Chronic.Canuck

TSN turning point of the season...

Stat cherry pickers who don't watch the games take note.

https://twitter.com/PR_NHL/status/1059975467556630529

Thanks for the update. IIRC he took almost until Xmas last year to get his first goal then the floodgates opened. Correct me if I'm wrong?

Very encouraging early season praise... Exactly the kind of development he needs this year. When he eventually does join the team he'll be playing 18-20 minutes a night pretty quickly I think.

Really enjoyed his game the other night. Nice goal on the penalty shot as well!

Can't hit what you can't catch...

I got told off for being excited about EP40 at Thanksgiving dinner. Told everyone to stuff it

Petterson will be our assists leader and top two in points. 30G season for Boeser. Breakout season for Virtanen with 20G.

I guess being the top minute man on the best team in the KHL is probably a good developmental season.

Excellent read, thanks Sid.

EP40 is historically a bit of a slow starter so he might have to wait until the second game for that

Here's hoping Ben can recapture some of that 1st year magic with some newfound 4th year fitness.

I think we'll see a more mature Adam come into camp and seize an NHL roster spot. Not that he couldn't also benefit from a year in Utica but some players put in a showing like Stecher did recently and refuse to be held back.

I see a 41 on his helmet. I think Kenins is correct.

Really excited to see what Brock and Bo can bring next year with the Twins' offensive time. Let alone Petterson.

Hardly unprofessional. It's not even him tweeting. It's him probably getting angry on a phone call having refuted it so many times and then getting quoted by Sportsnet. If anyone's to blame it's whoever runs the Sportsnet Twitter.

Sweden's starting to take over the game. Looking like they're on the PP at 5 on 5 sometimes here in the second. You can tell Elias is hungry to create something everytime he has the puck on his stick. Once his teammates gel with him a little I think we'll see him start scoring in bunches.

Solid shift by Petterson with some nice moves and finding himself in position to keep the cycle alive.

Gotta beat the best to be the best, right?

Watching a highlight reel of breakaway goals and PP snipes hardly gives an accurate depiction of the level of physicality in the SHL. I watched more than a handful of their playoff games this year and the games were most certainly physical on a level comparable to NHL games - maybe even some of this year's playoff games. EP took a couple games to adjust to the tighter checking and the opposition sending two or even three defenders to cover him at times and he responded by taking home the playoff MVP. See how he drives his body INTO the opposing player on his empty net goal? Or how he dances around defenders trying to chop him down. He gets the puck and skates towards the net without fear. Not saying there won't be an adjustment period in North America or that he could use some added strength to win board battles but I have no doubt the physicality will not be as big an issue as people make it out to be.

Rosen scores in the first minute of the third to make it 3-0. His third point of the game.

I meant to ask last game if Fasth was even playing. Crazy good team game if they're doing it without him. And of course Swedish Gretzky!