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Lucic must be in the dog house.

We lose a player to upper body injury and we don't do anything on the waiver wire? Winger is a winger, but we only have Zary and Pelletier left to chose from.

Saw this, but not sure if accurate: Huberdeau-Backlund-Toffoli Dube-Kadri-Mangiapane Ruzicka-Zohorna-Phillips Coleman-Lewis-Ritchie How about that kid line. Would not Rozie be better at C? Oh well, Phillips is used to Little Z at C. Technically, he used to both players. Recently Zoh, last year Rozie at C.

Okay, so Ritchie is in, not Lucic. They have a few C's that could take top line.

Not sure if they move Dube up to C and bring in Ritchie? Lucic was due to be scratched

That was expected, since they mentioned he was ill. But Lindy was last minute.

Yikes, no Lindholm tonight.

Yes, on LW. I thought you were suggesting they try him on RW with Hubey and Ladri.

I do think that Rozie is just adapting to LW from his natural position, so I would be wary. While I like your 4th line (Dube is better at C), I think they found that Toffee with Backlund wasn't great. I do think there is some problems with the construction of the top line though. It's either Lindholm or Toffoli or both. For one game it would be fun to swap Ruzie with Hubey. Ruzicka-Lindholm-Toffoli Dube-Kadri-Mangiapane Huberdeau-Backlund-Phillips Coleman-Zohorna-Lewis That would be interesting. Hubey with Backlund works, maybe a guy that goes to the net would help. Today's expected lines based on skate. Weegar is possibly a scratch, may be illness related: Huberdeau-Lindholm-Toffoli Dube-Kadri-Mangiapane Ruzicka-Backlund-Phillips Coleman-Zohorna-Lewis Hanifin-Andersson Zadorov-Tanev Mackey-Stone Mackstrom

When the coach gets past simply rolling 4 lines on the road and thinking a line with Lucic bring it.... When the coach doesn't get outcoached by a rookie head coach in the playoffs. Not saying we need to change coaches, just need to adapt. This team is not the cup inning Kings team. Nice to win 2-0 games, but scoring is way up since that team won. The team to learn how to play without the top 2. Scoring goals. Executing on the PP. Some of it is personnel being used. Coaching needs to be better.

Colorado jumped into 3rd today, putting Minny ahead of us. Tied in points, but they played less. We need a string of wins to get back into top 3. Or be in top three for a change.

We had a top line that did everything in sync. That's gone, so we have to find the right fit. Top line doesn't look right. The Nylander goal fooled him, too late with 5 hole coverage. Tanev deflecting the point shot away from the direction the goalie was moving. The OT goal was a 4 on 3 PP and a rebound. First goal perhaps a bit of a muffin. But anyway, it was a B2B game against a top team. We weren't outclassed, maybe out reffed.

$600k difference. If we had any desire to trade Lucic, then we don't need to sign Lewis. Just saying. It was probably next to impossible to trade Lucic, but who knows. There was no suggestion of it.

The Backlund one was weak sauce, where it was a push by the top glove. Vladar called for tripping because he was playing the puck with his stick when the player cut across the crease. What is he McDavid? Weak. The other calls not hard to see. But I take exception with the ones above. We did well on the short 5v3.

Sutter seems to be a little annoyed at the reffing tonight. Said he knew from his days in CHI that you know what you will see in TO.

Well, I think the line that didn't have anything was the top line. Haven't really looked good in some time. Hard to break up the Kadri line right now. Backlund line was fine. If we intend to use Phillips again, then can't really out him with Huberdeau. But we have to do something with our best passer not connecting. Maybe Kadri is the better fit. Maybe Backlund.

7 f'in penalties.

What a joke

We don't have a dangerous team for OT now.

Take the point. Get another one.

Goalie isn't even allowed to play the puck with his stick? Refs are extremely bad tonight.

Get off the ice Austin

Such pro leaf reffing. You miss the call, then move on

Matthews won't be able to play right away if he's cut. Has to sit on the bench if he has a cut.

BS