Kristian

Must’ve been the 06-07 season, too lazy to check 😎

Take a friggin’ timeout….

While I don’t believe Russian players should be banned, I’d certainly appreciate it if Ovie would change his Instagram profile picture, to one where he’s NOT posing with a murderous psycho!

I liked his hit by the bench, a few shifts later.

Way to piss that one away. Good work. Outstanding.

Tuned in, down 2-0, heavily outshot and saw 2 minutes worth of possible bodyplays in the o-zone passed up for lame stickswiping. Sorry, no thanks. My time is better spent elsewhere.

I heard they’re talking to Ville Leino - Apperently he can play goal too! At least, that’s what he says 😎

And especially on breakouts, physical play along the boards to impede players skating out if their zone, is extremely important. No need to destroy just run into him, keeping him from clearing the zone, or in this situation, going to the bench. Yet, all we see are those lame stick swipes night after night after night…..

It doesn’t even need to be a bodycheck - Just get your body between the skater and the blueline. He can’t skate through a player! But no…. Lame stick swipe after lame stick swipe….

I am so so sick of seeing these guys pass up opportunity after opportunity to play the body on the forecheck, and instead do a lame stick swipe, puck squirts through to the neutral zone AND the forward breaking out is absolutely unhindered in skating it down. Take the freakin’ body! You don’t need to destroy the guy, but FFS at least keep him in his own zone for extra two seconds, and give your team time to get in position 🤬🤬🤬

Or defensemen….

Until they ask for a trade, or get dealt for 2nd rounders at the deadline…

It’s not fair to call someone a bust, when he’s only played for the worst team in the league, but… Dahlin, at least so far, is a bust. His possesion game is poor, his defensive play is poor, his offensive game is forgettable. I think he simply hasn’t been able to adjust to the smaller ice surface. Less space, less time.

His defensive play, as many offensive minded blueliners before him, is lacking. To put it mildly. I’d be willing to live with that if he was showing something on offense, but that too is lacking. Not sure we can blame him though, I sure wouldn’t want to come through the system in this organisation. Buffalo is where careers go to die.

And Dahlin was still too far away from him. I’m not saying he should mug the guy, but giving an advancing forward that much space, is just a poor defensive play.

Your’re right. His lack of gap control on Raymond in OT was the stuff of legends.

Dahlin not exactly looking like a no. 1 pick. Again.

Not sure I follow? Was just pointing out it’s been around for a long time.

No arguments there, couldn’t agree more.

The smiling on the bench while losing goes back to before the Pegulas. I have no love lost for the current ownership, but fair needs to be fair - I definitely remember Derek Roy, Jason Pominville, Drew Stafford etc. having WAY too much fun losing, during the last years of OSP’s reign.

Aaron Dell is very bad, that much is obvious. Dustin Tokarski is shaky at best. Craig Anderson is injured. It’s bad.

No arguments with any of this, just pointing that we’ve had zero goaltending, and still the team hasn’t folded.

Goaltending has been awful the past three games, that really overexposes some of this teams shortcomings. At least we’re scoring goals.

I’ll take sucktitude goaltending all season over Kim and Terry meddling again. Every hockey decision they make, turns into a disaster.

Tom Barasso.