The only negative right now is that the PP continues to plummet and has dropped to 20th in the league.
Couldn't care less about the Pres trophy. Just be healthy for the playoffs, all I care about. The Met is just about ours now. Home ice rounds 1 and 2 at least. From there the rest is gravy. Every team has injuries, go look at the Isles (lost Okposo and Leddy), and the Pens (lost Malkin and Cindy and a bunch of dmen), TB just lost 3 guys for a little while. Where we are now, being healthy for the playoffs is the ONLY thing I care about.
I highly doubt we will see MSL for the rest of the regular season. I would just rest two old farts MSL and Boyle at this point. Call up Lindberg and McIlrath.
AV just said MSL's injury doesn't seem serious. We are off until Wednesday, so hopefully he is good to go.
You said that they pretty much have won the division now so why not give both some rest before the playoffs. Both are not in their prime years, you know.
Lindberg and Mci would inject some energy. The team has looked tired lately especially some top players.
The knee injury didn't look good so that's good news from AV. I expect big things from Marty in playoffs cant lose him.
I have no issue giving some guys a game off here and there. I think we will the last 5 games or so. As for MSL, who knows. You never really know for sure until they do an MRI or say one is not needed, but AV did say in his presser it didn't look serious. On NBCSN Jones said it didn't look good, so again who knows. But I will trust the coach when he says he didn't think it was serious.
8:20PM: Alain Vigneault said, “it doesn’t seem to be serious but we will know more tomorrow.” (MSG) Vigneault said that he didn’t know what tests Marty was going through.
Florida had a lot more to play for and showed it. They are very young but have a lot of big guys. Thought the refs let them get away with a lot of cheap stick work, need to throw someone in the box when they're repeatedly slashing. Great game by Cam and thank you James Sheppard for taking the body to start the play that ended with him getting a nice tip in. Will it open AV's eyes to the fact that he could be an upgrade to Glass? Hopefully just a sprain for MSL.
Also congrats to Hunwick on netting his first goal in 93 games, while he may not offer much physically that was a nice shot.
You can call them the best team if they win the cup. Otherwise, who cares if they finish first overall. They don't play for that.
Agreed. Winning the Pres trophy means NOTHING... AV has two of those. AV has ZERO cups. Win the cup. No one cares about the Pres trophy.
If true that is no issue to me. Actually could be a blessing to give him some rest before the playoffs. Regular season ends 26 days from today, so get him back for the last handful of games, and hopefully Hank as well, and away we go. If they each had 5 games +/- to get ready, that would be perfect (we have 6 games in April starting on the 2nd in Minny).
