His board play and defensive play are extremely underrated. He was one of the top defensive forwards on Washington last year.A couple of random kudos...
1) The first PPG doesn't happen if Semin and Tlusty don't work the boards and prevent a clear. I'm starting to think Tlusty is the unheralded hero among our forward group, and Semin just looks like a different animal than I remember him before. It's nice to have bona fide support players who are actually good at what they do.
2) Faulk's hands on his goal... for a two-way defenseman that's pretty good scoring finish. He was involved in two goals tonight, which is just flat-out scary when you consider how the other aspects of his game are developing. This kid really has blossomed in the past 12 months.
During the game last night, heard mention of one of the Stalls "allegedly" tampering when it came to Marc joining the Hurricanes.
Is there anything to this? was this just nonsense? I honestly can't remember who said it. just stuck with me all night.
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I think I can understand the point of a Pre-Game Talk thread (not to get too many posts about food/video games/musical instruments/etc before game day), but can someone explain the point of a Post-Game Talk thread? Seems to me it just makes it that much tougher to find the comment you're looking for when you go back and look for it a month later...especially when the GDT is still open.
Kind of been wondering this myself. Unless someone can come up with a good defense for it we might just keep everything contained in the GDT going forward.