GDT: #43 | Ducks at Penguins | 7:00 PM | The one where Pixies watches this team and knows more than all of you.
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Gurglesons
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A real jerk thing
Buddy Bizarre
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Randy Butternubs
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A real jerk thing
BlindWillyMcHurt
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I think it's hilarious that we're at the point with a capped out, max salary supposed contender of a team where we are simply begging them to just like... find a way to dig deep and grind out some wins using extremely basic fundamental hockey but they just... can't. It's almost like the whole team is unprepared, discombobulated, demoralized and has no identity.
This is obviously Kapanen's fault somehow.
Gurglesons
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We’ve instituted a sounding policy instead of write ups at my job. Going well.
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This reminds me, I've been meaning to comment on Smith and his passes on the PP. He give a legit backwards pass to the trailer. It's not a drop pass. You can always see just a smidge of hesitancy with the trailer as clearly they are not used to it. I'm surprised Sid or Geno haven't put him up against the lockers yet.
I wish ChatGDT didn't stop at 2021. It would be a good tool to make player poems. Especially in these trying times.
And PSA: Don't bother asking it for advice on how to win. It didn't give much insight.
Buddy Bizarre
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Coincidently, I got a new title change to Director of HR at the beginning of the year. No change in my duties, but it sure sounds cooler!
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I suggest we go with the PPP approach- have we tried asking the players pretty pretty please?
BlindWillyMcHurt
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No but the coach is nice enough to talk about how hard they tried after getting clowned by some team they are desperately in need of a win against. So that's nice! And Big Jeff and Brian the Lion are just SUCH key cogs to this well oiled machine that I can't help but take a moment unprompted to talk about it.
Randy Butternubs
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L2 was pretty darn good against Canes, creating a lot of really good looks
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Yeah that's what L2 does... get everyone all hot and bothered up to the point of the actual important part. Scoring.
I'm frankly pretty tired of pretending that the Zucker/Malkin combo is gonna "finally break loose." No they're not. This is what they do. It's a ton of effort for no payoff. Unless ya'll haven't had enough moral victories, yet. I myself am full up on those.
BlindWillyMcHurt
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It's no disrespect at all. You aren't wrong. But I'd rather see some loosy-goosy, dysfunctional mess of a line that actually FINISHES then this tease line that does everything right aside from the actual important part. The only thing these two are getting for their efforts are deeper down the +/- hole.
no you are 100% right, I just don't want to have all my hopes dead. +/- hole they do keep digging, at least they were positive first third now they are getting scored on too....
BlindWillyMcHurt
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Nobody wants to hear it but as hard as Zucker tries, as much as he cares and as proud of him as well all are... he's a good third liner or a complimentary top six wing at best. If you're gonna have him be the primary wing for an aged Evgeni Malkin then you're gonna have a bad time. Or at least a very un-clutch, offensively inconsistent second line.
The top six needs some REAL shakeups in an attempt to find some spark but we won't see it.
It’s not hard to get scored on when Ruh or Dumo is behind your line lol…Geno had 4 points, 2 at ES, against the Canucks…the Ducks also have a bottom three defense…if Geno gets the acres of space he got against the Canucks, that line will score lol…just a matter of what D is behind them lol as far as xGA…that and how CDS is performing
Gurglesons
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I mean he’s a good top six winger. Just not a line driver.
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BlindWillyMcHurt
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He's OK. You can see and appreciate the effort so he's easy to like. But the reality is that Malkin can't carry two complimentary/tweener type guys anymore. He needs a Guentzel. I've been saying it for years and everyone rolls their eyes and goes on some screed about how the team can't afford that but that's where we are.
I mean... if you want a second line that can do f***-all aside from barely hold serve and/or come out the end of the night a -1 and maybe have some nice moral victory fancy numbers or something.
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