he's a good player. he's part of the solution
What's funny to me is like 80% of this board was whinning about trading him earlier this season. Same people complain that Drury trades away his youth.
he's a good player. he's part of the solution
But you have to admit that Mika is a guy that struggles with confidence. There are different types of snakebitten. His confidence was just very low.
It was a great goal but he was basically invisible the rest of the game. Its sad how far he's fallen.tough one for the Kreider haters
"injured" Kreider clocked in at over 24 MPH zooming up the ice on his goal. Shits gonna throw him into the 99th percentile on NHL edge top speed.
I don't think he played well tonight and hasn't played well for a while but when he wants to get after it he still can. Why he doesn't do it more often is something they've got to figure out.
Mika is the anomaly of all anomalies.
He might be the only guy who I can think of who is undeniably soft mentally while being an undeniable strong playoff producer. The underlying numbers in the PO's suck (for a variety of reasons, being used as a match up guy being one of them and we've now had 3 coaches who have been too happy to do that) but when the chips are down, points have come off of his stick.
I think the hate for this player has gotten beyond exhausting. He literally can't do anything with out at least a handful of people jumping down his throat (at least a dozen people were trashing him after the 1st period tonight when he was perfectly fine) but I don't think we've had a better forward since the calendar flipped.
I don't think he's even come close to redeeming himself for how he played during November and December, but the 2025 version has been much better.
But this post was?2 crap non-playoff teams duking it out.
I checked out after 2, not worth the time
You cant say that! Are you his mother/agent?but I don't think we've had a better forward since the calendar flipped.
I've been saying this for a while. He's not hurt. The back problems shit he told mollie sounds more like chronic issues related to age and wear and tear requiring management and maintenance. Even before tonight I've seen instances where he turned it up when he wanted to. Is his stamina the same? Probably not. He can do it in spurts."injured" Kreider clocked in at over 24 MPH zooming up the ice on his goal. Shits gonna throw him into the 99th percentile on NHL edge top speed.
I don't think he played well tonight and hasn't played well for a while but when he wants to get after it he still can. Why he doesn't do it more often is something they've got to figure out.
Mika is the anomaly of all anomalies.
He might be the only guy who I can think of who is undeniably soft mentally while being an undeniable strong playoff producer. The underlying numbers in the PO's suck (for a variety of reasons, being used as a match up guy being one of them and we've now had 3 coaches who have been too happy to do that) but when the chips are down, points have come off of his stick.
I think the hate for this player has gotten beyond exhausting. He literally can't do anything with out at least a handful of people jumping down his throat (at least a dozen people were trashing him after the 1st period tonight when he was perfectly fine) but I don't think we've had a better forward since the calendar flipped.
I don't think he's even come close to redeeming himself for how he played during November and December, but the 2025 version has been much better.
Panarin is a passenger on that 1st line.
The first period was holy shit!That was a fun game to be at. Screw the haters who found that boring.
The first period was holy shit!
After that, I had no complaints.
The first period was torture, but the pace of the next 40 minutes was fine.Really? I mean they didn't play poorly but it was an insanely boring game.