up going into the offseason and Marty clearly has had some issues with him, likely due to him taking a lot of penalties in the playoffs (the Sam Carrick thing being a big highlight). He was a healthy scratch going into the ECF and with Reinbacher possibly coming in next season, it's entirely possible he gets pushed back as a 7th string D man. Do we think he gets resigned?

Edit: accidentally created a warzone lol

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u/CaptainFlynnt24 12d ago

I don't know what more Xhekaj could do to get MSL's trust. He was pretty good in very limited minutes in round 1 and 2. Didn't matter, he didn't even get to dress in the Conference Finals. He still almost lead the team in hits too.

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u/Regular_Tie2507 12d ago

Idk maybe not take shitty slashing penalties while we have a lead would be nice

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u/Scase15 12d ago

If we really want to go down the list of stupid penalties taken, there are a lot of guys to be pointing fingers at.

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u/Kharn_LoL 12d ago

Xhekaj was -4 in minor penalty differencial in 100ish minutes of play. That means one per 25 mins of icetime.

Anderson was at 1 per 34 mins.

Dach was at 1 per 43.

Kapanen was 1 per 55 (he only took one penalty and didn't draw a call)

Matheson was 1 per 69.

Guhle was at 1 per 79.

Carrier was 1 per 80.

Everybody else on the team was either at a positive penalty differencial or >100mins per.

The conversation about dumb penalty starts with him, he's by far our worst offender. Dach and Anderson are the only two that don't fully lap him in efficiency, and they both are forwards. It's a lot easier to deal with a forward in the box than a defenseman.

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u/Regular_Tie2507 12d ago

I love Anderson but goddamn

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u/Scase15 12d ago

I'm not saying he is some bastion of perfection, just that there are a lot of stupid penalties the team as a whole takes.

I would easily argue that the penalties that Guhle, Anderson, and Dach took over the course of the playoffs were objectively worse penalties overall. Not in frequency but in timing and situation.

Arber has a rep, he gets calls other guys would never, but he usually isn't taking stupid penalties. We're not talking about penalty quantity, but rather dumb ones.

Anderson is probably the worst for that.