Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
Not a bad showing considering the two squads.
Still not a fan of such disparity between home and away teams.
Still not a fan of such disparity between home and away teams.
4 PPGA tonight.
Jankowski hasn't been on the ice for one of them.
Monahan, 3.
4 PPGA tonight.
Jankowski hasn't been on the ice for one of them.
Monahan, 3.
Let's make an assessment based on this fact.
Wonder if we'll see any decent LHD going on waivers in the next few days. Maybe the Flames make a claim; anybody but Bartkowski.
Wonder if we'll see any decent LHD going on waivers in the next few days. Maybe the Flames make a claim; anybody but Bartkowski.
I think we could use Jagr.
Our season doesn't really hinge on a #6, and no team in this league has a perfect D group.
Will our goalies and main 5 be good enough to keep pucks out of our net is more the question we have to be asking
Our season doesn't really hinge on a #6, and no team in this league has a perfect D group.
Will our goalies and main 5 be good enough to keep pucks out of our net is more the question we have to be asking
Our season doesn't really hinge on a #6, and no team in this league has a perfect D group.
Will our goalies and main 5 be good enough to keep pucks out of our net is more the question we have to be asking
Normally this would be true but
1) Gulutzan is known to overplay the third pair in crucial playoff games even when they're a clear liability
2) Stone might be a good player, but as a 5 he's got serious flaws that need to be offset by his partner, which Bartkowski simply doesn't do.
3) Our goalies are remarkably average, which combined with what's looking like a poor third pair, will result in some goals against that could have been avoided
4) I think this team is good enough to make the playoffs with a bad bottom pair, and even go deep if they do what the Blackhawks do. But returning to (1) it'll just cost us at some point.
5) While there's still seven+ months to fill that hole, I don't trust Treliving to do it. He's botched the bottom-of-roster every year he's been here. Whether that was Bollig, or Bartkowski, or Brouwer... we just never throw out the best possible team and while a team with a stacked top-of-roster could compensate, we're a team that needs depth contributions to contend (which isn't a tall ask as we do have some depth).
Will Bart cost us the playoffs? Maybe not.
Will he cost us a playoff game, or two, or three? He did last year.
Kulak has seemingly regressed.
Spoon is nothing special.
Bartkowski just should not be an option. He doesn't have an NHL skillset. A Bartkowski-Stone combo will be so so bad. I love Stone but he's not a puck lover.
Valimaki looks a little in over his head.
Honestly, it's Rasmus for me. He's been by far the most consistent player. His head is always up. Being left handed doesn't make you better at hockey. It's a marginal advantage at best.
So OKG thinks Monahan is terrible and Kulak is good.
Just so everyone knows.
Monahan makes 1 bad play at the blue line on the PP, he's awful. Kulak has made 1 good play the entire pre-season, he should make the team.
Agreed with points 1, 3-4.
Regarding point 2, if Stone has to be carried by someone at least as good as he is to mask the flaws in his game, is he really a #5 then?
Actually if anything Rasmus is most likely to be left handed out of all mentioned players .
To me, Kulak's been an absolute disappointment this training camp. I don't care about him being 'meh' or any excuses we can conjure up... Really wanted him to grab a spot with a stranglehold and not let it go. Instead we're bouncing the idea of playing Rasmus on his offside, having Bart and until recently Wotherspoon getting the 6D. That's a disappointment because we know he can be a good little puck mover back there.
Oh well, next!
So OKG thinks Monahan is terrible and Kulak is good.
Just so everyone knows.
Monahan makes 1 bad play at the blue line on the PP, he's awful. Kulak has made 1 good play the entire pre-season, he should make the team.
Actually OKG praised Monahan on the previous page. I know because I had to double take who wrote it.
I praise Monahan plenty. Certain vocal people here are just binary-minded and can't handle criticism or thorough analysis of their favorite player and label me as a hater, rephrasing my comments to fit their agendas.