Devils/Minny

[Sam]

13 minutes ago, RedLake said:

And then the Canucks are within two points with 2 games to play. The Ducks end the Milds season.

Where are you getting your information Red? 

[Protec]

Classic trap game. Minnesota thinks they're hot shit cause they beat Washington. 

Boldy with the garbage penalty to seal the deal late. Hartzy isn't the only one who takes a brutal minor in the O-zone. 

[RedLake]

1 minute ago, Sam said:

Where are you getting your information Red? 

It's all to predictable with this team.

[RedLake]

Any word when Kap and Ekker are playing? When they do return, is the rest of the guys slack to watch Kap carry the whole fucking team on his back?

[Protec]

7 minutes ago, Sam said:

Wow Brazeau is slow.. it’s like a jog compared to the other team’s sprint.

Had some nice chances and tips though. 4th line had some good shifts. 

They lost this one on details and lack of scoring. PP again useless and giving up 2v1s & 3v1s isn't the formula to win even if you don't take a late minor to hand over the win. 

[RedLake]

Yurov and Buuim would be blessing from God joining the team this yeat.

[RedLake]

Your Lightwinds, Shores, Trenins, Nuances, Rossi's, Nyquists etc etc don't move the needle in the NHL

[mnhockeyfan03]

Terrible game again by Faber.  Please show us anything. Bringing no offense and his D game is to not be able to box out the net and rush all passes.  He even tripped on himself with 4 mins left.  Rossi may as well pack his stuff now the way he has played lately.  Boldy for that matter as well.  The sooner we get rid of Faber, Boldy, Rossi, Spurgeon the sooner we can start getting better.  Does Billy have the stones to do what needs to be done?

[Protec]

MN has the worst goal differential of any current playoff team. 

When you consider how good the goaltending is, that's a tough one to reconcile. There's just not enough of the important elements with this team.

Special teams and scoring are a big problem. Sadly, Buium or Yurov coming in as rookies even if possible, wouldn't be enough. 

I think they need further retooling and potentially coaching help cause the PP and PK are still nowhere near where they need to be. Just seems like there's too many obstacles to overcome for this season. 

The Blues AGAIN look great as the season wraps up and important hockey ramps up. MN always ends up in this same old situation where they're the least capable and confident team when it matters. 

[Sam]

24 minutes ago, mnhockeyfan03 said:

Terrible game again by Faber.  Please show us anything. Bringing no offense and his D game is to not be able to box out the net and rush all passes.  He even tripped on himself with 4 mins left.  Rossi may as well pack his stuff now the way he has played lately.  Boldy for that matter as well.  The sooner we get rid of Faber, Boldy, Rossi, Spurgeon the sooner we can start getting better.  Does Billy have the stones to do what needs to be done?

Do you remember how good he was last year as a rookie? Yea, he’s not doing great, but I think the potential is there. I’m tired of them losing all the time too, but hopefully they get healthy soon.

[UK_Soldier]

34 minutes ago, mnhockeyfan03 said:

Terrible game again by Faber.  Please show us anything. Bringing no offense and his D game is to not be able to box out the net and rush all passes.  He even tripped on himself with 4 mins left.  Rossi may as well pack his stuff now the way he has played lately.  Boldy for that matter as well.  The sooner we get rid of Faber, Boldy, Rossi, Spurgeon the sooner we can start getting better.  Does Billy have the stones to do what needs to be done?

You might have some points here, but getting rid of all these guys makes no f'ing sense whatsoever. Like at all. 

[mnhockeyfan03]

7 minutes ago, Sam said:

Do you remember how good he was last year as a rookie? Yea, he’s not doing great, but I think the potential is there. I’m tired of them losing all the time too, but hopefully they get healthy soon.

He only looked good last year as we had no one competent on D.  Spurgeon was hurt and lots of other guys were hurt a lot.  Billy rushed to sign a guy AGAIN instead of letting it play out.  He now is going to overpay Faber by 4mm a year.  Playing lots of minutes doesn’t mean anything.  Someone had to play and they are just burning him out.  His offense is not elite and for $8.5mm needs to be elite or you can find 4-6mm shut down defenders all over the place.  Stop paying a guy based on potential.  That doesn’t work.  It’s not working with Faber or Boldy.  Thank goodness they didn’t make the mistake to with Rossi.  He is terrible.  All 3 are out way out of this mess to bring in good forwards along with getting rid of Spurgeon. Just being honest of what we need to compete.  1-2 guys coming in are not going to change anything.  We need 4 more very impactful forwards and Yurov, Kap and ek don’t count.  Forwards win you cups in this league not D

[mnhockeyfan03]

2 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

You might have some points here, but getting rid of all these guys makes no f'ing sense whatsoever. Like at all. 

Yes it does a lot of sense.  We need high impact forwards and that’s our way to get them 

[UK_Soldier]

Just now, mnhockeyfan03 said:

Yes it does a lot of sense.  We need high impact forwards and that’s our way to get them 

Sure.

[Imyourhuckleberry]

1 hour ago, RedLake said:

Any word when Kap and Ekker are playing? When they do return, is the rest of the guys slack to watch Kap carry the whole fucking team on his back?

Coach said they aren't playing on the 3 game road trip to NJ and NYC. Could be 4/6 against Dallas, but I'd guess it's more likely 4/9 against San Jose.

[RedLake]

4 minutes ago, Imyourhuckleberry said:

Coach said they aren't playing on the 3 game road trip to NJ and NYC. Could be 4/6 against Dallas, but I'd guess it's more likely 4/9 against San Jose.

Might be to late by 4/9.

[mnhockeyfan03]

28 minutes ago, UK_Soldier said:

Sure.

You have your opinion and I have mine.  We lack 3-4 forwards who can drive a line and change a game.  Same thing year after year.  The idea of stupidity is foo g the sane thing over an and over and hoping something changes.  When Hartman, foligno and Freddie or Trenin are out 4th line and nothing more then you will know we will have a team that can compete.  I have been saying that for years.  Those players have business doing anything more on a good deep team.  

[Imyourhuckleberry]

Zeev Buium vs. Boston College on ESPN2 Sunday night at 7 PM.

The top seeds on the other side of the Frozen 4 bracket lost. Whichever team wins the game above will face Western Michigan and the winner of that game will likely be the odds on favorite for the national championship.

Western Michigan and Boston College are both #1 seeds, so Denver has an uphill battle, but they do have experience from last season's title run.

[mnhockeyfan03]

Also for our PP please stop with the drop passes to enter the zone.  Put Trenin and Braz in front of the net and get Rossi and Zuc off the PP. get pucks to the net.  way too cute.  In the penalty kill pressure way more and have our D get mean in front of the net.  The scrums in the 2nd period they were just laughing at Faber and Spurgeon trying to do anything.  They were like flys.  

[RedLake]

2 hours ago, mnhockeyfan03 said:

He only looked good last year as we had no one competent on D.  Spurgeon was hurt and lots of other guys were hurt a lot.  Billy rushed to sign a guy AGAIN instead of letting it play out.  He now is going to overpay Faber by 4mm a year.  Playing lots of minutes doesn’t mean anything.  Someone had to play and they are just burning him out.  His offense is not elite and for $8.5mm needs to be elite or you can find 4-6mm shut down defenders all over the place.  Stop paying a guy based on potential.  That doesn’t work.  It’s not working with Faber or Boldy.  Thank goodness they didn’t make the mistake to with Rossi.  He is terrible.  All 3 are out way out of this mess to bring in good forwards along with getting rid of Spurgeon. Just being honest of what we need to compete.  1-2 guys coming in are not going to change anything.  We need 4 more very impactful forwards and Yurov, Kap and ek don’t count.  Forwards win you cups in this league not D

Boldy is fine when he has equal talent playing on his line. Faber is wore out. Kaprizov is going to the Capitals or Rangers. This whole organization has smelled like shit since 2025. I'm banning the Wild and liberal NHL outta my life after this season is done. Fishing is much more pleasant.

[RedLake]

2000 not 2025

[Enforceror]

11 hours ago, mnhockeyfan03 said:

 The idea of stupidity is foo g the sane thing over an and over and hoping something changes.

Sorry but this line gave me a good laugh.

[mnhockeyfan03]

1 hour ago, Enforceror said:

Sorry but this line gave me a good laugh.

Apologies.  Was typing fast and autocorrect didn’t do me any favors.  Basically we have been doing the same thing over and over for years and nothing has went different for the team.  We need new player blood on the team.  Billy needs to be a GM and stop trying to be friends with the locker room.  We need 3-4 more high game changing forwards not including Yurov. We need to do this via trades and Faber, Boldy, Rossi, Spurgeon, zucc are our chips to get that done.  Big changes are needed

[Pewterschmidt]

15 hours ago, Protec said:

Had some nice chances and tips though. 4th line had some good shifts. 

They lost this one on details and lack of scoring. PP again useless and giving up 2v1s & 3v1s isn't the formula to win even if you don't take a late minor to hand over the win. 

I thought this was the 4th lines best game.  13 and 15 played their role very well

[Pewterschmidt]

15 hours ago, RedLake said:

Your Lightwinds, Shores, Trenins, Nuances, Rossi's, Nyquists etc etc don't move the needle in the NHL

Rossi is doing everything possible (which is to say nothing) to get himself traded