GDT: Attention……Game tonight. Wild vs Bruins 6pm

[57special]

That KK OT winner looked like the KK I remember.

His backward skating celly was dynamic.

JEE's pass was perfect too, and Faber drifting into position from behind split the d's focus. Good all round play, and execution.

Oh, and did anyone else find the Bruins to be less than expected? I mean, we were missing 3 top line players, they were at home, and we played the night before. I don't think we are anything more than a middle of the pack team, yet we played them evenly.

 

[63firebird]

JEE's pass was perfect too, and Faber drifting into position from behind split the d's focus. Good all round play, and execution.

Oh, and did anyone else find the Bruins to be less than expected? I mean, we were missing 3 top line players, they were at home, and we played the night before. I don't think we are anything more than a middle of the pack team, yet we played them evenly.

It seems if the Wild can get the first goal and get some decent goaltending early their confidence goes up. Pasta had quiet a few looks that he would typically bury among other missed grade A chances. Felt bad for Dewar getting beat up.

 

[57special]

It seems if the Wild can get the first goal and get some decent goaltending early their confidence goes up. Pasta had quiet a few looks that he would typically bury among other missed grade A chances. Felt bad for Dewar getting beat up.

Dewar usually takes care of himself better than that, but he is a small, fast guy that we look to anchor the 4th line, and PK. B's fans were applauding Lauko for picking on our 5'10" guy, and ignoring Duhaime, Maroon, Hartman, Foligno, and Middleton(not that he should be fighting with our d the way it is.) Even Hunt can throw ...don't know about Bogosian. There is no way that Dewar should be taking on that fight as a favor to Lauko and the B's, after the wild just went up a goal. I hope Hynes has a talk with him about that.

Hartman engaging with Marchand and taking him off the ice with offsetting penalties? Now that was smart. If Marchand wants to fight Dewar, then by all means.

BTW, for tough guys, Maroon and Foligno sure don't fight much.

 

[Sweetnut]

JEE's pass was perfect too, and Faber drifting into position from behind split the d's focus. Good all round play, and execution.

Oh, and did anyone else find the Bruins to be less than expected? I mean, we were missing 3 top line players, they were at home, and we played the night before. I don't think we are anything more than a middle of the pack team, yet we played them evenly.

Wild is 10-4-2 playing B's in Boston, so it was just business as usual.

 

[63firebird]

Bogosian is actually fairly fast, just has a long stride that makes him look slow. Far faster than Goli and Merrill. The issue with him has always been health, and hockey IQ.

Dewar usually takes care of himself better than that, but he is a small, fast guy that we look to anchor the 4th line, and PK. B's fans were applauding Lauko for picking on our 5'10" guy, and ignoring Duhaime, Maroon, Hartman, Foligno, and Middleton(not that he should be fighting with our d the way it is.) Even Hunt can throw ...don't know about Bogosian. There is no way that Dewar should be taking on that fight as a favor to Lauko and the B's, after the wild just went up a goal. I hope Hynes has a talk with him about that.

Hartman engaging with Marchand and taking him off the ice with offsetting penalties? Now that was smart. If Marchand wants to fight Dewar, then by all means.

BTW, for tough guys, Maroon and Foligno sure don't fight much.

I didn’t see the game but did anyone stand up to Kane when he backstabbed Brodin?

 

[ThatGuy22]

I didn’t see the game but did anyone stand up to Kane when he backstabbed Brodin?

Hartman took a penalty trying

 

[57special]

Hartman took a penalty trying

Didn't that cost us the game?

 

[Obvious Fabertism]

Didn't that cost us the game?

It did, but still needed to happen.

 

[TaLoN]

It did, but still needed to happen.

I'd rather take the win.
The tough guy stuff doesn't stop things like that from happening at all. We traded for Reaves so people wouldn't be so willing to go after Kap... how much did that help Kap? Not at all...

 

[BagHead]

I'd rather take the win.
The tough guy stuff doesn't stop things like that from happening at all. We traded for Reaves so people wouldn't be so willing to go after Kap... how much did that help Kap? Not at all...

Just got to do like Lemaire did with Gaborik - Demitra - Fedoruk.

Kaprizov - Rossi - Maroon. What could go wrong?

 

[TaLoN]

Just got to do like Lemaire did with Gaborik - Demitra - Fedoruk.

Kaprizov - Rossi - Maroon. What could go wrong?

Different league now...

 

[63firebird]

I'd rather take the win.
The tough guy stuff doesn't stop things like that from happening at all. We traded for Reaves so people wouldn't be so willing to go after Kap... how much did that help Kap? Not at all...

Exactly.
I’d rather defence are made aware when goons are on the ice. Kane has a history of injuring players and being suspended so everyone needs to realize who they are playing. Good on him but I doubt Hartman is going to scare him.

 

[BagHead]

Different league now...

I was joking, but it was a different league then too. The age of putting a face-puncher on the line of two skill guys had been finished for nearly a decade when Jacques did that.

 

[63firebird]

I was joking, but it was a different league then too. The age of putting a face-puncher on the line of two skill guys had been finished for nearly a decade when Jacques did that.

Ah yes, Back in the 80s.
Gretzky and Kurri scored.
And Semenko punched all faces that came near 99.

 

[BagHead]

Ah yes, Back in the 80s.
Gretzky and Kurri scored.
And Semenko punched all faces that came near 99.

Yeah, the prime example! I also remember in the mid-90s when Odjick and Bure were on a line together, and McSorely and Gretzky were in LA.

I don't remember it ever happening after that, except for with the Wild when Lemaire decided to try it. To be fair to Lemaire, Risebrough had given him 3 true enforcers for his roster that year. Got to do something with them.

 

[Al Lagoon]

Too bad the rules don't protect your best players.

 

[63firebird]

It seems now you better be ready to get hit the minute you step onto the ice. They have go to do something about the hits from behind,
Esoecially D going back to retrieve-dont give me speed of the game nonense...if there were consequences it would get cleaned up.

 

[57special]

Well, no touch icing was a big step forward as far as safety was concerned. Hockey has always been a physical game... if anything i think it's safer now than it used to be. I do think that the NHL should be far stricter when it comes to disciplining those who cause injuries, though, especially if it's multi time offenders against star players.