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  1. Well it’s a little better than sitting through them introducing the whole coiler organization , down to the parking attendants
  2. This is a good game for our top guys to step up and dominate. Chicago isnt overly physical, and like to play an open game where they trade chances. We need our top horses to show up here.
  3. theres a current thread over at HFBOARDS about Lafreniere that resembles this thread. Apparently Lafreniere has been a bit underwhelming, not the top tier gold plated prospect some NY fans expected for a #1 overall. I think EP has been fine, yes his current pay invites more scrutiny. But as I mentioned before to me he proved a lot during that playoff run where he put up 18 points in 17 games. The other team was always gunning for him during that run and he performed very well - better playoff performance than a lot of other young stars around the league at his age.
  4. Point taken, regarding the pay. But i think if EP (and the team) continues to underwhelm this season he would have been blasted no matter what his pay is just because he is the #1c and a high draft pick. Surely "the holdout" for the big contract wont alleviate the criticism ...i agree. The Sedins were hammered by the fans and media in their first few years, i can only imagine how much worse it would have been if they were getting paid near the top.... My whole point of bringing up the sedins is that a young highly skilled player can improve...we have examples of that in our own organization.
  5. I think he will be fine. Right now he is trying to do too much, trying to stick handle through 4 guys etc. No training camp plus a revolving door of wingers doesnt help,. Where I judge him, and why i still have a lot of faith, was his playoff performance. 18 points in 17 games when the games really counted and the opposition was really playing him tough. It shows what he is capable of. Do you guys remember the Sedins' first years? Getting shoved around, tripping over the blue line....some fans wanted to run them out of town....lets have some patience here.
  6. My biggest gripe with the coaching staff, and this goes back further than this year, is the passive defensive system they seem to play. At first I thought "maybe its the players that are not equipped to win puck battles or play physically in the dzone". But we have basically swapped out all the D, other than Myers, and the D still looks the same, As soon as the other team gets puck possession in our end all 5 guys seemingly collapse into a box and basically hand over the perimeter of the D zone to the other team. They have all the time in the world to move the puck around. Even Hirsch (love him or hate him i think he is honest) called it out last night - the other team is given way too much time and space. I suspect they think they can eliminate high percentage /danger plays by playing in this configuration by allowing a bunch of perimeter shots that a NHL goalie can stop - its why we are seemingly always outshot. And the first unit powerplay - everyone knows they are setting up petey for the shot. the other team knows if you pressure EP to the wall or put pressure on hughes they will likely lose the puck. You have miller making low percentage decisions. Change it up maybe? Put 2 dmen on the point, put EP in the slot? What they are doing doesnt seem to work and you would expect a good coach to adjust.
  7. Do you think that Burroughs will have an advantage in the coaches mind after seeing the bottom pair struggle? He was playing well, making nice zone exit passes, skating the puck out, and generally could keep up with the play. Maybe he’s a 7th dman, but he looks better than the Alternatives right now.
  8. This game looked like last years bad games far too passive in the d zone. No pressuring during the pk. 5 man collapse d system. Maybe they think they can allow a bunch of low percentage shots from the outside? Nice in theory but it’s a garbage system proof is in the pudding.
  9. We all better get used to the basement if they keep playing like this
  10. These guys have half an hour to tee it up on the perimeter of their pp. Far too passive
  11. Ok so Hughes gets injured and they put in both hunt and schenn … why take out Burroughs? He was playing quite well.
  12. Kinda disheartening seeing them hand the Perimeter of the d zone to the other team… they did that all of last year This year they might be able to score more goals but if this is their defensive strategy they are playing with fire
  13. Zadorov is awful. He couldn’t make a pass tonight. Guddy looked like a top pair dman compared to him . Markstrom has been relatively average for them too- going back to last season.
  14. lol, loved watching it. Lames fans starting to turn on Markstrom, there’s already a thread about him on calgary puck. markstrom and monahan are the early whipping boys. loved markstrom when he was here but really.. he had a couple great years here… other than that he was pretty much average. 6 million … 5 more years left lol
  15. If Lockwood makes the team one day I have a feeling he will be another agitator from what we saw in the preseason.
  16. Whenever we played the coyotes I used to hate OEL. He’d usually get an extra shot in during a scrum and was generally hard to play against. For two games in a row the opposing teams have gone out of their way to retaliate on both OEL and Garland. With a gentlemanly core of Horvat, Boeser, EP and Hughes this team sorely needed the gritty element these two players bring.
  17. These games happen. Lots of positives to take out of this. If they stay at least 500 on a hard road trip where a few of the teams play home openers they can really build in that.
  18. What happened to middlestadt? I remember many draft rankings had him ahead of Pettersson. Haven’t seen him on the ice
  19. It’s cliff Ronning for me. Very shifty, goes to the Dirty areas… both about the same size.. I think Cliffy was even smaller
  20. At least he’s our guy. Kinda annoying sometimes, but a whole lot more tolerable than the Toronto and Alberta lovers we put up with during ‘national’ broadcasts . Hrudey, Simpson, Debrusk… and that guy that orgasms when the oilers score
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