Ok, Rick McNashsty and his boys are guarding their town.They are bringin a 3 game winning streak to the table. It will get ugly. After taking down the Oil, Montreal and the Flames, these boys think they are rollin deep and dirty. Our earlier season trouncing won’t mean squat to them except extra motivation to kick our asses. They’ll be lookin for another highlight reel, we’ll be looking for a 3 game streak of our own.
All the pieces will be in place that whipped them the first time, but with a twist. Ken Klee (if healthy) to compliment the suddenly revamped Yandle and the even nastier version of Bryzgalov 3.0(who has been absolutely bone deep in top goalie head space lately). Carcillo has had his leash loosened and the addition of Garth Murray means that Dorsett and Boll had better be very careful who they decide to run tonight.Peca is back, Malhotra is still one to watch out for and the #2 line could be very, very dangerous.
All of our rookies have wet their whistles w/ at least a goal pretty early in their first season and Mikkel Boedker is looking like a seasoned vet out there (absolutely rock solid), DC may be teaming up w/ Rhino, who has been dishing out spectacular passes to those who haven’t gotten their goal on yet… look for DC to light the lamp tonight and Yandle shows no signs of slowin his roll so secondary scoring is covered. The Chalupa line of Doan, Jokinen and Mueller have been raising the roof on the Job lately, which means we should see some monster primary scoring too.
According to Puck Raker’s we might be seeing these lines out of Tuesday’s practice.
Huselius-Umberger-Nash
Chimera-Brassard-Voracek
Torres-Peca-Modin
Murray-Malhotra-Boll
Commodore-Hejda
Tyutin-Methot
Backman-Tollefsen
Steve Mason
We’ll probably roll something very similiar to these lines… unless well Wayne decides to do his juggle thang:
Daniel Winnik-Garth Murray-Viktor Tikhonov
Shane Doan-Olli Jokinen-Peter Mueller
Kyle Turris-Steven Reinprecht-Daniel Carcillo
Todd Fedoruk-Martin Hanzal-Mikkel Boedker
Derek Morris-Kurt Sauer
Ed Jovanovski-Zbynek Michalek
Keith Yandle-Ken Klee* (if healthy)
Ilya Bryzgalov
EDIT* practice Wenesday the lines looked like this:
Kevin Porter-Martin Hanzal-Mikkel Boedker
Steven Reinprecht-Kyle Turris-Shane Doan
Todd Fedoruk-Olli Jokinen-Peter Mueller
Daniel Winnik-Garth Murray-Viktor Tikhonov
no Carcillo? hmmm, is DC paying his penance for the PIM fest in the Shark’s game? or is it just maybe his turn in the box? UH OH! or maybe something more ominous… an injured DC
The keys to this game are going to be
Stay the hell outta the box! (ummm DC? DC? are you listening to me?) We absolutely have to get a clean jump on these boys or we will be battling ugly all night.
Contain the Nasher. This boy not only CAN burn you, he WILL burn you. And usually its a guaranteed web broadcast replay nightmare. Hanzal, Z and Sauer better be on their A games (again) and Bods is about the only one with enough speed/strength to consistenly ride herd on the boy comin through the neutral if he hits his stride.
Shoot like its the last game of your career and you need 1 goal to get to the hall of fame. New goalie Steve Mason has been playing like a thief. Do NOT take him lightly, we have given more new goalies their 1st career shut outs than I care to think about. Shell him, early and often.
It would be nice to start this one ahead but since we’ve proven that we can come from behind,I won’t get too bent if the Jackets draw first blood. But we better draw the most…
Not to get too far ahead of ourselves, but traveling down to Minny with a 3 game streak in our pocket is just what the doctor ordered as far as confidence for the youngins and Breezy.
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