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I think he meant JJ. I don't think it was selfish play. I think he just made a poor decision.

I've always preferred Nathaniel's from Last of Mohicans..."the long carabine"...just ask my wife

He caught him sleeping and his angle was just barely off

I'll take 5 points. Miami is a very good skating teaming that is well coached. They play an aggressive system.

i hope that's a LOTR reference and not something else...

jesus...

Mismash's move on the shootout was awesome. Larkin just made a great save.

you have two shots there. Either Wooly takes it through traffic and hopes for a screen or a bounce...or he moves it point to point to get the tendy moving laterally. I favor the latter if the draw doesn't go right to Wolanin's wheelhouse. It didn't it was the right play. JJ can't ice that puck.

yes

law of the jungle boys.

what kinda loser wears an itech these days???

sandbagger. Next goal wins!

I'm calling out Pogo for not playing...get the next one, kid

There we go boys. That's Sioux hockey.

no, but they are exposing us.

Miami is better skating and better positioned team in their system. We are really struggling.

wow. Miami's system really gives us fits. We can't get anything going. They are forechecking at least 3 and doubling the puck carrier. We have to adjust.

I think the issue was that we didn't establish our game. Yes, the first was a disaster. We looked like deer in headlights in our end against that forecheck. Later, we played better, but we were not able to establish "our" game. We played the game that was dictated to us, and we won based on some great efforts. We need to establish our game early. Fast feet, short accurate passes. Get pucks deep, establish and play possession.

we've been a Saturday night team all year. Let's play Sioux hockey and blow them out the zamboni door.

to be fair...its caveated with "one" of the worst periods ever...it was not a good period.

Coaches will have broken down the film from last night and should give the boys solid direction for tonight. Miami ran a very aggressive forecheck. This took away time and space for our dmen and led to some turnovers that fortunately they didn't capitalize on. When you get doubled up in your own end, you have to have an outlet. We didn't have one- they effectively took it away. Our in game adjustment seemed to be to try and stretch the zone. That isn't our typical game, so we need to figure out how to play our game under that kind of pressure. If you are doubled, someone is open. You have to pass your way out of it. You can't usually outskate two forecheckers. The dman without the puck kept defensively responsible, which probably saved some goals, but it closed off the d to d pass with any flow. Center and weakside winger have to get low. Center needs to basically play the role of a dman, and that weakside winger needs to get low on the hash. I like keeping that strongside wing a little bit higher to keep them honest. If they are running a 3 man, strong side double forecheck, we need 4 guys at or below the circles.

you are correct. We found a way to win a game tonight when we weren't our best. Good teams do that. I did think we were a step slower. They came in ready to play, and their system had us in fits, as did their speed. To the staff's credit, we appeared to adjust after the first. Early on, they really took our defensemen out of the offensive side of the game. That was smart, kept us from transition, kept us pinned in our own end, dmen with backs to the attack zone and 200 feet away and nowhere to escape. Adams had a golden opportunity on the one-timer that he missed, and we did have a couple nice looks from the slot that didn't connect as well. Gutty win for us in an overall C performance.

really surprised by Kawaguchi's struggles. I thought he was going to be better.

4 SOG...embarrassing for the boys. Turn it around this period or ride pine.

this is a dump the garbage can in the locker room intermission. One team came to play, won every puck and physical battle. The other team...is at home.