TruKnyte
On the wagon
If this team misses those 2 this much then we're probably not a legit contender.
This. We're not as bad as our recent stretch of games, but I personally don't think we're as good as our point total is either.
If this team misses those 2 this much then we're probably not a legit contender.
Lindholm is a smart player that can compliment star players. He is not a carry his own line type of player. I guess Tocchet didn’t get the memo?
He's still on the pp with the franchise C.
So he's being deployed In all big situations offensively and defensively. Seems like that rather impactful.
Clearly tocchet disagrees with you.
Its just a joke that you complained about the flashy Kuzmenko and then we trade him for one of the best defensive rhs top six Cs in the league...
And you're (all) complaining he doesn't look enough like Kuzmenko?!?!
Wat.
Allvin seeing Lindholm play:
If this team misses those 2 this much then we're probably not a legit contender.
Teams have been targeting him relentlessly. A loose track of all the slashes he receivesHughes looks gassed. Can’t even put any mustard on break out passes or clears. Hopefully he’s not nursing an injury or something.
Tocchet is playing three Cs on purpose so there's only so many wingers.He hasn't worked at all on the PP and was removed from PP1 before they did the weird split thing they're doing now. And Arshdeep Bains is also on the PP with the franchise C.
He has the worst PPGA/60 of anyone on the team who has 5+ PP minutes this year.
Of course Tocchet is playing their big acquisition in the minutes he's supposed to be able to cover. It would be freaking weird if he didn't. But is he getting the job done in those roles? Hell no.
Tocchet is also playing Mikheyev with Pettersson. Are you saying that that's a great move we can't question, too?
This is one of the weirdest posts of I've ever seen putting a pile of words into my mouth I never said.
I loved Kuzmenko. I never complained about him, other than by the end realizing it wasn't going to work out and it was better to invest that money elsewhere.
And I'm not even remotely asking him to play like Kuzmenko. I want him to play like Blueger or Suter or Garland and just f***ing *COMPETE* and move his feet and engage with opposing defenders and win some battles and create a scoring chance through his effort once in a blue f***ing moon. I don't give a shit about dangles and Lindholm isn't a dangles guy. But when he was good he was a guy who competed and won puck battles for his line. Right now he's a timid, disengaged player waiting for the play to come to him rather than going out and working hard and making chances for hiimself and his line.
The Winterpeg game is where the wheels fell off, imo.Did Minny break us with their 10 goals double hattricks game? Feels like we have been largely disappointing since then?
Hughes also hasn't looked like the Norris winner in the last little bit. Exhausted?
Tocchet is playing three Cs on purpose so there's only so many wingers.
He's playing lindholm top mins because he's performing , thus why he keeps playing them. If you were right that wouldn't be the case, like Kuzmenko.
He's not a energy grinder, he's a high iq top six C, making an impact on both ends of the ice if you want to see it, like clearly the coaches do so it has to be reality.
Multiple times this game, they're there to see and count. He's not floating he's in position. If he wasn't he wouldn't keep playing ALL SITUATIONS
Yall need to put the pitchforks away its been a few weeks lmao cmon..
Nothing you're saying is supported by reality.It isn't 'pitchforks'. It's reasonable expectation. We paid a big price for a guy who is supposed to make an impact and that hasn't happened and he isn't moving his feet and competing. I loved this player a couple years ago. But I watch a lot of Calgary games and I was really concerned about the trade talk involving him because he had been really bad for Calgary this year. And convinced myself at the time of the deal that he'd probably perk up here ... but it hasn't happened.
He isn't performing. He's been bad on both special teams and is generating absolutely zilch offensively at ES.
I'm not asking him to be an energy grinder. Blueger and Suter aren't energy grinders. But they work and compete and win puck battles. Lindholm used to do that. He wasn't doing it in Calgary this year and he isn't doing it here. He needs to wake the f*** up.
'The coach is doing it so it must be right and you can't argue it' isn't an argument.