GDT: 11/9/19 - 1:00PM EDT - Buffalo vs Tampa Bay [NHL Global Series - Sweden]

[Fabiobest]

I was not at home during the last 5 minutes of the game.
But I can say that this trip was very positive for us. I hope they've found the right way.

 

[berlin]

I was not at home during the last 5 minutes of the game.
But I can say that this trip was very positive for us. I hope they've found the right way.

Yeah hopefully this will be a turning point for them.

 

[Sky04]

In case if you are still thinking that is something wrong with Tampa, lets have a look at Atlantic division and its teams that are currently in the play-off zone:

1) Boston - Bolts won 1 out of 1
2) Toronto - Bolts won 1 out of 1
3) Buffalo - Bolts won 2 out of 2
4) Montreal - Bolts won 1 out of 1

100% result. And all those games were convincing, borderline dominating wins.

Sure if you want to worry about loosing some meaningless games against say Ottawa (last place) then I cant stop you, but nothing wrong with Tampa.

Tampa is sitting 11th in the conference right now even picking up 2 wins on this trip. Maybe a few more meaningless wins would help them get into the playoffs but if you want to watch golf in April don't let me stop you.

 

[Hint1k]

Tampa is sitting 11th in the conference right now even picking up 2 wins on this trip. Maybe a few more meaningless wins would help them get into the playoffs but if you want to watch golf in April don't let me stop you.

Last year Bolts got 128 points. For example Colorado made playoff with 90 points. Its almost 40 points difference.
May be a lot less meaningless wins could have helped us be more fresh last year and win at least 1 game in playoff.

So if you did not learn any lessons and want to watch golf in April again, then cheer for more wins. Dont stop at 62, 82 is better.

P.s. and with your next comment to me, try to avoid telling me what to do or what not to do. It will greatly help me to avoid telling you (Sky04) what to do.
P.p.s And dont mixed up you (plural, non personal) with you (Skyo4, personal, singular). Those are two different you's.

 

[These Are The Days]

Tampa is sitting 11th in the conference right now even picking up 2 wins on this trip. Maybe a few more meaningless wins would help them get into the playoffs but if you want to watch golf in April don't let me stop you.

Well yeah but with 1-2 games in hand. Win them and we're in 2nd place in the division. All things in time. It doesn't excuse the stinkers but we've at least afforded to control our destiny despite them.

 

[Hint1k]

Well yeah but with 1-2 games in hand. Win them and we're in 2nd place in the division.

You cant bring such a fact on this forum. Its against the doom and gloom.

By the way, where is all the doom and gloom? We had a great victory over the October champion. Twice in a row. Suddenly it's only 8 pages. Where are all the Bolts supporters cheering for the team?

 

[These Are The Days]

You cant bring such a fact on this forum. Its against the doom and gloom. By the way, where is all the doom and gloom? We had a great victory over the October champion. Twice in a row. Suddenly it's only 8 pages. Where are all the Bolts supporters cheering for the team?

Most are trying to balance well-earned skepticism and enthusiasm. See: Sunny



There's very, very few who only show up to bitch when we lose. One comes to mind but I'm not gonna go there right now because I don't frequent every GDT every night and there's a good chance I'm wrong. Sky at worst is gonna rip on anything and everything on any day that ends in the letter "y" whether we win or lose. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be surprised to see him rip on ducks walking across the road because they remind him of Anaheim.

 

[Sky04]

Last year Bolts got 128 points. For example Colorado made playoff with 90 points. Its almost 40 points difference.
May be a lot less meaningless wins could have helped us be more fresh last year and win at least 1 game in playoff.

So if you did not learn any lessons and want to watch golf in April again, then cheer for more wins. Dont stop at 62, 82 is better.

P.s. and with your next comment to me, try to avoid telling me what to do or what not to do. It will greatly help me to avoid telling you (Sky04) what to do.
P.p.s And dont mixed up you (plural, non personal) with you (Skyo4, personal, singular). Those are two different you's.

Your logic is awful, scraping by and pushing harder to make the playoffs towards the end of the season would expend more energy than the Lightning sleepwalking through the 2nd half of last season. Keep pushing the narrative that this team was burnt out by the playoffs chasing wins, it just makes you look silly.

 

[Hint1k]

Your logic is awful, scraping by and pushing harder to make the playoffs towards the end of the season would expend more energy than the Lightning sleepwalking through the 2nd half of last season. Keep pushing the narrative that this team was burnt out by the playoffs chasing wins, it just makes you look silly.

My logic is based on:
1) our own last year result in playoff
2) Blues and Bruins result
3) Blues, Boston and Tampa result in the 2nd half of the last year regular season. They were 3 teams leading in wins and points in the 2nd half, but only Tampa was leading in the 1st half.
4) Unlike Blues, Bruins did not change their coach in the mid of the last season. So their result does not correspond with the coach change.

Now my turn to ask questions: How winning another 62 (or even more games) can help us in playoff, if it did not help last year? What's your evidence?

P.s.
And dont worry I am going to use the same words describing your evidence and conclusion - "silly" and "awful", so you cant be insulted, since you just used it to describe mine and you think its ok to use them.

P.p.s Absence of your answer / absence of evidence in your reply would make you look silly btw.

 

[Lord Stan 2020]

knew they would push back a bit after last game... lots of chirping we sucked most of first they were all over us even though we had some super dangerous times too..... last two periods we played well imho..... not great but good and again a ton more chances..... we bonded a bit think we should become a bit more consistent and start moving up the charts myself....penalty on kucherov was a joke


good to see lesser guys taking up the mantle shatty playing well too..... first we really had issues clearing pucks much better after the start ....i was satisfied with this trip

 

[Vasilevskiy]

Your logic is awful, scraping by and pushing harder to make the playoffs towards the end of the season would expend more energy than the Lightning sleepwalking through the 2nd half of last season. Keep pushing the narrative that this team was burnt out by the playoffs chasing wins, it just makes you look silly.

And we will have to listen to this non-sense for the rest of the season.

I guess they got tired in the middle of game 1 playoffs despite them being 3-0, lol

 

[Zwui21]

Great effort!
These 2 games were a lot of fun, was so happy to enjoy it live.

Couple of thoughts:
- 4th line was amazing. This is the grit and hard work we need come April. Gourdo looks great there.
- Volkov? Solid solid game. I really like his physical presence and he already showed some promising skills. Once he gets used to the NHL he'll be great for us. He can really be the skilled power forward top-six winger we've been missing.
- Rutta had a great(!) game. Was pleasantly surprised by his effort and overall awareness on the ice. His dive to stop the puck on a 2 on 1 was brilliant.
- PP1 needs some sharpening, mostly in term of zone entries. Yesterday was already better than Friday, but still some work to do. Also in term of puck movement, PP2 showed better things than PP1.
- Kuch is getting back into form, great to see. He's still away from top form, but he should be there in a couple of games. Prepare yourself to be entertained.
- I'd like to see Stammer be more a driver of the play 5on5.

Let's get back to Tampa and keep the ball rolling!

 

[Whoshattenkirkshoes]

Did anyone see the excitement on maroon’s face when he scored that period ending goal?!?!

 

[Stammertime91]

Shattenkirk still rolling

 

[Volodya Krutov]

Did anyone see the excitement on maroon’s face when he scored that period ending goal?!?!

The thing that stood out to me is how the whole group celebrated his goal with him. Felt like an OT game-winner. In a very short time this team learned to genuinely love this guy. Great add.

 

[Volodya Krutov]

Stat nerds, Tampa was outshot 29-18 with 4 minutes to go in the 2nd period. The 3rd period started 30-30. Yeah, they registred 12 shots in 4 minutes, after a poor showing in the first 36 minutes, that's where they turned the tide of the game.

 

[Volodya Krutov]

One thing I thought about was TyJo, he had a good game, I felt his passing was really sharp. Kuch and Point is often in focus for obvious reasons but I feel TyJo fits into that line.

He's undoubtedly a better player when he's on the wing IMO.

 

[LightningStrikes]

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