He's got Brodin syndrome. Wearing a helmet he's not use to is causing him to not score any goals. 
GDT: 11/20/13 - Minnesota Wild @ Ottawa Senators - 6:30PM CST - FSN, TSN
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Two small things from the game that stuck with me,both hopeful for the future;
- Zucker's speed. If he remembers to shoot and stays healthy,he's going to have a place in the NHL.
- a rush by Dumba resulting in a hard hot that missed the net. He might be as fast as Zucker, and has a strong shot. I know he's just a pup, and has nowhere near the poise that Brodin had at that age, but he looked Coffeyesque in the way he pulled away from everyone on the ice. I think he has a chance to be special in a couple of years.
- Zucker's speed. If he remembers to shoot and stays healthy,he's going to have a place in the NHL.
- a rush by Dumba resulting in a hard hot that missed the net. He might be as fast as Zucker, and has a strong shot. I know he's just a pup, and has nowhere near the poise that Brodin had at that age, but he looked Coffeyesque in the way he pulled away from everyone on the ice. I think he has a chance to be special in a couple of years.
Hall of Faber
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Anyone know why Ballard took his visor off? I know he wore one in FLA, and I think he did for his finally days in Vancouver.
Dr Jan Itor
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Re-watching the 3rd period on FSN... the best part about the Koivu goal? Him ignoring Parise banging his stck cutting down the side and ripping a shot.
here is the photo gallery for the game, check out #37, Koivu flying by the bench after his goal.
Dumba looks like a 40 year old dude. Really caught me off guard
I was looking at that and im like "who the **** is this guy?"
didn't recognize him at all
I could definitely see it as a bit of showboating if they do the fly by in a blowout game. But I'd have no problem if it was a game winner or something.
Dr Jan Itor
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Yeah, just cap it at either 3 goal margin or players' first NHL goal. Problem solved.
Nino Noderreiter
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Didn't watch much of the first two periods because the wife kept distracting me
Personally to me it seems like the issue is our breakout/neutral zone play. Early in the season we were breaking the puck up and through the neutral zone so crisply that it not only negated the other teams forecheck, but allowed us to play in the other teams zone.
Teams are getting more possession against us now because we are struggling more to cleanly get it out of the zone.
Just what I've been seeing lately. We've been just as dangerous as ever when we do get it in the zone.
Difference is we're actually capitlizing on some chances/getting better puck luck.
Nino Noderreiter
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Also Scandella has been really great this year in relative terms to what I expected. Guy looks like he could be a legit top 3/4 defenseman. I still think Spurgeon is good enough (people overblow his size issues) to be a #4 dman. Him and Scandella play well together. On a championship team obviously you probably want Spurgeon being on your bottom pair with lots of PP time.
If we could add one more top 4 dman that's a pretty solid future with Suter/Brodin/Dumba/Scandella/top 4 dman/Stoner or whoever.
If we could add one more top 4 dman that's a pretty solid future with Suter/Brodin/Dumba/Scandella/top 4 dman/Stoner or whoever.
Jarick
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I've heard a lot of praise for Scandella, but I'm wondering if Scandy's playing well, and Suter/Brodin are brilliant, and I know Spurgeon has been pretty good, why is the breakout bad?
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I don't understand why the whole fly-by celebration thing is even an issue. The players have other things to worry about. I mean think about that for a second, ain't that a *****? Oh we don't want to celebrate with the bench after we score, meanwhile the teams that can't put anything in are dying to at least do that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this never got past the scuttlebutt level; it's a non-issue to me, and it should be to the league as well.
I wouldn't be surprised if this never got past the scuttlebutt level; it's a non-issue to me, and it should be to the league as well.
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It was actually a thread on the main board. I'm sure there's a credible link from a newspaper story about it too. I'll look it up.
Here's the thread on the main board. http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1531431&highlight=blues+goal+celebration
Here's the CBS sports article about it:
http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on...down-goal-celebrations-nix-highfives-at-bench
Here's Russo Parise article about the flyby.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/231088141.html
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Too much collapsing and not enough movement when the team does gain possession.
I only see the road games on TV, but there should be very few instances throughout a game where you should be able to see all 5 skaters in the frame in the defensive zone. With the Wild, you very rarely anything but 5. So when you do gain possession, there's no one to stretch the opposing defenseman to create some space underneath to work with. Which in turn leads to a lot chipping the puck up the boards or out of the zone unless a defender can beat a man and/or skate the puck to create space.
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well damn, if we didn't have all five guys below the circles in some of those cases i think we would be scored on the last few games. we were anyway in some cases. But our D can't clear the crease to save their lives and when magic stickwork doesn't work we're left with all hands on deck poking and waving their sticks around. hooray slashing and tripping penalties!
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I'm not referencing when the opposing team has total control and the team is collapsing to keep the play on the perimeter.
I'm talking about when there's a 50-50 puck or the team is gaining possession. There just isn't an urgency to get up the ice. Nor does the defensemen activate in the rush enough (for my liking, anyway).
I'm talking about when there's a 50-50 puck or the team is gaining possession. There just isn't an urgency to get up the ice. Nor does the defensemen activate in the rush enough (for my liking, anyway).
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