The Afterburners: "We Want to Win"...Oh...Oh Do Ya?
by Bettman's Nightmare on Jan 8, 2012 10:01 AM EST
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Wow...I missed this game, but recorded it and watched it later. What a wild one.
For as many opportunities as there were, it was a bit incredible that only 3 goals were scored the entire game. As much as I'd like to give credit to Johnny Oduya for sealing the deal in OT, this was really Ondrej Pavelec's win. This wasn't just another 31 saves; the guy was all over the place, making some huge stops particularly in the early going when things were back and forth. That he got bailed by an early whistle in the 3rd should be but a footnote to his strong performance.
Stats and BW chart after the jump.
1st Period: No scoring
2nd Period: 11:08 Buffalo PP Goal, Tyler Myers 3 (Jason Pominville 29, Marc-Andre Gragnani 10); 19:55 Winnipeg PP Goal, Blake Wheeler 8 (Tobias Enstrom 11, Bryan Little 10)
3rd Period: No scoring
Overtime: 0:57 Winnipeg ES Goal, Johnny Oduya 2 (Evander Kane 13)
Shots: Winnipeg 41, Buffalo 32
BW Chart Key
Blue vertical lines -- Winnipeg goals
Black vertical lines -- Opponent goals
Shaded green -- Powerplays
Shaded pink -- Penalty kills
- We really started to take a commanding lead shot-wise with powerplay opportunities, and when things got heavy in the 3rd we played our best. Good to know.
- Why must we insist on killing ourselves with penalties? I complain about this all the time, it's almost like I'm not the coach and I should just deal.
- Our goal came on a 5-on-3 opportunity, and it wasn't till after a mad scramble out of which Little and Toby tic-tac-toed it to Blake Wheeler who was on the doorstep.
- Sorry about the "0-5-0" on the left margin there...the "0" on the line with the hashmarks is the official zero, with positive going up/down with intervals of 5 from it.
- We're still not "road warriors" yet. The Sabres were a beatable team. I'm glad it was an exciting game that we won, but we need to play better against more of our opponents before I'm comfortable with our prospects.
- Congrats to Bryan Little on his assist in his first game back. Really glad to have you around again.
- Even bigger congratulations to Jarome Iginla, who scored his 500th goal last night. A deserving accomplishment for one of the best power forwards of our era.
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Chart is exactly in line with what I saw.
Jets carried the play until the back to back penalties, but they were able to get rolling late.
Pav made some great saves, so did the Buffalo goal post.
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by truck on Jan 8, 2012 11:12 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Yeah Bogo played the chimes about as hard as I've ever heard
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Jan 8, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
I am really curious to see how his shot compares to big Buff
I also wanna see how Kane does in the All Star fastest skater competition. Hopefully he gets the chance.
by truck on Jan 8, 2012 1:12 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I <3 Noel
Noel said he was happy for Oduya’s offensive input.
“It kind of surprised our whole bench,” the coach said. “Johnny came down and made it look like he was a sniper, up there with the peanut butter.”
by truck on Jan 8, 2012 2:25 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Lines for the game:
Little Kane Wheeler
Fehr moved up to the second line to play with Antro & Ladd
GST Reunited
Mittens, Wellwood, Cormier
Bogo with Enstrom
Hainsey dropped to second pairing with Oduya,
Stu & Jones
http://timeonice.com/shots1112.php?gamenumber=20602
http://timeonice.com/H2H1112.html?GameNumber=20602&submit=Go
Top line looked great (especially Kane)
GST getting creamed
4th line looked pretty good. Wellwood especially.
Hainsey & Oduya with good numbers
I love Bogo and Enstrom together. Big quality minutes from both. If they can play those kind of minutes together or apart, we are in good shape. Will be nice to get Buff back.
GST didn’t do too bad considering the faced the Vanek line as much as they did. Pretty impressive game all around.
This is what I was getting used to. Love it, hope it continues.
by truck on Jan 8, 2012 6:02 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I couldn't agree more
Boogie and Toby should be together forever. Perfect complements.
"You can't polish a turd." -- George Carlin
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Jan 8, 2012 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Even if they are separated, they both play big minutes.
I like the idea of having an all star caliber defender on the ice for 55 minutes a game.
When Buff is playing well we have 3 such players. The D really is becoming the strength that it should be. I hope we can keep those 3 together.
In the short term, Oduya is playing really really well and it enables the bottom pair to play protected minutes. Long term, one of Kulda, Postma, Festerling, Redmond or Stu should be able to hold down the 4th spot and filling out the bottom 2 spots shouldn’t be too tough.
Things looked more cohesive last night
I watched the condensed game via NHL Game Centre and it was refreshing to see a stronger output than what they have given in their two prior games. Looked like Fehr was up with Ladd and Antropov, if they want him to get going that’s where he’s going to have to fit in for awhile. Let’s see if the Jets can repeat their last performance against the Bruins on Tuesday.
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