GDT: Game 8: Wild @ Capitals - 6 PM CT

[Sad People]

Looked up and say the Wild scoring and thought it was a highlight. Good start and nice to see Rossi doing well.

 

[Sweetnut]

Now that´s a snipe!

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Didn’t realize Mike was making his debut

 

[Circulartheory]

Okay, please Dean, try the Johansson-Rossi-Foligno line for a few more games

Then because of your stubborn butt is going to keep the 1st line together, give us Gaudreau/Maroon-JEE-Boldy. That starts to look like 3 passable lines.

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Haven’t looked at the stats this season until now. Maroon 5 apples in 7 games?

That can’t be right

A lot of people hate on him, but he might have better hands than anyone on the team not named Kaprizov, Boldy, Rossi, and Zuccarello.

Haven't seen any of them walk 2 guys with back hand toe-drags in one shift. I think he's looked really good for a pickup that I expected to be Reaves-like.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Swap Mojo and Freddy forever

A lot of people hate on him, but he might have better hands than anyone on the team not named Kaprizov, Boldy, Rossi, and Zuccarello.

Haven't seen any of them walk 2 guys with back hand toe-drags in one shift. I think he's looked really good for a pickup that I expected to be Reaves-like.

He’s way better than Reaves. He’s not a bad player I just can’t get over how slow he is

 

[Circulartheory]

A lot of people hate on him, but he might have better hands than anyone on the team not named Kaprizov, Boldy, Rossi, and Zuccarello.

Haven't seen any of them walk 2 guys with back hand toe-drags in one shift. I think he's looked really good for a pickup that I expected to be Reaves-like.

Agreed ... but his feet are as heavy as rocks ... but so did Reaves so its still an upgrade because Maroon has some hands.

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Swap Mojo and Freddy forever


He’s way better than Reaves. He’s not a bad player I just can’t get over how slow he is

He's very slow. Good hands though and decent touch on his passes when he's in the offensive zone and he's a big body so he can hold off players with his hands and dish pucks.

He needs to play with a linemate with speed. I like him though.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Ooooooshee

I like that Deano has been throwing Rossi out as the 6th guy

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Rossi just continuing to play with speed and smarts. Always in the right places and winning small interactions with pucks and that's because he's playing with speed and anticipation.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

I’m not gonna lie it feels amazing to see Rossi seemingly always making the right play with the puck again.

 

[Sweetnut]

Great start to this game. Night and day difference to yesterday

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

I’m not gonna lie it feels amazing to see Rossi seemingly always making the right play with the puck again.

He looks like his highlight tapes predraft. To me, he is still a Zuccarello type where he's going to play best with skilled players and can make elite players better in terms of his point totals but it's great to see him just make smart plays and play a two way physical game that translates with anyone.

This is 5x better than my most optimistic outcome for him this year.

Bummer. Somewhat unlucky.

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Obvious missed cross-check there.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

We should really start taking advantage of x-checks being free while on the PK.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

I figured if Gus is at an .850 save percentage the flower was probably gonna be sub 8

 

[Sweetnut]

I really hate that headhunting son of a bitch

 

[AKL]

We might be on to something with this Rossi fellow

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

We might be on to something with this Rossi fellow

Yessir

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

I like this whole cycle a wing thing that breaks up our lines and gets Rossi and Kaprizov at bats with differnent players

 

[AKL]

Rossi just walked up and took the puck away from that dude like it wasn't even hard

 

[Circulartheory]

Have not yet seen a mistake in the offensive zone by Rossi yet

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Got away with a hook there

 

[Nino Noderreiter]

Rossi just walked up and took the puck away from that dude like it wasn't even hard

3-4x per game occurrence

 

[Jbcraig1883]

Rossi best Wild player this period fo sho