GDT: Game 47: Wild @ Coyotes - 6:00pm (AZ) - BSAZ-Extra

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

You boys do realize the rhetoric about our boys deserving to stick together was nothing more than a warm fuzzy shout out because none of them were wanted?

Trade deadline was like 2pm on a Saturday afternoon and no one has bought any of your crap at the yard sale. All over priced or just garbage.

 

[LittlePipes]

7 of our final 9 are against the California teams. I could see us going on a run. Blues play the top 3 teams for 10 of their remaining 13. We could still squeak in.

ehhhhh... crack pipe?

 

[LittlePipes]

You just don't give up, do you. Your last sentence is a real doozy and one of the stupidest posts I have read.

Sadly, I think XX is correct.

 

[Gwyddbwyll]

Sadly, I think XX is correct.

That OEL is underperforming yes.

That he is untradeable and one of the worst players in the league, I couldnt disagree more. There are far bigger problems with this team than OEL that need addressing first. You dont get rid of prize assets for pennies on the dollar.

Watched the game half-asleep at 3am but despite the result Keller stood out to me with some really smart crisp passing. There is some undoubted ability with the likes of Keller, OEL, Chych, Dvorak, Schmaltz, Garland and after four years of Tocchet I'm desperate to see what a real coach could bring. Tocchet's negative and defensive strategies may have been appropriate four years ago but they are 24-29 now and need smarter coaching. You only have to look at Minnesota themselves to see what an impact that makes.

 

[MIGs Dog]

ehhhhh... crack pipe?

It's science man.

 

[cobra427]

It's science man.

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I don't see us making the playoffs. We are trending down while the blues are trending up, getting healthier, more experienced, with games in hand. We need to play better and the Blues need to fold, neither is likely.

 

[WATTAGE4451]

I don't see us making the playoffs. We are trending down while the blues are trending up, getting healthier, more experienced, with games in hand. We need to play better and the Blues need to fold, neither is likely.

I wouldn't say the blues are trending up. Before we lost to you guys we won three in a row, yes. But one of those wins required our goalie to save 57 out of 58 shots and before that we had like an 8 game losing streak.

Both teams seem like they don't want the final playoff spot.

 

[Mosby]

Blues have 4 games to make up 1 point. We're toast.

 

[lanky]

Blues have 4 games to make up 1 point. We're toast.

Probably toast.
But our remaining 9 games include 7 against teams that we're ahead of. We could go on a run.

 

[Jakey53]

Probably toast.
But our remaining 9 games include 7 against teams that we're ahead of. We could go on a run.

Have we gone a run at any point this year? This team is not capable of going on a run.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Have we gone a run at any point this year? This team is not capable of going on a run.

4 of our remaining games are against the sharks, where we are 3-0-1 so far.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

this has been a known quantity for weeks - we go on a run, get into 4th, go on a bad run (2-7, about what we thought), fall out of 4th (pts %), then get the easy part of the schedule the same time STL gets the tough part of theirs, and it could go either way...

Even better, their last 3 games are after we're done on 5/8, so we get to sit around in the clubhouse and root for bogeys.

 

[Mosby]

We also tend to play down to our competition.

 

[Llewzaher]

well I would rather have the Yotes' remaining schedule than StLouis'

 

[LittlePipes]

It's science man.

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Ok ok.... but I’ve gone there before. Needed the pipe afterwards

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Have we gone a run at any point this year? This team is not capable of going on a run.

March 23 - April 5: record was 6-1-0. Would that qualify?

 

[Jakey53]

March 23 - April 5: record was 6-1-0. Would that qualify?

Wow, we did that? Hell, that had to be all coaching.

 

[Jagged Ice]

Wow, we did that? Hell, that had to be all coaching.

Tocchet pulled the goalie to shake things up. That kept the streak going

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Wow, we did that? Hell, that had to be all coaching.

Scoring talent.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

Have we gone a run at any point this year? This team is not capable of going on a run.

Seems we’re due.

 

[Jakey53]

Seems we’re due.

I thought that two years ago. Still hasn't happened.

 

[cobra427]

We also tend to play down to our competition.

We are only clearly better than one team in our division, the Ducks, so I guess we can play down to them? We have just as good a chance of finishing 7th as we do 4th looking at games in hand.

 

[MIGs Dog]

We are only clearly better than one team in our division, the Ducks.

The scoreboard indicates otherwise.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

All sullen attitudes aside.... MIG’s right

 

[Neighborhood Coyote]

The scoreboard indicates otherwise.

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WOOOO those top 3 teams absolutely OWN the Coyotes. 4 wins in 22 games. .181 win percentage against them haha.