bov
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It immediately reminded me of that attempted spin move/fail in one of the "Mighty Ducks" movies. Cant remember which one.
As soon as that happened I thought of Kenny Wu.
It immediately reminded me of that attempted spin move/fail in one of the "Mighty Ducks" movies. Cant remember which one.
Although I had upper deck seats, all the goals were at my end of the ice, which was great since I was rooting for Tampa. Here were some +s and -s from what I saw:
-The ice and the "sellout." It's never good noticing the ice, but it was bad even from my POV. A few wet spots, but a LOT of skipping pucks. Not sure why b/c it was about 28-30 degreesF here in Raleigh during the game. As for the SRO sellout, I was really surprised at how many empty seats there were. The attendance was never announced, something I found odd at a "opening night sellout." It wasn't as loud as I expected, though the Canes didn't give the home fans much to get crazy over.
+Garon. What a game by the lefty, he looked great! More importantly, his positioning after rebounds was very good. No sliding past the net/over-correcting, a number of beautiful kick saves.
+The defense without Brian Lee. The Lightning D was effective, kept the Canes moving the puck, and did not allow much in the way of traffic in front of MG. Aulie netting one on Ward's short side caused an "Aulie Aulie Aulie (OY OY OY)" chant from myself and another Lightning fan. The section around us LOVED that one
-/+ Stamkos. You can really see the talent and puck possession, but a step behind more than once. I'm not worried, just a little rusty I hope.
-The boarding calls. At least two of them were blatant BS. There is a difference between physical hockey and illegal hits! After the third boarding call during a TV timeout, Boucher summoned the refs and had a long talk with them. For some reason after he talked to them, they stopped.
+Conacher's on ice presence. There were a lot of "who is 89?" questions tonight from the home fans...and he played that way. His forecheck was outstanding, and he was constantly the guy you were watching whether or not he had the puck. I enjoyed watching him play tonight.
Random: Canes/Lightning alumni Cory Stillman was in attendance, and I didn't recognize him because he had hair! The CS I remember always had a shaved head.
It was a great game to be in attendance for tonight as a Lightning fan, and a really nice way of ending a 5 year streak of not seeing the Lightning in person. They played well, not without a few mistakes, but dominated the 1st and 3rd. Go Bolts!
I don't get it.... Am I missing something?
Hedman looked excellent to me yesterday (except a couple of bad clears)
Whew, defense looked good top to bottom. Let's keep these pairings for a while. Aulie has been a real pleasant surprise so far.
Garon looked solid for most of the game, then great at the end.
Stamkos isn't playing bad IMO. For christ sakes, he's tied for the team lead in points.
Thought Tyrell looked good too.
Right now, watching the Lightning is really exciting - like 2010/2011 season.
Hopefully we won't end in an 3.00 GAA like in that year..
The work in offensive zone is much fun to watch, hopefully we'll see more of this (and something from Stammer , too)
Yeah, he's got the points, but I still think he looks off. He seems a step or two slower. His passing has been bad and I'm nervous everytime he gets the puck in the D zone. For all the talk last year about how one dimensional he is, it never bothered me. I think he'll be fine obviously, and a bad Stamkos is still better than 90% of the players in the league, but he needs to shake the rust.
Seems like Stamkos will keep the assist. I watched the replay a couple of times and thought it was Marty's stick. DC has Marty and Salo, too. Odd.Stammer ended up with the assist on Malone's goal instead of Marty: http://www.nhl.com/ice/boxscore.htm?id=2012020028
Let's see if they fix it.
Yeah well maybe you will think about that next time you try and make a reference to pop culture when not everyone knows what you are talking about. We aren't about leaving people left out here and you need to be more open to the idea of everyone's feelings.In the Final Fantasy games when you win a fight this is the music that plays.
Lightning won seemed fitting.
Cory Conacher is the first Lightning player to record points in first 3 career NHL games in team's 20-year history #BeTheThunder
Yeah, he's got the points, but I still think he looks off. He seems a step or two slower. His passing has been bad and I'm nervous everytime he gets the puck in the D zone. For all the talk last year about how one dimensional he is, it never bothered me. I think he'll be fine obviously, and a bad Stamkos is still better than 90% of the players in the league, but he needs to shake the rust.
Yeah well maybe you will think about that next time you try and make a reference to pop culture when not everyone knows what you are talking about. We aren't about leaving people left out here and you need to be more open to the idea of everyone's feelings.
Give your head a shake.
I apologies for being so inconsiderate to my fellow Lightning fans. However now that we have established the reference, its reason for being posted and everyone knows what the significance of it is , I see no reason why I cannot continue to post it after the next and all Lightning wins.
Your username is inconsiderate. It makes other people, not me though, feel inadequate at science.
Yeah well maybe you will think about that next time you try and make a reference to pop culture when not everyone knows what you are talking about. We aren't about leaving people left out here and you need to be more open to the idea of everyone's feelings.
Give your head a shake.
In the Final Fantasy games when you win a fight this is the music that plays.
Lightning won seemed fitting.