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I've been watching the Flyers a lot this season because I'm envious of the style that Tortorella has them playing. It pains me to see how well Sanheim is doing this season.
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Stupendous Yappi
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He made up for it by taking a bad penalty late in the tie game that inspired the Isles to score a shorty and win 4-3.
I’ll never understand why Army insisted upon giving up on young d-men to sign mediocre vets.Good to see how well Mikkola is playing. Breaking his point records easily. Mikkola is currently 1 point shy vs. Faulk points.
Maybe he doesnt see it. Tho Florida's playstyle dmen take more chances offensive side versus in Blues.
I think the bigger problem is that we couldn’t properly develop and utilize young d. Based on way they were playing (and Miko was pending UFA) replacing them with mediocre vets was improvement. And that is why I wanted MVR gone so bad.
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Well to be fair, it doesn't help when Mikkola is seemingly handling a grenade every time the puck touches his stick. I think with the right coach, his defense would have actually been legit top 4 level, but that passing was just abhorrent. Glad he's playing well, but I was totally fine with the trade to NYR when it happened.
Florida swapped their pucks with grenades in training camp so that Mikkola learned to embrace the fear. Unfortunate the Blues didn't think of that tactic.
boooooooooooGood to see how well Mikkola is playing. Breaking his point records easily. Mikkola is currently 1 point shy vs. Faulk points.
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Damn Blues, every knows that strat!
Yea tbh I was a bit disappointed to see him leaveJoshua with 2 goals. Army letting go decent 4th liner.
I thought Berube was suppose to be good with "the kids"? It does make you wonder why we left Dunn unprotected, traded Mikko, Traded Walman just to watch all 3 move on and become what we need right now? Who's choice was it to not play them? Berube i assume? Then why did management think he was good with kids?
Also, It's no surprise young dmen have a hard time here when even our vet dmen have no f***ing idea what's going on most of the time!
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"He's good with kids ... I'm gonna keep handing him veterans and see how he does with that." Which ... the more you start playing kids, the more you're going to have to deal with their growing pains, and if your plan is "be really good, go to the playoffs, go on a long run" that's tough to deal with. If you can stick a 27-year old, 29-year old, 31-year old into the lineup figuring they've got the experience that they shouldn't be making those mistakes, and then you start handing them term, it makes the kids increasingly expendable.
Is coaching to blame for some of that? Maybe. Let's go ahead and say yes. I don't know that coaching explains why all 5 guys on the ice get caught staring at the puck and don't pay attention to someone sneaking down the wing for back-door tap-in. Or why guys just mindlessly fling the puck around the defensive zone under pressure. Or guys flub easy passes, or have time and aren't under pressure, look up ice with 2 safe options that would be a 45-foot pass and try to go for the 125-foot pass and put it on the tape of the opposing guy in the middle of the ice who doesn't have anyone within 15 feet of him. I'd like to think if you've been playing defense for 10-12 years or so, by the time you get to the NHL you have an idea that neither of those things are something you should be doing. If you're Faulk, Parayko, Leddy and Krug, you really shouldn't be doing that - and yet, we've seen it happen way too often.
Ottawa was terrible, period. They so need a new head coach.
I 100% expected to see a thread about DJ Smith being fired after last night's game, and Berube taking over. I'm genuinely a little surprised that hasn't happened.
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One was on the worst goalie turnover I've ever seen. Bob literally fed him in the slot tape to tape with an open net. Look at this beauty:Joshua with 2 goals. Army letting go decent 4th liner.
Joshua gets paid $1.65M per season. Not the type of player I want for that kind of money.
Right? It seemed like the perfect scenario. Berube and the Sens, as they're currently constructed, are a match made in heaven.
I have no idea what DJ Smith is doing behind closed doors to hang onto his job. They've been a total disappointment.
Agree with your larger point, but Joshua got that over 2 years. He is only $825k per year, which isn’t that much. It’s not that big of a deal, Joshua is JAG, but at that number I woulda kept him. He’s certainly better than the rubbage we had on 4th line last year.
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that was a fabulous pass, it is really difficult to make a pass like that with a goalie stick
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I know this from experience. Still not as bad as the time I took one off the sideboards, spun away to avoid a defender, went to throw a carom off the endboards to my d-man and put it directly into my own net.
Some say that was the day I accepted that I would never make it into the NHL.
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That Bobrovsky pass reminds me of the one time one of the Red Wings players went to make a pass to a teammate and put it right in Hull's wheelhouse and Hull ripped a one-timer past Vernon, who had no clue it was coming.
Of course, that was in the playoffs IIRC and we went on to lose that game (and the series), but it was still one hell of a pass to set an opposing guy up.
Of course, that was in the playoffs IIRC and we went on to lose that game (and the series), but it was still one hell of a pass to set an opposing guy up.
My favorite pass from an opposing player directly onto the stick of the other teams player was EK placing a BEAUTIFUL pass directly to Sunny for a one-timer.
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It was pretty impressive that he was quick enough to get over and screen his goalie.
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