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He's so bad at being a grinder. How hard is it to avoid headshots ya dumbo. If almost all of the other grinders can do it why can't you.. He could have avoided it in this case imo. dudes head was down. I do notice it was close to shoulder tho. Wow i just looked at the gif. Ouch!

Aye but Glendog is now our shutdown forward over Z. Times are changing

Really hope he stays injury free and can prove himself. good luck monster!

Apparently all you have to be is an average player to become the captain of one of the most successful organizations in sports history. Here's my thing on this matter. What is high end skill? Flashyness? I don't think you can compare The Beard to The Magician. They both have very different styles of play. And both excel in their own individual ways, especially in their primes.

i might be okay with Larkin getting 3rd line duties. but never 4th line..

f*** off cleary.

Just saw this. Thanks for the info.

hah. still not right!

Starting to like this side of LeftWinger. Finally something we can agree on

Lol cuz we forget that Babs used to coach the Might Ducks of Anaheim

. Why 3 years sooner? You wouldn't have gotten an experienced Blashill if this was 3 years ago. And the players aren't going to cry over national media that babs left lol. This is a professional sport. It was a mutual agreement that both sides needed a change.

The abdelkader, green, nyquist pass sequence on Z goal was one of the best ive seen in a while.

I thought Z looked really really good today. He def has his speed back. Not a good game for babs and his leafs..

I'm also wondering if they are looking to get him into line up opening night. But because we have all of our centers healthy (except Datsyuk), the only way to have him in lineup is having him as a wing.

We wont need a 39 year old Datsyuk the way these kids are playing. I will shed some tears when he retires from NHL tho Thats one half of a euro twin gone.

Interesting stats. Theres also the factor that with S Louis gone, Stamkos has had more responsiblities. I can see him evolving into a playmaker/goal scorer as his career progresses. Ovechkin has a Backstrom. Stammer unfortunately doesnt. Id like to think that Ovie is just seen as a pure goal scorer. With Stamkos I think he expects himself to have more responsbility than that. He will probably stay 40+ scorer but 50+ I'm not sure.

Is it me or does it seem like our players are more injury prone than other teams? I'm not saying it's the players. I'm wondering if it's the strength and conditioning team/coaches (or whatever their title is)

Tandem for sure. Jimmy is a streaky goalie. I'd use him when he's doing great.

Larkin is a better center than Zetterberg and Sheahan. Shots fired

So you want to pick and chose and look at ONE season where he produced half his goals on the power play and say he "lives and dies by the powerplay"? Hows this. AHL stats 2011-2012 - 22 goals only 7 on the powerplay 2012-2013 - 23 goals 9 on the powerplay 2013-2014 - 7 goals - 1 on the powerplay There is literally no statistic you can give me that he lives and dies by the PP except for last season where he happened to shine on the PP. Literally his entire career in the AHL or college career shows that he didn't simply rely on the powerplay. Not only that, his rookie year in the NHL adds to it as well (bigger defenders) College, AHL, NHL numbers.

Um. These kids are NHL ready. By like a mile. Wow. Blashill has some tough decisions to make.

Ah i thought he meannt mrazekfanboy's comment. My mistake

Wasnt his quiet game because of Bergeron matchup he had? Even Zetterberg and Datsyuk struggle against Bergeron

He said PP god not goal scoring god. I said the same. Ovie thrives on the PP more over the course of the season than Stamkos does. At least according to overall numbers. In terms of just straight goal scoring I think they are very very close.

Guess what. There was a season 2005/06 i believe where Henrik Zetterberg scored nearly haf his goals (maybe 18 or so) on the PP. Boy Zetterberg sure turned out okay to me. Point is. People are jumping on this "oh Nyquist can only score on the PP" bandwagon without any legitamate argument really. They have what? One season to go off of? Come on give me a break.. He has had two real seasons and one of them he happened to score mostly on PP. That's all I gather from this. There's plenty of players who have had seasons where they scored heavily on the powerplay rather than full strength Zetterberg OVetchkin - He is THE power play legend. yzerman ... For the record I'm not making a point that he's a better goal scorer than Tatar. I'm just making a point that we really don't have jack s*** to go off of. Too early to judge. Besides I'm one of the few who thinks that PP superstars are a good thing. For some reason people think being good on PP makes you inferior. Ha. I'll take 14 goals from Nyquist on the PP if that means we get to score on opponents.