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10/15/13 @ Tampa Bay: What We Learned
Oct. 16th, 2013 09:21 amWell, this morning we learned that we can't drink like we used to, get up and go to work in the morning and be at all productive, so...
BLOG POST!
Aside from asking, "Why did I drink that much?" "Why do I have a new number in my phone with the only contact info listed as WIND FARMS?" and "Why the fuck does Tampa Bay have to have a hockey team, anyway?" we are left with so many other questions, for example:
Would it be possible to healthy scratch Regher, Martinez, Greener, Mitchell, and Voynov?
Answer: No, this would be not be possible, but god - wouldn't it be satisfying? Especially given their sort of aimless meandering through the first period yesterday? Mitchell, one specially cannot healthy scratch because he has a chronic physical ailment called, "being 36 years old and having no cartilage left in his knee". Any scratching of him will be of the unhealthy variety. No one else can get scratched because it is not yet legal to just put stationary orange cones on the ice in place of D-men, although those would have been equally effective.
Do you remember when we were an excellent defensive team, who couldn't score goals?
Answer: Yes! In hindsight, wasn't that fun?
What the shit happened?
Answer: Well, Mitchell's not what he used to be, we lost Scuds to his homeland, Voynov is regressing, and - oh, you meant specifically last night?
Fuck if I know, they all played like shit.
I was perusing Extraskater.com (like you do, when trying to make sense of the world) and I was struck by Voynov's (who through much of the game, looked absolutely terrible) numbers, which, without boring you, were quite positive. And I'm struck by a sense memory of what it was like to have Jake Muzzin on the ice:
Exciting, but also petrifying. Because sure, we generate more shots when he's on the ice, but as soon as we lose possession, there might as well be wet tissue paper between the other team and the goal. That's how Slava was playing. Which. Slava, seriously - you are too old and too good to be that irresponsible.
Martinez and Greener were... themselves. Which is to say meh, and Greener only took one (?) stupid penalty, so, you know. That seems fine.
The upside, is that the D part of D men seems to be the slowest aspect of their game to develop, and the slowest to come back once the season starts. Other than that, I've got nothing.
C'mon, now. Say something nice.
Answer: I actually have alot of nice things to say about this game - aside from the clusterfuck of a first period, we had really nice puck possession, good flow, decent entries. We got a lot of opportunities, and spent a lot of time in the O zone.
13-22-21 are continuing to make me the happiest person in all the land; Stoll looks like he's contributing something on the fourth line, and there were shifts where Kopitar and Richards both looked like the elite talent that they actually are. Kopi's zone entries? Be still my heart. The shift leading up to the no-goal from Carter? Watching all the work Richards did for that, going back for a second and third chance? Never giving up on it.
JFC.
But that was totally a goal, right? That was a bullshit call?
Answer: Oh, yeah, totally. Fuck that ref.
And then the third period happened?
Answer: Yeah, although the Kings had legit given up by that point. Also I was drunk.
BLOG POST!
Aside from asking, "Why did I drink that much?" "Why do I have a new number in my phone with the only contact info listed as WIND FARMS?" and "Why the fuck does Tampa Bay have to have a hockey team, anyway?" we are left with so many other questions, for example:
Would it be possible to healthy scratch Regher, Martinez, Greener, Mitchell, and Voynov?
Answer: No, this would be not be possible, but god - wouldn't it be satisfying? Especially given their sort of aimless meandering through the first period yesterday? Mitchell, one specially cannot healthy scratch because he has a chronic physical ailment called, "being 36 years old and having no cartilage left in his knee". Any scratching of him will be of the unhealthy variety. No one else can get scratched because it is not yet legal to just put stationary orange cones on the ice in place of D-men, although those would have been equally effective.
Do you remember when we were an excellent defensive team, who couldn't score goals?
Answer: Yes! In hindsight, wasn't that fun?
What the shit happened?
Answer: Well, Mitchell's not what he used to be, we lost Scuds to his homeland, Voynov is regressing, and - oh, you meant specifically last night?
Fuck if I know, they all played like shit.
I was perusing Extraskater.com (like you do, when trying to make sense of the world) and I was struck by Voynov's (who through much of the game, looked absolutely terrible) numbers, which, without boring you, were quite positive. And I'm struck by a sense memory of what it was like to have Jake Muzzin on the ice:
Exciting, but also petrifying. Because sure, we generate more shots when he's on the ice, but as soon as we lose possession, there might as well be wet tissue paper between the other team and the goal. That's how Slava was playing. Which. Slava, seriously - you are too old and too good to be that irresponsible.
Martinez and Greener were... themselves. Which is to say meh, and Greener only took one (?) stupid penalty, so, you know. That seems fine.
The upside, is that the D part of D men seems to be the slowest aspect of their game to develop, and the slowest to come back once the season starts. Other than that, I've got nothing.
C'mon, now. Say something nice.
Answer: I actually have alot of nice things to say about this game - aside from the clusterfuck of a first period, we had really nice puck possession, good flow, decent entries. We got a lot of opportunities, and spent a lot of time in the O zone.
13-22-21 are continuing to make me the happiest person in all the land; Stoll looks like he's contributing something on the fourth line, and there were shifts where Kopitar and Richards both looked like the elite talent that they actually are. Kopi's zone entries? Be still my heart. The shift leading up to the no-goal from Carter? Watching all the work Richards did for that, going back for a second and third chance? Never giving up on it.
JFC.
But that was totally a goal, right? That was a bullshit call?
Answer: Oh, yeah, totally. Fuck that ref.
And then the third period happened?
Answer: Yeah, although the Kings had legit given up by that point. Also I was drunk.
