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Dave Scatchard.

It kind of ties in with defense in general. Green was asked about the team playing 'defense' and he was non committal about it.

"No". Can I pick "no" to both?

I've changed my mind. I'm okay with giving green another couple years. As long as the PP / Defence coaching is changed. Whatever systems are in place are not effective. If it's all the same, throw it all out. Except Clark.

That's the worst news I've heard in hours.

As long as they approach Ottawa as 'better than Toronto', the Canucks have a good chance. Ottawa aren't by any stretch 'a joke' or a free win - they started absolutely terribly, but have been playing better as of late (unlike most of the rest of the North). The Leafs thought Vancouver was a free couple wins, played it as such and look where that went. Looking for a hard fought game here. Hopefully we come out the right side of it.

It's nice when we don't make a backup / 3rd stringer look like a Vezina candidate and instead get them looking like a backup / third stringer. Feels real nice actually.

It's still the airports. Unless they shut international travel / air travel, it's not going to get any better here. I'm just going to wind up taking logging roads on my motorcycle to get wherever I want to go - unless they shut the airports. That's my line in the sand. I've played along all the way until now with the restrictions, but if they want to play 'restricted movement' for me while letting hundreds of infected people in from anywhere overseas with "variants of concern", I've got something the politicians can kiss. 50% measures across the board, when 70% is the passing grade.

I mean... the Leaf goaltending was... terrible tonight. It wasn't great last game either. But Rittich was brutal. But also Leafs won't go far in the playoffs. They aren't built for it, they're too 'chicken', too soft. Which is rich considering what we'd been for a few years. Highmore impressed me. That rebound on the doorstep was him drawing Reilly out of position AND being a screen. Great play.

No kidding. They don't play for the Stanley Draft Position after all.

Well he knows a guy. There's always value in knowing a guy who knows a guy (or is the guy).

Before, a fool could take to the town square, stand on an overturned box, and shout their rhetoric into the wind and be ignored (mostly) by the people around that fool. Eventually, the fool will either run out of breath, or be told in such a fashion that they are being foolish and 'probably' stop shouting it. They'll still hold onto it, but the door to alternative thought will be cracked. "Perhaps... there is more to this than I know". Critical thinking, albeit very slowly. With the echo chambers on the internet (take your pick), a fool has their box but is surrounded (eventually) by other fools on boxes of their own, convincing each other that they are right, rather than being ignored / told off. Strength (of stupidity) in numbers, as it were. No critical thinking, but rather reinforcement of false ideas not rooted in fact. And then those people start doing stupid things, rather than just being stupid themselves collectively. See: March on Washington last year for an example of what I mean. Other instances are around as well. To be clear, I have no issue with people having an idea contrary to mine. I am not the arbiter of the world to which I'm sure a great many can breathe a sigh of relief. I do, however, have a significant issue with people who think their ideas are superior in some way to others without any (real) facts or basis on which that idea is formed. Some other moron on a soapbox shouting their own 'facts' loudly and confidently does not make what they say a fact. I think that last point is the most damning of them all, a loss in comprehension of what constitutes actual fact and the ability for those hearing it to decide for themselves whether to research how true it is by their own means.

Or maybe he's got his eyes on another franchise with a promising prospect that he'd like to take a stab at. Like a guy with shattered confidence but clearly has the tools to get better. Like Carter Hart. Or somebody unknown. I'd find it difficult to imagine he wouldn't get offered a deal, but he might just want a new/different challenge somewhere else regardless of what is on the table. Some people live for the challenge because they're set 'enough' by whatever they get... it won't be "poor house" money anyway.

And add that it's actually Demko at 1x1 and then 5x5 rather than Markstrom at 6x6. Can't forget about what we already had 'over the same period'. For a better goalie imo. Benning getting it done. Fair term, fair team building deal. And still Loui Eriksson remains our highest paid player in cap hit

Nobody ever does. If he doesn't have "already" world beating goaltending he's a decidedly average coach. I've said that for years, hell, I had a picture comparing Vigneaut to the scarecrow (no brain) in Wizard of Oz as my signature... but there's no end to the 'fans' who want him back just because he did "well" with a prime Roberto Luongo and then a prime Henrik Lundquist, still managing to not win with either team... and the Rags really should have won that year. As should the Canucks in theirs. BUT: Vigneault plays to not lose and never makes the bold move needed to win. Defend the 0-0 tie.

Aside from Hoggy's goal, here is the replay from the rest of the game, from inside the mind of the coaches:

The question is, in this case do you pull Demko to save him the shame of having that team in front of him, or leave him out there because pulling the tendy kind of unfairly puts it on him?

Just came back, to say goodbye. Except he was also the cat. He came back, the very next day.

Hey... hey now. We don't wanna run the risk of "running out of time" on that.

I mostly want to hear from all the Newell Brown defenders from earlier this year. All the "But so good last year" people.

Looks like Giveaways and Powerplays to me.

He puts in the effort to GET the 2 on 1. I really like what I see so far.

Bring on the Eriksson! For our giggles, when he was in the lineup we were winning. Which really annoys me. Maybe he's a secret 'glue guy' in disguise, and his 6 million uhu sticks hold the team together?

Vesey makes like 1m a season though. I'm cool with that. Hustle guys who are cheap AND HUSTLE always have a place on the 4th line. They won't hurt you... and eventually will chip in something.

If they all keep doing that eventually that .5" will go the right way. Happens a lot when guys are looking for the perfect shot to beat the goalie clean. Yeah there's space 'somewhere' usually, but it's gotta be so perfect to hit it. Forgive him on this instance though. We did our best when we had somebody in front (usually Miller or Motte) and somebody posting a shot from the side of the slot low and hard for the rebound or the tip. Or the Dman, same shot. It's simple and boring and never ends up on a highlight reel unless it's a Pavelski-esque tip but... wait a sec... didn't he score goals from exactly that circumstance?