GDT: Game 46 @ DRW 4pm

[Chinaski89]

Seriously! And we don't even have any sort of favor back from the Rangers.....yet....if ever.

Kappo was there

 

[TheBigDrunkPanda]

Sign Speer for life he may have actually made Georgie tradable

 

[karltonian]

Sign Speer for life he may have actually made Georgie tradable

very legit. every reclamation tender seems to do better

 

[Star Platinum]

Nice win. Forced to watch the Red Wings broadcast and you’d swear with the way old man Mickey Redmond was talking, the Sharks just ran into the 01-02 Red Wings and upset them. Good to see them not break when the Red Wings would pull with in one. Thought Mario had a rough game but cool to see him and Jan get a goal each

I really hated playing the Red Wings in their heyday and I'm still salty about McLellan era playoff failures, so I'm not the least bit sorry we broke his streak tonight

 

[bluefunnel]

My first DVR win this season!!! Of course a random app spoils it with a notification.

 

[Lebanezer]

He's My Sturm, argue with a wall.

Hobbit holes don't have walls, it's just earth. He can argue with earth. Although I think he'd rather argue with Cybertron.

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

My first DVR win this season!!! Of course a random app spoils it with a notification.

Dude, the other day I was driving home with the game being recorded. And a f***ing billboard (from Habbas Law) spoiled the score.

 

[OrrNumber4]

50% of Will Smith's problems are from being a skinny teenager and the other 50% are assuming that his teammate is going to break out the puck uncontested and blowing the zone for the pass. Those two things worked fine at BC, not in the NHL.

He's frustrating because the things he does poorly are so easily fixable.

We tend to underestimate how difficult it can be to add muscle healthily, and how much a player is limited by his frame/genetics.

 

[The Nemesis]

(3-0 in the 2025 Vlasic era btw).

Truly the hero we deserve.

 

[The Nemesis]

Hobbit holes don't have walls, it's just earth. He can argue with earth. Although I think he'd rather argue with Cybertron.

I trusted you and you betrayed me. Judas

 

[Star Platinum]

Kappo was there

Speaking of, he has 4G, 5A in 12GP for Seattle

 

[Lebanezer]

I trusted you and you betrayed me. Judas

 

[The Nemesis]

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[weastern bias]

 

[Lebanezer]

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[The Nemesis]

 

[Lebanezer]

 

[karltonian]

man too bad they dont add one for the other goal for celebrini, but i guess it was a turnover technically.

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

We tend to underestimate how difficult it can be to add muscle healthily, and how much a player is limited by his frame/genetics.

Absolutely. Smith is basically average height for a forward, and is far from the only 19 year old to ever play in the league. Why is he being dominated in puck battles like no player we’ve ever seen before? I don’t claim to know the answer, but we can’t pretend it doesn’t raise concerns regarding his long term future.

 

[The Nemesis]

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[dmcccdmn]

Absolutely. Smith is basically average height for a forward, and is far from the only 19 year old to ever play in the league. Why is he being dominated in puck battles like no player we’ve ever seen before? I don’t claim to know the answer, but we can’t pretend it doesn’t raise concerns regarding his long term future.

He's going to be just a bust. Accept it.

 

[Jargon]

What if the Sharks signed Doug Weight to the coaching staff and had him do a podcast with a rotating second chair of Smith and Eklund called "Where there's a Will there's a Weight?"

It was a bit of a journey but I liked the destination you got us to.

 

[Jargon]

I have to say, aside from the obvious take away that Celebrini and Eklund are f***ing awesome together, Graf is very, very good, I feel like he constantly makes the correct play in all ends of the ice. I’m not sure he’s a top 6 player but I think he could be a really high-end 3rd line wing. Which like, a Graf - Bystedt - Zetterlund future 3rd line could be lots of fun.

 

[hohosaregood]

Absolutely. Smith is basically average height for a forward, and is far from the only 19 year old to ever play in the league. Why is he being dominated in puck battles like no player we’ve ever seen before? I don’t claim to know the answer, but we can’t pretend it doesn’t raise concerns regarding his long term future.

I think you can go back and look at how Eklund's game has grown and extrapolate. I think Eklund was more active in his first audition with the Sharks but he was getting dummied at 19 also. Nowadays, he's pretty good at handling contact and board play. Just hoping that Smith gets more comfortable initiating contact.

so luckily for me, Sheng posted an old Eklund article with gifs for us to look at

EXCLUSIVE: William Eklund Breaks Down His Sharks Tape | SJHN+

Imagine getting to study game film with a 19-year-old Erik Karlsson. Learning from a future master of the game, who’s just coming into his full powers. That’s what I thought about when I got a chance to sit down with 2021 first-round pick William Eklund — before he got re-assigned — and break...

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Where Has Eklund Improved This Year, Where Can He Get Better?

Remember the Gecko? That was William Eklund’s nickname last season during his nine-game NHL debut. Brent Burns’s nickname for William Eklund is the Gecko. “He slings around like a little lizard out there. He’s always got his head up. He just makes great offensive plays. You don’t really know if...

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