Yup, been the unspoken elephant in the room all season. And lets not forget 9 OT/SO wins. There's none of that pond hockey stuff in the POs. Only 30 RWs in 62 games and as you note, mostly against bottom feeders.
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I’m gonna beat this dead horse into the ground.
Palat getting 6 more minutes of ice time than Colton is a crime
Palat getting 6 more minutes of ice time than Colton is a crime
Wake me when the playoffs get here. I'll be worried if they give this effort in game 1 vs whoever.
JFleegs
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So I’m cut off from the main boards, yet they got people on there saying all this xenophobic shit.
TheDaysOf 04
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It was more of a dig at our inability to score than the refs. The Bolts PP hasn't done anything.
That said teams should probably still win if they hold opponents to a single goal or less 5-on-5 even if they lose the special teams battle. 3 of the 4 games have been decided by 1 goal. If we could score to our average, we'd be 4-0-0 instead of 2-2-0. Frustrating to go from giving up 7 to Winnipeg, 5 to Pittsburgh, 4 to Calgary and Edmonton, get all that stuff from the road trip behind us, and still come up short.
Killorn-Cirelli-Stamkos is awful imo
The Gourde line last year was easily our second best line, so we could get away with playing those guys together even though they didn’t produce much. Cirelli doesn’t have the offensive skill to setup Stammer and Killorn is declining. And Stamkos isn’t good enough to carry a line himself.
He NEEDS Kucherov to be a factor 5v5. But Point and Kucherov are so good together.
TheDaysOf 04
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I don't really notice Hagel too much, but him and Paul are just trying to learn on the fly. Not ideal atm. Can't hold it against either guy.
JFleegs
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I thought he looked better last game. Might have put too much pressure on himself being on a line with point.
Winning, or at least stalemating, the special teams battle is as much a part of the game as anything else and we're terrible at both right now. At least against the good teams as the previous posts have demonstrated. It's really tough to know whether the way we're playing is just regular season disinterest that allows us to talent our way through against the bad teams but not be good enough against the good. We better hope that's all it is and that we'll start ramping things up when the POs get really close. Hope so anyway, but TBH, it's probably just wishful thinking on my part. Something just looks fundamentally off about the way we're playing, even when we win.
RussianGuyovich
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r/hockey has like five threads about the kucherov call and tussle at the end of the game, and the amount of Florida/Carolina/islanders/Boston fans tripping over themselves to be the 5,000 person to call kucherov a “lil bitch” and miss the irony has me f***ing dying laughing.
He’s the best.
He’s the best.
JFleegs
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JTBF81
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Maybe experiment with these lines:
Hagel-Point-Kuch
Killorn-Colton-Stamkos
Paul-Cirelli-Palat
Maybe Colton and Stamkos can feed off each other, along with Killorn, to find some chemistry. I think Hagel can do fine with Point and Kuch, and Paul-Cirelli get to anchor a more shutdown line with, theoretically, a scoring threat in Palat.
Hagel-Point-Kuch
Killorn-Colton-Stamkos
Paul-Cirelli-Palat
Maybe Colton and Stamkos can feed off each other, along with Killorn, to find some chemistry. I think Hagel can do fine with Point and Kuch, and Paul-Cirelli get to anchor a more shutdown line with, theoretically, a scoring threat in Palat.
Adele Dazeem
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Oh no! We suck again!!
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We just need a true shutdown line that can play in any situation against the leagues best players.
Between Cirelli, Palat, Killorn, Hagel, Paul, Bellemare, we should be able to figure that out. I'd rather not mess around with the skill guys too much. Keep Point with Kucherov, Stamkos is trickier but I feel like Colton can play with him.
Same goes for PK. We have plenty of guys who are proven, effective but just need to find the right blend and chemistry.
I'm not worried yet, not even close. If we have to work out the kinks now and suffer a bit until we find something that works, so be it.
Between Cirelli, Palat, Killorn, Hagel, Paul, Bellemare, we should be able to figure that out. I'd rather not mess around with the skill guys too much. Keep Point with Kucherov, Stamkos is trickier but I feel like Colton can play with him.
Same goes for PK. We have plenty of guys who are proven, effective but just need to find the right blend and chemistry.
I'm not worried yet, not even close. If we have to work out the kinks now and suffer a bit until we find something that works, so be it.
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Here’s the play again. Kuch braces for impact which could be interpreted as him going for the (interference) hit. Refs don’t get to see a super slo-mo replay.
Aho went for the breakout, it looks like he didn’t even look forward and therefore didn’t see Kuch. So not sure Aho was trying to shield his puck carrying teammate from Kuch. Either way he drops like a fly and draws the penalty. Bravo!
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