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Jack threw the game so that we have a better chance of picking Luke obviously.
yeah I think the Isles watched the tape of our last game and said "enough is enough"Nico made some nice skating plays with the puck in very limited space, stopping and starting, wheeling and breaking away from defenders, digging in his edges, but he had no options. The isles did a fine job of not leaving the other guys free. But all that was before Nelson's power play goal.
I really thought the game became different, turned after that Nelson go ahead goal. The isles just took over. Maybe it wasn't that we fell apart so much as that the Isles found a different groove.
yeah I think the Isles watched the tape of our last game and said "enough is enough"
he had 6 blocks tonight, DID YOU HERE THAT SEATTLEsomeone reporter please ask lindy about butcher's game and ice time
do it! ...call them both out
true and it looks awesome
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS (did you know Apple bought this building?)That thing needs a pig flying over it.
Blackwood gives up a meh goal seconds after getting run into.
But we’ll play him until the wheels fall off because getting blown out with an injured Blackwood is better than getting blown out with the AHL clowns.
I see no reason to sweat them having an off night.
I don’t agree with how the organization has managed him in the last 15 months or so.I do not agree with how Ruff managed Blackwood down the stretch.
Biggest black mark on his first year.
If we are on, we can beat a depleted Isles lineup by one. That's good. When we are off and they are closer to full strength we get blown out. That is disheartening.
lol yeah, he sucks so bad he played 64 games for them in 2019-20. It's not like they signed some dude named Chara or something...prove me wrong, once this organization stops collecting scrap heap players from other teams we’ll be better off. There’s a reason Siegentahler wasn’t a regular for Washington, it’s because he sucks
prove me wrong, once this organization stops collecting scrap heap players from other teams we’ll be better off. There’s a reason Siegentahler wasn’t a regular for Washington, it’s because he sucks
We can say they're overplaying Blackwood at different points and tonight in the third period was awful, but let's be honest it's not as if he's played a lot, relatively speaking in his three years as a pro. His most GP as a pro so far is 47 last year. He's played 34 out of 55 games this year. If he's going to be our unquestioned number one going forward, that GP number's gotta start with no less than a 5 (if not a 6) going forward when we get back to 82-game seasons.
I don’t agree with how the organization has managed him in the last 15 months or so.
First of all, the BS last year. Didn’t it come out that we played him with a concussion, but they didn’t know it was a concussion until after the fact? I forgot what the story was, but that was in January of 2020 and I’m pretty sure Shero was still the GM at the time, but he was fired a week later. Maybe that was in February of 2020 after Shero was gone though?
Then this year seemed to be one fiasco after another. He was apparently dealing with something back in early March or maybe late February. I forget exactly when. It was actually mid-March around the first time we played the Pens. I think both he and Ruff came out and said he was dealing with something. His play seemed to take a drastic dive around this time.
Then he gets run over in the Rangers game. Appeared to be alright and in the starters net for the morning skate the next game, but is a late scratch. We proceed to get blown up two games in a row in Pittsburgh with Wedgewood and Dell. Then he’s magically healed after those two beatings and playing two nights in a row. It’s almost like they’d rather us get blown out with an injured Blackwood in net than with Dell or Wedgewood in net.
Then Ruff comes out and says he’ll play most of the remainder of the games. He gets run into tonight by Palmieri on his goal. Is visibly shaken up. Decides not to leave the game and gets scored on a few seconds later.
To what end though? He still isn't scoring enough to be a top nine guy and he doesn't have enough ancilary skills to be anything other than a fill-in fourth liner.