GDT: 12/16/17 - 9:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Colorado

TeslaCoilFan

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After what seemed like such a slow start, it was soooo good to see Hedman channeling his inner Viking again! Best game of the season for him, imho! :D

Was also great to see Strålman have his first 3 point game since he played with the Blue Jackets. I so wanted him to get the empty netter for the hattie though. :puppy:
 

Stammertime91

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Need somebody that can take draws and a goalie. Whether that be Domingue or somebody it needs to be addressed. I'm not comfortable with the team having zero confidence in their backup.

Budaj made some big saves at the end but he's been bad all year. And by bad, the handful of games he featured in, he's sucked. Royally.
 

RussianGuyovich

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Budaj won’t play in the playoffs, barring some blowouts, or injury to vasy.

And, yeah, an injury to vasy would be a problem come playoff time. But as a lightning fan, it would be status quo
 

dechire

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Garbage game but they got 2 points and Vladdy didn't get hurt so I'm happy to just forget this game happened(as soon as the DoPS posts their suspension video)
 

Bolt 45

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Would have been pissed if we'd let that one slip away. That third period needs to be stuffed into a cannon and fired into a bottomless pit. Annoyed with the predictable spectacle/entertainment engineering from the refs... league needs to cut that garbage out, it's obvious and it's a joke.

And Hedmonster finally emerged from hibernation and went on a rampage tonight. It was terrible and frightening, and there was unspeakable carnage, and even the strongest of the mountain people could do little more than tremble in horror as Hedmonster devoured everything in his path.
 
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Budaj won’t play in the playoffs, barring some blowouts, or injury to vasy.

And, yeah, an injury to vasy would be a problem come playoff time. But as a lightning fan, it would be status quo

Budaj will lose his spot to Domingue. Only a matter of time.
I don't know about playoffs but I'd say that Domingue is a pretty good NHL goalie behind a team like the Bolts.
 

Stammertime91

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Drouin gave away the puck to Ryan for a goal. His team lost 3-0.

Sergachev scores the GWG and his team wins 6-5.

Yzerman be like:

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MattM92

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Clown show officiating.

We went up 5-1 and started thinking of Vegas. Can't stop skating against teams or they'll make you pay. A lesser team would have blown this game.

Budaj was ok. Only one he had a chance on was the 5th, and even that was a laser. 1st was a star on a breakaway, 2nd and 3rd were great deflections, 4th was a perfect shot by a star. It's not often that you give up 5 goals and not think the goaltending sucks, but this was one of those games.
 

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On a side note, I now know that I don't like avs fans lol
Do you mean their fans in attendance specifically? The ones on here seem alright (I read through their gdt of our last game (*between the Bolts and Avs) and they were at least respectful and even impressed). The fans in attendance I was annoyed by (this game) because they seemed to be looking for penalty calls when nothing happened.
 
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MattM92

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Also was at the game today. Avs fans are pretty annoying. Booing about everything and one guy in front of me kept ripping his shirt off and fake boxing with people. I'm sure we're annoying to other fanbases too.
 

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Instead of targetting another skater, I'd easily go for a strong backup goaltender at the deadline, could even be another teams starter like LA did with us last year considering the cost of aquiring a goalie is low. It's a strong contending year maybe even "the year", on the off chance Vasi goes down late into the season we need insurance in net, Budaj is not that guy.

3RW, faceoff specialists, that's all luxury stuff we don't "need", this team is flat out dominant without it anyways, Budaj's save% and GAA over the past 2 years for us though - not something you wanna risk.
 

TampaBayLightning

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Any game we win when Budaj is in the net it is a great win, we better score at least 5 goals any time he is in the net. He is really bad but I guess it would not be fair for the rest of the league if we had a solid backup.
 

FinnLightning26

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Budaj made a couple of huge saves at the end to hold on for the win but at this rate I don't think he'll see the end of the season here. You need your backup to post at least a .900 save percentage and Budaj isn't even close to that.
 

T REX

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Clown show officiating.

We went up 5-1 and started thinking of Vegas. Can't stop skating against teams or they'll make you pay. A lesser team would have blown this game.

Budaj was ok. Only one he had a chance on was the 5th, and even that was a laser. 1st was a star on a breakaway, 2nd and 3rd were great deflections, 4th was a perfect shot by a star. It's not often that you give up 5 goals and not think the goaltending sucks, but this was one of those games.

I have heard this same excuse after every game he stinks it up...which is almost time he's in net. Budaj stinks out loud and he should not be trusted at all. I prefer we find someone else.
 

Brie

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Sounds like it was an interesting game…I’m glad we got 2 points and a win.
 

OurlordAndSaviorKuch

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Budaj won’t play in the playoffs, barring some blowouts, or injury to vasy.

And, yeah, an injury to vasy would be a problem come playoff time. But as a lightning fan, it would be status quo

The issue is we can't ride Vasy all season long and then expect him to carry us through the playoffs we have to find a good backup that gives us decent shots at winning on days we rest vasy.
 
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RussianGuyovich

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The issue is we can't ride Vasy all season long and then expect him to carry us through the playoffs we have to find a good backup that gives us decent shots at winning on days we rest vasy.

Oh yes, definitely. Please no one take my playoffs quote as an indication I don’t want an upgrade from budaj for regular season.
 

Tampacuseforever

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Instead of targetting another skater, I'd easily go for a strong backup goaltender at the deadline, could even be another teams starter like LA did with us last year considering the cost of aquiring a goalie is low. It's a strong contending year maybe even "the year", on the off chance Vasi goes down late into the season we need insurance in net, Budaj is not that guy.

3RW, faceoff specialists, that's all luxury stuff we don't "need", this team is flat out dominant without it anyways, Budaj's save% and GAA over the past 2 years for us though - not something you wanna risk.
I couldn’t agree more who’s ice time would a 3rd RW take ? On this team it’s a 10 minute a night spot. A goalie would be key and in my opinion a upgrade at 4th line Center preferably a face off guy would be way more important.
 

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