GDT: 10/21/24 - 7:30PM EDT - Tampa Bay @ Toronto

[gn2007]

Omg a goal lol

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Making Stolarz look like prime Hasek, pathetic

 

[Point21]

A PP GOAL!!

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Finally

 

[Master P]

Good job Kuch and Point.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

You going to the game tomorrow in New Jersey? Saw your location

I haven't been to a NHL game in a very long time. I enjoy watching the NJ Devil mascot trying to walk up the armrests of seats like steps on a staircase, and faceplanting in a row as much as the next guy, but I like the comfort of my couch.

 

[Master P]

Bueller?

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Can we be greedy and get a second?

 

[Stammertime91]

Doesn't seem like i missed much having to miss this one.

Assilevskiy seems to have reappeared? I haven't seen the goals against.

 

[Bob and 200 others]

Get Kuch another and it a game.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Just need Kuch to do the fake one T slap pass to Point over and over again until we figure out the rest of our PP.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Coop why?

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Doesn't seem like i missed much having to miss this one.

Assilevskiy seems to have reappeared? I haven't seen the goals against.

Assilevskiy was back in full force. Team defense was pretty bad. Raddysh and Lilleberg horrible.

Only guy who I've been moderately impressed with tonight is Hedman, and even he's just been ok.

 

[gn2007]

Guenztel had open net but didn't shoot immediately lol

 

[Powerplay17]

Coop and his stupid empty net bullshit.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Shouldn't be a goal. He's got to drop it immediately, not glove it and move it to the other side of his body

 

[Bozo Nicholson]

Berube's got a lot of gumption to be beaking off after a cupcake win.

 

[aylib]

who gives a shit, let this game end already

 

[gn2007]

Next 3 games will be tough christ.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Berube's got a lot of gumption to be beaking off after a cupcake win.

He's an asshole, no surprise.

Welp at least we have another in 21 hours. Almost feels like a must win

 

[aylib]

McCabe is tough now that we don’t have Sergy

 

[ccman68]

well this early schedule is just brutal. if we can get through this month at around .500 we should be fine. i just don’t see us doing anything in the playoffs with this current version of vasy.

 

[OffBy1]

Fans aren't overreacting over a two game stretch five games into the season - we're seeing the same problems we've seen for the last two or three seasons - Vasy's overall decline, Hedman's defensive and skating decline, the lack of forward depth to cover important players leaving. There's not a lot Jeannot, err sorry, JBB, could do about it as all teams/cores eventually slip out of their contender status. I sat this with sadness as I watched the performance of Vasy and Hedman in sadness tonight.

Vasy started to have me believing again four games in. I put the Ottawa game on the rest of the team. But this performance tonight was the Toronto series all over again, except the skaters were also pretty bad - though Vasy was clearly the worst player out there. He showed us that floor still exists. The only way this team gets deep into the playoffs is he returns to peak form.

The nail in the coffin of the "it's only been 5 games" argument - when was the last time Cooper pulled Vasy five games into the season? I think he's sending a message that he's not getting that extra leash anymore, he's tired of seeing it too.

Last season I would have agreed to bringing Crozier up but he was close to Perbix bad in the preseason this year, which doesn't bode well for him matching last year's level of play.

Though it is early in the season, I can't help noticing Teivo Teravainen, the forward I thought JBB should sign, has 3 goals and 7 points in 6 games on a Chicago Blackhawks team and he's only costing them 5.4 per for 3 years. I'm sure Guentzel is going to lap him in points by season's end, but we would have had money first for another add to the lower lines or pair to help move this farce along a little more believably.