GDT: Oil Spills vs. the Storm

[Surrounded By Ahos]

So as of now we have Aho top 5 in goals, Teravainen top 10 in assists. Them plus Svech are all top 30 in points.

Dougie (GOOD NIGHT SWEET PRINCE) is STILL top 3 in goals for and top 10 in points among defensemen. Slavin is on pace to score 40+ points.

Hopefully the rest of the forwards can pull their heads out of their butts and we get more consistent goaltending so we can drink from the skulls of our enemies in the playoffs.

 

[SaskCanesFan]

It's actually not just us. I watch a lot of games with NHL.TV being stuck here in PA and the fear of blocked/missed shots leading to a loss of possession is real around the league. Teams just can't play bombs-away anymore because *everything* gets blocked and goes back the other way. Unfortunately, we don't have the offensive skill to match up with the way the game is being played nowadays. Enforcers are basically extinct, and guys like Staal, Foegele and McGinn are kinda going that way. You just *can't* be defense-only in this day-and-age.



I think we thought we did this, getting Haula, Gardiner and Dzingel, and re-signing Williams. It's just that none of them are playing very well.



Starting to see how he got scratched during the playoffs last season in Columbus.



I've been holding off as long as I'm physically able, but it's starting to get the better of me. Roddy is bordering on Peters-level of stubbornness right now. I'm beyond upset at having to watch Haula and Dzingel skate around aimlessly, creating nothing, and McGinn, Wallmark, Staal and Foegele taking turns trying to chop the puck into little pieces. It's way past time to see what Gauthier can bring. Hell, give him five minutes. I refuse to believe he'll be any less effective than Dzingel right now.



If you all can find a replay of Aho's first goal that goes all the way back to the faceoff, watch TvR absolutely tackle the winger who was trying to pressure Slavin, allowing Jaccob to patiently skate up the boards and find Aho for the breakaway. It was such blatant interference that I decided right there I was going to ignore any other missed calls.

On top of that -- and I've mentioned this before -- power plays were even at 3 each. At the end of the day, that's what's going to happen in the NHL. Power plays are going to be about even. How and when they happen is basically irrelevant. They got three chances and they scored once and scored another one a second after Svech's penalty expired. We had three chances and we didn't score. I don't know why we just can't accept that this is the way officiating works in the NHL and just get used to it. Picking apart every call and non-call is just plain stupid and will result in nothing but frustration.

Edmonton won because they made one more play than we did, and their goalie made one more big save than ours did. We didn't do enough to win and we didn't. The refs had *zero* to do with the result.

Not really relevant to what you said, but I'm drinking because tomorrow is a holiday so f*** it. This site needs a 1/2 like button or something similar, because I find that every post of yours such as this I find myself 110% nodding in agreement for some of it, and shaking my head thinking you're nuts/blatantly wrong on the other half. And I'm not sure what to do in that situation, whether to like it or not and the internal conflict bugs me.

Anyways, do with that information what you wish

 

[Lempo]

Not really relevant to what you said, but I'm drinking because tomorrow is a holiday so **** it. This site needs a 1/2 like button or something similar, because I find that every post of yours such as this I find myself 110% nodding in agreement for some of it, and shaking my head thinking you're nuts/blatantly wrong on the other half. And I'm not sure what to do in that situation, whether to like it or not and the internal conflict bugs me.

Anyways, do with that information what you wish

The Carolina Hurricane will like a Nickelback video. Just like the man's posts.

 

[Chrispy]

Not really relevant to what you said, but I'm drinking because tomorrow is a holiday so **** it. This site needs a 1/2 like button or something similar, because I find that every post of yours such as this I find myself 110% nodding in agreement for some of it, and shaking my head thinking you're nuts/blatantly wrong on the other half. And I'm not sure what to do in that situation, whether to like it or not and the internal conflict bugs me.

Anyways, do with that information what you wish

I like it better than the alternative of someone making 3 consecutive posts replying to 3 different quotes.

The multi-quote feature is a great thing even with this minor issue.

 

[geehaad]

Really? I’m the opposite: you’ll lose me in a single post if you multi-quote 3-4-more others posts...unless your response to each is short, of course. If you break those longish responses into separate posts, for some reason I’m more likely to read them.

My attention has suffered such deficit as time has gone on...not sure whether to blame 21st century media or simple old age. Or hockey. Seriously, the pace and constant action and ability to fast-forward through commercials and intermissions...it’s possible my attention doesn’t get enough exercise.

Is anyone still reading this...?

 

[CandyCanes]

7 shots on goal by the 4 Hurricane centers today. and Aho had 6 of them.

Yeah that’s an issue

 

[AD Skinner]

I wonder if haula's knee is bothering him... hes been pretty ineffective for a good stretch now

 

[MinJaBen]

Really? I’m the opposite: you’ll lose me in a single post if you multi-quote 3-4-more others posts...unless your response to each is short, of course. If you break those longish responses into separate posts, for some reason I’m more likely to read them.

My attention has suffered such deficit as time has gone on...not sure whether to blame 21st century media or simple old age. Or hockey. Seriously, the pace and constant action and ability to fast-forward through commercials and intermissions...it’s possible my attention doesn’t get enough exercise.

Is anyone still reading this...?

TL; GOML.

(Too long, get off my lawn.)

 

[Tryamw]

I wonder if haula's knee is bothering him... hes been pretty ineffective for a good stretch now

Well right now other than being a center he's last year's Ferland

 

[CandyCanes]

I wonder if haula's knee is bothering him... hes been pretty ineffective for a good stretch now

I’m going to say yes. Just because I remember he was advertised that he had speed to his game, I haven’t seen it recently. But I think he’s also acquired Staal’s stone hands. He was scoring a lot of goals in front of the net early in the year and he just doesn’t seem to be able to replicate those goals.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Haula has looked a little better recently. Just not much to show for it.

We were probably just spoiled by a hot start.

 

[Stickpucker]

Not really relevant to what you said, but I'm drinking because tomorrow is a holiday so **** it. This site needs a 1/2 like button or something similar, because I find that every post of yours such as this I find myself 110% nodding in agreement for some of it, and shaking my head thinking you're nuts/blatantly wrong on the other half. And I'm not sure what to do in that situation, whether to like it or not and the internal conflict bugs me.

Anyways, do with that information what you wish

Smaller posts to break up individual thoughts.

 

[Stickpucker]

One thing that really bugs me watching is puck support.

Watching the top teams there are always one or two passing options on screen to move the puck. Other than in the D zone once we got the neurtal zone there are lots of times you don't see anyone to pass to.

In the Ozone when that happens you see the good old rim it around the boards pass d to d them rim it around some more.

This makes me think people aren't moving their feet away from the puck carrier enough or are too slow.

Compare that to Pittsburgh for instance and I think it's a big difference in our teams success.

 

[Svechhammer]

This team is basically the polar opposite of the late years Eric Staal teams.

Then - No first line, and our centers sucked. But hey at least our bottom lines weren't crap.
2020 - Elite first line. Absolutely nothing beyond that.

Then - Man, it sure would be nice to have a defense. Who is even half this unit?
2020 - How the eff is this defense of name players not better than this?

Then - Its great that we have Cam Ward, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent backup?
2020 - Its great that we have 2 top end backups, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent starter?

 

[MinJaBen]

This team is basically the polar opposite of the late years Eric Staal teams.

Then - No first line, and our centers sucked. But hey at least our bottom lines weren't crap.
2020 - Elite first line. Absolutely nothing beyond that.

Then - Man, it sure would be nice to have a defense. Who is even half this unit?
2020 - How the eff is this defense of name players not better than this?

Then - Its great that we have Cam Ward, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent backup?
2020 - Its great that we have 2 top end backups, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent starter?

 

[My Special Purpose]

Not really relevant to what you said, but I'm drinking because tomorrow is a holiday so **** it. This site needs a 1/2 like button or something similar, because I find that every post of yours such as this I find myself 110% nodding in agreement for some of it, and shaking my head thinking you're nuts/blatantly wrong on the other half. And I'm not sure what to do in that situation, whether to like it or not and the internal conflict bugs me.

Anyways, do with that information what you wish

It actually stems from spending less time on this board during a game. It used to be fun to talk about plays and which players had stepped up/screwed up. But now it's just endless whining about officiating and guys who make bad plays and need to be shot into the sun. I still feel connected to the team through the board and enjoy getting feedback here, especially during my time here in Siberia, but it's getting more and more difficult to have the kind of conversations I used to enjoy here, so I try to get all my stuff out in one post.

If it makes you feel any better, likes are irrelevant to me. The only time I ever follow up on anything is when somebody responds.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Complaining about officiating is like complaining about traffic. Yes, it's awful and it's absolutely unacceptable for so many people to be so bad at such a simple thing...but it's been that way for so long that if you're still complaining about it, it's your fault for not lowering your expectations...or leaving earlier so you don't get caught in a jam.

I think I lost the metaphor somewhere in there.

 

[Joe McGrath]

It actually stems from spending less time on this board during a game. It used to be fun to talk about plays and which players had stepped up/screwed up. But now it's just endless whining about officiating and guys who make bad plays and need to be shot into the sun. I still feel connected to the team through the board and enjoy getting feedback here, especially during my time here in Siberia, but it's getting more and more difficult to have the kind of conversations I used to enjoy here, so I try to get all my stuff out in one post.

If it makes you feel any better, likes are irrelevant to me. The only time I ever follow up on anything is when somebody responds.

you are the king of one large post with 5 things I agree completely with and 1 thing that I couldn’t possibly agree less with. It’s a fun ride. I think I stopped responding to those because I felt like 5 out of 6 is a pretty good ratio.

 

[CandyCanes]

 

[geehaad]

This team is basically the polar opposite of the late years Eric Staal teams.

Then - No first line, and our centers sucked. But hey at least our bottom lines weren't crap.
2020 - Elite first line. Absolutely nothing beyond that.

Then - Man, it sure would be nice to have a defense. Who is even half this unit?
2020 - How the eff is this defense of name players not better than this?

Then - Its great that we have Cam Ward, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent backup?
2020 - Its great that we have 2 top end backups, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent starter?

2020: I couldn’t disagree more with these 3 opinions.

 

[Svechhammer]

Fleury looked real good last night. He's got a heavy wrist shot that will score some goals the more comfortable he gets with shooting.

 

[A Star is Burns]

Man, we've got possibly our 2nd best team in our history, and it's so difficult to tell sometimes.

As for Fleury, he still lacks consistency. If it's like normal and he has an off game or two, it won't matter. He needs to figure out how to build on it. His top end still isn't that inspiring.

 

[MinJaBen]

Fleury looked real good last night. He's got a heavy wrist shot that will score some goals the more comfortable he gets with shooting.

I think Fleury has looked good, but I'm going to pump the breaks on expecting more goals. He suffers from some of the same issues as a lot of the guys seem to right now in that he is looking for the perfect shot too much and waits an extra second or so which is allowing defenders to get in the lanes. He (and a lot of the guys right now) need to get the puck off the stick more quickly.

 

[Stickpucker]

Fleury is the one Dman willing to slap some people around and cross check them in front of the net.

More of that please because it will never be called. Forget trying to gap up and skate with them just keep knocking them down.

 

[The Faulker 27]

This team is basically the polar opposite of the late years Eric Staal teams.

Then - No first line, and our centers sucked. But hey at least our bottom lines weren't crap.
2020 - Elite first line. Absolutely nothing beyond that.

Then - Man, it sure would be nice to have a defense. Who is even half this unit?
2020 - How the eff is this defense of name players not better than this?

Then - Its great that we have Cam Ward, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent backup?
2020 - Its great that we have 2 top end backups, but would it be the end of the world to find a competent starter?

Then - No kids, less responsibilities, watched every game, cussed and yelled at TV, drank too much
2020 - Just trying to make it through a game without being chastised by my wife for not doing some thing. Still drink too much.