Michael Stuart: Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: Complete Team Victory for Tampa Bay

Drouin for Sergachev looks more like highway robbery with each passing season.

These two teams are gonna hate each other if they don't already. Getting chippy out there.

My team used to be fun to watch. Now I cringe at .. well, almost everything they do.

My son doesn't bother putting on his jersey before the game anymore and seems to be losing interest. He's on his phone a lot during the game these days.

Maybe I'll start playing Fortnite too.

My team used to be fun to watch. Now I cringe at .. well, almost everything they do.

My son doesn't bother putting on his jersey before the game anymore and seems to be losing interest. He's on his phone a lot during the game these days.

Maybe I'll start playing Fortnite too.
- farooge

I don't know what the phuck happened in Nashville. These games used to be competitive and I used to worry about our games against the Preds. It seemed like the Preds had our number for a while. And now......it's a total turnaround.

Looking at the Preds roster, it looks very top-heavy. Outside of the top-6, there isn't much scoring threat spread around on the bottom-6. Nashville used to be able to roll four lines and now, not so much.

Looking at the Preds roster, it looks very top-heavy. Outside of the top-6, there isn't much scoring threat spread around on the bottom-6. Nashville used to be able to roll four lines and now, not so much.
- GalacticStone

Thumbs Up: The Overall Team Performance
Looking at the Lightning’s underlying numbers last night, it’s quite clear that this was a near-perfect team performance. Per Natural Stat Trick, the Lightning generated 62.67% of the five-on-five shot attempts and 74.19% of the five-on-five expected goals. They did a phenomenal job of essentially giving the Predators nothing.
- Michael Stuart

Help me identify the "top 6" please

I'm not an X's and O's guy but I see a team getting owned almost every night and a 'starting' goalie who probably shouldn't be a starter.

It was "one and done" (if they could even get into the Lightning's zone) followed by frantically chasing the Bolts all over theirs .. all night. This happens 90% of the time, it doesn't matter who they are playing.

How can that not be coaching?

The Preds were Invisible after the 1st period, Hynes Is a god awful coach at the NHL level, He has turned this team Into a bunch of clock watchers.