Mr Peabody

Visiting my kids and grandkids in the Nashville area and wanted to go to the game but decided I wasn’t going to fork out ~ $1k for the 7 of us. Whew. Feel like I hit on lottery ticket.

Shoppers club gets you buy 1 get 1 tickets

Playing much more aggressive with Mitts. I think he was deferring the shot to Tage too often.

Yeah and I just checked and Washington has enough cap space that it’s doubtful they’d give up too much to move him.

https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/2024/03/capitals-place-evgeny-kuznetsov-on-waivers.html could we pick up a player / prospect to take on his contract?

Agree entirely.

Nice adjustment by Donnie splitting Tage and Skinner as that line couldn’t get out of our zone against TB top line.

Here’s the best we got to

I like the way you say that.

I’d characterize our prospect pool as wide and flat rather than deep. A large amount of the same type of player at forward - so much so you couldn’t build a balanced NHL team.

Was Donnie’s on camera outburst before, during or after the bench penalty. I didn’t see what was going on when it was called. And I did see MT’s post game interview. He was poised and very well spoken. Many of the items he discussed that make Fla so good are what we are lacking (team mix of youth and experience). Telling that he said the Sabres were playing chippy - good for us. Their strength was the difference. Much quicker to the puck and winning board battles. They owned the neutral zone.

Kids need to hit the weight room all summer.

Nice crowd for these teams.

I get weird dreams but so far nothing with the speech. It’s not simvistatin is it?

https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/pittsburgh-penguins/latest-news/pittsburgh-penguins-ready-trade-every-player speaking of blowing it up…

I agree 100% and I think the poor play is driven by fear. Fear of making mistakes and it gets self fulfilling to the point you get second guessing everything you do.

Years ago I worked for someone who said something that sticks with me today. He said “no one comes to work with the thought that “boy I hope I can do a lousy job today””. So what’s wrong? If they knew and had the ability they’d fix it, right? While he was here Eichel said we needed more experience and more toughness. We still need that.

The players were reacting to the Fire Donnie chants, not the boos. I’m okay with that and if it had stayed in the locker room we’d likely never know. Whether you like him or not, the Fire Donnie chants are in bad taste and I’m sure it meant a lot to him that the players thought that was over the line.

Further to my previous post here are some things I’d ask. 1. Probability of Tage, Jeff, Alex, and Dylan repeating their scoring? Impact if they don’t? 2. Probability of Devon leading our goalies to NHL average or better performance? 3. Probability of EJ and Conner raising our D to league average or better? 4. Probability of key players (name them) playing 70+ games. 5. Probability of Improvement in D offsetting insignificant drop off in O. 6. Probability of physical teams taking advantage of our young team. 7. Lastly, probability of Mr Peabody having another glass of Cab vs impact of waking up tomorrow without a headache. (hint: high probability high impact). TBH, number 6 was my biggest worry going in and it hasn’t been as bad as I thought (but still not good).

Going back to my pre-retirement days Thorny’s post got me thinking had we done an impact probability matrix pre-season maybe the results to date wouldn’t be so shocking?

I often wonder if Donnie would just love to throw KA under the bus. These guys should play harder with no coach on the bench but for the sheer competitiveness of a team sport.

I was ambivalent about R Johnson signing versus the draft pick we’d get if he didn’t. I was very wrong. He looks like a vet out there and a damn good one at that.

Matty got a Dick Tracy watch?

Well I am 70 yrs old so my memory may not be the best! However I remember Sam being more like Benson and Skinner as far as being around the net. Good stick and in the area, but not a chaos creator or a solid screen.