Palat and Johnson looked slow, lazy and fat. Hell, the whole team looked lazy.
I will continue to believe that they just didn't want to play tonight because I refuse to believe that professional athletes are that out of gas 4 games into the season. I don't care if it's a back to back or a back to back to back. No ****ing excuses for a piss poor effort like that.
Honestly though, we didn't play any better in the first 3 games, we just played ****** teams and got away with it. Detroit isn't complete **** and they made us pay. We really need to wake the **** up because we aren't going to always be playing bottom feeders.
Clearly Detroit wanted to make a statement vs us similar to us against Montreal early last year after getting swept the previous playoffs.
They succeeded but it is just a small bump on the road back to where we want to be, the playoffs. The real question is how they respond to this set back on Thursday.
Difference is in the playoffs you're not playing back to back while the other team is on 2 day's rest.
Dude I never thought I would want him back but Nesty was even worse. Well, not really, but equally as bad.
Yeah not a good game for Nesty, especially in the d-zone
You're right, sometimes teams have nearly a week because they finished their series early.
You must be kidding, Nesterov was pretty decent overall and a clear upgrade over the latest version of Sustr.
lightning record with sustr 3 - 0
lightning record with nesterov 0 - 1
nesterov is some upgrade
How about a DFC line?
Drouin - Flip - Callahan , lol.
You must be kidding, Nesterov was pretty decent overall and a clear upgrade over the latest version of Sustr.
Why the hell would you break up one of our top two lines right now lol...
(P.S. I totally got the joke I just felt like snappin at ya )
No... Nesterov sucked yesterday. Sorry, but that's the truth. He made at least 5 horrible passes that I can think of off hand, he missed multiple pucks coming back into the zone, along with a number of other screw ups.
With that said, this was his FIRST game back. He's gonna have jitters, and that means he just needs a little time to work them out.
We'll see Nesty back in game shape soon enough, he's a huge step up over Sustr but Sustr may get more games simply because of his body. Having a D man that tall really is rare and useful at times (assuming he was actually good ).
The real question is how they respond to this set back on Thursday.
Even tho it was an ugly game, Hedman still looked pretty good and broke up a lot of plays.