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GDT open. If you’re coming, please bring a snack or a sixer to share or grab some carry out on your way in. And feel free to let everyone know what you brought.
Let me act like the rest of society for a moment:Elvis tweaked a groin in Game 4 vs Leafs per Porty. Out indefinitely. Ends the “he punched a wall post-game” rumor.
Game 5 is 12pm on Wednesday. The lack of respect this series is getting is ridiculous.
The scheduling the CBJ have gotten in this round is horsesh$t.Game 5 is 12pm on Wednesday. The lack of respect this series is getting is ridiculous.
Are you f***ing kidding? This is some serious bullshit.Game 5 is 12pm on Wednesday. The lack of respect this series is getting is ridiculous.
The scheduling the CBJ have gotten in this round is horsesh$t.
How many times have they been forced to play with less than 48 hour turnaround? They had to play the last game of the qualifying round and then jump right into the first game of the first round. Games 6 and 7 are also a back to back if they can even still stand by that point.
Tampa is the 2 seed. Should be getting a better schedule than Philly/Montreal since at least our series has two US markets that register TV views.if you're the last seed playing the #1 seed I wouldn't expect in favors when schedules comes out.
As far as noon and afternoon starts - that kind of happens when you have 2 team that honestly don't have national appeal. Granted locally the CBJ have a ton of support, but for the national audience CBJ-Tampa probably doesn't draw many people in.
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if you're the last seed playing the #1 seed I wouldn't expect in favors when schedules comes out.
As far as noon and afternoon starts - that kind of happens when you have 2 team that honestly don't have national appeal. Granted locally the CBJ have a ton of support, but for the national audience CBJ-Tampa probably doesn't draw many people in.
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Continued from the Game 4 thread...
I don't think Foligno is a bad player per se, but he's paid like one of the better wingers in the league and deployed like a 1st liner.
But the tv ratings indicate otherwiseYeah, that's what I am thinking. If we think from a numbers perspective, TBL/CBJ just isn't going to have as much appeal outside of our markets as the other east coast series.
I don't like it, but I get it.
Well, the 28th-ranked offense has had what little offense it has go dry. The Lightning don't look like an unstoppable force. But yeah, where has the offense been this series? Z? Jones? Just not much there. You can't win 1-0 and 2-1 in this league over a 7-game series.
Other than some bad/lazy plays by 71-38-13 yesterday that led to the Tampa goals I thought we played pretty well. Maybe the best game of the series, even. The team actually spent sustained time in the attacking zone. Just couldn't convert.
I don't really know what Torts can do here. Tampa is just a good team, though they aren't dominating like last year's historic team in the regular season. Even without Stamkos I don't know where Torts can exploit a weakness. Kucherov-Point on the top line are super talented. They spent picks to shore up Gourde's lines and they've absolutely dominates this series. And then you don't have it against Killorn-Johnson-Cirelli. They're just a deeper team this year with the moves they made. Jarmo spent the deadline shipping out Milano.
I do think he needs to break up 38 & 71. They're both slow, bad, and maybe tired at this point. I know he likes loading up a defensive line of 71-38-13/14/19 or whatever, but I think he needs to balance the lines. Instead of chasing matchups, just try to get some offense going. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Sasha Pavlovic may have been right - my offense is my defense. Point being, if they can sustain pressure in the offensive zone, who cares how well they do in the defending zone. I don't know. There aren't a ton of options anyway.
This team, to me, has peaked with the 38/71/10/13 core. Good enough to maybe win a series, but the top end talent just isn't there to get much farther. I don't know really know how you'd fix it either.
I thought it was an excellent game by the Jackets. All you can do is do it again. And hopefully ease up on Jenner and Foligno. "Maybe tired" is funny, they're beyond that. You've forgotten that Foligno isn't a slow player if he's rested. He's at 208 minutes in this playoffs, that's about half-an-hour more than the nearest forward on another team (Kane at 180 minutes).