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 Jay
Messages: 1341
Registered: January 2007
Location: Edmonton
1 Cup
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| Kr55 wrote on Thu, 23 April 2026 08:34 |
| HamBlaster wrote on Thu, 23 April 2026 00:42 |
Nuge has been invisible for most of the season, so it's not really much of a surprise that he was invisible in this one as well.
McDavid though, holy hell. Happy that he's not injured, but his brain is miles away right now. Just off in nowhere land, skating around with his demons and getting pulverized mentally. The guy is playing awful; just chill the eff out and try to have some fun.
I don't think I've ever seen Connor this nervy and out of it. You'd think he'd understand the playoffs even more so by now, but these last two games have been brutal.
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All the commentators trying to sell that this is the first time a team has ever tried to swarm McDavid. It's not, better teams have tried and failed. This is a choice by McDavid to skate directly into coverage all night long thinking he can recreate his goal in his rookie year when he skated through 4 Columbus Bluejackets to score. He's trying to pass through ducks players sticks all night as well. He's just totally off his game and has to get it together ASAP.
I thought Bouch had a better game, but with comedic bad luck. Gets a high stick in the face and immediately scored on. clears that rebound on the GWG, but Drai just standing straight up in la-la land in front of him with no idea what's happening, and it goes off his foot directly to the duck player to score. At least a good sign 1 more guy is getitng it together, but we NEED McDavid to do it as well.
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Exactly - they keep talking about how great Anaheim is doing at getting sticks on pucks etc and yes they have done a nice job but this is on Mcdavid. I have no idea what he's doing out there and the only thing I can think of is that he looks like a kid trying to show off to his dad. His parents better not be travelling to Anaheim.
Bouchard is fine. His D partner is getting exposed. Not quite to the level of last year where he cost them the stanley cup but unable to keep up defensively. Terrible and unnecessary icing on the gwg to kill the momentum of the comeback.
"Initiative comes to thems that wait"
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