Go look again. Poms stopped producing last year and got moved off the top line. The same thing happened this year. He's got about 20 good games, if that, then he is spent.
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Go look again. Poms stopped producing last year and got moved off the top line. The same thing happened this year. He's got about 20 good games, if that, then he is spent.
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I respect your opinion.
I just don't agree with it.
But yes, his numbers would be better with Eichel - who's wouldn't?
You sleep through the first game of the season?
the roster decisions make it seem like we are trying to tank another season. We are deliberately not icing our best lineup. Pilut benched? Does Phil even watch the games?
What's next, benching one of the top line?
What's next, benching one of the top line?
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It was unfair right from the start. They kept him down there, and played a couple other players before him, which made no sense.
I remember an interview with Housley, in which he critized him for his gap control. I also remember another occasion, where he praised Tennyson for his 200-foot-game.
Listen between the lines, it's just unfair.
He came in after lighting up the AHL in scoring, they just had to adapt.
He deserves better treatment.
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So a regulation loss tonight puts us 5 pts ahead of the islanders and they have 2 games in hand
Boston would be 1 pt back and mtl 2 depending on their game tonight
Boston would be 1 pt back and mtl 2 depending on their game tonight
I seem to recall that matchup was fine with Phil in game 1 of the season, but do not remember well enough to state it with certainty.
We no longer have a shutdown pair to send after Bergeron's line though, so it might honestly be best to let it happen - Jack is probably our team's only hope to hold the puck for any meaningful amount of time while they're out there.
Though his highs weren't as high last season, we have evidence that you're right from beyond Fall 2018. Recall the plays he made in San Jose with Jack and Kane, in games like that in October, compared to how he played with them after the first quarter of the season finished.
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Bullshit. He did the same thing the previous three seasons in Minn. he is not a top line player on an average team. If he can’t produce without being propped up he should be in the press box.
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I'm fine with Pilut sitting the occasional game. He is young and playing on a new surface.
I am not fine with Botts sitting on his hands while this forward group is allowed to be complacent.
I am not fine with Botts sitting on his hands while this forward group is allowed to be complacent.
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It’s his last year and his money will go to skinner. We just need to move Okposo to Zona so they can hit the cap floor.
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I know its his last hurrah, but that doesn’t mean he needs a lineup spot. Put him in the press box.
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Oh yay its 2017 all over again! With these kind of decisions it means we can kiss the playoffs goodbye. Lets sit back and evaluate the roster again!
Elie = Nolan. Guy has 1 point (which he got exactly a month ago) and they think its a good idea to play him with an already struggling Mittelstadt and the corpse of Okposo?
Pilut = Antipin treatment, except Pilut is FAR better than Antipin.
No callups until the end of the season...even though our middle 6 is complete trash. Smith is 24 and Olofsson is 23 ffs.
Elie = Nolan. Guy has 1 point (which he got exactly a month ago) and they think its a good idea to play him with an already struggling Mittelstadt and the corpse of Okposo?
Pilut = Antipin treatment, except Pilut is FAR better than Antipin.
No callups until the end of the season...even though our middle 6 is complete trash. Smith is 24 and Olofsson is 23 ffs.
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Projected Lineup*
53 Jeff Skinner - 9 Jack Eichel - 23 Sam Reinhart
43 Conor Sheary - 37 Casey Mittelstadt - 21 Kyle Okposo
72 Tage Thompson - 17 Vladimir Sobotka - 29 Jason Pominville
81 Remi Elie - 22 Johan Larsson - 71 Evan Rodrigues
19 Jake McCabe - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
6 Marco Scandella - 26 Rasmus Dahlin
82 Nathan Beaulieu - 4 Zach Bogosian
40 Carter Hutton
31 Scott Wedgewood
*Based on Friday's practice and subject to change
When Bergeron plays, it spells trouble for whoever he’s matched up against lol
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I think it would be wiser just to accept that we're going to lose the battle when Bergeron's line is on the ice and sacrifice a line that wasn't going to do anything anyway. Get Eich's line out there against anyone else and hope his line can win their match-up by a bigger margin than Bergeron's does.
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Bad game to lose Girgs...Larry/Girgs would have been ok to put against him
Find another team that hasn't made a single non-injury related call-up like Buffalo. I'm sure there's one or two others but it's pretty absurd given their lack of secondary scoring. Botterill stating they will look for reinforcements from Rochester later in the season is becoming utterly bizarre. Is he waiting until after we're out of a playoff spot?
