HavlatMach9
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the coach probably does the least amount of work while the game is actually being played than any other time
Zibby was awesome? I didn't even notice him outside of that little segment where they mentioned him
The 4th line was our best line which is why we lost
MacArthur killed our momentum with some stupid penalties
No one should want Kassian playing more than 5
How many games did Neil miss? And what was the record when he was out?
Neil playing too much is certainly part of the problem for this team. His ice time needs to be reduced to Kassian like minutes
One question. Are scratched players allowed in a dressing room before games or in intermissions ?
We cant win, if Kaptain is scratched. But he is not game braking player. So i have a feeling he is kind of clown in dressing room. Make guys loose, maybe he give some inspirational speech or something, talk some dirty jokes etc.
That's the thing, the problem is never the players but the way they're used. Seems a few people missed the sarcasm in my remarks about Phillips (I was very frustrated about the game, and I'm sorry if it looked like I was trolling), but basically it's hard to root for him when he's getting too much ice time and he's making mistake after mistake, or more generally when he's killing momentum. I LOVE Neil but it's hard to root for him when in his absence we can successfully roll 3-4 great lines, and when in his return he gets too much ice time and he takes Condra out of his comfort zone by moving him to LW.
Oh and did you see Stone and Spezza take a shift on the PK? I love Spezza, but how can I be happy to see him play the PK again? Did the coach learn anything? And was that about putting Ziba on the wing again with Spezza? How did that work out? Why did Ziba get so little ice time? If our problem was lack of speed, why did Conacher play so little? What did he do wrong?
A lot of the coach's decision seem rooted in Neanderthal notions such as "veteran leadership", "experience", "good in the locker room", "intangibles", etc. Ceci has shown more poise in 10 games than Phillips has all season. He's half his age! I never cringe when Gryba has the puck, but I always do when it's Phillips.
The coach is making me not root for my favorite players. Not cool.
It seems to me this team is winning despite the coaching staff. We do well when the right people get injured (again, not because they're not good, but because they're not used right). I don't want to root for our players to be injured. Again, not cool.
Oh God. Zibanejad basically started and made our first goal. He took puck from our own blueline, blew by 2 of their defenders, fed it to Michalek who couldn't pass it back, then Zibanejad gained possession and gave chance for Michalek and Conacher to pressure the puck which lead to the goal.
Zibanejad also had great looks on net. He also made several great passes.
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U are stretching it with zibby being the reason we scored...Oh God. Zibanejad basically started and made our first goal. He took puck from our own blueline, blew by 2 of their defenders, fed it to Michalek who couldn't pass it back, then Zibanejad gained possession and gave chance for Michalek and Conacher to pressure the puck which lead to the goal.
Zibanejad also had great looks on net. He also made several great passes.
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It is ****ing ridiculous what people cry about.... phillips had a lot of icetime cause we took so many stupid penalties he played more than 3 mind of short handed time.... Cry me a river if u have a problem with that
Spezza played 15 while zibby player 12 mins. There isn't much difference we tried to roll all lines but this team wasn't going to win if we played zibby 25 mins. He wasn't that good yesterday
Zibby line Got almost as much pp time as our best offensive players too
I blame Phillips and Karlsson for this one. 3 ugly turnover and that was it
Yeah about that. Most likely that reverse pass was called by Anderson - watch him point at the forechecking forward and yelling something. Then watch Karlsson's reaction after the goal.Hard to blame Phillips for the worst turnover in years, specially when EK had possession with 12 seconds left in the period.
Oh God. Zibanejad basically started and made our first goal. He took puck from our own blueline, blew by 2 of their defenders, fed it to Michalek who couldn't pass it back, then Zibanejad gained possession and gave chance for Michalek and Conacher to pressure the puck which lead to the goal.
Zibanejad also had great looks on net. He also made several great passes.
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I did not catch the game due to volunteering... Seems like a bad one, eh?
- Michalik and ZBad were the last off the ice for pregame warmup. They seemed pretty good.
Yeah about that. Most likely that reverse pass was called by Anderson - watch him point at the forechecking forward and yelling something. Then watch Karlsson's reaction after the goal.
Ugh this game almost brings back bad memories of game 6 vs the rangers. Go up early 1-0 on them, get outplayed but hang on to get a PP to get a chance to make it 2-0, take a stupid penalty in the offensive zone which snowballs into more penalty troubles, Richards scoring a 5 on 3 goal and then a late goal in the 2nd off a horrible turnover to put us down 3-1.