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He doesn't play Penalty Kill, but plays huge minutes on the PP. When games like today (more PK time than PP time) happen, his minutes are lower. I think we saw why he doesn't kill many penalties tonight. Do you want to see him injured blocking a shot?

Bergevin gambled that DD would be a minimum 45 point player throughout his contract.... Something I would have bet on too. It looks like that gamble is a losing one right now. Hence why when we constantly hear .... "sign X free agent to a long-term deal and get a lower cap hit" its not always the best move.

He was on the ice with about 6:30 minutes to play. At 6:00 to play he took a hit from behind from Reaves and drew a penalty. He stayed out nearly the full two minutes of the PP. He played like 2 straight minutes at that point.... and then we question why he needed a rest?

Actually yes it was. PK rung the puck around the boards (like he's supposed to), and Parros was TOO SLOW to be in position to get to the boards, grab the puck and clear the zone. The Blues d kept it in and shortly thereafter a weird bounce put it in the net.

I never liked Enqvist, but I'd take pyatt or Armstrong over Parros anyday. Parros can not play hockey. He was on the ice for 3 goals against in 7 shifts vs Minny. His fight took away a scoring chance vs Colorado. His fight took away a goal tonight. His inability to clear the zone with 10:00 left let the other team tie the game. Oh but he can fight... surely he's useful.

They are interesting but its PK Subban, a Norris winner, we are talking about. These are two guys with "maybe 2nd line" upside. They are gonna need to add a real centrepiece to a package.

Last season he had a difference of 0.01 PPG before he signed his contract and after he signed his contract. The idea that he started coasting immediately after getting his contract (something thats been in social media since the day he signed) is just not backed up by the stats. Desharnais would have been a UFA after this season..... he's considerably older than Price, Eller, PK, etc.... The bridge contract works with them cause they are still RFA afterwards, but this aspect of the CBA was probably playing against MB in Desharnais case.

The tying goal was a bad bounce, but a bad bounce can’t happen if you clear your zone. Why are White and Parros on the ice against their top line with 10:00 to go and protecting a one goal lead?

The fight cost us a goal, that point shot went right through Halak.

And that is why PK doesn't kill penalties, we can't get him hurt blocking a shot.

Um..... you massively overate Boone Jenner and Marko Dano.... that package is easily the worst, not even close to the rest.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to fall off the way he did. sure 60 points was likely a career year he'll never repeat, but even his other seasons he was on a 40+ points per season pace. how does he get so bad all of the sudden. Even Gomez had a slower drop off. Its like his confidence is so completely and totally shot after being criticized all off-season and after trying to live up to that contract.

There is a history of low scoring swedish prospects to become scorers in the NHL, there is simply no reason to believe that if a guy can't score in the CHL, he suddenly will at higher levels.

The writing was on the wall when St. Pierre was called up.

Here's a reason to be concerned. Of all the forwards who played in the CHL, and scored 30 goals and/or 60 points in a season in the NHL Since 1996-97, only 3 have scored less than 1.2 PPG in the year after they were drafted. They are Jeff Carter (who was very close at 1.16 PPG), Milan lucic and James Neal. Basically if a forward is going to be an impact offensive guy in the NHL, he better be scoring in Junior.... if not he's got about a 1% chance of being an impact forward. A 40 point guy who couldn't average 1.20 PPG the year after drafted? Less than 10% of guys.... Drop that to 1.0 PPG and we're talking less than 5% That concerns me. He wasn't scoring even at the start of the year. Add to that the offensive concerns I had before we took him, and I'm starting to get worried we took a 4th liner, 3rd liner at best.

Bouillion shouldn't get more than 10 minutes? Well if we want to burn out the rest of our D. Every D on your team should play a minimum of 14-16 minutes or you shouldn't dress them (at least not if rotating 6).

If DD was even scoring at last year's pace (48 points/82 games), he'd be tradeable but at one point in 15 games? I don't know. As for keeping salary, how much are you gonna keep when a summer buyout is 1.667 per season (but 6 years).

Big Picture, he's done nothing but improve. I wouldn't overreact to a short slump.

McCarron has gone 8 straight games without a point.

And yet the player in question has done nothing but improve under Therrien, so you can say you may not understand what he's doing but it seems to be working

I think they might sit DD based on St. Pierre being a similar player and the comments about DD after last game.

From what I've seen Nygren has quite a bit of work to do in his own end.

DD played 1 shift in the third period.

There was an incident earlier this year where MT called out PK in the dressing room and it got filmed for 24CH. The team asked PK if they wanted to air it, or if he'd rather it stay behind closed doors. PK said to air it.... and that it didn't bother him. I think we're overreacting. PK knows as well as anyone that he messed up on a couple tonight. In fact I bet he has a great game on Tuesday.

He took over a 15th place team. He led them to second place. We are 8-7 and in a playoff spot. I don't think its anytime soon. ======= As for the stuff with PK.... MT was tough on him last year and it led to the best season of his career. He had a bad game tonight... MT is being tough with him. Some players have to be coddled and some need a kick in the ass. PK doesn't strike me as the type of kid who needs much coddling, seeing and hearing from his Dad, it sounds like the kick in the ass style of motivation is what he's got his whole life.