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Bedard handicapping his team today with a couple of dumb plays

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What are you doing Bedard you are up 2-0, just get it in deep, dumb move

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Here’s another game where i see the opponents bench and they are huffing and puffing

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I want to say at least 10 kings hit the ice in the 2nd period, glad the refs decided not to bail them out.

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Hi anxiety plays by Knight in the 2nd, glad the team could bail him out, nice to see Kaiser get a goal.

Credit to Bedard going to the tough areas to score the PP goal.

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What a save by Knight, again.

At times this team can just swarm the opponent, really impressive. It seems to be happening more and more.

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I was just curious since we are so far under the cap for next year, i imagine the Blackhawks will be paying the max bonus to Connor Bedard and I’m sure other ELC players will be getting a bonus, can the Blackhawks count that money towards next years cap hit?

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It’s crazy to me that 11 players on this team are 24 and younger.

Knight is fantastic
38 goals
81 Apples

Subtract Bedard you’ve got 21 goals by 8 different players, at that rate you’ve got 60ish goals and 180 apples to end the season, that’s not including the vets and whatever Connor ends the season with?

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Breagbag wrote:

Glad to see the team is playing well and having great periods against some solid teams. Seems like every game lately, we have at least one period where we dominate and overall we seem to be playing teams more even 5v5. The standings are so tight, the few blown calls by the refs and a minor mistakes have been the difference from this team being around the top 10 vs being 21st in the league.

I know the goaltending has been huge, but if they can just tighten the screws a little more defensively and find one more star forward, this team is going to start to be a problem.

I like Rinzel’s game, but man he has been getting caught a half step behind a bit too much lately and taking penalties or just barely getting away with infractions because he is trying to keep up. Last night vs Vegas he probably could have been called a couple more times for getting his stick in the hands because he was beat. I’m wondering if the NHL grind is wearing on him a bit.

Overall, really like the position we are in. Cap space is looking good. Young players growing into bigger roles. Prospects excelling in various leagues right now. 5 more draft picks this year in the first 2 rounds. We could be in for a really fun next 5-10+ years or more depending how they manage these assets.

I do notice he gets caught flat footed at times at the blue line, i think one of his off season workouts will be to improve the first step backwards. I do agree they could of called some on him but if they did LVGK would of been in the box all night. I’m really not complaining i want them to have to battle through the infractions it’s only going to make them better, just an observation of how many teams are having to play this style to compete and beat us.

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It’s just so nice to see a team now that creates space for themselves exiting their own zone, neutral zone and offensive zone. This team was so much quicker that the LVGK last night.

They could of called LVGK for at least 5 more penalties in the game unfortunately that’s how you’ve got to play when you are the slower team.

In every game other than Buffalo it’s great to see the opponent skating and working as hard as they can in the 3rd period, something opponents didn’t have to do much of last year.

Cassidys concerned face last night makes me smile, the realization that this team can skate us out of the building….

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