GDT: Game 34: Blackhawks @ Coyotes - 7PM - FSAZ

[Coyotedroppings]

The best part about this game was the things that were mentioned as needing to be worked on in practice were improved.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

I root for Murphy on that team too because I always liked him so it's kind of cool to watch another team once in a while.

Me too. Murph was often the subject of ridicule for many here. I would hope those folks could muster the intellect to realize it would be absolutely wonderful to have him right about now. Not saying I'm bitter about the trade, just that he's a quality assett.

 

[SniperHF]

Keller is on a 75 point pace over his past 10 games.

If he can maintain that pace for say 82 games we'd be set

Tim Peel went down late in the game. He broke his ankle.

He knew it right away the way he got the heck off the ice in a hurry.

 

[Fuhrious]

I have never seen a Dman this bad, and he is on our third pairing. He makes Bush look like a allstar.

I'd love to see the sequence where we won an ozone faceoff back to him, only for him to randomly blow a tire and fire thepuck over the glass mid-fall in a gif. Made me abruptly bark a LOL so loud it scared the dog...

 

[Prarievarg]

I'd love to see the sequence where we won an ozone faceoff back to him, only for him to randomly blow a tire and fire thepuck over the glass mid-fall in a gif. Made me abruptly bark a LOL so loud it scared the dog...

Stuff like that happens to all players. Good of him to repair his mistake mid-fall and make sure no hawk got a freebie.

Ness clearly isn't a NHLer but don't think he was that big of a problem last night.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Saw Strome getting slashy near the end even before the Richardson incident... made me wonder if he had some kind of axe to grind or if players on the Yotes have an issue with him.

Chychrun gave him a couple of love taps away from the play earlier in the game that I noticed. He did not take them well.

 

[Neighborhood Coyote]

Chychrun gave him a couple of love taps away from the play earlier in the game that I noticed. He did not take them well.

Yea! I thought I also might have seen Strome give Kuemper a little tap on a fly by too at some point but I wasn't sure that actually happened.

One of those sub-plots to the game that I found interesting.

 

[Phatastic]

Stuff like that happens to all players. Good of him to repair his mistake mid-fall and make sure no hawk got a freebie.

Ness clearly isn't a NHLer but don't think he was that big of a problem last night.

Does anyone know what's going on with Capobianco? He seemed to be first in line to come up from Tucson for D-men, but Ness and Russo have both been brought up ahead of him. I thought the organization was happy with his performance, especially last year on the Coyotes before he got injured.

 

[Imaravencawcaw]

Stuff like that happens to all players. Good of him to repair his mistake mid-fall and make sure no hawk got a freebie.

Ness clearly isn't a NHLer but don't think he was that big of a problem last night.

He also biffed it on the Towe's goal which allowed an easy shot and nobody there to clear the rebound. He's approaching KConn levels of sliding around the ice on his ass.

 

[Art.Vandelay]

I don't think anyone had the patience to wait 4 years for Duclair to struggle and eventually put his game together for a stretch of 30 games.

Duclair has only shown he can get streaky hot and he's one bad moment away from going back to locker room cancer mode.

 

[Name Nameless]

Good game. I was sure the Blackhawks would take revenge this time.

Have you asked if all the games can be against them?

 

[Coyotedroppings]

He also biffed it on the Towe's goal which allowed an easy shot and nobody there to clear the rebound. He's approaching KConn levels of sliding around the ice on his ass.

No biff, he was tripped Toews should have rec'd a penalty.

 

[AZviaNJ]

Chychrun gave him a couple of love taps away from the play earlier in the game that I noticed. He did not take them well.

One of the highlights of the game for me was seeing the terrified look at Strome's face when Richie dropped his gloves and then watching Strome slide behind Gustafsson and 5-6 DeBrincat, who came to his rescue.

 

[hbk]

Does anyone know what's going on with Capobianco? He seemed to be first in line to come up from Tucson for D-men, but Ness and Russo have both been brought up ahead of him. I thought the organization was happy with his performance, especially last year on the Coyotes before he got injured.

The guys who need to be replaced due to injury play Right Defense. Not left. If it was LD who was hurt Copiobianco would have gotten the call up.

 

[Plub]

Chychrun gave him a couple of love taps away from the play earlier in the game that I noticed. He did not take them well.

Chicken was pushing around everyone. He's really starting to find his comfort zone and get out of that "am I too new to do this?" phase. Toews stopped right in front of the net and Chick basically one armed him right out the way and Toews tried to push back and Chicken just smiled. I love seeing that kind of shit.

 

[Plub]

You gotta think that the boys were chirping him pretty hard in that game.

Definitely seemed like they were pestering him. He was pissed at about half our team and the shit eating grins were aplenty.

 

[Mosby]

The LD/RD thing should go only so far. At some point an average LD is better playing RD than a shitty RD playing RD.

 

[_Del_]

The LD/RD thing should go on so far. At some point an average LD is better playing RD than a ****ty RD playing RD.

It's a recent trend, imo. And I think the importance is very overrated. Hammer excels playing on his offside. Oesterle broke in on his offside. It wasn't that long ago that coaches leaned on their best dmen and fed them minutes, and their handedness was an afterthought. Always makes me laugh when fans talk about a good defenseman and say, "we don't need another LHD".

 

[Mosby]

Goose looks better at RD too than his natural LD.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

A borderline (belongs in the show, or doesn't) defenseman that is proficient at the "off side" can be placed there in the show. A borderline defenseman who is not proficient playing the off side should not be placed there.

 

[rt]

Yeah it’s case-by-case.

 

[Jakey53]

A borderline (belongs in the show, or doesn't) defenseman that is proficient at the "off side" can be placed there in the show. A borderline defenseman who is not proficient playing the off side should not be placed there.

Yeah it’s case-by-case.

With Ness, he should be placed in one place only, and that is in Tucson. Our RD is very shallow with our injuries.

 

[BigMac1212]

Hey, Yotes fans: I made a Google Drive folder about my visit to Gila River Arena:



(Sorry if the files are out of order. )

Enjoy.

 

[BigMac1212]

Finally, I posted the intro video on YouTube.



Darn, I sound terrible!

I hope you enjoy the video.