Roman Yoshi
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I swear the power play improved after Subban got injured. Is that just me?
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NoNecksCurse
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In one aspect it has. Ekholm doesn't hold the puck as long as Subban does. Ekholm is quick to move the puck or to shoot- or even to occasionally walk it in.
The PP still has plenty of issues entering the zone and continues to over-pass the puck.
ThirdManIn
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Often times if they could make the exact same passes, only faster, it wouldn't be overpassing, but because we have too many guys who hesitate while looking for the shot rather than the play it allows the penalty kill to position and take away options that easily could have had a good chance just moments before.
Roman Yoshi
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Hartman might be the biggest surprise, but Watson is trying to make his case too.
Roman Yoshi
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One last fun observation: What is point of dressing Rinaldo if he isn't going to get involved with stuff and police the game? I really don't understand his deployment/or lack of deployment this year. It's like he's been told not to get involved with anything.
I'd rather have Grimalid in if that's the case.
I'd rather have Grimalid in if that's the case.
Yeah but It's mostly the 2nd unit that started really clicking in the last few games. The first unit scored a total of 2 goals in the 7 and half games Subban missed, so it hasn't been on fire much. Those 2 goals looked exactly like the type of goals they scored when Subban was there.
But yeah, I love Ekholm on the PP, I remember saying the same thing last year, they should put him and Subban together on the PP (when he's healthy of course). They can both pass well, and their shots create a lot of juicy rebounds. Something like
Ekholm
Johansen Forsberg Subban
Net front presence guy
(Net.) <<<< the dot represents the puck in the net
The other team would pay close attention to Subban to prevent him from using his big one-timer, so that might open up some space for Forsberg in the slot. Johansen could move around and look for passing lanes. The guy in front of the goalie could move around too, and try to make plays with Forsberg and whoever's near them.
I would be curious to see that.
Did the sellout streak quietly come to an end? Trying to unload some tickets for Thursday and not getting any bites no matter how cheap I list them. We're out of town or would go. Anyway, took a look at Ticketmaster and there are tons regular tickets for sale in addition to resale. Don't see how in the world they would possibly move all of those non-resale by Thursday.
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I know my golden ticket offer was only 39 dollars for upper bowl so there must be quite a few. I'm guessing if it's a manageable number the team or the Preds foundation buys them and gives them to charity to maintain the sellout streak
predfan98
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I don't know, I'm having the same problem with dec games where I'm going to be out of town.
TitansVolsPreds615
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I couldn't give mine away for Sunday night. I must've offered them free to 10 different people.
I never have much success selling tickets for games that are more than a week or two in the future, unless I set the price ridiculously low. Almost every time I sell tickets it is within a day or two of the game date.
I think a lot of time the closer it gets to game date people get more serious about buying.
101st_fan
I taught Yoda
Things we learned from the Violetta days included how many different numbers there are for tickets out there .. and which matter for claiming a "sellout".
Revisiting this- we are 2-1 so far on this current 15 game stretch mentioned above.
At one point I thought 12-3 was a realistic goal- but with the injuries piling up, if you give me 10-5 right now I will take it.
NoNecksCurse
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I would have taken them for free and still venmo-ed you a small bit of cash. Next time
predfan24
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Same as NoNeck here. If you are having a hard time selling tickets you aren't going to use let me know. I'm not planning on going to many games this year but I'd like to take my wife to one or two.
I've been to so many games before the Preds got popular the current pricing for resale tickets seems insane to me (But great for the team & fans!). Assuming you are in the 300s and a STH I will gladly pay whatever you paid for them.
Armourboy
Hey! You suck!
I'm sure lots of people are trying to get money back because of the holidays or trying to save some money by not going.
FossilFndr
RIP Steve
Wish I lived closer and could take you up on the un needed tickets. Plus this might get more feedback from the Tickets thread.
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well that sucked
..too many corners just missed by Forsberg.
..too much ice time for salomaki.
..a game lost on special teams.
..not enough high danger scoring chances created
..too many breakaways and high danger chances given to them
..nothing from Watson and sissons who have always been our COL killers
..nothing from the blueline
..nothing from our PP
..the best scoring opportunities from our worst scorers in general (salomaki chance from johansen comes immediately to mind)
..a strange game in that we really played well in terms of limiting shots, but awful on about 5-6 times where we left rinne one on one with the shooter
..Rinne deserved so much better. he made at least 5 spectacular saves while they didn't really have to make anything other than positional saves since we couldn't hit a corner if our lives had depended on it.
..too many corners just missed by Forsberg.
..too much ice time for salomaki.
..a game lost on special teams.
..not enough high danger scoring chances created
..too many breakaways and high danger chances given to them
..nothing from Watson and sissons who have always been our COL killers
..nothing from the blueline
..nothing from our PP
..the best scoring opportunities from our worst scorers in general (salomaki chance from johansen comes immediately to mind)
..a strange game in that we really played well in terms of limiting shots, but awful on about 5-6 times where we left rinne one on one with the shooter
..Rinne deserved so much better. he made at least 5 spectacular saves while they didn't really have to make anything other than positional saves since we couldn't hit a corner if our lives had depended on it.
Aardvarksson
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and the weird thing is the attendance was still, technically, 17,167 out of 17,113
Scoresberg
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NoNecksCurse
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he was absolutely pitiful against St. Louis this past Friday. it hurt for me to watch.
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Once again losses like this bring focus. If the recent slight improvement in the PP numbers and significant improvement in the PK caused complacency, this game should sound the alarm bell. Keep working on special teams.
Reassuring thing is we still should have won this game or at least got a point if Forsberg has a decent shooting night
Reassuring thing is we still should have won this game or at least got a point if Forsberg has a decent shooting night
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