If the Flames trade both Tanev and Hanifin, they probably drop out of the playoff race. If they only trade Tanev and re-sign Hanifin, they could definitely stay in it.
That Bruins play by play guy sounded like I might if I drank heavily for 3 hours about 5 hours prior to the game, passed out for a couple hours than somehow got up in time to try and do play by play. It's a combination of incoherent drunk and half asleep.
Jack Edwards. He has a degenerative disease that affects his speech and he is also fighting prostate cancer. This is his last season calling Bruin's games.
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He looks like he is still getting his timing back, but also made a couple of nice plays. Considering how much time he missed, he seems fine. He doesn't quite look like the Kylington of 20 months ago, but i think he'll get there.
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"Best line in hockey" - that's what the first line made me think tonight. I mean, I am obviously exaggerating here to make this point:
Huberdeau has had good games. Last season, he was awful. To start this season, he was worse, even if he got some points then, he was simply awful. Bounced back a little on Backlund's line for a short while, and stopped being bad, but also stopped producing completely. Even that was ok with me - he at least stopped turning pucks over all the time and stopped being this huge liability on most shifts. Then Huska put him back with Lindholm and Sharangovich, and not only did he maintain a much more trustworthy overall game, but his offence was starting to come in spurts here and there. There would be a couple - maybe a few - plays on most nights that he looked like a talented player.
Tonight was the first time since the Flames acquired him that I saw a 'superstar'. He was noticeable on the ice most shifts. His goal was such a high-skill play. There wasn't a more talented player on the ice tonight for either team. I have never said this even once since the Flames acquired him. I 100% disagree with people who pointed at some points and arguing that he was being effective. Tonight, he was the best player on the ice, and he was the best player on most of his shifts.
This interests me greatly. If those three can form some kind of magic, what a wonderful story it would be. They were all magical tonight. If it holds - and that's a big if, since one game sample sizes are what they are - then that's 3 good lines for the Flames, plus a bunch of very good spare parts to make some kind of a good 4th line.
I definitely don't envy Conroy right now. Some tough decisions.
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For the situation the Flames are in, I'd say all four changes are positive. Kuzmenko > Lindholm, Pachal > DeSimone, Pelletier > Ruzicka, Rooney > Dube.
It's probably bad form to quote myself, but here's another wrinkle on those four roster changes:
Kuzmenko is 429 days younger than Lindholm.
Pachal is 1,736 days younger than DeSimone.
Pelletier is 666 days younger than Ruzicka.
Rooney is 1,866 days older than Dube.
Altogether, the Flames shaved about 2.6 years off their total team age, or about 41 days off their average age (based on a 23-man roster). To do that while also getting players that are better for those particular roles on the team is fairly impressive.
Not to mention picking up a 1st, a 4th, and two prospects along the way.
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ridiculous, they slowed it down and made it look 10x worse. Machand was bleeding out of a previous cut. This league needs to fix their replay nonsense.
The frustrating part is replay is a tool that is supposed to get it right. Not sure what they're looking at sometimes.
10 days of no football or Bruins hockey… feels so good to have something back
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bout time, another year I tuned in not one minute to anything all star weekend related
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It’s good to back! Time for the DUB
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Missed all you guys! #### THE FLAMES!!!
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It feels good to be back. Let's put out the Flames
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We survived. We made it. It was a bit rocky there, but we survived the hockey drought.
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Game? What is this thing they call game lol
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Pre-Pregame thread
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We all need hockey! ASAP
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Shake off the rust, boys!
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Finally a game tonight, I hope the break helped some of the nagging injuries and they get off to a good start. If they follow rotation of goalies, I would prefer Sway being in against the Nucks on Thursday after the snub, put Linus in tonight.
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I could not wait for this game to start last night. D'Oh!
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Man that was a long 9 days. Felt like the offseason
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DROP THE f***ING PUCK ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kuzmenko’s 1st as a Flame
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One way player but good at it lol
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Kuzmenko is buzzing
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That trade is gonna pay huge for dividends for the flames they gave up a 50 goal scorer. Nucks are dumbass.
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Kuzmenko looking like pavel bure out there.
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Less than ideal but it's early well get it back
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Marksman.
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Man I can’t stand seeing Gryz on the PK
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Forbert really dosen't have much value to the Bruins anymore. It seems like our PK struggles far more this year when he is in the lineup, that was his primary area of strength, 5 on 5 he is average at best. Looking forward to next year when the Bruins get to shed his and Gryz's contracts on the D.
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Bench Carlo for the rest of the first
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Forbort was a Flame? Why did I think he was with the Kings before us
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Sway looked weak.
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If Boston needed a wake up call, hopefully that is it. Nice shot, it must be said, but way too much time and space.
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Someone's gotta step up here and pretend to be a #1C again
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"Tough #### for Brandon Carlo"
-Brick
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That wrister was world class, Sway didn't have much of a chance
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Kuzmenko looking like pavel bure out there.
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Getting beaten from open ice in the low-mid slot is never the goalie's fault.
Zary with a Sick Backhand
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D sucks ass
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LMAO walked like a dog
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That needed to be saved
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Swayman the only reason Calgary doesn’t have at least 3 goals right now.
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Very sloppy so far, they have had their chances but they are really off.
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Shockingly Grzelcyk gets walked on.
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Hampus looked lost on that last shift
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Just getting completely out worked
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I expected things to be a bit sloppy. Maybe not quite this sloppy though.
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Giving up way too many odd many rushes. Shake the rust off
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Maybe wake up now. Enough with the #### turnovers
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Absolutely trash period. Shouldn't be getting dominated by a non-playoff team on home ice.
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Coyle blows
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3 ffing bruins and they give it away for another goal
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I'd call our timeout.
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Awful play all around, dug themselves a deep hole.
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Marchand lazy turnover and lazy getting back
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Calgary playing very physical, taking the man when it's available. Bruins actually seem upset that they're being hit, they're such having an easy skate right now.
Wonder if this second goal will wake them up, or if they'll wait until the halfway point in the game to so any interest.
“2 Minutes for Being Annoying”
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MARCHAND GOT A PENALTY
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WHAT? HOW THE #### DID MARCHAND GET A CHANCE TO ROUGH ANYONE?!
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2 minutes for being Brad Marchand
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me complaining about the dog#### call on marchy ending up in the box and also the fact that he got jumped by 4 ####ing guys and my leafs fan buddy goes "its marchand he probably deserved it" shut the #### up lmao
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2 minutes because the refs are too chicken#### to admit calling a penalty on Marchand was wrong.
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Mother####ing what?
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That was an elbow to Marchand’s head surely that’s a PP right?
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The guy who punches marchy in the side of the head while he's face down on the ice should also be in the box
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Captain elbowed in the head, zero response.
Bruins hockey.
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Pospisil is sneaky dirty, gotta watch him always.
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This is what being a team full of pansies brings about. Maybe if you didn’t fold every time someone hits you they wouldn’t take liberties.
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That skinny little f***ing weasel Pospisil
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Alright, take that ####ers head off
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TAKE THAT f***ING NUMBER AND KILL HIM
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I think we might want to stop bitching about poor individual play - this has been a complete team non effort - we mailed one in against a #### team
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Lmao that is the weakest slash call I’ve ever seen
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Sway was def gonna punch that guy
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He's definitely Calgary's resident rat. Personally don't think that should have been a misconduct though. Or that Marchy's little love taps were worth a penalty either.
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Think I’m more pissed at wishing the bruins did what popsicle did. He was just protecting his goalie . I’d rather see that rather than watching them bend over and flat out refuse to play physical hockey.
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Just let them hit your captain like that. No response other than some school yard shoving match.
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Your captain just got absolutely bundled by a cheapshot and the team does absolutely nothing besides give out hugs
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This is embarrassing, letting this team bully us on our home ice. Please Sweeney do something to address this now that Lucic is unavailable.
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So someone needs to pop that Popscicle in his face.
Protect your Captain, boys
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They’re so, so, soft.
It’s actually gone from sad to comical.
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On nights like tonight, I REALLY wish that Lucic hadn’t effed up.
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JVR hit his own teammate, does that count?
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I'm far from a "we need size and grit!!!" type of hockey fan, but if someone sends your captain to the ground bleeding from a crosscheck to the face you need to do more then just lightly shove some people around. If that was Bergy you know for a fact Marchand is immediately grabbing someone. Coyle and Lindholm are both big dudes, I get it's not their game but just grab someone and wrestle them down.
Bully Ball
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well, B's were certainly #### that period.
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Ok, maybe I did just hear some booing?
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Only down by 2
Regroup for the 2nd.
Wake up
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I don't give a f*** at this point. I'm sick and f***ing tired of the Bruins getting bullied.
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I do care. I don't need one of our players doing something just as bad and then getting double because of the revenge factor.
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Epic turnover by Marchand
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I was expecting a little rust but...yikes
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The bruins are the second most penalized team and they don’t even have an enforcer. Seems to be a strange imbalance in the force.
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Flames are ON US in the DZONE!!!
That's the template to beat us
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Lmao, Bruins getting smacked around
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Are we having fun yet? Asking for a friend.
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We have one shot this period?
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Idk how in the world it's only 2-0 because that felt like the least enjoyable 40 minutes of hockey I've ever watched.
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Monty is about to walk into the locker room wearing Justin Bieber’s puffy coat and tell it like it is
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The Bruins are letting the lowly Flames look like an NHL powerhouse, being totally outsmarted, outworked and outhit. Play like this against Vancouver and it will get ugly.
WAY too much Man
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Wow.
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a too many men on a power play.
Now I have.
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You have to be kidding me
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Yuck, that is embarrassing . Too many men
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f***ing idiots. Absolute f***ing idiots.
Hubey Dooby Doo!
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Fuk. Bad time for a Too Much man.
Annnnd, of course. Huberdeau.
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This isn’t bad hockey this is disinterested hockey
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Just think. You at home, sitting on your couch, are exerting yourself just as much as professional athletes.
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This is absolutely hilarious to watch
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Blow it up
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Well that should be it.. don’t think they are going to get going again. Hell of a shot
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Wake up. How does this even happen.
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Pasta just stood around last shift. Nothing new.
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Mandatory smelling salts for the whole team needed
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Amazing turn of events. You can't write this ####.
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Gryz on the ice for all 3 against? Time to bench him already.
Hanifin Trade Value Goal
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Noah Hanifin going to put the Bruins on no trade to teams list after this
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That goal was Hanifin sending in his cover letter to Sweeney
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Definitely think he is coming off season.
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Hanafin is replacing Gryz this off season. I don’t want to use book it. Not my trademark. So highly likely
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Lot of fans looking forward to coming to the game after the long break only to find out they put in more effort to get to their seats than the Bruins as a collective have all game.
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Watching this display is worse than a Ben Affleck commercial when he says "Beantown."
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For the crowd that are cutting the bruins slack for playing lazy uninspired hockey, these are the games injuries happen in.
Can’t play at half speed against a team that is buzzing like the flames are right now. Lazy passes, reaching and not playing engaged, that’s when you get lit up.
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You know the game got ya buzzed when you're turning down your phone volume wondering why the TV isn't muting.
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LMAO and not once ounce of pushback
4-1 now and you’ve played like f***ing pansies
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AYFKM? They're getting bent over by Calgary? This team needs a shake-up.
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Just a flat night for Bruins. Making the Flames look better than they are.
Calgary has been ass all season
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Garden crowd showing more coordination than the Bruins tonight
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The break really came at a #### time for us..
We were vibing so well
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"Best line in hockey" - that's what the first line made me think tonight. I mean, I am obviously exaggerating here to make this point:
Huberdeau has had good games. Last season, he was awful. To start this season, he was worse, even if he got some points then, he was simply awful. Bounced back a little on Backlund's line for a short while, and stopped being bad, but also stopped producing completely. Even that was ok with me - he at least stopped turning pucks over all the time and stopped being this huge liability on most shifts. Then Huska put him back with Lindholm and Sharangovich, and not only did he maintain a much more trustworthy overall game, but his offence was starting to come in spurts here and there. There would be a couple - maybe a few - plays on most nights that he looked like a talented player.
Tonight was the first time since the Flames acquired him that I saw a 'superstar'. He was noticeable on the ice most shifts. His goal was such a high-skill play. There wasn't a more talented player on the ice tonight for either team. I have never said this even once since the Flames acquired him. I 100% disagree with people who pointed at some points and arguing that he was being effective. Tonight, he was the best player on the ice, and he was the best player on most of his shifts.
This interests me greatly. If those three can form some kind of magic, what a wonderful story it would be. They were all magical tonight. If it holds - and that's a big if, since one game sample sizes are what they are - then that's 3 good lines for the Flames, plus a bunch of very good spare parts to make some kind of a good 4th line.
I definitely don't envy Conroy right now. Some tough decisions.
100% agree with everything said about Huberdeau, just nailed it. Also want to echo others sentiments that something never seemed right between Lindy and Hubie. I think as others have mentioned it mostly had to with Lindy probably being bitter about the Hubie contract, especially last season as he was heavily outplaying Hubie. Hubie could obviously sense that and probably let it get to his head. Today it wasn’t just how dominant he looked it’s also as if he looked like he was playing more freely as if Lindy was no longer in his head. Obvs that’s a huge reach but I think there’s def something there.
Also in October Kadri had 2 points in 9 games and was a -11. Since then:
Nov: 13 pts, +4
Dec: 11 pts, +2
Jan: 13 pts, +5
One game in Feb, 3 points and +2. Kadri is living up to his contract and then some.
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