GDT: Despite what it looked like last night, we are not playing the Maulers tonight, it’s the Stars

[A Star is Burns]

Just saw on Spectrum News that Mrazek had a dislocated thumb. May need surgery and could be out multiple weeks.

Probably about the best case scenario. I don't look forward to Ned getting in any games, but I hope he proves me wrong.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Probably about the best case scenario. I don't look forward to Ned getting in any games, but I hope he proves me wrong.

I think "next man up" syndrome is infectious, and thankfully not in the 'roni way. I'm sure Ned wants to be in the NHL full-time next year. It's an opportunity for sure. He'll definitely get a start vs. Chicago.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

WIN. GOOD.

CAN ANYONE DEBRIEF ME?

 

[tarheelhockey]

Screenshot this for when we’re skewering these guys a few days from now.

Staal in particular is showing what he means to this team. This group can win with Slavin and TT out of the lineup. Now mentally re-play the last 3 games with those guys but no Staal.

All kidding around aside, this is how you build a rivalry.

I think the NHL would be well advised to think about keeping the 2-game series in place going forward. Between the reductions in travel and the lowkey playoff dynamic that it produces, they may have stumbled across something that we didn’t know we were missing.

 

[tarheelhockey]

WIN. GOOD.

CAN ANYONE DEBRIEF ME?

Some of it was domination similar to last night, but most of it was more evenly played and a couple of blown assignments hurt the Canes late. Some cheap stuff including a Benn hit on Staal that could have been really bad. Benn put Dallas ahead in the 3rd, Nino tied it late on a wild slapshot, huuuuuge penalty killing sent it to OT, Radulov talked shit after scoring. Finally the hockey gods declared they had seen enough, and smited Benn on his chance to keep the Stars alive on the final shot. Steven Lorentz graciously allowed other players to have some attention rather than scoring an Ovechtrick.

 

[3CanesInTheBox]

WIN. GOOD.

CAN ANYONE DEBRIEF ME?

you would have been simultaneously enraged and proud of the vengeance enacted.

great character comeback to a somewhat uneven game.

 

[DougieSmash]

I know it's small sample size but Skjei, Gardiner, NN and Tro have been huge for us. I like it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I know it's small sample size but Skjei, Gardiner, NN and Tro have been huge for us. I like it.

Nino and Skjei just kind of are what they are. We have to take the good with the bad. Skjei is showing a bit of a maturity incline which is good to see.

But I’m really savoring the fact that both Trocheck and Gardiner look like themselves again. There’s a timeline where one or both of them injury-ruined husks of their former selves and we’re trying to figure out how to replace them ASAP. That timeline is a lot less fun than the one we’re actually on.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Did Tripp ever correct himself on blaming Skjei for that blown coverage on the 3 on 2 when it was Jake Bean?

 

[Tryamw]

Did Tripp ever correct himself on blaming Skjei for that blown coverage on the 3 on 2 when it was Jake Bean?

Not that I recall. And that's being a rookie unfortunately... Bean needs play to get better. kind of like Fluery did.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Did Tripp ever correct himself on blaming Skjei for that blown coverage on the 3 on 2 when it was Jake Bean?

Was poorly played all around IMO. All 3 forwards got caught deep which led to the 3-2. I think it was Dzingle? (correct me if I'm mistaken) When Aho and Svech were down low, Dzingle saw the puck in the corner so went after it. Svech never recovered from getting knocked down and Aho went to the the front leaving no player high. Dzingle? tried a difficult, high risk pass to Aho, who was covered near the slot (vs. sending it back behind the net again) since Svech was already pinned behind the net. Pass was picked off and now it was a 3-2. Aho could have rotated higher as well after seeing Dzingle? down low.

Fleury must have thought he had more help to the inside because he played it to tight at the blue line and too far outside which basically took him out of the play and turned it into a 2-1. Maybe he thought he could stop the pass? Bean, probably seeing a guy coming up the middle that Aho wasn't going to be able to catch and seeing Fleury out of the play along the boards makes a decision to come over and get the more dangerous guy coming up the middle. That left Cogliano all alone and Aho had even further to travel to try and catch him.

Bean probably"blew" the coverage in that he committed too far over vs. trying to stay in the middle more, but Fleury didn't play it well either leaving Bean in kind of a difficult spot; and the high risk pass in the ozone with 3 forwards low kicked the whole thing off.

Not complaining though. We got a bunch of young guys and guys not accustomed to playing with each other so there will be breakdowns like that. Overall, the team played well given all the circumstances.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I thought Svech was determined to score on that play after getting the shaft on the penalty call. He forced the play too much which contributed to the odd man rush the other way.

Bean will learn, although his playing opportunity looks short lived.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Watching the highlight package on NHL Network, Fleury really could’ve had a couple goals last night.

 

[Chrispy]

Did Tripp ever correct himself on blaming Skjei for that blown coverage on the 3 on 2 when it was Jake Bean?

No. It actually made me think it was Skjei and Bean out there based on the board's reaction and Tripp's. As stated above, no one played it well, and Bean compounded the issue in an effort to shut down the 3-on-2.

 

[A Star is Burns]

I think "next man up" syndrome is infectious, and thankfully not in the 'roni way. I'm sure Ned wants to be in the NHL full-time next year. It's an opportunity for sure. He'll definitely get a start vs. Chicago.

Maybe, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that syndrome wasn't in place last year down a couple goalies and a couple dmen when he played, and he never looked good or comfortable. If we continue to play well, we can win with him in. Maybe he'll be a bit more comfortable this time. But what I saw last year doesn't inspire confidence.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Watching the Rod video and seeing the Skjei stats pop-up, Oh my 25:50 for Skjei tonight?!?!

TOI leaders last night

25:50 Skjei
25:03 Pesce
21:53 Hamilton
21:16 Aho
21:00 Necas !!!
19:37 Trocheck

 

[tarheelhockey]

Just wanted to note the play that Pesce made to set up Nino’s late goal. He had some easy low-risk options and instead made a really nice creative play to open up the D and give Nino some momentum heading into the zone.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Just wanted to note the play that Pesce made to set up Nino’s late goal. He had some easy low-risk options and instead made a really nice creative play to open up the D and give Nino some momentum heading into the zone.

That's an underrated aspect of both Slavin and Pesce's game. Making creative plays to get it to the forwards in transition. I had hoped Gardiner would be able to do that last year as he did that with Toronto and now that he looks better this year, maybe we'll see more of it from him as well.

 

[Wolfpuck]

Just saw on Spectrum News that Mrazek had a dislocated thumb. May need surgery and could be out multiple weeks.

Just pop it back in place and wrap it with duct tape. Problem solved.

 

[geehaad]

Now mentally re-play the last 3 games with those guys but no Staal.

Don't have to do too much mental gymnastics...just look at our only loss this season.

I think the NHL would be well advised to think about keeping the 2-game series in place going forward. Between the reductions in travel and the lowkey playoff dynamic that it produces, they may have stumbled across something that we didn’t know we were missing.

Just wanted to note the play that Pesce made to set up Nino’s late goal. He had some easy low-risk options and instead made a really nice creative play to open up the D and give Nino some momentum heading into the zone.

He balanced that by needlessly giving up possession in the O zone in the first minute of OT, possession we didn't regain until 4 minutes later, after a PP against and mere seconds remaining in OT.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

All kidding around aside, this is how you build a rivalry.

For this year, absolutely. Gonna be hard for it to last when we wind up only playing them twice a year in subsequent seasons...

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Fantastic comeback and some clutch play by Reimer down the stretch and in OT to get to the shootout, but I think I’ll stick by my earlier statement: don’t play Reimer on both ends of a B2B. If Mrazek is hurt for a while they can’t be scared to use Ned a little, at least on the B2B.

It helped that he barely saw much work in the first half of the back to back. 11 shots... I agree in general but I have no issues with playing Reims yesterday.

 

[Chrispy]

It helped that he barely saw much work in the first half of the back to back. 11 shots... I agree in general but I have no issues with playing Reims yesterday.

I think that actually bolsters my argument. If he was struggling in the back half of a B2B after Saturday's workload, that's more evidence they should avoid B2B with heavier workload in the future. I am not complaining about yesterday; I'm thinking more about how to utilize Ned moving forward.

Giving Ned one of the Chicago games makes sense to shake off the rust, but Ned needs to play one of the CLB games on Sunday/Monday.

I'm not advocating for a heavy workload for Ned, but (depending on Mrazek's rehab time) he needs to play at least once the week of 2/7, the week of 2/14, and the week of 2/21. Can't run Reimer 4 games a week for 3 straight weeks.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I don't think the light work he had the night before contributed to his play last night, but who knows for sure.

Still, I agree with you and doubt they plan on running Reimer on many B2B unless Ned totally shits the bed.

 

[A Star is Burns]

To me, it looked more like the team in front of him was tired and Dallas turned it up as many teams will after losing the first game of these mini series. I wouldn't want to put Reimer (or most goalies) out on a ton of back to backs either, even given my lack of confidence in Ned at this point, but I don't think that's why we gave up a few goals yesterday.