Battle of the Pleistocene Rd 1 in the books

Utah Mammoth 1
Nashville Smilodons 0

When I’m too tired to get out of my work clothes but too dirty to go inside. Just chill for a bit…😆

Marchand’s stock improved dramatically being off the bruins.

Not sure about Suter there. Beauvillier and Tanev got 2nd. Suter at 50% retained doesn’t?

You just know he thought he’d finally look tough against Garland, then proceeded to get pumped.

AND CONNOR GARLAND WON A FIGHT

Spread out so much too.

So…at the draft then?

Recently threw on pulp fiction and the world was a much better place afterwards.

I don’t like where this is going then….

They are going to get goalied a lot this season

Agree that it is very difficult to obtain guys with his ceiling. Hopefully they have enough certainty in the situation to make the right call.

Also helps sway things if the potential returns are as bad as the rumours suggest.

There is the risk that you trade him and he returns to a consistent, elite player. But of course there is also risk that he’ll stay closer to this level for 8 x $11.5, which would be dire indeed.

I used to think the chances of the latter were low, but I’m not so sure anymore.

Nice to see Karlsson be assertive at times and drive to the net.

Problem for me is he appears to lunge forward after the trip. Maybe he was just still trying to reach for the puck, but it wasn’t a natural fall.

It’s a good question. When asked, JR said he prefers to sign guys because it’s easier to trade assets with know $$.

I have to believe both 40/9 were on better terms when they signed and that something happened since then to change that.

This is amazing work.

Idk, I don’t see it as mysterious really. Playing hard team D is tough and takes focus. Maybe it’s the off ice issues, maybe it’s just too hard, but they aren’t putting in the effort required.

For the ‘tending and O puck luck, it just regressed to the mean (and Demko hurt).

All fans want to see is effort. If the talent isn’t there, that’s life.

But having talent and no effort is inexcusable.

Largely agree. But I do think the coaches had, for whatever reason, much better buy in from the players last year. More lack of focus, way more mistakes, this year.

He’s there all the time. Always makes me smile.

Should add they are creating a similar number of chances this year, but converting on far fewer.

Team D mix of poor personnel for sure, maybe also coaching msg getting stale + bad chemistry??

Besides the bad vibes aspect, which is clearly affecting the team, I think the simple answer is: they defended as a team really well, had exceptional goaltending last year and were somewhat lucky offensively last year.

None of those have happened this year.

Nailed it

They nailed it.

It would make for a great one now

Totally forgot about Kessel. Hard to believe that actually (almost) happened

Still probably too early to write off this season, but #Canucks have a miss-the-playoffs kind of vibe.

He wants to win

I just enjoy seeing real people over here. Well, mostly real.