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After 4 games played at World Juniors, top two scorers at the tournament are Mittelstadt with 9 points and Nylander with 7. Then seven guys with 6 points each.

Sorry, this is a borderline delusional take on it, Have you seen Chad Johnson play?

Lehner with more saves, high quality saves too. The outcome isn't the same as the inputs. Lehner definitely played good enough to win, to give his team a legitimate chance.

No excuse for it

The plan was Nylander I guess but you're probably right

That's why Girgs is fine for now, maybe, on Jacks line but need a sniper to bury that

Maybe. But Eichel is going in vs the NY Rangers, not St Cloud State

Bingo. Over officious

RJ calling Reinhart, Rodriguez

That's what she said

You're bringing your A game this year

Nice 4th line energy there

Great post! Except Denethor was wrong about Faramir and you are correct about Gorges.

Great idea I just did so too

Reinhart back from the dead!

McCabe and Bogo. (McCabe isn't garbage though)

He's not...he's just a dick.

What's sad is that goals were scored vs two different pairs of defensemen but your comment is still accurate.

NHL officiating worse than NFL?

I'd like to see Reinhart off the first team PP. He's toxic.

Emmrick is an over officious blowhard

This isn't competitive

Holy

1:20 left tie game offensive zone face off and Phil rolls out Nolan, Larsson, and Josefson. I don't get it.

So a counter point to my Holzinger - Reinhart comparison is that age-wise, Reinhart's entire 200+ game sample occurs prior to Holzinger's first game in the NHL. An age equivalent comparison is (approximately) Reinhart's NHL career thus far vs. Holzinger's Sophomore to Senior year at Bowling Green. I agree with We've that Reinhart needs to re-invent himself however part of it may simply be hitting the weight room, the right diet, and continuing to work on his speed. A strong defensive game would also make him useful as a 3rd line guy who can fill-in on the top 2 lines when needed. Sam probably needs to be on a pretty good team to succeed and unless he's traded that's not what we're looking at for awhile.