DarthEbriate

I do have a soft spot in my heart for NBC's postgame of the St. Louis Blues Cup championship. It was beautiful and poetic in the sheer number of f**** given.

This is why we've got to play a different goalie every game. No scouting report! Lekkas, you're next.

One more stride Risto...

Really nice save by Sorokin there on Reino. Reino almost had another possible GWG. (edit: speaking to the replay)

Fans in the building would've made these the 2 third periods vs. the Isles quite lovely.

Our breakout counters are so much better with Granato as coach. We have spacing, we have angles and shots. We don't go offsides each time.

(Bjork, Bjork, Bjork)....

So, even though I said this, and Bjork just scored... I stand by this. Bjork has a role, but Thompson could become really solid if he pans out. (I still hope Seattle is coerced into a Miller, the Champagne of third-pairing defensemen.) Bjork thought he could organize goals... how Scandinavian Wisconsinite of him.

Do-ge-dushka doo. Do-de-de-do dedede doo Bjork! Bjork! Bjork!

We've just got to hope that A) GM Sheevyn does the right thing and protects Thompson over Bjork because of the potential, and then B) Thompson pulls an Ent and wakes up one day and realizes that he is strong.

So... should we be happy or upset that Skinner is once again on the 4th line with Eakin? Granato has reached the same conclusion RaKru did?

We have them right where we want them.

That, too. Maybe in a couple years, but right now... if all things stand as is... after a goal: Girgs - Cozens - Okposo + Samuelsson - Ristolainen. Just win the next 50 seconds.

In addition to all the other things we need next season, we need a line that goes out after we score a goal and wins the next shift.

Cute. And production! Followed by Beauvillier.

I always thought the little girl from Caravan of Courage/Battle for Endor grew up, made clothes, lived like an Ewok princess for years and... after they fattened her up ate her... WOOOOOO!!!! Eakin! ... they had her clothes leftover.

Not sure if that was intentional, but Risto/Miller followed by Bryson/Joker are not my preferred D-pairings. Hope it was temporary and no one is mending anything off the ice.

Ray's right -- Trotz said shoot, and the Isles are shooting everything.

Cute. And production!

So, we're all in agreement now, we just go with Houser and Tokarski as our goalies next season?

Nice shift! And yes, some cute passes, too.

Stop setting your passes for stun and start making your passes full power. Get out of the zone before you get cute.

Maybe Seattle will offer this year's 1st for us we expose him. Also, Execute Order 38 and May the Fourth be with us.

Throw him to the floor, sir? Oh, yes! Thwow him to the floow.

It's a fair objection. And perhaps an easier way to state it when they lose a step and their speed isn't what it was after age 31... But Skinner had earned his way down to the 3rd line in Carolina, and RaKru dropped him down to the 2nd (and then obscenely to the 4th here), and even Granato dropped him off Reinhart's line to ignite last night's rally --- it wasn't Olofsson who got booted. Hall was our best forward in the first two games of the year. But as injuries and COVID came about, he disappeared. And when the team started gel under Granato, Hall was nowhere near our best forward. He lost his beloved coach and checked out on this team. He'll do it to the next one, too.