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Smith was good on the PK yesterday.
Washington scored on the PP when he got off the ice and the other pairing was on. (Sieges and Marino or someone got on right away and WASH scored that goal from the blueline)
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Smith was good on the PK yesterday.
Washington scored on the PP when he got off the ice and the other pairing was on. (Sieges and Marino or someone got on right away and WASH scored that goal from the blueline)
SteveCangialosi123
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Bastian away from Tierney and McLeod is getting outscored 9-2 and has a 41% xG share. It’s not just Tierney dragging him down, he’s lost without McLeod.
I'm wondering if there is still something about the shoulder holding him back? Whether physical or psychological hangover trying to avoid reinjury?
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Also take out willman laberge and all other plugs that have played fourth line. I truly don’t remember him playing with anyone good all year. Last night I believe he was on for 5-5 goal for after PP expired with decent players. Tierney looks like 99 compared to some of these others including nosek who did nothing
Smith vs Bastian is an interesting debate. I think Bastian is the more solid player overall but Smith is our PK ace this season. And he brings some physical swagger which Bastian does not.
Last night Wilson went at Bastian, but even though Bastian is more Wilsons physical equal Smith got in the middle of it. Took that pressure off Bastian.
But Bastian clarke? For a 4th line role? Im fine with Bastian.
Wilson trying to suck someone into a slashing penalty or something. We clearly have no heavyweight. Smith is a punching bag
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Bastian is included in the guys that don’t look very good though. He fell off
Smith is no Wilson, but he can handle himself well enough, and is actually more then willing to fight. Bastian has never really shown that.
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thought dawg daws played pretty good some meh goal/s but still thats fine if your going to make big timely saves which is something vitek and schmid didn't do at all this year. the fact this team is even where they are with the goaltending they have been getting is pretty remarkable. really gotta hope daws can pull a schmid 2.0 this year
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He may just be having a weak stretch, but he's kind of getting to be the age where teams that drafted those players start moving on from them.
I don't think he's hurting us a whole lot, but he's showing himself to be expendable or at least interchangeable at this point.
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I didn't see much good goaltending from Daws. He made a few good saves on terrible breakdowns, but the ones he let in were Ugly and they hit alot of posts.
Looked great in comparison to the other guy across the way though - ughh.
I would be tempted to take nate over smith fighting wise. I still remember mikey beating the crap out of smith when he was a ranger. I would suspect once nate gets totally comfortable with the repaired shoulder he might throw down. Who knows
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thats all we can ask for at this point unless fitz pulls the trigger on bringing someone in. even if daws is just a tad better then the other two guys it will go miles for the team confidence i think.
Without knowing how that shoulder is doing it’s hard to properly evaluate his play.
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How anyone can just write a narrative on Nosek this season is laughable. He has been injured three different times, just an unlucky start for him.
He was a 25 pt player over the course of a full season in Bostons bottom six last season. He is a serviceable bottom 6 player who can PK.
He was a 25 pt player over the course of a full season in Bostons bottom six last season. He is a serviceable bottom 6 player who can PK.
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Daws could of been better on the 1st and 3rd goal but he came up big after the team gave up that 3rd goal. He stopped Dowd on that I zone tjr over where 4 of out 5 players were practically out of the zone. Maybe we caught a break because it was Dowd and not a better player but Daws didn't bite on that partial breakaway. We could of been down 4 to 3 heading into the e
3rd and that would of made it a much different game.
3rd and that would of made it a much different game.
He has never cracked even 20 pts in a season maybe thats why boston said get out of here. Also sometimes the best ability is availability. Bad signing
A one year, one million $$ depth player for the 4th line and PK, which has zero risk is a bad signing?
Ok Bob
Btw, he has 20+ pt paces throughout his career.
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He’s also a top face-off guy as well as an excellent PK guy.
Boston said “get out of here” because they couldn’t afford to spend 1m on a 4th liner.
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Bastian is #29 forward PER LEAGUE in xGA per 60 from players with 200+ min 5 on 5. He isn’t good offensively this season but he is exactly what he should be as fourth liner.
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Like I said after the Boston game
I don't care if Daws gives up 10 goals the next game he plays, enough is enough with the Vitek stuff.
I'll be elated if Daws starts 8 of the 12 games this month. We're already one in.
And there's only 2 back to back's I think? One more after these next two games? If we can keep him on the bench all but once a week I'll be really happy. Because he isn't getting any better here. Daws possibly can.
I don't care if Daws gives up 10 goals the next game he plays, enough is enough with the Vitek stuff.
I'll be elated if Daws starts 8 of the 12 games this month. We're already one in.
And there's only 2 back to back's I think? One more after these next two games? If we can keep him on the bench all but once a week I'll be really happy. Because he isn't getting any better here. Daws possibly can.
Bastian has become JAG since his injury. Unfortunate for him because it was obvious he was happy to return here after his brief stint in Seattle.
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