GDT: Kraken @ The McDraistles 11/15

[The Marquis]

Did anybody else totally see that coming?

 

[kihei]

Oh, for heaven's sake, Kane closes the gap to one.

 

[The Marquis]

I hate not being able to breathe for several minutes every couple of days

 

[kihei]

The Oilers can't get the puck away from us.

.....until they do. OUCH and OUCH again.

 

[The Marquis]

Been a quiet night in here, and everybody missing has missed out on a good one. Competitive all around.

 

[The Marquis]

Son of a bitch!

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Dammit.

 

[AarG]

Shit

 

[The Marquis]

I’m never saying anything good near the end of a game ever again.

 

[kihei]

It's never too late for a game to go completely south on us. Expect the worst this year.

 

[The Marquis]

Should have never been a goal. Clear cross check on Bellemare. I blame Bettman

 

[The Marquis]

I usually say “at least we got a point”. Not tonight. Forget that, they blew it. It was a 2 point night and they no longer deserve the second point

 

[The Marquis]

I blame gourdes undershirt

 

[Bear of Bad News]

f***ing kidding me.

 

[sigma six]

Not watching but it was 3-1 a bit ago, what happened? Are they sitting back?

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

Saw the last minute of regulation and OT,what happened? Had a class tonight

 

[kihei]

What a time for a natural Kane hat trick. These last three games have been excruciating and for different reasons.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

It's never too late for a game to go completely south on us. Expect the worst this year.

Its OK its part of the Master plan...we are going to great games and not so great games

 

[kihei]

Not watching but it was 3-1 a bit ago, what happened? Are they sitting back?

The funny thing was they were controlling the puck just great late in the third and then everything went crazy real fast.

 

[Hocktopus]

I love this team but this is getting beyond frustrating. Like how many games have we lost after blowing the lead this year? I ask because I have seriously lost count.

As soon as the Oliver's got their second goal, you just knew that the Kraken would find a way to piss the game away and they did not disappoint. This team absolutely has no ability to finish a game whatsoever and they better figure it out soon before the season is a complete loss

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

I love this team but this is getting beyond frustrating. Like how many games have we lost after blowing the lead this year? I ask because I have seriously lost count.

As soon as the Oliver's got their second goal, you just knew that the Kraken would find a way to piss the game away and they did not disappoint. This team absolutely has no ability to finish a game whatsoever and they better figure it out soon before the season is a complete loss

Be nice to have more bodies back from Injury

 

[Irie]

Still not sure how you can have a two goal lead with only 8 minutes to play, and then give up three goals on the exact same play to the exact same player to lose the game.

One would think someone on the bench might have said, "oh, and guys, remember not to leave Kane all alone at the backdoor" when overtime started.

 

[RainyCityHockey]

I guess we've found out what this years team is good at.
It's blowing two goal leads.....

I think we'll have "fun" this season watching an up and down team that will get some wins you might not believer were possible just to drop games in a totally stupid way and finish with about 75 points.

Oh well, maybe they can draft a nice player with that #10 - #12 pick....

 

[Fuhrious]

I stopped watching after McDavid's first goal, and dont think I can bring myself to go back and watch the "highlights". Especially since they are going to feature a lot of Kane. Having to watch Hyman go off last week was bad enough.

Here's what is frustrating me : last season, there were more than a few "tough losses" where it felt like the team was busting their asses and flying around but were a notch behind in overall talent. That's tolerable. Hell, I actually kind of LIKE that. Speed and hard work is fun hockey to watch.

This year it feels like the system is borked, schemes like the powerplay or the forecheck look disorganized and chaotic, and up and down the roster a couple players will randomly make "wtf"-tier mental mistakes that make you really scratch your head.

Some of that stuff...the system/scheme and the mental mistakes...would seem to land squarely on coaching and I'm not super confident that Hak is the guy to sort it out.

 

[Kat Predator]

Has the system really changed? The roster, like every other team, has had some changes. The lines have been juggled. Things aren't working, and mistakes are being made. But Hakstol's system is the same, no?

Last year, we made mistakes. We had mediocre goaltending much of the season and gave up a lot of rushes. But we worked hard. We played fast. The lines had chemistry. We possessed the puck. Won battles. Had crisp passing. All 4 lines were scoring. The defense was scoring. We outscored our breakdowns.