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STUDS

Alexander Edler

By popular demand Alex Edler makes the studs list! Last night he scored a goal and added two power-play assists to push his season totals to 12 points in 12 games. He's doing a good job filling in the void left by Christian Ehrhoff.

Luongo doesn't suck

Sure enough, October is done and Luongo kicks off his "real season" with a big win. He had 28 saves on 29 shots. It's nice to see a "9" in front of his save percentage rather than a "7". Even with his struggles, nobody can argue that his situation is ideal to pick up high win totals. Now let's see the peripheral stats catch up.


DUDS

Kiprusoff chased after two

Heading into his duel with Luongo it was Kipper who had the sparkling numbers while his counterpart was struggling. But on this night it was Kipper getting shelled for five goals on 18 shots through two periods. The scoring chances were of high quality but he still leaves his poolies with a big fat "L" along with an ugly .722 save percentage and a GAA around 7.50.

Shutout tease

If you look at my sig you'll see that I own Luongo in the UHL. I catch a lot of crap for that and for 59 minutes it looked like I would be able to throw all that crap back at my adversaries. With 32 seconds left Alex Tanguay broke Luongo's shutout bid. I like the win and the save percentage but a shutout could have gone a long way towards helping his poolies. This makes me depressed. Can we just go back to talking about Brandi?

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Kiprusoff chased after two what? What was he chasing! Women? Squirrels? Beer vendors? What?!?

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Chased from goal after two periods. But there was no indication that he was playing poorly so maybe it was one of the items you mentioned. I'll send Kipper a text and we'll see what he has to say about it.

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Good stuff alot to mention sat night. Interesting how you picked up on vokouns terrible stats but apparently hiller was the crapper goalie last night. The while game and post game the announcers could stop saying how badly hiller was in this one. Watched a big chunk of the game and he was good and great at times but wow some of those gold he let in were just terrible. One off his glove flies in the air and instead if looking for it he looks forward and then it bounces off his back and into the goal. That was terrible.

Antother dud should be BB. Yes the caps got the win but he benches both Alexanders with 1min left in the game and no goalie in net. And then in overtime it took almost 2 mins before ovechkin even got a shift. Let's just say if he doesn't smooth things over with ovechkin, who looked pissed after the game, his days might be numbered in was!

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Those are good points. I did not see the Caps/Ducks game but based on the shots being 40-15 it's tough to put it on Hiller. Regardless of how they played Vokoun came out with a win and crappy peripherals while Hiller maintained a better save percentage. That's the perspective I was writing from. Now that you mention it Hiller too can be a dud. Honorable mention.

Boudreau strikes me as a coach who is going crazy between the ears. He took something that was working fine and tried to change everything about it. Sure the Caps lose in the playoffs but I would say that was more a matter of bad bounces and maturity than it did style of play. It's not like his defence-first approach won them a Cup either. Long-term if he continues he's going to turn into another Hitchcock and the players will tune him out. or maybe that is already happening.

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Great job Eric!

Love the two-parter

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You could relate to my situation because you're from my area... I have to drive from the Valley to Naughton every morning for my job. Hence why I like getting the S&D up earlier, and I'll be following up Wednesday mornings with the late games.

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Not anymore bucko!

I'm in Hamilton now , but yes I understand the need to do two parts and I really don't mind. I love that each of you bring a different element to the table, good stuff.

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Great to see the dedication to this daily thread!

My hat is off to you all

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