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He skates like a cinder block tumbles down a freeway embankment. Seems likeable though.

1-0 Nailers after 1 on an Ottawa bounce off the backboards for a big rebound. Glotov by far the best skating ability down here. Vaive wearing the C.

Chili and chili dogs are like Cincinnati's only regional ethnic food. I feel that if they didn't already have the appropriate infrastructure, they would have killed everything in the Ohio River years ago.

Justin Vaive is down here too. He's a 6'6" monster.

Just pounded four Skyline chili dogs and two cans of High Life during warmups. Absolutely nothin'. Must win.

I'm in Cincinnati for work, and apparently it's $1 Beer Night tonight at US Bank Arena. We have Jonas Johansson and Vasily Glotov, who else is down here?

I'm usually too large to fit in the ear canal.

All Star MVP Captain John Scott.

Arizona is single-party consent. Uber driver knew; is legal in AZ.

We certainly still have issues, especially with depth. But time might address them, so if we can keep our heads above water, we might be alright.

Re: Toffoli, I doubt a team that's old and slow is seeking to trade away young and fast. We can always improve the D and bottom six for the right price though.

Don't be an *****. Uber and Lyft are too easy to use to be ***** around with other peoples' lives.

Fed Skinner and Pommer all game.

15P in 10GP in the A would be good enough for roughly a 54 point NHL season. Bueno.

From a fine shot on net by Ristolainen.

Signs from last year point to no. All Nelson's partners were LD, with exception of Ristolainen, with whom he played 30:49 of 5v5, and they were a team-worst CF% of 37.33. But hey, I'm sure Risto will play better and stop being this board's bitch if Housley "sends him a message" and puts him with Nelson.

Moving Reinhart to the RW babysitter of Erod and Mittelstadt is punishment for not skating through his check on the OT winner last night.

Let me just... go ahead and ... ok, that's better: McCabe - Bogosian Scandella - Dahlin Nelson - Ristolainen Beaulieu Playing proper sides are important, especially with three dmen that can switch sides (McCabe, Dahlin, Beaulieu).

By the way, this is exactly the situation that led to Robyn Regehr getting his ***** kicked in all over this message board. Ruff worked him like a horse, and while he was a major contributor to the team IRL and on paper, it didn't "pass the eye test," and many here made it their mission to bury him. Same with Tyler Myers, who, after completely tearing down the team in front of him to be intentionally be league-worst, was ***** all over here and "just really needed a change of scenery." I guess the best defenseman is now your whipping boy. Can't wait for the trade talk. Oh, wait, it's already the first post of this thread. Good call. Get Beaulieu in there. Stupid.

No. The OT goal was the fault of Reinhart getting beat down 200' of ice and then Eichel not tying up Gaudreau after Gaudreau's first pass. Eichel knew it, which is why he smashed his stick on the back of the goal. That play had nothing to do with Risto, except for the fact that Risto carried the puck deep and was incidentally tripped by Moynihan in the corner in a 1-on-2, which led to the turnover.

Taro's pretty close, I think. According to the usage charts, Risto has far and away the highest QoC rel CF%. He's being sacrificed to shelter Dahlin, Beaulieu, and Nelson. When he was playing with Scandella last season, Housley stuck with Risto and Scandella through the season. They struggled the same way, but out-performed every other pair. This year, Housley took Scandella away from Risto because they performed similarly to last year, but Scandella-Bogosian performed better over a short period of time. Who did that leave as Risto's partner? McCabe. McCabe-Risto played fine. Now that McCabe's injured, that leaves Beaulieu, Nelson, or Dahlin. Which of those guys is going to perform against top lines? Answer, according to the usage charts: neither. Housely either needs to put Risto back with Sandella and ride them as the #1 pair and put Dahlin with Bogosian and do a wait and see, or he needs to keep Scandella-Bogosian together, elevate them to face the best competition, and drop a partner-handicapped Risto to the 2nd line. Once McCabe gets back (day to day), he should be put with Risto on the top pairing again. The root cause of these issues is having three defensemen that need babysitting and not being able to step up to fill a single injury.

Ristolainen will be be fine.

Meh. With the massive dead cap, the only outcome we could hope for going into this season was that Allen wouldn't die. If we still achieve that, I'm good. It just turns out that we also happen to be pissing away a top five, playoff-ready defense. Hopefully we can sustain and advance our beastliness in the coming seasons.