GDT: 10/14/2013 - Minnesota Wild @ Buffalo Sabres - 6:30 - NBCSN, TSN2

[Lapa]

Nino had a strong game. Strong along the boards, a fast skater. My only complain is that he needs to shoot more. Example: on the PP, Greenlord made a nice pass to him on the middle where he should have just shot a one timer, instead he made a bad pass.

Koivu was good. Good passes, great defensively. This time I thought Koivu shot more, which was good to see.

Greenlord was aggressive on the forecheck, solid defensively, was decent in faceoffs as well. He really needs to stop feeding Heatley the puck on his every scoring chance and shoot by himself.

Brodin awesome as usual. What more can I say?

Harding was awesome. I hope he keeps playing like this.

Poms had a strong game and a damn nice goal.

Stoner was probably our worst defenseman tonight.

Fontaine showed some nice flashes of his speed.

Dumba was great, I hope he stays. He's easily better than Stoner, Scandella and Prosser and right now it's not even close.

I thought Parise had a bad game. Bad turnover on the neutral zone which resulted in a goal. Otherwise pretty invisible.

Heatley really needs to sit.. His screwup on the 2 on 1 rush with Greenblum kind of summed up his whole season so far. At this stage he isn't a threat, even on PP. I hope Coyle returns soon and pushes Heatley out of both 2nd line and PP. Heatley's just causing too many chances for other players it's not even funny anymore. GMCF really needs to try to trade him for a bag of chips or something..

 

[AKL]

So Matt Cooke and Jonas Brodin are our leading scorers. Trolling the league?

 

[Billy Mays Here*]

Greenlord was aggressive on the forecheck, solid defensively, was decent in faceoffs as well. He really needs to stop feeding Heatley the puck on his every scoring chance and shoot by himself.

Greenlay plays for the Wild now? God help us all.

 

[urho]

Dany Heatley isn't very good at hockey anymore. But Wild do look good, much better than last year

 

[Sharppi]

Ok. How did Grönblud play?

 

[urho]

Ok. How did Grönblud play?

He played well. Could be a bit more selfish and never pass to Heatley, tho.

 

[AKL]

He played well. Could be a bit more selfish and never pass to Heatley, tho.

I laughed and cried at the same time because it's funny and so true

 

[Lapa]

Could be a bit more selfish and never pass to Heatley, tho.

This should be printed, framed and put on the wall in the Wild dressing room.

 

[TaLoN]

Graulblad was all over the place in the offensive zone...making some sick centering passes that still go unexpected by his linemates. Heatley should have passed to Growlawd on that two on one long before he was tripped from behind.

 

[AKL]

Graulblad was all over the place in the offensive zone...making some sick centering passes that still go unexpected by his linemates. Heatley should have passed to Growlawd on that two on one long before he was tripped from behind.

Gallbladder should replace Koivu on the first line to be honest. He's looked better offensively so far.

 

[Sharppi]

Gallbladder should replace Koivu on the first line to be honest. He's looked better offensively so far.

Great to know that Googolplex is doing well.

 

[W75]

Graulblad was all over the place in the offensive zone...making some sick centering passes that still go unexpected by his linemates. Heatley should have passed to Growlawd on that two on one long before he was tripped from behind.

Yeah, I think this Grailbowl-kiddo is just about to produce. One more baby step..

 

[AKL]

Great to know that Googolplex is doing well.

Yeah, I think this Grailbowl-kiddo is just about to produce. One more baby step..

Agreed here, Gilgamesh is progressing nicely after his rough last year.

 

[TZM]

Actually Granholm was Fontaine at some point too. IIRC right after that Doc corrected: "Actually it is Granholm with the puck"... and I totally lost it . I thought the entire 2nd line had a bad game. Heatley was just an icing on the cake.

 

[Avder]

I was reading the last few pages of this thread while eating a sandwich. You ****ers almost made me choke! Jerks!


I heartily agree that Gordlud needs to be more selfish with the puck and never ever pass it to heater again. EVER.

Someone should bring a banner to that effect to the next home game if Heater hasn't been benched yet. He is completely wasting all the talent that Goordlarn is bringing to the table this year.

I think this thing that Doc started might just be our new meme....

Very well, let's continue where we left off then.

I heard from a couple people that Pierre couldn't stop getting a hard-on from talking about Brodin. Any truth to that?

Said he should have won Calder. And pretty much anyone who paid attention to the league as a whole as opposed to those dunderheaded bum wad leastern conference only journalists who stuffed the ballot with unworthy leastern conference rookies seems to agree.

On a related note I really can't stand the leastern conference.

 

[Gaps]

Heatley is no longer able to get himself into the best positions from where he could use his shot and bury Greenblatt's passes. But I still think Grablund will get booted off the top 6 when Coyle comes back and Heatley stays.

 

[AKL]

Heatley is no longer able to get himself into the best positions from where he could use his shot and bury Greenblatt's passes. But I still think Grablund will get booted off the top 6 when Coyle comes back and Heatley stays.

Agreed. Yeo seems to love Heatley for some reason. Or he's afraid of him. I don't know. But either way, Nino looks like a fixture on that line, they want Coyle in that C spot, and Pominville is easily a top six player.

That leaves Gordmack as the odd guy out.

 

[Temego]

How many games total has Gargamel played with Heatley now? Last year included. They've shown zero chemistry whatsoever and still on the same line.

 

[AJ Thelen]

As long as Harding keeps playing like this i have no problem with him being our #1 in net.

Hopefully Granny stays and Heater sits when Coyle is back.

 

[Lapa]

What I think the lineup looks like when Coyle returns:

Parise-Koivu-Nino
Heatley-Coyle-Pominville
Cooke-Brodziak-Grönland
Fontaine-Konopka-Mitchell

What I'd like to see:

Parise-Koivu-Nino
Coyle-Gargnall-Pominville
Cooke-Brodziak-Fontaine
Heatley-Konopka-Mitchell

 

[TaLoN]

Agreed. Yeo seems to love Heatley for some reason. Or he's afraid of him. I don't know. But either way, Nino looks like a fixture on that line, they want Coyle in that C spot, and Pominville is easily a top six player.

That leaves Gordmack as the odd guy out.

I disagree, I think Coyle moves back to wing. Groplamp has just been too good to move from that position imo.

 

[vippe]

Whatever you are doing with this Granlund-meme is hilarious Where's the origin? =)

Grats on the win guys!

 

[Lapa]

Whatever you are doing with this Granlund-meme is hilarious Where's the origin? =)

Grats on the win guys!

In the last game, the announcer kept saying Gronlund, Granholm and so on

 

[AKL]

I disagree, I think Coyle moves back to wing. Groplamp has just been too good to move from that position imo.

I'd love to see Coyle move back to wing, as it would mean Grelldink would have to center that line, but who do you see really moving down? As I said earlier, Pominville would be wasted on the third line, and Yeo has a man-crush on Heatley.

 

[TaLoN]

Whatever you are doing with this Granlund-meme is hilarious Where's the origin? =)

Grats on the win guys!

Doc Emrick couldn't get his name right in last night's game.