GDT: 3/11/23 - 7:00PM EDT - Chicago vs Tampa Bay

[RussianGuyovich]

Talent-wise it's not, but that group collectively made far less mistakes than this one does. At least Coop could keep it to the Sustr/Carle pairing and just roll the TKO line every time and we'd never have to actually defend because we'd be in the offensive zone the entire time. On a given night Cernak screws up and affects a pairing, Hedman screws up and affects another, Sergachev screws up and affects another, Perbix makes rookie mistakes and affects another. Cole and Bogosian are at worst steady and unremarkable

That makes sense. Cohesion would be nice. But coop keeps swapping the defensive pairings.

Another reason I do believe we are better than our current run of games, it's clear that coop is using the time to experiment and tweak.

 

[Sky04]

You think our defense is worse than it was in 2015?

Lol we had 1 top pairing an ok 2nd pairing and a useless 3rd pair that somehow played 16mins a night

 

[DFC]

He definitely has that jump that Gourde has in his skating and looks dangerous on the forecheck but hasn't really created any offense out of it.

He's had a couple of flashes. The post shot, the wrap around. Not Gourde level, but Gourde went through crazy cold stretches at times. I feel like if Eyssimont brings any offense at all, he's a good fit. Really just looking for the tenacity, IMO. He hits like a guy twice his size.