Post-Game Talk: This game is on Mrazek

[WingedWheel1987]

Cleary was a liability. He literally hindered the offense. Richards may not be lighting it up but he's not a net negative.

You can't call a guy who generally outplays his linemates a liability.

I can when he is making 3x as much as Sheahan.

950k vs. 3.0 million

Hawks paid him 1.5 million to put up 37 points.

Hawks didn't need him to produce. Wings can't afford to have any more passengers on this train. Literally every player is basically useless if they aren't playing with Datsyuk or Zetterberg. Oh and Larkin too.

 

[skate skate skate]

Richards was an asset on the Hawks roster. He is a liability on the Wings roster.

One roster has a ton of talent. The other does not.

And that's your opinion. IMO he's been good, not great, but good.

I hate that 4th line.

Switching Pulks and Jurco makes more sense.

Kronwall should be on the IR, right? That has to give the team some relief.

I don't think you get cap relief by having somebody on IR, right? Only a roaster spot. But idk. It's all a bit confusing, General Fanager says we have 1.8M in cap space. And
according to them we only got $3,574,377 out of possible $5,304,545 in cap relief by having Franzen and Miller on LTIR.

 

[Mister Ed]

Assuming Tatar is back on Friday, and Richards is on PEI, Andersson should be back in. The lineup looks pretty good on paper, except that 4th line.



Abdelkader-Zetterberg-Larkin
Helm-Datsyuk-Nyquist
Jurco-Sheahan-Tatar
Andersson-Glendening-Pulkkinen

 

[Hunting Bow*]

A few things I took from the game lastnight.

1. Tight checking game like the post season
2. Someone needs to be able to drive the net like the St. Louis player on their 2nd goal.
3. Pulks has to learn in the NHL you can't just blast and expect the shot to through.
4. AND THE BIGGEST!!!!!!! A team who struggles to score goals can NOT miss open net shots.

 

[InjuredChoker]

Or like last season when he played a 2C role on the Championship team scoring 14 points in 23 games. Beyond that he has a mile long track record of bringing it during the NHL's 2nd season. He has scored 14+ points or finished above point per game in 6 of the 9 years his team has made the playoffs.

But hey, congratulations on finding what is essentially the outlier of a 15 season career.

14 in 23 isn't really what i'd expect from a playoff stud. not when linemate is pp.

most of those good PO years came when he was a good player. he ain't that anymore.

 

[19 for president]

I think I'd go bonkers and run something like:

Abby-z-Larkin
Tatar-Dats-sheahan
Nyquist-Helm-Andersson
Jurco-glenny-Pulu

Ideally though we dump the bottom 4 from the lineup.

Pulu is redundant, Jurco is broken, Andy and glenny are both meh. I'll sat ok keep glenny but give me AA, Mantha, and Cally.

Abby-Z-Larkin
Tatar-Dats-AA
Nyquist-Sheahan-Mantha
Helm-Glenny-Cally

3 scoring lines and a 4th line with an actual purpose.

 

[DanZ]

14 in 23 isn't really what i'd expect from a playoff stud. not when linemate is pp.

most of those good PO years came when he was a good player. he ain't that anymore.

14 in 23 is good second line center production from a 35 year old. He is certainly a good player.

 

[NooDLE]

Interested to see if Datsyuk+Nyquist works. I feel like these two never play together at ES.

 

[ap3x]

Interested to see if Datsyuk+Nyquist works. I feel like these two never play together at ES.

Same here. Have a good feeling about it. But unfortunately Tats won't be in as the third one.

 

[icKx]

I can when he is making 3x as much as Sheahan.

950k vs. 3.0 million

Hawks paid him 1.5 million to put up 37 points.

Hawks didn't need him to produce. Wings can't afford to have any more passengers on this train. Literally every player is basically useless if they aren't playing with Datsyuk or Zetterberg. Oh and Larkin too.

Who would you rather have on the ice in the O zone -- Richards or Sheahan?

In our zone?

 

[14ari13]

All I can see is the Habs have fallen to 10/11th place in the conference. They won the cup in november .

 

[SpookyTsuki]

All I can see is the Habs have fallen to 10/11th place in the conference. They won the cup in november .

Won't fire their coach either. Idk what's going on with Montreal. They have good players Price shouldn't hurt them this bad. That's on the coach. Who they won't fire

 

[LeighDx59]

Assuming Tatar is back on Friday, and Richards is on PEI, Andersson should be back in. The lineup looks pretty good on paper, except that 4th line.



Abdelkader-Zetterberg-Larkin
Helm-Datsyuk-Nyquist
Jurco-Sheahan-Tatar
Andersson-Glendening-Pulkkinen

Looks really solid though I would switch out Pulkkinen and Jurco, I feel like Pulkky has been way better than Jurco has so far.

 

[Flowah]

All I can see is the Habs have fallen to 10/11th place in the conference. They won the cup in november .

And Tampa is #2 where a couple months ago they were out of the playoffs by a long shot.

 

[DanZ]

And Tampa is #2 where a couple months ago they were out of the playoffs by a long shot.

I don't think Tampa was ever out of the playoffs by a long shot. They've always been on the bubble...

 

[14ari13]

Won't fire their coach either. Idk what's going on with Montreal. They have good players Price shouldn't hurt them this bad. That's on the coach. Who they won't fire

It seems to me that goaltending means a lot in the East. Habs were doing great, while Price played, caps and panthers are doing great because of goaltending. Devils no chance without great goaltending .

I don't think Tampa was ever out of the playoffs by a long shot. They've always been on the bubble...

But people here were talking like bolts would not make it. Suddenly if they put 10 wins in a row, they might fight for the top spot in the conference.