Couldn’t watch the game live, watched it late last night.
Yeah, Jojo is soft, everyone knows that in the nhl. But he is at least engaged this year more often than not. Last night a certain number 12, aka dumb arse dip ch!t sat around puck watching like a scared or bored 10 year old kid. Something is wrong with Boldy mentally. He is so high and/or wide it’s hysterical. Yeah, everyone does it in the nhl, but he’s perfecting it. The penalty where he gets pushed into the goalie is a bit of a stretch bad call, but we got away with a few last night. Bogo got away with one that absolutely was a penalty. NHL ref”F”ing, if someone really figures it out, write another book about the code.
Team as a whole seemed grumpy and just off. Kings are stingy defensively and our offense just couldn’t bury anything.
Have had my questions and doubts about Boldy for a while. Wickedly talented youngster. But his physicality is really lacking for his size, his puck watching gets old, his decision making skills when he has time to think is troublesome. He needs to start just getting shoots on net. Not sure who Rossi had as a trainer but Boldy needs to spend next summer living with that person 24/7. Rossi is a beast on the puck and seems to be emulating Ek in his young carrier. Boldy is on the top line and seems to be emulating Jojo. A cardboard cut out set in front of the net could score goals in this league with KK and Rossi. So many times last night from the pp to in our defensive end Boldy wasn’t moving at all. His lack of movement without the puck last night was staggeringly obviously horrible. His inconsistency of effort is irksome. Might start a score sheet on him and Jojo falling down with and without contact. Currently Boldy might win that race, and that’s not a good thing to be compared to Jojo who falls down constantly.
Was fine with the effort and the look of disgust on the wilds players losing like last night. They need a reality check. Was not fine with Boldy’s effort at all. He had zero fight in him and looks like a guy who has zero push back a lot of the times when stuff didn’t go his way. He needs to get way more mentally and physically tougher. Know he’s young and wickedly talented, but he’s got so much talent and potential that seems wasted a lot of the time. His ceiling is so high for his ability, just not sure he has what it takes long term with what is or isn’t between his ears. He needs to grind through his bad games and do something positive even if everything is going wrong for him on the ice. Chisholm didn’t have a good game but kept on grinding through it.
Last night it seemed like the exhaustion of not having Ek, Brodin or Zuccy really showed up. Which isn’t surprising. Team has way outplayed their pay scale comparatively. With a couple days off, hopefully the team can get a little r&r and bounce back. Will be interesting to see how the next game goes after a tough loss.
