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Htf did Bryson lose that puck? What a rush.

Hinostroza is ALWAYS finding the puck. And now for 2 games in a row, he's had hands that almost match the legs. And that deflection by R2 Rou2 is why yours truly will keep calling for him to take Reinhart's role on the 1PP until he finally gets there. ----------------------- Asplund giveth & Asplund taketh away. Bad penalty to take.

We're never getting Asplund off this PP are we? If he keeps shooting like that, he'll have earned it.

Yep. And w/ a MMArena-like near capacity crowd, they should be able to hear the guys on the bench.

Can somebody tell these guys to shoot the puck from the slot w/ less than 2 seconds left, please?

Love seeing 2 men in front of the other team's goalie nearly every possession deep into the Ducks end.

Thompson taking the puck back into his own zone & nearly, but not losing the puck set that goal up. They just started tic-tac-toeing it right up the ice via longer than usual passes that were all tape to tape. Nice rebound pass from Okposo to Z too.

Anderson? Tokarski's path is more similar. Style is more similar, too, IMHO.

One additional item that Krueger wouldn't have liked but Granato must teach is the D being willing to circle back w/ the puck in their own end while the forwards break out if there isn't a clear quick outlet pass. They can either send it right up ice from there to the now streaking F's or send it across to there partner for a different look towards the forwards.

At the NHL level getting stuck playing large minutes without a guy he really meshed with (IMHO, Montour probably meshed best w/ him prior to the very small sample size of him and Butcher & most people here hated that pairing) he has definitely had issues in his own end. In junior when the comparisons to Lidstrom, Potvin, &/or Robinson began, he was good in his own end and played fairly physically in front of his own net. Still expect that part of his game to improve as he develops man strength. Kid is still only 21 and will remain that until fairly late in the RS.

It is. If you're watching in Anaheim.

And saw somewhere, likely upthread, sorry don't remember the source, that the Ducks backup will go tonight because Anaheim wants to use Gibson tomorrow night.

@Brawndo's post above w/ the morning skate gives the Sabres lineup barring fluke injury/illness and barring the starting goalie of record. No data on what the Ducks will have on the pond.

You really going to die on this hill? NOBODY considers training camp fodder to be actual NHLers. Well, their mommies likely do, but darn near nobody else does.

Preseason, aka exhibition, hockey. 😉

TONIGHT is the FORTIETH matchup and out of the previous 39, both teams sit at 20 wins? 🤔 Don't reporters even have to do algebra anymore prior to getting degrees?

Being honest, for those that did in fact know about the accusations of assault and believed them to be credible, opens them up to lawsuits. It also takes away their ability to stonewall the issue until something else becomes the big uproar at which point this fades back out of public consciousness. Perhaps too cynical a view, but likely not.

Hagg isn't as physical as Ristolainen, but there is still much Phlyer in him. He'll still throw the body around, which is a good thing.

The bolded is one thing Adams can't yet be accused of. He's walked away from Staal, Hall, this year's goaltending plans B & C, which all were guys he brought in &/or professed believing in and also from stopgaps he's brought in such as Reider & Sheehan. Expect UPL lasts through this weekend but not much more if he doesn't get his head out of his bippy. There's worse things for a 22 yo to have happen to them than receiving a demotion w/ a set plan of what to work on and an understanding of what needs to happen to be brought back. At the NHL level, guys haven't been gifted jobs this year. Can't see them sticking to a gifting of a job in Ra-cha-cha.

You've been missing fun ones so far this year. Even the Devils game that went sideways was watchable and fun to start.

When did the Courier Express EVER have the late scores in it? Deadline was almost always too early for them to be included.

What, you trying to bring the guy bad juju? 😉

While the meaning you took is understandable, @Curt gave you the standard definition of the phrase. To be accused of having someone living rent free in your noggin is a disparagement of yourself for your obsessive hatred of that person.

Beach would've been called up after the AHL team was done in the playoffs. If this stuff was happening late in the playoff run, he'd've been practicing with the Hawks.

There are oodles of threads where the effects are discussed. Really hoping that this thread can be about the CAUSES of those effects. And for the most part, that's what this thread has been. And if there is actually a specific cause and a specific effect that you want to cover, cool. But just continually bringing up hyperbolic stuff like "(a)ll offensive players suffered under RK" doesn't really bring any analysis about why/what he tried didn't work. The items the BN article brings up regarding Granato's style have already been brought up here. And LL saying that Krueger coached a "conservative defensive-minded system" doesn't exactly break any new ground either. We've gone FAR more in depth on what both coaches tried to have their players actually do than that article which touched on far more topics w/out going particularly into depth on any of them. And just on that bit alone, yes, it was a conservative, defensively oriented system but it also was when effective and played as planned fast paced and putting pressure on the puck carrier, limiting space which is not the textbook definition of conservative." The conservative part was in items such as he didn't want players cheating out to speed the transition should their pressure get the puck back. He also encouraged them to dump the puck rather than cycle the puck back to the D to regroup for another entry. The things Krueger had them doing his 1st month in town actually worked. But they proved to be unsustainable after Hutton went off the rails. Hoping that what Granato is doing will be more durable. If we actually break down what it is he's doing, maybe we'll get a sense as to how sustainable it is and what are the things that need to continue for it to be sustainable. My 2 cents. YMMV.