Contempt

Make them make the call. It's would have taken MASSIVE cojones to wave that off in that situation. What I don't know is if Tronna is able to get involved.

The puck has to continually move toward the goalline and Power, as he cut across, moved it backwards. This happens often in tight as guys deke to shoot but his was pretty long and exaggerated and the puck definitely moved pretty distinctly the wrong way and with the way his feet were it was REALLY close as to whether Owen himself was moving away from the goalline as well. Like I said, I've never seen it called so push that limit all day long.

Yeah, but if he starts someone else and they get shelled and the other teams lose that cover is very much gone. Just play your best guys, don't over think it.

Power's move was REALLLY close to being illegal, but I can't remember a time they ever called that so why not push the boundary?

yeah, but you need to control what you can control. Levi is the best option right now and it's not close.

shhhh, they are busy being mad at me.

College hockey plays back to back nights all the time. If anything it's the cadence he's used to and he's not going to be tired, he's only played 39 games since October.

Deking does not look like the plan, his lateral movement and body control is good so that makes sense. Let's see how it evolves as more guys try what Tarasenko did.

Jesus, is unbridled man love the only acceptable response? I just said the kid played well. It's the first time I've watched him play in the NHL and it looked good. I'd guess if I went back and watched the Detroit game I'd be less impressed, but let's go all in on the hype train after a week and a half.

That's fine. You can want that. I don't need to agree with you. We will see how it works out in the end. 3-4 years from now are you happy you kept him this off-season and then paid him what he needed to be paid or do you wish they didn't do that and traded him to make the defense better. That's the fun of this. I dunno. Neither do you. We all have players we don't like for whatever reason we each have. He's one of mine.

I'm here. It's a good win against a reasonably good team that we match-up well against. Levi was the difference overall IMO.

As he should. He played well. First time I've watched him. It's encouraging so far. We will see what happens as the league builds its book on him.

Keep calling me out, it's fine. He's 4 for 15 in his career. That move was really nice though. I'll keep repeating until you understand, you can't trade players with no value for things of value. I want something of value.

It was a very nice move.

He scored a goal. Take all the victory laps. I don't like the player long term and I would rather have the top 4 defenseman he can be turned into. Would you rather I flipped and started gushing over him? With the goal he scored tonight he equaled his goal totals from January and March combined. Those games counted too.

Buying lottery tickets seemed like low hanging fruit. It also deprives your competition of those lottery tickets. Whatever, either they dont agree as to the value of that, or Lord Terrence wouldn't approve the spend. Doesn't really matter at this point.

I agree, which is why I think he's a good sell high candidate for a defenseman.

Am I cherry picking those months that are bad or are the rest of you cherry picking the ones that are decent out of this one season and hoping that means he's improved? January was bad February was good, March was bad, and April so far has been good.

Yeah, you're right. I had some stuff to do this week so I guess I shouldn't talk about them anymore. You guys are way better at this then I am.

Exactly. A discussion about the topic. Now I can't suggest a player be traded for value, not given away, not sent to Finland or something, without getting told to "GTFO with that bullcrap" OK. He's having a nice April. I won't go back and list March or January because it will trigger someone and they'll tell me I'm cherry picking.

You're probably right, I should GTFO with this bullcrap. He's a pillar of the franchise and will be a key to our success going forward. Untradeable.

It's funny, not three months ago there was a thread on this very board asking how bad Casey Mittelstadt is (not started by me btw) Now we can excoriate people for suggesting that he be traded for value. Ok. Hinostroza and Jost have zero trade value. VO probably has some.

I don't care for the player and this would be a good use of the asset

Went to the Philly game on 4/1 and thought they were outplayed for 50 minutes. Didn't watch the Panthers or Red Wings games this week. Saw the last 10 minutes against Carolina.