I think they should look to hunt for young roster forwards that can help them now and in a few years.
The last thing you want is lose your pick and not make the playoffs.
Either bomb or make the dance. Being just on the outside and losing the Flames pick is worst of the potential outcomes.
Personally, I have no problem with them cultivating this winning culture before they're actually good on paper. If they keep flipping FAs and expiring players for picks and end up in a wildcard spot in the meantime, they'll still continue to build a prospect base.
It's better than sucking out loud and then not being able to figure out the winning part after getting all the sexy picks (Buffalo, Detroit, Anaheim, etc)
The team can’t score.
If they can’t score and don’t make any major additions, they’ll fade into the bottom 10 after the deadline no matter how good the goaltending is.
They could finish with the worst powerplay in the league.
Does the team with the worst man advantage ever make the post-season?
They Islanders of New York will blow a lead in the third and lose in a shootout.
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I almost forgot the Islanders play tonight. Hopefully they don't make the same mistake. LGI
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They will
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Fun fact, the Isles have had 6 one-goal leads in the third period so far this season. Every single one of them has been blown.
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Watching paint dry isn’t that bad after all
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I think I would claim Kasperi Kapanen and finally put an end to the Wahlstrom era. At the very least Kapanen replaces Fasching or maybe Martin but I doubt that.
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Dufour has 2 goals this season. Maggio has 1.
Heck of a job, guys.
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Ugh the Flames are wearing those ugly black uniforms. Their home red with the traditional white flaming C is one of my favorite non Islanders uniforms and I don't even get to see them. Why does it seem like every team has to have a black 3rd jersey?
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I cannot look at these uniforms without feeling like we are playing the Canucks of yore...
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Please no Weeger hat trick tonight, mmkay? That was an atrocious matinee at The Yoob last season.
Wild Wild East
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The East is craayyzzeeeeyyy
Isles are one point from WC2, and 2 points from last in the conference.
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E$PN has the Isles 30th in future power rankings just ahead of Boston and Pitt. Carolina 1st, Bluepukes 2nd.
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The Bruins regressing has broken it wide open for WC2.
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They get.900 goaltending they'll make it. Pretty much the same boat as the Isles, although I'm not too sure firing the coach is going to help there.
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Wow, Bruins just fired Montgomery. That is crazy considering he was 120-41-23 for them. Obviously a lack of playoff success but still.
You heard it here first, Jim Montgomery will go to Detroit after they fire their coach.
The Curse of Goalie
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If we get goalied every game is it really getting goalied or are we just insanely bad at finishing
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The Wolf got us there
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Come on, now!!!
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Wolf’s good, but HOrvat, what the hell? He’s got to bury those
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Horvat, need you to bury those brother
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of course this ####ing kid is standing on his head...
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i didn’t know hasek was suiting up for the flames tonight.
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dude is a stud.
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It's kind of nostalgic seeing a goalie that isn't a giant out there. Wolf is listed at 6ft but that may be generous.
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It's true. The Isles can hit a smaller target.
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That looked like a decent PK. Thought we were going to kill that one.
Man, Wolf is looking good for Cowtown.
Hometown Boy
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Is Coronato from long Island? I hadn't heard
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So Coronato is scoring tonight right
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so coronato is gonna score tonight
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FanDuel has him at +380 (shorter odds than tsyp, engvall, Wally, Holmy, and Casey) which means Vegas acknowledges the narrative too
Rasmus ties the game!
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There’s that dumb mayfield penalty we’ve come to expect
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Thx Mayfield
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Mayfield never fails to vapor lock
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And there we go, a very opportune Mayfield penalty
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Desperately trying to give away the lead here at the end.
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One guy back, keep it up guys, we should be just getting better and better
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Hate being only up by 1. With this team that’s not too good
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Is anyone surprised?
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Isles always make teams with horrible PK’s and PP’s look top tier
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We all saw that coming
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There’s legit like 10 games this season where they have lost leads because they can’t kill a penalty
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Why do i stay up for this
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The reason Mayfield's plus minus is so good, is because he takes the stupid penalties that we get scored upon. So he's not on the ice for the goals. He's just responsible for them. Fruck'n idiot.
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Was that Dobson standing next to the net looking like a dumb ass?
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Mayfield to the other teams rescue again
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i know i can just not come to the game threads, but something keeps pulling me in, despite the sheer amount of braindead morons that are in here seemingly every game
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Sportsnet just put up a graphic saying since 2022-23 we lead the league with 83 one-goal games...
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Felt inevitable the way they were moving the puck
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I'm sure Mayfield will be bench... ah he's back out already
$1.50 Hot Dogs for all
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That was a disgraceful attempt by Palms.
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Wow went right in and scored. Why can't the Islanders do that. Speed throws the goalie off.
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It is kind of funny they call that guy Costco tho.
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I don't like the shoot out, compounded by how bad we look in it.
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A divine miracle to secure a point after that 3rd period. Woof.
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Most fitting way to end this paint drying
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Good night everyone. Can’t wait for some EST time zone games. Easy to be annoyed at 945 vs 1145
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This team is mentally ####ed. They have no idea how to close a game out. Absolute mental midgets
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No surprise there. 5 OTL’s in 19 games. They’ll have 20 this season at this current pace, and still probably get in. What a joke
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Fan ####ing tastic score goals damnit
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Ugh, yet another loss in the books
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Didn’t deserve the second point at all
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Every bubble team hates us for this
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Om nom nom loser points
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Trash hockey.
They got nothing done. Bad decisions and turnovers.
This team stinks.
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Is there any much more to say?
Tomorrow we will hear how the Islanders are currently in the WC2 position after yet another OT/SO loss. Does it matter? This is tiring...
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Isles doing Islanders things playing for the loser point and competing for WC2
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f*** this team sucks the joy of of watching them. You just know they will stuff it up.
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This team is so predictable; where’s the anti-Barzal squad now going on about how much better the Isles are without offensive talent
Fleeting Moment of Happiness
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Up the ladder we go
You love to see it.
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Islanders are useless and blew another 3rd period lead so Cagary gets at least a point and they’re in 3rd place. Canucks-Rangers still tied.
Edit: Calgary ends up getting the 2 pts so they pass us.
We’re 4th in P% anyway even if Canucks lose, we’ve played more games than everyone in the division for some reason.
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Calgary already knocked them back to a wildcard lol
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Stupid Flames can't even tank properly.
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Well, this aged well.
Let's hope the Rangers don't pull the same #### their Islander comrades did. We wanna keep the Nucks out.
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Again, you can't just keep firing the coach over and over again and expect to win the Cup, especially not for a dinosaur like Quennville.
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It’s not the amount of losses it’s moreso how and why they’re losing that’s the concerning part. We have some of the worst goaltending in the league, subpar defence, and aside from Leon and Connor our next top 3 goal scores are defence-men… oh and close to the worst penalty kill and power play in the league at the moment
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Just keep Skinner. Its all good.
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Mcdavid has 1 k points....yet to have a decent goalie
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Two straight games dumb plays at the back blow a lead. Want to blame Skinner, fine, but the goalie isn’t there just to cover for bad defense.
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They are dead last in NHL shooting % after being 9th best last year and 1st in 22-23.
Figure that one out.
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Because muffins from the point count the same as breakaways.
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Pacific division is really weak. Nobody wants first place. What a turtle derby. Gonna probably be up for grabs all season. Nobody gonna claim it outright.
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Including the playoffs last year the Oilers were shut out 4 times.
We're already at 3 and would be at 4 if not for a late meaningless goal in Columbus.
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Every week I keep saying the same thing about my fantasy football team, I have multiple top 10 guys at every position, and every week something comically goes wrong. At some point (like now) one just has to accept it’s one of those years. Not at that point with the Oilers yet, but 25% of the schedule being completed isn’t insignificant. Another 10 games of this puts me in real worry mode.
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If they can’t score and don’t make any major additions, they’ll fade into the bottom 10 after the deadline no matter how good the goaltending is.
They could finish with the worst powerplay in the league.
Does the team with the worst man advantage ever make the post-season?
That seems awfully difficult.
I feel like we would've seen signs if they were going to fade into the bottom 10.
I thought the trip through Vegas and SLC was the start of it (like every one else), but it turned out to be the outlier. Now I'm not sure I'm seeing it. There's too much fight in the group. But maybe the talent level will catch up with them around the 40-60 game mark and they'll find their way there.
Given that the PP and PK can't get much worse and they're still picking up points, it throws more doubt on the bottom 10 finish for me. Guys like Kuzmenko, Sharangovich and Kadri won't stay cold.
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If they can’t score and don’t make any major additions, they’ll fade into the bottom 10 after the deadline no matter how good the goaltending is.
They could finish with the worst powerplay in the league.
Does the team with the worst man advantage ever make the post-season?
That seems awfully difficult.
Its not like the WC or even the Pacific teams are anything special...slightly more scoring and a slightly better PP would have the Flames in a pretty good spot. Heck they already are.
2 regulation losses in 9 games, its not just the hot start now
I feel like we would've seen signs if they were going to fade into the bottom 10.
I thought the trip through Vegas and SLC was the start of it (like every one else), but it turned out to be the outlier. Now I'm not sure I'm seeing it. There's too much fight in the group. But maybe the talent level will catch up with them around the 40-60 game mark and they'll find their way there.
Given that the PP and PK can't get much worse and they're still picking up points, it throws more doubt on the bottom 10 finish for me. Guys like Kuzmenko, Sharangovich and Kadri won't stay cold.
Right now, they’re 9th in Goals against and 24th in Goals For.
If they’re going to be a bottom-10 offensive team, they’d better be comfortably in the top-10 for goals against, probably top-5, if they’re gonna make the playoffs.
Yes, the PP and PK can’t get much worse.
But they can stay this bad. Unless Kuzmenko and Sharangovich figure something out in a hurry, the powerplay is going to remain lost, because there remains no true offensive catalyst on this team.
They’ll still need to play Vladar every 4th night to showcase him until the deadline. He’s probably not giving up one goal a night.
They will sell Kuzmenko + whoever else, and those spots will be filled with AHL callups who will probably score more but won’t be experienced enough defensively to overcome veteran teams who are gearing up for playoffs.
Wolf’s gonna win them games this year they shouldn’t. Tonight, for one.
But they give up the 7th most shots per game. I don’t see them improving much in this area because it’s so hard for them to carry the play. So few of the guys on this team are comfortable with the puck on their sticks for more than a second.
Backlund, Kadri, Zary… that’s basically it. I don’t understand why nobody knows how to protect the puck or box a defender out, or why they all stop skating as soon as the puck lands on their stick.
If they can hold it together, cool. I’m not rooting for them to fail, I just don’t think a roster that drafted 9th overall last year can run it all back + Dustin Wolf and achieve a vastly different result.
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Shootout goals should be normalized as part of a player's stat card. Yes I'm just thinking this because of Kirkland but it is an odd aspect of the shootout that it doesn't affect anyone's stats in any way
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Its not like the WC or even the Pacific teams are anything special...slightly more scoring and a slightly better PP would have the Flames in a pretty good spot. Heck they already are.
2 regulation losses in 9 games, its not just the hot start now
lol oh now teams are mediocre. When I Said the Islanders stink and are points from last place in their division you throw a tantrum.
We hung on to beat a crappy team with another 3rd period comeback. Wolf and low event hockey is keeping them in games.
It’s just crazy when Craig did everything he can to tank the season the entire NHL turns mid. Anaheim is 4 points back from us. Things can change in hurry. Anaheim could give us Vancouver and Edmonton the boot down the standings.
Seattle is in striking distance as well. Just look at the stats of the teams in that mix it’s remarkable to be in any race for any of them with the putrid special teams.
Not a lot of good teams this year especially out west.
