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blocked shot lands right on saads stick. ....

Ghetto likely IMO.

No other player gets that call. None. Only cause its P.K. I thought when you won a major NHL award like the Norris, you actually got a little respect from the league and the officials (you shouldn't get special treatment, but lets be honest, you do). P.K. is the opposite, he wins an award and the refs give him less respect than the average player. This isn't the only time he's gotten a bullshit call this year, just the most egregious. And then you have plenty of times he's mugged while skating with the puck in our end or through the neutral zone with no call. Such a bullshit league..

Weak goal.

Although on the other side of things, people complain that DD is played to much, and his biggest asset is offense. Even his biggest supporters know he's not the best grinder or playing defensively. So I'm not sure that bias against scorers in favour of grinders is entirely true.

Questionable. Game time decision.

Subban sick with the flu. Tank nation lives.

Price can mask holes... and just like Roy did in 1993, a great goalie can take any team to the cup. I'm just saying if we want to be able to win a cup with 2 months of very good play from price (instead of needing him to play at herculean levels for two months), we are gonna need all 3 pieces. Thats where we are. In order to win a cup now, we need Price to be out of this world for 2 months, and no player, not even Carey Price, can do that consistently. We are gonna need him to get a little lucky and have a hot streak coincide with the spring time.

Beaulieu has all the talent to be a top 4. When he was drafted, I said he could be as good as Subban. (This is 2011, before Subban took a giant leap forward from really good defenceman to Norris winner). But at the time I thought Beaulieu could develop into a #1 D Now I don't see him ever becoming a number 1, but he can be a solid 2/3. The tools are all there. He turned 23 in December. He's still young and growing. Heck right now he's easily our 4th best D man. He might be our 3rd. He still has some issues though, he can have real brainfarts at times and make some very questionable plays. That said I think he's one of our top 4 going forward. Right now I think he should be back beside Subban, cause its clear Markov can't play those minutes. Beaulieu - Subban Markov - Petry Emelin - Barberio. Ive been saying this for a while, we really need to look at finding another top 4 capable LHD though, cause Markov isn't getting younger. I've been saying it since last season. This season shows Markov is fading fast though, and so its going to become imperative this summer to find another top 4. Right now I see three major holes (two wingers in the top 6, and 1 defenceman in the top 4). I think Beaulieu is a big part of our future, which means I'd only move Beaulieu, if the forward I'm getting back is someone elite, under team control and young. And thats only cause elite forwards seem harder to find than elite D. But I'm not sure where we get our other top 4 D and making a second hole at that position is tough. Overall,, I'm just disillusioned with this team after the last 7 weeks. I thought we were one piece away, and now I realize its 3 pieces, and thats the disillusionment.

Barberio passed Tinordi on the depth chart, is a better defenceman, and is only 25. Bartley also played 112 games for the Preds and has been better than Tinordi ever was. There is also Gilbert, Emelin, and Pateryn Lack of bottom pairing Dmen is not an issue on this team. Finding top 4 guys is a bigger issue long term.

Here is the issue with Semin's corsi. You can't look at corsi in a vaccuum. It must be balanced with other stats. How about SCF% (scoring chance for %) Well when we look at semin that was awful. Why? Cause in 10 games he may have had a great corsi (high number of shot attempts) but only 1 shot attempt from the slot. So you can look at the numbers, but you have to dig deeper, and if the writer of that piece didn't do that, he is as ignorant in as the radio hosts he complained about.

Keeping tinordi wouldnt have changed a damn thing. Right now we need one top 4 lhd. If we move beaulieu we will need 2 top 4 lhd. Tinordi was not filling either hole. Hes proven hes not a top 4 d. We need to stop pretending he was.

Claude Julien on lack of PP's: "Well, we could start embellishing. But that's not our style and it's not the right thing to do"

Thats good news, the announcer said "he looks groggy" and I was worried about a concussion.

Exactly, he's a twenty year old immature kid. Go to any college campus in this country and randomly throw a rock, chances are you'll hit a 20 year old immature kid.

Why are Markov and Subban still paired? Another situation where its on the GM.... Beaulieu isn't playing well (and may have some kind of injury as he left last game early). The fact we have no one on LD is another problem the GM must fix. 2 Top 6 forwards 1 Top 4 LHD at minimum need to be acquired to make this team a contender. Thats the realization that has moved me from the "lets get one scorer and we can make a playoff run" group, to the "trade markov, weise, flash, gilbert; shut down price for the year, and tank" line of thinking. Get one of your top 6 forwards or top 4 D via the draft. Fill the other two spots in free agency. Hope Beaulieu and Galchenyuk take another step forward. If they don't we'll have two more holes.

How'd that line matching work for tampa?

Cedric Paquette is no defensive stalwart.

Tinordi was a shit player who never looked good in the ice time he was given. Drouin has looked great in the icetime given, and still gets stapled to the bench. Damn right the agent's job is to get involved when his player is producing and the team does nothing with him. Damn right the agent should be involved when the team sends the player to the AHL when Cedric Paquette is getting third line icetime ahead of him. If everything else was exactly the same and the agent's name was Joe Smith instead of Allan Walsh, i doubt you'd be complaining as vociferously.

Andrighetto scores a bit of a weird one 4-2. Dumont with the assist.

I wonder how much Blatt being unable to properly use Kevin Love for two years plays into this.

Johnston gets an assist on Hudon's goal. 3 straight games with an assist.... 3 assists in 4 games overall since his injury.

nice to see Scherbak score. Lets see him get it going.

Its debateable which one of those two is the top line.... Hudon and Ghetto are on the "second line"

Well its 3 losses to the big 2 in the west in less than a month, and none of those games they've been particularly competitive in. I don't think Lue is really an upgrade either, but I can see the argument that you have to prove to be able to beat those teams cause 1 of the 2 will likely be representing the West in the NBA final.