BlackDogg
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"Smashed stick holder"
"Smashed stick holder"
That right side just seems a bit too raw for me. Would rather have Benning on the third pairing.
Persson does nothing for me and I don't think Jones is quite ready yet.
Both Nuge AND Draisatl need help.
I certainly would complain about splitting up our two most dangerous players, yes. And let's not act like the team wasn't dead in the water for most of last game.
I really wanna see a line of
Khaira-Haas-Gagner
I think that line has 2 players that make up for the others weaknesses at every major skill.
I said they need help. Not each other. I'd prefer to go with what works during a tumultuous part of the season than try to get two struggling players going with each other. There was nothing I saw last game that made me think RNH/Drai were a fit for each other.You said yourself that RNH and Drai need each other yet you want to stick RNH with the saps, does that make sense?
Wouldn't it make more sense to stick the best player with the saps and play the 2nd and 3rd best players with each other so there's more potential for 2 scoring lines? Tippett is trying to achieve balance with this current look and I agree with the experiment. If it doesn't work so be it but I've been waiting for the RNH and Draisaitl line to get a longer look for 3 years so maybe I'm a bit biased.
What I don't get is sticking Chiasson on the 2nd line. I don't get the love affair this coach has with this player.
Eric Staal is now a game time decision which means he will play and score four goals.
Which is why they are going to lose anyway.No Staal and no Koivu I'm pretty sure there is literally no reason this team shouldn't win this game. Hopefully Draisaitl's drunk play has subsided we need him to be a lot better going forward. I'll never understand why Tippett doesn't like Persson but will happily throw out Larsson when he makes more blunders with the puck per shift than Persson had in an entire game. Part of me thinks they are trying hard to showcase Jones at this point but we are icing a worse line up to do that.
Russell can be replaced, his best game this year was with Larsson vs LAK facing tough starts and playing big minutes. If you think what that pair did that night was 3rd pair quality I don't know what to tell you. The rest of the time Russell mostly faces 3rd/4th line comp.
Larsson came back from a 2 months on injury reserve having broken a leg. Last games he has been at the very least average, I'd argue very good (LAK), good (BUF) and average (CAR). If you don't like the guy just because, then that's a different story. But you cannot with a straight face say that the only thing he's added these last games is goals against when he's played the toughest minutes out of all our Ds and still come out pretty ok, 1 GA vs Aho's line, shutting down Kopitar's and Skinner's lines.
I said they need help. Not each other. I'd prefer to go with what works during a tumultuous part of the season than try to get two struggling players going with each other. There was nothing I saw last game that made me think RNH/Drai were a fit for each other.
No Staal and no Koivu I'm pretty sure there is literally no reason this team shouldn't win this game. Hopefully Draisaitl's drunk play has subsided we need him to be a lot better going forward. I'll never understand why Tippett doesn't like Persson but will happily throw out Larsson when he makes more blunders with the puck per shift than Persson had in an entire game. Part of me thinks they are trying hard to showcase Jones at this point but we are icing a worse line up to do that.
Yes you hate it, because you watch it expecting some awesome and it never happens....yet it keeps sucking you back in like a drug. Much like the OilersI hate this.
It's like one of those gifs of a girl taking her top off but it never actually comes off.Yes you hate it, because you watch it expecting some awesome and it never happens....yet it keeps sucking you back in like a drug. Much like the Oilers
Is Larsson about to get the 'frag2 18/19 Klefbom treatment'?
It's like one of those gifs of a girl taking her top off but it never actually comes off.
Here here!
This is looking at the bigger picture, long term. Not being obsessed with the standings in mid-November. Splitting up McD and Drai reminds me of splitting up Zetterberg and Dats in Detroit. Didn't work the first or the second time, but once they managed to fill the wings the sum of those two lines was much better than when they were together.
I really hope they bounce back