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Eichel should be getting a penalty there...

That Sheary line is just unstoppable tonight.

Gross

Jeffrey from Jack from Sam!

MITTS!

You know someone who works for the Islanders?

We really don't though. There is SOOOOO much more going on than we could ever hope to hear about. There is sooo much stuff that teams and reporters and players keep quiet. Those examples are, like, the tip of the iceberg.

NORM!

That's kinda the rub. What I'm doing right now is a bit of a dead end. There really isn't an "up". My hope was to make a slide within my current company into a role with more upward potential, but the prospects of that have dimmed.

You really need to just get an unlimited data plan and MSG Go.

Whaaaaaat in the world.

I need to take the next step in my career but I don't know what that step is or how to figure that out.

*shakes fist* Tennyson!!!

Yup. That's why I offered the prediction I did against LA. I had a feeling that they needed to get knocked around in that game if they were going to win it. Hopefully it wont always be like this.

I think they got a little too confident in their abilities. It happens. They had a string of luck where they didn't really need to grind wins out because the puck kept landing on Skinner's stick. Now they've had some injuries and the passes aren't quite hitting the tape and they had to remind themselves that sometimes you just have to simplify and play a north south game and win some puck battles. Sometimes you have to establish other parts of the game before you can worry about scoring goals.

Here's hoping they're ready to put together a complete effort tonight. I hope the LA game is fresh in their minds.

I've said before that, anecdotally, ROR had issues with Jack, but Jack didn't have any with ROR. It was a one way street. I've wondered, but never sought confirmation, if situation was similar between ROR and other players on the team. I will be interested to hear if similar stories start coming out of St. Louis. I do think it was important to make room for Jack to take over control of the team.

Right. There is no smoking gun. Simply an accrual of anecdotal information over time that lead to a predicted outcome. If people don't want to take my word for it, then that's fine. I'm not going to waste time debating it.

Sure I do. I just can't really talk about it and I can't give you anything to analyze. ROR was a problem. He just was. I called it before his trade that Botterill was looking to move guys for reasons that didn't make sense on paper, and I was right. Because I drink, and I know things. Sorry I can't give you something to analyze to death.

I have no idea what you're trying to say.

You fools. I was supposed to start the GDT

Somewhere Ryan O'Reilly is blaming himself for this.

That was something I remarked on back during the streak. Dahlin turns to his off hand side better than any player I can remember watching. Opposing players never seem to be expecting it.

I think you're getting hung up on a logical fallacy. The only person he could have been talking to there was Pilut. The LA player was ineligible to move the puck.

Yup. Poor Pilut, who is new to the NHL, made the mistake of listening to the ref. His teammates were anticipating the play to be blown dead and then he touches the puck and rings it up the boards catching everyone off guard. The Kings subsequently score. That ref should be penalized by the league for not knowing the rules. That play should have been blown dead.