Tomdog

Does anyone recall an earlier shoulder injury on dumba. I know they’re hard to work through

I guess I won’t go that far. I’ll have to watch and see. I don’t see a lack of effort from parise as much as I see the mentality of this is how “I” score, so this is how we should score.

I think the handwriting will be on the wall as to Bruce’s firing if Suter’s minutes suddenly jump back up to the near 30 minute mark, or Koivu suddenly gets back to the 2nd line. I’m not sure about parise yet. But I don’t think there is anyone who is going to do much with this club’s mediocre at best goaltending and lack of speed and skill.

I get the feeling that BG isn't going to make trades for the sake of making a trade. I think Bill learned well from Rutherford.

I think I will give Chuckie more than 1 game after a rush job to get here, say hello and play a game before I label him a bust. Immediately after last year's trades, we fell in love with donato, hated fiala. So let's all calm down a little.

Galchenyuk with a good backcheck on a 2 on 1

#27. Not bad, not great. Mikko is getting picked on by Reese. Everyone has to come to his rescue.

I could not watch the game. Did Koivu skate the 4th line again or did they run him out on the 2nd again?

From the bit that I was able to stomach watching the wild are just in the wrong league. If you are a true NHLer shouldn't you be able to handle a pass without it jumping off your stick and make you chase the puck down? Every time I watched that's what I saw!

And that is the real problem with this team. Until the owner looks at the team, as a team and not "his" team, he won't realize what this team is.

Trouble is those are not the real problem with the club.

Losing to a team that is trying to tank would be really embarrassing! So that is what they will probably do!

It makes sense when you consider the only A's are a 3rd line winter and a rookie defenseman. All the B's are second line players on top team. If they were going to go anywhere they would need a lot of A's.

How much of Suter’s play is above expectations or is it that he was so bad last year. To me he is playing about as expected. I do think when his toi was down he had a little more pep in his step.

I think soucy’s play really shows the importance of spending a year in the minors playing a really important major role. Being thrust into critical situations where you are not in over your head really gives a player a better chance to improve his game. I think guys like Eek, greenway, kunin, donato, fiala would benifit from playing a major role in the minors for a month or two. Unfortunately that won’t happen anymore.

Above expectations, definitely soucy, if you didn’t know better you wouldn’t think he is a rookie. Brodin, when he decides to skate the puck out he really looks good. Foligno looks like our next captain, does what he needs to do and does it well, always positive, always supporting his teammates. Below, definitely dumba, spurgeon,zuccerelo, donato I really expected more out these guys and while they show flashes of what we expect there is no consistentsy. everyone else is really pretty much what they are, aging vet, mediocre journeyman, or young not ready for prime time.

Then maybe he should sit out a game or two

Great they got the extra point for the touch down

Is there an injury I didn't hear about

Their team speed is non-existent right now. That tenasous forecheck that created the winning streak is gone

Unfortunately their little winning streak while koivu was out really made it hard to get a top 3 draft pick

The whole team caught puck watching

Hopefully they give him a 1 day contract

What a reverse hit by spicy, Seattle is going to love him

That's one way to tank