Terrific effort against Vegas last night and even though the NBC announcers attributed it (over and over and over again) mainly to Vegas coming off a tough game against the Jets the night before, I guess they think that the Knights are the only team that has to play back to backs.
What won the game for the Wild wasn’t that Vegas was too tired to play, it was smothering defense that limited opportunities and then the Wild were using a great forecheck and puck control to keep Vegas pinned in their end for minutes at a time. Almost all of Vegas’ quality chances came on the power play when they finally got to play offense for an extended period of time.
OK, now before Sticker says it, yes, Coyle scored again. Awesome. This is my frustration with Coyle, he has everything that indicates he should be scoring except that he goes game after game without actually scoring. Last night’s Charlie Coyle is the Coyle I want. Aggressively looking to shoot the puck rather than two strides and a poor pass. Did the coaches get a fire lit in Coyle that’s going to last? I hope so.
Staal! What else can you say about Staal? Probably Fletcher’s second greatest accomplishment for this team after signing Doob.
Time to chain down everything that can be stolen, we’ve gotta go to Dallas and play the Texass Team Thieves. Basically, this IS a playoff game tonight.
The only people who don’t think Crosby is a whiner are pens coaches, players and fans. The rest of us see heim whine.
IMO the people that call Crosby a whiner the most are fans of Eastern conference teams who are tired of Crosby & Co whipping their @sses with his superior skill and better team year after year after year. So they whine and call Crosby a whiner.
There are a LOT of Caps fans that call Crosby a whiner for some reason.
Coincidentally, the Pens hammered the crap out of the Caps last night 7 to 4.
Grouse