Harbingers

Idk but that’s the only thing I can think with Rod now saying he’s out after Donny Wads said he’d only be a few days before the playoffs.

I’m worried Fasty was a maybe surgery situation and they elected to go the surgery route.

Need KK to step it up.

He also said Pesce might come back… depending how far maybe. Which tells me sprain not tear.

fug! Rod just said quickie is out for the playoffs. Which is the opposite of what Donny wads said before the playoffs…

Apparently they have the music cranked so loud it keeps hitting the limiter on the Bally audio equipment.

Is anyone else’s Bally audio fuging up? Music on the mic and music in the video.

Apparently chatty is out on the ice in sneakers and sweats practicing puck handling.

Man I can’t decide.. 2 or 4… 2 or 4… I shall go Necas. He’s due.

Aka: Yes he’s going to have to adapt.

So from every timeline leak… aka the fact he’s not having surgery(yet). It sounds like a sprain not a tear.

The issue we have is Skjei-Pesce consistently get the opposing teams top line. So we can’t really 3rd line minutes Skjei. We also can’t put TDA with Orlov(liability) and can’t put him with Slavin(rod seemingly does not want to break Slavin and Burns up). I think you’re right, our best option is TDA plays like he has something to prove and doesn’t over pinch. I suspect when we can skjei and TDA will be the defensive pair for our 1 line.

It concerns me because he over pinches a lot. Pairing him with Skjei is going to force Skjei to sit back more. But it’s our best option. Move 1 or 3 to their top 2 lines. Like skjei and TDA cover the bottom 3-4 on rotation and hope for the best. Also what’s the over under on how long until TDA gets in a fight, all?

Dunno, a lot of people hate on Pesce as our worst top 6 defensemen so point still stands. Hint: we don’t have a bad top 6 defensemen.

Actually, Pesce is not usually our worst defenseman on grade on average and usually is middle of the pack to high on stat card solo. Something people need to remember is for defensive lines in the NHL over 800 minutes. We take 1, 5 and 9 x goal against per 60. 1, 10, 20 x goal against(skjei/pesce is the 10. 2, 3, 11, x goal. Individually, Pesce is second on the team in blocks and per 60 it’s a country mile. Has a 5.8 x goal despite having little offense. TDA is a 1.8. Pesce also has our least amount of defensive zone giveaways with 14. To put that in perspective he has 18 give away in 1400 minutes, Orlov has 17 defensive zone giveaways in the same amount of time(36 total). TDA has 14 giveaways with 8 defensive zone giveaways in 440 minutes. TDA and Pesce are not the same. Y’all give Pesce far too little credit to how well he plays in rods system.

Islanders doing a optional skate today,

PP lines remained unchanged at practice yesterday.

He’s not slotting in on the PP. That’s a liability.

Rod is quite conservative when it’s national media in the locker room, still said the F word though.

No morning skate(don’t like personally as we practiced at home yesterday. No feel for the ice and the boards). Freddie got the starter net at practice yesterday, so I think it’s safe to say he gets the start tonight. No word on if Fasty made the trip.

Vegas is making them look like a paper tiger right now. Which I don’t think Dallas is. Vegas keeps flying the zone on them and it’s working.

No context hockey. Also, is it safe to say Dallas is cooked, or do you think they can make a comeback?

Horrible matchup for the Stars.

Nvm not icing Marchand barely gained the line.