GDT: Panthers at Red Wings | March 20

[Holden Caufield]

Trick to beat this is to just make the playoffs. EZ-mode for defeating a Tkachuk.

Ottawa absolutely fell off a cliff after Brady looked like Gordon Howe for 2 games against us.

Something about us… maybe their Dad bred them to hate the Wings…. Wouldn’t put it past him.

 

[norrisnick]

IDK though, it looks like the Panthers could make the playoffs. They're definitely in that picture right now.

Oh, a Tkachuk can definitely make the playoffs. They just suck ass when they get there.

 

[TheOtherOne]

Dear NHL,

I just want to watch your f***ing hockey games. I'll even pay money to do it.

Please stop making it so hard.

All my love,
SoupGuru

Once upon a time, the music industry figured out how to make it easier to pay for content than not to.

 

[SoupGuru]

This team just doesn't play with any kind of sandpaper. They lose so, so many battles. And it's not that they don't have an enforcer or something, it's that the high talent guys don't engage in that stuff. Larkin only plays physical when he's mad. Raymond doesn't even know what that is. Seider hasn't had a big hit in a while now.

Guys like Erne can bang bodies out there and raise the temp but no one else follows up with it or feeds off the energy.

 

[aar000n]

Bs refs just be

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Veleno you moron.

 

[jaster]

Yeah, all we need is for a our prized rookie defenseman to get Gudas'd to end his season.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Good check by Gudas…for once.

I get the retaliation roughing, but it’s not like Gudas didn’t rough Veleno back.

Refs trying to control the game with the retaliation penalty and missing the fact that one team still did more illegal things than the other lol

 

[BIGZ40]

Missed the check and caught his knee from my angle, dangerous hit.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Barkov with the Syuk steal on Walman.

 

[roman star]

goddammit yzerman this is why you dont bring kids up to the nhl , ****

 

[WingFanSD]

Well there goes ed down the tunnel

 

[jaster]

Ed is back. Gonna go score now.

 

[KillerMillerTime]

Good check by Gudas…for once.

I get the retaliation roughing, but it’s not like Gudas didn’t rough Veleno back.

Refs trying to control the game with the retaliation penalty and missing the fact that one team still did more illegal things than the other lol

Dirty hit by Gudas. Anytime you finish at the knees its a scummy
hit.

 

[aar000n]

Larkin!!!!

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Lets go!

 

[Hen Kolland]

Dirty hit by Gudas. Anytime you finish at the knees its a scummy
hit.

He didn’t finish at the knee. You can go watch again. That was damn near hip on hip.

 

[jaster]

Luckily Ed didn't appear to have his weight on the leg that got Gudas'd, otherwise may have been season over.

Hit wasn't flat out dirty, but I wouldn't call it clean either. Especially given that it was Gudas.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Erne just gave someone some window love.

 

[dalem177]

When you do those O-zone wraparounds, is it positional or timing or both?

Teach me?

 

[Hen Kolland]

Luckily Ed didn't appear to have his weight on the leg that got Gudas'd, otherwise may have been season over.

Hit wasn't flat out dirty, but I wouldn't call it clean either. Especially given that it was Gudas.

Considering it was Gudas, I assume that he was aiming at the knee, but watching it back, it just looked worse than it probably was.

I don’t fault Veleno for reacting the way he did. I still have a problem with officiating thinking that calling the retaliatory penalty is controlling the game.

It’s a get out of jail free card for a team that doesn’t deserve to be let off free.

 

[jaster]

When you do those O-zone wraparounds, is it positional or timing or both?

Teach me?

Mainly positional. Defending players are ill-advised to go all the way to the edges of the zone, lest they create pockets for the attacking team to get to and generate scoring chances.

But timing is certainly part of it. The defenders will of course be opportunistic and pin a guy/puck to initiate a board battle given enough time.

 

[Hen Kolland]

Edvinsson is just going to have to protect himself if he activates through open ice like that. 6’6 and his weight right now is very giraffe like. His knees are going to be exposed for hits through the mid-body.

Remember, Gudas is 6’0, Edvinsson is 6’6. If Gudas compacts his frame to brace for a big hit, it’s gonna be lower than we would like to see

 

[dalem177]

Mainly positional. Defending players are ill-advised to go all the way to the edges of the zone, lest they create pockets for the attacking team to get to and generate scoring chances.

But timing is certainly part of it. The defenders will of course be opportunistic and pin a guy/puck to initiate a board battle given enough time.

Thanks!

 

[Hen Kolland]

Yikes that looked scary for a moment