Post-Game Talk (GBU): Luck wins the day

[Gabrielor]

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Pommer goal
Okposo scoring
Skinner 30

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I hate games like these. The canes just played smother d all night, barely attacked, and got supremely lucky.
Jack needed to use his guys this game. He was smothered by Slavin
The canes d went to the Babcock school of interference

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The 3 cane-by-sabre goals

We needed this one. We didn't get it. Gotta find a way to beat Tampa tomorrow...

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[oldgoalie]

Terrible puck luck til KO’s goal.
They looked terribly incompetent the entire game.
Tomorrow and TB rested is not looking good.

 

[vcv]

Frustrating game all around.

Didn’t play well, still should have won if not for ridiculous bounces.

 

[enthusiast]

An unfortunate night. Win tomorrow.

 

[MayDayMayDay]

Tough to find anything good out of this game. Skinner's goal and Pommer/OK both getting on the sheet, but it's just... Ugh. If we didn't have bad luck, we'd have no luck at all. 3 GA on three of the wackiest f bounces I've seen in years.

Botts... Botts, dude... Come on man. This team needs a shot in the arm in the worst goddamn way.

 

[Dubi Doo]

Luck wins the day?


Poor effort loses the day.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Let's stop blaming luck.

If several players don't step it up, it's going to be a painful existence the second half of this season.

 

[oldgoalie]

Jack did look rusty out there, too. I hope they didn’t rush him back.

 

[CatsforReinhart]

Let's stop blaming luck.

If several players don't step it up, it's going to be a painful existence the second half of this season.

That 10 game stretch we had a lot of luck.

Whats the expression? You have to be good to be lucky?

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Eichel and skinner come on with twenty seconds left to get one scoring chance, even though the goalies been pulled for a couple minutes and we manage 0 shots in this time. Mittlestadt and Pilut looked like they tried hard though.

Housley needs to go on waivers

That is all

Jack did look rusty out there, too. I hope they didn’t rush him back.

Its one game after an extended time off of course he’s not going to go all world.

He seemed fine setting up the skinner goal even though he didn’t get the assist, he probably made the nicest pass in that play. And he didn’t get to go out until the dying seconds because housley is clearly a genius. As said above.

 

[enthusiast]

Luck wins the day?


Poor effort loses the day.

I'd like to think it was some of column A, some of column B

 

[HaNotsri]

Really bad game. Housley not adjusting and breaking the trend is so typical for our organization this year.
Erod looked good at least. Smith in the lineup could have made a real difference. No energy to fight through their trap.

 

[enthusiast]

Getting outraced to pucks by a team that played yesterday stings

 

[CatsforReinhart]

On the good side there is lots of movement today in the NHL. Although small moves it shows GMs are talking

 

[nickdawg95]

lost 50 $ on this game you guys suck !

 

[Jim Carr's Rug]

Random take aways...

The Tage Eichel Skinner experiment lasted a period and a half... and rightly so. Tage looked helpless out there.

Slavin may be the most underrated player in the league.

Tough breaks, but buffalo also needs to hit the net.

Also, the power play zone entries make me want to pull my hair out. Come on a Phil, if anything is coach-able, that is.

 

[Howie Hodge]

That 10 game stretch we had a lot of luck.

Whats the expression? You have to be good to be lucky?

They were resourceful and gritty to win 10 in a row. And we received grade A goalkeeping.

We have seen little of either since.

Sadly....

 

[K8fool]

Frustrating game all around.

Didn’t play well, still should have won if not for ridiculous bounces.

Yep.. played mostly as individuals only pommer line played together .. hopefully lack of attention getting Jack back..

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

They were resourceful and gritty to win 10 in a row. And we received grade A goalkeeping.

We have seen little of either since.

Sadly....

Gritty and resourceful sounds like a long way to spell lucky.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Gritty and resourceful sounds like a long way to spell lucky.

Gritty and resourceful create luck - usually.

Were they lucky as you seem to suggest?

Yes, I also think they were...

 

[Fearnot]

lost 50 $ on this game you guys suck !

Daddy that was my coat money, I'm so cold.

 

[Not Sure]

Why does Housley refuse to make a goalie change when the starter is fighting the puck? It doesnt mean hes getting sent to the AHL, Hutton was struggling and that first goal was on Scandella for using his stick instead of his hand to knock the puck away from the net, not into it.

Sometimes a goalie change is the simplest thing you can do to wake a team up. Changing the goalie might give them a shot in the arm knowing they let Hutton down, or it might just show them Phil is paying attention and that's bad news for a few players on this team. The lack of in game adjustments makes it seem like Housley is on auto-pilot, the honeymoon is over, I want literally anyone else coaching this team to show them status quo is unacceptible.

 

[DJN21]

This is the game I officially go anti-Housley. Not that anyone cares.

Bogo has gotten a pass allll year and maybe he deserves it but he had about 4 chances tonight where all he had to do was hit the net to not look like a shmuck offensively.

Team still needs grit...since day one. Strikes me as a game where had we turned on physicality we could've turned the tables and drawn more penalties etc.

Watched the Amerks llose a terrible game too. What a day to be a fan....

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

Sloppiest game I've ever seen. Puck bouncing on everyone, nobody could hold the puck or receive a pass. It was like watching pee wees during intermission. Mostly the same from Carolina, except for the three own-goals.

 

[old kummelweck]

I wonder if Eichel is not 100%.