Randall Flagg

This is not true, they were routinely outshot 40+ to <20, which was because they were hopeless and listless in both zones

With league average PP and PK this team never gets to the psychological point that lost them this game. That's not a guarantee they win it, but they were up 1-0 with a 5 on 3.

They truly believe they aren't going to score on their PPs

Looks like Bogo is the one to miss the pass to the goal scorer, and the one that left Montour in a 3 on 1 sitch in the first place, eh? This is a good post to point out that montour's tenure here would put him at 41 points in an 82 game season, and all but 3 of his points are at even strength

When u allow a goal to lucic

I thought their studio was in KBC?

There was a WGR? article about how he doesn't like his new stick and can't handle the puck as well with it, I wonder if he's still using it

stupid icing

Yes. This shows how little I've ever paid attention to post game, pre game, intermission shows...is this not normal? And if so, what's the reason theyre doing it?

Please never do this

I don't care if CGY scores 3 more ES goals in the 3rd period, the story of this game is one that had potential, had a 5 on 3, which turned into special teams flipping the script entirely, and losing us yet ANOTHER 2 points ALREADY, which will ABSOLUTELY kill us when we're looking at the standings in April. Unacceptable I mean it's not even like they need to be great for these guys to win these games. If each was league average they'd have 5 more points in the standings already

I take back my previous complaints about benching Miller Bench him again You were right to be worried about that initial bad blip lmao

In fairness to him, the one egregious evacuation was because the puck hopped on him, and he would have whiffed the quick shot, which would have sent CGY on another breakaway, it was the right thing to do to regather there I do know, because I've seen that exact thing a million times. ?

eichel if you aim that shot 2 feet off the ice you're more likely to beat the goalie, and if it misses you're more likely to keep it in the zone

Risto has to give that puck to Montour, not shovel it into shins

The stats are junk, as every skater on this team has more giveaways than that in a 10 game span haha. I once watched a couple games and tried to match the giveaway count in the stat column to what I was seeing on the ice and the differences were ungodly large, and I simply could not figure out what they were counting or looking at. We have a large enough sample of several players who vomit the puck like it's norovirus that there is no way you could convince me Jokiharju approaches them without meticulous video documentation, but that documentation would never show that result

Skinner showing us why none of his billion goals for us are one-timers.

Giveaways are the most useless stat in all of sports, because they aren't tracked with any accuracy/consistently applied standard There's no chance that more pucks go from his stick to the other team's than McCabe, Risto, and probably more

Zero chance he's even top 2 in giveaways among defensemen

It's not even that they gave up a shorty - it's how disjointed they were leading up to it.

If we can get a goal here we can break CGY's spirits. no way they keep playing this feverishly

Was just going to say that he's moving into "annoying" territory for me

Come on fellas let's get a PP goal here.

Absolutely dreadful period so far.

That was a really, really stupid icing that caused all this.