Merry Christmas to all you Canucks fans on hf )
Brannstom has his limitations, but if he's any worse than Forbort or Juulsen out there, then I'm turning in my hockey stick in for a pool cue.Juulsen is so f***ing bad... put Brannstrom out there. We literally have our second best puck moving defenseman out with injury.
the sound mixing was awful and the play by play was meh.Strongly disagree, I thought the production was fantastic from the start to finish
The other context is that the Sharks are the second worst possession team in the league this year, the worst if you score adjust.
The team did an ok job in limiting the quality of chances against but a team with Cup aspirations can’t be on the ropes for 2/3rds of their ES ice time against a bottom feeder.
A close 'second' was the reporter who asked, "how important was it for Heinen to stand up for his team-mate?"
I mean what's Tocchet's going to say: "it really wasn't important at all, and we'd rather he had turned turtle out there".
I think Tocchet actually answered the question in a similar way.A beter way to answer "I expect that from my players. Like, we battle out there. I expect the best from myself, I expect the best from my players. I expect the best from the fans. And most nights we get it, not all. Everyone's gotta be in that battle, or no one will be"
who were the announcers for the prime broadcaster, theyre not badd.
The thing is, I don't think any of the bottom 4 are necessarily bad, we just have too many of them. Preferably, you'd pair a one of these defenceman with a puck mover. But when you have, for example, Desharnais and Forbort out at the same time (horrifying), they start playing out of their depth (trying to move the puck up instead of staying back). It just makes thing so much worse.To me it shows the bottom 4 is fundamentally incapable of making a breakout pass, regardless of opposition.
As long as the other team simply exists, this team is going to get hemmed in their own end regardless of the quality of opposition whenever Hughes isn’t out there. The only difference quality of opposition makes at this point is the quantity of chances against.
Something has to change unless they’re content with a mediocre product until next season.
the sound mixing was awful and the play by play was meh.
My 5 year-old has discovered this movie and decided it is peak cinema. He’s not wrong.
I think Tocchet actually answered the question in a similar way.
Maybe it's just me, but I just cringe when a reporter asks a 'How important is it' question. How important is it to score the first goal? How important is to get off to a strong start? How important is it to have a good penalty kill? How important is it to string wins back-to-to back?
I mean if you proport to be a hockey journalist, how important is it to not actually ask a really dumb question?
we watched home alone 2 yesterday. i hadn’t seen it since 1992 but it holds up totally.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see Heinen jump in to defend Blueger. Didn’t know he had that aspect to his game.
And jeez, Myers’ hit could have registered on the Richter scale. The faces of the fans behind the glass were priceless.
Pettersson has played more minutes with Hughes than Miller has, and about the same on a per game basis.
But score adjusted Pettersson has a 51% GF% without Hughes on a 53% xGF%, while Miller is at a 33% GF% on a 39% xGF%. Similar o-zone starts for the two away from Hughes.
Hughes’ numbers don’t change much no matter who he plays with.
To emphasize that Miller’s poor / Pettersson’s solid GF% numbers away from Hughes are not just unlucky / lucky.Pettersson has played with Hughes more total minutes this year due to Miller's absence, yes. With both in the line-up, I would like Pettersson with Hughes as a 5-man set.
Is the xGF% listed to suggest Miller has been relatively unlucky (on ice SV%), has been the weaker player, or that Pettersson gets close to his expected GF even without Hughes?
I was pleasantly surprised to see Heinen jump in to defend Blueger. Didn’t know he had that aspect to his game.
And jeez, Myers’ hit could have registered on the Richter scale. The faces of the fans behind the glass were priceless.
Maybe it was just my feed, but found the video quality sucked on the main overhead view, but then was nice from the closer to the boards camera angles.
I don't know...The thing is, I don't think any of the bottom 4 are necessarily bad, we just have too many of them. Preferably, you'd pair a one of these defenceman with a puck mover. But when you have, for example, Desharnais and Forbort out at the same time (horrifying), they start playing out of their depth (trying to move the puck up instead of staying back). It just makes thing so much worse.
To emphasize that Miller’s poor / Pettersson’s solid GF% numbers away from Hughes are not just unlucky / lucky.