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Some of those calls on Reeves were because of reputation, he threw a couple clean hits. Having said that, after what seems like the 8th penalty in the third we should have benched him.
Reaves has a short leash with me.Some of those calls on Reeves were because of reputation, he threw a couple clean hits. Having said that, after what seems like the 8th penalty in the third we should have benched him.
And Theo.
Someone’s got to leave the D corps, and at this point I think it’s Deryk Engelland. He has not looked good for a while.
Agree with at least some sort of leash. I'm not sure we yet know how significant Reaves' role is supposed to be, and I'm not sure we really will until this team roster-wise is back to where it was a short time ago.Reaves has a short leash with me.
I realize what he can bring to the game by giving our good players a little extra room. However, he’s not going to get the benefit of the doubt on anything, and honestly, I didn’t think our guys were having many issues getting beaten up. However, there must have been something going on in the room that made GMGM and Gallant think we needed him. This definitely seems like a move Gallant was behind based on his statements.
I’m willing to trust everyone, but that game was a piece of **** and Reaves might as well have had a spotlight on him all game.
Reaves has a short leash with me.
I realize what he can bring to the game by giving our good players a little extra room. However, he’s not going to get the benefit of the doubt on anything, and honestly, I didn’t think our guys were having many issues getting beaten up. However, there must have been something going on in the room that made GMGM and Gallant think we needed him. This definitely seems like a move Gallant was behind based on his statements.
I’m willing to trust everyone, but that game was a piece of **** and Reaves might as well have had a spotlight on him all game.
If you have Netflix, check out Ice Guardians. I watched it again and I think it's helped me through this transition. I don't dislike Reaves, I just know he's filling a role and doing what he thinks he has to do to keep himself in the league. I'm not mad at him at all, I think he'd rather just be a big ass forward that can play hockey well versus being the goon/enforcer than can play hockey well. However, if we don't see benefits in the next few games while the 4th line is f***ed up due to PEB's absence, I hope the experiment is over and he just hangs out in the press box as a threat in a long series.Agree about Gallant's statements regarding Reeves. Gallant was a bit of an enforcer back in his day too, from what I've read.
Last night really gave me the impression that Reaves' sole purpose is to rough people up. The way he was checking guys, just pinballing from board to board and chirping the whole time, while he didn't make a ton of offensive plays moving the puck, really gave me pause. I would hope Gallant reels him in a bit, but I really don't know whether he want to or not?
Forget all the analysis and debate.
Here's the real reason we lost:
Seriously, that's pretty awful. How can something like that go missed?
Agree. Got left hanging on those two turnovers that led directly to goals. Not to blame there.By the way, I thought Max did better than I expected, considering how long he's been riding the pine.
Gallant likes his 4th liners and his heavy guys, we just haven't had one like Reaves.My biggest problem with Reaves over the last couple of games is hasn’t been interested at all in playing hockey... he’s been skating around trying to hit anything that moves. Diving to try knock the puck in was the only hockey play I remember from him.
Playing him has had the opposite of the desired effect. They aren’t scared of Reaves they know he’s going to get the calls against him. It’s no surprise to me that the last two games have been the most physical of the year, not only does it give them more reason to hit us... but the team has got the stupid idea in their heads that they need to play LA hockey. Vegas hockey is what has worked and it has worked extremely well if we had have played our game the last two games this series would be 4-0
But don’t worry fam I have taken it upon myself to remove Reaves from temptation and have had him fired into the sun
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Nope.Allo Leafs fan coming in peace. As an expansion club do you guys still get top odds in the next 2 drafts?
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Agreed - not the right response after costing the game.What a ****ty attitude. Vegas is a team first team... I don’t even want him anywhere the locker room with that me first attitude
I’m concerned that he won’t be seeing the press box Turk is saying all the wrong things about Reaves. And the SinBin guys are concerned Turk won’t want to scratch himAgreed - not the right response after costing the game.
He doesn’t have to apologize, but he’ll be seeing the pressbox soon enough if the penalties continue! Let’s see how he does against a team that isn’t LA or Anaheim, first, though. He can be an effective fourth line energy guy.
Jesse Granger is the guy that called GMGM a genius for the Reaves deal. He's a hack when it comes to hockey like most of the other vegas sports media when it comes to hockey. Only a couple of media outlet guys seem like they know hockey well.
It's been two games and there's guys on the mend. If he wanted to scratch him now, he couldn't.I’m concerned that he won’t be seeing the press box Turk is saying all the wrong things about Reaves. And the SinBin guys are concerned Turk won’t want to scratch him