Play Nikishin

[Panthers Fan 69]

Goddamn Rod.  Defense and offense. fuging play him over Ghost Walker or Orlov. I don’t care. 

[Panthers Fan 69]

Ghost needs to sit. Guy is toast.  

[PleaseCutStewart]

35 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Ghost needs to sit. Guy is toast.  

If we did play nikishin (which no chance rod does unless our entire defense gets hurt), it should 100% be burns followed by Walker riding the bench for him.

 

Edit: I forgot orlov - slot him in between burns and walker

Edited May 9 by PleaseCutStewart

[lightsout]

55 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Ghost needs to sit. Guy is toast.  

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.

[Stumpy]

The Tsar awaits...

[PNW_PantherMan]

On 5/9/2025 at 12:02 AM, lightsout said:

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.

Depends how good Nikishin's English is I guess.  Wouldn't it make sense for him to pair with another Russian?

[Stumpy]

Not the way any of us wanted it to happen...

[Kuhndog94]

17 minutes ago, Stumpy said:

Not the way any of us wanted it to happen...

I figured as much. Hopefully he's just resting up and will be ready for round 3 (if we make it that far.) 

Sucks to see. Hes been our best defender (besides Slavin) in the playoffs so far.

[Panthers Fan 69]

47 minutes ago, Kuhndog94 said:

I figured as much. Hopefully he's just resting up and will be ready for round 3 (if we make it that far.) 

Sucks to see. Hes been our best defender (besides Slavin) in the playoffs so far.

Rod said Chatty will play tomorrow.  More of a maintenance day. 

[Kuhndog94]

11 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Rod said Chatty will play tomorrow.  More of a maintenance day. 

Thank the lort.

[PleaseCutStewart]

While I would like to see Nikishkin play, I definitely wouldn't want it to be for Chatty who is a lockdown defender like Slavin

[TheCandyMan]

3 hours ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Rod said Chatty will play tomorrow.  More of a maintenance day. 

Smokescreen or do you think this is legit info?  Rod's usually a "we'll just have to see" kind of guy.  Surprised he came out and said this.  Hope it's true with the roll we're on right now.

[Panthers Fan 69]

On 5/14/2025 at 4:28 PM, TheCandyMan said:

Smokescreen or do you think this is legit info?  Rod's usually a "we'll just have to see" kind of guy.  Surprised he came out and said this.  Hope it's true with the roll we're on right now.

Smokescreen all the way.  Nikishin is in!

[PantherChris]

6 minutes ago, Panthers Fan 69 said:

Smokescreen all the way.  Nikishin is in!

This will be interesting