GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ St. Louis Blues :: 8:00pm ET :: Tue. Feb. 4th, 2014

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

Being sheltered means being given easy minutes against inferior d-men/skaters

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

Being sheltered means being given easy minutes against inferior d-men/skaters

They are not sheltered minutes, he's a rookie trying to prove he belongs in the NHL. Spezza playing against the 4th line would be sheltered minutes. Da Costa is simply playing where he belongs right now in a situation where he can show what he has.

There was nothing sheltered about taking that shot last night to extend the shootout. If there was ever a pressure situation where a guy could fold that was it. He got the Sens that point last night with that goal.

The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game. Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie. In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us? Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

He made it look pretty easy too.

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

Being sheltered means being given easy minutes against inferior d-men/skaters

They are not sheltered minutes, he's a rookie trying to prove he belongs in the NHL.  Spezza playing against the 4th line would be sheltered minutes.  Da Costa is simply playing where he belongs right now in a situation where he can show what he has.

There was nothing sheltered about taking that shot last night to extend the shootout.  If there was ever a pressure situation where a guy could fold that was it.  He got the Sens that point last night with that goal.

Again the shootout does not have to do with being sheltered in-game or not.

They are sheltering him also by not letting him to take key faceoffs in the D zone given the fact he can't win them.

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

Not what I'm talking about.

SeawaySensFan wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

He made it look pretty easy too.

Know who else made it look easy last night? Spezza on that goal. No leverage, just reaches down, flicks his wrist and it goes top-corner from 40 feet out. How the hell do these guys do that? I remember one of the Kovalev videos where he is flicking pucks in top corner on a backhand, with one hand on the stick. How???!

Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

Not what I'm talking about.

But it is what *we* are talking about. So unless you want to join the same discussion, just stop talking.

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

Not what I'm talking about.

But it is what *we* are talking about.  So unless you want to join the same discussion, just stop talking.

Maybe I'll "stop talking" if you stop being an bunghole. That comment was not necessary.

Ev wrote:

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

Being sheltered means being given easy minutes against inferior d-men/skaters

They are not sheltered minutes, he's a rookie trying to prove he belongs in the NHL.  Spezza playing against the 4th line would be sheltered minutes.  Da Costa is simply playing where he belongs right now in a situation where he can show what he has.

There was nothing sheltered about taking that shot last night to extend the shootout.  If there was ever a pressure situation where a guy could fold that was it.  He got the Sens that point last night with that goal.

Again the shootout does not have to do with being sheltered in-game or not.

They are sheltering him also by not letting him to take key faceoffs in the D zone given the fact he can't win them.

It's not really sheltering him... he's playing where he needs to play right now. As for the shootout that's the most pressure he has felt in the NHL to be sure being the last shooter and down by 1. Like it or not that's a high pressure situation where he could have really choked. Did anything but.

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:Playing 9 minutes on a 4th line...

Shootout is not facing people on the ice

One-on-one with the game on the line is a lot more stressful than being one of 5 skaters.

Being sheltered means being given easy minutes against inferior d-men/skaters

They are not sheltered minutes, he's a rookie trying to prove he belongs in the NHL.  Spezza playing against the 4th line would be sheltered minutes.  Da Costa is simply playing where he belongs right now in a situation where he can show what he has.

There was nothing sheltered about taking that shot last night to extend the shootout.  If there was ever a pressure situation where a guy could fold that was it.  He got the Sens that point last night with that goal.

Again the shootout does not have to do with being sheltered in-game or not.

They are sheltering him also by not letting him to take key faceoffs in the D zone given the fact he can't win them.

It's not really sheltering him... he's playing where he needs to play right now.  As for the shootout that's the most pressure he has felt in the NHL to be sure being the last shooter and down by 1.  Like it or not that's a high pressure situation where he could have really choked.  Did anything but.

yes it was high pressure, but sheltering means protecting the player and giving him in-game situations in which he can succeed. He can succeed in the shootout as he is a skill guy. That's a situation for success for Da Costa. He took advantage of it.

If he missed I wouldn't day he choked.

Depends... Da Costa goes in there and shoots from the hashmarks then wtf was he doing? He choked. He went down with a ton of confidence and wasn't afraid to miss, to me that said a lot.

Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

Not what I'm talking about.

You're not really sheltering him at any point playing him vs the Blues. Their 3rd line is tough as nails, their 4th line is big - and so on. I don't know how much he played in the 3rd period though. Maybe Mac kept him out.

shabbs wrote:Low effort GDT = WIN!

Never doubt the power of the shabbs GDT. Well played sir.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

shabbs wrote:Low effort GDT = WIN!

Never doubt the power of the shabbs GDT.  Well played sir.

Word.

Kerry Fraser's report on last night's officiating

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=443080

One thing he missed was the high-stick by backes on spezza in the 3rd period.

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:

Ev wrote:

SpezDispenser wrote:The shootout is pretty much the least sheltered moment of a game.  Go out there and score a goal one on one against the other goalie.  In Da Costa's case, would you mind scoring the goal that would extend the shootout for us?  Because if you don't score, we lose.

No pressure though.

Not what I'm talking about.

But it is what *we* are talking about.  So unless you want to join the same discussion, just stop talking.

Maybe I'll "stop talking" if you stop being an bunghole. That comment was not necessary.

I know, but there are plenty of comments about/to me that are unnecessary. So I've decided to be a bunghole