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We’re all even strength tonight. The sharks have gotten skate redirects on the pp.

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Top shelf, where the Ewoks swing on vines. 

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Woohoo! 

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Just now, bob_sauve28 said:

How was that not slashing?

Home team third period?

 

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All the bounces for goals for everyone. 

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2 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Unfortunate

Unfortunate... that we know the truth... of the Sabres taking back the...  dang it. I’m not done making a reference yet. 

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Good reach to deflect the Jack shot. And now the slowest cross-ice feed and bouncing ever for Skinner. 

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Now I have to scroll back and change my post again

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That looks even or below the crossbar. 

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The Mitts Strike Back

the Mitts unstrike....

a special edition re-release of the Mitts Strike Back!!!!

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We’re waiting just a hundredth of a second too long to shoot. 

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2 minutes ago, Thwomp! said:

The GOL or LOG line is starting to lose its mojo

That line is better than bad. (but tonight it hasn’t quite been good)

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Hmmm. We’re controlling the puck, forcing them to grab and flail and... we take the penalty. Blergh. 

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Goodness, just tap that in next time please. 

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Just now, Randall Flagg said:

We look absolutely dreadful.

We need to be better along the boards. But they can’t pass. So it’s partially moot. To the power play. 

I’m going down to San Jose to pick up some power play converters.

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Alright... 2nd power play unit. Time to show your stuff. 

... or not

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42 minutes ago, Tondas said:

Here are more relevant analytics:

 

This makes me happy.

My friends all rag on me for my Wisconsin roots-appreciation of the High Life. But the commercials were gold. And the color is gold. And the taste is... well... if you eat a pretzel, then crack open a can of High Life and that little splash of beer that forms on the lip of the can when you pop the top....  eat a pretzel, then sip just that splash. And it does taste like champagne. For a moment.

But the High Life and Coors (Banquet, not Lite), those are fine little chugging, moving furniture, hot sunlight, Packers game beers. Here in Seattle, they're frowned upon. But all the fresh hopped IPAs are out right now, and they're pretty sweet in their own right. Bottoms up. (And time to catch up to y'all from the beginning of the game.)

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I’m seeing the D switch as an indicator that Montour is getting close. Scandella-Miller was a 3rd pairing in preseason/practice and Dahlin-Montour should be an ideal 2A to balance the 2B of McCabe-Risto. 

And I make that distinction because at this point in his career Dahlin clis not yet able to anchor a 1. But he will be. He will be. 

Where does this leave Joker? In a great spot to play top minutes in the A or as the 5/6 if we move anyone for a forward. 

Isn’t defensive depth (and youthful depth at that), a nice thing to have?

[Holding a 2 Goal Lead]

8 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Kinda like building Death Stars until we learn how to defend the reactor core properly? 

They said it was daft to build a Death Star, but I built it all the same... just to show 'em. The Rebels blew it up. So I built a second Death Star. And the Rebels blew it up. So I built a third one. That absorbed a sun, cracked apart, and the Rebels blew it up. But the fourth one is still here....   (apparently resting on the seabed, partially exposed to the air, and ready to Rise up.)  And that's what we're gonna do. We're going to have so many two-goal leads that we'll always be in the lead.

[Holding a 2 Goal Lead]

I say just keep building two-goal leads until we learn how to close them out neatly.

Last night was a heavy, desperate team at home -- on our second of a back-to-back, 3rd in 4 days, with cross-country travel -- and our goalie stole and fourth line stole it for us. We'll need that every so often.

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Time for bed... .here on the West Coast. All y'all back east are mad'Spacers. Cheerio!

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2 minutes ago, thewookie1 said:

I honestly cannot say I have ever seen so many missed shots by a team as the Kings did tonight. It was like they all were stricken with near-sightedness   

These shots on goal, too accurate for Sand People Native Tatooiners.... Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise.

1 minute ago, darksabre said:

Feels like when we had Arturs Irbe here under Nolan and the goalies were too good for the tank.

Trade Enroth! He's gonna thwart all our plans!

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Nervous fun, and a win.

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Joki out on the PP for Skinner. Nice to have 2 D out when you're up 3 late.

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Kovalchuk has a had a rough night.