Bolts @ Coyotes - Preview and Gamethread
Tampa Bay Lightning at Phoenix Coyotes, Jan 8, 2009 7:00 PM MST
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| Tampa Bay Lightning | Phoenix Coyotes |
Haha, get it? Bolts? Haha, I kill myself...
Location: Jobing.com Arena
Start Time: 7:00pm MST
TV: Center Ice Only
Radio: 910AM
Alright, gotta pull it together. It's only half way through the season right? Just because we played like crap on a stick the last couple of games is no reason to get down right? Right. We can do this. 41 more games to go... Let's get our heads in the game!
Well I think we gave ourselves yet another game to use of an example of how not to play the other night. SO let's build on that like they did last time they got schelacked by the Hawks. Go on a points streak. The Lighting are definitly a team that you could get one rolling on as they're not far behind the Islanders in the Tevares... errr first pick in the draft race. The trick is that we'll be going up against Rick Tocchet, who knows our team pretty well. Or at least he should, having been our previous assistant coach. THough he was a little distracted for a lot of that time...
Anyways... Quick Keys to the game...
Five for Winning
Be Pissed: Yesh, you got your collective butts handed to you on a silver platter last game. Be mad about that. You played like crap. Be mad about that too. Then turn all that anger into energy that you can use rather than talking a big game like you did last time and then coming out like you wanted to be anywhere else but there. Seriously, Man up Moose!
Don't Get Down: If you can't completely manage the above task, at least don't have a friggin pity party for yourselves. They get a goal? That's fine, but work your butts of to get it back and then some instead of looking like you're going to go crying into your fruit loops.
Play Like a Team: Could you guys have looked any more like individual players last game? Jovo got busted open and you guys on the bench looked like you could have cared less. Then Fridge just goes and charges the goalie and that's the great equalizer? You didn't even seem to care all that much when they started racking up goals on you. And before that, back in the Isles game,Telly gets whacked and you guys just let it slide? F that. I'm not the biggest fighting fan in the world, but sometimes you just have to stand up for your team. YOu guys haven't been doing a whole lot of that lately. Get to it.
KEEP THE FRIGGIN LINES FOR 1 F*$(%^# GAME!: I've even heard Gretz say they play better with straight lines. So why do you keep going back to the line blender? Too many men penalties, guys trying to remember who's with who even though it changes every other shift. It's bogus. On the ice it leads to guys not knowing what the other guys on the line are going to do and passes going to no one. When the team starts falling apart, you have to make it as simple as possible. That's what's happening right now. So get the guys on lines that work and leave them there. At least for the game. Maybe even more!
Checking: DMo even said it after the last game. When you have a forecheck you do well. Last Game you had no checks. No forecheck, no back check, hell with that effort you should have had no game check. Pick it up guys, or we'll be looking to replace you with Pierre the Fanatic Hockey Snowman. At least he's funny when he sucks.
I'm sure that was all pretty negative. Hopefully the guys give me more to be positive about tonight because the last effort angered me to no end.
GO YOTES!
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The lines
What goes into the logic of NOT keeping the lines the same? If the same five guys are on the ice all the time, they can not only build cohesion amongst themselves, but I would think they could compete with the other line and try to out score/defend them.
Coach Terry Porter of the Suns began the NBA season using the same rotation for the first several games, then began to change things up a bit, and I read a lot of how he should have given the second unit time to meld and play well together.
Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.
I have no idea.
I think it’s a lack of patience. That didn’t work for one shift, so let’s change it up right right now!
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I can understand that. Trying to figure out how to win right this moment and searching for something that will work immediately and keep working. I don’t agree with it, personally, chaning all the time. The players you have are the only players you have. Figuring out which ones work best together should be done in practice and preseason. At some point in time you’ve just got to know who you have and deal with it, put them together in a certain order, and stick to it.
Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.
YES!
We tied the game up. I was scared there for a bit after the Lightning scored first. Thought it’d be a repeat of the last game agaisnt that team we can’t beat.
Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.
WE WON!
Is everybody sleeping?
Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.
You had a better seat than I did. I had to listen to it on the radio.
Take care of the little things, and the big things will take care of themselves.
ouch.
Sorry. Next time this happens I’ll try to post a link to a feed you can grab online. www.atdhe.net is usually a good place to start.
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The fact you have Man up, Moose in the post makes my life.
Ain't nothing but puck drops and poke checks, babydoll.
by wrap around curl on Jan 8, 2009 10:58 PM MST reply actions
I had to.
I’m really pushing that as a catch phrase.
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wooo hooo! and an awhoooo!
wasn’t the prettiest game but we winnnned! We broke the PP drought! I am very happy Yotie fan.
Takin over the NHL, 1 blocked shot at a time... Go Z!
Awwooo!
Yay! Working on a postgame. :-D And I don’t have to grumble the whole thing!
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