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***Official '16-'17 NHL Season Discussion Thread*** (1 Viewer)

Cjw_55106 said:
If Crawford plays that way, the Hawks probably win 6 of 7. Sure, MN had better opportunities, but you also need to consider the Hawks goalie as well. Bottom line to me, 2 of our 3 goals shouldn't have counted. To me, that makes it fair to say we were lucky to get the point we did. 
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your guy Crawford gave up a cookie short side from a mile out.  his chest protector was fantastic though last light.

I guess since it was a must win game for Chicago then bounces in a single game were important.  

Hawks were lucky to get any points in that game.  they weren't as good, clearly.

 
Bill Brasky said:
your guy Crawford gave up a cookie short side from a mile out.  his chest protector was fantastic though last light.

I guess since it was a must win game for Chicago then bounces in a single game were important.  

Hawks were lucky to get any points in that game.  they weren't as good, clearly.
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Crawford is hardly my guy, but OK. 

 
Hawks64 said:
:shrug: don't act like it didn't matter. That game played 100 times without those calls would be vastly different. Momentum plays a huge part of the game flow, that goal gets called back and the game changes. And you can't say with certainty that either team would win the majority of them.
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lol, yeah Wild really benefited from momentum of a 15 min game delay there. later when they zamboni'd was another huge advantage.  home cookin'

 
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Bruins came into game with 2nd-most missed shots in NHL. Missed just six through two. Fewer wristers from point, more shots with a purpose.
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They looked like a completely different team tonight. More aggressive, more working the puck down low, crisp passing, no hesitation. One-timers by guys playing on their off wing, rather than taking passes in poor shooting positions.

Who knows if it will last, or if it was just the usual first-game reaction to a new coach, system and philosophy. But for one night, it was great to see.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/trending-topics-bruins-issues-have-been-building-for-years-181531411.html
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I've always believed Lambert is a tool, for a variety of reasons. For instance, how can you write that Neely is "the real decision-maker for this club" and then put most of the blame on Sweeney, in the exact same paragraph? And then two graphs later note that, "The Bruins’ problems obviously predate Sweeney’s ascension to the job."

I do think his point is valid that keeping Julien around cost this team a chance at starting a rebuild two years ago, if you believe the popular theory in the circle-the-wagons media that the current team was overachieving under his watch (I don't buy it, but I digress). But I'm not sure Papa Jacobs ever would allow a total rebuild, for fear of missing out on playoff revenue. And I don't know how much patience the fans would have for it, either.

We'll see if last night's game was just a blip or the starting of something good.

 
Lambert posts a lot of stuff to instigate and get a reaction. But he also makes some really good points and has good insight imo. Just have to take it most with a grain of salt as he overstates things for effect. 

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Lambert posts a lot of stuff to instigate and get a reaction. But he also makes some really good points and has good insight imo. Just have to take it most with a grain of salt as he overstates things for effect. 
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I have never met him, but I know several people who know him. He definitely is an instigator on Twitter (as well as a Lowell fan, which I admit, might be helping to shape my opinion of him).

 
Cjw_55106 said:
Nyquist should have been ejected IMO. 
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No doubt intent to injure. I don't care if "he's not that kind of player." Then why did he do that? Lucky he didn't take out Spurgeon's eye. Ref needs to toss him there. None of this "he failed to control his stick" bs.

I wouldn't doubt if Stewart takes him out today still. 

 
Agree that Nyquist should have been tossed but Milbury using the murder analogy there shows why no one has any respect for him. 

 
Habs are a mess. There's a couple decent French speaking options available, maybe Bergevin will pull the trigger. Oh, God, I hope so. 

 
Billy Bats said:
You think? Should get 10 games minimum. 
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Well, he should have been ejected immediately and he wasn't. I'd be surprised at 10. Duncan Keith got six games last year for High-sticking Charlie Coyle, which seems like a close comparison. 

I personally would have zero issue if guys were done for the season when they intentionally high stick someone in the face. That wont happen until someone loses and eye. 

 
I didn't expect him to admit it, but c'mon:

“I didn’t mean to do that,” Nyquist told the Detroit Free Press. “My stick gets caught, I am trying to get body position on him. I’m happy he was out there again. I had no intention of doing that. My stick gets caught. It looks bad, but I’m happy he’s OK.

 
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/what-we-learned-getting-a-better-look-at-the-best-goalies-in-the-nhl-145629487.html

But today, thanks to shot location data you can get from NHL game sheets, we can also factor in shot quality in every situation, and use that to determine how many goals a netminder has prevented in comparison with what an average goalie would have stopped facing the same workload in terms of both volume and difficulty. That is synthesized into one stat: Corsica’s “goals saved above average.”

And when you look at GSAA, a slightly different picture of who has been the best goaltender in the league starts to emerge. Of the 37 goaltenders to play at least 1,000 minutes at 5-on-5 this season (goalies we can safely say are starters, in 1a/1b tandems, or working through injury situations), one goalie has a not-insignificant lead on the competition, and it’s not one of the three Vezina candidates discussed above.

It’s actually Cam Talbot.
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Dickie Dunn said:
Now, now ... it's only been three games. Remember, this team overachieved under Claude. Who wants to watch exciting, creative hockey?
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from Lambert:

Boston Bruins: Man, this is why Julien had to go: The Bruins are scoring more because Bruce Cassidy said “shoot like 16 percent.” Claude was telling them to only shoot 7.5 percent. What a dope!
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