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I don't think you understand what all these numbers mean, my guy. This far more tells the story of Morrow-Walker being awful defensively. Morrow needs to not be paired with Walker ever again. Lol. As well as Rosie and the gang being our absolute worst like while being on the ice 2nd most as a line. Expected goals are just goals scored over average. Koochie wasn't locked in and I am not arguing he was, but this game ABSOLUTELY is not on Koochie alone or even in large part. I think if there wasn't such a defensive drop-off at key moments, this is a 4-2 game at worst. Need to get healthy. That is our biggest issue at the moment.

I mean he's in great fuging company stat wise. He gave up a healthy chunk of his goals in a bad stretch of the season for us as a team as well. He's played great

Koochie is literally a top 7 goalie last I checked in every stat measuring goalie impact.

While I love your enthusiasm...I'm gonna curb it. We gotta finish the season strong. We can still win the metro, my focus is there and I believe everybody else should follow suit. Playoff depression comes from all of nothing mentality. So let's temper that and win the metro and a playoff series once that is settled lol

You miss all the passes you don't attempt or something

Why do we overthink 2-on-0?! Just fuging skate it in, two passes max. ALWAYS BLOCKER SIDE ON IT. WHYYYYY!?!?!?!?

Everybody gets one. One thing I notice in our PK is we are waaaay too willing to give up opposite circle if the puck gets high. Too aggressive for my liking, it's gonna cost us eventually if we take more penalties

He is. He'll sharpen up. Reminds me of Rosie a bit. Think he'll be fun to watch as he grows into it.

I love Blake's energy but goddamn that puck handoff in the corner was fugin... something.

This team figured it out it seems. Arguably playing better hockey than any team in the league in the last couple of weeks. Putting up big goals, sniping goalies they should snipe and having netfront presence that is actually making impact. God I love this team when they're on.

Eh. I don't buy the team cancer bit. He was friends with guys on this team before he came here. I just don't think the fit was good and it messed up flow. He couldn't do what was required here nor did he want to try to. Not his style of hockey. Mikko will be good in Dallas. And we're better without him + we got Stanky now

This is a much bigger game than I think some here realize. We're taking it to a strong Tampa team. And capitalizing on strong scoring chances. This is good.

After reflection, Mikko's agent likely fuged everything he from the jump to put Mikko in a more favorable negotiating spot with us. He never liked it here and never wanted to be here, we were a means to an end. Rantanen has the slower play style that much of the league utilizes. Lull teams in, then a couple quick passes leads to an open man for a one timer. We decidedly are not that. Lol

I don't mean this rudely, and I'm sincere in saying that but text often comes off more blunt than I intend. Your criticism of the goal not being a "skill goal", which leads me to believe you use this subjective eye test of goals to differentiate dirty goals from skill goals as a barometer of actual skill or talent, shows that you have a very odd view of hockey. Hockey is a basic fuging sport. Put puck in net without interfering with goalie's body and without raising stick higher than crossbar. How it gets done absolutely does not matter. People see prime Sid and Ovie and McJesus and think "that's what a great player is". No, that's what absurd talent is. That is generational talent we may not see again for years after they're gone. The Canes have been very inconsistent of late since January (10-5 that month). A really bad February (2-5) and so far, a good March (4-1). We don't know what team we're taking into April. The Tampa game will tell us a bit more where we are right now. Rod's system falls apart when teams do a good job of FORCING us into crashing the net. We don't do well with creating shooting lanes and when we do get them, we miss more than any of us would like. I think it's a mentality thing at the end of the day where we have an issue with shrinking when we fail at the good chances too many times. Crashing the net is, was and forever will be a viable scoring method. It's arguably the way most goals are scored. Getting rebounds and firing at open nets is far easier than sniping goalies glove or five hole. But true enough that open shot lanes are needed to be had and capitalized on so we're not hoping for bounces to go our way.

To a hot Bruins team who lost in the SCF to an even better Blues team and then to the team that ran into the Vegas buzzsaw. Call it moral victories but poo, we weren't drummed out by bums. Reaching the playoffs is tough. Doing it 6 straight years is tougher. Winning once there, again, hard. At the end of the day, we're frustrated at having a real good team that isn't putting it together in the playoffs lol