one2gamble
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Im over saying its goaltending. I am on board with our forwards dont know how to shoot
GDT: Sharks vs Wild 7:30pm, We can finally settle who is the better team (it was the Wild)
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When they were talking about the Miracle on Ice anniversary, I was thinking: "Look where we are now. Ryan Suter's career is winding down and he's playing in an empty arena with a non-medal '92 Olympic hockey player reminiscing about the past with a drunk broadcaster.
(Hedican did meet his wife. And Hahn is just doing his job. So, kudos to them. 
)Same thing with Parise and Couture. Once upon a time Parise might've been the next Yzerman for a powerhouse Devils team. And Couture was the next Parise. Years later, they're both playing in an empty arena with two teams fighting to be the worst in the west.
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Yeah I've noticed that the Sharks seem to get a ton of dangerous chances for but they somehow the goaltender makes a huge save. It seems that it's always so difficult for the Sharks to score but always so easy for the other team. I mean just look at this game. Burns has to make a highlight reel play and Couture's goal took some major skill too, but all the Wild goals seemed to be easy and stoppable.
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He didn't know the guy, or the fact that he couldn't fight, I'm sure. Knyzhov was the guy who stepped up.
I actually have some respect for him for telling the refs to stop the fight rather than just pummeling him for the fun of it.
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He just said let's go. Foligno didn't look like he would've engaged if Knyzhov chose not to do so. Knyzhov did his part and Foligno did his job and laid off when he knew Knyzhov was in over his head. Kid still did well taking those punches.
Yeah that was all knyzhov, they got into a little shoving match off the faceoff and knyzhov lost his stick. Once he picked up his stick the rest of the play was him just following foligno around the ice until the whistle blows and he gives him a little shoulder with a crosscheck followed.
Kynzhov might not have actually wanted to fight, but the actions leading up to it was him asking for a response.
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No kynzhov picked foligno. Just foligno made sure that the rookie learns from this beating. It was like drago vs apollo.
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No it happened at the wild opposite side of ice blue line. Kynzhov had 1 thing on his mind after the altercation at the faceoff and that was to get into foligno's face. He just bite off way more then he could chew. He is a rookie, he hopefully either learns to fight or learns not to go after someone like foligno again.
Yes he really did, you do not do kynzhov's actions and not expect some kind of retaliation.
Wildly inconsistent yes, but nothing compared to how he's been the last year and a bit. Was he worth 9? No, but he's a steady 30+ goal, 50-60 point guy. He's in that Kane range except not as physical. Still, no one could have seen this dropoff. It's as if anyone that goes to Buffalo just dies. Hall, Okposo, Skinner...
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Sorry got they cut off the video of the faceoff a while before the fight so I mixed it up. He followed foligno because he's his man, no?
Foligno elbowed him up high off the faceoff, so yeah. Lame. Maybe the fight wasn't the lame part.
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I'm disputing that at all, I was saying that Eichel lifted him to the most productive season of his career and was doing so in a tongue in cheek mannner
The only lame part was that two bottom dwelling teams bothered to fight in a meaning game in an empty arena.
Otherwise, Knyzhov and Foligno were just playing the tough guy game within the game. Initiate extra contact to gain a physical edge in the game. Do what you can get away with. But, if it gets called out, duke it out and call a temporary ceasefire on the dirty play.
Knyzhov didn't necessarily have to escalate it immediately. He could have just finished some checks on Foligno or did a little dirty on his own. But, he's a young guy and that's the route he chose. Even though he lost the fight, it builds his rep as not the easiest target.
The only lame part was that two bottom dwelling teams bothered to fight in a meaning game in an empty arena.
Otherwise, Knyzhov and Foligno were just playing the tough guy game within the game. Initiate extra contact to gain a physical edge in the game. Do what you can get away with. But, if it gets called out, duke it out and call a temporary ceasefire on the dirty play.
Knyzhov didn't necessarily have to escalate it immediately. He could have just finished some checks on Foligno or did a little dirty on his own. But, he's a young guy and that's the route he chose. Even though he lost the fight, it builds his rep as not the easiest target.
Well considering the absolute beating he got it might not of worked that well.
Yeah I recant that last part. The Foligno mercy points probably won't go far for future opponents.
So that's Gabriel's enforcer schtick - convince everyone else that they should be the ones fighting, not him.
Although, I'm not sure why Donato is practicing this unless he wants to fight lightweights. Maybe it'd be more effective for Marchment to teach open ice hitting or something.
