Valriera

Quite obviously the right move - Laf can use a game or two off to watch which is completely normal for rookies, and VK could use a game or two in the lineup to get his feet wet. Not sure what the downside is

Story of the season - gotta play 60minutes if you want to win. They played 10 minutes and almost got there

This game is 6-5 if we’re not playing like shit - missed two breakaways and several odd mans. Just sleepy d zone and sleepy finishing

Great play by hajek and If blackwell plays himself to Seattle and turns into karlsson 2.0 I’m happy for him

That’s a great play by our fourth line

Minor thing but would love to see face offs bridging periods on the power play in defending teams zone

Silly penalty but stand up for your guy sure

I don’t either - but I also didn’t either with kakko last year and he looks much more the part this year. The kids need time and space to grow. Its common all over the league. They’re not even 20 years old. When you were 20 you couldn’t figure out whether how fuck your girl with a condom on, these guys need a bit to figure out professional hockey

This - if they're buying high on two assets while we buy low on one, I'm doing it in a hearbeat. It's just good asset management.

the young guys need time to really develop - the mcdavids and mathews are exceptions, not the rules. After Kakko's growth this year to someone who looks like he belongs on the second line and whose posession numbers indicate as such as well, I am not worried at all. If this kid learns how to finish in the league he's going to be well worth the #2 pick. Think Jesper Fast with size and scoring ability, it's an outstanding player to picture. Laf is still figuring it out and he looks about as Kakko did last year, maybe slightly better. I expect the same growth from him next season, at which point we're going to have a champagne problem of who plays where. These kids are not even 20 - they need time to learn

great read, now please delete everything off the internet about this guy so we can keep him when our window is open...shit guys do we want a cup here or what

I would prefer we delete this thread and never talk about it again so that we don't need to sign him for ridiculous amounts of money in the near future, since he's obviously a special player

not until we do it against the teams actually in front of us

gotta be there to score

breathe boys

Stupid penalty

Mikas back baby and this team is going to the playoffs if that’s true

That Mika shot is what was automatic last year

This panarin guy is a top 3 forward in the league someone convince me otherwise the guy is just insane

Feel bad for the guy because game management 101 involves this stuff. It happens every game in every sport. It's part of sports. IMO it's often good refereeing to do this to keep the game under control. There's a lot of grey area that people who have never refereed a game don't really understand when it comes to managing the tempers of adult men playing competitive sports. You don't want anyone to get hurt and mismanaging a game is a good way to get people hurt. I've done it before, and I regret it. The nhl of course had no choice here, especially with the prevalence of betting, than to take this action because whether or not this is part of the game it is dangerous for it to be a public facet when people are staking money.

They’ve really gotta shoot the puck more - worst thing you can do on these odd man rushes is get no shot off

This baguette

They just played the kappo kakko song y’all thought I was crazy for posting about a year and a half ago

I am still erect from that mika play

Ryan fucking lindgren