Tretyak 20
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Boston is best team we've played. Buffalo? Get back to me in December when they're done reacting to a new coach.
Ding ding dingThe logic that teams will fall off, while true, doesn't really matter now. At this point in the year both Edmonton and Buffalo, are RIGHT NOW good teams. It doesn't matter that it's not sustainable over the course of the year. They're good teams right now and we lost to both. Who cares what they'll be in a few months.
Edmonton is a good team? I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
The logic that teams will fall off, while true, doesn't really matter now. At this point in the year both Edmonton and Buffalo, are RIGHT NOW good teams. It doesn't matter that it's not sustainable over the course of the year. They're good teams right now and we lost to both. Who cares what they'll be in a few months.
this reminds me... I noticed a few times that Coleman was kicked out of the faceoff circle and Zajac replaced him. Is this a strategy or is Zajac nursing an injury and avoiding certain faceoff situations?
Good point. Zajac has been uncharacteristically miserable this year at faceoffs, and he was 7/19 the other day. I wonder.
Agreed, Arizona will be an eye opener..they are quite good so far.
I'm getting whiplash from these goalposts moving all over the place in this thread.
Winnipeg is a good team
Buffalo is 7-1-1
The Flyers are awful
Edmonton is 7-1
The Bruins are a good team
The Panthers are average
The Rangers are awful
Vancouver is average
Vancouver was also riding a 4 game winning streak last I checked and Demko was 2-0 with under 2 GAA and we managed a shutout win against them.
The schedule has been pretty brutal with two back to backs and several very good or very hot teams that we played against. Of those teams it would be kind of crazy to argue that the Jets and Bruins are likely playoff teams, Edmonton/Vancouver/Florida/Buffalo are all at the least bubble teams, and the Rangers/Flyers are probably on outside of the playoff picture. So that's 6/8 games against "good" teams. Even if they aren't all "good" by game 82 they're "good" at game 8.
If people want to diminish the two wins this team has eked out then that's your prerogative. However I agree with the whole building blocks idea. We were godawful on the PK and killed off 13 chances in two games against two teams that do not have a lack of top flight scorers to put on a powerplay. We also have two PPG in two games - I mean special teams is the reason we won the Vancouver game instead of lost it like we did in many other games so far this year.
If you aren't at least a little bit happy with some of the improvement over the past two games and wins then I just wonder if all you wanna do is find someone or something to complain about. Is the situation perfect? No. But it's improving. To deny that is to be willfully blind and spiteful.
And yeah. To be a good team you need to be able to beat bad teams, and at the end of the day it's 2 points in the only column that matters. Perspective.
A bad team can have a good game and win. A good team can have a bad game and lose. Buffalo was a bottom-5 team last year and still managed to have a 10 game winning streak. Didn't we start last season winning our first 6 in a row or something?
There are 1,271 NHL games played in the regular season. Weird **** happens.