Terry Yake
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you're not going to win a game with bieksa and beauchemin on your top 6
But we did, we got Kelly and Chimera. All that leadership is filling the holes of leadership on this roster. Because Getz, Kes, Bieksa, Beauch, Vermette, Fowler, Cogs is not enough leadership.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.
true, I think I've seen 3 or 4 better options playing on the gulls. Not to mention those young guys would get better as they got more experience.Not stuck. Choosing to. Stuck means you don't have better options. I refuse to believe that.
I remember Hazy saying we were switching it up and going back to our old Lindholm Bieksa line which we hadn't done in a while.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!
And Bieksa is horrendous handling the puck. What would make him think Bieksa would be good there? You need some puck skills to man the point.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
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.
I bet there were teams lining up to trade us their absolute gems for VermetteIf there was an opportunity for GMBM to flip Vermette for the Filip Forsberg-esque prospect and he didn't do it, I shall curse him until the day I die.
Ian Cole went for a 3rd!!! He would've been a big upgrade to our bottom pair when you consider who's minutes he'd be taking.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.
Outcoached, outplayed, as is tradition, I seriously cannot remember a dangerous chance in the first 2 periods at all. At least Rakell hit 30 goals again.
It's amazing seeing so many teams able to implement their young players into lesser roles before building them up, while we end up just putting useless AHL level veterans in those spots instead. Kelly/Chimera/Bieksa/Beauchemin wouldn't be on any team's roster who is in the playoffs and it's pathetic they are all regulars on ours. There is absolutely no reason Anaheim shouldn't have at least 1 young player on the 4th line and 1 on the 3rd pairing for the rest of the season (assuming they have to keep 1 'veteran' on the 4th line and 3rd pair) . Enough of these ****house veteran AHL'ers being regulars at the expense of good young players because they add 'leadership'.
BM's obsession with adding more veteran leadership at the cost of on ice performance is rather worrying. I refuse to believe that Getz/Kesler/Cogs/Perry/Fowler/Vermette (since he's still around) are such an awful leadership core that we need to be bringing in guys like Kelly, Chimera etc to add more leadership.
And can RC finally load up the freaking top 4? Just leave Petersson (or Welinski) and whichever veteran carcass that has to be next to him (because obviously 2 rookies could never handle sheltered minutes in our coaches mind) on the 3rd pairing.
Johansen was 1+1. Has Kes ever really shut him down?
Not recently, that`s for sure. Kes has an injury but still.
To be fair we dont generally do well vs nashville... they are a team that seems to always have us beat.Johansen was 1+1. Has Kes ever really shut him down?
Not recently, that`s for sure. Kes has an injury but still.
Kesler wasn't matched v Johansen last night. Getzlaf line went head to head with Johansen line and both lines scored 2 even strength goals each.Johansen was 1+1. Has Kes ever really shut him down?
Not recently, that`s for sure. Kes has an injury but still.