GDT: #6: Stars at FLYERS, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, 7:00 pm ET

[Outlaw Samurai]

Any chance Morin gets into the next game? I’m holding hope Hogg get’s the yank but the odds are higher I’ll spontaneously grow a 2nd dick.

 

[Tripod]

Any chance Morin gets into the next game? I’m holding hope Hogg get’s the yank but the odds are higher I’ll spontaneously grow a 2nd dick.

Hagg has not been on the ice for a goal against yet. He is not going anywhere.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

Hagg has not been on the ice for a goal against yet. He is not going anywhere.

Is that true? Lol

 

[FlyerNutter]

Any chance Morin gets into the next game? I’m holding hope Hogg get’s the yank but the odds are higher I’ll spontaneously grow a 2nd dick.

I’m in the state of mind that it’s going to take an injury.

I really wouldn’t blame Morin for trying to request a trade. He seems to be healthy for the first time in a long time, and this is essentially his career. He needs to play somewhere.

 

[Tripod]

Is that true? Lol

According to him...I didn't check:

The worst part of this so far is that Hagg somehow has lucked into not being on ice for a goal against this year despite having the worst shot metrics among the defensemen. He's also been on the ice for only 1 goal for. But yeah, he ain't coming out anytime soon.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

According to him...I didn't check:

Wow, this guy..We’ll never be rid of him.

Even if he hasn’t been completely detrimental, him being cemented in the line up keeps Morin/Myers from getting time.

So frustrating.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

I’m in the state of mind that it’s going to take an injury.

I really wouldn’t blame Morin for trying to request a trade. He seems to be healthy for the first time in a long time, and this is essentially his career. He needs to play somewhere.

Me either. He’s been beyond patient.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Nobody rides a heater quite like Bob Hagg.

 

[Rebels57]

Nobody rides a heater quite like Bob Hagg.

f***ing King of the October PDO Heater..but theres always a come down..PDO is a hell of a drug.

 

[deadhead]

Wow, this guy..We’ll never be rid of him.

Even if he hasn’t been completely detrimental, him being cemented in the line up keeps Morin/Myers from getting time.

So frustrating.

What keeps Morin and Myers from getting time is their own screw ups.
Myers was handed the job before camp and blew it.
Morin reportedly looked shaky in practice puck handling and didn't exactly inspire confidence. They've been working on that for 3--4 years, maybe he's just lacks eye to hand coordination?

"The grass is always greener."

 

[Gert B Frobe]

Any chance Morin gets into the next game? I’m holding hope Hogg get’s the yank but the odds are higher I’ll spontaneously grow a 2nd dick.

at least your 2nd dick can play defense

 

[Qyburn]

Ghosts biggest problem imo is he totally stopped stepping up/intercepting passes in the neutral zone.

He used to do it all the time but now he allows players to gain the zone

Yea I'm gonna stick with that whole power play thing.

Maybe that's not "evaluative" enough for some of the hockey supra-geniuses that seem to have popped up around here in the last year or two. Of course they'll likely point to Giroux's position, but regardless of who was where, Ghost used to do more than stand in place and shoot it.

 

[bobbythebrain]

Me either. He’s been beyond patient.

With his doctor?

 

[baudib1]

I feel like Ghost isn't as dangerous on entries as he used to be.

 

[dats81]

Any chance Morin gets into the next game? I’m holding hope Hogg get’s the yank but the odds are higher I’ll spontaneously grow a 2nd dick.

I think there is a bigger chance he is put on Waivers within the next couple of weeks than him actually playing games in the NHL.
As long as they are not even rotating him into one of the regular pairings during practice, as long as everyone else stays healthy, I just don't see it.

 

[Outlaw Samurai]

With his doctor?

He’s definitely had bad luck with injuries. Now that he’s healthy, we really should be seeing what we have in him.

 

[1865]

Which Ghost has, and yet remains on the bottom pair with least 5v5 icetime.

I love Ghost but were you watching in Calgary?

 

[1865]

...seems like he’s skating differently!
Doesn’t look comfortable and not as flexible for some reason!

I sometimes watch videos of his rookie year. Man, he was something else back then. That's been sucked out of him entirely.

 

[Striiker]

I love Ghost but were you watching in Calgary?

Yup, he had a bad first period but outside of that he’s been very good.

 

[1865]

Yup, he had a bad first period but outside of that he’s been very good.

Bad doesn't cover it. His problem is that when he's bad he's basically fluorescent out there. He plays such a game where his mistakes aren't hidden.

 

[marcsson68]

at least your 2nd dick can play defense

In case it is long enough...

 

[hatcher]

Ghost has lost a step and hes not the player he was.

 

[Striiker]

Bad doesn't cover it. His problem is that when he's bad he's basically fluorescent out there. He plays such a game where his mistakes aren't hidden.

Exaggeration, but alrighty then. It didn’t even cause a goal against either.

And you could say that about any player. Provorov has been spectacularly awful just as often, if not more often. It happens, but so long as the players are still a net positive, it doesn’t matter. They both are.

Meanwhile a guy like Hagg is even more fluorecently awful, far more often, and he never makes up for it. Thats the kind of player worth complaining about. Not your star defensemen who’s being sabotaged and had a single bad period.

 

[Ghosts Beer]

People are upset Hagg hasn’t been on the ice for a goal against.

 

[BritainStix]

It's not so much his speed but his edgework which has fallen off a cliff. He doesn't have the same mobility since that hip injury. Unfortunately, I genuinely think we have seen the best of him which is an absolute travesty considering how dynamic he was.