Half-Assed GDT: Game 4, LAK at our boys in Blue, 8pm ET

[Blueston]

No Buch, no Saad, no problem. Blues open season in front of full house. First of back to back with men in black. Game on ESPN+ for us out of towners.

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[Linkens Mastery]

Dude I'm so stoked to be here tonight!!! LET'S GO BLUUUUUUUUEEEESSSSS

 

[stl76]

I wanna hear "VLAD-Y" chants from the fans on the broadcast.

 

[stl76]

I wanna hear "VLAD-Y" chants from the fans on the broadcast.

 

[blueper]

Kostin on the top line. Walman on the first pairing with CP. Let's go, youngsters! (not that JW is all that young but still)

 

[Ranksu]

Kostin playing with ROR and Perron.

I'm loving it.

 

[Reality Czech]

Clifford is gonna drop the gloves tonight, book it.

 

[Drubilly]

Kinda like to see Kostin drop them

 

[CaliforniaBlues310]

Tonight will be the first Blues game I’ve been to at Enterprise since the Sarah Palin incident. (Ironically also against LA)

To say that words cannot describe how excited I am would be an understatement. LETS GO BLUES

 

[MissouriMook]

I really hope we end the long standing tradition tonight where we get outworked at home by a team that played the night before when we didn’t. This would be a good night to make a (positive) statement that this team is going to be a contender.

 

[LBlues24]

I really hope we end the long standing tradition tonight where we get outworked at home by a team that played the night before when we didn’t. This would be a good night to make a (positive) statement that this team is going to be a contender.

x1000

 

[Blueston]

I really hope we end the long standing tradition tonight where we get outworked at home by a team that played the night before when we didn’t. This would be a good night to make a (positive) statement that this team is going to be a contender.

No pressure, but this is my first HAGDT. I’m gonna take it personally if they lay egg tonight.

 

[Majorityof1]

Kostin on the top line. Walman on the first pairing with CP. Let's go, youngsters! (not that JW is all that young but still)

I am really not a fan of Walman on that pairing. We didn't want Krug with Parayko because he shouldn't be against the other team's best players. The same can be said against Walman as well. He's been better than Krug, and even better than Scadella in some games. Scandella was better defenisvely 5v5 thoguh. When he was bad it was on the PK.

Overall, I'd rather have Scandella on the ice against Arvidsson and Kopitar most of the time. Their top line has 8 of their 11 goals, with the 9th, Doughty's goal, probably coming when they were on the ice as well. Shut them down, you shut the Kings down. I'm not too worried as its a Doughty-less Kings and we have been playing well. Just seems a weird change, especially after Scandella had a great last game.

 

[Blueston]

I am really not a fan of Walman on that pairing. We didn't want Krug with Parayko because he shouldn't be against the other team's best players. The same can be said against Walman as well. He's been better than Krug, and even better than Scadella in some games. Scandella was better defenisvely 5v5 thoguh. When he was bad it was on the PK.

Overall, I'd rather have Scandella on the ice against Arvidsson and Kopitar most of the time. Their top line has 8 of their 11 goals, with the 9th, Doughty's goal, probably coming when they were on the ice as well. Shut them down, you shut the Kings down. I'm not too worried as its a Doughty-less Kings and we have been playing well. Just seems a weird change, especially after Scandella had a great last game.

With the way forward lines are tonight, we almost have 3 equal lines. Seems almost like Berube tried to equalize the d pairs rather than matchup tonight. Don’t know how else to read that he put best and worst defensemen together.

 

[Linkens Mastery]

What are the odds that I'm the only person wearing a Buchnevich jersey tonight?

 

[Majorityof1]

With the way forward lines are tonight, we almost have 3 equal lines. Seems almost like Berube tried to equalize the d pairs rather than matchup tonight. Don’t know how else to read that he put best and worst defensemen together.

That is probably it, but I don't like that strategy. Others have explained why better on here. In my mind though, players follow their assignment and need to rely on the other player to do their job. If the puck is down low on Parayko's side, he has to go pressure it. That leaves Walman to cover the net and far side of the goal. No amount of skill or speed by Parayko is going to be able to help Walman do so. If Kopitar is on the ice, he is going to hit the guy exploiting Walman, if not be the guy exploiting Walman. But it is Bortuzzo and Walman against Grunstrom, Moore and Viliardi, they have a little more wiggle room if Walman leaves someone open.

 

[simon IC]

Early Live tonight. I have to go to work. Go Blues!

 

[ChicagoBlues]

Tonight will be the first Blues game I’ve been to at Enterprise since the Sarah Palin incident. (Ironically also against LA)

To say that words cannot describe how excited I am would be an understatement. LETS GO BLUES

Who?

 

[542365]

Excited to be in the building again! Went to one last year with the limited capacity and while having all the room you could ever want was nice, it wasn’t quite the same as a packed house. Go Blues!

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

This is a pretty classic place to have a let down game or at least a slow start. I’ll be happy with points here no matter how ugly it might be.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

 

[BlueDream]

Another game that we should hopefully win, being the rested team. Need to start off strong at home and bank 2 more points here.

 

[DoubleK81]

Berube is my kinda guy.

 

[Xerloris]

Another game that we should hopefully win, being the rested team. Need to start off strong at home and bank 2 more points here.

Even when we do win, we won't get credit for it because Doughty is hurt

 

[Moose and Squirrel]

Early Live tonight. I have to go to work. Go Blues!

I gotta work tonight too.. grrrrr