GDT: Game 2: Anaheim Ducks vs Carolina Hurricanes - 5:30 PT (Home Opener)

[Sean Garrity]

Hats off to Groux. Dude won a lot of faceoffs

Was nails on the PK.

It is still funny we all talk about Lacombe being young...but Drysdale is like 15 months younger than him lol. Thank you for reminding us tonight JD!

 

[slippingsloth]

We played two great periods. And survived the third.

We needed someone like LaCombe on the blue line. HIs defense has been good in his last two years in college and thought he'd be on the PK. Nice to know he can be relied upon on the PK when Gudas is not available. But his offense is good that it gets overshadowed often with Zell, Minty, and Luneua blowing up the CHL last year.

Lacombe is doing the thing i hoped for which is when he is on the ice he always seems to be back when a rush is on. Its 2 on 1. Not 2-0 like last season.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Mcginn Silf and henrique are prob the next pieces of fat i feel like we need to cut

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Hats off to Groux. Dude won a lot of faceoffs

but he's too vanilla.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

H

but he's too vanilla.

Hes pretty vanilla but if he can play responsible and become a faceoff/pk and irritating forechecker he makes sense in between guys like Carrick/leason and/or johnston

 

[Sean Garrity]

We needed someone like LaCombe on the blue line. HIs defense has been good in his last two years in college and thought he'd be on the PK. Nice to know he can be relied upon on the PK when Gudas is not available. But his offense is good that it gets overshadowed often with Zell, Minty, and Luneua blowing up the CHL last year.

I edited my OP(sorry), and I'm one of the biggest Lacombe supporters. His aggressiveness, and physicality at this level so far has been the most impressive to me. I always thought he'd be a 2nd/3rd pairing Fowler-lite, but his ceiling may be higher and he's showing at this level he's a different type of player.

 

[Leonardo87]

Ok, so yeah it’s only two games, but you can feel it. We aren’t on all cylinders yet. Zegras, Terry, and Henrique have yet to get going, still have Leo and Killorn in the reserves. So yeah have to feel good. I already see more physicality and if by some miracle can get the PP going, then who knows. Young D is looking excellent. Not even the refs could ruin this night for us. Lol

Also, Took them till Nov last year against the Rangers. to get their first regulation win.

 

[slippingsloth]

Mcginn Silf and henrique are prob the next pieces of fat i feel like we need to cut

Silf certainly seems slow. It feels like his last season. Rico i hope is just starting slow like t and z. At worst i want a piece at trade deadline but i figured he would be on our 2-3 line this season

 

[Bergey37]

First line was our worst and we scored 6

Quite true - 2nd and 4th lines did all the heavy lifting.

 

[la patineuse]

try duckduckgo as a web browser.

Done! It's already better. It was like I was on a two-minute time delay every time I tried to post. One time I got kicked out of the thread completely and I was on the HFboard home page. Ridiculous.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Silf certainly seems slow. It feels like his last season. Rico i hope is just starting slow like t and z. At worst i want a piece at trade deadline but i figured he would be on our 2-3 line this season

What i wouldnt give to add debrusk to this line up and get rid of Silf + henrique

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Lacombe nonchalantly played 21:37 and 6:30 seconds on the PK with a great assist. Drysdale with a real good 22 minutes including an assist, Minty with 18:30 and a goal.

Looking up the box score stats, it doesn't record a hit from LaCombe. Did they miss his smash after Gudas did his smash?

 

[slippingsloth]

O man. If you could make that change

What i wouldnt give to add debrusk to this line up and get rid of Silf + henrique

 

[Sean Garrity]

Hes pretty vanilla but if he can play responsible and become a faceoff/pk and irritating forechecker he makes sense in between guys like Carrick/leason and/or johnston

Agreed, but players have made very long careers out of doing exactly that.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Agreed, but players have made very long careers out of doing exactly that.

Just needs to channel his inner cizikas and ill love him

O man. If you could make that change

Debrusk is tailor made for this style of system

 

[Sean Garrity]

Looking up the box score stats, it doesn't record a hit from LaCombe. Did they miss his smash after Gudas did his smash?

Also doesn't show Fowler with a hit so must be a typo . He's getting the treatment already lol. Every building seems to categorize a "hit" subjectively, maybe he didn't "separate the puck from the player", or whatever subjective definition is used.

 

[DigiDuck]

Looking up the box score stats, it doesn't record a hit from LaCombe. Did they miss his smash after Gudas did his smash?

I don't think Necas cleanly possessed the puck at the time he got hit. So I guess he wasn't separated from the puck?

 

[Leonardo87]

I’m just glad Mac passed to Vatrano and not Strome.

I kid Strome, you were good tonight, very good.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

i like when gudas is leaving the ice, vatrano has the biggest smile on his face..

Hes ready to start his Perry Arc

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Ok, so yeah it’s only two games, but you can feel it. We aren’t on all cylinders yet. Zegras, Terry, and Henrique have yet to get going, still have Leo and Killorn in the reserves. So yeah have to feel good. I already see more physicality and if by some miracle can get the PP going, then who knows. Young D is looking excellent. Not even the refs could ruin this night for us. Lol

Also, Took them till Nov last year against the Rangers. to get their first regulation win.

I gotta give a lot of credit to Strome. For tonight, no need for a defibrillator "K". Strome and Vatrano looked amazing tonight with Mac.

Vatrano: 3g, +2 rating, 4 blocked shots, and 4:37 on the PK, 20:50 total TOI
Mac: 2a and +3 rating (not a good outing at the FO dot today, but was great in game 1)
Strome: 2a, +4 rating, 2 blocked shots

 

[slippingsloth]

I know it is one game. But this was against a good team. Hopefully we do this again and show that we and san jose are not in the same place. Tired of being told we are below them in the pac. I just dont see it but rose colored glasses come in all shapes

Schedulers werent kind to us to start but we arent alone in a tough schedule…. if you said anaheim was 2-1 after our first 3 i think you would be laughed out of the room.

I gotta give a lot of credit to Strome. For tonight, no need for a defibrillator "K". Strome and Vatrano looked amazing tonight with Mac.

Vatrano: 3g, +2 rating, 4 blocked shots, and 4:37 on the PK, 20:50 total TOI
Mac: 2a and +3 rating (not a good outing at the FO dot today, but was great in game 1)
Strome: 2a, +4 rating, 2 blocked shots

That second line was awesome. And 4th line carried above its weight.

 

[KelVarnsen]

We have five new d-men, Leason is a man on a mission, Carrick can move his hips again, and Mac is now taking on the world. Eakins did a great job on making the sure the team never quit. Also, the offensive scheme is the same as Eakins' pinching d-men, but we have better d-men talent this year. Cronin is a better X & O guy to take the team to the next step.

That PP though, it's not Eakins' fault, which many keep hapring on.

I know you defend him but Eakins was/is a shitty coach. He seemed to get along well with players and cared for them but he sucked In most other facets of the game. And no long chart or graph can convince me one of the worst won/loss guys with two different teams is anything but a bad coach.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

I gotta give a lot of credit to Strome. For tonight, no need for a defibrillator "K". Strome and Vatrano looked amazing tonight with Mac.

Vatrano: 3g, +2 rating, 4 blocked shots, and 4:37 on the PK, 20:50 total TOI
Mac: 2a and +3 rating (not a good outing at the FO dot today, but was great in game 1)
Strome: 2a, +4 rating, 2 blocked shots

This game was more of what i thought we were getting when we brought vatrano/strome in

- not scoring wise, but overall game/effort/agitating and aggressive

 

[Sean Garrity]

i like when gudas is leaving the ice, vatrano has the biggest smile on his face..

Hes ready to start his Perry Arc

I think my favorite part, outside of Frank's shit eating grin, is Carrick and Johnston standing at center ice until having to be ushered off.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

I’m just glad Mac passed to Vatrano and not Strome.

I kid Strome, you were good tonight, very good.

In the replay for Vatrano's 3rd goal, you can see Mac screaming and hand gesturing for Vatrano to shoot the puck instead of passing it off. Mac knew... Mac always knew. Now where's the "Prince that was promised" brooding pick at?!