Eleven

"The clock is becoming your enemy here with 2:26 left." Brilliant, Rob.

On 21 hours' rest.

Yep

He wasn't the coach.

Miller screwed up but Hutton needed to get over and shut the back door.

I'm not going to pin the first two on Hutton--those both were the children of bad defending and a lazy center--but that third one is on him.

I'm going to spend way too much time on this site and come away with more questions than answers.

You mean not right to the circle where the enemy is waiting?

^Interesting and I like it. Trying to stay awake for the whole game...

I didn't see what swampy said and look, I really don't want to get into who was snarky first or whatever. At the NHL level, I'm not sure "first stop is on the goalie, etc." works. He's the worst I've seen in a long time with rebounds.

Yeah, but does that mean thirds? Or are they going back to royal for the main uniforms?

I don't think "Okay, now it's clear to me you know absolutely nothing about hockey" is necessary whether face-offs are important or not, but yes, I do think winning face-offs is a component of a good penalty kill. "Important" is relative. What a team does with the puck after winning a face-off is considerably more important. What a team does without the puck is also considerably more important. And Hutton's inability to control rebounds is a huge issue both on and off the PK.

Come on man. Taro only has 15 bathrooms and the drinking fountain is filled with Ripple.

Poli Sci classes.

It's clear to me that you've never read his scouting posts/threads if you think he knows nothing about hockey.

A focus group! Just start winning some games. Focus group...

Yeah, go on...

I was at that game.

Bombs.

Can he cheat, though?

Well look at that. We did have cable--just basic because reception was poor--but we did not have Sabrechannel; I assume that's where the games were shown?

In case you're stuck indoors in the mini-blizzard and want to watch guys play Battleship with ping pong balls:

He did games on cable back then?

Oh quite a few places do. La Nova for example.

Rick didn't start doing TV until the mid-90s, so no one is going to find youtube memories prior to then anyway.