GDT: TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL - Ducks at Preds - 5pm

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Rakell with a pair of goals to get 30 on the season. Not happy about the loss but was expecting it hoping we can win tomorrows game.

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Dr Johnny Fever

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Our defenseman are unbelievably bad at defending odd man rushes. It’s a fundamental that you take away pass, period. Make the shooter shoot so that’s all goalie worries about.
Well, it took a year and a half before we thought we should practice 3v3. Randy will probably evolve a practice plan for odd man rushes this summer, just in time for camp.
 

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Getz's statline is a little nuts, besides the assists he had 4 shots, led the team in hits, played over 26(!) minutes and was the only Ducks to win more than 33% of his draws (he won 69%).

The stats look a lot better than he did until the 3rd. 26 minutes is wild though.
 

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Getz's statline is a little nuts, besides the assists he had 4 shots, led the team in hits, played over 26(!) minutes and was the only Ducks to win more than 33% of his draws (he won 69%).
The craziest part is I thought he dragged his linemates down most of the game.
 

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Yes. 4 of those 5 points are from Games 1 and 2 last year, after which Johansen went had his infamous spaz-out where he broadcasted to the world how much Kesler had gotten to him, and then he was a non-factor after that.

He only played 1 full game after that I think. Wasn't he injured in the 1st period of game 4? And he complained right after he scored 2 points on him, literally in the post-game interview of that game, right? If anything, I think it makes Johansen play better, he was certainly the better of the two tonight.
 

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Well, it took a year and a half before we thought we should practice 3v3. Randy will probably evolve a practice plan for odd man rushes this summer, just in time for camp.
This still pisses me off. Look at all the OT losses we have, and then think if we won just half of them. We would be competing with Vegas for 1st. Ugh, fire the dinosaur already Murray; or the owners should just fire both of them, I'm fine with either at this point.
 

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Carlyle should re-evaluate his lineup desicions, but I don't think that will happen. Fourth line was a joke. Going with both Bieksa anc Beauchemin was also a joke. Silfverberg is so slow. And we are not a good away team.
 
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He only played 1 full game after that I think. Wasn't he injured in the 1st period of game 4? And he complained right after he scored 2 points on him, literally in the post-game interview of that game, right? If anything, I think it makes Johansen play better, he was certainly the better of the two tonight.

He played all of game 4 and got hurt late. He didn't really put 2 that game or 4 on him, Kesler was only out against him for 2 in those 2 games, but the main point is Johansen had 2 great games personally and instead of feeling good about it, which most people would, he was mostly frustrated with Kesler and let it affect him the next two games. So as I said, Kesler clearly owns a lot of room in his head.
 

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I can't help but wonder where this team would be if at least one of Beauch/Bieksa wasn't on the team this year. I understand we traded Sami, but I still think that deal was necessary. It would have been nice to sign someone more competent, and I would have been very interested in Ian Cole at the deadline.
 
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He played all of game 4 and got hurt late. He didn't really put 2 that game or 4 on him, Kesler was only out against him for 2 in those 2 games, but the main point is Johansen had 2 great games personally and instead of feeling good about it, which most people would, he was mostly frustrated with Kesler and let it affect him the next two games. So as I said, Kesler clearly owns a lot of room in his head.
He wasn't even really that great tonight.
 

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The constant obsessive line matching is a hinderance during away games IMO.

Agreed. At home it's no big deal because you have last change, but you can't afford to give up the puck when you have full control just to get the matchup you want, especially when you are trailing by multiple goals. Also doesn't help that this team still doesn't understand you can't let Rinne play the puck on the dumps. FFS put it in the corners or on the glass.
 
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I can't help but wonder where this team would be if at least one of Beauch/Bieksa wasn't on the team this year. I understand we traded Sami, but I still think that deal was necessary. It would have been nice to sign someone more competent, and I would have been very interested in Ian Cole at the deadline.

We didn't re-sign Beauch because Bob didn't want to pay him for the third year of that contract. He signed with the Avs for 4.5 per, yet here we are in the third year with both him and Bieksa at 5 mil per.

Each time we let Beauch go we should've just kept him.
 
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If a coach decides on a lineup, then has to change it 5 minutes into the game, maybe that was a poor decision in the first place?

He didn't actually change the pairs until the start of the 3rd, when he loaded up the top 4 again. Beauch took a majority of his ES shifts with Manson in the first two periods and Bieksa with Lindholm.
 
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I can't help but wonder where this team would be if at least one of Beauch/Bieksa wasn't on the team this year. I understand we traded Sami, but I still think that deal was necessary. It would have been nice to sign someone more competent, and I would have been very interested in Ian Cole at the deadline.
Look how much better we played by taking one our of the lineup and playing a rookie instead. I agree big time Bob's biggest failing at the deadline was that.

What gets me is like ok, you're going to play those two...then play them bottom pair. You don't play them at the expense of by far your best pairing. Because then your dragging them down on two separate pairs. Then for Randy to play Bieksa on the PP over Manson who is having a career year offensively, it's just complete ignorance of what's going on
 
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He didn't actually change the pairs until the start of the 3rd, when he loaded up the top 4 again. Beauch took a majority of his ES shifts with Manson in the first two periods and Bieksa with Lindholm.

They started together and after Bieksa got schooled for the first goal, they were split.
 

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Maybe I didn't see correctly. Thought I saw them both on the ice together their first shift.

Maybe I’m the same but I swear even Hayward said they were together at the beginning of the game. I think he even mentioned that they hadn’t played together since real early in the year.

Maybe I’m crazy though!
 

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Just another loss. I'm glad Rakell got to pot a couple at least, just to make that contact look even more absurd. Crazy the price we have him for.
 

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if the ducks would've traded some of our assets to fill the holes in our team the way the preds did perhaps we would be in a similar place to where the preds are. Instead we are stuck playing Bieksa and Beauch and being pretty good forever.
 

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if the ducks would've traded some of our assets to fill the holes in our team the way the preds did perhaps we would be in a similar place to where the preds are. Instead we are stuck playing Bieksa and Beauch and being pretty good forever.

Not stuck. Choosing to. Stuck means you don't have better options. I refuse to believe that.
 
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