GDT: Sabres @ Hawks 6pm 11/19/23 NBC sports chicago

[Mrfenn92]

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[Mrfenn92]

Sabres 7-9-1

Skinner Cozens Tuch
Peterka Middelstadt Benson
Girgensons Krebs Okposo
Greenway Jost Olofsson

Dahlin Smauelsson
Power Johnson
Clifton Johnson
Jokiharju DTD
Bryson

Upl/Comrie/Levi

Injured: Thompson Quinn Biro

Hawks lines 5-10

Foligno Bedard Kurashev
Hall Reichel Raddysh
Johnson Dickinson Perry
Donato Entwistle Johnson
Katchouk
Anthanasiou

Vlasic Jones
Korchinski Murphy
Kaiser Phillips
Zaitsev

Mrazek/Soderblom

Injured: Blackwell Tinordi

 

[WarriorofTime]

Congrats to Kurashev on 200th career game. A big milestone for any player.

 

[Drumman44]

So is Kane going to sign in Buffalo today to be in the lineup in time?

 

[Mrfenn92]

Congrats to Kurashev on 200th career game. A big milestone for any player.

Technically 201 today.

 

[HLLYWD99]

KEEP ON ROLLIN!​

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Today is Bedard’s hattrick day.

 

[x Tame Impala]

Anyone else here just never liked Connor Murphy while he's been here? I'm definitely not watching all 82 games a year the last 4 or so seasons but I've been very underwhelmed by his talents, especially with his 6'4" frame. We traded Hjlamarsson away for him, granted Hjalmarsson was older and past his prime at that point, but I thought we'd be getting a defensively effective #3 guy here and I'm not sure we've seen that from him for the vast majority of his tenure as a Hawk.

 

[Kevin Musto]

Anyone else here just never liked Connor Murphy while he's been here? I'm definitely not watching all 82 games a year the last 4 or so seasons but I've been very underwhelmed by his talents, especially with his 6'4" frame. We traded Hjlamarsson away for him, granted Hjalmarsson was older and past his prime at that point, but I thought we'd be getting a defensively effective #3 guy here and I'm not sure we've seen that from him for the vast majority of his tenure as a Hawk.

I liked Murphy a lot in his first few years in Chicago. I think he's fallen off, though I still appreciate him as a veteran and the leadership he provides.

 

[BobbyJet]

Anyone else here just never liked Connor Murphy while he's been here? I'm definitely not watching all 82 games a year the last 4 or so seasons but I've been very underwhelmed by his talents, especially with his 6'4" frame. We traded Hjlamarsson away for him, granted Hjalmarsson was older and past his prime at that point, but I thought we'd be getting a defensively effective #3 guy here and I'm not sure we've seen that from him for the vast majority of his tenure as a Hawk.

Yep. It was Stan at his best. There was a lot of wishful thinking that he was a younger version of Hammer. In a pig's eye.

 

[Salvaged Ship]

Hopefully things pick up. Through 12 games I was on the team is fun to watch again bandwagon. Getting 5 wins their first 12 games with the ridiculous schedule they had was overachieving, they were playing a scrappy game with a good level of enjoyment is spite of losses. The last few games the compete level and energy has dropped considerably and the fun to watch thing has dissipated a bit (and I attended the game yesterday which was very underwhelming). They need to get back to the effort and energy level they had the first 10 games or so, it looks the last few games like they are running out of gas.

 

[Wally1112pac]

Anyone else here just never liked Connor Murphy while he's been here? I'm definitely not watching all 82 games a year the last 4 or so seasons but I've been very underwhelmed by his talents, especially with his 6'4" frame. We traded Hjlamarsson away for him, granted Hjalmarsson was older and past his prime at that point, but I thought we'd be getting a defensively effective #3 guy here and I'm not sure we've seen that from him for the vast majority of his tenure as a Hawk.

It took me awhile to get over who he was traded for and comparing Murphy to him. That wasn't fair to Murphy though. Hammer was a legend.

In his time here Murphy has been well above a replacement level player imo.

He looks like he has lost half a step this season though. He does play a rugged style. Maybe it has caught up to him?

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[deytookerjaabs]

Anyone else here just never liked Connor Murphy while he's been here? I'm definitely not watching all 82 games a year the last 4 or so seasons but I've been very underwhelmed by his talents, especially with his 6'4" frame. We traded Hjlamarsson away for him, granted Hjalmarsson was older and past his prime at that point, but I thought we'd be getting a defensively effective #3 guy here and I'm not sure we've seen that from him for the vast majority of his tenure as a Hawk.

His second year here up through the JC years he was solid. And, being how bad the forwards played under JC, Murphy was a big stand out for those seasons. Most of those games had to be a nightmare for the D-men and thus the D as a whole took way more blame than they deserved game to game...they were constantly hung out to dry.

Really, this kinda began before JC though. In '17/'18 the team fell off a cliff and just tried to score goals. Hossa gone, Toews was just trying to play offense, a bunch of other soft forwards (Schmaltz, Hino, Cat was better but still learning to play on the walls), etc etc. Our team defense just imploded. Keith was a -29 that season.

I think in Murphy's prime he could have blended in easily as a solid second pair dude on much better teams.

 

[EddieTheEagle]

Live look at Fiddy watching the game today.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Live look at Fiddy watching the game today.
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Why is Pat Foley in a tank?

 

[MTU34]

Why break up the Foligno-Bedard-Kurashev line? That new top line is going to get caved in with the way it’s constructed

 

[Dead Meat]

I'm alright with Murphy - he takes an incredible amount of punishment.

 

[TLEH]

Why break up the Foligno-Bedard-Kurashev line? That new top line is going to get caved in with the way it’s constructed

Because if you’re going to take Reichel off center it makes sense to put you best players together. It might struggle but it’s worth a shot.

I asked for this line last game:

 

[MTU34]

Because if you’re going to take Reichel off center it makes sense to put you best players together. It might struggle but it’s worth a shot.

I asked for this line last game:

I mean I appreciate the sentiment of wanting to play your most naturally gifted players together but they’re essentially asking Kurashev to do all of the dirty work on that line and I think that’ll end up being a disaster

 

[Mrfenn92]

Let’s go boys

Pang has to be happy to be far away from Vosters

 

[belfour30]

I didn't realize that Kurashev has 8 pts in 9 games.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Think line one has a big night

 

[Dead Meat]

I can't stand this Vosters guy and his turd stache....might turn on the Buffalo feed

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Line 1 was getting caved anyways. So not like it makes a difference. Plus Reichel and Kurashev have the whole German connection going.