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Yotes outshoot another team by a dozen shots and lose. How long has it been since that happened?
GDT: Game 50: Blue Jackets @ Coyotes | 1/25/18 19:00 UTC-7 | FS Arizona
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Yandover
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I’m at home and I just said to everyone here that Kconn is going to hit the defenseman with the puck and it’s going to go the other way and it happened!! He is so predictably bad. Needs to be shot into the sun!
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_Del_
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I chose Trish to finally dethrone Paula for the worst poet, but I'm not convinced that B doesn't also apply 
rt
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Fun game. Team looks way better. Perlini had about as good a game as any Coyote since the lockout. Domi has got to go see a sport psychologist. I think a healthy scratch is overdue. Worked for Perlini.
Lilhoody
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Plus is correct; add two from the previous season. The coyotes have scored two goals on Bob in three games.
PS - He is a good goaltender...deserved of an award perhaps?
This is the way I thought the team would play from the start of the season. Very entertaining.
rt
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The team is looking good.
Not just because he's on a 4 game goal streak, but Perlini has made huge strides this year.
Not just because he's on a 4 game goal streak, but Perlini has made huge strides this year.
rt
The Kinder, Gentler Version
Since the healthy scratch he's been an absolute menace in all three zones. He's turned into a total puck hound. Shame he's not a center.
Ehh, I think Perlini looks the same after the scratch as he did before. He's always been streaky. I think for Domi, first move is to move him back to wing. Give him less responsibility right now.
As for the game itself, we're finally playing all three periods. Remember the start of the year, we'd get 20 minutes.
Kaibur
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Worth noting that with Perlini getting to 100 NHL games, the 2014 Draft netted us two 100+ game players (Dvorak, Perlini). The last time we did that was 2008 (Boedker, Stone, Tikhonov). We need good players on ELCs, so that trend has to continue.
Bonsai Tree
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We need a goalie like Bob. Holy hell did he play a game against us. My hat's off to him.
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He did play well, but this season Bob's save % of .920 is virtually the same as Raanta's .919
Really? I thought he played with a shitload of poise and confidence. Looked like a vet out there. Great on the point during the PP. I was super impressed. But hell, what do I know...
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Perlini / Keller / Raanta / Fisher have been very good stories in a really bad year. They all look like keepers.
Neighborhood Coyote
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Solid game to watch from the stands. Felt like the Coyotes deserved a better fate in that game. Definitely a shame that some injuries happened and the team gave up that goal so late. But the overall play was solid. Bob is a loose cannon out there!
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Really? I thought he played with a ****load of poise and confidence. Looked like a vet out there. Great on the point during the PP. I was super impressed. But hell, what do I know...
Beard covering up his baby face adds to the vet authenticity.
moosemeister
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Not really upset about the performance last night. Solid game. Solid effort. Lots of try. Lots of sticky.
Injuries sucked, but they got a week off to get over them.
Injuries sucked, but they got a week off to get over them.
rt
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I want to go on the record again as being full-on against tanking this year. I want to win as many games as possible from now until game 82 and I want to keep the players that help us win. I am not at all interested in stockpiling more draft picks. The core group of our kids (apart from Strome) is now with the big team. I don't want to get blown out every night so we can have a 4% better chance at Dahlin. I don't want to trade off all of our vets so we can pick a few extra times in the high 20s, high 50s, and high 80s. This is a 32 games extension of next year's training camp. Keep turnover to a minimum.
I agree, winning games and playing well is way more important then late picks or a small chance to draft #1 overall.
Name Nameless
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So with you on this. Team actually looks way better now. Learning to lose makes your team into losers. Look at what Edmonton and Buffalo has gotten for their tanking: teams who just are programmed to lose. Awful.
Those of you who there: was it really as empty as the CBJ gametread implys? After two wins? Looked scary.
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I've been there with WWAAAY less people in the past. It wasn't a great big crowd but it was ok. CBJ almost never is a good draw here, so I wasn't surprised. However, probably the lowest attended game I've personally been to this season.
Yea, team has had two wins... but that was after what, 7 losses in a row? I don't recall exactly but yea. Took me over an hour to drive to the game from east valley, blah. Even with HOV lane "help". I miss the commute when I was going in from the north haha.
So short answer to your question... smaller crowd than usual this season. However, not as small as the dreaded 5k crowds of the past... not near it.
Tom Polakis
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The kid whose tires I have pumped the most has been Chychrun, but I wasn't at all impressed with his game last night. While the rest of the team looked mostly coherent, he made a number of mistakes, culminating with losing Atkinson with three minutes remaining. Maybe it's just a single bad game for him. I know our GDT is about the Coyotesn players, but of all the guys on the ice last night, Nick Foligno was great everywhere. I was surprised to learn that he's 30 years old; his forecheck and backcheck looked like that of a player in his early 20's hoping to hold a roster spot.
Regarding the crowd, I go to 13 games per year, and that's certainly the worst crowd I've seen this season, if not all time. And I deliberately stay away from games with teams that have strong fanbases, since I can't stomach listening to them anymore.
Regarding the crowd, I go to 13 games per year, and that's certainly the worst crowd I've seen this season, if not all time. And I deliberately stay away from games with teams that have strong fanbases, since I can't stomach listening to them anymore.
