Randall Flagg

I hope so. I still have blue balls from July.

And yeah Jack wtf are you doing out there? He's been a disconnected controller too often the last two days.

If Risto and McCabe are the defense in that situation, and it is a typical goal against while they're out there (in tight, net-front battles), then how positive a quality is their grittiness, really?

Defense mechanism: Krueger isn't a magic man, and so we must take swipes at posters in a GDT which by definition is emotional and irrational posting Rick, it was Cernak. That's a goal if it's Stamkos shooting it Also Rick called Johansson Eichel a couple minutes ago

WOAH WOAH WOAH GOURDE. SWINGIN PUNCHES. YOU'RE OUTTA THERE. right? Oh *****, it was only two full swings, not three face washes, we're good according to The Rules

Classic dudacek, with his typical 'refs hate us' garbage. You can set your watch to it. ?

I'm just messin

If they keep playing this way they have a good chance at winning this game. And even if they lose, if they keep playing this way next week, they're fine

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Olofsson's lack of even strength production has more to do with having the yips and not bearing down than being incapable of being a part of scoring chances

I don't doubt it, which is why I'm not the one trying to drag that penalty into a discussion about a post-whistle skirmish the period before as if it has relevance to it

Deserved or not, it's the story of Buffalo-Tampa since the tank - surprisingly effective ES hockey for our guys against theirs, that doesn't matter because special teams gets won in a big way by Tampa, usually by Buffalo penalties that draw a lot more skepticism than is typical from fans.

I didn't see you respond to that post at all? You've been talking to me.

There are few things in sports that inspire stronger feelings of hopelessness than seeing Conor Sheary in your team's sweater racing against Victor Hedman in the other team's sweater for a loose puck

And if the ref said that was enough every time that exact amount of post-whistle hubbub happened, the game would be dramatically different, and so they shouldn't arbitrarily decide things like that based on whatever they feel like.

And it played zero role in the discussion we were having, until it became clear that you assumed it was the only thing driving it.

I honestly didn't see the interference.

Ah, I forgot section 3.1 - 07: Two face washes are acceptable, but three deemed an infraction.

No, because we're not caricatures, as much as this post indicates you'd like to think. We're capable of observing calls with nuance

If this sequence ever deserves a penalty, it always deserves a penalty, and the result would be that the game would be 100% special teams. It is bush league to call things sometimes and not others for this reason. Otherwise you arbitrarily change the course of the game for no reason. I'm glad you at least agree it wasn't a punch How the actual ***** did we not score there.

That was probably the best period they've played in several weeks.

Smart players like Kucherov don't trip players because it's usually called Being annoyed at inconsistent officiating is not the same thing as blaming woes on the refs, just so we're all on the same page here.

The smartest player in the game, Sid the Kid, does that every other whistle he's on the ice for.

McCabe with a brutal pass there

Can't do much about that pinball