GDT: 10/28/17 - 7:00PM EDT - Anaheim vs Tampa Bay

[Hint1k]

just one bad game. kinda expected when you are leading the league in almost everything.

 

[JoVel]

Why pull the goalie if you are 3 goals down?

Well, it got us some nice pressure in their end and we qere not far from scoring. It's not likely that you'll score 3 but you never know.

 

[The Gongshow]

"The streak is over"

6-1 at home. Stammer and Kuch streaks also end tonight

 

[Stammertime91]

Good thing Killorn and Palat don't make a ton since they can't score.

Oh wait..

 

[Cmac66]

Think I’m just going to wait to see how long it takes someone to come up with a trade for budaj. Any suggestions?

 

[Stammertime91]

To Florida DOT:
- Petr Budaj

To Tampa Bay:
- Traffic Cone

 

[JoVel]

A game like this was bound to happen, I'm not that mad. It's not like we were dominated by the Ducks. If we gave absolutely zero effort like we used to do last year or that Florida game, then I'd be pissed. Some stupid defensive plays as well as Budaj cost us this game. There was also some chances for us where we really should've scored. Gourde especially... he had all the time and space on that play but couldn't bury it. Now the question is how well can we recover from this loss.

 

[Cmac66]

To Florida DOT:
- Petr Budaj

To Tampa Bay:
- Traffic Cone

Tempting offer that.

 

[The Macho King]

I'll say this - if this is our worst game of the season, we're going to have a damn good season.

Didn't look great, backup could have played better, but we had chances and we didn't give up many. Toronto lost as well so we didn't lose any ground on them.

All in all, about as good as you can expect for a bad game.

 

[Bolt 45]

We were due for a loss anyway, but we absolutely deserved to lose this one. Anaheim had an answer for everything we were trying to do.

 

[Boltswin]

Took me almost two periods to realize why Peckham laughed about the flying V thing. Quack

 

[Bandit Keith]

Meh. Gibson made some ridiculous saves and Anaheim capitalized on their chances. Way she goes sometimes.

 

[Boltswin]

Was giving Budaj the game a strategy thing or a give Vasy a night off thing?

This felt like how we used to play for Vasy when Bish was our starter.

 

[The Macho King]

Also Serg had himself a game tonight. Hedman did not.

 

[CupsOverCash]

I’ve watched every game except the second Panthers game and this game. Thinking I shouldn’t be allowed to miss anymore games.

 

[Boltswin]

Meh. Gibson made some ridiculous saves and Anaheim capitalized on their chances. Way she goes sometimes.

If I blur my eyes a bit, it looks like you said Mel Gibson made some ridiculous saves

 

[The Gongshow]

Feels bad man

 

[LightningStrikes]

Carlyle > Cooper? We couldn’t play to our strength (speed) all game.

This and this team has no clue how to remove a player blocking its goalie‘s vision. Pretty ridiculous.

 

[DFC]

Let's just get some revenge on Florida and then all will be right with the world.

 

[FinnLightning26]

What an awful game and I would've said that even if we won. No flow to the game because the Ducks just grinded it out and credit to them, that's the way to beat us. Our skill couldn't take over the whole game. Wouldn't blame Budaj for that since on two goals he was completely screened and one deflected just in front of him. Wouldn't have mattered if we had Vasy in net because our offense couldn't get going the whole game.

We were due for a loss and I would rather lose to a western team. Lets get going again on Monday.

 

[The Macho King]

What an awful game and I would've said that even if we won. No flow to the game because the Ducks just grinded it out and credit to them, that's the way to beat us. Our skill couldn't take over the whole game. Wouldn't blame Budaj for that since on two goals he was completely screened and one deflected just in front of him. Wouldn't have mattered if we had Vasy in net because our offense couldn't get going the whole game.

We were due for a loss and I would rather lose to a western team. Lets get going again on Monday.

So I was thinking of the first goal - yeah he was screened, but he was screened for awhile and made no effort to look around it.

 

[Rschmitz]

So I was thinking of the first goal - yeah he was screened, but he was screened for awhile and made no effort to look around it.

He also doesn't get in position to cover the most net or cut down the angle.

 

[T REX]

9 goals in two games for Budaj? Is that accurate? That's awful.

 

[Brie]

Was giving Budaj the game a strategy thing or a give Vasy a night off thing?

This felt like how we used to play for Vasy when Bish was our starter.

This is what I've was thinking about, how we used to play well infront of Bish but pretty badly infront of Vasy in the past and how it's the same way now only now the team have adapted to Vasy, can't figure out how or why, maybe they struggle to adapt to more than one goalie's way of playing at once, or the goalies need to time to adapt to the rest of the team, who knows but it should be looked into I think.

 

[The Macho King]

This is what I've was thinking about, how we used to play well infront of Bish but pretty badly infront of Vasy in the past and how it's the same way now only now the team have adapted to Vasy, can't figure out how or why, maybe they struggle to adapt to more than one goalie's way of playing at once, or the goalies need to time to adapt to the rest of the team, who knows but it should be looked into I think.

Bish and Vasi I can get - they are very different goalies both in how they stop pucks and how they play otherwise (obviously Bish's puck movement).

Vasi and Budaj? I mean, the difference I can see is Vasi almost always stops the first shot. He may give up some rebounds, but that first shot is almost always going to be stopped. So the focus is to clean up rebounds by the D. Budaj? He needs to see everything coming from a mile away - his lack of reflexes mean the D need to be more active in blocking/clearing lanes rather than clearing rebounds.