Around the League - PLAYOFFS!?

[PROUD PAPA]

Bolts just don't generate a lot of offense at 5 on 5.
Keep them off the PP and you should be in good shape.

 

[LeafChief]

Tampa getting their dicks kicked in by Dallas right now. Bolts haven't looked their normal selves so far, even with Vasi back.

 

[Jojalu]

Kyper and Bourne talked about this for about 15 mins the other day. From 7 and up it is all skill development and even when you get to the age where hitting bevomes involved they don't teach it any more.

They talked about how 10 years from now when all these kids start coming into the league being taught nothinv but skill that hitting will disappear even more

 

[rumman]

Yeah hes a good player but just hasnt been able to find chemistry with either Hughes or Hischier. He likes to have the puck, but if youre on a line with Hughes hes going to have the puck. When he was in SJS he was the guy on his line. He can obviously still figure it out, but I felt like it was sort of an unnecessary move at the time. This season their D and Gs are really struggling. But dont have much cap space to fix it. Bringing in Toffoli this year too didnt really help Meier either lol

sounds familiar..............

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Tampa getting smoked 5-1 by Dallas. Good.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

That's that for that.
See if the Jets game is better.

 

[Legion34]

Wanting Adin Hill for years is kind of like pining for Arvid Soderblom today...

Better than pining for a cup for 56 years I think?

Hill doesn’t need to

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

 

[LeafChief]

Stutzle should have taken less so that they could have built a better team.

 

[Jojalu]

Wow. Only San Jose has given up more goals than Tampa. 93 already!

 

[BrannigansLaw]

Stutzle should have taken less so that they could have built a better team.

He just needs to dive more. They’d be a 77 point pace team if he was nailing his usual 10/10 Olympic performances.

 

[MCR74]

Stutzle should have taken less so that they could have built a better team.

Apparently he did.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

"Just wait until Vasi is back" oops.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

I'd love to pile on the Lightning and revel in their plight and descent, but I'd give anything for their two Cups. So I won't say anything besides a team that has enjoyed a lot of recent success is starting to have age and expended assets catch up to them.

 

[Seath The Scaleless]

Buffalo....woof.

 

[Evilhomer]

I'd love to pile on the Lightning and revel in their plight and descent, but I'd give anything for their two Cups. So I won't say anything besides a team that has enjoyed a lot of recent success is starting to have age and expended assets catch up to them.

Yeah, it's really nothing more than that. Happens to every championship team at some point.

 

[Havoc]

Tampa is still running away with SCF and HDCF though. They're still capable of stealing a 7 game series if Vasi shows up and your goalie doesn't put up good numbers.

 

[Evilhomer]

Tampa is still running away with SCF and HDCF though. They're still capable of stealing a 7 game series if Vasi shows up and your goalie doesn't put up good numbers.

I'm not sure they will even make the playoffs. I understand Vasi's history, but he isn't that guy anymore. He wasn't for the second half of last season or the playoffs, and he isn't now. No shame in that. The guy has played a ton of hockey and has had incredible success, but I think the years of being overworked have come home to roost. The rest of Tampa's lineup has been shredded by the cap, and the players who have replaced those they have lost are simply not as good. They are absolutely lethal on the power play, and actually not bad on the penalty kill, but damn dreadful 5 on 5. If they want to be ruthless, there are tough decisions to be made on Stamkos and Hedman.

 

[Havoc]

I'm not sure they will even make the playoffs. I understand Vasi's history, but he isn't that guy anymore. He wasn't for the second half of last season or the playoffs, and he isn't now. No shame in that. The guy has played a ton of hockey and has had incredible success, but I think the years of being overworked have come home to roost. The rest of Tampa's lineup has been shredded by the cap, and the players who have replaced those they have lost are simply not as good. They are absolutely lethal on the power play, and actually not bad on the penalty kill, but damn dreadful 5 on 5. If they want to be ruthless, there are tough decisions to be made on Stamkos and Hedman.

It's true they've been mediocre 5 on 5....but they are still somehow stomping the league in scoring chances even while playing mediocre. It's too early to count them out. They're candidates for a hot streak soon.

 

[Evilhomer]

It's true they've been mediocre 5 on 5....but they are still somehow stomping the league in scoring chances even while playing mediocre. It's too early to count them out. They're candidates for a hot streak soon.

Not with that defense. I think that is a bubble team from here on out until they start trading some of the big guys to start over.

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Watching the Hawks get totally outworked, leading to domination by the Wild and remembering we dropped both games to them and got outworked in the process.

 

[Stephen]

Watching the Hawks get totally outworked, leading to domination by the Wild and remembering we dropped both games to them and got outworked in the process.

All true, but then you remember Minnesota is 4 points up on San Jose and we beat them in Sweden and the biggest takeaway is anybody can beat anyone else any given night.

 

[BallardEra]

Wonder if Treliving makes the trade again if he had a mulligan.

 

[ACC1224]

Wonder if Treliving makes the trade again if he had a mulligan.


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Probably but I think he’s also happy with Gregor

 

[PROUD PAPA]

Blackwood sure gets a workout playing behind that team.