Rejoint: janv. 2018
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Getting harder and harder for DJ Smith to blame these losses on "young mistakes", considering the average age of skaters was 27, and the best players Tonight were all 21-25 years old.
Stepan needs to wear this one. That penalty would get a Colin White/ Filip Chlapik/ Christian Wolanin benched, and it absolutely cost them this game. It's not entirely on him, but the vets DJ trusts the most ere consistently the guys who are losing winnable games.
The Michael Haley experiment was absolutely pointless. He had a fight that was a waste of time, and did nothing of value the rest of the night. Paquette got hurt at some point, which is honestly a blessing in disguise, as sh*tty as that sounds. Anisimov with another terrible effort, as per usual. Wolanin was one of their best players tonight, but had one notably bad play which will result in him being benched in favor of a 35 year old who makes way more mistakes and has none of the upside.
I think this team will get way better next game if they just swap Arty for White, and keeping Wolaninin the lineup.. Stützle will be back, so you roll with White with Jimmy and Daddy, and you keep Tierney-Stepan-C.Brown together. I liked that line all things considered. Hopefully Chlapik draws in for Paquette too.
Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson
Stützle-White-Dadonov
Tierney-Stepan-C.Brown
Paul-Chlapik-Watson
I really don't feel great about bumping Paul to the 4th line based on how well he's played, but White makes sense as the 2C at this point, and Paul shouldn't be above Timmy. You could try Paul as 2C, and a 4th line of Chlapik-White-Watson, or move Paul to 3LW and have a 4th line of Chlapik-Tierney-Watson. I like any of those options tbh.