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NHLnet sucks.... :(

2008-11-16T20:49:32.123-06:00

NHLnet sucks.... :(

ok ok touche to shane and mike..touche

2008-11-16T19:40:19.620-06:00

ok ok touche to shane and mike..touche

Shane is right. Clark gets a little credit for ma...

2008-11-16T18:48:52.998-06:00

Shane is right. Clark gets a little credit for making the save, but the pass that went right to Horcoff was lazy and boneheaded.

But if he hadn't given the puck away in the first ...

2008-11-16T18:09:03.493-06:00

But if he hadn't given the puck away in the first place he wouldn't have had to make the save ;)

by the way shane, I see you rip clark for the min...

2008-11-16T13:26:55.245-06:00

by the way shane, I see you rip clark for the minutes he's logging, yet his skate save on horcoff when he had the open net saved the game for us :P

The team is still so frustratingly weak on clearin...

2008-11-16T13:10:08.779-06:00

The team is still so frustratingly weak on clearing the puck. The little dribbles up the boards aren't working at all. They don't have a lot of mustard on them but they also don't often have a winger supporting the clear and when the winger does get the puck, they try to stop it and then dump it out rather than just chipping it past the defense.

The team is not playing well enough in the neutral zone to try breaking out like that. They need to get a little dirtier on their clears.

And the reason they're not playing well enough in the neutral zone is that they're still clogging themselves up by coming together rather than spreading out. It boggles my mind as to who is teaching that as a sound strategy. Especially for a "run-and-gun" offensive style.

When it was 2-1 in the dieing seconds, I saw that ...

2008-11-16T13:00:27.471-06:00

When it was 2-1 in the dieing seconds, I saw that the godfather and boogie nights were on the movie channels...my mind briefly wandered...but then TUCKER!!

I had no idea Hanan was even playing till i heard his name mentioned sometime in the second period. this team needs to get their shit together D wise. Guys like Liles and Leopold (no suprise on the latter) couldn't get it out past the neutral zone and there was always an oiler sitting on the centre line ready to chip it back in. (speaking of leopold, rumors out here in ottawa say there were avs scouts at the sens game the other night and they're looking at vermette.) I thought last night was smyttys best game ive seen him play in edmonton. Classy things he said about e-town when he was interviewed in the intermission.