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Milbury is a moron. love how he coaches to win and the aggressiveness. he picks great spots to do it.
MacKinnon, Statsny and Landeskog were out there nearly the entire 3 minutes and put in a great effort of controlling the puck in the 6-5 - hard to believe that MacKinnon is only 18 and players are bouncing off him down low and he is beating good defensemen like Suter for the puck in scrums. Wait until he gets another 10-15lbs on him and proper strength conditioning from an NHL trainer vs Juniors to be combined with his speed. He is fantastic to watch. I was in front of the glass and he chipped a puck out of the zone off the glass at the defensive face off circle in front of us and in a blink off an eye he was down on top of Bryz with PA Parentau nearly scoring - going from a near standstill when he chipped it out.Bill Brasky said:
Mackinnon is a beast. 4 on 4 is a disaster for Minnesota without the puck and him on the ice, don't want anything to do with more time and space for him to wheel. Barrie was everywhere too, kid sure didn't look like he was playing hurt.
I didn't get a great look as it happened - I was down at the other end and so the fishbowl effect from the glass made it hard to clearly see. Last night there were a bunch of incidents of interference both ways - and ironically the one they called on Hejda in the corner on Moulson(turned into a goal) had no business being called.(one of my favorites - ref in the neutral zone 100ft away calls the penalty - but the one in the corner where it happened isn't making the call) - they made up for it later with the Villeuax hooking(right in front of me and it was a BS call).
Yeah and Rollie got injured in the first game of the SCF and the Oilers lost to Carolina in 7 games.
Doesn't matter how he got up. Look at his head/eyes after he passes to Mac - he's going to the front and watching Mac the entire time and want the return pass. Cooke even curves over into the spot that Berrie is going to as his head is down and they collide - good no call to me.
Bryz played like crap in Game 1. Any update on when Kuemper might return to the lineup? All I've heard is he has a lower body injury.Bill Brasky said:
The collision with Cooke knocked him down and over into the legs of the other guy and he's practically turtleing when he hits him- if Cooke lets him through he's not taking the other guy out.
yeah, several weird calls in that game...off the top of my head Hejda and Veilleux calls were weak, Parise goalie interference was wrong call, missed a blatant too many men on the Wild. that stuff evens out though. only one that did bother me is not giving EJ delay of game on the empty net play. if they're going to make that call on Koivu earlier in the game, they have to do it there. pretty obvious spot to be consistent. both are making plays, both had momentum carry them into the net, and both prevented a scoring chance. then EJ loses it again and somehow they move the faceoff outside the zone presumably because the Wild D jumped into the scrum, but because the scrum was above the dots that shouldn't apply (I believe). Edit: forgot that they can't call a penalty for this with the goalie pulled anyway, would be automatically awarded a goal. And obviously they aren't going to do that in that situation. Just an unfortunate circumstance for the Wild there I guess given the similar play went against them on a judgement call earlier.
agree that it did look that way, but I give him the benefit of doubt on looking dazed. guy is playing hurt (from all indications). an OT winner will snap anyone into a frenzy.
Haula deserves the extra ice. guy has been solid since the Granlund injury, really stepped up nice in that 2nd line spot. and last night he played his checking role well and scored that beauty. guy has a lot of speed, probably the only guy on roster that can go stride for stride with Mackinnon. Brodziak has been a disaster for much of the year. even when he's doing things right he can never finish the countless opportunities he gets (save last nights goal). as long as Heatley doesn't get back in the lineup I'm fine with any shuffling.
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Bryz was fine last night. he made a few tough stops and got the ones he should stop. every goal scored on him last night was a great chance off a defensive breakdown or sloppy turnover. that game is on Brodziak IMO, plain and simple. they are in total control until he just hands it to O'Reilly with 12 min left and he was a -3 in a checking role...and he had a 5 on 5 goal in the game. to a lesser extent the Scandella/Brodin pairing who had two costly blunders/got beat and Spurgeon who had an awful turnover with about 40 seconds left that led to the tying goal.
Pominville was stuck out there gassed on like a 2 min shift and Barrie just walked him at the blue line. up to that point the Wild hadn't really had the puck in their zone at all in OT and Pominville almost ended it early with a sharp angle shot off the pipe.
Guess I 'm just biased against Bryzgalov. I wasn't sad when the Oilers dealt him to the Wild.
he's not a great goalie. he's an average positional butterfly goaltender with limited athleticism. pretty similar to Backstrom but a little younger. he's had a good run here but he isn't asked to do a lot and he isn't asked to win the game himself. he was good enough to win last night. he did his job, other guys didn't.
It isn't his athletic ability I disliked, it was his attitude. He used to consistently show up his teammates when he'd get scored on. The Oilers D was a train-wreck all season and Bryz was the only goalie that acted this way.
I get that. I remember when he did the stick flip after the goal early in the year. was pretty embarrassing. other than pissing off media members here though he's been pretty well received by the team from what I've read. he was even involved with the captains meeting after they got destroyed by the Blues a few weeks ago and desperately needed to start playing better. kind of seen as taking a leadership role, which surprised me. we'll see where it goes because he's obviously capable of melting down at any moment, but so far so good.
Bucky will be here soon - if soon means the Kings are 10 minutes from winning the seriesIt was me. Kings fans had their chance. I was pretty clear in the fantasy pool thread I'd take payola to avoid jinxing someone's team.No on took me up on it.Dickie Dunn said:Meanwhile, as no one pays attention, the Sharks are doing terrible things to the Kings.
I took five Sharks, so I'm certainly not complaining.It was me. Kings fans had their chance. I was pretty clear in the fantasy pool thread I'd take payola to avoid jinxing someone's team.No on took me up on it.Dickie Dunn said:Meanwhile, as no one pays attention, the Sharks are doing terrible things to the Kings.
Not sure I can and still keep the thread open.
They were a team that got better and better as the year progressed, team I saw in December looked like Edmonton. Team I saw in March looked like a contender, they have a deep team and great goaltending.
Bruins have no one with that kind of speed. They'll have to continue to counter with physical play wherever they can.
Yup. But they are on his ### the second his skates touch the ice.
Can you start a new pole-less thread, and then immediately merge this into that new one? Will that work?
Agree
They understand the pressure, they were in the Calder Cup at this point last year.
Heh. This is how I had myself talked into the Lightning. These kids won like 28 straight in Syracuse last year.They understand the pressure, they were in the Calder Cup at this point last year.
