Keirik

Dallas is just flying down the ice shooting from all angles. …… yup, not us though.

Goalie floundering around, open net, Strome fires a bullet pass. Leadership.

Awesoem start.

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Wait I’m just seeing this lol

Fuck, at that price point he’d have made a good Strome replacement.

I mean what a dick. I get it, but the fans weren't the ones that wouldn't let him have thr surgery. Thatsxon the organization. Have a bit of class.

I mean we won one they won one. Life happens. We move on and hopefully this wakes them up from this mini slump

Next... Oh forget it. We gun win this

This ain't over yet..... Because there's still another period to play. Technically I'm not wrong lol

You spelled touchdown wrong

Sooo what did I miss ? Lol

Zero structure to our defensive game right now

Stromer!

I’d say so yeah

True. I’m offended.

So what did I miss lol

It’s all perspective. Lighting looked like their window was closing after several years of getting bounced or not making the playoffs.

Yeah sure, Gallant is telling him to never shoot from the slot and look pass first to the level of insanity.

In all fairness, the window didn’t close on us. Management decided to close the window themselves with a silly letter, trade our captain, trade a 24 year old talent we currently are trying to get back, hire a guy that had no idea what he was doing to coach the team, and tell our hall of fame goalie sorry bud, we aren’t going to try and compete anymore until you’re done. Luckily it worked oit for us thanks to some serious fortune we are reaping the rewards of now but I never thought it was a good idea to just blow it completely up like that.

Why we win is unconventional. It’s not something you can do say 3-4 years in a row. But it is something that can work for a year and if we made some moves, the unconventional way of winning isn’t as necessary. See 10/11 Bruins however though that won unconventionally. They won because of Tim Thomas. Period. The thing is, that unconventional way did help Boston also build a team that had the luxury to learn how to win in other ways. Now they didn’t win another cup but they still made a couple more cup final appearances and even til this day have a good team at the tail end. The difference is though, we don’t have a 36 year old Thomas. We have a 26 year old one and our window is just starting to open.

I do look for trends. 57 games of them. The trend is, we win nearly 70% of the time.

But the Rangers aren’t replacing their goalie so what does this even mean? And this historic goalie has put up these exact numbers everywhere he’s played. This isn’t a case of so,e career .899 guy one day thinking he’s Hasek for 6 weeks of his life.

I’ll try to help you understand. Nope, Chytil, Kakko, Blais are not comparable with those guys. But again we beat Boston earlier with them in the lineup. Here, I’ll show ya the box score. https://www.hockey-reference.com/boxscores/202111260BOS.html look, no pp goals! taking our guys out of the lineup though that normally would be regulars promotes other guys that have no business being in the lineup into regular roles. Kakko is a much bigger miss than we want to admit. The only good thing was that it forced an elevation of Alf to RW top 6 which is where I believe he remains. As for the last part. I take issue with this concept of us being an average team with an elite goalie because it’s absolutely wrong. Kreider is 3rd in the league in goals. Panarin is an elite player. Zibanejad is an elite two way player. Fox won a Norris. We like to give Alf shit but he’s coming around. Miller looks much better, Goodrow was a great pickup, Trouba looks great this year, I thought Kakko before injury looked better and better each game. Schneider is a keeper, Miller has been gaining confidence, etc. theyre not average. They are a good team trending up. Two players on so away from elite but average is nuts to me. Just because today they need their best player to never have a night off doesn’t mean it’s going to be that way forever.

We are just your average 6th best winning % team thanks to our best players being our best players. as I said, I don’t believe we win a cup this year. I’d love it if we did of course, but you have to start somewhere. It’s time to take those steps and we are in grand fashion.