Gotta preface this by saying I'm gonna go a little more off the handle than I normally would when stealing a point from the best team post-lockout...
I love Tampa Bay's team structure from top down. Depth, some grit, top end talent, decent farm system always, doesn't make safe picks in the draft and reaches for Russians etc manages to trae picks away and still maintains this too...
But I cant FVUIING stand them as a team on ice. So many whining cheap shot artists collected as a whole. So many guys from top down like to play tough guy after whistles...always been Hedman and Stamkos, lately Point and Kucherov is about one drty move away from suspension superstar or not. Paquette and Killorn have always been pukes but they back it up to an extent. Gourde was a pearl last game. I can't stand playing them.
Refs were garbage deciding they can reinvent the faceoff for no random reason. Risto makes a clear hit on a breakaway and gets a penalty amongst other things.
As to our own team I'll keep Bogo, Larsson, and Risto 10/10 if it means acting like the game youre playing actually matters. This team is charmin soft both mentally and physically outside of a few.
Skinner showed every reason outside of scoring why we need him to stay. Pay the man and stop bringing in moulsons, gorges, Okposo, hunwick etc etc. Cap space wouldn't be an issue if there wasn't back to back GM's bringing in dead weight and then balking at signing actual talent. You know who doesn't do that? Tampa.
Simply infuriating on both ends. equally pissed at both teams when I should just be happy for a point.