lightsout

I think whenever anybody says "the Panthers" it should be in reference to Florida until the football team decides they like winning again

6-2. Comeback time

I want you to know that what I'm about to say I mean with everything in me in this moment. Go fug yourself I'll apologize once we're officially eliminated and I'm less butthurt

I tell you what. Koochie could stand in the center of the crease the rest of the game and just watch the game and I wouldn't even be mad

Jesus fuging Christ does somebody want to help Koochie out?

Two own goals. I fuging love it. Technically a tied game.

I'm gonna need Orlov to find his own ride back to Raleigh after this series is done. I'm gonna need Morrow to find his own ride back as well. No skater gets paid until we start looking dangerous in the enemy zone consistently. This pass happy bullshit with no real scoring chances is old now

Nikishin nets the game winner and I'll put my vasectomy off for a month

And people say I let my 5 year stay up too late. He doesn't start kindergarten until August, he can stay up till 9 to catch the start of games with dad lol

Aho tried. Ref broke it up fast. Aho was pissed

I'm in the middle of putting kids to bed and didn't hear that he got ejected. Good. fug Florida. Dirty as fug team and the league won't punish them

The 18:00 mark of the second needs to be Nikishin sprinting to the penalty box.

That was purely a faceoff circle decision I think

We will see tomorrow night if Rod and the team received the message. If we're heavily out shot again and not getting pucks on net, I can promise you this series is over. We're not in a spot to win 4 straight

The problem is it works against most of the league. It's hard as hell to justify poo canning the guy who brought you into relevance year in and year out because he fails to win cups. If we hire a guy to replace Rba and he fails to make the playoffs, we lose the culture built entirely. That's the risk. RBA needs to be able to switch it up. We need to be setting up Aho and Svech and Jarvis every game. We aren't. Telling them to go find their space and shoot when they can isn't working. We need some set plays so we can free up space for some cross crease. Florida can, why can't we?

Slavin and Burns are fuging toast right now. They're exhausted as hell. Ghost is literally just trying to not let guys behind him because he doesn't have the legs right now. Orlov is Orlov. Let Niki bomb. Teach Nikishin "off" and let him fuging try to run a normal shift.

So our system is free wheeling with offensive zone circle cycling to get shots top half of circle or high slot. It's what we do. Blue line has green light to blast as long as somebody is low. Simple hustle play style, allows us to put work in on teams who don't have the speed and endurance. Well, yet again we face a team that can hang and now we can't buy shots. Everybody looking for the pass to wear down teams and nobody trying to strike fear. The system needs to adapt. Not change. Just adjust. Get some set plays. Crash the fuging net. Morrow didn't need to see the ice. Put Niki with Orlov and call it a day. Jarvis is likely fuging concussed. Shocked if he isn't. So now we need to replace his impact (give Blake the minutes. He's earned it). Run Koochie for the next two games. Freddie is exhausted. Marty needs to scrap with anybody not named Marchand. We're needing goals and we spend the entire pp passing and I just don't fuging get it

I mean they're from the same place I think but idk if they're friends. If they are, then it's literally a "fug you bud" shot. Lol. It wasn't a forceful shot. I don't like it if it's not that, but the league has already kinda ruled that these kinda shots are fine as long as it's not disrupting play directly or overly forceful.

That thought crossed my mind. Could be desperation, could also just be Svech trying to play mind games with Bob. Get him less focused and shake him up a bit.

As long as Morrow isn't on the ice, we are neck and neck with them, at worst. So please God tell me Nikishin or Chatty are going tonight

He's that offensive d man we love to grab to pair with a more defensive partner. If that's the mold we're gonna go after, fug it, keep him. He does well enough IMO. If we're looking for Slavin light, then be sure to find that or we just have a massive hole to fill on top of the others

Idk why I thought we had Orlov until '27 and burns until '26 but here we are

Ehhh. He's a kid. Doubt that they hold it against him THAT hard unless he really can be big trade bait. I think the plan was to run him in the ahl next year and call him up if somebody goes down and get him ready to come up permanently once Orlov's contract comes up. Kinda hard to play at ECF level at 22 when you haven't been up much Burns is likely getting traded in the off season for something to fix the second line and to make more room for Nikishin to slot in. No way we hold him at his pay for his production, not with Slavin getting paid eventually. I miss Fast

Ghost definitely made the most of a bad situation. He can't be everywhere at once

Oh I know, but the first period and a half showed us the glaring issue schematically. They executed more consistently because they didn't have the issues in their depth that we did. Fourth line couldn't matchup well, bottom pair was atrocious. Need to do some half switches with the second and third lines. Staal line steals an extra 5 minutes per game and maybe we can mitigate it?