GDT: 12/16/23 - 10:00PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Calgary

[Todd1a]

I’m glad to see the flames have a goalie and we don’t tonight

 

[Master P]

Point shoots it into his glove and he does the windmill after. Lol

 

[Stammertime91]

I'm a fan of the Tampa Bay Lightning and we are bad.

 

[Bartleby]

What about the defensive play the rest of the season?

This team is built around having an all world goalie who can mask a lot of defensive deficiencies. That is the way it has always been even during our Cup runs. As I said, Blashill is no genius, but in this game tonight our goalie cost us a chance to win, plain and simple.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Feels like insanity a little bit waiting and waiting for something to change and still not getting the results or the play we want

 

[Bartleby]

This team is built around having an all world goalie who can mask a lot of defensive deficiencies. That is the way it has always been even during our Cup runs. As I said, Blashill is no genius, but in this game tonight our goalie cost us a chance to win, plain and simple.

 

[Master P]

This team is built around having an all world goalie who can mask a lot of defensive deficiencies. That is the way it has always been even during out cup runs. As I said, Blashill is no genius, but in this game tonight our goalie cost us a chance to win, plain and simple.

Vassy would have had to given up only 1 goal or gotten a shutout.

The entire team needs to be better, this isn't just a goalie issue.

 

[Stammertime91]

Vassy would have had to given up only 1 goal or gotten a shutout.

The entire team needs to be better, this isn't just a goalie issue.

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[Brie]

The team as a whole need to be much better that's for sure.

It's tough to watch them these days.

 

[JTBF81]

50 games left, and probabaly needing ~100 points to make playoffs means they need approximately 67 out of a possible 100 remaining points. There's very little room for anymore of this garbage play. Another 10-15 games like this and playoffs are very doubtful.

 

[Night Shift]

50 games left, and probabaly needing ~100 points to make playoffs means they need approximately 67 out of a possible 100 remaining points. There's very little room for anymore of this garbage play. Another 10-15 games like this and playoffs are very doubtful.

They need to get off on a hot streak at some point. Usually it's better to have it at the end of the year going into the playoffs but they will definitely take it until the last day.

 

[Rschmitz]

I'm not here to pile onto Vasy, team has plenty of areas that they need to be better, but the difference was in goal tonight.

 

[Zwui21]

Embarassing.
We should probably pull the plug on the season and start some kind of retooling, both on the roster and on the coaching staff (Blashill begone)

 

[Sky04]

Was at the game, vasy sucked

 

[Todd1a]

Was at the game, vasy sucked

You think it’s injury or the far point shots exposed him like last year ?

 

[Sky04]

You think it’s injury or the far point shots exposed him like last year ?

Seems like consistency is his biggest issue but tracking pucks from the point seems to be his biggest weakness for over a year now.

Also defense is our biggest issue and what did we do? Trade our best value defenseman

 

[Stammertime91]

Seems like consistency is his biggest issue but tracking pucks from the point seems to be his biggest weakness for over a year now.

Also defense is our biggest issue and what did we do? Trade our best value defenseman

Bogosian provided stability with the backend even if he was struggling at times. It wasn't worse than this with him in. I still don't understand that. That and how we kept Myers. I'm sure Brisebois has his reasons and all that but it's wild from a fan standpoint when you look at what's happening on ice.

 

[Antiramie]

This team is built around having an all world goalie who can mask a lot of defensive deficiencies. That is the way it has always been even during our Cup runs. As I said, Blashill is no genius, but in this game tonight our goalie cost us a chance to win, plain and simple.

Hard disagree. During our Cup runs we had a well rounded team. We could roll 4 lines, had one of the best shutdown lines in hockey, and had 2 (if not 3) solid as hell D pairings. Just because we also had/have elite top end scoring talent doesn’t mean we were built to not play defense. That’s not to say Vasy wasn’t capable of single-handedly taking over/stealing games. But the team in front of him also limited a lot of the chances by keeping a lot of the shots to the outside, blocking many more, and executing the trap amazingly well with a lead. All of that has since been gutted.

I’m not saying that Vasy is at all his former self. Maybe teams have learned his weaknesses over the years and are exposing him. But I think the team in front of him is just a shell of its former self too.

 

[Sky04]

Bogosian provided stability with the backend even if he was struggling at times. It wasn't worse than this with him in. I still don't understand that. That and how we kept Myers. I'm sure Brisebois has his reasons and all that but it's wild from a fan standpoint when you look at what's happening on ice.

And you could partner him with either any of our LHD and be fine, running Raddysh or Myers with Hedman and Serg? lol and then either of them with De Hann is just laughable.

Bogo being a stud for Minny is an understatement, his ES numbers are stupid good (yes it's a small sample size but it just rubs salt into the wound given how bad we are on d right now).

 

[FinnLightning26]

Vasy letting in the softies again. There has to be something wrong with his eyesight or something because he loses so many pucks that come from the point and he used to be really good at tracking the puck.

We have no business giving up these points against bad teams this year but maybe it's time to start counting us into those bad teams. Treading water isn't enough at this point. We need a big winning streak and we need it pretty soon.

 

[DarrylshutzSydor]

Cirelli had a great game!

 

[Sky04]

JJ was tracking point shots relatively easily not sure why that's so hard for Vasy lately.

 

[aylib]

JJ was tracking point shots relatively easily not sure why that's so hard for Vasy lately.

What do you consider “lately”?