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I’m not opposed to that in the least. Except to say that Benson can gain weight here just as easily and under the auspices of the training and nutrition staffs to boot. Why does it have to be a question of Benson blocking Kulich or Rosen?

Isn’t there some analytic that says the team that blocks more shots wins the game well more than half the time?

The physical aspect of the game at this level was the major concern with Benson, but it hasn’t been an issue at all, really. His issue, as it is with the vast majority of 18 year olds first entering the league, is the sheer speed of it all. Peterka alluded to it the other day as well. Let him continue to practice and play at the NHL level because going back to junior won’t help him adjust to the speed of the NHL game; it will only delay the adjustment. The only thing that will facilitate that adjustment is actual NHL competition.

Refs giving them every chance to get into the gsme.

I think Donny threw him out there to start the game, wasting no time getting Bryson’s feet wet.

He’s been more impressive than Clifton. But like I said, anything more than utter disaster is more impressive than Clifton.

Waking up now. Lets go!

Once again, Donny doesn’t have them ready to start a game.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict Bryson will be better than Clifton has been. I realize that’s not saying much, but it won’t take much for Bryson to show better than Clifton as anything better than utter disaster would be an improvement over the hot mess we’ve seen from Clifton to this point. The dude is just stealing money to this point.

A combination of both I’d say. The forwards can do a much better job and the defense has more lapses than you’d like to see, and the goaltending just hasn’t been good enough. Hoping Toker can settle that down when he returns to the lineup.

Good thing the Amerks lead the AHL in scoring (33 GF) because they’ve given up the second most goals as well (31 GA).

Let’s just say that in watching the Amerks games this season, I kept thinking Tokarski couldn’t get back soon enough. Cooley makes UPL look like a Vezina candidate.

Matt Ellis is the Matt Ellis of play design.

No, but “cleaning the lint trap” is.

In the words of Shoresy, isn’t Dahlin a beauty.

Inept is a word that readily springs to mind.

Tough break for Comrie as he seems to get injured each year. Damn.

I just feel so terrible about Clifton getting ejected. 😂

Comrie needs to go to rebound control school. He’s terrible at it. Oh, and Clifton continues to be less than good.

That’s one way of looking at it. Another way might be that it’s a tall order for their PP tonight.

Can they use the same tandem that Eichel and Reinhardt used?

Iran keeps poking the bear with their piddly proxy “militias” in the region. So far, I like our measured responses like taking out munition depots in Syria and meeting their charged, heated rhetoric with calm and simple statements about not wanting the conflict to escalate and reserving our right to protect our troops and interests in the region all while inserting additional troops and military assets into the theater illustrating our full intention to do so. People like Ramasmarmy need to understand that it’s our NATO allies as well as those in the Pacific that enable us to deploy such assets in order to meet potential threats.

That was a fun watch. Young guns were the difference. I think that bodes well for the future.

Per the bold, what? They dominated Ottawa and handed them their collective butts for 55 minutes. If anything, they didn’t deserve to lose.