PuckMunchkin
Very Nice, Very Evil!
Hes just been playing poor hockey for his last few games.Need Boeser to find his scoring touch again real soon
Needs to get back to working harder.
Hes just been playing poor hockey for his last few games.Need Boeser to find his scoring touch again real soon
Dries’ ceiling is a AHL+ tweener. He could plug in as an okay guy, I guess… but I’d rather see some guy with a potential upside.
I’d like to give Nielsen a tryIf they're looking for a guy to ride the pine, practice, and play spot minutes, I could see it being Dries getting the call.
If it's someone who's going to play regularly and get good looks, maybe they go with Karlsson/Bains/Raty. But they may want them continuing to get top minutes in Abby.
I know that. I just was surprised by how well he was doing down there,Dries’ ceiling is a AHL+ tweener. He could plug in as an okay guy, I guess… but I’d rather see some guy with a potential upside.
Aqua getting third wheeled by the official Sportsnet account, too.
If we play the way we did last night we last 5 games tops. A dreadful game where 3 of our first period goals went in off Sens players. Garbagio effort by a team playing the 29th best team in the league who are recovering from a huge front office shakeup playing on the road by a well rested team playing their #1 goalie (who was average at best and was coming off a week or so off) and who had been practicing industriously. Naturally Petey shone in this games as he often does in these walkovers but this was no tempering by fire kind of game in any way and if I were Tocchet they would get a bag skate for their efforts.I don’t have issues playing the oilers or the kings in round 1 though.
Meh, hard to draw those conclusions from this game. Score effects are a real thing, it's hard to come out and put the blocks to the other team and try to run the score up when you're already up 5-0 (unless you hate them and want to humiliate them). I liked the low-key celebrations on the 4-0 and 5-0 goals.If we play the way we did last night we last 5 games tops. A dreadful game where 3 of our first period goals went in off Sens players. Garbagio effort by a team playing the 29th best team in the league
I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.I acknowledge the inherent discomfort of the seemingly unavoidable, white-knuckle defence approach that McDrai demands when they are at top form. I also believe that the Canucks are built and coached to dismantle a top-heavy roster. The Oilers are a great matchup for the Nucks IMO.
Aqua getting third wheeled by the official Sportsnet account, too.
I'd love to give you hope, but it's not just about Tocchet. It's about 5 or 6 different things -- all of them important. He's certainly one of the short list of things, though.I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
Tocchet has been real good at getting disciplined play from the looser/scatter-brained skaters and instilling structure. But he's only part of the puzzle. Allvin has also been huge at making value-added roster moves. And we've had players like Miller and Hughes reach their next level.I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
A bunch of people here have observed that the Sens are in the same position as the Canucks were two years ago - good young players (Canucks top end is better but Sens have an edge on depth) but the organization itself was directionless and with no team cohesion. You can't put a bunch of good players together and expect them to beat a team where everybody plays for each other.I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
We gave up almost 40 shots to a team playing on the road that is in disarray. Also the hockey gods were smiling on us throughout the whole first period. We sucked.Meh, hard to draw those conclusions from this game. Score effects are a real thing, it's hard to come out and put the blocks to the other team and try to run the score up when you're already up 5-0 (unless you hate them and want to humiliate them). I liked the low-key celebrations on the 4-0 and 5-0 goals.
Tocchet and Boudreau had nearly identical results turning around bad teams.I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
I agree that it's incredibly dangerous. But I also see it as inevitable given our inability as a society to get our collective shit together. And when climate refugees start mass migration across borders due to drought or fallow farmland or flooding, we're going to look at that $2-8B/year magic pill and it's going to look awfully tempting...It is a very dangerous game because we won't understand how the system will truly react until it is done. This is a last ditch attempt - though we are kind of inadvertently geo-engineering by creating the climate and politics to burn the Amazon and the ongoing widespread boreal and Australian wildfire, every year. With that much smoke being emitted, it does have a cooling affect - sort of*.
But those high airborne particulates tend to wind up at the polar regions through atmospheric circulation - Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells tend to drop the soot onto polar regions, where it decreases the albedo and therefore decreases the amount of sunlight being reflected by snow and ice, letting it warm faster.
*There is a technique in wildfire fighting where you burn an area ahead of heat-of-the-day, in conjunction with prevailing winds where you can shade an unburned area with heavy smoke and therefore reduce the temperature of the fuels by not allowing them to be heated by the sun.
Tocchet brought in a system that works. There are many systems that work and many good coaches. The trick of it is to bring in the right system for the players you have, replace the ones that don't fit and (the big one) have the players buy in completely. We made many changes to our roster over the past 2 years, brought in a coach who coached defensive structure while still allowing for offense and the years of sustained losing drove our core players to buy into what Tocchet was selling.I have to ask the question here, as you alluded to the way the Canucks are built and coached. Obviously , I am a Sens fan, and I see basically the same squad as last year, and many pieces that have been together for years. No doubt you had seen some games under Green and Boudreau on the other side of last night's game.
Just wondering , is it really all about Tocchet? If it is, it gives me hope...
I agree that it's incredibly dangerous. But I also see it as inevitable given our inability as a society to get our collective shit together. And when climate refugees start mass migration across borders due to drought or fallow farmland or flooding, we're going to look at that $2-8B/year magic pill and it's going to look awfully tempting...
FWIW, the Whitehouse officially commissioned a study on feasibility in October. Seems to me that the writing is on the wall.