GDT: Game 49: Coyotes @ Senators - 5:30 PM - FSAZ+

[SniperHF]

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5:30 PM
FSAZ

LW	C	RW
Richard Panik	Derek Stepan	Vinnie Hinostroza
Clayton Keller	Nick Cousins	Christian Fischer
Alex Galchenyuk	Jordan Weal	Conor Garland
Lawson Crouse	Mario Kempe	Josh Archibald
Defensive Pairings
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Niklas Hjalmarsson
Alex Goligoski	Jordan Oesterle
Kevin Connauton	Ilya Lyubushkin
Kuemper
G
Kuemper
LW	C	RW
Ryan Dzingel	Matt Duchene	Bobby Ryan
Brady Tkachuk	Chris Tierney	Mark Stone
Zack Smith	Jean-Gabriel Pageau	Magnus Paajarvi
Rudolfs Balcers	Nick Paul	Mikkel Boedker
Defensive Pairings
Thomas Chabot	Dylan DeMelo
Maxime Lajoie	Cody Ceci
Ben Harpur	Christian Jaros
G
Anderson

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

(Kuemper said Cousins is the best trash talker)




Random Facts:
The Coyotes road record is better than their home record (27 points vs 21 points)

The Coyotes leading goal scorers (Keller,Fischer,Richardson) are tied for the 120th ranked spot in goal scoring league wide.

This season the Coyotes have scored
76 goals on Wrist Shots
14 goals on back handers
12 goals on snap shots
12 goals on slap shots
8 goals on tip ins (30th in the league which is not terribly surprising)
2 goals on wrap arounds

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[FinnishCoyote]

You don't have Chychrun in? Have i missed something?

 

[moosemeister]

You don't have Chychrun in? Have i missed something?

Took a maintenance day. "Good chance" he plays.

It'll be day to day tomorrow, then IR on Thursday.

 

[Muppet]

lmao @ the Kuemper interview. "Derek Stepan, he's only 28 but if you didn't know you might think he's 45"

He sure skates like he's 45

 

[MIGs Dog]

Is a puck off the side of the forehead considered a tip in?

Seems deserving of its own category.

 

[Name Nameless]

Is a puck off the side of the forehead considered a tip in?

Seems deserving of its own category.

You can only score with your head if it is deflected in, and you don't move your head to get it right. So it can, like, only be a goal if you're not moving. It seems like a dull category.

 

[SniperHF]

Is a puck off the side of the forehead considered a tip in?

Seems deserving of its own category.

That would have been a deflection (which is a category I didn't list because I think the NHL's counting of that is incorrect)

We have 2 of them officially, presumably one is Garland's.

 

[TheLegend]

Kuemper in goal...... Chychrun will be a game time decision.

 

[MIGs Dog]

That would have been a deflection (which is a category I didn't list because I think the NHL's counting of that is incorrect)

We have 2 of them officially, presumably one is Garland's.

Garland probably has both. He had one game where his back was to the shooter and the puck grazed his sweater.

 

[SniperHF]

Garland probably has both. He had one game where his back was to the shooter and the puck grazed his sweater.

Maybe, I just think they don't count them right. How many pucks go off skates/arms/legs? To only have 2 deflections seems impossible to me. Even the highest numbered team in the league had 13 iirc but the vast majority of teams were in low single digits so it's not simply the soft Coyotes not deflecting pucks. Which would have been a fair assumption tbh.

Fake edit: Garland has 1 deflection goal Cousins has the other. For Cousins it was probably that one that shouldn't have counted

 

[Bonsai Tree]

What's the difference between a snap shot and a wrist shot?

 

[Bonsai Tree]

Maybe, I just think they don't count them right. How many pucks go off skates/arms/legs? To only have 2 deflections seems impossible to me. Even the highest numbered team in the league had 13 iirc but the vast majority of teams were in low single digits so it's not simply the soft Coyotes not deflecting pucks. Which would have been a fair assumption tbh.

Fake edit: Garland has 1 deflection goal Cousins has the other. For Cousins it was probably that one that shouldn't have counted

In Edmonton Garland took one off the head and one off the butt, both going into the net. Not sure how they were scored, but I was there and that's what I saw.

 

[MIGs Dog]

But there is ONLY one pants goal!

 

[AZviaNJ]

Let's get this one.....then whatever happens in Montreal happens and we're at least (NHL) .500 headed into the break for the first time since 2015-2016.

 

[Neighborhood Coyote]

Excited to watch another game! Let's goo!

 

[Lawson of Anarchy]

I feel good about this one. Ottawa is looking past this game to the break. We are engaged. The team has bought in. We're blocking shots at a record pace.

Just hope that we don't take Ottawa as lightly as other teams take us...

 

[Muppet]

I feel good about this one. Ottawa is looking past this game to the break. We are engaged. The team has bought in. We're blocking shots at a record pace.

Just hope that we don't take Ottawa as lightly as other teams take us...

This could be a trap game for us for once. We've been causing upsets recently against teams far higher in the standings, so who knows what we produce against a team lower than us.

 

[moosemeister]

Work hard. Block shots. Take advantage of mistakes. Do what we have been doing the last few games

 

[SniperHF]

What's the difference between a snap shot and a wrist shot?

I'm far from an expert on on such matters but I think the difference is a wrist shot has a distinct wind up with the puck on the blade and the puck is released while in contact with the blade. The snap shot is meant for a quicker release so you do not draw the puck back to generate power but use the flex of the stick and quick motion to fool the goalie along with a smaller gap between the blade and the puck when you take the shot. So the snapper still has a bit of a smack to it but does not take the big motion of a slapper.

 

[SniperHF]

Excited to watch another game! Let's goo!

I'm mostly terrified as usual. I think the last time I wasn't outright expecting bad things to happen on the ice was 2013.

 

[Neighborhood Coyote]

I'm mostly terrified as usual. I think the last time I wasn't outright expecting bad things to happen on the ice was 2013.

Haha and they've given plenty of reason to be up to this point! I don't disagree haha. But at the end of the day, even bad hockey is still hockey! So... I'll take it!

 

[Muppet]

Demers sure is a character

 

[Muppet]

Ladies and gentlemen, your first line center, Nick Cousins. Also KConn in for Lyubushkin for some reason.

 

[SniperHF]

Heh that was my suggestion a couple games ago. I don't think Weal has been all that good outside his first game.
Hell it supposedly took our own players like 2 camps and 3/4ths of a season to "get" the system the first go around so that might be part of it.

 

[Lawson of Anarchy]

Walsh confusing Keller before the puck drop...