lightsout

Fewer games, less need to have a late start, more time for people to finish dinner and catch the game (though I am going to miss the first period every time because my kids go down at 8 so bedtime routine is either flexing to 730 or I just miss puck drops lol)

Chatty

We need to come out like this series belongs to us. Take all pressure off the road trip, just fuging take this game and go to DC ready to close it. We can win this in 5, and looking at Florida in their war with Toronto, we need to do it in 5 because they're likely going 7 and getting the extra rest could be huge for our legs.

This entire album for the foreseeable future

Ghosty slander will not stand. But sit Orlov. Tired of seeing him lazily trot back to wild pucks in the neutral zone and then lazily flinging the puck into danger.

What I know after game 2 - Tom Wilson is a fuging bitch - Ghosty is a grinder - Blake and Stanky deserve to be here. - Orlov is entirely replaceable - we are taking this in 5

Absolutely perfect timing. Question is if he's gonna miss the first two. I know athletes tend to just bounce and go handle business but man, you hate it for him if he has to hop on a plane immediately after his kid is born.

I think the difference is that The Golden Calf of Bristol and Cam were just big personalities with big time talent (The Golden Calf of Bristol just lacked any consistency, leading to most of us hating him because it felt like he pulled big plays out of his ass). Sanders is a good talent who is completely full of himself and the ego feels unearned. You should WANT to change the bad culture of the losing franchise you expect to go to as a top pick...but that's a thing you keep to yourself or articulate well enough that it doesn't come off as "we're doing poo my way, if you don't like that, don't draft me". You don't create an entire room touting yourself as legendary when you did absolutely nothing legendary at the collegiate level. Nobody is going to be fondly remembering Shadeur Sanders the college QB. Johnny Football is there, Cam is there, Vince Young is there, RGIII is there, The Golden Calf of Bristol is there. Sanders needs humility and to pry himself away from his father. His father is going to tank his career before it is even started. Sanders may bounce around the league as a backup for a few years, he'll play in select games and look like a backup but he'll have that one game where he pops off and that game will be used to say "see?! He's great!" and then he'll get the start and never live up to that game again.

Bros, let's get something straight. Kooch is playing fine. Real rough first period, but that was a team failure. We had like, what, 11 turnovers that period? Struggled on the dot? Allowed some pretty clean looks at net from good angles? Kooch is young. Hasek, Vasilevsky, Lundquist. All had early critics and struggles. Each are considered all time greats. Not to say Kochetkov definitely will blossom into that, but Freddie has spoiled this fan base.

Markstrom is so fuging locked in, it's gross

How about Chatty though?!

No but you're not playing to win the round 1 championship. It's hard to let one goalie run the whole post season if you're not blanking series. This is now a 5 game series minimum and he just played into two OTs while facing a ton of pressure. You rest your goalie so he doesn't burn the hell out. If we don't rest Freddie and lose, we're crushing his confidence, wearing him out and THEN playing koochie even further from his last start.

Freddie has been an animal, probably wanted to keep him hot and then rest Freddie in game 4.

Great third period aside, we need to rise to the occasion on the road. Next game should be a goalie switch for both so, God help us if Koochie is rusty. I did say we'd split the NJ games. Just can't let them even the series on us. That is recipe for disaster.

Just avoid stupid turnovers and open space on the pp. It's there