beekay414 Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 1 minute ago, flyers0909 said: I totally get it, Chris Vandevelde played 81 games for us last year. I just hate when coaches bench talent because of an occasional mistake yet send plugs out there to get consistently pummeled because they suck. "Sit in the pressbox Ghost and watch how to not make mistakes by watching Brandon Manning play hockey". Ghost is an offensive dman who pushes the play, there are going to be times where he gets caught up too far which results in a 2 on 1 the other way. But you put up with that when he's got 15 points in 13 games. He seems to have gotten out of it for the time being, but Hakstol loved benching Ghost at the end of close games like he doesn't realize the other team can't score if they can't get the puck out of their own zone. It's funny because he's not even consistent. I mean, our entire D group is young sans Greene and they all make horrid mistakes because they're all offensive style D men. I dunno, it's stupid. Severson gets an average TOI of nearly 20 minutes but we can't make up our mind when it comes to who we want to play. Mirco Mueller has been a healthy scratch 4 times in favor of guys like Dalton Prout and Ben Lovejoy. Severson once, Santini twice. These kids need friggin' burn and, even though you started really well, you're not a playoff team yet. Develop, don't delay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pats#1 Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Bruins just have the best knack at blowing it late Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the lone star Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 On 7/19/2017 at 5:31 PM, roysmyboy31 said: Valeri Nichushkin will return to the Dallas Stars in the 18-19 season after he fulfills his KHL contract. Should be a welcome re-addition. Nichushkin to return in 2018-2019 Had no idea. That's good for the team, but they still really need some blue liners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaykwonDaChef Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 22 hours ago, Forge said: The Kucherov and Stamkos line really just can't be stopped. I mean, 30 and 29 points in what, 17 games? Yea it will slow down, but they play so well together with Namestikov in the middle too. Already 9 guys with 10 points. Point has been amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 21 hours ago, bkobow05 said: @Forge Man, I don't get what Hynes is doing sometimes. We've had Severson and Zacha alternate as healthy scratches these last two games. Is he trying to send a message to the young'ns or something? I really, really don't understand the Severson thing. It doesn't make much sense. I've watched nearly every game, and as you said earlier, the entire defense makes some pretty horrendous mistakes. It's just not their strong point. Severson has been notable for a few mistake that are pretty bad when I've watched. I think he's had more notable lapses than someone like Santini when I watch, but that could largely be because I have a different set of expectations for each of the guys, and Severson's error's stand out more to me. But he's a guy I think that you just have to keep playing. Zacha? Man, I don't know...I kind of understand it, but kind of not. I've been pretty unimpressed with him in the games I have watched. Just offensively, something isn't right there. I was actually going to make a post in here the other day asking if you were worried about him. On one hand, I want them to give him the opportunity to work through it, and on the other end, with guys getting healthy and some of the players outplaying what we expected, there's a part of me that gets it. We scratched him against Edmonton, and I thought that Noesen, who I assume was taking his spot, played a great game along with that line in general. The two things that I've seen from Zacha that I've liked this year are that he's one of the few guys that just looks to shoot on this team. Far too often our young guys make one too many passes trying to set up some beautiful goal. I watched Nico do it the other day against Edmonton in overtime where he and hall had a 2-1. He really needed to shoot the puck, and instead he tried to feed it back to Hall and it ended up a bad pass, so we didn't even get a scoring chance. The other thing that I have liked is his defensive stick work in the offensive zone. I've seen him quite a few times harass opposing players as they are trying to bring it out and create turnovers. Hasn't always led to goal, but I like the aggression to create opportunities. But he's completely disappeared for long stretches of time as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 20 hours ago, bkobow05 said: It's funny because he's not even consistent. I mean, our entire D group is young sans Greene and they all make horrid mistakes because they're all offensive style D men. I dunno, it's stupid. Severson gets an average TOI of nearly 20 minutes but we can't make up our mind when it comes to who we want to play. Mirco Mueller has been a healthy scratch 4 times in favor of guys like Dalton Prout and Ben Lovejoy. Severson once, Santini twice. These kids need friggin' burn and, even though you started really well, you're not a playoff team yet. Develop, don't delay. Mueller is another one I don't understand. I thought he's played pretty well this year. He's not as offensively gifted as thought when we acquired him, though. What I'm trying to figure out is what has happened to our power play. It is a complete disaster right now. We just seem out of sorts. For as exciting as our fast start is this year, I believe we have the exact same point count as last year through this many games. We need to get back on track against Florida and not fall into what happened last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 I'll take the win against Florida, but we were outplayed for this game, I thought. Schneider won the game for us. Speaking of Zacha earlier, he was another scratch tonight. On the telecast, they said Zajac is close to returning - perhaps in a matter of days. I didn't think that he was due back until January. If this is true, Zacha is in trouble, right? I mean, you're not messing with Hall / Nico / Palm, and you're not messing with Henrique / Bratt / Stafford. So then we have the Gibbons / Noesen / Coleman line (which sometimes includes Wood, I think), and that line seems to have some solid chemistry and they're pretty gritty. They are not going to put up a lot of scores, but they are a nuisance. So that leaves Zacha , Wood or Hayes as being the most common scratch, yeah? Personally, I'd drop Wood most of the time, who I have been pretty unimpressed with overall, but I don't know that he's been scratched a single game this year....so they must like him. That being said, even if you like him Hynes, for the love of god, he has no business playing chunks of time on the power play....just don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoToneBlue Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 I don’t know how we won last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 On 11/12/2017 at 7:38 AM, TwoToneBlue said: I don’t know how we won last night. I was going to post this when I saw it one ESPN. Amazing save, but damn, how foolish / bad do you feel if you're the red wings there? I feel like there is never a reason for you not to score there lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 This blackhawks / devils game is a bit insane. And of course the night after I complain about Wood offensively on the power play, he puts up 2 goals (one on the power play) and has 3 points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 22 minutes ago, Forge said: This blackhawks / devils game is a bit insane. And of course the night after I complain about Wood offensively on the power play, he puts up 2 goals (one on the power play) and has 3 points ha, make that a hat trick with two power play goals for Wood. I need to criticize more often. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Looks like Zajac may be back as early as Thursday against Toronto. At this point, have to love the forward grouping for the Devils. Curious how the playing time and lines now shift out. Looks like this is how Hynes had it in practice Quote With Zajac centering the first line, coach John Hynes had rookie Nico Hischier between Jesper Bratt and Drew Stafford; Brian Boyle between Adam Henrique and Miles Wood; and Blake Coleman between Brian Gibbons and Stefan Noesen That is very bad news for Zacha. Also, Mueller going to be out for a while with a broken Clavicle. That really sucks. That means more Lovejoy, and now we are going to have an even thinner defense. We are already bad, we don't need to be getting into our back ups lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionsFan01 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 WItkowski is probably gonna get 10 games from the league, but I cannot wait for the day Matthew Tkachuk gets absolutely wrecked by somebody. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 So Zacha is a healthy scratch with the return of Zajac. That's bad enough. Going to be even worse when Johansson gets back healthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gnat Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 That was a fun Wild win last night. Good to see them actually come back on someone and not need a shutout from Dubnyk to win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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