That makes no sense though, unless we were the most fragile team in the league. It's not like we traded away our best player, or made a surprise move, these are professionals and Turris was coming up on the end of his contract. The team falling apart after trading away a good player for a better player is not a defendable excuse.
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That makes no sense though, unless we were the most fragile team in the league. It's not like we traded away our best player, or made a surprise move, these are professionals and Turris was coming up on the end of his contract. The team falling apart after trading away a good player for a better player is not a defendable excuse.
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Always seems like there's an influx of posters I don't see in GDT's whenever we play a certain team...can't figure out why
Methot, Turris and MacArthur are missed big time. On the ice and off.
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Karlsson is human. This is his second major recovery from injury, and he isn't even sure if his ankle will ever get back to normal. He's angry, frustrated, and tired.
There were several incidents this game where I saw Erik working his ass off, and at least 3 other skaters standing around watching the play (the empty net goal, and a goal in the first period). Erik has put the team on his shoulders for a few years...but he simply can't do it all himself right now with his ankle. Time for Atlas to shrug and some of his teammates to pick up that boulder for awhile and carry the load. That is what a good team does....hell, they did it nicely against Nashville. How did that disappear so quickly this game?
There were several incidents this game where I saw Erik working his ass off, and at least 3 other skaters standing around watching the play (the empty net goal, and a goal in the first period). Erik has put the team on his shoulders for a few years...but he simply can't do it all himself right now with his ankle. Time for Atlas to shrug and some of his teammates to pick up that boulder for awhile and carry the load. That is what a good team does....hell, they did it nicely against Nashville. How did that disappear so quickly this game?
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I know I’m struggling. Barely got through my cheese board tonight. As I clenched the last slither of Brie I said papa L, what would Erik do?
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Just like Andy, Condon had little support but he looked better. The guys might have been more energized early on if Condon had started and played the same game he did the rest of the way after he took over. From Condon's standpoint it's only 2-2 plus an en goal.
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I have to fix my numbers about Condon above. Since Condon took over later in the 1st with the score 3-0 for Tor, discounting the empty netter Condon actually won his part of the game 3-2 but since the Sens scored 3 ( a technical tie) I wonder if he gets tagged with the loss.
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I have to fix my numbers about Condon above. Since Condon took over later in the 1st with the score 3-0 for Tor, discounting the empty netter Condon actually won his part of the game 3-2 but since the Sens scored 3 ( a technical tie) I wonder if he gets tagged with the loss.
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A nice trip to the zoo will do us the power of good.
and I thought you were all about precise language and here you are talking nonsense
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The line-matching by Babcock killed us tonight. They managed to completely neutralize the Duchene line. The Stone-Brassard line had its offensive moments, but they were guilty of defensive mistakes. That's when our defense should be able to pick up the slack, but they were completely exposed tonight.
It's in a game like this that Methot is missed the most. That stabilizing presence, the calm, the strength, the mistake-free play.
Another very noticeable difference is that when we have the puck in the O-zone, it's usually just our 3 forwards kind of left alone to fend for themselves (Toronto in contrast has a 5-man presence in our zone). Sure, Karlsson is there too, but when he's there things are fairly chaotic (which can be a good thing sometimes: to score goals it's not a bad thing to be unpredictable). But we don't have the kind of point guy who pinches in, provides a passing outlet, can move the puck around quickly, can be a shooting threat, just keep things simple and effective. We have each of these things individually in each defenseman, but the whole package is missing (Chabot should get there soon hopefully).
Amazingly, Boro seems to be the closest to the complete package these days. That's good for Boro and a bad sign for the rest of our defense.
If we want to compete again soon, we need a major upgrade to our top 4 defense.
It's in a game like this that Methot is missed the most. That stabilizing presence, the calm, the strength, the mistake-free play.
Another very noticeable difference is that when we have the puck in the O-zone, it's usually just our 3 forwards kind of left alone to fend for themselves (Toronto in contrast has a 5-man presence in our zone). Sure, Karlsson is there too, but when he's there things are fairly chaotic (which can be a good thing sometimes: to score goals it's not a bad thing to be unpredictable). But we don't have the kind of point guy who pinches in, provides a passing outlet, can move the puck around quickly, can be a shooting threat, just keep things simple and effective. We have each of these things individually in each defenseman, but the whole package is missing (Chabot should get there soon hopefully).
Amazingly, Boro seems to be the closest to the complete package these days. That's good for Boro and a bad sign for the rest of our defense.
If we want to compete again soon, we need a major upgrade to our top 4 defense.
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I also know that the Citizen has been utter garbage ever since the Sunmedia merger, but the paper has honestly been terrible for the better part of almost two decades. The paper sucked almost immediately after Southam sold it to CanWest in 2000, and became even worse as it adopted tabloid style journalism after it's acquisition by PostMedia in 2009.
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First period was very poor, rest of the game wasn't terrible. Not a great effort overall.
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I only saw the 3rd and once we got the 2nd goal, Brassard just missed on a wraparound among other good chances . That goes in and Toronto is in trouble.
That team needs some serious help back there but forwards and goalie are very good.
Ho hum, team is a sad group of pros that are playing out the string, playing with attention that one would expect from a bunch of quitters.
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Man Phaneuf is gonna get worse and worse and by the estimated Seattle expansion Phaneuf will have 1 year left on his contract, its pretty much a forced buyout at that point but will Melnyk do it?
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