GDT: HFBoards GDT | 10/11/19 - another quiet night , who's making the schedule ?

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Man.. i dont think the Girgenson, Okposo, Larsson line have lost more than a handful of shifts this year.

They've been dominate all year.

They've been what now?

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Isles answer the Canes goal...and made it look easy.

Caused chaos in the Carolina defensive ranks and an easy tap in for Brock Nelson.

 

[Beerz]

They've been what now?

dominant

 

[JerseyMike34]

Alright, the bit of the Canes/Isles I watched, was alright...

But back to the figure skating Ducks/Jackets....

 

[JerseyMike34]

Alex Wennberg looks awful.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Ryan Dzingel really has found a home in Raleigh.
Very impressed by his overall game.
Looks a lot more engaged than he ever was playing for the Sens and Jackets.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Alex Wennberg looks awful.

I've wondered for a couple seasons just what the hell happened to that guy!

Started out with such promise, looked like he might even be a Ryan O'Reilly or Anze Kopitar type center, meaning a face off monster that could set up ANYONE on a scoring play...…..
Then.....nothing...….sometimes I even forget he is in the league still!

Gotta be a "between the ears", confidence, or "heart for the game" thing because he looks like he has a good skillset.
Either way, some wasted years for him thus far in his career.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Canes make it 2-1 with 5 min left in the 1st.
They certainly are relentless on the attack.

Dzingel almost made it 3-1.... Isles need to buckle down and try to turn this back to the more smash mouth type of game they had going for a bit.

 

[JerseyMike34]

Bad penalty Getzlaf.......

Blue Jackets look like the better team after the intermission.....

It's still a pretty big dog of a game.

 

[JerseyMike34]

1-0 Ducks, SHG Silvferberg

 

[JerseyMike34]

2-0 ducks.... Nice shot Fowler

Jackets had a few PP chances in the 2nd, looked just brutal on all of em, and the Ducks lead.

The game is juuuuuust starting to pick up...

 

[JerseyMike34]

2-1.... jackets on the board.

Miller hasn't looked great, I feel like he's losing sight of the puck easily along the boards/in traffic

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Wow...Weeger just hammered Jack Eichel hard against the boards (legal hit)…..wonder if the Sabres are gonna let that pass.....

 

[Beukeboom]

Yup, the older style of game was far more entertaining.
I'm not sure there has been much body contact in this Ducks game so far. It was a very boring 0-0 1st period. When you remove the hitting, and the gritty aspect of the game, and don't have players flying around and scoring, it's not very fun to watch.

If the scoring starts going down, then this league is in deep trouble. There's nothing going on except goals forward atm, But that seems to be enough to trick the modern fan. Just imagine a new Dead Puck era but without hits and any kind of intensity.

 

[JerseyMike34]

Wow...Weeger just hammered Jack Eichel hard against the boards (legal hit)…..wonder if the Sabres are gonna let that pass.....

He get up just fine?

 

[Beerz]

He get up just fine?

yes

 

[Beukeboom]

Wow...Weeger just hammered Jack Eichel hard against the boards (legal hit)…..wonder if the Sabres are gonna let that pass.....

Who in the Sabres soft team is going to do anything about it? I can't believe no team "gear up" and go hard on the star players, because they're all unprotected.

Edit: Glad Eichel is ok thou. I really hope this is the year he shows this league what he's truly capable of.

 

[JerseyMike34]

Who in the Sabres soft team is going to do anything about it? I can't believe no team "gear up" and go hard on the star players, because they're all unprotected.

Edit: Glad Eichel is ok thou. I really hope this is the year he shows this league what he's truly capable of.

If he got up fine, which apparently he did, then no one will do anything.

Like you said, very few teams have a player that will stick up for a teammate anymore, the players are so worried about taking penalties and it ruining their personal stats, they all just slink away.

I do think there will be a time when the league gets rough again, not like the old school Flyers, or even like 1990's but you'll get some bruisers. Can't wait for a GM to take that chance.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Johnny Boychuk with a rocket makes it a 2-2 game.

Mrazek saw the shot...clear as day....he just couldn't do anything with that USS Boychuk blast!

 

[JerseyMike34]

Johnny Boychuk with a rocket makes it a 2-2 game.

Mrazek saw the shot...clear as day....he just couldn't do anything with that USS Boychuk blast!

Then he takes off the glove and gives the finger gun towards the goal...

Don't think I've seen something like that since Jagr would take off his glove and salute.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Who in the Sabres soft team is going to do anything about it? I can't believe no team "gear up" and go hard on the star players, because they're all unprotected.

Edit: Glad Eichel is ok thou. I really hope this is the year he shows this league what he's truly capable of.

You may have a point...however, that hit seemed to actually invigorate the Sabres as they rained holy hell (in the hockey sense) on the Panthers shortly after that hit and got a goal out of it as the period came to a close.
And yea...Jack seems no worse for wear at least on the surface.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

He get up just fine?

Yea, after the initial shock of the hit, he seemed to just go about his business.
Eichel is tough...and he will simply need to be as he moves further into his career he will become more and more of a target to opposing checkers.

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

Man...Nino Niedderreiter is looking like Minnesota Wild Nino so far into the season...LOTS of chances...can't put one away.

 

[JerseyMike34]

The Hatford/Long Island game is pretty good.... But I must finish what I started, back to Columbus!

 

[TropicalFruitGirl2]

The Hatford/Long Island game is pretty good.... But I must finish what I started, back to Columbus!

Just because you started eating porridge, doesn't mean you have to finish it ya know... there ARE other items on the menu!