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Right handed shots on the 5 on 3 are the key.

This team has a ways to go to be even mentioned in the same sentence as the 2002 team. Nice little win streak, the crazies have seemed to disappear...................for now.

and everyone is in off the cliff...

He comes way out to cut the angles down which is great if he is steering pucks into the corners..if he's not and rebounds are dropping down in front of him and our d are standing around it's going to end up in the net more times than not.

TSN clearly has the best analysts, panelists, insiders etc..no question about that. There is no doubt in my mind and anyone else's that a bunch of these guys will be jumping ship. What this means is more hockey for Canadian viewers. TSN has 2 channels, TSN and TSN2 with some local broadcasting sprinkled in...Rogers has Sportsnet, Sportsnet1, Sportsnet 360 which they just bought from the score as well as regional broadcasts and they have vowed there will be no more blackouts which isn't a big deal for myself but for other people it is. The CBC is in trouble for sure....the station bleeds money and HNIC is the only thing keeping them semi alive. If you live in Canada and you can name one good show on CBC besides HNIC you're a better man than I lol. I don't care who broadcasts hockey, I just hope they do it right. It's gamecenter for me for Wing's games anyways.

You maybe are taking it a little bit too seriously lol I think it will be ok....I will think otherwise when the time comes..better to play terrible at this time of the year then 40 games from now..did anyone learn anything from last year? Make the playoffs, get hot at the right time and try and do some damage.

I just came in to check on the comedic meltdown in here today?? Everyone ok?

He is ? Just because he's not playing that well and you're being irrational you can't just round his cap number up to whatever makes you feel good.

Yep because 22 years in a row of making the playoffs and 4 stanley cups has been built on picking up players nobody has heard of.

You just quoted tweets from two of the biggest clowns around

It's amazingly awesome how people sound so much like last year right now. It's an 82 game schedule for a reason. You've been watching since 1986 and never seen this team play bad? Really?

1. Worst reffed game I've seen in a long time..glad I don't have time to watch every second of every game anymore..my blood pressure would be through the roof with that kind of officiating. 2. Our 5 on 3 PP is so easy to defend without a right handed shot...If we have to put Sammy on the 5 on 3 just to keep teams honest then do it. 3. Excited to see Gus and Tatar get a chance and hopefully it lasts this time..both are NHL ready top 6/9 players.

Detroit baseball fans can relate to this..it reminds me of when a baseball team brings in it's closer and you just know he's going to blow the save before the first pitch is thrown.

2 Things: 1. If you don't want to play good enough to win in reg then we better find someone who can score in a shootout. Tatar? Helm? Is Kocur around? Terrible 2. When our d decide to play like they did down the stretch and in the playoffs last year this team will improve instantly. We have made it so difficult to get out of our own end its frustrating..we don't have Lidstrom's and Rafalski's back there to finesse the puck out of our end anymore...get it out easy and go from there. We pass the puck backwards in our own end 4 times and then turn it over...teams know this and just pressure the s*** out of us. As bad as we've been and we've been bad lately these points will be important down the road.

Reached an all new level of absurdness, Howard isn't even playing tonight and he's getting traded there is no way that the Habs make that trade.

My beer league teams back checks better than that...fly by's all over the place..at least take a penalty or something and stop them from scoring.

That call on Bert is baffling..he's trying to get out of the way

We turned the puck over more in the 3rd than other 2 periods combined. Not rocket science. The jimmy haters are just clowns. Way too many times he's hung out to dry. Dats doesn't have to assume any responsibility for losing his guy on the game tying goal?

Don't feel like making another thread but Hemsky and a 2nd rounder to the Flyers for Simmonds. Wow. Love Simmonds but would've cost us Tatar or Gus I take it.

This exactly, the reason Gus is in GR isn't because he isnt good enough to play on this team..its strictly business...bad decisions are made and so are good ones...some bad ones have been made recently that are preventing Gus from being up here full time...that's all it is..he will be up for good at some point.

Yawwwwwwwwwn..same thing everyone said here last year...it's like amateur hour around here after a loss.

I dont care if you're a Jimmy lover or a Jimmy hater he has to save both of those last two goals. Need a big save..didnt get one.

It's been like that for 20 years..I think the track record speaks for itself doesnt it? We are a low risk high reward franchise..never have made knee jerk reactions..of course there has been some bad signings but I think the good ones out weigh the bad ones by a huge margin.

Ever? Cmon

We turned it over 100 times against Calgary and were lucky to get out of there with a win, Turned it over I think 3 times againt the Canucks and outplayed them the whole game, Didnt turn it over too much against the Oilers and crushed them and we have turned it over 400 times tonight and we stink...seems pretty simple..take care of the god damn puck. Wow