GDT: Predators @ Avalanche The New Toy Edition!

[INDhockeyfan]

Bad luck with those broken sticks but we almost got it killed. Stop the penalties and you don't have to be on the PK so much.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

i say ship out weber and rinne

 

[BonMorrison]

9 minutes left for RyJo to make some magic

40 games to go - Pekka needs to make some magic.

 

[LCPreds]

40 games to go - Pekka needs to make some magic.

Seriously. If he had Hutton on his jersey this discussion would be much different.

 

[kypredsfan]

Yeah, no way Pekka is an All Star, no way

 

[Infinite Jest]

Just in case you thought the Johansen trade made Rinne and our PK not terrible: It didn't.

 

[Mass]

Rinne's been pretty mediocre since the Chicago series. Too many softies.

 

[TootooTrain]

I don't know if I'd call any of the goals tonight "softies." What I will say though is that he hasn't made an extraordinary saves. And you expect that from him.

 

[RomanEmpire]

Not a playoff team. And it's an embarrassment

 

[Montross]

Just in case you thought the Johansen trade made Rinne and our PK not terrible: It didn't.

Yep. New player - same result. Team well on its way to playing itself out of the playoffs.

 

[Armourboy]

Lost that one due to taking too many penalties. Different type of loss but still sucks.

 

[klt2001]

Well our offense improved but the bad plays/mistakes on defense, PK, and penalties didn't. Except for our top line, the other three lines and defense/goaltending needs work.

 

[Cashville]

Valiant effort at the end, but you can't win with that many penalties against a lethal power play. Save the doom and gloom please; on to Arizona.

 

[Infinite Jest]

At least 50% of my post Johansen trade enthusiasm is gone, even though he was awesome. Thanks Rinne and the entire PK

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

The only reason we're still in the playoffs right now is because we've played one less game than Colorado.

7 of the next 10 on the road. No easy games. We could easily be 6 to 8 points out of a playoff spot by the end of the month.

 

[Enoch]

Well, Mike fisher -2 pims, Craig smith -4 awful pims, and salomaki with 2 pims .... What an absolutely awful line tonight.

Gaustad with just stupid penalty killing.

Third pairing was shaky early on.

Our fourth line was not very good, especially in comparison to their fourth line.

Good game. We took too many bad penalties, and lost the game on the pk again.

 

[Osprey]

That was a nice way to welcome Johansen to the team, spoiling his 2pt début with too many penalties. Even if they'd tied it, though, you just know that they would've lost in OT, anyways, since they couldn't keep up with the Avs all game (hence, the penalties).

 

[XxSmashville18Xx]

Goose is the reason why we lost that damn game, left to get a stick and Barrie was so wide open!! A body on someone is better than no body, forget the damn stick especially with 6 seconds left when he went to get one. And pekka played decently tonight made saves when he had too. Can't do much when we're shorthanded all night!! Iggys goal was one that couldn't be stop and codys goal was just a good play. This team is just trying to find themselves these next 5 games will be huge! This team will turn it around. Even if we don't we sure have a lot of good reasons to be happy for the future. Let goose walk call up the Russian Kalv and sign Foresy and Ryan Jo to long term deals!

 

[Montross]

Valiant effort at the end, but you can't win with that many penalties against a lethal power play. Save the doom and gloom please; on to Arizona.

I will not save one ounce of doom and gloom when the beat writer himself is saying it is "A critical loss for the Predators. The first half of the season ends and this team is decidedly average."

RyJo is nice, and can score, but he isn't making up for 20 important minutes a night now gone on an already overrated D and fading goalie.

 

[klt2001]

Well I'm hoping Lav will keep the Forsberg/Neal/RyJo line and then change up/fix the other three lines as those lines were bad/a bad matchup which lead to the penalties. These lines just couldn't keep up w/ the speed of Colorado. Think if we could fix/tighten some things up we will get better results for the next game.

 

[VinikToWinIt]

Impressions of RyJo? Didn't watch the game but that shot was filthy.

 

[Infinite Jest]

I will not save one ounce of doom and gloom when the beat writer himself is saying it is "A critical loss for the Predators. The first half of the season ends and this team is decidedly average."

RyJo is nice, and can score, but he isn't making up for 20 important minutes a night now gone on an already overrated D and fading goalie.

Jones didn't play 20 important minutes. He played 20 of the easiest minutes the coach could possibly give him. Seriously, look at his QoC, it's insanely low. He certainly wouldn't have helped the PK either, so I don't know what point you're trying to make. The guys that failed us were Weber and Josi, not the third pairing.

 

[TootooTrain]

I can handle penalties if they're caused by working hard, but the majority of them were simply lazy.

Fisher watches the play go the other direction, trips his man at the skates.
Salomaki doesn't get in good position, waits till he's side by side then grabs onto him.
Smith has THREE other players around him, but still goes for the hook at the hands.

Just not smart.

 

[klt2001]

Impressions of RyJo? Didn't watch the game but that shot was filthy.

Thought he was great. Liked what I saw so far.

 

[Armourboy]

I will not save one ounce of doom and gloom when the beat writer himself is saying it is "A critical loss for the Predators. The first half of the season ends and this team is decidedly average."

RyJo is nice, and can score, but he isn't making up for 20 important minutes a night now gone on an already overrated D and fading goalie.

Jones doesn't change a thing about that game. We were losing with him.