GDT: At least we're not... @Oilers, 9:30pm

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Am I the only one who can't get the tweet to load? All the other ones in this thread are fine

It was working fine before. Might have been deleted.

 

[bleedgreen]

yeah it seems like it's gone.

 

[Francis10]

Ferland-Wallmark-Teravainen
Niederreiter-Aho-Williams
Svechnikov-Martinook-Maenalanen
Foegele-McKegg-McGinn

Are Rod and Wallmark work out buddies are something? Enough with him being given all these opportunities to be a top 6 guy. He’s a 4th liner Rod. Enough already.

 

[bleedgreen]

Well at least we can go on the trade board and refer to him as a first line center...

 

[the halleJOKEL]

lines assigned at random

 

[Joe McGrath]

Really? It looks like a junior player trying a move on a pro player. Necas has one hand on his stick on an exposed move to the backhand that leaves his whole core available, Marchment pivots to his right and makes no move to stick his leg out. The contact is lined up core on core, maybe the knee makes contact but Necas left himself available for that when he forced a move to the middle against a guy who wasnt just gonna give it up.

He dragged his far leg enough to be sure he made contact. Look how far apart his legs are.

That said if his name wasn’t Marchment I probably wouldn’t have immediately gone there.

 

[bleedgreen]

Meh, he made a hard turn right, don't think he had enough time for the thought. I think he threw his upper body into the hit and the legs followed, all lower body contact was incidental. He had Necas dead to rights so he had no need to go for the legs, way more satisfying to crush him up top and Necas made that easy.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Ferland-Wallmark-Teravainen
Niederreiter-Aho-Williams
Svechnikov-Martinook-Maenalanen
Foegele-McKegg-McGinn

Are Rod and Wallmark work out buddies are something? Enough with him being given all these opportunities to be a top 6 guy. He’s a 4th liner Rod. Enough already.

Looks to me like trying to have good 2-way responsibility on every line to guard against Edmonton having first change.

And also a shake up from two terrible f***ing efforts.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Hopefully they do better this time.

Or maybe I'm just the kiss of death for hockey teams.

 

[DougieSmash]

Wallmark is the new Derek Ryan. I like the kid but he's not even third line center. I don't want to sign him for nothing more than 2 M. We already made big mistake with Rask.

 

[VaCaps Fan]

I’m a caniac!

 

[emptyNedder]

I like the kid but he's not even third line center.

I like him too--but am more optimistic. He is still 23. I have hopes he will be like Mikael Backlund or Frans Nielsen, two European centers who took a season or two before becoming more than minimally productive on offense.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Ferland-Wallmark-Teravainen
Niederreiter-Aho-Williams
Svechnikov-Martinook-Maenalanen
Foegele-McKegg-McGinn

Are Rod and Wallmark work out buddies are something? Enough with him being given all these opportunities to be a top 6 guy. He’s a 4th liner Rod. Enough already.

So you’d prefer Martinook or McKegg in a top 6 role?

 

[Ahoy there]

So you’d prefer Martinook or McKegg in a top 6 role?

Yep and that's our problem. We desperately need another quality C. Add back Staal for shutdown role and it'd be slowing coming together.

For playmaking ability I'd like to see Kegger, but on the #1/2 it could get ugly through neutral into the defensive end, especially those 7-10 shifts he's caught against McDavid's line

 

[Tryamw]

Martinook will probably be a better center then Maenalanenenenansnnwens guy.

 

[Stickpucker]

Bojangles and whiskey bitches

 

[zman77]

 

[AD Skinner]

This team had the worst center depth in the league with Staal, without him there's one actual NHL caliber player at that position on the team. I get you can build a team lots of different ways but you can't just expect to spend roughly 75% of the game with a minor leaguer guaranteed to be on the ice and have much success

 

[zman77]

Nino Niederreiter
by Matt Karash | Jan 20, 2019 | Morning Skate
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Niederreiter picked (though it was not his choice) a rough first game as a Carolina Hurricanes player. But despite the train wreck of a first game for his new team, he made a decent first impression. One only needs to watch him for a period or two to see that the physical skill set is there. He is a big body but with decent skating ability and straight line speed and good enough hands and puck skills. The key is converting it all to scoring production. He seems to be right on the fence between being a top 6 scoring forward versus dipping a bit and being more of a rugged third-liner who provides only depth scoring. So as his tenure with the Canes continues I will be watching to see if Niederreiter can find chemistry with line mates, fit into the Canes system and produce. That continues on Sunday night in Edmonton.
‘What I’m Watching’ — Gm48 @Edm: Canes seek to salvage something from tough week versus the Oilers | Canes & Coffee

 

[Francis10]

So you’d prefer Martinook or McKegg in a top 6 role?

Ya I probably would actually. Obviously I, like all of you do, want a true 2C, but might as well give McKegg or Martinook or one of the AHL guys a true offensive role over Wallmark who’s shown the same amount of skills and finish as a young Drayson Bowman.

 

[HisIceness]

I ain't watching this shit.

 

[The Faulker 27]

yeah it seems like it's gone.

What was it about?

 

[Wolfpuck]

I need to catch up on some sleep/sanity, so I'm sitting these next three out.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

What was it about?

Necas trying to cut to the middle of the ice with the puck and getting himself steamrolled.

 

[MinJaBen]

Necas trying to cut to the middle of the ice with the puck and getting himself steamrolled.

Any word on his health?