Pre-Game Talk: Kings Vs Sens

[milkbag]

Well he does cheat a little bit.
Sometimes when on the attack and he or the other forwards turnover the puck in the OZ, and the play goes the other way, he makes a long slow loop to turn around to start the back-check, instead of a quick stop and start.

do you have a source for this? any video footage to substantiate your claim??

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

do you have a source for this? any video footage to substantiate your claim??

Yes, watch it for yourself when they re-broadcast the game on TSN

 

[Korpse]

Regardless of your feelings towards him. In a game where they dressed an AHL player and a guy who has been a healthy scratch for the first 4 games, I thought he'd at least get 17 minutes

Well, he got outplayed by an AHL player and a guy who has been a healthy scratch.

 

[BonkTastic]

LA is a big team. ..Harpur is a big dude

LA's also the slowest team in the league by a pretty real margin.

If there's one team that Harpur would be ideal against, it's the Kings.

 

[starling]

Melnyk

Forgetting Phaneuf with $1.75M more.

 

[starling]

Wideman looks good with limited minutes. Surprised he only got 8 minutes though

To be fair he was directly responsible for the goal against letting Lewis sneak behind him for a breakaway.

 

[coladin]

Couldn't catch the game today due to family stuff.

How'd we look? Looking at the boxscore, it looks like we got out-shot almost by double (!!!), but 5-1 is pretty lopsided on the scoreboard. And Harpur led the team in TOI?

Sounds like it was a weird game.

The shots were misleading. When you by up 3-0 , it becomes a tough game to manage. They just want to win the game at this point and kept most everything to the outside. A strong team effort.

Playoff Harpur.

Chabot is so good.

Lajoie continues to make nifty plays.

Tkachuk. What can you say, his instincts are incredible.

Stone and Duchene . Great bounce back games.

Great atmosphere and the energy and smiles are infectious

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

To be fair he was directly responsible for the goal against letting Lewis sneak behind him for a breakaway.

That he was.

It was 4 to nothing at that point so he was probably a bit complacent on that play

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Melnyk

And probably the best balanced d Corp we had in 10 years.

 

[Karl Prime]

Well yes that was my point.

It's a benefit to the team IMO. There isn't a funnel for where the play goes so it's harder to predict what the Sens will do

I'd hardly say it makes things harder to predict. It's not hard to figure out the offense is going to go through Stone, Duchene, and Chabot. If Duchene is on with Boedker and White, Duchene drives it. If Stone is out with Brady and Tierney, Stone drives it. That's how hockey works. Your best players generally have the puck the most.

 

[Pierre from Orleans]

I'd hardly say it makes things harder to predict. It's not hard to figure out the offense is going to go through Stone, Duchene, and Chabot. If Duchene is on with Boedker and White, Duchene drives it. If Stone is out with Brady and Tierney, Stone drives it. That's how hockey works. Your best players generally have the puck the most.

Our 2 best players on paper and in general haven't been our best players.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Missed the game but really happy to see White making the most of the opportunity he was given.

 

[swiftwin]

Surely we must have the highest scoring D core in the league right now, right? Chabot, Lajoie and Wideman all have multi goal games. We're sure getting alot of bang for our buck.

 

[DanyHeatley]

Player comparisons from 2011-2013 OG pesky sens vs 2018/19 pesky (but young and sexy) sens:
2011-13 2018/19
Turris—————Tierney
Michalek———-Boedker
Spezza————-Duchene
Alfredsson——-Stone
Smith—————Smith
Greening———tkachuk
silfverberg——-Dzingel
Zibanejad———white
Daugavins——-Paajarvi
Wiercioch———wideman
Butler—————Formenton
Winchester——-Ryan
konopka————Carey
Condra————-Pyatt
Phillips—————Ceci
Karlsson————chabot
Kuba—————-demelo
Gonchar————lajoie
Gryba—————Harpur
Neil+ methot—-borowiecki

do y’all agree? which ones are off or spot on?

 

[Samsquanch]

Surely we must have the highest scoring D core in the league right now, right? Chabot, Lajoie and Wideman all have multi goal games. We're sure getting alot of bang for our buck.

Somewhere in Barbados, there is a coffin in the wine cellar of an old mansion. Inside that coffin is Eugene Melnyk, where he is currently sleeping and grinning ear to ear.

 

[pown]

So great to play without ceci, please get rid of him for anything at all

 

[The don godfather]

Came here to say hi And you guys are playing well without Erik. New guys really contributing .

 

[Acidrain66]

Came here to say hi And you guys are playing well without Erik. New guys really contributing .

Please come back after 40 games

 

[TheNewEra]

So if we could trade Ceci now that would be great

He is very expensive someone needs to tell melnyk that

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

Somewhere in Barbados, there is a coffin in the wine cellar of an old mansion. Inside that coffin is Eugene Melnyk, where he is currently sleeping and grinning ear to ear.

 

[Spartachat]

 

[Ice-Tray]

I'd hardly say it makes things harder to predict. It's not hard to figure out the offense is going to go through Stone, Duchene, and Chabot. If Duchene is on with Boedker and White, Duchene drives it. If Stone is out with Brady and Tierney, Stone drives it. That's how hockey works. Your best players generally have the puck the most.

But this isn't what we're seeing at all, virtually the opposite in fact.

Players were always defaulting getting the puck to EK, even when better plays were available. Just because passes go to Stone and Duchene, or they skate the puck into the o-zone doesn't mean that they are driving the offence all of the time, the eye test would indicate that they are not.

Guys like Tierney, Lajoie, and Boedker are driving the puck, Tkachuk is driving the play, heck even Demelo is driving the play sometimes. Guys are passing to the open man, shooting the puck themselves, or looking to make the best play, rather than looking to constantly pass to the best player on the ice and letting him decide where it goes next. Everyone is driving the net, from Stone to Boro.

We have a team attack right now which is sending the offence through everyone and it makes us harder to predict compared to last year. The PP is an excellent example of what the team attack can look like when the play goes through everyone, and everyone feels comfortable shooting the puck. EK was a fantastic player, but we are playing much better team hockey this year so far and I'm not sure anyone can argue against this.

 

[Boud]

Everyone is contributing. You can see this is a team effort. We play more simple, North-South and straight forward hockey. We're getting a lot of shots from the point (Chabot, Lajoie, Demelo, Wideman).

Up front we're in the crease a lot and going where the big percentage plays happen.

 

[coladin]

Everyone is contributing. You can see this is a team effort. We play more simple, North-South and straight forward hockey. We're getting a lot of shots from the point (Chabot, Lajoie, Demelo, Wideman).

Up front we're in the crease a lot and going where the big percentage plays happen.

Really enjoyable to watch for precisely those points. For whatever reason our defence is getting time to shoot, and it seems like that is the objective, just get it on net.

Or , like Wideman, through it and somewhere in Carp

 

[JD1]

I think by the quotes that continue to appear in the paper that the boys love the new team concept as opposed to having a front row seat for the Erik Karlsson show.

The guys we got in that trade are getting more opportunity and thus far are embracing it.

Some of our younger guys are showing they're ready to be nhl players.

more depth up front and on D minus the star power obviously

Anderson, after last night's stellar performance, has a 913 save percentage. That a bit better than average so far into this higher scoring new season.

If we get 55 games of Anderson at 913 or better it'll be interesting to where we are in April.