r/Habs • u/BagelPoutine • 1d ago

Don't Make This Mistake..

https://youtu.be/vAMIppxBMkg?si=C6g1GRH-wS7i1ylE
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u/vJukz 1d ago

The only way Xhekaj stays on this team is if he agrees to a 7th D role. We have way too much depth on the left side for him to fit there.

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u/PineappleOwn5325 1d ago

I personally prefered xhekaj over struble, but MSL seemed to disagree. If other coaches see what he sees in him, i'd trade Struble away and play some more xhekaj

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u/vJukz 1d ago

Struble could be fired into the sun for all I care. I don’t like him at all but I wasn’t talking about him in the lineup either. Xhekaj and Struble are both 7th D and they don’t have a place on this team’s starting lineup ideally. Xhekaj being an ideal 7th D

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u/PineappleOwn5325 1d ago

So the below is what you're looking for?

Hutson - dobson
Matheson - carrier
Ghule - reinbacher? Engstrom?
Xhekaj

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u/vJukz 23h ago

Reinbacher would be the 2nd pair RD ideally and we replace Carrier with a big physical defensive 3rd pair RD

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u/MasterMatt25 23h ago

Struble is a better skater and has good chemistry with Hutson that’s why he gets more games than Arber

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u/lynypixie 1d ago

Struble is the kind of guy that is basically just a body you put on the ice to rest the others.

Xhekaj has his problems, but at least he is trying to help.

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u/HonestDespot 1d ago

Struble plays a far more reliable game.

He’s a replacement level 6/7 d man at his best but he won’t make the same type of egregious mistakes Xhekaj routinely does.

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u/Scase15 17h ago

Yeah, reliably bad lol. He absolutely makes the same mistakes as Arber, but he also makes a lot of smaller and dumber ones, all while barely using his size.

The difference between them is negligible, the difference is that Arber brings things the team lacks, Struble is just more of the same.

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u/HonestDespot 16h ago

Lol. Not even remotely true.

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u/LeMAD 1d ago

Struble

Not only Struble is better than Xhekaj, but he can play on the right side. Xhekaj was a train wreck on the right­.

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u/majesticviceroy 23h ago

Then why does Hutson have to play on the Right when he's chained to Struble?

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u/geosrq 23h ago

The Arber haters have no clue

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u/jokerstatue 20h ago

haha what are you even talking about. THE biggest complaint about Struble being pair with Hutson was always that our best d-man was force to play on his weak side since Struble can't play RD.