Like I said earlier, there's always gunna be one guy open anyways. Had they pressured Kane more, it would've just left someone else open for a higher danger change. That was a nothing burger that turned into a goal and a convenient excuse to put on the pk
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Like I said earlier, there's always gunna be one guy open anyways. Had they pressured Kane more, it would've just left someone else open for a higher danger change. That was a nothing burger that turned into a goal and a convenient excuse to put on the pk
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Boy I’m really looking forward to seeing Jake Allen tomorrow…oh wait
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Pretty much. I said we needed a clean sheet from him past that point.
He got a pass on goal 3 because that was f***ery and that evened out with Nico scoring.
Mercer's penalty and his awful play on that goal cost us the game
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Unless I'm misremembering this quick after the game, I think Bastian made a block and was just slow getting back to the point and the forwards drifted thinking Kane would pass and he just shot.
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For context, tonight's 5v5 xGF% of 71.91% would've ranked as our 7th best performance of they 2022-2023 season, just shy of the early season game against the Isles in Barclay's that year.
Possibly? Definitely. Varlamov might also be having a rough start to the year but he's consistently been good for like a decade outside of like one stinker year being the historically bad Avs team
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Honestly, Marty can burn a Devils jersey and f*** off to Ragsland tomorrow for all I care.
If I could survive through having to watch Marty play for another team, I can survive having to watch him work for another team (which he already did work for St. Louis before us anyway), especially when he isn’t any good at being a front office person.
I think I’d like him more if he went over there. Because at least he won’t have anything to do with what goes on here anymore.
His decision to axe Melanson and bring in Rogalski (which he pretty much confirmed was his decision in a podcast a couple years ago) has been probably the worst move of the Fitz era so far.
And it’s also the gift that keeps on giving. Teams fire the goalie coach after two years sometimes. Rogalski is in year five, with three of the first four being unforgivably bad results.
Imagine if the power play was this bad for years, yet we kept running it back with Mark Recchi all these years? How is that different? Why do we keep running it back with Rogalski?
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Fair enough
I wouldnt cast him aside though until he gets his true stint with us as a backup, and not an overworked teenager
Plus the greatest goaltender ever in Brodeur had similarly awful stats in juniors and the AHL
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Yeah Bastian is doing nothing there, Kane could've shot or passed it to Raymond for a one T. It's still a shot you want a save on though. Goes back to a further point about him getting taken off the PK. Also doesn't help Mercer was in the box too since he's usually on the kill
Gotta be more positive
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Dillon had 2-3 very bad passes in the D-zone that resulted in dangerous turnovers.
Yeah Bastian is doing nothing there, Kane could've shot or passed it to Raymond for a one T. It's still a shot you want a save on though. Goes back to a further point about him getting taken off the PK. Also doesn't help Mercer was in the box too since he's usually on the kill
Gotta be more positive
Sorry, if we're pinning that on the pk, just put an echl goalie in, good grief
No screen, no tip, pretty far out...terrible goal
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Gotcha, might've missed those during the game.
How did me saying "that's still a shot you want saved" go over your head.....?
Yeah Bastian is doing nothing there, Kane could've shot or passed it to Raymond for a one T. It's still a shot you want a save on though. Goes back to a further point about him getting taken off the PK. Also doesn't help Mercer was in the box too since he's usually on the kill
Gotta be more positive
It's both something you wnat a save on and awful PKing. You cannot let Patrick Kane walk in and take a shot with no pressure. It can be both things and it is both things on this one.
The Debrincat chance right out front in the 2nd
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PK does deserve some blame for leaving Kane that alone with that much time.
But it wasn't that great a shot he got off and they should have gotten bailed out by their goalie there.
But it wasn't that great a shot he got off and they should have gotten bailed out by their goalie there.
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True, Kovy was a still shakey too, but even then by and large I don't think there were many big mistakes.
Definitely not enough to deserve to lose. You are winning most nights if those are the only big mistakes you make
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I don't think it's possible for Game 11 to be anywhere close to a must win game when you are still above nhl .500 (and honestly even if you aren't)
But for the sake of the morale of the fanbase and the players, Really need to get something.
Also they got to reverse this trend of just laying complete eggs on home ice.
Been too many total stinkers at home
But for the sake of the morale of the fanbase and the players, Really need to get something.
Also they got to reverse this trend of just laying complete eggs on home ice.
Been too many total stinkers at home
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Besides my specific (and minor) quarrel with Dougie in the Team Discussion, my only gripe with tonight was the rolling over to the antics of Detroit in this game
Dont want to respond right away to Larkin and take a penalty? Thats fair. But then hes one of the main instigators in 2-3 more scrums during the game? That is unacceptable
This team has a lot of work to do to shed the 'soft' label they built up over the recent years. And it wont happen at the end of games when the win or loss has been decided already
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They also need some god damn saves for the morale of the team before this spirals into three years ago again. Nineteen goals against in three games is unacceptable, especially for a duo Fitz doled out a lot of draft/depth capital on.
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Thing is, they played a picture perfect game tonight and still lost in regulation to a shitter team cause of the goaltending. I highly doubt they get the high danger chances tomorrow against the Islanders and if you can't score on Talbot, have fun v Varlamov or Sorokin on a B2B lol
Just watched the extended highlights. Yeah, seems like a night and day performance compared to their last two games. But seems like Talbot/Markstrom was the difference.
Annoying but if they continue that level of play then they will win more often than not.
Annoying but if they continue that level of play then they will win more often than not.
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They were on their way to at least OT late in the third but Mercer took an absolutely inexcusable stupid penalty and then Markstrom proceeded to let up the softie of the night on the PK costing us a result.
