Post-Game Talk: Kings

[Profet]

Tarasenko is a good player. He's a Chris Kreider, not a Panarin. I don't know what people were expecting.

5 goals a night. But I may be older than most.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

Thank god they won.

If the spitting was accidental, Miller needs to learn from that. Can’t be spitting when other players are around. And if it wasn’t he needs to learn even more. Bone headed play by him on like the worst night for it to happen.

Trouba, Fox, Mikkola and Harpur deserve tons of praise. That was a gutsy last 40 mins.

Hopefully no lingering effects for Mika. He’s the most important forward on this team.

Let’s get Kane in here and get cooking.

 

[Lion Hound]

Huge loogie!

Looks like the ghost in the ghostbusters logo

 

[I Eat Crow]

Tarasenko is a good player. He's a Chris Kreider, not a Panarin. I don't know what people were expecting.

Yup. He's a north-south two way forward. We didn't get Alexei Kovalev here.

 

[Lion Hound]

Undoubely the craziest game this season.

 

[Machinehead]

I’m inclined to believe Miller because it’s so uncharacteristic of him but it just didn’t look that way.

The act itself didn't look intentional to me, but he had to notice it hitting Doughty and didn't react at all, nor did he argue the match penalty.

It's out of character but Drew Doughty could piss off Gandhi.

 

[duhmetreE]

Huge loogie!

he was going to spit before all that happened and it just 'happened'. It's a bad mistake/mishap.

KAM is not that guy. Why is everyone so ready to crucify people. Everyone is guilty nowadays.

 

[savebyrichter94]

Both from PA too. Thought you could fool us didn't you?

You got me

 

[Shesterkybomb]

I’m inclined to believe Miller because it’s so uncharacteristic of him but it just didn’t look that way.

Unfortunately none of us would believe it if the spit came the other way

 

[EdJovanovski]

There goes the racial slur narrative

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

I really don’t get the Tarasenko complaints. He’s clearly still adjusting but tonight he had some jump and was noticeable.

I wonder if a lot of people just haven’t seen much of him and we’re expecting more of a finesse guy. Tarasenko is a bulldog of a player with an elite shot. He’s not McDavid. He’s closer to a Kreider than his is a Panarin, granted he’s more dynamic than Kreider. But he’s more of a solid on the boards physical guy who has a great shot (so he can finish on those cycle plays that Vesey or Goody would miss) and he’s good with the shot off the rush.

Actually, his playing style makes getting him and Kane make more sense than you’d think at first blush. I don’t think either is redundant at all. Kane IS that dynamic high end finesse guy that Tarasenko isn’t so it will be good to have both of them infused into the lineup.

 

[rangersfansince08]

Tarasenko is a good player. He's a Chris Kreider, not a Panarin. I don't know what people were expecting.

Do you think we will see the old Kane when he joins us?

 

[Shesterkybomb]

he was going to spit before all that happened and it just 'happened'. It's a bad mistake/mishap.

KAM is not that guy. Why is everyone so ready to crucify people. Everyone is guilty nowadays.

You can't explain that one away, he spit on him. It's extremely out of character, but I've done dumb things on the ice that were out of character for me as well in the heat of the game, pretty sure everyone has.

 

[Profet]

 

[Leonardo87]

Hopefully this is looked at in the investigation and he doesn’t get suspended.

 

[duhmetreE]

Do you think we will see the old Kane when he joins us?

I dont know what Old Kane is. He was tearing it up before the trade happened. HE tore it up last season.

He's Patrick Kane. Not much has changed...

 

[TGWL]

Chytil does it too. Mika does sometimes.

Kane does this too.

Chytil usually loses the puck when doing that in the middle, but they both mostly do it wide or have the defender right up on them instead of skating backwards down low because they aren't skating as shifty as Trocheck is when he's challenging the players.

 

[Machinehead]

Unfortunately none of us would believe it if the spit came the other way

For me, it very much depends on who it came from.

Some guys don't get the benefit of the doubt nor should they.

Every time Wilson assaults somebody or Marchand, Kadri, whoever, does something dumb and people say "oh that's a hockey play," I'm like no, we have no reason to believe that.

Miller has never done anything dirty.

 

[Profet]

Do you think we will see the old Kane when he joins us?

Well we're certainly not trading for the young Kane.

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

There goes the racial slur narrative

There’s no way that was ever a possibility, nobody in the area reacted. If Doughty had done something like that everyone’s head would’ve swung around to him. Everyone just always jumps to that when a player of a different race is involved.

Im biased, sure, but I 100% buy Miller saying it was accidental. It was so far out of character for him, a player who barely wants to even finish a check half the time and almost never gets involved after the whistle.

I do notice Miller spitting a lot on the ice whenever they cut to him during whistles so he better learn from this, no more loogie’s when you’re in a scrum.

 

[Kovalev27]

I trust Tarasenko. This is a guy feeling his way. He’s a proven playoff guy

 

[duhmetreE]

There goes the racial slur narrative

HE TOOK HIS PUCK

 

[Daves a mess]

I lost ALOT of respect for Kandre for that disgusting display today.

Absolutely. But let's blame the guy getting spit on. Whatever.

 

[Machinehead]

If it was unintentional but then he saw it hit Doughty and was like "ah, well, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy," I would buy that.

That's pretty much my first thought when it happened.

 

[rangersfansince08]

I trust Tarasenko. This is a guy feeling his way. He’s a proven playoff guy

Lets hope he wins those puck battles and scores a few big goals for us