Tomdog

OMG does Ovie look like a statue on the power play. He really needs to get in shape for next year if he wants to catch Gretzky.

And maybe that the Wild lead the league in attendance gives the owner the idea that all is well with his team.

Watching 2nd overtime and the Islanders just score. But it looks like the arena is not full! Come on Islander fans, where are you?

Going into 26-27 with Foligno, Hartman, and Gadreau carrying the team will mean the Wild will be in tank mode whether they know it or not. I honestly don't know how the Wild can play their youth if they deserve it without straight out releasing the dead weight. If you don't have cap space to healthy scratch a player so a young guy can play and you can't trade them because of a ntc, how do you make cap space? Does it come down to straight out releasing the dead weight?

Evidently not enough. I was off by 11. They ended up scoring 251 for the season.

Hard for a young player to push a vet out of the way when the coach insists on playing the vet. Merril and Gaudreau were out played all year by younger guys and still got their ice time. Time for the coaches to stop playing favorites and play the producers.

That probably explains the lack of shooting for the last month. At Least I thought he was shooting less.

Imo I don’t think they get scolded at all. I think the staff suggests stuff and they go out and do what they want.

It's almost as if everyone is playing for themselves - including staff - because they know they're always on the hot seat - almost like they're being forced to all play together - or like they're being forced to play a certain style that they don't want... I disagree completely with this part of your post, not that you're wrong, I just don't see it. In fact I see it completely in the opposite. How many times do we hear coaching say they want more North/South play, take it to the net, get deeper? But it seldom happens, other than the 4th line. It appears to me that the top 3 lines really don't need to do what coaching says because coaching has no choice but to play them. For 3 games EEk, Kap and Boldy played deep north south take it to the net hockey and tore it up. Then they stopped and went back to curling above the face off circle and try the rink wide pass. Why?

I doubt there will be anyone left at 13 who are talented with size. IMO that leaves 3 choices, draft size and hope the talent develops, draft small and talented or draft talented with a chance of a huge growth spurt, It seems this team has an over abundance of small with some talent.

And all that is accurate, but if you never break the comfort zone of what is a known commodity you won't find anything better than what you have. And what we have isn't good enough.

I guess we could start calling BG Fletcher 2.0

I read some of the article on his firing. Said they were expected to compete for a playoff spot this year. In what alternate universe was that? looking at their roster makes me wonder how they finished as well as they did.

The only reason for these nt, nm clauses should be for taking a serious team friendly deal. I could see a 1 year clause, like Zucc wanting one this year for the birth of a kid, but other than that no.

That's a new scoring trend. Bounce it off the goalies head. How long until goalies are concussed?

That's the kind of player you tank for.

Oilers with 3 field goals over San Jose.

Just gives more room for the D to support or recover.

It's time for Kaprizov to take the puck deeper into the zone before he curls and tries that rink wide pass.

These dopes will probably win them both and then brag about having perseverance.

So they're playing Goose so he can get a goal this year?

I wish they would try Rossi on the PK.

Does Goligoski have some kind of bonus clause that gets him paid for x # games?

I'm fine with putting guys on waivers if that's what it takes to get rid of these over pass happy passengers as well.

OK, I'm fine with that.