Half-Assed GDT: Blues Canes: I Can't Think of Anything Witty Today, Sorry

[Linkens Mastery]

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[jura]

 

[Ted Hoffman]

PROJECTED LINEUP
Forwards

Pavel Buchnevich - Robert Thomas - Jordan Kyrou
Brandon Saad - Brayden Schenn - Jake Neighbours
Alexey Toropchenko - Kevin Hayes - Kasperi Kapanen
Nathan Walker - Oskar Sundqvist - Jakub Vrana

Defense

Nick Leddy - Colton Parayko
Torey Krug - Matthew Kessel
Marco Scandella - Scott Perunovich

Goalie

Jordan Binnington



This is going to do wonders for the "maybe Vrana will get a chance" crowd. Also makes you wonder when (if) Tyler Tucker is ever getting back in the lineup.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Canes went with 11/7 last night due to injuries and illness to Necas, Fast and Noesen. Unless one of the has recovered, I would expect them to do the same tonight.

Svechnikov-Aho-Teravainen
Martinook-Staal-Jarvis
Some combination of Bunting, Kotkaniemi, Drury, Lemieux and Ponomarev (AHL call-up)

Slavin-Burns
Skjei-Pesce
Orlov-Chatfield
DeAngelo

Raanta likely in net.

 

[Xerloris]

He's flexing because he lasted longer than Berube.

Also bet he gets used on the PP.

 

[ChicagoIsBedarded]

Also makes you wonder when (if) Tyler Tucker is ever getting back in the lineup.

woah, completely forgot about him. Had such high hopes for that kid. Just never seemed to find his footing.

 

[BlueOil]

blues win 4-3 on a vrana michigan

 

[542365]

Go Blues.

 

[BlueOil]

Also makes you wonder when (if) Tyler Tucker is ever getting back in the lineup.

probably when he figures out how to turn without getting burnt

 

[Blueston]

woah, completely forgot about him. Had such high hopes for that kid. Just never seemed to find his footing.

his feet are why he is sitting. they aren't nhl calibre at this point. until he can skate at nhl level, he won't be an effective player.

 

[GoldenSeal]

Vrana and Thomas destroy the Canes, we get back our footing and we begin the climb back up into the race. You heard it here first, kids. Let's Go Blues!

 

[Linkens Mastery]

We gonna lose

 

[GoldenSeal]

We gonna lose it when we win and go on a sudden winning streak.

Sorry... I read your post and this is what I heard. It's all in the subtext... am I doing this right?

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

lets go blues !!!

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Sorry... I read your post and this is what I heard. It's all in the subtext... am I doing this right?

I'm just goofing around. lol. I'm at the point where I'm less concerned about wins or losses and more concerned about watching how the team plays and reacts.

 

[Ted Hoffman]

probably when he figures out how to turn without getting burnt

his feet are why he is sitting. they aren't nhl calibre at this point. until he can skate at nhl level, he won't be an effective player.

I'm not going to do this - goodness knows I've got a shitload of other things going on already - but I'd love to go back and see people's comments on Tucker after about 2-3 games and compare projections on his future to comments like this and see how often Tucker got overvalued relative to the current view on him.

Because I suspect this happens way more often than people want to admit, and even if someone pointed it out it wouldn't stop people from hyper-projecting over 2-3 games.

 

[rainier]

Aussie Aussie Aussie

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

lol hell yeah what a flip pass aussie aussie assuie

 

[kimzey59]

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Buchy taking Penalties

 

[Ted Hoffman]

"Parayko has 7 goals through 37 games, he might get over 10 this season and set a career high!"

Parayko had 5 through 14 his rookie season, then didn't score another goal for the next 17, didn't score in the next 20 after that, didn't score in 19 after that, then had 2 in the final 7.

The next season he had 4 goals in 11 games ... in between starting the season with 0 goals in 40 games and ending it with 0 goals in 30 games.

2018-19: he had 7 through 30 games, 8 through 38. He had 2 in the final 42.

2019-20: he had 10 in 64, but had 0 through the first 15 and 2 through 46, then had 8 in the next 17.

Moral of the story here: don't start penciling him in for 15 or anything. Maybe go with 10. His history suggests he's got a 20-25 goalless, 2-in-40 stretch coming.

 

[Robb_K]

Right through Binnington's legs. Clearly he wasn't able to track the puck. Maybe one or more of the skaters in front of him screened it perfectly. A shame because the penalty was almost killed off.

 

[Blueston]

I'm not going to do this - goodness knows I've got a shitload of other things going on already - but I'd love to go back and see people's comments on Tucker after about 2-3 games and compare projections on his future to comments like this and see how often Tucker got overvalued relative to the current view on him.

Because I suspect this happens way more often than people want to admit, and even if someone pointed it out it wouldn't stop people from hyper-projecting over 2-3 games.

I've been saying ever since he first came up last year that I didn't think he skated well enough to be legit nhl player. It's not impossible that he could improve skating enough- or become so tuned in that he anticipates play well enough to compensate for crappy skating- but I think it's mostly wishful thinking. It's a shame, bc he seems like a good guy who has worked really hard to get to this point, but the games is just so fast and he.. isn't.

 

[Robb_K]

The Blues had an okay 1st Period, playing with discipline, holding The Canes to one PP goal. It was nice to see the hustling Walker score. But, they'll need to get their offence clicking better. They had a few good chances. They'll need to get more, while still keeping The Canes' held down.

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

nice save