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I think Poolman will work himself into the lineup.

Agreed....Hak had a great game plan last night. It was executed properly and the boys were buzzing.

Completely disagree. There were others back...we had a forward trailing. Every was just kind of watching Rau. If Schmaltz steps up.....Rau dumps the puck. He gave him room so he skated it in...because our boys gave him 15 ft or so. Again, as soon as Schmaltz steps up (like our D were doing all night) the PKer dumps the puck in. Also you note he "got back".....he was already back. When I was calling for a pinch I meant on the wall, before MN entered the zone....when Rau first got the puck. The could have played the "Eiffel Tower" and we were set. I get it though, you never think that is actually going to be the outcome when you are on the PP....most likely they simply dump it in and change. End of rant, looking forward to next year.

One thing....we were on the man advantage. Screw the .6 thing....we were on a PP. They should have been dumping the puck....we got lazy/too conservative at a time when you can never let your guard down....and we paid for it...in the worst way possible.

On a side note....I think Hak's game plan worked well last night. Keep the puck on the wall and slow the pace down. I am biased but I thought we had the advantage....only slightly. That was a tough game....the ending was unfortunate. Better luck next year!

Respectfully....are you kidding me? I am talking about before MN even entered our zone...on the wall. WIth time expiring you simply pinch to get in the way and run clock. I was at Sensors screaming pinch...no pinch....goal.

Schmaltz should have pinched before Rau even hit the blue line...he was the best player on the ice all night long, one mistake ended up being a pretty big one.

What? Not now.

Unfortunately I agree.

To lose on a shorty with .6 left in the frozen 4....my god! It doesn't get worse than that.

....and the cycle starts again. Man this run has been depressing. Hopefully all the boys come back...no one other than seniors should be leaving. It would be a terrible mistake by Rocco.

Feels that way.....we went down in terrible fashion.

I saw it too.

Schmaltz didn't pinch

Absolutely speechless....I keep running that play through my head. Schmaltz pinches and we go to ot....not sure what he was thinking, I think he thought the cook would run down quicker

Schmaltz has to punch there...,wow that's too bad

We need a greasy one.

Damn this is nuts!

It has to be pretty good...I have been noticing he is on quite a bit.

All the "so-called" experts are picking against us....we need to get lucky!

That's because his brother was actually a good hockey player....he didn't chirp the way little Rau does. I knew Rau liked to talk but when he was chirping to Mac a few years back that was the end of the road for me. This kid has another thing coming when he gets to the A (if he even does).

For some odd reason that kid scores more garbage goals than any other player....shocked because he is a little puke.

That a boy!

Looks good. These training methods reminded me of when the Ukraines came to GF to train us and play our all star teams. The kids were literally forced to train year round....they looked miserable, although they were very good. Later it came out that they were abused by their coach. Pretty unfortunate.

I have been confused by this for awhile. Let me first say that I too believe Rocco will be back for next year, but after that he's gone. The one thing I have been analyzing are the points his line-mates are getting. Typically if one guy is running away with point totals for his particular team his line-mates are chipping in at somewhat of a consistent rate. That is the case with almost every team in hockey at every level. The only exception I guess would be if a teams leading scorer played with different players on the pp than he played with at full strength....and he put up substantial pp pts. This is not the case with Rocco; he leads our team in pts by a decent margin and his linemates are no where in sight. I am honestly starting to think Hak is doing that on purpose to somehow balance his lines. In that case, I give Rocco tons of credit. If he played with two better, more offensive, players his pt totals would be much better in my honest opinion. But if Hak did, there would be a major gap after the first line that this team could not compensate for. Again, I give Rocco props for accepting that role while still producing as this teams top pt getter.