Harbingers

Yawn. At least we are doing better on board battles.

Not stellar defense but not bad. That was all Koch.

The fug?! Did aho smoke weed on the west coast trip or something?

Ok now we get to see orlov with chatty. Gimme some good poo!

Sorry was in the middle of cooking shrimp and grits and just read the first bits. I totally agree with the rest. I think we should put Bunting with Drury though and see if it elevates drury’s game. Cause so far he’s been zeros. Just with little home stent. With Pono and Suzuki hungry and waiting in the wings… Drury might be a trade causality and will probably play better on a higher line somewhere else.

Power play. poo my bad dude. I said TT and I meant KK.

RBA says seabass is likely. Says we have at least a “few more” injuries.

Not really. Bunting is feed manning the top two lines and still getting goals. Ya it would cut his minutes(he’d still be on the PP) but Noesen is jiving with TT. Bunting would bring up drury’s play(or not which would suggest a trade for picks). Give it a try for a few games, especially when we have last change. As Ottawa is not a pushover at this point. See if Drury can feed bunting and vice versa to create chances. Obviously not a permanent change. Just to test the water.

If he can go at 90% I’d much rather Aho over a 100% coghlan. We don’t need to be making our defense even shittier. If it’s worse than they are letting on, I’d rather Aho take another week. Especially with Svech hopefully coming back Thursday/Friday.

Which leads me to believe Freddie is still in the protocol. Thus Raanta who’s probably got a lower body is the backup by default.

Right back to Kochetkov? Curious… not a lot of faith in Raanta apparently. Or Raanta has a nagging injury too. Which I wouldn’t doubt.

Woah, svech travelled? Thats a good sign for Thursday or Friday.

This makes me concerned we have another injury on top of it…

So we recalled Coghlan…

Ya that’s majorly concerning. Aho was playing masterfully before the injury too.

finally 7PM game…

NHL version of nextgen.

Sounds like Aho is day to day.

Holy poo that’s a fierce puck to the face.

Wait I thought you were a patriots fan…

Did we lose yet?

Not in the top 10 technically. I think his media buildup skewed his position.

It’s 6 games on a west coast swing without Andersen, Aho, Svech and Pesce(1). Our talent is still there and our offense is cooking. Our usual forecheck and defense is not. Coaching not either. TDA needs to sit and our defense lines need a complete remix. TDA contributed directly to 2 goals last night against, he gave up on both those plays. If you aren’t playing 200 feet you shouldn’t be starting on this team. He also brought nothing to the PP Orlov actually managed to make it out as a +0 last night. TDA was the only defenseman in the negative. I expect us to look better when we have last change and home and can cover the gaps. Aka not leaving TDA and Orlov on the ice for 1.5 minutes during a heavy opposing forecheck. Im not sweating anything yet, but if we can’t get the goals against under control. Thats a clear indicator something is officially broken. Goalies are a concern too. Pyotr gave up way too many softies. Raanta has been doing the same. Luckily on the limited sample size of Andersen he seemed dialed in before the head bonk. If Rod refuses to take TDA out Slavin and Burns needs to be split to cover them. That’s less than ideal however.

I got it on in the background. We need a full reset from this west coast woes….