Just watched the second and third after watching the first live. That in and of itself is demented.
Spew:
- I think I’ve finally figured out what Kane sees. It’s Evander Mother****ing Kane (and a few guys wearing equipment that have the same jersey color as him) versus Pittsburgh. He really and truly is in his own world. It’s his own script, with his own storylines and drama, the twists and turns of him versus Pittsburgh.
It has its moments. He’s always trying, skating hard, save for the rare slow dead stinker. He’s chippy and physical. He accounts for offense statistically. He shoots.
But it.... I just can’t see him being a part of a team that has sustained, long term success. He doesn’t pass. **** shot choices and wide field goals are possession drainers (more mentally draining on everyone else)... he picks when and how to get involved over the edge, equally as detrimental to the team as it is welcomed, simply because he is his own Shakespearean production and can’t grasp the flow of the game relative to the rest of the ****ing team. Goodbye
- Bogosian is better than a few other options, so I guess that’s good. Ha.
- at a loss of words with ROR. He cares. His play is so off, and compounded by his own expectations, I now see hesitations across the board that I didn’t see before. That’s a little scary. He’s tentative with the puck through the neutral zone. He’s taking longer to get his shots off, and his selection has been questionable all year. He’s getting caught puckwatching in our zone, there’s a TON more space in the high slot when he’s out there if you try and recall what it looked like last season... I don’t need him to drive the offense, but I need him everywhere else.
- Okposo ___________ I cant even waste my time writing it all
- MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS. OF ALL THE DRAMATIC - can we please get Jordan Nolan out of the Top 6 and use him a lot less? It’s funny now. There’s like a video game lag thing going on there. ROR knows that one half of his wing options is a total nonentity through the neutral zone, maybe that’s on his list of mental hurdles to clear as he tries to get right. He has a brutal ****ing winger during a stretch in which we’ve been unable to score.
And come to think of it. He really doesn’t have an option on either wing. Maybe we should try and put that line in better situations? Just tossing that out there.
- Antipin is a rookie, he’s not the problem, he’s getting better, and you can tell he’s working hard... with the team being so ****ing brutal, if I’m the staff I’m upping his ice time and taking the harness off right ****ing now.
I have been in lock step with the coaches in terms of how they’ve handled him so far. I understood the scratches and why, and I understand the idea behind having him be a part of the PP... but now I’m ticking it up a few notches with him. I accept it exposes him and us, but if we don’t score, we won’t win.
- I said in the GDT... the way Lehner played the penalty shot looked weak and was self handicapping nonsense. Why did he get so damn low? He’s huge. He shrunk.
- I know we didn’t have sustained pressure, but am I wrong in thinking Jarry looked good? He made some nice stops on some high rips that were on net, he didn’t let a lot of rebounds fall into **** areas, looked pretty poised. Better than our garbage.
- on repeat: we lose every single puck battle and every race to loose pucks on every shift. Every one.
- I can’t stomach the notion of this team continuing to play so piss-poorly overall after watching these performances on film and going over them. They’re so collectively egregious in every manner, doesn’t it boil anybody’s blood to look so beatable? How can nobody - NOBODY - even attempt to put this team on their back? Why hasn’t anybody tried to step up in the slightest form or fashion?
Good god.
I’ll record tomorrow’s game and watch when we get back from our own.
Down for recommendations on MH prof.’s
