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Eakin terrible in FO% again. 31%...
He's been invisible for a while now.
Eakin terrible in FO% again. 31%...
Goalie guild has done a ton of analysis of it, and it almost always favors starting the backup. This is from December:
Well we also are the worst team in the past two or three years in back to backs...winning now just 8 out of our last 41 back end of a b2b games.
Something has happened with Oleksiak. Not sure if somebody sat him down, or maybe he just got a new girlfriend. But man he looks ****ing fantastic lately.
Ritchie-Fiddler-Moen has been a really damn good trio that will bring tons of pressure on the opposition anytime they hit the ice. I wouldn't split them up until some droughts start.
I feel like Eakin is seeing his last couple of weeks in Dallas. He's a fantastic possession style of player, but under this system Ruff has, he's invisible. I wish this team would transition over to a more sustainable style already. Makes a lot of players look left out, or hard for others to come into.
Daley, Goligoski, and Jodie all had some very laughable defensive mistakes tonight. Like really ****ing bad.
I feel like Eakin is seeing his last couple of weeks in Dallas. He's a fantastic possession style of player, but under this system Ruff has, he's invisible. I wish this team would transition over to a more sustainable style already. Makes a lot of players look left out, or hard for others to come into.
It wasn't the loss itself that was hard to take, to be honest expected a loss tonight. But it really sucks that we got scheduled to play Chicago on the second night of b2b 3 times in their building this year. Thats a ridiculous advantage for the league to hand them vs a divisional opponent. And if that wasn't bad enough so far the PP discrepancy in those two games we've played in Chicago so far is 7-1 in their favor.
Refs want to call a loose game where they let everything go, fine. Thats not what happened though, all three of the Calls against us were marginal, and things they had been letting go all night, but the too many men call was ridiculously bad, and even worse they let Chicago get away with one even worse later on in the game. Call the game evenly, and I'm not talking about make up calls, just call the penalties the same regardless of jersey color.
At least we got a point tonight, despite the odds against and refs against us.
Next year though I really wish teams not in the leagues favor would push for more balanced schedules, if one team is on a b2b the other team has to be on one too. At the very least balance it out, so you play the same opponent when they are on a b2b next time. I mean really, does Chicago need the league to give them additional advantages.
Ok rant over
Can someone explain to me why Jordie Benn is in the lineup? Is it because Ruff wants to please Jamie Benn?
I just dont get it.
I watched the game and Jordie sticks out like a sore thumb every time he is on the ice. I mean Daley might make some mistakes but Jordie is just so air headed that his mistakes are just those of an AHL defenseman. On the Toews goal he stepped up on his man in a 2 on 1 situation really...so stupid.
Sit Jordie and play Schlemko with Demers...I think that would be an excellent 3rd pairing. The other 2 pairings have been decent actually.
Klingman.
I will now fight anyone that says Chicago has a good broadcast team. Between all the Dominic Roussels and the Demers/Dillon mixups, the color guy was even mixing up Toews and Kane in the intermission interviews.
He scored that goal last night, that guaranteed him at least the rest of the season in the line up.
That wasn't Chicagos broadcast team though? Wasn't it the the NBC B team. I used to really like Strader back when the games were on ESPN, but last night was embarrassing, no clue who anyone was. Not just the name thing either, at one point credited Ritchie with a good defensive stop when it was Klingberg, not sure how you confuse a 25 and a 3.