PleaseCutStewart

Holy poo, we got a PP goal. Time to buy some lotto tickets

Damn that's a goal

What's our PP percentage down to now? Like 6%?

Stank should honestly not be playing C. Built much more to be a W. We just have to play him at C because we don't have anybody else

Yeah... Their real Stanley cup was beating Colorado (with the help of McKinnon and Makar being hurt)

Lol good one. Rod never changes lines or makes adjustments

Yeah, I think we honestly need to blow it up. We aren't going to get an easier run than this playing a bad Ottawa and Philly team then getting a tired Montreal team. Looking pretty likely we get swept in the cup finals

Unfortunately Vegas is just a mirror copy of us, except their skaters are able to bury their High danger scoring chances

Must win game or the series is over. Need the Aho line and Stank line to show up tonight

Gonna go Blake again

Ehlers-Aho-Svech Hall-Stank-Blake Jarvy-Staal-Marty Want to try these lines out. Split up Aho and Jarvy. I'd drop Aho down if we had any other C that could play top line, but alas, we don't have one. If the Hall-Stank-Blake line struggles again in game 2, might be having to shift around those forwards lines more.

Yeah, I don't even know who we have on our team that is on their rookie deal and the Browns would want. Maybe we could have subbed in TMac for Verse and given away the same level of draft picks, but I would rather not. Garrett is somebody you go after when you are a Superb Owl contender. We aren't that

A year older, a year wiser. I just bet them to win the NFC South because a 7-10 record might still win this bad division

While they aren't wrong, I think the odds of us winning the Superbowl are better than the likes of the Colts, Commanders, and Falcons. I mean, our +/- is closer to the Jets than the Bucs... Honestly, I'm kind of surprised ESPN didn't just outright forget to put us on this list

I'll take Aho that can skate 5 feet without falling down and not lose the puck on a slight breeze

I think you will be hard pressed to find a single person on this forum that likes having Freddie in net for us. But much like the game 1 Montreal game, the defense let him down big time. 2 goals were deflections he pretty much had no chance on and 2 were passes to the slot where the shooter had all day to shoot. All 4 of them happened because of bad turnovers behind the net (one of the worst places you can turn it over because the G can't see what is going on behind the net). I think 1 goal Freddie could have done better on, but otherwise not much he could do. I think Freddie played better than Hart. Unfortunately our entire team (outside of Ehlers/Staal/Marty and maybe Blake) laid a giant egg yesterday. Like, we looked really, really bad with the amount of pucks we lost with no pressure, the amount of bad passes we had, and the amount of times our guys just fell over like it was their first time skating on ice.

Only thing that worries me is that I thought the game 1 loss to Montreal was fluky because we gave up so many breakaways and looked much better after the 1st period. I don't think our game 1 loss to Vegas was fluky - they also like to forecheck and we struggled to get it out of our D zone much of the 2nd and 3rd period. Probably the 1st time all playoffs the Stank line looked terrible - hopefully that is just a one time thing this series or we are in trouble with how much of a no show the Aho line has been.

He's good, but not almost $40 mill a yr level good. I guess the falcons have money to spend though, so it makes sense

Aho I agree with. Freddie was meh - it would have been nice if he stopped one of the goals he allowed, but all of the goals are pretty much difficult saves that were the fault of our turnovers behind the net. Ghost is what he is - a puck moving, capable scorer damn who is not very good defensively. He usually relies on Boom and our forward line to help him out. Aho and Jarvy (and to a lesser extent Walker and Miller) were the biggest no shows tonight. Staal line + chatty/Slavin were the only reason we didn't lose by 3+ goals

Yeah, pretty much the same description I gave him game 1 Montreal. The first thing we have to fix is the god awful turnovers behind the net. Our wingers are leaking too far up the ice and Vegas is pinching their Dmen on the boards to prevent it from getting out. It worked in our favor for the Ehlers goal, but pretty much led to 3 or 4 goals for Vegas

It's honestly amazing that Vegas can afford all the players they have.

Wow, that knee probably saved a goal

Well, hope this is a Montreal game one of us just not being prepared. If we lose game 2, the series is over

Awful awful games from Jarvis and Aho. At some point we have to start thinking about whether they just aren't clutch playoff players

At some point, we have to realize Aho should not be on the ice in clutch time