10/24/24 vs. Dallas

cshea

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More line juggling.

Marchand - Lindholm - Pastrnak
Geekie - Zacha - Poitras
Koepke - Coyle - Frederic
Beecher - Kastelic - Brazeau

Lindholm - McAvoy
Zadorov - Carlo
Wotherspoon - Peeke

Swayman
 

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I hope that top 6 starts clicking soon. Happy for Koepke that he's getting a look with Freddy and Coyle but I do hate to see them go away from the 4th line that has been humming so far. No M Jones is a-ok with me.

Score early, score often. Win please.
 

cshea

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They need to give Rask and Bergy some wine for this. Get them going like that pandemic 2011 game 7 team rewatch.
 

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I wanted to say that this was looking like the Bruins of old but the last 8 minutes have been anything but. Discombobulated and, as a result, sloppy.
 

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I've been bouncing between the Bs and Cs, so halftime my first extended watching. I like Tuukka in this setting and I think he could get really good at it. Plus he watches it like he wants to jump in there
 

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Beating the Leafs in game 7 was fun, and I always want this team to win. But also maybe it saved Monty’s job and that was a bad outcome, too. Sports can cut both ways simultaneously.
 

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Beating the Leafs in game 7 was fun, and I always want this team to win. But also maybe it saved Monty’s job and that was a bad outcome, too. Sports can cut both ways simultaneously.
If one game that was won on a funny carom saved his job, then the organization is rotted from the inside out.
 

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Dallas PP was ranked 30th in the league heading into the game. They have more power play goals in 30 minutes tonight than they had all season
 

Salem's Lot

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Really uninspiring effort tonight.

All our “best” players are playing like passengers right now.
They’re completely not buying what Monty is selling at this point. Time to make a change there. Try that, and if that doesn’t work, start trading guys.
 

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They’re completely not buying what Monty is selling at this point. Time to make a change there. Try that, and if that doesn’t work, start trading guys.
Or their forwards aren't very good and a bunch of guys who stepped up in bigger roles last year (Zacha, Geekie, Coyle) are falling back down to Earth plus Marchand getting old / recovering from multiple offseason surgeries. Not sure why they would suddenly tune him out after 2 years of tuning him in(?).
 

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Or their forwards aren't very good and a bunch of guys who stepped up in bigger roles last year (Zacha, Geekie, Coyle) are falling back down to Earth plus Marchand getting old / recovering from multiple offseason surgeries. Not sure why they would suddenly tune him out after 2 years of tuning him in(?).
Well if that’s what’s happening then they’re fucked anyway. Why not try a new voice before just punting a season away?
 

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Little bit of both. The talent at forward is uninspiring but the system hasn’t been adjusted either to try something different.
 

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Yes they’re a little light on top 6 talent, but they’re playing like no one knows where the fuck anyone is supposed to be and generating zero offense. They weren’t ready to start the season at all, and there has been zero adjustments other then changing lines 2/3 times a game, which is probably fucking up the players more.