Harbingers

Oh also, will Fast draw back in tonight? Somehow I doubt it unless there’s someone that needs an extended break. That said I’d rather see him than KK if Fast is good to go.

At least he was on a 1 year 1 way. Sadly for him I don’t see us picking him up again next season with Martin as the safety net. Hopefully somebody will pick him up in the NHL next year for vet min. Chicago ain’t making the AHL playoff so maybe Dundon will do him a solid and pick him up for the playoffs this year so he can sit in the press box and visit with the boys, etc.

Just for the record we clinch second in the division with a win tonight or a caps loss, or overtime’s combo.

No morning skate. Guhle is suspended tonight for his slashing a player from the bench.

Since we don’t have a game thread yet. Guhle was suspended for one game for slashing a player from the bench. That one game is tonight.

So in the current format hypothetical at current points totals. 1) WC1(Lightning) V Rags 2) Philly V Carolina We’d be playing Philly at current point totals. Then we’d be playing either the Lightning or Rags if we win round 1. There is no reseed. So us holding second in the east would not matter until the conference finals if the rags win round 1 as our hypothetical road to the cup goes through NY by nature of divisional playoffs.

Doubt Putin would mess with his favorite team’s players but something Niki might want to keep in mind. https://nypost.com/2022/07/05/flyers-ivan-fedotov-being-held-at-russian-military-base/

Umm Demko just went on LTIR before you made this list. What about Freddie!

He’s still around I’ve seen him in multiple broadcasts lately. They don’t cut to him in crowd shots any more so he’s been showing up behind the Bally crew desk nearly every game during intermission and post game.

Freddie shut out Jarvis 1 goal 2 assists +2 Aho 1 goal 2 assists +2 I frankly think they picked him as first star simply because they wanted more Jarvis sound bites for the broadcast.

I don’t know how much I believe this but a local TV news reporter said she was sitting next to the supervising official and he called one of the refs “lazy” and said that ref should have jumped in on both those high sticks as the low official view was blocked on both.

Rods got them practicing again before they fly up to Canada. Hopefully he’ll do a Monday lite and a Wednesday practice while the boys have the 4 day break. We got Boston twice, the blues and Caps once, the other 4 remaining games are teams not making the playoffs but looking to play spoiler. We also end the season with a 4 game road stretch. We have 1 more back to back after the 4 day break and we also have a 2 day break between bruins game 2 and the blues during our last 4 road stretch. Rags have 4-5 games against wildcard hopefuls left but no more for sure playoff teams.

Line 2 at least statistically still not all there. Lots of individual offense but team Offense and Defense lacking. Dunno if we should keep trying to force a Kuz - Necas line.

Let’s get through Montreal and than the boys get 4 whole days off… crazy this time of year I know.

.958 Save Percentage & 1.14 goals against if I did that properly for Freddie since returning.

.930 on the season, with a GAA of 1.88 Not sure what it is since his return with this game added but it’s some ridiculous numbers. Pre this game he was .952 since returning so add a 1.000 to that.

That high stick way earlier in the game that wasn’t called fugged Jarvis’s cheek up.

Canes 3rd seed or above clinched. We also just stamped floridas(who lost tonight) ticket.

Montreal just stamped bostons ticket.

Reimer covered Staal’s head to protect him from sticks and that falling puck. The dude still loves the boys.

Panthers lost to the islanders. Montreal up on Philly.

Huh. Pyotr is backup. I thought Martin was habitual backup. Maybe he’s sick with whatever Necas had?

That spot where Necas lost an edge has been an issue all night.

It probably would be 0-0 still if they were.