GDT: 11/13/21 - 7:00PM EDT - Florida vs Tampa Bay

[TeslaCoilFan]

Vasy's splits save and Pointer's overtime goal beautifully dished by Pally. Doesn't get much better than that.

Except maybe if Point had also had an assist for the Gordie Howe hat trick.

 

[Hoek]

Sucks we gave them a point.

 

[YayHockeysBack]

Great win, Vassy unbelievable, but . . . good god, this team can't win a faceoff to save their lives. Hard to win when you never have the puck.

 

[JTBF81]

Lol, the Panthers GDT is hilarious, some of them acting like they dominated the whole game and "were the better team," just unlucky or outgoaltended. Last I checked goaltending was part of the game...

 

[Todd1a]

Great win, Vassy unbelievable, but . . . good god, this team can't win a faceoff to save their lives. Hard to win when you never have the puck.

Vasy saves us for 1 point and the other point

 

[SRQKiter]

Sure, but we've been blessed with the commentators we've had. Peckham, Engblom, Randorf... all quality guys. No one's ever gonna get to Peckham's level but you couldn't have asked for a better replacement.

Peckham was in a tier of guys of which there were/are very few but Randorf is excellent. No complaints there. As for Engblom, outstanding knowledge subverted by (ad)verbal diarrhea. "Why say in ten words what you can say in a hundred" is his motto.

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Lol, the Panthers GDT is hilarious, some of them acting like they dominated the whole game and "were the better team," just unlucky or outgoaltended. Last I checked goaltending was part of the game...

MoneyPuck.com

Lol. Expected goals were 2.80-2.78 in favor of Florida. Almost the definition of splitting hairs. A margin so tight that it no doubt would fall inside the margin for error in models like this. A 2-2 game in regulation was a perfectly fair result. 3v3 OT afterwards is just a dumb coin flip.

 

[CupsOverCash]

Vasi

 

[PhysicalGraffiti]

Vasy when he is on deserves top 10 consideration for all time.

Dude its nuts.

Love Point getting into the fight and then that awesome goal.

Hell of an exciting game to be at.

 

[JFleegs]

I can’t stop watching this goal and this save someone send help…

 

[berlin]

Baby steps, long season, still need to be better.

 

[RussianGuyovich]

Has Florida considered just beating us in the regular season? Might be a good trial to maybe winning a couple of playoffs games.

seems simple to me?

 

[DrMartinVanNostrand]

Has Florida considered just beating us in the regular season? Might be a good trial to maybe winning a couple of playoffs games.

seems simple to me?

Florida went 5-2 against us in regulation games last season. Of course, how much weight you wanna place on games they win where Kucherov isn't in the lineup is up to you. Counting this year, they're 6-2 in regulation against us in 2021 without Kucherov, but of course, with Kucherov, we won the majority of the games that people actually care about.

 

[bov]

I get so fired up when Point fights. Even when they separate, he wanted more and Hornqvist backed off immediately...says all you need to know.

That fight, some of the saves by Vasy and obviously the OT winner were the highlights of the game. Wasn't much going on otherwise to be honest, but those moments kept it from being dull.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Point shows no mercy.

 

[Rschmitz]

Don't look now, but the Lightning are riding a 7 game point streak.

If you told me after opening night, that the Lightning were only going to lose in regulation 2 more times over the course of the next 30 days, I wouldn't have believed you.

What's even more impressive is that this team looks like they have a lot of runway to improve.

 

[Sky04]

You mean there was no reason to panic after 3 games?

Say it ain't so.

 

[These Are The Days]

You mean there was no reason to panic after 3 games?

Say it ain't so.

Thank you. We're down Cernak and Kucherov, we lost our whole 3rd line our PP is trash and yet here we are nearly having beaten 2 teams with 10 wins already in our last 2 games and in regulation.

Why panic now?

 

[Stammertime91]

We shouldn't panic now but we should panic at the disco.



I will show myself out.

 

[MattM92]

Still room for improvement, but we are without a top 3 player in the world and can't get our top 6D to be healthy and in the lineup at the same time. Also, if the PP would stop being abysmal then we would see a LOT of issues disappear or at least get covered up.

In any case, we are right in the running with all the hot start teams even though we "slumped" to start the season. Still a lot of season to go and we really don't have any ground to make up. That's important because we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we need to go on a long hot streak just to catch up in February or March. The key is to be in the mix and use the hot streak to pull away from the field and carry over to the postseason on a burner.

 

[Sky04]

Bogosian had an excellent first game back, if he can continue like this and slot next to Hedman our RHD is far from weak. Rutta is having a solid, solid season right now too, he's really holding his own out there. The biggest gafs on defense have been Hedman and Sergachev but that's not really worrisome.