GDT: Game 44: Sharks @ Utah 6:00pm NBCSCA

[Star Platinum]

I mean, nobody likes being down 4v5 ... Except like the best 5 in the league.

Regardless of what the stats say, I maintain that our scheme sucks and that we are more lucky than good on the penalty kill. And that is a hill I'm prepared to die on.

 

[Pinkfloyd]

Celebrini is struggling and could use a shake up. Give him a forechecker and a shooter. Graf and Toffoli might be a good combo to try.

 

[karltonian]

The underlying statistics seem to support this. Smith isn't dragging down Celebrini, Celebrini has just been playing poorly recently.

What underlying stats are you referring to?

I think it appears that way because his line has been so ineffective. He's still making plays but due to poor winger play the line is getting hammered and not playing in the offensive zone. He needs an NHL quality player to form his line's "pair". Will Smith cannot be that guy at this time.

Sad to break up the bromance but Celebrini and Smith are Not An Effective Team.

 

[YUPPY 2 7 10 11]

Ok The Blender continues to spin.
New Lines Since Kostin is Hurt. And Bordeleau is called up from Cuda.

1. Graf-Celebrini-Kovalenko
2. Eklund-Bordeleau*-Zetterlund
3. Tofoli--Granlund-Kunin
4. Goodrow-Wennberg-Delandria

 

[coooldude]

Regardless of what the stats say, I maintain that our scheme sucks and that we are more lucky than good on the penalty kill. And that is a hill I'm prepared to die on.

I'm not gonna try to murder you on any hills, but I do disagree with ya.

 

[karltonian]

Ok The Blender continues to spin.
New Lines Since Kostin is Hurt. And Bordeleau is called up from Cuda.

1. Graf-Celebrini-Kovalenko
2. Eklund-Bordeleau*-Zetterlund
3. Tofoli--Granlund-Kunin
4. Goodrow-Wennberg-Delandria

oh. oh god.

 

[The Nemesis]

Ok The Blender continues to spin.
New Lines Since Kostin is Hurt. And Bordeleau is called up from Cuda.

1. Graf-Celebrini-Kovalenko
2. Eklund-Bordeleau*-Zetterlund
3. Tofoli--Granlund-Kunin
4. Goodrow-Wennberg-Delandria

Best I can do is:
Graf - Celebrini - Kunin
Eklund - Granlund - Goodrow
Toffoli - Smith - Dellandrea
Zetterlund - Wennberg - Kovalenko

 

[coooldude]

Best I can do is:
Graf - Celebrini - Kunin
Eklund - Granlund - Goodrow
Toffoli - Smith - Dellandrea
Zetterlund - Wennberg - Kovalenko

League best Fourth line!

 

[The Nemesis]

League best Fourth line!

Too bad they'll only play about 8 minutes in the game, mostly on d-zone starts and as components of the PK

 

[karltonian]

Best I can do is:
Graf - Celebrini - Kunin
Eklund - Granlund - Goodrow
Toffoli - Smith - Dellandrea
Zetterlund - Wennberg - Kovalenko

 

[The Nemesis]

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(side note, it wounds me deeply that whoever named this gif called it "Sideous Smile" even though it's clearly from Return of the Jedi when that name did not exist.)

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Two things.

One, from the moment I first got a chance to see Celebrini and Smith play against NHL competition in the preseason, I 100% had different expectations of each guy based on what I saw there.

Two, this was one of Celebrini's worst games as a Shark. Let's not pretend he was all over the place making plays tonight because he wasn't.

He played like a bum and it's annoying.

 

[karltonian]

You know a lot of the team's current angst boils down to lack of Jake Walman. It's hard to overstate how much he means to this team, he absolutely drives the offense like no other d we have and he is especially good when he gets a chance behind the lower lines.

 

[mogambomoroo]

Terrible effort from a team that could have easily taken 2 points out of this...
Georgiev was solid tonight, gotta give him that. The difference with how they play in front of Askarov and Georgiev is huge though, I understand it though.
Can we just skip to the next year where Celebrini, Smith and Askarov just take over.

 

[BaileyMacTavish]

Terrible effort from a team that could have easily taken 2 points out of this...
Georgiev was solid tonight, gotta give him that. The difference with how they play in front of Askarov and Georgiev is huge though, I understand it though.
Can we just skip to the next year where Celebrini, Smith and Askarov just take over.

Celebrini and Smith should play better before thinking about taking over anything

 

[drunksage]

SNOG announcement​

No SNOG.

No updated tables yet, pending further news about the message board updates.

 

[karltonian]

Celebrini and Smith should play better before thinking about taking over anything

I mean Celebrini was good with actual NHL top 6 players. Zetts-Celebrini-Toffoli was instantly effective.

 

[CaptainShark]

Thanks to the refs for helping with the tank job by not calling the interference on Thrun. Doesn’t usually get called / is borderline, but when a play like that leads to a great scoring chance, it’s almost always called

 

[Anomie2029]

I’m really struggling with this team at the moment. I don’t expect them to be good, but it just sucks seeing them get worse and having to see plugs like Goodrow, Rutta, etc. stink it up and never get benched or scratched.

Then having to read articles in consecutive days from Sheng about Warsofsky’s approach to benching or scratching players - but no mention of the above plugs, and then today’s article trying to justify specific microstats to say “see Ferraro and Goodrow are actually good”.

It feels like I’m going insane and watching a completely different product to what the club and beat reporters see.