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12 games, 9 goals? Fuck it. Let's bake bread. Time for a classic Panarin heater - he's gonna get 10 in 12 here, and another 10 apples.

Yeah. In the playoffs.

I don't even think they played up. They played a really good 20 minutes in the middle frame where they kept us at bay and put pucks behind Igor on some very high danger chances. They defended that lead reasonably well. In the end, the difference in this game was Hellebuyck. And that's why he's Conor Hellebuyck.

Vally's data says we got both well-defended (look at all those low danger chances) and goalied (nearly 4xG, 2G). Both goalies excellent here

I mean this with all due respect - this feels dramatic, given the play of the team post-deadline. Over the last few games, we've seen the depth scoring activate in huge ways. Kakko looks, dare I say, excellent? He's been potting goals. Vesey's gotten a few. Cuylle's been well involved. Wennberg's been getting apples. Our third line looks like a matchup nightmare for most teams. Brodzinski got on the board. Hell, the only depth player not actively involved in the offense right now is Goodrow, and that poor bastard couldn't score in a whorehouse with a fistful of hundreds these days. Also, it ain't what we're paying for there. We give up rush chances. It's the risk we take, in part because we have guys like Panarin and Fox who can win that gamble more often than not, in part because guys like K'Andre Miller can skate well enough to mitigate that risk, and in part because we have two goalies who really know how to defend the rush. But none of this means that we're taking the night off or something. It's a feature, not a bug, and it's likely that against high-point forechecking teams, we'll need to mitigate the east-west play at the blue line. edit - I'll note that our second period was a little too passive for my liking. I wish they worked harder, but I'm also going to give the Jets a lot of credit for their defending in that time. At the end of the day? Winnipeg played well. They converted chances where they got them. Maybe they got lucky that their highest danger chances landed on Schiefele and Connor whereas ours landed on Cuylle and Vesey. Play that game again, and I bet we'd get at least a point. Sometimes, you gotta give the opponent some credit too.

Also, we really need to stop overreacting to every loss. We're a GREAT team. We've won nearly twice as many games as we've lost. We're right there with Florida, Carolina, Winnipeg, Colorado, and Vancouver (fuck off, Boston and your 29 losses and your 15 fugazi ass loser points). You can't not play the full 60 against these teams and expect to win, and Winnipeg played an excellent game. Hellebuyck was great, they had sticks in the lanes, and they defended brilliantly for most of the game. We did not play our best game last night, but it's nothing to overly concern ourselves with. Rest up, play a full 60 against Boston, and start gearing up for a long playoff run.

Picking your opponent by losing is a fools errand. We might like the round 1 opponent better, but you're getting the "easiest" R1 opponent by just winning games anyway. And that comes with the added benefit of more home games. I'll take that any day.

welp. can't win em all. that's a damn good team.

Good fuck Kreider had that.

DO THAT LAFFY TAFFY

nah he can just switch wings.

Dude is fuckin bionic. I can't explain this. He's Gumby and the Terminator all rolled into one.

And he's doing it without sacrificing the d-zone too much. We can and should feel very good about him at this point. He's clearly progressed well.

Currently being fitted for his bionic leg. Unfortunately, it's going to take a few weeks to get the programming done for his leg to react as his brain wants it to. You'll notice that next time he gets slashed, his blood is a more...oily color.

Is this how Canadians refer to third base?

Absolute clinic on defense. 5 reasonable scoring chances against all game? Exceptional work.

You can both knock it off now Else, infractions will follow, including a full on one game GDT suspension for Winnipeg. Treat each other with some fuckin respect.

Whoo baby Laf ripped that shit

Panarin just stealing Pangs beer mid game? Love this guy.

It's weird. That looked critical and yet I still somehow expect that he's playing the third period.

We don't appreciate Cuylle enough. He's been very good.

Zac Jones has been the best ranger in the first. That is a problem

Just some friendly reminders.... 1 - This is game 5 in 6.5 days. 2 - This is the first home game after a road trip 3 - Puck drop is less than 20 hours from the end of the last game 4 - All in all, this is a scheduled loss in spite of the Isles also having played yesterday. That said, drink these fake ass Patrick Roy coached bitches under the table and beat them with their own beer mugs.

He is risen again! Waiting three days is just amateur hour