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If we think Asplund is non-negligibly better than his replacement, it’s not logical to think the team won’t be hurt in this one individual game.

If that’s what he said, it doesn’t make any sense. There isn’t a “surplus” of players as good as Asplund, just because you have a 13th man who’s an NHLer doesn’t mean you need to rotate OUT your best 2 way players Hopefully not a conscious message of resetting the expectations, to players and fans. Don’t really understand not fielding the best roster - - - Having said all that: Canadian team. Easy W. Habs 2 Sabres 3

Malignant X Barbarian ..lots of good horror flicks recently

Myers won the rookie of the year and Risto wasn’t damaged by being rusted his hockey IQ just isn’t very good, he is what he is as a player

Oh is it 19 there? 18 in my province!

That’s right, thanks. Correct me if I’m wrong, isn’t he the guy who is the/one of the only guys still running the PP through the pass-from-down-low / near the goal line system? Yup isn’t that the bob woods system

We've actually had an ~mid-to-slightly-below-mid pack PP since 17-18. We had the #1 ranked powerplay in 16-17 with...Disco Dan behind the bench. And, really, looking at the numbers, haven't really had a good one since

In an 82 game season I'm not even sure we need to be looking for an, "Ah, *that's* the reason we lost!* out for games quite yet

With who, Grigorenko?

Good post/thread The powerplay performance is both a glaring negative, reflective of the coaching staff (we didn't think this coaching crew wouldn't have flaws, did we?), but also a supremely accessible area for potential improvement. That's the positive - this should be a fixable issue, considering, as you mentioned, the talent is there. The powerplay is perhaps one of those spots where simply removing Eichel and allowing the players here to step up to the mantle didn't/doesn't represent a successful strategy. Where perhaps Eichel's 5 on 5 play would occasionally leave something to be desired, resulting in an avenue where a full-team-buy-in can make up most of the "Eichel-to-the-next-closest-player" talent gap, the powerplay is an entirely different animal - there's no replacing what Eichel's command and distribution ability on the PP provided, when it was allotted that time and space a PP generally provides. Switching up to a different strategy to the one they used with Jack would appear to be the right call, the numbers kinda speak for themselves.

An argument in favour of the Adams-style long-term rebuild as much as anything. Gah what a disaster, and I'm almost always the "retool" rather than "rebuild" guy.

Good road trip

Coaching staff really needs to get to work on this. Unacceptable at this point tbh - - - Comrie hasn’t had a good gane, couple beauty saves notwithstanding Oh well. 4-2 is good.

Feed is way behind That's a second very similar goal for Cozens Dahlin was a wizard on that play

the wallet of the mind

I like the way Cozens always pushes the play forward

I'd have to see it again but it looked like he was one of the first guys up ice

Could only find a stream w/ the kraken feed, tried looking for ours, realized I didn't care anymore

Dude was at our blue line when they were scoring

Power wtf are you doing? lol

sick save

Quinn looked a little shaky with a rough in-zone turnover in the final 2.

Reinhart also "arrived" about half-way through a season, around the time of an outdoor game, IIRC. Sometimes it's just a development tipping-point being reached in terms of experience/games played. The All-Star game probably helped that process for Dahlin and provided some causation, but there's a lot of correlation there, too, I think - Dahlin was developing during the time young players are expected to develop. That's why the twitter takes writing him off like we had seen his ceiling already was always weird. Particularly a d-man

If someone is having serious jaw work done it's difficult to consume the type of diet conducive to playing the high paced and physical NHL game. He's probably eating through a straw right now. Not to mention the amount your face moves without you really noticing when doing something physical, not to mention while sustaining physical contact..I'd imagine the pain would be extreme. All someone in this case needs to do is look at the video, and imagine that happening to themselves, to know how long that would hurt for.

Pretty safe to say it's "broken bones in face"