GDT: Senators @ Devils - 1:00 P.M. - MSGSN, NHLN

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During this 11 game slide noted bums: Cotter (3), Palat (3), Tatar (1), Mercer (1) combined for 8 five on five goals.

The rest of the forwards: 6.

The top guys just aren't good enough right now during most of the game. These games are so close that if you get a few more goals from these guys and you are looking at 4+ extra points and sitting pretty.

It's absolutely a collective situation right now. And it also coincides with our PP cooling off from the dominance they showed in the first couple of months.

I do think that the top guys are trying to overcomplicate their game offensively. You can see there is just no simplification of their game. Waiting for the perfect shooting lane, over passing, passes coming too hot and bouncing off sticks. It's why I'm fully in favor of mixing those lines up at this point.

I appreciate Keefe letting them try to work it out. I'd prefer that to bingo balling the lineup. But I think you have to try and give some other looks.
 
LOL @ the two guys who scored yesterday.

An Artem Zub regulation game winner is right up there with the Cody Ceci game winner in San Jose.

Who the f*** is Ostapchuk? First career goal lol.
 
People wanted Zetterlund gone? That's news to me.

I don't recall people really wanting to get rid of Boq, more like they were indifferent about him.

What people didn't want was to trade Mercer. Myself included. We were wrong, flat out. Hindsight is obvious of course, but doesn't change that we were in fact wrong and it should have been Dawson going instead of Zetterlund.
You did not care for Jesper Boqvist

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Which is understandable, because he wasn’t a particularly impactful player. He’s shooting 23% this year, so of course that will make him look like a bigger loss.
 
I didn't care for Boqvist either, that's why I'm not complaining about it after the fact.

Although I will say this much, I started to like him much more later on. It almost felt like they forced him onto the team in 19-20 and for some reason (I forget why) he wasn't allowed to start the year in the AHL. It had to be either here or in Europe, but he did eventually get assigned to the AHL later that year when he scored 4 goals or something (and a shootout goal or two) and no assists in 36 games.

I think he was overall underwhelming with the NHL team here for quite a bit before really starting to look like he could be a pretty nice player in the second half of the 21-22 season.

I do think his exiling over someone like often injured Bastian is probably another example of the team looking to change from a rush team to a more ''Physical'' or ''Harder to play against'' or ''No Dickheads'' team that seemed to start after losing the Carolina playoff series.

I would rather have Boqvist than probably 66% of our current bottom 6, but I wasn't a huge fan of his here, nor did I get too upset about it at the time we let him go, so I'm not going to sit here and make a big deal about it after the fact.

However, I think it's probably looking like it was the wrong move right now. I was wrong on being okay with that move at the time and I think the GM was probably wrong with being okay with that move at the time.

I'm not sure if he's a player of extreme consequence though. Even Boston probably could have retained him and they didn't either. And it wasn't because they couldn't afford it. He got the same identical one year deal from Florida for the same money (unless that's wrong?) that Boston gave him the year before, after we let him go.
 

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