As I've said on the main boards (oops) I'm eagier to see Cooper's adjustments. We have to find a way to get either Johnson or Kucherov on the ice when Glendening's line is not. I wouldn't be against something like 27-51-86 and 18-9-17 to start and then see where it goes.
Or to put it more simple: We just have to find ways to put pucks on net and score. 16 shots (7 in the last two periods) is just not enough (I'll refrain from using stronger words here). Except for Boyle's goal we haven't seen any scoring from any other line than our 1st line. Can't count Drouin to Hedman so... Get 'er done boys!
Go !!!!!
Hopefully we stay out of the box tonight.
You seem agitated, relax brother.first this bolded BS the largest pile of BLANK in the history of BLANK
todays game has nothing to do with adjustments last game had nothing to do with adjustments and i hope i dont get an infraction but jesus we always need a culprit we always need things to be black and white SPORTS ARE NOT BLACK AND WHITE THAT IS WHY THE PLAY THE DAMMED GAME PERIOD You are one of my favorite people
last game had nothing to do with anything more than shoddy refs and being flat
we bounce back we stomp a mudhole in their candy azzes the way we hoped for a sweep but as i guessed it didnt happen i told this to todd he can verify this is our team
i have no answers maybe on road trip do a practice full on travel day /?? skip practice on game day?
something has to change in the future this is basically three years running our worst games are always in the same scenario
good news we will win dominate probably and it will all be overlooked again till the next time
dont buy into the glendening he did a lot the first two games right? they got him out there howd that work out
jeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz its habitual offenders our team first road game yep they can be painful but hey we are
resilient for sure one of the most resilient teams ever wish was different we would just dominate like we should 24/7 but we aint gonna get that with this team
so you have a pile of turd?
you pick it up throw it out and move on
yep we got this game we own this its only going 5
You seem agitated, relax brother.
This is not about scapegoats or culprits. Of course the reffing was bad. There is a reason why I keep (half jokingly) calling them the Detroit Ref Wings. And I am not (solely) blaming Cooper because this was not only a matter of lines and gameplan but also team effort and will power. You said it yourself, we were flat. But the biggest facter was that Detroit did adjust and elevate their game. So now it's our turn to react to that. To up the ante.
When your first line (17-9-86) is held without a single SOG for an entire game, which is the first game without last change, you can't argue that away with "well that was a stinker, let's move on". Glendening (0 points) was named 1st star of the game for a reason: Johnson had the most TOI of all Lightning forwards (19:43 with 3:45 on the PP (1st on the team) and 2:33 on the PK). He and Kucherov (15:56 TOI, 3:16 PP), Killer (17:00, 1:38), Palat (18:06, 2:07) all had zero shots. Zero.
Detroit successfully eleminated our 1st line. Yes, we had to kill off 7 Detroit powerplays. But we also had 3 PPs of our own. In the 2nd period we had 2 PKs and 1 PP, yet we had measly 3 SOG in the entire period. Three. In the 3rd Detroit had 3 PPs, we had 2. Yet we had measly 4 SOG in the 3rd. Call it adjustments, reaction, counterplay, whatever, something has to happen. And this concerns the coaching staff as well as - and most importantly the players.
would love to see us find a way to pair 27 with 86. If the wings continue to focus hard on johnson, they'd get killed by kuch.
17-27-86 ?
Breaking news guys!
Abdelkader's scraped pinky finger is REALLY bothering him. His status is questionable for tonight and it's likely he'll have to tape up his boo boo extra special.
Would love to see us find a way to pair 27 with 86. If the wings continue to focus hard on Johnson, they'd get killed by Kuch.
Let's GOOOOOOOOOOOO
Please score some goals.
Off topic but whose wife works with mine?
17-27-86 ?
Yea we need to have another dangerous line to score. Which we haven't had. I'd like to see:
Palat Johnson Namestnikov
Drouin filppula Kucherov
Killorn Paquette Callahan
Condra Boyle Blunden