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Funny that TO guys actually support the player while SN calls it a sucker punch. What did the Flames ever do to the league to PO them so much? Lowry doesn't even get a 5 minute penalty, yet Looch gets 4 then 2 games. Most penalized team, yet not dirty by any stretch.
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Is Wolf on the radar for the WJC for the USA?
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HIs last infraction was a $10k fine against TBL last year. Unsuspecting player getting hit with a glove to the face, in this cas he was lying on the ice. Anyway, Lucic threw a sucker punch because Choir Boy had no idea anyonme would take offense to slashing a goalie in the nads. Karma I guess. We shall win with skill and not bother with the likes of Wilson.
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It wasn;t the first questionable thing Sherwood had done this game, but it was the last. Understand the code and he (Sherwood) will be fine. You may have to answer like Lowry did last night or face the reaper who just happened to be PO'd.
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Well the funny thing is we dumped on Neal because he never was that player. Never even showed like he was gaining traction.And he will be welcome in EDM untill he falls back to the usual. What was McD playing in game 82 of a lost season like they were in the playoffs? The game meant nothing to either team. It was in CGY so it wasn;t for the EDM fans. They had given up long before that. Seems to me the only reason why they were trying was so that Draisaitl could get his 50th goal. Individual achievements
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I think we all know the risk of burning a player so much so soon in the season. Tippett was supposed to be reducing the minutes the duo played. They aren't getting scoring from the rest of the team, save for one game against a putrid CBJ team. One might also argue they have not faced elite teams. WAS is the best team they have played and was one of their better games, but it was bookended by two, two game loses on either side. Their GM preached that this was not a playoff year, but the coach seems to believe that you run the team early on to have a chance. New coach bubble.
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Looks like Neal is reverting to being completely one-dimensional. 10g 1a -4 Lucic is 0g 3a -3 To make matters worse, Neal has resulted in Nuge going dry. Twice that I have seen, Nuge has taken a shot on the PP and Neal deflects it in. Neal isn't adding any assists on Nuge goals, suffice to say that he isn't able to set up Nuge. So, they have added potentially a 20 goal scorer and have subtracted a 20 goal scorer by him playing with Nuge.
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If you watched the replay, Ras xchecked him in the back at least 3 times, then tried to rip his head off. What else do you do at the moment. In the 3rd they needed to use the PP to make them pay, and they didn;t. After that, a good hit should have been placed. Maybe he could have been enticed to drop the gloves, but doubful against Lucic.
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I watched the Boyle goal and that was classic Smitty. Played in a crouch, then face first unable to wait out the guy with the puck. Launch forward to make the save. Like the line goes, 50% of the time it works every time.
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He took a shot on the Cats' PP where he was barely able to play. Finished out the period and started the one where he gave up a bunch. It did not look that the "injury" had any thing to do with the 3 goals. They were typical Smith goals.
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I think you are onto something. You don;t score that much with a subpar shot. Mangiapane finds those holes and all he needs is a pass on the tape. Also a well thought out lineup. We have to be able to trust Lucic taking more defensive responsibility, since his scoring is meh. Bennett with Ryan and Folik is not a lot different from Bennett-Backlund-Frolik. They can be the Satoshi Nakamotodown line.
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Tkachuk plays a similar game without going over the "edge" nearly as much. The part that most frustrates me though is trying to dangle too often. It reminds me to much of Gaudreau's tendency to wind around in the O-zone, which can set up for a 2-1 the other way. If you are behind the net with control, the last place you should end up is the blueline. I did like the way the line looked with Ryan and Mangiapane. What I can't say is who's driving it.
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I don;t really understand your argument. A guy that plays 2 games in the ECHL this year and 1 game in the AHL is a stud? He was poor in the ECHL last year and had a good record in the AHL last year. Since I only followed the Heat in game reviews and blogs, I have to ask a question. He played 11 games and 465 minutes. Did he not play 11 games? Only works out to 7+ games and his record is 6-3. Did he play relief in some of those games? Compare him to a guy who had a good record in the KHL last season. Was he gifted by playing on a team that could not be scored on? Write him off if you like because he's old. Schneider's trajectory is ECHL or AHL.
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I never undertood that comment when he said it. The Oilers won games in OT when they were down a single goal. Their PK was terrible, but that's not on one player. Perhaps if they weren't leaders in negative goal differential they would have gotten in. 12 goals would not have made a dent in that. BTW, the Oilers look no different this season. Little to no scoring in the bottom 6. Little attention to detail on defensive play. No doubt they can win 9-8 games. Those would be McDavid 5 point nights. The funny thing is that goals were easy to come by in games against feeder teams, but two games in a row against structured teams. WPG is a team lacking defense but a structured team. Minny has issues, but playing defensively is not one of them.
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4-1 is bad? Somehow, the Heat are in 2nd in the West. 6 games in, Zag has won 4 of them. Schneider played part of a game after Zag crapped the bed in the 1st. That's some impressive goaltending out of him, after the other team had built up a huge lead.
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So, Schneider had a stretch of 11 games in the AHL where he was "good". 6-3 record. The rest of the year in the ECHL he was "bad". One game he played here was "good". Gillies had 45 games last year in the AHL and was "bad" then became "good" at the end. This year Gillies has been healthy for one game and was "good". Gillies, by the way, can't be sent to the ECHL. So, you have three choices to send there. Parson, currently injured. Zag, who is actually putting up decent stats. Schneider, who has had one start.
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Is an undrafted propect goalie that you need to develop for years and hope they make it over to NA and into the NHL worth more than one who has developed playing against men. If I'm not mistaken, Rittich came over at the same age. Developing goalies isn;t just about finding the perfect drafted or undrafted 18 year old. And spending the next 3-6 years watching (with zero control over him) and developing him once he's in the NHL. It's also about having goalies sooner than later.
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Zag had the following games: @COL Win 28/30 saves @COL Win 31/33 saves SD Win 21/24 saves BAK Loss 7/11 saves @BAK Win 24/27 saves That's pretty good numbers considering we have no great D in Stockton. What I find funny is you always go one about undrafted goalies, yet we do that and you get possy about him playing.
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^^^^ Yeah, where I was going with that was that Talbot played home to WASH last year and had 1 GA on 32 shots. He didn't fare as well in Washington 2 weeks later. Inn fact, he's beaten WAS 2/3 times at home and lost 2/2 times on the road. Rittich has never faced Washington.
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Rittich faced way too many shots over his starts. By the Kings game he was burned out. You need to manage shot counts as well as starts. I think a couple of steady games by Talbot will calm the masses and give the coach more confidence in him. Maybe he can start to look at how specific goalies and their strengths fared against specific teams.
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With the sound off, it's almost bearable.
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Even with the unknown, I am still happier to have Talbot over Smith. I give the Smith meltdown to be the Minny game, assuming he gets the start. He usually does after a shutout. And he always loses after a shutout. Talbot's performance was the kind of game he had with the Oilers during their playoff year. We couldn't solve him then. Other than a perfect shot by Silferberg where he committed to the shooter, he was dialed in. The reflexes were excellent. The positioning and calmness were Rittich-esque. If the Flames feel comfortable in front of Rittich, they should be the same with Talbot.
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Very few goalies played 50+ last year. This is about the now, not how many games he will play this season. The team is not firing on all cylinders eyt, so at least we need the starter giving the team a chance. It's not going to hurt him. In fact, it actually looks like t's helping him iron out some things he was not comfortable with. Talbot is going to play games. No worry there. They will give him s atring of games, assuming he is comfortable enough to get wins. He won't be getting 5 in a row, but 3 is reasonable. At the end of the day, the split will be something like 60% to 40%, which is about what you want to do. They need to get a read on Talbot to see when he is most effective. 2nd game of a B2B? Road versus home? High volume shots? Teams fast on the rush?
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Arguably the CHI game was the toughest test so far. McD held off the scoresheet and a -2. Crawford has been the best goalie they have faced so far. That there is pretty telling.
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Have you watched any of their games? I have. Dominating on the scoreboard but nowhere else is regression in the making. Playing the weakest teams in the league (at this point) and really bad goaltending doesn;t really mean anything.
