Jimmybigrigs69

Stop being regarded 1 game. Cap purposes. He'll be up again. It's alarming to me how few of you are able to grasp the bigger picture.

No need to trade if Wings are happy running 3 tendies

It would perfectly fit our switch to the 4-3 defense. And both Hutch and Crosby take like 90% of snaps. Two elite edge rushers like that going after the QB every play would be brutal for literally every team. O-lines can't even contain Hutch alone...

Sounds like Hutch only broke his Tibia... in theory he could return for the superbowl...

Because Lyon was a question mark, and Husso with his injuries was also a question mark. Therefore, get a 3rd one as insurance. When you listen to Derek and Steve talk about running 3 goalies, IMO it sounds like they like this system. They certainly fell into it last year, but it seems like they were pleased with it and are happy to keep it going. And TBH it's kinda smart. Teams don't really have roster space to claim goalies. So Steve can waive and recall at will, until another team is in need of an injury replacement. I see Steve doing this system until basically our Vasilevsky emerges. If anything we should get a FOURTH goalie.

Is literally every guy on this team Brandon Inge?

Disgusting display by Campbell yesterday. Ashamed to call myself a Lions fan. The Boys were already dead before the 1st quarter ended, and we kept stabbing them anyway. Shameful. Dan Campbell and Ben Johnson should be in jail. That said, I know the Boys had a lot of key injuries, but IMO Detroit and KC are the clear powerhouses this year. Goff has days to throw. The run tandem is layered and seemingly unstoppable. Jame-o is actually running routes and becoming a dynamic WR2. Parker is a dog WR3. RIP Hutchinson - but now we GOTTA trade for Max Crosby. Having both those guys next year could turn us into a dynasty team.

We couldn't have known then. Lyon is a career AHL journeyman. You have to assume last season was a flash in the pan if anything (even if it wasn't). Talbot is 37. He could fall off a cliff any day now. And on top of that, Husso was arguably our best goalie in pre-season. Regardless, I doubt we've seen the last of Husso because of 1 game. SY gets to acrue more cap without his contract off the roster. Meanwhile, Talbot looked real steady and he should be able to handle for a while. My only worry with him is his lateral motion doesn't look the best. But as long as the team can contain offenses so he's not having to dive post to post we should be okay.

Just tuning in, Talbot in net and Husso a scratch? GOOD Gustafsson scratched and Ajo and Holl in? GOOD GOOD GOOD Derek is done tolerating bad performance. How the boys lookin so far?

Point record for a U20 SHL dman is 32 pts in 52 games (full SHL season). ASP is on pace for 46 pts in 52 games. 8 games in.

For anyone who didn't watch the first Griffs game that was tonight... Kasper was out of control good. 1 goal and 1 assist. Looked extremely dominate. Had a chip on his shoulder and was very mean and aggressive. Kid is going to be on the team berry soon

Who is dildo again?

Seriously missing Walman right now. Don't look now, but he's been SJS best defender... Hronek is a bit inflated by Hughes. And we got ASP in that deal. I think he ends up a lot better.

The mish mash 4th line also played like stinky poopee. Needs to be broken up and given an identity. Here's what I wanna see: Ras - DBoss - Raymond DCat - Compher - Kane Berggren - Copp - Tarasenko Motte - Veleno - Watson Fischer Chiarot - Seider Maata - Gustafsson Johansson - Holl Petry Lyon Talbot/Husso Line 1: Ras has been moved from the PK to net front PP. So just let him play Holmstrom for Larkin and Ray. It's what we drafted him to do afterall, and Larkin and Ray are fast hardworkers and will enjoy the extra space. Line 2: Dcat and Kane have chemistry. Reunite them on the 2nd line. EZ. Line 3: Break up the shutdown line and make a third scoring line. Tarasenko can now play his natural side and Berggren can used for scoring - what he's actually good at - instead of wallowing on the 4th with Veleno and Motte. Line 4: A slightly worse shutdown line, but a 4th line that at least has an identity and some grit with Watson. Pair 1: Don't touch, our only decent pairing. Pair 2: Maata is our 3rd best defender. Promote him to 2nd and he can cover for Gustafsson's mistakes while Gus provides offense. Pair 3: Ajo and Holl played together all camp. See what they can do. Bench Petry and send Edvinsson down. Goalie: just play Lyon

I said it multiple times this offseason, i was not overly impressed with Edvinsson in his 30 games last year, and IMO he's not a player we need on the roster NOW. He's waiver exempt, and if there's a roster jam, he should be the one to go down. He was behind the play last night and didn't look super effective at moving the puck. Holl got almost no playing time last year because the expected injuries didn't come, but in the games he did play, I really didn't mind him. And he's a RH shot. And, if SY is all about acruing cap space all of the sudden, he should have a 1way contract like Holl's on the roster, and 2way like Ed's sent down.... I was really hoping Gus was gonna be more well rounded than Ghost... lets see how his play evolves, but we may need to trade for a Dman sooner than later. Again this team looks to have a trash bottom 4 and an endless carousel of subpar goalies. Even if we make the playoffs this team isnt winning dick besides later picks.

He was SOOOO good at rustling the jimmies of Doughty and Kassian in his Calgary days. Two grown ass vets losing their marbles over an 18-20 year old kid. I lost some respect for those two during those years. They would have their lil freakout and then Tkachuk would just do the same antagonistic crap the very next play. It's like bros... HE WANTS YOU TO REACT LIKE THAT. That reaction is only going to show him it's working and he'll do it MORE. Learn to keep your composure... I have a lot of respect for Matt Tkachuk because of those years too. Agree with his approach to the game or not, there's pretty much no one too big or bad that he won't fuqq with. And he's never dissuaded from playing that way by a fight or scrum. He just does it again. Kid plays the way he's gonna play and doesn't change it for anybody.

Send Edvinsson down. Put AJo in the lineup. Bench Gus. Callup Holl. Callup Watson. Fire Yzerman. Easy.

In regard to the goalies, there's that saying in football: if you have two quarterbacks you have actually have zero quarterbacks. We have 3 goalies. Agreed on the bottom 6. Was looking forward to Watson.... too bed

>be Forsberg >lemme try this steal >darn it's a board battle >oh no i lost the battle because the bigger stronger guy used the body on me >guess i better throw a weak gloved punch to the face of the guy who other players literally bounce off of when they hit him To forsbergs credit he got a couple good swings in when Mo was still trying to get his gloves off and establish his footing. But once Mo did that he took over the fight. Good on Forsberg for not going down either.

Well Tkachuk isn't a nancy by any stretch, and he's a known s*** disturber, so he was prolly just trying to goad Frederic into a fight so he takes a penalty. Is that honorable? No. Is it a tactic? Yes.

Yea the 4th has zero identity. Motte PK's, Veleno seems like a roleless plug we're just hoping develops into something. And then with Berggren it's like oh yeah you still exist, you might as well just play here too... lol I would guess the same at 2C and 2RHD as well. Just waiting for Kasper Danielson and ASP at this point.

It should be Rasmussen, but Derek has opted to move him to the PP to start developing his net front instead. This is good. Why Derek still doesnt trust Fish on the PK is baffling. He killed penalties for Arizona b4 he came to us, and I thought that's why we nabbed him. I honestly didnt expect him to be given an offer to return bc Derek didnt use him on the PK last year. If you're a grinding bottom 6 forward that doesn't PK what's the point?

Good guys lines per Ansar Khan: Debrincat - Larkin - Raymond Tarasenko - Compher - Kane Rasmussen - Copp - Fischer Motte - Veleno - Berggren Chiarot - Seider Edvinsson - Petry Maata - Gustafsson Husso Talbot PP1: Compher - Larkin - Kane Raymond - Gustafsson PP2: Berggren - Rasmussen - Debrincat Seider - Tarasenko PK1: Compher - Copp Chiarot - Seider PK2: Larkin - Motte Edvinsson - Petry Bad guys lines per Matt Vensel: O'Connor - Crosby - Beauvillier Bunting - Malkin - Rakell Mcgroarty - Eller - Puljujarvi Hayes - Glass - Acciari Grzelcyk - Letang Pettersson - Karlsson Graves - St. Ivany Jarry Blomqvist PP1: Malkin - Crosby - Rakell Karlsson - Letang PP2: Bunting - Eller - Puljujarvi Grzelcyk - Hayes PK1: Eller - O'Connor Pettersson - Letang PK2: Acciari - Bunting Graves - Grzelcyk Outside of their big four the Penguins suck balls. Especially their bottom 6 and bottom pairing D. Need to exploit those matchups with our superior depth. However, that 1st unit PP of there's looks deadly, so stay out of the box. Some of their scrappier guys, like O'Connor, Acciari, and Bunting, are going to try to drag us into it. IMO Copp's line should be matching against that strong Malkin line. Then use Larkin and his line to shutdown Crosby. That leaves JTC's line, with Tarasenko and Kane, to feast on the rest of their ass team. Lets go boys, need a strong start to the season.

Forget all that! Newsy just said in todays media availability that this is Thursdays roster. So no intention on bringing up Wats or Kasper to play yet. Looks like SY is gonna optimize his cap to the fullest this season... which means he probably expects playoffs and TDL acquisitions. Cool. So Watson probably does report to GR for Fridays game. He's probably the first callup when injury strikes.

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