Recent content by Phileas Fogg

It was really the same game we've seen since the Vancouver series ten? games ago. The team plays well, but doesn't bury their chances, and lets the points slip away. I guess it really doesn't matter much since the playoffs are a lock, but it would be nice to see both the top two lines firing...

Marner Holl

I guess Campbell won't get a star, but he made three hugely critical stops in the last ten minutes on high danger chances that would have iced the game for the Oil. So if he let one in that he'd like back, he totally made up for it in the 3rd.

Galchenyuk Tavares

Nylander was just straight up garbage tonight. It looked like he was turning it around over the last week or two going to the front of the net and danger areas, and tonight he was right back to skating lazy laps around the periphery.

Matthews Brodie

And you know Melnyk isn't going to spend money on a cleaning crew, so that box is going to smell like my university dorm house for the rest of the season

I gotta ask - which goals did Andersen legitimately whiff on? To me, the defensive breakdowns were far more concerning than expecting a goalie to stop seeing eye tips from both teams.

Marner Brodie

Based on my eyeball test living in a very big hockey development area, Canadian hockey is going to take a very big hit 10 years+ from now. I've played, coached, refereed, and been around the sport for most of my life, and I've never seen such ambivalence to the sport in my lifetime from the...

If Simmonds can get back to where he was before he went out, that's a massive addition. The whole team was playing a couple inches taller when he was in the lineup.