darksabre

Please win

You know the bar is low when a tie game earns a wave.

:lol:

I'm so glad I didn't turn the game off.

YESSSSSSS

That's what we need more of. The screen and an Eichel shot.

I scored that goal on Monday night.

It's possible.

First 5 minutes of this period have been more interesting than the rest of the game.

How come we never score goals like that?

I think the desire has been there in Eichel's game tonight. He's working pretty hard.

:D

The promise of future profit is a cruel mistress. You wouldn't want to miss your opportunity to get seasons would you?

They won't lose anything. Not as long as there's a waiting list for seasons. People will always buy in. Oh they will.

Yeah I'm sure all those seats that were payed for in full before the season started are really killing the team.

I can't see that being likely.

Interesting. I've never heard of doing that.

If Eichel was on my beer league team I would hate him.

No one is afraid of our forwards.

Lol that was 100% an accident.

Same. I think what you'll see is that opposing teams are not taking us seriously in the defensive zone. They aren't spreading out at all. They know that our forwards wilt under the threat of pressure and will make bad passes, especially up the strong side wall to the point. We blow a ton of offensive zone possession by simply refusing to work the puck behind the net and below the circles. We're a very easy team to keep on the perimeter and we have basically no threat from the high slot (like where Corsi talks about the third forward kinda hanging, moving around between the top of the strong side circle and the high slot splitting the defenders and drawing the weak side defender out into the slot). No one is buying what we're selling.

The problem is the weight. Cages, bubbles, etc., add weight to the helmet and increase the amount of effort it takes to turn your head, which is something pros really need to be able to do as fast as possible given the speed of the game. You'll never see pros wear a cage or anything unless they absolutely have to because it's so restricting. They want the helmet to be as light as possible. This is why Bauer can't seem to phase out their old 4500 helmet. They have tried to convince people that pretty much everything else they sell is better for your brain, but that old bare-bones 4500 is as popular as ever. 504g for the 4500 compared to 597g for the top of the line Re-Akt.

The expectation was for them to be a cusp team. Cusp teams struggle and are often still developing. A cusp team with a new coach and GM is a lot of variables that can all go upside down. It's not my fault that people's expectations were too high. And again, we're 30 games in. Things are coming. As for the last bolded: :rolleyes: kay. Whatever you say bud. If you wanna live in a world of oversimplified takes, then have at it.

This is a little over the top, but I get your point. He certainly eats minutes. He's having a down year this year on production but so is the whole team. His value is high. But everything has a price. I don't disagree.

I'm sorry, you're right. Hockey players are robots and all develop at exactly the same pace and in the same way.