No McPoints. But we got McPosts, and a boatload of McChances. He was all over the ice today trying to will his team to victory. Unfortunately this team sucked ass as usual:
- Talbot is weak mentally. Can't stop 2 contested shots, and let's the juiciest of rebounds out on an easy shot. Theres been lots of nights where Talbot has looked bad but I couldn't place the entire blame on him because the defence was giving up grade A chances. Tonight it's all on him.
- Lucic pummels Smith and then bloodies Glass. He's still a really bad hockey player at this point in time but got damn is he tough out there. Glass's face before the fight said it all. No one wants to go with Lucic and for good reason. What a fight!
- Sekera should be no where near a power play. Does this moron ever look to see if there's a shot blocker before taking his 3 minutes to finally decide where to shoot the puck. The dude has ZERO awareness of where the shot block is. He seems to just shoot it and hope and pray no ones in front of him trying to block the shot. This has been going on for years with him, it's not a post injury thing in his game. He's just not a shooter and if the coaches were smart they'd have identified this in his game and taken him off the powerplay last year.
- Auvitu sucks. Always has and always will. He's not an NHLer, if our management can't indentify that were due for more shitty seasons like this one.
- Ethan Bear continues to be our best offensive Dman, when there's a shot he takes it and it's a rocket. It has the velocity and placement to create havoc around the net like we saw in the last minute. When he doesn't have a shot, he rips a bullet pass tape to tape to give someone else a chance to create. Now then watch Auvitu, Sekera, and Benning waste shot after shot after shot. Also, the fact that an AHL callup 5th rounder is our best offensive D pretty much tells the story of why this team sucks so bad. Our number 1 need is an offensive defencemen, at the very least I'm glad that management seems to have identified this (Nicholsons comments)
- Larsson is a rock out there 90% of nights. He was hassling Gaudraeu all night. More people should appreciate what he brings to this piss poor D lineup.
- Cammy still sucks. Nice to see a vet get some points though. He's had a nice career, time to hang em up.
- Also, it's way too early to say but I'm not worried that we lost out on Mr Spencer Foo. Skilled player but I don't see him working out at the NHL level.