GDT: 12/19/24 - 7:00PM EDT - St. Louis vs Tampa Bay

[Stammertime91]

That was pretty bad. How do you miss the empty net that many times?

It's Cooper. Can Coop. He's legitimately ruining this teams ENG production by not leaving Kucherov out there the whole time. He put Point, Paul and Guentzel out there? Please. Any ball busting coach would leave Kucherov out there. Cooper also yelled from the bench "no Jake!" To sabotage his decision making. He wins another game because the Blues were too cowardice to play tough. It's sickening.

 

[Soul Assumption]

It's Cooper. Can Coop. He's legitimately ruining this teams ENG production by not leaving Kucherov out there the whole time.

This, but unironically. Kuch shouldn't be on the bench when the net is empty.

 

[Pierre Larouche]

The shell was initially the way CBJ swept us (and to a lesser extent, the way Washington beat us). We couldn't beat em, so we joined em. And we took the most talented team in the league and played a style that was normally used to win cups for less talented teams. And we bulldozed our way to two cups.

I think sometimes we use regular season games like practice for the playoffs. We definitely did that in 2020. We were not a good team as we transitioned to this style of play. But we figured it out. Most teams have learned that the way to win in the playoffs is, on defense, just give up the perimeter and murder anyone who tries to get inside.

Great comment- I miss the "Flying Lightning" though.

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Nice win, Vasilevskiy was good. Nice to see Goncalves get his first!

 

[These Are The Days]

Same as every other team that scores a lot. They get their big wins too.

Trying to get Cooper away from a system that won two cups... good luck.

Run any system you want as long as you have the players who can execute. I just want it to work. St. Louis is horrible offensively so it's not a problem on a night like last night. But doing this for 2 periods against the Leafs (who basically showed the whole world how to crack us open) and watching it inevitably fail over and over again and we lose doesn't make it okay because it worked 5 years ago.