GDT: 11/8/14 - 7:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Columbus

[Leonardo87]

I think he'll come around. But he's a top 5 player in the world who hasn't been a top 5 player on our team so far this year.

I agree. I think when that happens. We will have some serious depth.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

also stralman -1 and garrison plus 4

and at times stralman looked human tonight lol.

 

[Leonardo87]

also stralman -1 and garrison plus 4

and at times stralman looked human tonight lol.

Stralman has been so good, he can have an off night once in awhile.

 

[Cigar City]

Stamkos was floating. Not even gonna lie. I watched him on his shifts for the second and third. At one point he stopped skating and his man got a clean shot on a rebound right in front of the net.

**** is pissing me off.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

Stamkos was floating. Not even gonna lie. I watched him on his shifts for the second and third. At one point he stopped skating and his man got a clean shot on a rebound right in front of the net.

**** is pissing me off.

well maybe I never noticed and said some things to the board about not panic etc.. on stamkos but honestly in 11 games this year he had 3-4 good shots or scoring opportunities to me.

Tonight he seemed disinterested even. He did talk to kucherov after the 4-0 penalty shot etc.. I noticed that but on the ice? WTH.

So yeah if this is what you guys are seeing and im thinking of him more of brett hull type of player and the passing has always been unmistakeproof lol than I can see why the board starting *****ing a bit.

He was not the guy I am used to tonight not in any way shape or form.

 

[BOLTMAN]

On paper the Lightning should crush these guys. Which I could see the Lightning dumping 7 in their net.

Who said this?

 

[Mikeaveli]

Who said this?

You're right more often than I want you to be. Stop.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

Who said this?

i think me saying paquette than brownov would score first and second is more impressive I also said 7-1 score but they fell asleep in d end and other things lol

 

[LightningStrikes]

Nice 3rd period collapse. The 4th Columbus goal was ugly. How can you leave Foligno so wide open? And that 5-hole goal against Nabby was just as ugly. And 2/5 on the PK isn't good enough. Can't give up 3 PP goals and 4 goals in total against a team missing 8 of its main players.

Offensively though, what a great team we have! I loved Stralman's pinch on the PP, Kucherov's assist on Johnson's 1st goal was a beauty and overall we looked pretty determined in their zone.

Well, here comes Detroit!

 

[Rschmitz]

Rangers lost in regulation

 

[Tmix]

Rangers lost in regulation

mcdavid here we come

 

[The Macho King]

Also, Nabby played like **** for the first two goals of the third, but he played pretty well to help us keep the lead. I maintain the first two goals shouldn't have happened, but it's irrelevant. He didn't have his best game (clearly), but he was still good enough out there. Lindback was (nearly) never good enough - he was always good to allow goals we need to win + 1.

 

[Stamper]

Also, Nabby played like **** for the first two goals of the third, but he played pretty well to help us keep the lead. I maintain the first two goals shouldn't have happened, but it's irrelevant. He didn't have his best game (clearly), but he was still good enough out there. Lindback was (nearly) never good enough - he was always good to allow goals we need to win + 1.

And to be fair, the first two goals were a redirect and a really fancy play that was executed perfectly, so I don't think it was about Nabby, more like they were just good goals.
Same mentality you take when Stamkos rips one in, you're never going to blame it on the goalie, it's just Stamkos.

 

[The Macho King]

And to be fair, the first two goals were a redirect and a really fancy play that was executed perfectly, so I don't think it was about Nabby, more like they were just good goals.
Same mentality you take when Stamkos rips one in, you're never going to blame it on the goalie, it's just Stamkos.

I meant the first two goals shouldn't have happened because one was a high stick and one I have no idea how the ref didn't whistle the play dead. Don't blame those on Nabby, but I'm probably being a bit of a homer. All I know is they were blowing whistles late as hell last night.

 

[Vasilevskiy]

mcdavid here we come

 

[2020 Cup Champions]

I'm a little disappointed I missed this one. Watched the highlights and that goal by Callahan putting his foot in the net

 

[BOLTMAN]

We are all glad we won.

But we shouldn't use this game for any kind of measurement with this Columbus game which we all know is a team not playing well and with a bunch of injuries.

Saying this the two things I got out of the game was

1) We could really manhandle a bad team when its down like we did for the first period.
2) We need to learn how to put a bad team away like what we didn't do in the 3rd

 

[Leonardo87]

I'm a little disappointed I missed this one. Watched the highlights and that goal by Callahan putting his foot in the net

Crashing the net usually pays off. Also got an assist in a similar situation.

 

[DFC]

Yeah, I feel like Nabby pulled it together and was a big reason we were able to maintain the lead. Lindback would have figured out a way to lose that one.