Lord Stan 2020
Elite fan
Who puts howard as a top five goalie? I dont see that on our boards or any I have ever seen myself.
I put him outside of the top ten he is better than half the goalies but not by much. You have to put crawford right there also though after last season.
Crawford did have that glove hand issue. That has to be a major concern.
Need a team to win the cup everyone has its place. Have to be in top half in all areas. I think if look at detroits stats especially the last part of the year they were there.
Is why they gave chicago a run. We held down their best players for the first few games but let them get going and than was all downhill cause our stars the guys who had to come through didnt when it mattered.
Hopefully the d continues to improve this year and our stars play better. We were not that far off. Hopefully guys like tatar and nyquist can make our scoring at the lower end a little better and be a difference if a team out plays our stars again.
I would love to see jimmy get hott in playoffs which could happen and stand on his head but would be ok if he just played as well as I have seen him and the other guys play better all around with some guys stepping up more.
I honestly think we have a better chance with the other guys stepping up. When we won the cup sure datsyuk did ok and zette and franzen had great events but was honestly a lot about us playing equal on top two lines and 3rd and fourth lines outplaying other teams.
I dont feel we had that last year and honestly feel for first few games we held back toews hossa sharpe kane etc.. but then they went to work and our guys franzen fippula zetterberg datsyuk played not as well.
I put him outside of the top ten he is better than half the goalies but not by much. You have to put crawford right there also though after last season.
Crawford did have that glove hand issue. That has to be a major concern.
Need a team to win the cup everyone has its place. Have to be in top half in all areas. I think if look at detroits stats especially the last part of the year they were there.
Is why they gave chicago a run. We held down their best players for the first few games but let them get going and than was all downhill cause our stars the guys who had to come through didnt when it mattered.
Hopefully the d continues to improve this year and our stars play better. We were not that far off. Hopefully guys like tatar and nyquist can make our scoring at the lower end a little better and be a difference if a team out plays our stars again.
I would love to see jimmy get hott in playoffs which could happen and stand on his head but would be ok if he just played as well as I have seen him and the other guys play better all around with some guys stepping up more.
I honestly think we have a better chance with the other guys stepping up. When we won the cup sure datsyuk did ok and zette and franzen had great events but was honestly a lot about us playing equal on top two lines and 3rd and fourth lines outplaying other teams.
I dont feel we had that last year and honestly feel for first few games we held back toews hossa sharpe kane etc.. but then they went to work and our guys franzen fippula zetterberg datsyuk played not as well.