Bergy looked like his shot has been off, tonight he had some that had a little more zazz on them. If its whats been speculated as an ankle injury, if my eyes are right, a sign of him getting closer is a better shot. He did make a few mistakes.
Marchy has been playing like the marchy of years ago, trying to do too much, making any play not the right one. A few dangles too many, an extra step here. Its frustrating.
We have more than enough grease in the linup but not nothing to bring it to them. DK, spooner, czarnik all pass first. We need it on some lines but spooner and dk both want the puck. Dk wants it to dissect the defense, spooner wants to fly through it. Czarnik seems more willing to shoot so if two of those three play together it should be x-Czarnik.
I liked moving czarnik up to bergys line he deserves it more than nash.
If pastas out for a bit, vatrano isn't ready to play against one of the worst teams in the league why not have heinen/debrusk/cehlarik come up. Vatrano knows the pro game better(exp in nhl) but is clearly recovering and only going to play probably 1/3 games?
Hayes was great. This is what he can do, usually its less streaky but hes nowhere but trying than for a handful of games he looks like a 2nd/3rd line tweener and makes great moves, skates decent, passes well, shoots well, mucks at the net. Hope he keeps it up.
Colin miller was awesome, confident, strong. It was amazing when he played with krug, how little time they spent in there zone on d. Granted they got favorable matchups, but the transition is great. His skating was great, shot was used smartly.
Pick one of mcq or killer, sit them for morrow and role as our third pair. We need the skating and passing.
We cant keep loosing to the Avalanches and Islanders of this league. We need to scoop the easy ones that we havent the past two years.
Overall, especially with pasta, we have been a much better skating team who has done amazing limiting shots, great starter with a younger lineup.
We need more scoring from the d and not just pasta, marchy, moore. Tough decision on who to sit but the schallers,nashs, accari's hayes, blidhs and beleskey need to get consolidated to make room for more skill in the bottom 6. Czarnik has earned a spot, Spooner seems lost with dk, him and czarnik should form a good base for a 3rd whether with backes, moore or beleskey. Pick a 4th out of who's left. Seems like sooner, rather than later, beleskeys contract is going to look like a space for heinen, debrusk,cehlarik, maybe bjork are coming up for that 3rd line lw.
Same for liles, mcq, killer. Ogara, macavoy, morrow and miller are showing various potential, youth and speed for the "new" nhl.
This game was one of trash goals. We play smarter, like we usually do, tuukka plays wayy close to his average play not even the vezina level he has been. This game is different. Still a bad one to loose but we didn't get thoroughly manhandled.
