Post-Game Talk: The more things change…

MoontoScott

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I know Pickard’s career has been hanging by a thread for the last number of years, compared to Skinner being a fairly high-end young goalie, but Pickard’s athleticism and lateral mobility just make me feel way more confident when he’s in net. It’s not even close between the two in those aspects.
Same- Picard isn't a great goalie by it seems to me that he is always more relaxed in terms of making the routine saves and has the better lateral mobility. In contrast, Skinner is always a high event player.
 
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Porkleaker

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Not gonna lie, pretty impressive.
 

Spawn

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There were 5 or 6 minutes where they were on their heals in the first, otherwise I thought the team played excellent for the first 40. Didn’t see the third, glad they pulled it out.
 
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Jarvi

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I have to disagree with you there. McDavid looked dangerous all night, and was almost back to his old self imo.

Perry and skinner were excellent again in this one. 5v5 the team was solid top to bottom imo. Best effort of the season pretty easily.

The PP needs to get in gear tho. Might be time to consider a personnel swap or two to try and get that engine going a bit, at least in the short term.
Knob did throw the first unit out with Nurse instead of Nuge I believe. I wanna say it was on a faceoff in the preds end w 45+ seconds left in the PP that the now revised top unit nearly finished off. Maybe that was him acknowledging Nurses good play in the last couple, and a preview of potential shake up for the top unit if things don't improve.

Not that I think Nurse would take that spot if they do make a change, it would have to be Skinner or Rico in for Nuge/Hyman in my mind. But in a close game Nurse was the right call in case the puck moved the other way, and it let's the top unit know that passengers aren't guaranteed a ride.

Imo, we should be playing the second unit as a whole more. All those guys have been playing really well, and they have the pieces to make it work imo.

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That's a unit that is safe, can maintain possession, and score in a variety of ways. Skinner has shown he can damn near drive a line imo. Also, it's basically filled with guys who HF (myself included) slammed before the season in Skinner, Nurse and Perry.
 

guymez

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That was much better.
Still some work to do (especially on the PP) but that looked more like the team I expected to see this season.

Nice to see Nurse step up and take on McCarron.
Thats an element of Nurses game that has to be there.

A tougher test happens on Saturday against Dallas so hopefully they can build on this effort tonight.
 

guymez

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There is something that needs to be mentioned about the broadcast tonight.

The Nurse fight highlighted exactly why I dont care for the Jack and Louie storytime show.
The reason for that fight was never even discussed by those clowns. They were so busy with their mindless banter that they didnt even acknowledge the reason that fight even happened.
That fight happened because of the hit that McCarron dished out on Stecher right in front of the benches. Right at centre ice.
They just chatted away about crap no one cares about while Stecher got hammered and didnt even bother to mention it after the fact. That was a very important part of the game that wasnt even acknowleged. They didnt even appear to be aware that it had happened because it was never mentioned at all.
That is a joke and it is a perfect example of how these clowns ruin hockey games with their endless storytime chatter.
Call the f**king play and keep the storytime for between whistles.
Idiots.

/rant

Edit: rewatched the play and it appears that McCarron hit Stecher
 
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Dieseloil

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McDavid would have 8 points by now if Hyman and Bouchard would pull their craniums out of their posteriors. Bouchard has fired it into bodies or sticks or shot it wide about 90% of the time. Hyman I can’t figure out what’s wrong, other than his shot seems baby shit soft.
 

Dieseloil

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I have to disagree with you there. McDavid looked dangerous all night, and was almost back to his old self imo.

Perry and skinner were excellent again in this one. 5v5 the team was solid top to bottom imo. Best effort of the season pretty easily.

The PP needs to get in gear tho. Might be time to consider a personnel swap or two to try and get that engine going a bit, at least in the short term.
They need to break up the Nuge, Hyman combo on the left side on the PP, just way too predictable. They have a couple other guys like Skinner, Henrique or Arvidsson as options. Do it,
 

LemmyUlanov55

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Solid W on the road, Pickard looked pretty good and Kulak found his inner Draisaitl tonight.
Might take a few games more but they'll turn into a well oiled machine, shoutout to Stecher & Skinner, both doing quite well early on.

10pm game for me against the Stars, yay! :hockey:
 
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joestevens29

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Who would've guessed that Kulak has 2 more goals than Hyman 5 games in lol. It will come for Zach soon though... He's been getting chances all around
I mean there is weird shit like this every year to start.

Checking stats this early in the year is meaningless. Reminds me of the guy at work that is logging into our hockey pool everyday and updating us on the standings
 

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