GDT: Game 55: Columbus vs. New York Islanders | 2/9 7PM EST
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punk_o_holic
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True shame that Korp lost that in the skills contest. But it's hard to be upset with that performance, he was fantastic. It feels premature to say this since he's a rookie but I'm thinking Mac will find himself shipped out in the near future.
All of the above. I'd add predictability of the defenders. They're not running around like headless chickens. You might also file that under better positioning.
To share starting duties with Bob. Not a back up. Sharing the goalie duties with Bob for the rest of the season. No reason to be running Bob out there night after night for the rest of this season.
jackets4life
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This may not be common sentiment but Torts has got to get Forsberg some starts. As well as Korpi is playing, we don't want to get him fatigued or injured (a la Bob) having to face 50 shots a night. The offense and overall cohesion of the team was just horrendous tonight.
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Went to the game with my Mom. Was a great time.
Anyway, we played like **** after the first. ONly the Dubi line with Jenner and Atkinson played well. Jones played well and so did Murray. OF course Korpi did too. Other than that, awful
Anyway, we played like **** after the first. ONly the Dubi line with Jenner and Atkinson played well. Jones played well and so did Murray. OF course Korpi did too. Other than that, awful
You could see the Islanders making adjustments and tightening things up in the second and even more so in the third. Earlier this year, we would have lost that game by 5 goals.
Cowumbus
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BB, I think they have to realize that Bob is not the kind of guy who can handle a 70 starts per year role. Whatever the problem is with his body, it has to be recognized rather than ignored. I think Bob would benefit from having a 1B type of backup who can play the second side of every back to back plus one or two more game during the weeks with a heavy schedule.
Dr. Fire
What, me worry?
I said two things in the last GDT:
1. We won't win a lot of games scoring two goals or less a night.
2. We have plenty of home games left which we can't seem to win.
Last night was an example of both of those points.
1. We won't win a lot of games scoring two goals or less a night.
2. We have plenty of home games left which we can't seem to win.
Last night was an example of both of those points.
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Even if they get that and there is no evidence that they have figured out that (plus 70 is on the high side of expectations), there is no reason to artificially increase Korp's next contract by splitting the load. It's a dumb move financially.
The smarter move is to use your backup that you have under contract for another year and start to look at moving Bob if you can. You need Bob to establish, next season, that he's still an elite starter. You don't need the temptation of splitting time. I can totally see Torts giving the majority of the starts to Korp and we have 7 million doing nothing.
We have to start thinking this through as fans.
Korp has a future, we also don't need to turn him into a 6 million dollar a year goal tender by the time he's 23.
Korpisalo was stellar last night. He may be the sole reason the Jackets do not get a top-4 pick in the draft
I understand giving Bob a chance to get it going again, which might take a lot of games. But other than that I expect Torts to go with whoever is getting the wins. And I seriously doubt they'll sit Korpi to any extent just to limit his contract. If Korpi plays anywhere near the way he has so far, he will get to play a lot, contract be damned.
