GDT: Game 41: Columbus vs. Montreal | 1/14 7PM EST

[Robert]

I was leaving the game with a buddy of mine and said that if were coach that I would bench him. I haven't seen such a stupid, selfish penalty in some time myself.

Watching Dubi bark at the ref coming out of the box after the goal was pathetic. Would have served him well to get a 2 minute minor for unsportsmanlike conduct.

I don't think that he'll get benched, but he needs a good talking to by Richards. The type of judgement that he demonstrated is unacceptable given the mega uphill climb that the team faces to make the playoffs.

A brutal loss. Making up 13 points with 5 teams to pass with 41 games remaining is a herculean task.

Satellite NHL radio and many more say the CBJ are history.. tank for the best draft in decades....

 

[hardkorejackets]

My thoughts- Start light, get deeper
1. Can we win a face-off? Johansen for all the talk about how good he is at faceoffs, got plain embarrassed in the dot tonight. Just plain ugly in that department for the entire team
2. Can we pass the puck? Hold onto the puck at all? I won't look at the stats, but I'm sure time of possession was horrific tonight.
3. I think we've overrated some of the offensive capabilities of our players.
4. That second period was one of the worst periods of hockey I've seen, save for Bob that period. I swear that entire period was at our end. Another interesting statistic we had 12 giveaways to their 2 giveaways
5. For all the talk about Dubinsky being captain, he took an anger-management penalty on Saturday at the very end of the game in a 5-3 situation. Then the STUPID BONEHEADED penalty tonight. I'm sorry, but I want our captain to be a little bit more smarter/collected at the end.
6. I'm starting to get concerned at the leadership of this team with the collapse tonight, stupid penalties abound. It seemed like the entire team decided to pack it in after the 3rd goal tonight from Montreal. Seen the worst passes I've seen in my life at that point, seemed like all energy was gone.
7. Has Todd Richards lost the locker-room?

 

[thebus2288*]

Dubi and a 1st should get us Eberle or Eriksson. We'd be so good. Nice quiet team players. The boys wont play hard, and Dubi plays too hard. Might not be a fit. Name Johansen, Wiz and Horton captains and watch us flourish.

You guys go from not wanting to pay a guy what he's worth to naming him captain.

And major get off the Wiz love. He's sh-it.

 

[hardkorejackets]

Forgot to add this-
But, I'm starting to get concerned that Bob's a little fragile mentally when the team plays like this in front of him. I've never played goalie, but to me it seems like he tries to hold on as long as he possibly can.. But, after a while a goal or two creeps in, and he's almost like DONE in some of these past games. You could see it from the Arizona game, where he started shaking his head staring down in disbelief.. Todd Richard's left him in, and he allowed another goal just about 1 minute later before being pulled.

Here's to hoping this can be resolved simply by playing much better in front of him in the next couple years and not forcing him to stand on his head, diving every which way to stop 40 + shots a game, and only being allowed 1 goal total.

 

[pete goegan]

Robert, don't take this the wrong way, but one of the things I won't miss when you're generation is gone is casual ethno-centrism like this.

Just passing through the thread and I deeply resent this. Robert represents himself, nobody else.

 

[EspenK]

Robert, don't take this the wrong way, but one of the things I won't miss when you're generation is gone is casual ethno-centrism like this.

nvrmnd

 

[EspenK]

I never blame the refs, but I've never gone to a worse officiated game in my entire life. No surprise at all he was French

How old are you? Major might have to include another generation?

 

[Jive Pawnbroker]

This was one of those games that just sucks all of the enthusiasm that you have for the team right out of you.

 

[ca5150]

How old are you? Major might have to include another generation?

41, when the French Canadian team is given so many more power plays and so many blatant non-calls on them by the french ref, granted the last 3 were awful on our part, you have to wonder...however whiskey and anger may have been a culprit in my original post...

 

[ca5150]

Unfortunately I think that's a wrap on this season folks, no way we dig out of this one, just can't see it, hope I'm wrong, I'll still be there til the end but after that game, I just don't think we have what it takes to go on an unreal run and catch up

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Richards, in the postgame presser, said something akin to "we found a way to lose this game." That's what it looked like to me. I would just like to say here that I turned to my buddy and said "it feels like the third one is coming right here" and about five seconds later, the CBJ were trailing.

 

[WashedUp]

So who will be the best draft pick around the #6 spot......?

 

[Fro]

woke up this morning still angry about the ref #17...I didn't see him call a single penalty on MTL...the Calvert one still sticks with me this morning...blatant holding of his stick that led to the slash...and also Bob getting ABSOLUTELY TRUCKED by a MTL player leading to a scrum was a direct result of him not calling the penalty that he watched...I was right behind the goal last night...17 comes up and tells bob to stop diving....UNBELIEVABLE...

 

[cbjgirl]

Watched the game from home. At worst it should have been a holding the stick on the Montreal player AND the slashing penalty on Calvert. The slash wasn't intentional and if Subban had been a couple feet one way or the other it wouldn't have happened.

And for some reason, the chorus of this song has been playing in my mind since last night...

 

[Jorge]

My thoughts- Start light, get deeper
1. Can we win a face-off? Johansen for all the talk about how good he is at faceoffs, got plain embarrassed in the dot tonight. Just plain ugly in that department for the entire team
2. Can we pass the puck? Hold onto the puck at all? I won't look at the stats, but I'm sure time of possession was horrific tonight.
3. I think we've overrated some of the offensive capabilities of our players.
4. That second period was one of the worst periods of hockey I've seen, save for Bob that period. I swear that entire period was at our end. Another interesting statistic we had 12 giveaways to their 2 giveaways
5. For all the talk about Dubinsky being captain, he took an anger-management penalty on Saturday at the very end of the game in a 5-3 situation. Then the STUPID BONEHEADED penalty tonight. I'm sorry, but I want our captain to be a little bit more smarter/collected at the end.
6. I'm starting to get concerned at the leadership of this team with the collapse tonight, stupid penalties abound. It seemed like the entire team decided to pack it in after the 3rd goal tonight from Montreal. Seen the worst passes I've seen in my life at that point, seemed like all energy was gone.
7. Has Todd Richards lost the locker-room?

I looked like an expert in the living room last night, and often beat the Canadian announcers to their own words. So here we go...

1. No, we can't. Mr. Davidson was right to play hardball. The rest of them are awful, too. (Can anyone remember what we got for Manny? He was great in the dot.)
2. No, we can't.
3. I've never felt like we were better than a 2.75 GPG kind of team, but that's just me. Score three goals and try to help Bob keep the other guys at two has been the MO the last two plus years, IMHO.
4. Don't know about that. "Classic Jackets" have come to play the second period many times this year.
5. Nick Foligno is our captain. Don't know why MGMT has yet to acknowledge this.
6. Two of our Alternate Captains committed two of the three boneheaded plays in the third. Love Dubi and Boll, but they kept the party going after Calvert mailed the invitations to the Let-Montreal-Win-A-Road-Game-They-Should-Lose Party. I HAVE NO SONS!
7. No, but if there was a day for an old school bag skate then this it.
8. I love whiskey. Whiskey told me I could skip work today since I have to work two doubles this weekend. Thank you, whiskey. Thank you for the precious, precious drunk talk.

 

[Crede777]

Wennberg/Morin/Collins was great for the second game in a row.

Yeah but that should be our 4th line with Letestu getting spot duty moving between the 3rd and that line late in the game.

 

[ca5150]

woke up this morning still angry about the ref #17...I didn't see him call a single penalty on MTL...the Calvert one still sticks with me this morning...blatant holding of his stick that led to the slash...and also Bob getting ABSOLUTELY TRUCKED by a MTL player leading to a scrum was a direct result of him not calling the penalty that he watched...I was right behind the goal last night...17 comes up and tells bob to stop diving....UNBELIEVABLE...

I was in the club section right behind that net and Bob was crushed into the post, I can't believe a) there wasn't a penalty and b) somebody didn't beat the crap out of him for hitting Bob like that

 

[major major]

Just passing through the thread and I deeply resent this. Robert represents himself, nobody else.

Sorry, my bad. I responded to one mean generalization with another.

 

[blahblah]

3 PP goals in 4 minutes? What a joke.

 

[niflheim]

Satellite NHL radio and many more say the CBJ are history.. tank for the best draft in decades....

So total foolish emptiness, f...ing mental ramification, crushed expectations, old songs, CBJ are history, season over etc.

I'm glad that " we found a way", our magnificient mode to smell the flowers for good draft pick

 

[Cowumbus]

Dubi and a 1st should get us Eberle or Eriksson. We'd be so good. Nice quiet team players. The boys wont play hard, and Dubi plays too hard. Might not be a fit. Name Johansen, Wiz and Horton captains and watch us flourish.

You guys go from not wanting to pay a guy what he's worth to naming him captain.

And major get off the Wiz love. He's sh-it.

Please for the love of everything holy tell me you forgot the

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Please for the love of everything holy tell me you forgot the

He is. He's trying to say everybody here wants to trade Dubinsky because people started calling out his dumb antics. When in fact nobody has said this.

 

[NotWendell]

To that point, let me say: Dubi was stupid last night. No way in hell do I want him traded.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

To that point, let me say: Dubi was stupid last night. No way in hell do I want him traded.

I think everyone feels this way. Agreed

 

[pete goegan]

To that point, let me say: Dubi was stupid last night...

He admitted that, himself.