Post-Game Talk: Destroyed by Veggies

I need kaliyev to start doing a bit more. He's had time to acclimate. I propose flipping Chytil and Trocheck on their lines
 
Remember we had a hot start. Then sucked for 19 games, now playing well this month. At the end of 82 we’ll be ok.
If they end up OK (which really should have been in the top 3 in the division, not WC2), that means that the hot start was more indicative than the 19 games of sucking. The hot start, they only beat Toronto, every other team they beat were bad. When they sucked, they lost to every team regardless.

I think their real position is somewhere in the middle of the league. Missing the playoffs should not be a surprise.
 
Borgen plain and simply waited too long to make that pass, and when it was too late he did it anyway. I'm getting tired of Laviolette, Kreider and Zib have made this season hard to recover from and you keep trotting those guys out like there isn't better options. We picked up Kaliyev because he shoots, am i missing something here? Zibanejad hasn't hit the back of the net with a one timer since Harry met Sally, why are we still going to him on the pp? It's over, whatever magic he had in years past isn't there this year, move on. Put Kaliyev on pp1, give it a different look, repeating the same stupid decisions yield the same results.
 
I read Breads last shift was around 2:45 ☹️

That is complete fiction unless you are completely neglecting the impact of the timeout. A 2:45 shift at 5v5 with no stoppages is not remotely similar to a 2:00 shift on the PP (plus 45 seconds before/after) with a timeout in between. His real shift when the goal was scored was barely over a minute and pp ice time is far less strenuous than 5v5
 
Our goalie got beat 5 times glove side. 5 on 2.5 expected. Thats almost impossible to overcome. Should have come away with the point but Igor was abysmal



Literally the other times they hit the post
He looked off right from puck drop. With Igor you can tell right away if he's locked in or not. His movements looked off and he was slightly off his angle on everything in the first period.

That was just an ass game from him. As you said, when your goalie gives up multiple stoppable goals in a game it's really hard to overcome. And we still have him 4 goals of support, came back from down 2 twice. That game was there to be won even with his shit play.
 
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I read Breads last shift was around 2:45 ☹️
It was, but it's slightly more nuanced than just 'stupid long shift'.
He comes over the boards with around 2:40 left and then the Avs take a penalty at 2:24. Almost immediately there's a 2 min break for the last TV timeout.
PP gets under way and with 1:20 left the puck is frozen, Rangers then take their TO. Another 2 mins worth of break all up.
At 59.7 seconds the puck is frozen again, with the stoppage being around 30 seconds.
Avs score with about 14.7 left.

So around 2.5 mins of TOI, but played over about 7.5 mins
 
That is complete fiction unless you are completely neglecting the impact of the timeout. A 2:45 shift at 5v5 with no stoppages is not remotely similar to a 2:00 shift on the PP (plus 45 seconds before/after) with a timeout in between. His real shift when the goal was scored was barely over a minute and pp ice time is far less strenuous than 5v5
Didn't realize there was a timeout. My bad for going by a Twitter post ☹️

With that said maybe having an excuse for how he skated on the last goal would be a good thing. If he wasn't spent than he really mailed it in.
 

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