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ARI beating Minny. Valimaki with his 23rd assist. We don't even have the player that we kept over him during waivers. Or the only waiver claim we made. Stupid coach.

Keep playing 4th line, it's not like this is an important game.

Not much help today on the out of town scoreboard. WPG wins - 8 points up now. DET wins - 2 points back of us now VGK wins - 15 up on us

Markstrom guarding the 5 hole. Two breakaways and both stopped. Hope the glove works.

Need another quick one before the Sens get one.

We should play short handed every game

They are pretty good at hitting the post. Just not the inside part of it that would deflect it in.

Another stupid post. And then we take a penalty

Glad we didn't score there. It was offside on the entry

Flames don't need my help messing up.

Hanifin way too slow

No goal

Oh oh, offside challenge

Need another one right away

Toffoli goal. Yeah

2 posts so far, don't even count as shots

Saw this... Calgary has scored 1 goal on its last 63 shots

Well, if we don't score 2 in the 1st after outplaying them, then yes we will lose momentum. Right now, I would say we had a good first 2 minutes and that is it.

Wonderful. A long shift of the 4th line and they ice it

That's something that we have done for this year and the last two. I think the bottom teams have speed we can't handle. And they make switches in our D-zone that messes up coverage.

The better draft pick part if my brain wants to see all Lucic, all the time.

Well, you don't jump and take the next available. We have not ever done a real search. Gully? BP? Wardo? Sutter was forced on BT. You say a below average roster? That's crazy. Below average results, no doubt. I'm guessing that you coach yourself, so I get the reluctance to blame a coach. And we have a history of the coach taking the fall. Is it guaranteed to fix the problems? No idea. But if you look at play design, lines, PP, defensive structure, goalie regression, there are signs. Perhaps it's as simple as replacing the assistant coaches and goalie development staff. But that rarely happens on NHL teams. Clean sweep, plus the coach tends to want his own guys. I don't like what I see in games, so either the players are incapable of playing that system. Or the systems don't fit the league anymore. We don't have a Guadreau/Tkachuk or Kipper to cover for the rest of the play.

Some are suggesting there will be a video tribute to Brady Tkachuk. That is too funny. He was a big part of a team we don't have anymore. And a run that we fell short on. AT least he got to get hammered.

Sorry dude, I thought you had finished posting.

Good job Pikey. SO happy to see that they have completely fixed the problems in the lineup. It was Ritchie's fault. The only solution is to sit him. Strange, but I think we were a 500 team long before we traded a sitting Ritchie for a playing Ritchie. Sutter is stacking the odds against us. Markstrom has played well for the last 6 games. Are we really expecting him to have suddenly fixed everything wrong with his game? Record: 2-3-1.