Okay now that the Hawks hysteria has chilled. Lets get back into finishing this road trip from hell. If Telly is still screwed up maybe we can borrow the human shutout machine from San Antonio. Hey! not my words but w/ a couple of shutouts under his belt and only a hop,skip and a cowbell away, Josh Tordjman is available to back up Breezer if he has another melt down.
Lets see… comparison time… we’re 4-5-1 in last 10 games…Stars are 5-4-1 eh I can live with us both being 5-5-1 (as that means we won this one LOL) We’re 3rd in division they are 5th. They sit 2 points behind us at 24, perfect time to widen that lead. Do I have to mention how bad our PP% is? we currently sit at 28th but with a GA ranked 16th (yeah even after the game that shall not be mentioned) Dallas currently sits 29th for GA… gee hope we can blow them into a tie for last place.
I guess we won’t be seeing Avery this game even though he will be off his suspension (maybe not ever again on NHL ice if the situation gets any more sour). Stars have sorta replaced the pest with a 5th rounder? named Tom Wandell. Turco has been almost back to form lately, We’ll get a good look at the new LW Brunnstrumm who has been making some offensive noise and of course the shifty lil ratboy Riberio is a clear and present danger every shift. From what I’m reading about games and practices, the Stars, without the foolish distraction machine, may just come out of the tunnel firing on all cylinders despite all the injuries. (hey Hull, get the point? No Avery, better Stars performance) The Stars practices looked like this the last couple of days including Tuesday:
Modano-Richards-Eriksson
Neal-Ribeiro-Parrish
Conner-Petersen-Brunnstrom
Barch-Wandell-Wilson
We just took a trip to school and then to the woodshed in Chitown. Please let it galvanize the boys into action. We aren’t that far off from our standings last season but damn if that wasn’t the least amount of effort/heart/will I’ve ever seen out of a Coyotes team. I am appalled at what we didn’t do (we showed no pride. guts or determination). Speculation abounds…were the boys sending Bryz a message? Was Bryz sending Gretz a message? Is there a friggin message at all? IDK, but everyone concerned better get a clue. We can’t afford to lose any points right now. Send a candy gram or a text message next time, this is hockey not freakin kindergarten.
Ahem, so , I haven’t a clue what the lines will look like since Joker may be in the thick of things, McGrattan was waived (cleared) Telly may or may not be hurt, the new acquisition Lindstrom from ANA is being called up from San Antonio after apparently supercharging them into breaking a 17 game losing streak. so your guess is as good as mine right now.
These were Phoenix’s forward lines at Tuesday’s practice in Dallas:
Mikkel Boedker-Olli Jokinen-Peter Mueller
Shane Doan-Steven Reinprecht-Joakim Lindstrom
Daniel Carcillo-Martin Hanzal-Todd Fedoruk
Kevin Porter-Kyle Turris-Viktor Tikhonov
*no lisin in that line up…punishment for the late poke at Huet that started the scrum? or rewarded w/ a day off for being the ONLY offensive weapon in that game? or got hurt during that debacle? *
Looking for our boys to get back on track here. Line in the sand time, are you here to play some puck? to roll into a play off berth? or curl up into fetal position and crap your bed? I’d love a win… and this is definitely a winnable game. But at this point I’ll take a respectable showing, a display of heart, courage, pride and honest to god effort.
!!!GO COYOTES!!!
