GDT: Game 6: Phoenix Coyotes @ Carolina Hurricanes |10-13-13 | 10AM Arizona Time

[rt]

^ good call on the Halpern signing tux. I've come around. It makes sense.

 

[KG]

My boy Hanzal is having a monster year so far.

 

[Demosthenes]

My boy Hanzal is having a monster year so far.

Martypants!

 

[Jakey53]

I think part of the genius was sending the players down on a couple of levels. It called out the vets (kids were doing fine) and it brought experience (never hurts). And yes my knee jerk reaction was not positive regarding sending players down, until I heard Tippetts reasoning.

Line shuffling? That's just gonna happen. How 'bout Ribs with Korps & Moss!

I hope that wakes up Korpi & Moss, they have not been good.

 

[lanky]

I thought Korpikoski and Moss looked great yesterday, with both Chip and Ribeiro.

 

[Jakey53]

Started with:
Boedker - Vermette - Doan
Ribeiro - Hanzal - Vrbata
Korpikoski - Chipchura - Moss
Klinkhammer - Kennedy - Biz

Then when it became clear Klinkhammer is an offensive juggernaut:
Klinkhammer - Vermette - Doan
Boedker - Hanzal - Vrbata
Korpikoski - Ribeiro - Moss
Biz - Chipchura - Kennedy

Kennedy got less than 5 min. and Biz didn't crack 4.
OEL had 10 minutes on special teams alone.
Hanzal played 21 min. including defending the 5 on 3 and got a penalty hat trick for his trouble. Cue signing a right-handed penalty kill specialist center to lighten his load.

I just love watching Klink play. I think he can turn in to a special player. He is always at top speed, good on the boards and not afraid of going to the net and loves to throw his body.

 

[Jakey53]

I thought Korpikoski and Moss looked great yesterday, with both Chip and Ribeiro.

With Ribeiro yes. It was probably Moss's best game this year. He was skating much better.

 

[Jakey53]

My boy Hanzal is having a monster year so far.

Yes he is!

 

[Jakey53]

^ good call on the Halpern signing tux. I've come around. It makes sense.

I guess it does. Better than trading young assets.

 

[WJF]

I just love watching Klink play. I think he can turn in to a special player. He is always at top speed, good on the boards and not afraid of going to the net and loves to throw his body.

I was hoping Klinkhammer would get a legitimate shot at playing top-2 line minutes this year. He has hustle and some proven finish. I like him.

 

[mitch27]

Just got around to watching the last two games. (Very difficult to avoid the scores for numerous days). The team looks really good right now. Klinkhammer has been awesome. He is good defensively and any offence is just a bonus, but it's starting to look like he has more offensive ability than most people give him credit for.

Vermette needs to get off the power play. He either turns it over or takes a stupid penalty to negate our PP. He's not a power play guy. At all.

Dropping Labarbera for Greiss was a great move. I see the potential to be a starter in Greiss.

Stone has really developed into a nice defenceman. Really like his two-way game. He's physical and has a cannon of a shot.

Still upset that Lessio and Brown were sent down but I like what I see from Kennedy so far. I don't expect it to keep up though. Nick Johnson syndrome.


To sum up, this team is good. Very good. I like it a lot.

 

[PhoPhan]

I think Stone's shot is a huge asset, but he really needs to work on his puck control if he's going to be on the point on the powerplay. I didn't see the Canes game, but during the Flyers game, he bobbled passes at least a couple times and lost the zone. One of them turned into an Adam Hall breakaway, which led to a penalty shot. Maybe it's just nerves, but he's a liability back there until he gets it under control.

I've been a huge fan of Klinkhammer though. I wonder if his deficiencies will be exposed with more minutes, but so far, he's looked like a mini Doan out there.

 

[mitch27]

I think Stone's shot is a huge asset, but he really needs to work on his puck control if he's going to be on the point on the powerplay. I didn't see the Canes game, but during the Flyers game, he bobbled passes at least a couple times and lost the zone. One of them turned into an Adam Hall breakaway, which led to a penalty shot. Maybe it's just nerves, but he's a liability back there until he gets it under control.

I've been a huge fan of Klinkhammer though. I wonder if his deficiencies will be exposed with more minutes, but so far, he's looked like a mini Doan out there.

If I remember correctly it was a pretty terrible pass that led to the Hall breakaway. It's something we need to work on. The short passes on the power play should be tape to tape every time. There really is no excuse for passes to guys' skates when there is no pressure.

 

[IPreferPi]

If I remember correctly it was a pretty terrible pass that led to the Hall breakaway. It's something we need to work on. The short passes on the power play should be tape to tape every time. There really is no excuse for passes to guys' skates when there is no pressure.

Yeah, Stone doesn't deserve all the blame on that breakaway, OEL's lackadaisical pass to him was anything but tape-to-tape. Normally Stone's pretty decent with his puck control - it certainly wasn't an issue last year.

 

[PhoPhan]

Fair point on the shoddy pass—I watched that game from the upper deck, so I may have missed that. In the games I've watched on TV, though, I've seen him caught out of position as much as anybody else. I don't know if he regressed or if last year was a fluke or if he's just nervous, but he hasn't made the upward progression I expected.