GDT: Detroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.

[The Zetterberg Era]

Well that late man play sure is open

 

[Ezekial]

23 shots with 27 minutes left? What the f*** is this?

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Mrazek is really on top of his game. I love watching him play like this.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

23 shots with 27 minutes left? What the **** is this?

Simple hockey is our best kind of hockey.

It might not always be super entertaining, but this team needs to play a simple game. Get pucks to the net and crash there. When we get cute we generally end up embarrassed.

 

[Ezekial]

Mrazek is really on top of his game. I love watching him play like this.

Me too, I hope he keeps it up and gives us a reason to qualify him.

 

[TheRatPoisoner]

So Mrazek looks like he'd getting his confidence back

 

[Ezekial]

Mantha's not happy tonight.

Hell yea I saw that punch live, it was worse than I thought. Kruger didn't even do anything

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Fleury just got the draw thrown back out of the zone. Thanks.

 

[TheMule93]

This is nyquists best season since that rookie run in 13-14

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Mantha's not happy tonight.

The game has been pretty chippy in my opinion.

 

[Ezekial]

This is nyquists best season since that rookie run in 13-14

Definitely agree, I think he's played much better than his point total. I don't think I can say that about my guy Tatar most nights.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

No real passengers tonight, I would say Larkin's line has been our worst thus far.

 

[turkleton85]

Mantha's not happy tonight.

Hell yea I saw that punch live, it was worse than I thought. Kruger didn't even do anything

good, he's playing good aggressive hockey. already finished some big checks

 

[Ezekial]

No real passengers tonight, I would say Larkin's line has been our worst thus far.

Outside of a couple rushes they've been really meh tonight. I think the 42-41-8 line has been solid most of their shifts.


As I was typing all that they have a pretty solid shift. Typical.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Definitely agree, I think he's played much better than his point total. I don't think I can say that about my guy Tatar most nights.

Pretty happy with Tatar tonight. To bounce back after that fall has been great.

I have always been a Nyquist guy, he seems to have gotten a little more explosion back into his skating. I wonder if he wasn't dealing with something the last couple of years.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Bertuzzi might be the next Nyquist in terms of just generating chance after chance but not cashing as many as we hope....

 

[turkleton85]

Pretty happy with Tatar tonight. To bounce back after that fall has been great.

I have always been a Nyquist guy, he seems to have gotten a little more explosion back into his skating. I wonder if he wasn't dealing with something the last couple of years.

or maybe he has changed his workouts a little bit. I never played hockey, but i can imagine that you have to constantly work on your skating, and weightroom work has to look much different than other team sports. But maybe its just that he has discovered that he has to play with an edge more

 

[Ezekial]

Pretty happy with Tatar tonight. To bounce back after that fall has been great.

I have always been a Nyquist guy, he seems to have gotten a little more explosion back into his skating. I wonder if he wasn't dealing with something the last couple of years.

I'd agree that tonight is not one of those nights for Tatar, he's been good tonight. But this year outside a stretch where he was playing well but snakebitten he's been underwhelming. He's my favorite Wing that won't be in the rafters on the team.

As for Nyquist idk, coulda been the new contract blues

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

It is hilarious how easy Zetterberg finds Frk from across the ice. I like them being on the same unit for sure.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

A guy I have been killing all year deserves big kudos in Helm. Happy to see it, he has his old school Helm battle and wheels on tonight.

 

[Ezekial]

Yea that was a solid change on the PP, Frk does a good job sliding up and down too.

A guy I have been killing all year deserves big kudos in Helm. Happy to see it, he has his old school Helm battle and wheels on tonight.

The whole team has had some pep in their step tonight. If they win and come out hard tomorrow too I might start to get worried about that meeting.

 

[Red Stanley]

It's too bad they can't play like that every game.

 

[TheRatPoisoner]

A guy I have been killing all year deserves big kudos in Helm. Happy to see it, he has his old school Helm battle and wheels on tonight.

Whole team has some battle in em all of a sudden for some reason or another.

But yea, Helm especially has been noticeable

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

or maybe he has changed his workouts a little bit. I never played hockey, but i can imagine that you have to constantly work on your skating, and weightroom work has to look much different than other team sports. But maybe its just that he has discovered that he has to play with an edge more

I think he has made adjustments for sure. But he had this kind of one step quickness in years past, I thought he had lost a little bit of that and that more than anything has helped. I also think he is playing with a big hulking player on his line with skill again in Mantha most nights. Nyquist always did his most damage with Franzen, he likes that caliber of player with size and finishing ability on his line.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Yea that was a solid change on the PP, Frk does a good job sliding up and down too.


The whole team has had some pep in their step tonight. If they win and come out hard tomorrow too I might start to get worried about that meeting.

I think that hill is too big. But I want them to try hard every single night.

That is really all I want is the effort, we might not be good enough these days, but I want them to show they care.

I think they could play like this every night and still miss the playoffs. But hopefully the lottery Gods smile on us anyway in that case like Philly and Jersey.

I still think when Green goes and he will go, they are going to have a real hard time moving the puck.