This should be included in the next GDT. Somebody make your homework plz!
Kuz can play at this level. He's the best ****ing player on the ice. Glad to be proven wrong!
Often with young skill players, you'll see flashes of brilliance. With Kuz, for the last 20 games or so, you've seen him control control the pace of play. Very rare ability to do that at his experience level.
And I have to emphasize again, this is at a position he's never played before at any high level.
This is exactly why I said we needed to roll with him as 2C when everyone was clamoring for an acquisition at the TDL. He has all world talent and just needed some experience.
Finish these ****ers in 6 on a 3 game winning streak, shut down that dump, and get ready to upset the other half of NY.
As far as Isles fans, I sat behind one tonight. Solid dude. Not all of them are terrible. Truthfully, I was shocked at how few there were last night. I saw maybe 12-15, tops. It was 99.9% red in the Phone Booth last night.
Sent the wife to the game last night (as only one of us can go without a babysitter), but yeah, I noticed the same thing re: Isles fans the last home game. Probably the smallest swath of visiting fans I've seen at VC outside of West Coast teams.
It's bizarre. Just didn't expect a team so close to have so few traveling fans. The guy in front of me was a good sport. After the 5th goal he took his jersey off and started yelling, "Let's go Mets!"
Often with young skill players, you'll see flashes of brilliance. With Kuz, for the last 20 games or so, you've seen him control control the pace of play. Very rare ability to do that at his experience level.
And I have to emphasize again, this is at a position he's never played before at any high level.
Best part about Kuz is that he isn't a defensive liability, his +/- all year has been solid. He isn't the strong on the puck and he is young, but I really am impressed with how well he has done this year. In the past, I would be nervous with the Caps bringing in young rookies. But Kuz has had a great year even though it had a slow start and hopefully more solid years to come. I'd be happy with him getting point production below or similar to Backstrom, if it meant his play on the other side of the puck was strong. We need more guys like that up front.
The Ovie impact was evident late in the game when Boychuk was skating like Hal Gill.
The Ovie impact was evident late in the game when Boychuk was skating like Hal Gill.
That game pretty much speaks for itself - it was a beauty. They played with more confidence and initiative than they'd shown the entire series all through the lineup - and were completely unfazed by that first goal. As mentally strong a playoff game as we've seen in a long time.
And we're 2-0 when I'm drinking the Full Sail Pilsener
That game pretty much speaks for itself - it was a beauty. They played with more confidence and initiative than they'd shown the entire series all through the lineup - and were completely unfazed by that first goal. As mentally strong a playoff game as we've seen in a long time.
And we're 2-0 when I'm drinking the Full Sail Pilsener
Finally, amin723, you called it!
+/- is BS. I trust my eye test to assess the quality of a player defensively. Kuznetsov has good awareness defensively, he steals a lot of pucks with his active stick on the ice. In game 4 in OT, he stripped an Isles Dman of the puck in their own zone and nearly scored.
Burakovsky hasn't shown the same level of maturity as Kuzma, but he's only 20 years old.