I like that 2nd line. Lot of skill between Zacha, Nico, and Bratt. And Bratt can concentrate on doing his thing with such defensively sound line mates.
It wasn’t even just the Finns. Pretty much everyone in the hockey world was saying Kakko was far more NHL ready than Hughes.
It’s early still, but it looks like they might have all been wrong.
Love that Patty’s helping out, but the piece of equipment Miles needs to switch out is unfortunately his brain. I think we’re still a few years away from that, unless Jordan Peele knows something we all don’t...
If he does, he does. With Coleman already 27 years old, and speed being such a big part of his game, would he even be a vital piece by the time this team (hopefully) is ready to contend in a few years when Hughes, Hischier, Zacha, Bratt, Smith, etc are in their primes? You can say the same for Hall tbh.
I had to check to see how many SOG Subban has had, and I’m surprised to see he’s tied with Palms (22) for 3rd on the team. It just seems like he’s not getting his shot through very much to me.
Last night was a perfect example of why Marty was so good. People always bring up how often he saw a low amount of shots, but honestly seeing only 16 shots can be harder on a goalie than a game where he sees 30. Marty was always so clutch when there did happen to be an occasional breakdown. Blackwood seems more like your traditional goalie that needs to be kept in the action a bit more. I’m not going to kill him for the breakaway goal, but a couple of the other ones he just seemed a bit off.
Look at the goals it took to beat Raanta. A bad luck deflection off his own guy, an absolutely perfect shot from Hughes on the PP, and another well placed shot by Zacha (that’s probably the only one Raanta wishes he had back). He was definitely the better goalie between the two.
I mean, I totally get going right back to a goalie that just won 2 in a row, and had a shutout. I’m sure he asked Blackwood if he was ready to go.
I’m more frustrated with his obsession with our mediocre 4th line.
I might take Nico over Ekblad, and possibly MAF, too. Need a few more years to fairly compare.
It’s still early though, and a bunch of the other 1OA’s have gotten to play with much better talent than Nico has so far. Maybe not McDavid so much but he’s obviously on another level.
Subban looked great tonight? You know he’s the black guy that wears 76, right?
I thought he was horrible. other than one nice keep in on the 1st goal. He is not worth 9 million a season if this is what we’re going to get for the next 3 years.
So we’re just going to pretend Nico didn’t score 20 goals in his rookie season, and lead the team in assists his second? Ok then...
but yes Hughes is looking great. I can be happy about that without slamming Nico who probably isn’t even 100%
Goaltending cost us this game. Period.
Just finished the game on the DVR. Absolutely disgusted right now. Way to waste a great game from the young guns like Hughes and Zacha.
Blackwood was trash tonight. Every single chance the Coyotes got ended up in the back of the net.
Any time Shero wants to can this bald loser we have for a HC...
Absolutely inexcusable to give up multiple leads at home against what should have been a tired team.
Start shopping Hall. This team is going nowhere.
Nice. Never been to a OSU game (I’m not real big into college football myself), but plenty of my friends and family are. Seeing a game at the Horseshoe is supposed to be something else. We’re do for A TON of rain tomorrow down in Cincy, hope you guys don’t get slammed too hard up there.