darksabre

I, for one, support the unbanning of Head Coach Ralph Krueger even though I hate it.

It's funny. His advanced stats paint a picture that says he's not playing any better than he ever has, and in some ways he's playing worse. But something is happening team-wise that is limiting the damage he can do. He and McCabe are drawing a ton of D-zone starts which assumes their pairing is starting with the LOG line most often. So maybe it's the LOG line that is making Risto look competent?

Probably a nice change of pace from Phil.

I get the feeling that in games where an opponent is really shifty we're going to see less of the LOG line. They're perfectly useful against most teams, but San Jose was giving them fits with their speed and stick work. A game like that means the more talented lines get most of the work even if they aren't typically defensive shutdown lines. Sometimes you just need the talent to turn the tables quickly on an aggressive opponent.

I rarely get pulled over. I got tagged for speeding a few times when I was younger but it's been a while. And the one time was because my speedometer was broken and I should have known better lol The one that pissed me off was back in grad school. I was coming home with some chinese takeout so I could work on homework and I rolled a stop sign in our little residential neighborhood. It just so happened to be Halloween, and it just so happened that some hero-cop State Trooper who used to live in the neighborhood had gotten permission to park his squad car behind a some bushes on a resident's lawn near the stop sign so he could write people tickets all night. Real solid use of a STATE TROOPER's time, right? I made sure to ask him when he would be back, since he cared about the neighborhood so much. He didn't like that. But I never saw him again because obviously he didn't care that much. Jabroni.

It moved.

This team is wild

That looks like a good goal to me

Give me an insane OT please. Let's finish this adrenaline rush.

I will take that point.

These two teams combine for some intense hockey. Solid product tonight.

Girgensons completly blew that

Has this been Jokiharju's worst game so far?

Much better period. Everyone playing with a little more individual responsibility for the puck.

Great shot selection, great tip.

Vesey wants to score a goal so bad. I appreciate the effort.

***** finally

Correct. And they look brutal so far. They'll have to go into the intermission and get the ol' "simplify things" speech and see if they come out ready for the second.

This is a pretty typical pattern from this team. Win a few games, get confident, make things too complicated, have it blow up in their faces.

San Jose really boxes out aggressively on the PK. Got to get someone in the middle of the ice.

Would guys please just shoot the puck

I'm expecting them to get caved in given the odds of them going 4 in a row lol

Back to normal d lines eh?

It definitely was. But man, when you strike gold like that, you gotta do something with it, right?

Luke's character in TLJ actually didn't bother me. I like a good heel turn. The problem is they didn't make it feel genuine enough. It was too forced. My biggest peeve with it is the disservice they did to Captain Phasma. That character had so much potential and it's like they didn't know what to do with her. They could have at least have waited until Rise of Skywalker to give her the Boba Fett treatment.